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The Polio Hole

Author : Shelley Fraser Mickle
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456612778
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book The Polio Hole written by Shelley Fraser Mickle and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a five-year-old, Shelley Fraser is known for mischief. On Halloween in l949, she fancies her brother's devil costume and persuades her mother to hem it up for her. But her plan to scare the total baloney out of the neighbor's babies backfires. At kindergarten, she throws a six-year-old birthday party never to be forgotten, falls in love at juice time, and learns to read. Six weeks into first grade, she becomes one of over 30,000 falling down the Polio Hole--which is the way she thinks of the illness sweeping across America. During those years of dealing with braces, crutches, the loss of muscles that will never come back, she finds she is still very much who she always was, only more aware of the world's miracles. With a lasting lesson from her night visitor in the Isolation Hospital and a second chance as the Halloween Queen with her sweetheart Richard, she also earns a dog named Buddy, a horse with the nickname Lightn', and the friendship of a woman who teaches the enchantment of letters that can be read only with a mirror. Shelley's battle to overcome the nightmare illness that changed America is woven into the story of the scientific development of the vaccine that nailed shut the Polio Hole. The efforts to bury the Hole worldwide is a major challenge of the twenty-first century.

The Polio Hole

Author : Shelley Fraser Mickle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781615842209
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Polio Hole written by Shelley Fraser Mickle and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver

Author : Arthur Allen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324036354
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver written by Arthur Allen and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-05-17 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A timely, fair-minded and crisply written account."—New York Times Book Review Vaccine juxtaposes the stories of brilliant scientists with the industry's struggle to produce safe, effective, and profitable vaccines. It focuses on the role of military and medical authority in the introduction of vaccines and looks at why some parents have resisted this authority. Political and social intrigue have often accompanied vaccination—from the divisive introduction of smallpox inoculation in colonial Boston to the 9,000 lawsuits recently filed by parents convinced that vaccines caused their children's autism. With narrative grace and investigative journalism, Arthur Allen reveals a history illuminated by hope and shrouded by controversy, and he sheds new light on changing notions of health, risk, and the common good.

Crossing to Safety

Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0307430863
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Crossing to Safety written by Wallace Stegner and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.

Jason and Elihu

Author : Shelley Fraser Mickle
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456613138
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Jason and Elihu written by Shelley Fraser Mickle and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As soon as Jason hears the legend of Elihu, he knows he must catch the great fish. But Old Snout, the gator, guards Elihu. Legend says, too, that whenever Elihu is hooked, the bass whispers a secret. This novel also features two foster children looking for a home; Sundance, the miniature horse with a craving for peppermints; and a young girl who edits her dream of becoming an ice-skater as she recovers from a brain tumor that has robbed her balance.

Vodka Is Vegan

Author : Matt Letten
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101993375
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Vodka Is Vegan written by Matt Letten and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the bros who are making vegan sexy (and making eating animals weird) Think you could never go vegan? Think again. As this smart, funny and persuasive manifesto makes clear, you're already 90% vegan anyway. That's right--you already love animals and are slowly but surely eating less meat than you used to. With the insider tips and inspiring stories in this book, you'll be ready to go whole hog (see what we did there?) and eat vegan for good. Topics include: * How eating meat hurts your health and the planet (and is pretty close to eating your beloved pet for dinner) * A simple action plan for getting started * Don't Be an A**hole to Your Server, and other secrets for eating out * Who Cares If Honey Is Vegan?: Getting over perfectionism and purity by eating as cruelty-free as you can With a loyal online following that’s growing fast, the Bros are the new face of veganism--loud, proud, and fighting for a better world, one plate at a time.

Alburquerque

Author : Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504011767
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Alburquerque written by Rudolfo Anaya and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Bless Me, Ultima, a “wonderfully told and mesmerizing” novel of an adopted Mexican-American boxing champion’s quest for identity (New York Times). Abrán González always knew he was different. Called a coyote because of his fair skin, the kid from Barelas found escape through boxing and became one of the youngest Golden Gloves champs. But the arrival of a letter from a dying woman turns his entire life into a lie. The revelation that he was adopted makes him feel like an orphan and sends him on a quest to find his birth father. With the help of his girlfriend, Lucinda, and Joe, a Vietnam veteran, Abrán begins a journey that hurls him from the barrio into a world of greed and political corruption spearheaded by Abrán’s manager, Frank Dominic, a con artist running for mayor with visions of building El Dorado on the Rio Grande. Rich in spirituality, and taking its title from the original spelling of the city’s name, Alburquerque casts a light on the importance of ancestry while cutting across class and ethnic lines to tell a story of hope and displacement, love and regret, and the power of identity. “A touching love story woven into a tale of treachery, a microcosm of the social and economic dislocations squeezing the American Southwest.” —Publishers Weekly

The Rotarian

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1953-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.

Painting Light in Polio’s Shadow: One Artist’s Struggles

Author : Sharon White Richardson
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665715200
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Painting Light in Polio’s Shadow: One Artist’s Struggles written by Sharon White Richardson and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape painter Sharon Richardson survived polio, a viral illness that damages or destroys the nerves essential for moving muscles. With no vaccines available, epidemics occurred unchecked. Also known as infantile paralysis, polio left youngsters crippled and dependent on leg braces, crutches, wheelchairs, and in some cases, iron lungs to breathe for them. Richardson was diagnosed with polio at the age of eight weeks in 1946. In a borrowed car, her parents drove their seriously ill infant, writhing with painful muscle spasms, a hundred miles to Mercy Hospital in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Enduring and responding to intense physical therapy treatments, she overcame the paralysis in her limbs and was released after two months. By the 1980s and 1990s, Richardson had established an enviable career with work in galleries and collections across the Southeast. Fifty-six years after recovering from paralysis, she succumbed to the muscle weakening effects of post-polio syndrome (PPS) in 2002. Approximately 25 to 40 percent of polio survivors are affected by PPS, and there is no treatment. She lost muscle strength and control in her legs, torso, and arms. This loss limited walking, increased scoliosis, and in her right arm, severely challenged Richardson’s ability to paint. Painting Light in Polio’s Shadow: One Artist’s Struggles reveals how she coped with PPS setbacks and challenges and how these impediments forced her to make radical changes in her private and professional life. She was determined to do everything necessary to continue painting — which included learning to paint with her nondominant left hand.

