Maternal-Newborn Nursing: Theory and Practice

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A study guide to accompany MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING: THEORY AND PRACTICE. Provides exercises and activities that promote mastery of the material covered in the main text.

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Text & Study Guide Package for Maternal-Newborn Nursing: Theory and Practice
Francine H. Nichols , Elaine Zwelling , and Nichols
Manufacturer: Saunders
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ASIN: 0721675743

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A comprehensive package containing the main text that thoroughly covers essential information in maternal-newborn nursing and a useful study guide to reinforce concepts and other materials presented in the main text.

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When their country calls, Texas Aggies go to war. From the Spanish-American War and World War I to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Aggies have been in the forefront of America's armed forces, producing more officers than any other school outside the service academies. More than 20,000 Texas Aggies served in World War II, for instance, including more than 14,000 as commissioned officers. Trained in leadership and the knowledge required for warfare, Aggies have served with distinction in all branches of the military service.

In this first-ever compilation of the impressive war record of Texas Aggies, stories of individual soldiers, airmen, sailors, and marines are displayed with an abundance of statistics, maps, and tables. These narratives include:

• First-person accounts of Aggie heroism in battle in all the wars in which A&M former students have fought; • The horrific experiences of some of the eighty-seven Aggies who were stationed at Corregidor and Bataan; • The perils of five Aggies who participated in the raid over Tokyo with Jimmie Doolittle; • The heroics of the seven Medal of Honor recipients from Texas A&M during World War II; • James Earl Rudder's leadership of the Ranger assault at Normandy on D-Day; • Examples of vigorous support and devotion to duty given by Aggies in Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East.

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This work unfolds the idea of "nothing" out of a Titian painting of Danaë and the shower of gold. Jaffee's philological and pictorial argument links, across several languages, such seemingly disparate concepts as money, coins, mothers (through the mint's matrix), subjects, courtiers, prostitutes (through etymologies that join minting, standing-under, standing-for), ciphers, codes, and the codex form. This ambitious book is a cultural history of the "cipher" zero as code and as nothing, as the absence of value and the place-holder constructing value. It traces the wide-ranging implications of "nothing"--not only in mathematics but also in literature. Along the way, it makes important points about the orthography and editing of early modern texts, and about the material affinities of these texts with painting and minting.

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engrossing and gross

Engrossing page turner, falls apart at the end a bit.

Author is a liar

Entertaining, but does not ring true

don't believe the hype

You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish
Jimmy A. Lerner
Manufacturer: Broadway
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ASIN: 0767909194
Release Date: 2003-10-14

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You Got Nothing Coming, Jimmy A. Lerner's memoir of his first year (of a possible 12) as an inmate in a Nevada state prison, is a shocking, hilarious, and heartbreaking narrative of a world both parallel to and absolutely alien from the one most readers inhabit. With deft, economical prose, Lerner, a middle-aged former marketing director for a major corporation, introduces us to his fellow inmates--swastika-tattooed skinheads, Wiccans, methamphetamine addicts, and fashion-conscious prostitutes, among others--as well as a multitude of prisoner scams, nonexistent but on-the-books rehab programs, and the life-or-death intricacies of the convict code of etiquette. Lerner's ear for prison language is pitch-perfect, and much of what we learn comes directly from the mouths of the incarcerated. Lerner has, in effect, written a nonfiction novel, one artfully laced with mordant humor and by turns tender, caustic, insightful, and relentlessly candid. --H. O'Billovitch

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A memoir of astonishing power–the true story of a middle-class, middle-aged man who fell into the Inferno of the American prison system, and what he has to do to survive.

It is your worst nightmare. You wake up in an 8' x 6' concrete-and-steel cell designated "Suicide Watch #3." The cell is real. Jimmy Lerner, formerly a suburban husband and father, and corporate strategic planner and survivor, is about to become a prison "fish," or green new arrival. Taken to a penitentiary in the Nevada desert to begin serving a twelve-year term for voluntary manslaughter, this once nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn ends up sharing a claustrophobic cell with Kansas, a hugely muscled skinhead with a swastika engraved on his neck and a serious set of issues. And if he dares complain, the guards will bluntly tell him, "You got nothing coming."

