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Flashback
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Flashback

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-04-01
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  • Publisher: Beacon Press

With the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, once again America's men and women who have seen war close-up are suddenly expected to return seamlessly to civilian life. In Flashback, Penny Coleman tells the cautionary and timely story of posttraumatic stress disorder in the hope that we can sensitively assist those veterans who return from combat in need of help, and the families struggling to support them.

Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts

Drawing on extensive historical and anthropological research, personal accounts, and interviews with people who work in the funeral industry, Penny Colman examines the compelling subjects of death and burial across cultures and societies. The text, enriched with stories both humorous and poignant, includes details about the decomposition and embalming processes (an adult corpse buried six feet deep without a coffin will usually take five to ten years to turn into a skeleton) and describes the various customs associated with containing remains (the Igala people in Nigeria have a custom of burying people in as many as twenty-seven layers of clothing). Intriguing facts are revealed at every tur...

Village Elders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Village Elders

In this photo documentary, Coleman captures the faces and memories of senior statesmen and women of the gay and lesbian community, describing in vivid detail what it was like "back then" and how it is today for the gender outlaws whose lives have challenged convention. 25 photos.

Adventurous Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

Adventurous Women

The adventures of eight inspiring women of the twentieth century. Mary Gibson Henry risked her life following her passion for new botanical species. During the Civil War, Katharine Wormeley worked aboard hospital ships and helped to save the lives of many sick and wounded soldiers. With a promise and a dollar and a half, Mary McLeod Bethune opened a school for African American girls in Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1904, at a time when schools were segregated. Award-winning author Penny Colman offers a compelling collection of true stories about eight women who were bold enough to confront obstacles and take risks in the pursuit of their goals. This is a book that celebrates the intelligence, fortitude, and courage of women.

Federal Register
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Federal Register

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children
  • Language: en

Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

An account of the life of an important labor leader includes the history of child labor and a description of the harsh conditions in American factories at the time.

Tourism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Tourism

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Weaving events, quotations, personalities, and commentary into a page-turning narrative, Penny Colman's Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony vividly portrays a friendship that changed history. In the Spring of 1851 two women met on a street corner in Seneca Falls, New York—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a thirty-five year old mother of four boys, and Susan B. Anthony, a thirty-one year old, unmarried, former school teacher. Immediately drawn to each other, they formed an everlasting and legendary friendship. Together they challenged entrenched beliefs, customs, and laws that oppressed women and spearheaded the fight to gain legal rights, including the right to vote despite fierce opposition, daunting conditions, scandalous entanglements and betrayal by their friends and allies.

Off-reservation Gaming
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Off-reservation Gaming

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Understanding Suicide and Its Prevention
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 551

Understanding Suicide and Its Prevention

Finally, a book that explains suicide using the latest research in suicidology. A must-read for mental health professionals and the survivors of suicide who want to understand why suicide happens. The material in this book should be incorporated into the curriculum of psychology and psychiatry because suicide is such a vital topic that is hardly covered in medical schools due to the lack of a coherent theory of the brain in general and suicide in particular. This is an important book for all professionals who deal with mental disorders in general and suicide in particular. It is the author's fifth book where suicide is explained, not as a mysterious process, but as a natural consequence of t...