Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders, Second Edition

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The second edition of a bestseller, Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders continues to provide the fundamentals of "street chemistry" required by emergency response personnel. The information presented will assist you in responding to specific chemical spills, including identifying the exact chemicals involved and their individual hazards. The chapters are organized by the nine U.S. Department of Transportation's hazard classes. Within each class, the author discusses individual chemicals that are commonly involved in emergency situations along with their physical and chemical characteristics. Additionally, each chapter addresses the multiple perils of hazardous materials, including "hidden" hazards. The top 50 hazardous industrial chemicals are considered throughout the book, together with other hazardous materials. The author also provides incident reports and statistics to underscore the effects that specific chemicals can have on incident outcomes. Furthermore, he delves into the timely concern of dealing with chemical and biological terrorist agents. This information is extremely valuable in your daily work for the health and safety of yourself and those who rely on you. Hazardous Materials Chemistry for Emergency Responders, Second Edition offers a concise presentation of the topics of most importance. The subject matter is written to be appropriate for response personnel without a strong chemistry background by conveying the information in understandable terms. This book will familiarize you with the basic chemistry a responder needs to understand chemical terminology and communicate with others about the chemicals involved in hazardous materials incidents.

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Great for those Responders who want to know more!.......2000-12-29

This text is a one stop shop for those responders who want to know what HAZMAT is really about. Anyone interested in furthering their abilities and understanding of Hazardous Chemicals needs this book. It is not too technical for those few who think you can become too technical when responding to emergencies, but opens the door for those of us, who take our work seriously.

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Strange Planet: A Sourcebook of Unusual Geological Facts
William R. Corliss
Manufacturer: Sourcebook Project
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Ring-bound

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ASIN: 0960071237

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STRANGE PLANET : A SOURCEBOOK OF UNUSUAL GEOLOGICAL FACTS
William R. Corliss
Manufacturer: Sourcebook Project, The
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound
ASIN: 0915554046

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Strange Planet: A Sourcebook of Unusual Geological Facts - Books E1 & E2
William R. Corliss
Manufacturer: Sourcebook Project
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000PM8S70

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"Just Fine": helps transform the emotional pain of concealed chronic conditions with wisdom, resources, and wit!

This amazing book is the best of the bunch...

Incredible resource for my patients

Looks can be deceiving...this book tells the truth

Just Fine: Unmasking Concealed Chronic Illness And Pain
Carol Sveilich
Manufacturer: Avid Reader Press
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Binding: Paperback

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You Don't Look Sick: Living Well With Invisible Chronic Illness

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ASIN: 0970015046

Book Description

Nearly everyone knows someone who is living with a health challenge that is difficult, if not impossible, to detect in their appearance and demeanor. "Just Fine" discusses this dichotomy of looking one way while feeling quite another. This topic is explored not only with words, but with original portraits, because the true story of looking one way while feeling quite differently requires both. No other book has approached hidden health disorders in this manner. It is a powerful and telling tale that must be told as well as shown.

Sveilich interviewed and photographed over 50 people of all ages and from all walks of life who live with a wide variety of concealed disorders. She also consulted with numerous medical and mental health professionals to explore the juxtaposition of looking one way while feeling quite another.

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Liked it .......2007-03-20

I enjoyed this book because of the suggestions for chronically ill people and also the many people in the book who wrote a personal page or 2 about their experience with chronic illness. There were alot of correlations between people who have different chronic illnesses it felt good to know that there are people out there like myself. I would suggest this book for anyone who has to deal with a chronic illness.

"Just Fine": helps transform the emotional pain of concealed chronic conditions with wisdom, resources, and wit!.......2006-07-16

Like others have written, JUST FINE is a gift to all those impacted by chronic, invisible illnesses and pain.

Chronic Fatigue (CFIDS) has been my challenge and teacher since my symptoms began more than 30 years ago. JUST FINE, written beautifully by a therapist surviving her own chronic illnesses, says everything I needed to know THEN when little was known and we were told it was a "psychological problem". The book reassures me - even NOW when we recently found out there are at least 5 genetic markers (see the CDC website) - that I am and have been doing MORE than "Just Fine" with the "luck of the draw" biologically & with the life circumstances that may have contributed to triggering my illness.

The photos and narratives of "people with..." function like a "support group in a book" and I KNOW that many readers may not have a group available or be able to reach one because of the limits often imposed by the illnesses themselves. I appreciate the participants' courage in speaking about often stigmatized experiences, while also knowing many of us are longing to be asked by someone who is truly willing to hear us. We continually search for language that can describe our often fluctuating experience: Carol Sveilich and her interviewees have done just that!