Bringing us into a world of petty corruption, racial strife, and crank-addicted neo-Nazis, Jimmy Lerner gives us a fish’s progress: a brash, compelling, and darkly comic story peopled with characters who are at various times funny, violent, and surprisingly tender. His rendering of prison language is mesmerizingly vivid and exact, and his search for a way not simply to survive but to craft a new way to live, in the most unpropitious of circumstances, is a tale filled with resilience, dignity, and a profound sense of the absurd. In the book’s climax, we learn just what demonic set of circumstances–a compound of bad luck and worse judgment–led him to the lethal act of self-defense that landed him in a circle of an American hell.

Electrifying, unforgettable, bracingly cynical, and perceptive, You Got Nothing Coming is impossible to put down or shake off. What the cult favorite Oz is to television, this book is to prose–and all of the events are real.

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A memoir of astonishing power—the true story of a middle-class, middle-aged man who fell into the Inferno of the American prison system, and what he has to do to survive.

It is your worst nightmare. You wake up in an 8' x 6' concrete-and-steel cell designated "Suicide Watch #3." The cell is real. Jimmy Lerner, formerly a suburban husband and father, and corporate strategic planner and survivor, is about to become a prison "fish," or green new arrival.

Taken to a penitentiary in the Nevada desert to begin serving a twelve-year term for voluntary manslaughter, this once nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn ends up sharing a claustrophobic cell with Kansas, a hugely muscled skinhead with a swastika engraved on his neck and a serious set of issues. And if he dares complain, the guards will bluntly tell him, "You got nothing coming."

Bringing us into a world of petty corruption, racial strife, and crank-addicted neo-Nazis, Jimmy Lerner gives us a fish's progress: a brash, compelling, and darkly comic story peopled with characters who are at various times funny, violent, and surprisingly tender. His rendering of prison language is mesmerizingly vivid and exact, and his search for a way not simply to survive but to craft a new way to live, in the most unpropitious of circumstances, is a tale filled with resilience, dignity, and a profound sense of the absurd.

In the book's climax, we learn just what demonic set of circumstances—a compound of bad luck and worse judgment—led him to the lethal act of self-defense that landed him in a circle of an American hell.

Electrifying, unforgettable, bracingly cynical, and perceptive, You Got Nothing Coming is impossible to put down or shake off. What the cult favorite Oz is to television, this book is to prose—and all of the events are real.

"Jimmy Lerner is a terrific writer who has produced an unforgettable memoir."
   ROBERT MASON, AUTHOR OF CHICKENHAWK

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engrossing and gross.......2007-06-18

For about the first chapter, I was impatient to learn about the author's crime. I guess I needed to know if I should sympathize with him or keep my emotional distance. Then I stopped caring, because his prison experiences were so fascinating, and I was kept busy laughing out loud at his sardonic asides. Lerner does tell the story of the murder at the book's conclusion, and I was grateful to discover that his actions seemed pretty darn justifable, because by then I thoroughly liked the guy.

Engrossing page turner, falls apart at the end a bit........2007-04-25

I read this thinking it would be more of a "Prison Survival" type book, and I picked this up on a novelty. What I found was a very interesting page turner about how a seemingly regular 9-5 person let his bad choices lead him into a situation where he landed in prison for murder.

I don't want to say that Jimmy had it easy in prison, becuase nothing about jail is easy. However, he did get lucky in that he made friends with the right people. Jimmy seems like a likable, friendly and trustworthy guy, and it is what kept his head above water while doing time.

Most of this book is about Jimmy's time in prison. However, the last chapter deals with the events that led him there.

I really became engrossed in the story and was reading late into the nights to finish this. This book still leaves a few unanswered questions, and I would be interested in reading a "part II" to this to see how 'OG' finished out his time, and how his life is going now.

I liked this book, I don't know if it is entirely truthful, but I still enjoyed it.

