The Empathy Exams
The Empathy Exams

Author: Leslie Jamison

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1555970885

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From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain—real and imagined, her own and others'—Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory—from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration—in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.

Mexicanos
Mexicanos

Author: Manuel G. Gonzales

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2009-08-20

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0253221250

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Newly revised and updated, Mexicanos tells the rich and vibrant story of Mexicans in the United States. Emerging from the ruins of Aztec civilization and from centuries of Spanish contact with indigenous people, Mexican culture followed the Spanish colonial frontier northward and put its distinctive mark on what became the southwestern United States. Shaped by their Indian and Spanish ancestors, deeply influenced by Catholicism, and tempered by an often difficult existence, Mexicans continue to play an important role in U.S. society, even as the dominant Anglo culture strives to assimilate them. Thorough and balanced, Mexicanos makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of the Mexican population of the United States—a growing minority who are a vital presence in 21st-century America.

Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson

Author: Robert Smithson

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1996-04-10

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780520203853

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Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most important artists of his generation, produced sculpture, drawings, photographs, films, and paintings in addition to the writings collected here.

The History of Mexico
The History of Mexico

Author: Philip Russell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-04-06

Total Pages: 809

ISBN-13: 1136968288

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The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present traces the last 500 years of Mexican history, from the indigenous empires that were devastated by the Spanish conquest through the election of 2006 and its aftermath. The book offers a straightforward chronological survey of Mexican history from the pre-colonial times to the present, and includes a glossary as well as numerous tables and images for comprehensive study. For additional information and classroom resources please visit The History of Mexico companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/russell.

Reference World Atlas
Reference World Atlas

Author: DK

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1465421181

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A beautifully clear, detailed, and fully revised and updated guide, DK's Reference World Atlas gives a superb overview of all the world's regions. Providing a detailed reference map set, the atlas also features computer-generated terrain-modeled maps and the landscapes, bringing an all-new dimension to cartography. This ninth edition of DK's respected Reference World Atlas includes all recent border, place name, and flag changes from around the world, including the emerging state of South Sudan.

CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine
CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine

Author: Leslie Dierauf

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2001-06-27

Total Pages: 1116

ISBN-13: 1420041630

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CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine, Second Edition is the only handbook specifically devoted to marine mammal medicine and health. With 66 contributors working together to craft 45 scientifically-based chapters, the text has been completely revised and updated to contain all the latest developments in this field. Building upon the solid foundation of the previous edition, the contents of this book are light-years ahead of the topics presented in the first edition. See what's new in the Second Edition: Marine mammals as sentinels of ocean health Emerging and resurging diseases Thorough revision of the Immunology chapter Diagnostic imaging chapters to illustrate new techniques Quick reference for venipuncture sites in many marine mammals Unusual mortality events and mass strandings New topics such as a chapter on careers Wider scope of coverage including species outside of the United States and Canada Filled with captivating illustrations and photographs, the Handbook guides you through the natural history of cetaceans, pinnipeds, manatees, sea otters, and polar bears. Prepared in a convenient, easy-to-use format, it is designed specifically for use in the field. Covering more than 40 topics, this one-of-a-kind reference is packed with data. The comprehensive compilation of information includes medicine, surgery, pathology, physiology, husbandry, feeding and housing, with special attention to strandings and rehabilitation. The CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine, Second Edition is still a must for anyone interested in marine mammals.

Pocket Travel Atlas
Pocket Travel Atlas

Author: George Philip & Son

Publisher: Philip's

Published: 2005-10

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780540088744

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Philip's Pocket Travel Atlas is a small-format hardback, packed with detail: an ideal reference for the regular or long distance traveller. The 96 pages of up-to-date maps are physically coloured to give a superb representation of the Earth's surface, with cities and towns, as well as major transport routes and administrative boundaries, clearly shown. The detailed travel information section includes population statistics and maps showing time zones, flight paths and world climate, together with city centre plans for 24 of the world's most visited cities, arranged in alphabetical order for ease of reference. New for this edition are the city maps of Dublin, Moscow, Prague and Toronto. In addition, a concise Gazetteer of Nations provides up-to-date information for 150 of the world's countries (including 24 entries added for this edition), with key facts on currencies, languages and governments, plus current medical and travel advice. Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Cape Verde, Comoros, Dominica, Ethiopia, French Polynesia, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Madagascar, Mauritius, Netherlands Antilles, Reunion, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Slovak Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, British Virgin Islands and US Virgin Islands. At the end of the atlas, the 64-page letter-figure index lists all major towns and cities, plus numerous geographical features such as mountains, deserts, rivers and lakes. This compact atlas is ideal for business travellers, gap year students, cruise-line passengers or anyone else visiting a number of countries.

Journals
Journals

Author: Allen Ginsberg

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9780802141569

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In the 1950s and early 1960s, Allen Ginsberg and his fellow Beats led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. Collected here are journal entries culed from eighteen notebooks that Ginsberg kept during this extraordinary period -- thoughts, poems, dreams, reflections, and diary notes that intimately illuminate Ginsberg's actual travels and his mental journeys. They reveal a remarkable and fascinating life: conversations with William Carlos Williams; drug experiences; a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas; stays in Mexico, San Francisco, and New York; first impressions of "Naked Lunch"; bits and peices of "America, Kaddish" and other poems; political "ravings"; and, of course, times with William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Gergory Corso, Herbert Huncke, Peter Orlovsky, and many, many others.