What do physicians, nurses, chaplains, and social workers think about moral and religious issues in care for the dying? These professionals live with death, including many untimely and difficult deaths, on a daily basis. Based on intensive interviews with a cross sample of health care professionals, David H. Smith details how the churches could not only be supportive of these primary caregivers in dealing with end of life issues, but how they could enlist their help in informing their own congregations about the realities of death.
To care for the dying is spiritually demanding work. Churches should not let health professionals struggle with religious issues—whether of patients, families, or their own—in isolation. Smith’s respondents offer powerful perspectives on the issue of physician assisted suicide. Religious and theological ethics cannot afford to ignore insights and questions that come from those who deal with dying every day. Finding meaning in the face of human suffering comes less from doctrine than from living a certain kind of life.
This book is a clarion call for new, practical, and vital forms of education, support, and commitment, particularly within the churches, in the cause of improving care for the dying.
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Author: David H. Smith Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 9781461665939 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2005 152 pages
Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress on Hormonal Steroids contains plenary speeches and symposia from the Fourth International Congress on Hormonal Steroids held in Mexico City in September 1974
Author: V. H. T. James; J. R. Pasqualini Publisher: Elsevier Science ISBN: 9781483145662 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2013 987 pages
Since the late 1990s, when broadcasters began adapting such television shows as Big Brother, Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? for markets around the world, the global television industry has been struggling to get to grips with the prevalence of programme franchising across international borders. In TV Format Mogul, Albert Moran traces the history of this phenomenon through the lens of Australian producer Reg Grundy’s transnational career. Beginning in the late 1950s, Grundy brought non-Australian shows to Australian audiences, becoming the first person to take local productions to an overseas market. By following Grundy’s career, Moran shows how adaptation and remaking became the billion-dollar business it is today.
Author: Albert Moran Publisher: Intellect Books Ltd ISBN: 9781783200788 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2013 286 pages
In 52 BC Caesar’s continued strategy of annihilation had engendered a spirit of desperation, which detonated into a revolt of Gallic tribes under the leadership of the charismatic young Arvernian noble Vercingetorix. Major engagements were fought at Noviodunum, Avaricum, and Gergovia, with the last action being the most serious reverse that Caesar faced in the whole of the Gallic War. However, Vercingetorix soon realized that he was unable to match the Romans in pitched battle. Taking advantage of the tribesmen’s superior knowledge of their home territory, Vercingetorix began a canny policy of small war and defensive manoeuvres, which gravely hampered Caesar’s movements by cutting off his supplies. For Caesar it was to be a grim summertime – his whole Gallic enterprise faced disaster. In the event, by brilliant leadership, force of arms, and occasionally sheer luck, Caesar succeeded in stamping out the revolt in a long and brutal action culminating in the siege of Alesia. Vercingetorix finally surrendered and Alesia was to be the last significant resistance to the Roman will. Never again would a Gallic warlord independent of Rome hold sway over the Celts of Gaul.
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Author: Nic Fields; Peter Dennis Publisher: Osprey Publishing Ltd ISBN: 9781782009238 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: June 2014 96 pages
Planck studied physics, the science of matter and energy. He wound up making big discoveries in the area of thermodynamics, which is the study of heat and how it moves. Planck won the Nobel Prize for his work in Quantum Physics, which is the movement inside of atoms. It changed the way scientists understood the world.
Author: Jane Weir Publisher: Shell Education ISBN: 9781433390975 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2007 34 pages
International Series on Materials Science and Technology
Deformation Geometry for Materials Scientists presents the study of macroscopic geometry of deformation, particularly on crystalline solids.
The book discusses a wide range of topics on the deformation of crystalline materials. The text discusses concepts on stress and strain on materials and tensile tests. Linear elastic and plastic deformations; and the macroscopic geometry mechanism of slip and deformation twinning are covered as well.
Materials scientists, engineers, and students of materials science will find this book a great reference material.
Author: C. N. Reid; W. S. Owen Publisher: Elsevier Science ISBN: 9781483159669 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2016 234 pages
The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization
In this book, Laird traces the bargain – that touchstone of American culture – from its humble dollar-store origins to its recent role as global juggernaut. Along the way, he discovers that much of today’s collapsing consumer economy is dangerously dependant upon unsustainable labor, transport, resources, trade imbalances, and consumer debt. Through interviews with everyone from box store executives to illegal immigrants, a single question emerges: Is the Wal-Mart culture sustainable on a global level? From Asia’s factory borderlands to rural Mexico, from Las Vegas to the Arctic Circle, Laird explores the hidden revolution of discounting, and the promise and consequence of everyday low prices.
Author: Gordon Laird Publisher: St. Martin’s Press ISBN: 9780230101401 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: November 2009 256 pages
Includes Apple Oatmeal Breakfast Bars, Parmesan Artichoke Dip, Creamy Cauliflower Soup, Mushroom Pork Medallions, Almond Cranberry Biscotti …and hundreds more!
An easy-to-follow plan for healthy weight loss! If you’re tired of sugar-free this and low-carb that, constantly restricting your diet to lose weight and stay healthy, The Everything Low-Glycemic Cookbook is the perfect choice for you! According to experts, switching to a low–glycemic index (GI) diet is the key to losing weight–and keeping it off. The GI diet isn’t a low-fat diet; you won’t find calorie counting or reduced portion sizes. In fact, following the low-GI diet just means eating more low-glycemic foods and avoiding others that have a high GI number.
Popular food blogger Carrie Forbes has compiled 300 low-GI meals that are as tasty as they are healthy, including:
Strawberry-banana pancakes
Spicy cilantro dip
Butternut squash soup
Poached chicken with pears and herbs
Country-style pork ribs
Easy vegetarian lasagna with spinach
Grilled lemon-and-dill swordfish steaks
Peanut butter–chocolate chip cupcakes
Armed with glycemic index values of common foods and hundreds of recipes for satisfying, delicious dishes, you’ll have all you need to lose weight and eat well–every meal of the day!
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Author: Carrie S. Forbes Publisher: F+W Media ISBN: 9781440571299 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2013 304 pages
This book is the result of a united effort of six European universities to create an overall course on the appplication of artificial intelligence (AI) in process control. The book includes an introduction to key areas including; knowledge representation, expert, logic, fuzzy logic, neural network, and object oriented-based approaches in AI. Part two covers the application to control engineering, part three: Real-Time Issues, part four: CAD Systems and Expert Systems, part five: Intelligent Control and part six: Supervisory Control, Monitoring and Optimization.
Author: L. Boullart; A. Krijgsman; R. A. Vingerhoeds Publisher: Elsevier Science ISBN: 9780080912639 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2013 544 pages
Transformers began with toys and a cartoon series in 1984 and has since grown to include comic books, movies, and video games its science fiction story has reached an audience with a wide range second only to that of Star Wars. Here, in Transformers and Philosophy, a dream team of philosophers pursues the fascinating questions posed by humankind’s encounter with an artificially intelligent mechanical civilization: Is genuine artificial intelligence possible? Would a robotic civilization come with its own morality and artistic life, and would it find a need for romantic love? Should we be more careful about developing robots that may eventually develop ideas of their own? Transformers and Philosophy puts Transformers under a microscope and exposes its philosophical implications in an instantly readable way.
Author: John R. Shook; Liz Stillwaggon Swan Publisher: Open Court ISBN: 9780812698145 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2012 384 pages