Author is a liar.......2006-02-11

The following is from "Reality Bites"
By Meghan O'Rourke
Posted Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006, at 12:52 PM ET

"In 2002, a man published a memoir chronicling his substance abuse and the months he spent in jail after committing a crime. When a reporter discovered that the memoir was built around a fabrication, the author defended his embellishments in the name of literary license: "What I was doing was a literary genre known as a memoir," he explained, and pointed to a disclaimer in his book noting that identifying details had been changed. The man was not James Frey. He was Jimmy A. Lerner, the author of You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish, published by Broadway Books. The fabrication was a significant one. The book describes Lerner's murder of a thuggish 6-foot-3 maniac he calls "the Monster," in a drug-fueled fight to the death in a hotel room. In fact, as David Kirkpatrick later reported in the New York Times Magazine, Lerner had actually killed a 5-foot-4 former medical equipment salesman who may not have been armed."

Entertaining, but does not ring true.......2006-01-04

I found this book entertaining. It kept me up late, interested to find out what happened next. I'm sad to say I think it's fiction.

Things just don't ring true. The guards are too sadistic. Lerner's cellmate is far too helpful and accepting. Some supposedly authentic dialogue made me cringe; it sounded like something I might hear on a made-for-TV movie on a network. Embarassing.

Of course, it would have been appropriate for the author to change some names. I believe Lerner went far beyond this, unnecessarily embellishing, and that the book's impact is much reduced as a result.

don't believe the hype.......2005-11-27

i bought this book on the strength of the user reviews, and the fact that this book is supposedly a biography/true story of the author's time in prison.

ok, in places it's an engaging piece of writing, but as i read along, more and more holes in the (less and less believable) story popped up. anyone can tell that many of the characters are part truth and a big part fantasy, down to the full on 'cape fear' styled pursuit at the end; it also seemed to me that the stories were probably enhanced a bit to make the author seem tougher or badder.

so i sure wasn't surprised to find in the author's foreward, an admission that his credibility was called into question in the years after the publication of the book, and all kinds of uncomfortable excuses and apologies as to how the 'emotional truth' gave him the permission to change not only events and characters, but also the factual truth.

hey, i'm sure he spent time in prison and there are some amusing stories about day-to-day prison life, but the credibility issue damages this as a 'memoir' and it's not otherwise really compelling; overall there's not much to take away from the book.

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Master gun maker Bill Holmes takes you through all the steps necessary to make your own closed-bolt or open-bolt 9mm machine pistol. Holmes' full-size traceable machinist's drawings and his expert directions make construction of this popular firearm a snap. For academic study only.

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A Great Read........2007-04-03

As all of Bill Holme's books, this is an iteresting read. I would recommend it for any student of gunmaking. As far as actually making a gun from this book, I'm sure you could. But why? It would be illegal, and while it might be possible to legally register one, it would be expensive, and hard. Plus, from my limited experience with full-auto shoulder fired weapons, only the fist sot would be lkely to hit the target - the rest would be over he targt. It takes a lot of pratice and a LOT of ammo to get even halfway accurate with such a weapon. However, a semi-automatic gun of this type could possibly be OK for plinking at tin cans, but it would be expensive to shoot, I'd recommend a .22 instead. If you just have to have one, I would recommend you go thru the legal channels and pay the money. It will take time, and it will cost, but probably cost less and be less frustrating than trying to register one you made; plus you won't worry about going to jail for having it. There are even legal seim-auto versons available for a few hundred dollars, if all you want one for is the look. I really enjoyed the book, and it gives a great understanding of how these guns work. Buy a copy, read it, enjoy it, don't make one.

OK, I GUESS.......2002-01-07

Never tried building it. You'd need a barrel and a lathe to make it. Making it as a pistol would be fun (you can get a licence for that here). What annys me is the reference to chemicals that I don't thing is available here in Europe (and that the measurements is not in metric, of course).

Huh ? Why has my gun jammed ?.......2001-05-02

Believe it or not, Bill Holmes almost got a contract to sell this gun back in the 80's, but it was dropped in favor of the H+K MP-5. Perhaps the reason for this was that the MP-5 actually had an EJECTOR for discarding spent rounds, essential for allowing any sub machine gun to work properly. Strangely enough, this gun doesn't seem to have an ejector (or anything resembling or acting as one), nor are there any instructions for making it. That, along with the fact that there are references to diagrams that don't exist suggest that either Bill Holmes knows nothing or the stupid publisher has omitted essential material. Either way : Avoid this book like the plague.