I have given this book to clients, friends and family. I look forward to any more writing Sveilich will do in the future, as she clearly has more to say that would be worthwhile to read - to "listen with your eyes".

This amazing book is the best of the bunch..........2006-06-27

I'm not easily impressed. This book impressed me.

I have read just about every book available on the topic of coping with chronic illness and pain. None of them come close to this one by Sveilich. She seems to know the subject quite well and presents unique resources from experts and professionals in the field.

Of course, the best experts are the people who actually live with chronic health disorders and they are respresented throughout this book. The profiles are amazing. I saw my story in just about all of the 55 profiles included. I also found some great coping tools to apply to my own life.

Good insights and coping tips were offered by psychologists as well as physicians. The author also discusses mind-body medicine and complementary approaches as well as traditional medicine. From Zen to Zoloft and everything in-between... this book has it all.

My only remaining question is, why isn't JUST FINE on the New York Bestseller list?

It should be.

Incredible resource for my patients.......2006-06-07

Carol has hit the nail on the head. So many of my patients come in to me with the same complaint; "I look fine, but I feel horrable and my doctors don't believe me".
This is great resource and support for my patients with chronic pain and illness. Carol has captured the essence of what the patient needs to hear. There is hope for these patients and "Just Fine: Unmasking Concealed Chronic Illness and Pain" is a very valuable resource.
Dr. Steven Ross

Looks can be deceiving...this book tells the truth.......2006-04-27

Everybody has a story. As editor of a newsletter, it's not unusual for me to receive an e-mail or letter requesting that I review a book for possible inclusion in our publication. After all, we target a market specifically for those with chronic pain. Most of the time, I'm happy to at least look but I do so with optimistic skepticism. Our readers have a lot to deal with already. If I can't endorse a book, in my editorial opinion, I opt out of giving it published space. My first criteria is that a book should "do no harm" in its effort to do good. I also prefer to give the space to books, which warrant attention. Just Fine deserves both space and attention.

In her own words, the author states the uniqueness of her book: "There is an absence of resources that examines an individual's outward appearance and how it runs contrary to their pain, symptoms, and inner world." While the 336 page book is divided approximately in half, the theme of dealing with appearing "normal" despite how you feel runs consistently from beginning to end. In the first half, the author's revelation of what it is like to uncover and ultimately accept a diagnosis and the limitations, changes and medical challenges that come with that diagnosis - despite looking fine - is unlike any other book I've read. The author's own black and white photographs of people she's interviewed and whose stories are included will greet you in the second half. Stop and look at the faces. The fact that you cannot "see" what disorder they have is what Just Fine is all about.

In Chapter One, "why seeing is not always believing", the author explains, "Human nature, for the most part, is visually oriented. We believe what we see and often make character judgments based solely on visual perceptions. But, what happens when the person who appears healthy, energetic, and just fine to family, friends, and coworkers, is quietly suffering from chronic pain or the challenges of an ongoing illness?" This point continues to be painstakingly revealed in the personal stories collected and shared by the author from others who live and deal daily with these chronic illnesses. The idea that someone can look fine and not feel as good as they appear seems an unlikely paradox. Often the first exchange between two people is, "Hi, how are you?" followed by, "You look great!" Should a person admit their "secret" suffering and/or pain and risk that too familiar look of skepticism?

The author strikes further to the core of the matter: many struggle to live as "normal" as they look and rationalize the consequences when they cannot. She says it simply, "One may recover from the shock of an illness but not from the illness itself. This is where it is essential to develop and utilize new skills". The more disabling the disorder, no matter how invisible, the more your life will change. How will it change and what can you do about it? The author's two decades of counseling experience shines through, especially in the stories. While many offer hope and inspiration, she also includes those stories that don't have it all figured out yet --because with a chronic condition, the story doesn't always have a nice, neat ending.

Just Fine is an amazing book that will touch the reader on many different levels, especially emotionally. This is not, however, a coping book as much as it is a "comfort" book. The author goes beyond the personal and offers the practical as well in dealing with subjects as family, work, friends, depression and medical therapies, including alternative options. It is indeed a resource for those with a "concealed illness" whose story is finally well told -- as well as anyone else -- family, doctors, support group leaders who wants to truly "see" them, too.

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A Delightful and Beautiful Book
A Fine Art Critic Too!

