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Author
Publisher
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The father of a child who was diagnosed as autistic at the age of two describes the intensive therapies that were pursued before Carly had a breakthrough at the age of ten, when she began using her computer to communicate.
Author
Publisher
Metha Parisien Bercier
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"That's the train you'll ride on, : Papa said. "My little girls, I'm going to miss you so much," cried Mama. As the train blew its loud shistle, we slowly began to move. I cried until their faces faded in the distance. Helene tried to console me and whispered, "Tomorrow my sister ... tomorrow we'll go home." We were shipped off to a government boarding school. Indians must be civilized! We must recreate him! Teach them the white man's ways! As time...
3363) Say Anarcha: a young woman, a devious surgeon, and the harrowing birth of modern women's health
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1846, a young surgeon, J. Marion Sims ("The Father of Gynecology"), began several years of experimental surgeries on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha ("The Mother of Gynecology"). This series of procedures-performed without anesthesia and resulting in Anarcha's so-called "cure"-forever altered the path of women's health. Despite brutal practices and failed techniques, Sims proclaimed himself the curer of obstetric fistula, a horrific condition...
3365) Of men and war
Series
Genealogy of wrath volume 2
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Filmed over five years, Of men and war chronicles life at the Pathway Home in Yountville, California, which cares for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Focuses on the experiences of thirteen veterans and their families. Includes excerpts from group therapy sessions.
3366) The first frontier: the forgotten history of struggle, savagery, and endurance in early America
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great struggles for liberty and equality, were God's plan for himself and the nation. To honor his righteous commitment to a new...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A tribal chairman's son and Yale Law graduate recounts his successful legal battle on behalf of his people against the government groups responsible for taking away tribal lands in North Dakota and flooding them with dam construction.