Typical Bill Holmes.......2000-07-07

This is a very good book defanatly worth the read. However it is still typical Bill Holmes type of book he dosent go into real detail on the design of the gun just this is what you need and this is how you put it togeather better than his last book though he dose go over makeing the magazine from scratch but you still have to buy a manufactured barrel and you must have a lathe to machine some of the parts however the end product is very finished and if care is taken at least as good of quality as anything that you can buy comercaly if your looking for something eaiser to build with just very common hand tools i would recomend "Expedient Homemade Firearms" by P.A. Luty.

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"The administration in disarray--foreign policy in disarray--cover-up--Who knew what when?" George Bush noted in his personal diary on November 25, 1986, the day that Iran-Contra exploded in the United States and became a major part of our national psyche. Several years later, the controversy surrounding the cover-up, and what George Bush knew and when, sustains the Iran-Contra affair as a contemporary political issue. This reader provides the most important tools for understanding this complex episodethe actual top-secret documents generated by the foreign policy decisions and covert operations in Central America and Iran, the arms-for-hostage swaps, the Contra war, the quid pro quos, the orchestrated official deception, and the Bush pardons that make up one of the most important political scandals since Watergate.

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The Iran Contra Scandal.......2005-08-12

This is a great companion to most books about Iran-Contra. It has all the archival research nessassary from declassified sources and Freedom of Information Act requests. It's great to see this material in one place in its original texts.

Good collection of declassified Iran-Contra documents.......1997-03-01

This book is an excellent collection of important documents on the Iran-Contra affair. There is nothing like reading the documents for yourself, and not counting on someone else to interpret them for you

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Mixing mythology and natural history, Stephen Alter lets readers share his lifelong love for the Indian elephant, Elephas maximus. While legends threaten to overwhelm facts in the tale, Alter has nonetheless presented an accurate portrait of his subject, true to centuries of Indian tradition.

Beyond metaphors and fables, elephants occupy an important place in Sanskrit literature. Gajashastra, or "elephant science," was studied and recorded in several texts that are based on oral traditions.

As much travelogue as science book, Elephas inextricably links the Indian elephant with the history of southern Asia itself. In pre-colonial India, elephants were wound up in religion and daily life; in modern times, the animals were first hunted then fetishized by Westerners. Alter reserves judgment on these issues, except to note that none of India's 20th-century history has been good for elephant populations, which are endangered or threatened nearly everywhere. He treks into parks and reserves, seeking out wild elephants and describing their awe-inspiring behaviors. The stories he uncovers along the way--of temple elephants, mysterious Elephanta Island, seagoing elephants, and the god Ganesha--weave a spellbinding tale. --Therese Littleton

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Revered in Indian religion and culture, coveted for its ivory tusks, the majestic Asian elephant has captured the fascination of humans for more than four thousand years. In an effort to shed light on this regal animal and its unique relationship with humankind, author Stephen Alter traveled around the world to explore its natural home and its place in history and myth.

Alter's search takes him from the depths of wildlife preserves, to a tempting elephant auction, to a dazzling festival dedicated to Ganesha the elephant-headed god. Elephas maximus is as important to modern India as it was centuries ago. Yet conservationists are fighting to preserve its endangered habitat as settlements expand, and ivory poaching has threatened generations of elephants until tuskless males may be all that survive. Charting the elephant in history, art, religion, and folklore, Alter draws a vivid, gorgeously written portrait of its past and its troubled present while offering hope for its future.

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Engaging and informative portrait of the Indian Elephant .......2004-11-29

_Elephas maximus_ is a rather engaging- if sometimes a bit rambling - portrait of the Indian elephant (author Stephen Alter admits that the more proper common name is Asian Elephant but as he focuses on only _Elephas maximus_ as it is found in India he keeps the name Indian Elephant). Alter sought to tell the natural history of the elephant as well as its human history on the subcontinent, depicting it in history, mythology, religion, art, and literature. As he notes in the prologue, the somewhat tangential order of the chapters follows a series of journeys the author made in different parts of India in 2001-2002. Roughly chronological, each chapter details his experiences with actual elephants, those who live and work with them, and his viewings of elephant art (as well as many asides about elephants in history, legend, and literature) as he visited various national parks, shrines, museums, and festivals throughout India.