Just Looking: Essays on Art
John Updike
Manufacturer: Knopf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0394579046
Release Date: 1989-09-23

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Artwork by John Updike.

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A Delightful and Beautiful Book.......2007-07-22

In the 23 essays in JUST LOOKING: ESSAYS ON ART, John Updike is a delightful guide and insightful companion as he reviews art across the centuries. Throughout, Updike's voice is totally engaging, informed but never pedantic, respectful but not reverential. Here is a sample:

o "From his art, we might imagine him [Renoir] a plump, rosy, placid man, but in fact, he was bony-faced, nervous, reactionary, and restless."

o "This painting of Wertheimer tells us what we have been missing in even the more admirable of Sargent's portraits: an at-ease emotional possession of the subject that enables him to concentrate on making a painting. Where no warming familiarity exists, a certain distancing finesse takes over."

o "In 1944, Robert Motherwell wrote of his friend Jackson Pollock, `His principal problem is to discover what his true subject is. And since painting is his thought's medium, the resolution must grow out of the process of his painting itself.' Three years later, in sudden full stride, Pollock could state, `When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.' Pollock painting is the subject of Pollock's paintings."

o "[Modigliani] ...drank while he painted and liked to complete a canvas in one sitting."

o "As his eyes increasingly dimmed, Degas perforce experimented with roughness of execution, never losing his underlying integrity of drawing."

o "Faces gave [Fairfield] Porter a lot of trouble and his paint thickens as he worries over them."

JUST LOOKING: ESSAYS ON ART is also beautiful book with great reproductions. These tie seamlessly to Updike's commentary and enable the reader to fully appreciate his wonderful insights.

If you can't get to your local museum to visit the Vermeers (thank you, New York), this book is a superb alternative.

A Fine Art Critic Too!.......2000-08-06

Painting is to Updike what music was to Anthony Burgess: not so much a second love as a parallel infatuation. One always knew it from his prose: from the references to painters and painterly styles, and from the conspicuously visual quality of his description. It is good, then, to have this collection of the writer's thoughts on selected artists and art-works. He is neither too academic nor too personal in his opinions, and speaks with authority but without jargon. Of the longer essays, 'Something Missing' struck me as particularly good - a tentative, penetrating, careful pondering about what it is in John Singer Sargent's work that misses the mark of great art. The shorter pieces offer bite-sized reflections on single paintings or objects: 'Some Rectangles of Blue' discusses an abstract work by Richard Diebenkorn in such a way that one not only feels enlightened about the particular work but about abstract painting generally. As a critic, Updike has a refreshing freedom from academic orthodoxy - 'We are on the verge here of poster art', he reflects on some of Renoir - and as a (verbal) artist himself has licence to entertain as well as instruct with his prose. The book is lavishly illustrated with uncompromising colour reproductions and, of all his books, the most pleasant simply to hold in the hands.

Edward W. Redfield: Just Values and Fine Seeing

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Edward Redfield

Edward W. Redfield: Just Values and Fine Seeing
Constance Kimmerle
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0812238435

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Trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and arguably the stylistic leader of the Pennsylvania Impressionist school of painting, Edward W. Redfield (1869-1965) was fascinated by the forces that colored an individual's reaction to nature. His paintings reflected an engagement with the American experience, in an unsentimental impressionist style. A painter of great immediacy, Redfield understood that art was an expressive activity rooted in sensibility and feeling, and advised other artists, "See it, seize it, remember it--then get out and paint it."

The phenomenal popularity of Redfield from 1900 to 1920 cannot be fully understood without considering how his life and work were viewed as the embodiment of a national spirit of the progress of America. Redfield's paintings embodied the rawness and energy of America during a period of transformation from a predominantly agrarian to an industrialized capitalist nation. Not only did these bold, vibrant pictures provide welcome images of the natural world, they exuded a spirit of personal authenticity, and stability for an audience in search of these qualities.

With extraordinary access to the rich collection of the Redfield family archives, Constance Kimmerle is able to broaden the understanding of the artist and his work. Through the use of primary sources including Redfield's personal letters and his journal, Kimmerle creates a unique and intimate portrait of one of America's greatest impressionist painters.

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Edward Redfield.......2007-02-02

This is a very good book about an excellent painter. It includes about 59 color reproductions and a few b&w. Some of the paintings are not his best but there are still quite a few good ones. This is a basic biography with paintings and descriptions. One could wish for more about the man and his comrades. It's a fairly good biography but for an Redfield lover you will want for more.

