Isles Of Amnesia

Author : Mark J. Rauzon
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824857542
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isles of Amnesia written by Mark J. Rauzon and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a quarter century, biologist Mark J. Rauzon worked in the field of island restoration, traveling throughout the American Insular Pacific to eradicate invasive plants and animals introduced by humans. The region spans from Hawai`i to Samoa to Guam, and their neighbors—small, obscure tropical islands that are hundreds, if not thousands, of nautical miles from each other. These little-known US possessions and territories include various islands and atolls: Jarvis, Howland, Baker, the Northern Marianas, Wake, Palmyra, Johnston, and Rose Atoll, among others. They anchor a vast National Marine Monument program created in 2009, and expanded in 2014, to protect the largest area in the world from exploitation. In Isles of Amnesia, Rauzon chronicles the ecological and human history of these islands, enlivened with his first-hand experiences of eradication efforts to restore atoll ecosystems and maximize native biodiversity. Each chapter focuses on an individual island or island group, revealing how each location has its own particular story, secret past, or ecological lesson to be shared. Taken as a whole, the region has played a unique role in American history, with the remoteness of the islands having served the needs of whalers and guano miners in the 1800s and, in later years, that of military secret projects, missile launching, chemical weapon incinerations, and air bases. Rauzon further explores the creation of the National Marine Monuments and what their protection means to a changing ocean, and presents original research about the US military’s Pacific Project and germ warfare testing. Illustrated with over seventy historical photographs and original drawings, this much-needed work tells the fascinating story of America’s forgotten Pacific islands.

Author : Peter P. Deyn
Publisher : ACCO
ISBN 13 : 9789033448966
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory written by Peter P. Deyn and published by ACCO. This book was released on 2003 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Island Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Van Arsdale
Publisher : Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward Amnesia written by Sarah Van Arsdale and published by Riverhead Books (Hardcover). This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poetic and arresting first novel, the protagonist, a marine biologist, is left by her lover and best friend of five years. Utterly bereft and no longer able to take consolation from the things that once absorbed her, she cleans out her savings account, trades in her sensible car for a 1950 Chevy Futura, and heads cross-country without a word to anyone. Inspired by her newfound anonymity, she begins to cultivate a whole alien persona: she writes with her other hand, takes her coffee black, and pays for an abandoned grocery cart of odd-looking canned foods.

Author : G.C. Vanhoose
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504913493
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amnesia written by G.C. Vanhoose and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man (Frank) wakes up with a beautiful woman (Kim) in a plush hotel room in San Juan Puerto Rico to find that he has no memories back from that moment. As it turns out Frank is a very prominent, abundantly wealthy lawyer who owns his own firm based in San Diego but has offices all over the world. Kim is his long term life as well as his business partner. They are blessed with many interesting friends who have unique lives of their own. As the mystery of who he is unfolds Frank seeks the help of prominent psychiatrist and medical doctors specializing in memory loss. After exhausting the mental and physical possibilities and with the help of friends, detectives and Kim they retrace Franks steps all the way around the world to a micro bionic research company in Beijing China. What they find out boggles ones mind as to the advancement of micro biotic organisms. But wait; Im just about to give it all away. Its time for you to read the rest of the story. Enjoy!

Author : Howard S. Friedman
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080542425
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Disorders written by Howard S. Friedman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-08-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Disorders is a derivative volume of articles pulled from the award-winning Encyclopedia of Mental Health, providing A-to-Z coverage of the many disorders afflicting mental health patients, including alcohol problems, Alzheimer's disease, depression, epilepsy, gambling, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, and suicide. According to 1990 estimates, mental disorders represent five of the ten leading causes of disability. Among "developed" nations, including the United States, major depression is the leading cause of disability. Also near the top of these rankings are bipolar depression, alcohol dependence, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. In addition, mental disorders are tragic contributors to mortality, with suicide perennially representing one of the leading preventable causes of death worldwide. The Disorders presents a comprehensive overview of the disorders afflicting mental health patients. It describes the impact of mental health on the individual and society and illustrates the factors that aid positive mental health. Thirty-five peer-reviewed articles written by more than 50 expert authors include essential material on specific disorders affecting modern society. Professionals and libraries will find this timely work indispensable.