Explorer's Guide New Mexico (Second Edition)

Author : Sharon Niederman
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581577362
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Explorer's Guide New Mexico (Second Edition) written by Sharon Niederman and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating, in-depth guide that ventures beyond the major destinations and interstates to the real, living New Mexico and its small towns, two-lane roads, hometown cafés, ghost towns, sacred sites, historic structures, and spectacular natural landscapes. New Mexico author Sharon Niederman has been traveling, writing about, and photographing her home state for over two decades. In this second revised and updated edition of Explorer’s Guide New Mexico, she brings home the best of New Mexico’s cuisine, lodging, and natural environment. With this comprehensive guide, you can explore spectacular, breathtaking hikes and drives; discover treasures created by local artists; find festivals that celebrate native traditions; get indispensable advice on local attractions; and meet the people who will make your visit to the Land of Enchantment the experience of a lifetime. As with all Explorer’s Guides, handy icons point out places of extra value, family-friendly establishments, wheelchair access, and lodgings that accept pets. An introductory section provides an outstanding overview of facts and figures, recreational opportunities, scenic byways, monuments, and historic timelines.

Explorer's Guide New Mexico 2nd Edition

Author : Sharon Niederman
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581571690
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Explorer's Guide New Mexico 2nd Edition written by Sharon Niederman and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features recommendations for dining, lodging, transportation, shopping, recreational activities, landmarks, and cultural opportunities in New Mexico.

The Last Children’s Plague

Author : Richard J. Altenbaugh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137527854
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Last Children’s Plague written by Richard J. Altenbaugh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poliomyelitis, better known as polio, thoroughly stumped the medical science community. Polio's impact remained highly visible and sometimes lingered, exacting a priceless physical toll on its young victims and their families as well as transforming their social worlds. This social history of infantile paralysis is plugged into the rich and dynamic developments of the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Children became epidemic refugees because of anachronistic public health policies and practices. They entered the emerging, clinical world of the hospital, rupturing physical and emotional connections with their parents and siblings. As they underwent rehabilitation, they created ward cultures. They returned home to occasionally find hostile environments and always discover changed relationships due to their disabilities. The changing concept of the child, from an economic asset to an emotional commitment, medical advances, and improved sanitation policies led to significant improvements in child health and welfare. This study, relying on published autobiographies, memoirs, and oral histories, captures the impact of this disease on children's personal lives, encompassing public-health policies, hospitalization, philanthropic and organizational responses, physical therapy, family life, and schooling. It captures the anger, frustration, and terror not only among children but parents, neighbors, and medical professionals alike.

What Ever Happened to the Polio Patient?

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book What Ever Happened to the Polio Patient? written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Improving the Public Image of Civil Servants

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Civil Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Improving the Public Image of Civil Servants written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The End of Michelangelo

Author : Dan Gerber
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619322641
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The End of Michelangelo written by Dan Gerber and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the poetry of Dan Gerber, we are summoned to this larger truth: Though we live in fraught times, on the tipping point of human self-destruction, we and our planet are still very much alive. In one of his last sonnets, nearly five hundred years ago, Michelangelo Buonarroti confronted the paradox of our earthly existence: “Why beauty mixed with terror, feeds so strangely my desire.” Reading The End of Michelangelo, we are similarly reminded that the very fact of being alive—experiencing our fleeting, fragile existence—is our only source of joy, our only avenue of consolation. These are poems that wake us up, revivify our desire to go on living despite our times, to counter our times; if poetry has a purpose, it may be exactly this. As T.H. White suggests, we can't save our world if we don't first savor it. “Dan Gerber tenderly reels his readers through the ‘beautiful movie’ he calls the passing of time on Earth, in a language completely unadorned and Zen-like in its quietude. The thing itself carries the weight off these poems that recall the deep imagery of Vallejo, Neruda, and Wright.” —Rain Taxi

Eminent Hipsters

Author : Donald Fagen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101638095
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Eminent Hipsters written by Donald Fagen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty, candid, sharply written memoir by the cofounder of Steely Dan In his entertaining debut as an author, Donald Fagen—musician, songwriter, and cofounder of Steely Dan—reveals the cultural figures and currents that shaped his artistic sensibility, as well as offering a look at his college days and a hilarious account of life on the road. Fagen presents the “eminent hipsters” who spoke to him as he was growing up in a bland New Jersey suburb in the early 1960s; his colorful, mind-expanding years at Bard College, where he first met his musical partner Walter Becker; and the agonies and ecstasies of a recent cross-country tour with Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs. Acclaimed for his literate lyrics and complex arrangements as a musician, Fagen here proves himself a sophisticated writer with his own distinctive voice.

The Stradivarius in the Basement

Author : Kristina Simms
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1452001332
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Stradivarius in the Basement written by Kristina Simms and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stradivarius in the Basement is a collection of essays, some humorous, some serious, based on the author's 72 years of observing - and participating in - life on this wonderful but essentially puzzling planet.