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From the pages of Molly Eiderdowns Journal: Memoirs at the Serenity Nursing Home springs the thoughts, feelings, and observations of a woman who writes a new chapter in her own life. At seventy-nine, she enters a nursing home under duress following a heart attack. Forced into this late-life move by her children, who felt concerned about her health and her ability to live on her own, Molly Eiderdown decides to keep a journal to pass the time. She notes on the first page, It is so boring here that I have just decided to write. I have to write BIG so I can read it because my eyes arent so good, but who cares if I fill up my whole under the bed with notebooks. Theyll never find them anyway. No one ever even dusts under there Ill bet. Elaine B. Berriers Molly Eiderdowns Journal rests upon the authors twenty-seven years of experience working with elders as a nurse in long-term care facilities. This roots the novel in the realities of people who live in nursing homes. Presenting a series of journal entries, Molly Eiderdowns Journal: Memoirs at the Serenity Nursing Home depicts a wise and spirited woman who learns and grows at a time in her life she had thought was too late for such change. If you find yourself drawn to stories of people who triumph over challenges, then Molly Eiderdowns Journal will present you with a new friend and a source of inspiration. Elaine B. Berrier earned a bachelors degree in nursing from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and worked with elders for twenty-seven years in long-term care facilities and ten years as a parish nurse. She and her husband live in Massachusetts. She is very involved with her church, having facilitated discussions using her book.
Over the centuries eiderdown has been coveted by the Vikings, Russian tsars and medieval tax collectors who accepted it as revenue. The plumage of a fat sea duck, eiderdown – treasured for its extraordinary lightness and insulation – now joins cocaine as an instrument of globalisation and commodity of the super-rich. In this revelatory essay, Edward Posnett travels to the Westfjords region of Iceland to explore the fragile relationship between Icelanders and the duck. Eiderdown harvesting began with the arrival of Norse settlers in the 9th century, and it is now stuffed into pillows, duvets and clothing which sell for thousands of pounds in Japan, China, Germany and Russia. What might at first appear an idyllic pastime becomes a story of compromise and exploitation. Posnett’s finely spun prose and his fascinating encounters open up this seldom seen trade, one which hangs in the balance.
An original and magical map of our world and its riches, formed of the stories of the small-scale harvests of seven natural objects In this beguiling book, Edward Posnett journeys to some of the most far-flung locales on the planet to bring us seven wonders of the natural world--eiderdown, edible birds' nests, civet coffee, sea silk, vicuña fiber, vegetable ivory, and guano--that promise ways of using nature without damaging it. To the rest of the world these materials are mere commodities, but to their harvesters they are imbued with myth, tradition, folklore, and ritual, and form part of a shared identity and history. Strange Harvests follows the journeys of these uncommon products from some of the most remote areas of the world to its most populated urban centers, drawing on the voices of the people and little-known communities who harvest, process, and trade them. Blending history, travel writing, and interviews, Posnett sets these human stories against our changing economic and ecological landscape. What do they tell us about capitalism, global market forces, and overharvesting? How do local microeconomies survive in a hyperconnected world? Is it possible for us to live together with different species? Strange Harvests makes us see the world with wonder, curiosity, and new concern.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Concepts and cases
For lovers of birds and trivia, this captivating book features a wealth of fascinating facts, figures, and folklore about our feathered friends. It’s beautifully illustrated throughout with colorful artworks and photographs. · Over 400 nuggets of information drawn from nature, science, history, and mythology are sure to astound, amuse, and entertain· Find the answers to these burning questions: How light is a feather? Are owls really wise? Why do birds migrate? How do they know where to go?· Be amazed by the weird world of these winged wonders, from the largest ever recorded egg—15 times larger than an ostrich egg—to the world’s strangest bird, which has claws on its wings· Includes practical advice such as how to attract birds to your garden and how to teach a parrot to talk, and encourages a new appreciation of these awesome creatures of the air
International conference proceedings, Mainz, 1997 and 1998.
All that remains : A serial killer is loose in Richmond, and leaving few clues. Cruel and unusual : The convicted killer has been executed, but the murders continue and the executed man's fingerprints are found at a new crime scene.
Includes annually, 1961- Home goods data book.