Author : Daniel Travers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350006963
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second World War and the 'Other British Isles' written by Daniel Travers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is often held to be Britain's 'finest hour' – the Second World War – was not experienced so uniformly across the British Isles. On the margins, the war was endured in profoundly different ways. While D-Day or Dunkirk is embedded in British collective memory, how many Britons can recall that Finns were interned on the Isle of Man, that enemy soldiers developed British infrastructure in Orkney, or that British subjects were sent to concentration camps from Guernsey? Such experiences, tangential to the dominant British war narrative, are commemorated elsewhere in the 'other British Isles'. In this remarkable contribution to British Island Studies, Daniel Travers pursues these histories and their commemoration across numerous local sites of memory: museums, heritage sites and public spaces. He examines the way these island identities assert their own distinctiveness over the British wartime story, and ultimately the way they fit into the ongoing discourse about how the memory of the Second World War has been constructed since 1945.

Author : C. W. M. Whitty
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 1483165140
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amnesia written by C. W. M. Whitty and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amnesia: Clinical, Psychological and Medicolegal Aspects, 2nd Edition explores the clinical, psychological, and medicolegal aspects of amnesia. Experimental studies of the organic amnesic syndrome are presented and memory disorders associated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are described. The role of amnesia in cerebral disease, the neuropathology of amnesic states, and psychogenic memory loss are also considered. This book is comprised of 11 chapters and begins with a discussion on experimental studies of the organic amnesic syndrome, along with certain associated studies of normal memory. The reader is then introduced to the link between amnesia and cerebral pathology; transient global amnesia and its clinical manifestations; the amnesic syndrome and its relation to Korsakoff syndrome; traumatic amnesia; amnesias of temporal lobe origin; and memory disorders following ECT. A neuropathological examination of the human brain in cases of amnesia is presented, and examples of the psychopathology of memory are provided. The final chapter analyzes amnesia from a medicolegal point of view. This monograph will be of interest to clinicians, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychopathologists, psychologists, and medicolegal practitioners.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.7M/5 ( download)

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Author : Paul S. Appelbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198026064
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trauma and Memory written by Paul S. Appelbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-29 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authenticity of memories of childhood sexual abuse has become one of the major social controversies of the 1990's. As persons who report histories of abuse have sought remedies in civil and criminal proceedings in the courts, the accuracy of their memories--particularly when they have been recalled after a period of time--has been subject to intense scrutiny. This volume brings together many of the leading participants in the debate to provide a comprehensive picture of the psychological, physiological, and legal aspects of trauma. Beginning by defining the opposing positions in the debate, the contributors then offer a variety of perspectives on the nature of memory, including reviews of some of the most exciting recent developments in this fast-growing area of investigation. Next, consideration is given to the impact of trauma on memory, both in adults and in children. With this framework in place, the authors turn to an examination of the variety of treatment approaches available to victims of trauma, who are trying to cope with the painful consequences of those events. The book argues against a unidimensional approach to trauma, calling instead for a multidisciplinary synthesis that includes developmental, neurobiological, cognitive, and psychodynamic perspectives. Chapters address the legal dilemmas for patients, mental health professionals and society as a whole that have arisen from the trauma and memory controversy. Most importantly, the editors shift the focus of their discussion from the laboratory to the courtroom and from the research journal to the psychotherapist's office, looking at the issues from every relevant angle. This is the only book in the field to treat the trauma and memory controversy comprehensively, from basic research on memory processes through clinical approaches to legal and policy issues. Trauma and Memory is a valuable tool for clinicians treating patients with traumatic memories. It is also intended for psychologists, physicians, social workers and lawyers who need a comprehensive reference on trauma and sexual abuse during childhood.