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Much of the material unearthed by this book is ugly, states historiographer Patricia Morton who exposes profoundly dehumanizing constructions of reality embedded in American scholarship as it has attempted to render the history of the Afro-American woman. Focusing on the scholarly literature of fact rather than on fictional or popular portrayals, Disfigured Images explores the telling--and frequent mis-telling--of the story of black women during a century of American historiography beginning in the late nineteenth century and extending to the present. Morton finds that during this period, a large body of scholarly literature was generated that presented little fact and much fiction about bla...
A look at how the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris created hybrids of French and colonial culture.
A classic in its field, this popular text provides clinical coverage of critical care nursing, with an emphasis on holism in practice. Beginning with the psychosocial concepts of care, the text progresses through assessment and management of a variety of disorders. Now under the head authorship of Tricia Morton, Critical Care Nursing maintains its popular holistic approach to the complexities of adult health and critical care. The Eighth Edition is now in full-color, and has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent changes and advances in critical care nursing. A CD-ROM in the back of this edition has common Critical Care Drug Monographs, Crisis Values of Lab Tests, Critical Care Nursing Procedures, Animations, and comprehensive critical care exams.
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It's Christmas break in the tiny colored town of Poplar Cove, California. Nothing much happens there and three 12 year old best girl friends, nicked named the Triplets, are making baby clothing for their former teacher. The girls do not like their substitute teacher, Miss Swanson .Everyone loves the town's barber, Mr. Peterson. Someone, perhaps one of the many hobos who frequent the town searching for work, murders Mr. Peterson. The Triplets believe they know who has done the horrible deed and soon they and most of the town are searching for possible missing gold, lost gloves and other mysteries near the edge of the forest as it falls over the cliffs leading to the Pacific Ocean.
As Patricia Morton notes in her historiographical introduction, Discovering the Women in Slavery continues the advances made, especially over the last decade, in understanding how women experienced slavery and shaped slavery history. In addition, the collection illuminates some emancipating new perspectives and methodologies. Throughout, the contributors pay close attention - over time and place - to variations, differences, and diversity regarding issues of gender and sex, race and ethnicity, and class. They draw on such qualitative sources as letters, novels, oral histories, court records, and local histories as well as quantitative sources like census data and parish records
Comprehensive, evidence-based, and expertly written, Critical Care Nursing: A Holistic Approach, 12th Edition, helps you confidently prepare today’s students for the highly specialized and complex challenges of critical care nursing practice. This trusted, must-have text integrates clear, concise writing, engaging resources, and a proven holistic approach to instill the clinical competence students need to care for patients who are critically ill and their families. More efficiently organized and easier to use than ever, the 12th Edition presents theory and principles within the context of practical application to streamline students’ transition to successful critical care practice.