I learned many interesting facts about elephant biology; the bull elephant experiences a cyclical period of sexual arousal, known as musth. Similar to the rut of a stag, musth is signaled by excretions from glands on either side of the elephant's forehead (in Indian poetry it is described as being a sweet perfume that attracted bees, though the author found it a "sour, oily" odor that attracted swarms of flies). Musth can occur any time of the year, though often afflicts elephants in June as monsoon rains begin. Elephants in musth are very temperamental and prone to fits of rage - tame elephants rarely if ever work during musth - and remain this way from a few weeks up to several months.

Alter recounted the many differences between African Elephants (_Loxodonta africana_) and Indian Elephants; African Elephants tend to be taller (up to 12 feet at the shoulder versus the Indian being no larger than 10 feet), heavier (African bulls can weigh over 6 tons; Asian bulls closer to 4 tons), have larger ears, rougher hides, more wrinkled trunks, and a differently shaped skull; Africans have a more extended and tapered head while Asians have a flatter face and a more bulging forehead. The tip of the trunk on an African Elephant has two prehensile "fingers" while the Asian Elephant has but one. In Africa, both male and female elephants posses tusks; in Asia only males have tusks. Even then not all males have them; about 40 percent of all Indian bulls are tuskless and are called makhnas (in fact in some areas, such as Sri Lanka, only 10 percent of all males are tuskers, though this percentage varies a great deal locally). He discounts notions that the Indian elephant is more easily tamed, noting that simply that there is a considerably longer tradition of such training in India than anywhere else in the world.

The elephant has a tremendous role in Indian religion. One example is Ganesha or Ganapati, the elephant-headed deity, bearer of joy and good fortune and son of Shiva and Parvati, who is worshipped for ten days every year in temporary shrines called mandals in the state of Maharashrta, at the end of which clay statues of Ganesha are paraded through the streets and immersed in the Arabian Sea. Ganesha is often depicted with a broken tusk and often any elephant that has only one tusk is called a "Ganesha."

Literature about elephants -whether factual or fanciful - has long dominated India writings. Gajashastra, or "elephant science," was studied and recorded in ancient texts, themselves based on much older oral traditions, recorded in such pieces as _Hastyayurveda_, a part of the classic Sanskrit canon, and the _Matangalila_, a piece of Gajashastra composed by the Sanskrit poet Nilakantha. The latter book divided elephants into three castes; the bhadra, or noble tusker (suitable for carrying royalty); the manda (slow and dependable ordinary elephants), and the mriga (relatively lean, long-legged, and fleet-footed elephants). These texts have proven to be quite accurate and insightful, showing a real understanding of elephant physiology and training.

The elephant has long been a prized target of the hunt or shikar, both before the age of British imperialism and during the days of the British Raj, though by and large elephants were more likely to be captured than to be shot (or as some of the shikaris of the Raj said, the elephant was "something one shot from, not at"), nevertheless solitary tuskers were often misrepresented as rogues and were judged to be fair game. More often attempts were made to catch elephants for use by the military, logging, and by royalty; methods varied greatly from digging a deep hole in the ground and covering it with bamboo, dirt, and grass to mela shikar (riding tame elephants into a wild herd and lassoing selected elephants with grass ropes) to khedah (involving driving herds into large wooden stockades by groups of beaters).

Alter spent a great deal of time talking to those who handled elephants. Most tame elephants in India have two or three handlers; the mahout is responsible for the elephant's training and daily maintenance while the charrawallas (fodder cutters) assist him, their jobs being to collect fresh leaves and grass, keep the stables clean, and give the elephant its daily bath (often the charrawallas work as apprentices, aspiring to become mahouts themselves).

Elephants are still kept in large numbers in captivity, with India possessing 3,500 captive animals (and 28,000 wild ones out of 50,000 wild elephants in Asia and 16,000 total in captivity). They are still used in a limited way in logging; for years they were vital in this capacity owing to their ability to traverse difficult terrain and move huge loads (now they are still found in forests but often used to patrol against elephant, rhino, and tiger poachers). Many temples and private individuals provide elephants for rent essentially, as their mere presence in weddings is considered auspicious. Rides on the back of elephants are important in tourism, not only for foreign tourists but those from other parts of India.

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