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Of the Just Shaping of Letters
Albrecht Durer
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Calligraphy: The Art of Written Forms

ASIN: 0486213064

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A highly interesting facet of the work of a master eloquent in various spheres of art, this historically important little book is principally concerned with setting up precise rules for the geometric construction of Roman capitals. Written by Dürer in 1525.

Everything is Going to be Just fine: The Ramblings of a Mad Hairdresser

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I could not put this book down
I love this book
Everything is just fine..........and it is.
Hysterical and Uplifting!
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Everything is Going to be Just fine: The Ramblings of a Mad Hairdresser
Billy Clift
Manufacturer: Everything Is Going to Be Just Fine
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0968692907
Release Date: 1998-05-01

Book Description

In 1995, beloved television star, Elizabeth Montgomery passed away from colon cancer. Surprisingly to Billy Clift, her hair and make-up artist and close friend for eleven years, it was the beginning of a profound journey. This journey pushed his limits of perception, opening his awareness to the paranormal. With guidance from shamanic visions and inner-dimensional beings, insights and teachings were revealed. Layer by layer his reality was torn apart and all semblance of his former self transformed. This true-life story will take you on an incredible tour of Billy's unfoldment, providing the reader an opportunity to penetrate subtler layers of creation and to peer into the worlds beyond the veils. Whether you believe this work as merely imaginative or real, it will alter your perception and change your world forever.

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I could not put this book down.......2002-03-27

I was given "Everything is Going to be Just Fine" just before a long flight halfway around the world. I read the entire book on that flight, laughing and crying many times. Billy touched something inside me, and in many ways awoke me to ideas, that I had seemed to know my entire life. Never having been the New Age type of person I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book is the account of another gay man who just happened to be a close friend of Elizabeth Montgomery. However, even though there are some wonderful stories about "Lizzie", this book is about Billy's experiences. Oh, and did he have experiences! If you read this book you will see that the experiences Billy had are for all of us to experience and to LEARN from. Even if you are skeptical you will still enjoy this book.

I love this book.......2002-03-08

I've studies metaphysics for years - and now boast a small but well stocked library in books on many facets of the subject.

This particular one touched me in a way that many others haven't..... I actually carry it around with me .....

Billy has a playful endearing wisdom and an unabashed capacity for kindness that I've experienced in few others. He is a dear soul on this planet.

He now offers courses in meditation and other aspects of spirituality - which you can find out more about by visiting his web page at: ...

Billy, please write another book! Ruth :)

Everything is just fine..........and it is........2001-03-17

This book is such an amazing journey that brings light to many issues in a very easy way. Definitely a wonderful reminder to laugh at ones self. One to keep by the bedside forever. Thanks Billy.

Hysterical and Uplifting!.......2000-10-25

One of the most "Enlightened" books I have read in ages. Mr Clift has the gift of gab regarding some of life's ups and downs - really putting them into a cosmic perspective. I loved reading it and learned not to take anything too seriously! Thanks Billy!

An Entertaining Ride.......2000-10-19

With its light-hearted style, this book drew me right into the author's transformational adventure. It's an entertaining reminder to take the grip off the steering wheel, tune in to the heart, and enjoy the ride!

Just How I Picture It in My Mind: Contemporary African American Quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

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Just How I Picture It in My Mind: Contemporary African American Quilts from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff
Manufacturer: River City Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 089280047X

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Bobo's just fine
Anne Gioia
Manufacturer: Roswell Park Alliance Foundation
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Growing Up is Hard to Do

Doing Just Fine
C. Annette Boyd
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1401002382

Book Description

In her debut novel, Annette Boyd drew on a topic anyone can relate to-- being a teenager.

As a popular high school senior, life for Deanna Martin was grand. But seemingly our of nowhere, life begins to get rough. Deanna finds out that her first love, Chris, is cheating, and in the same day a doctor's visit will confirm her biggest fear.

Things change for Deanna when a senior class trip to California leads to an encounter with Colby. In only four days, they become closer than either anticipates. But with Colby living three thousand miles away and Deanna still unsure about her feelings for Chris, can they really have a relationship?

Set in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, DOING JUST FINE is a coming of age novel focused on the trials of being a teenager and trying to become the model young adult. Readers will find themselves laughing, crying and relating to many of the situations Deanna finds herself in.

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Growing Up is Hard to Do.......2003-01-24

Doing Just Fine takes a look at the life of a teenage girl, Deanna Martin, as she is about to graduate from high school and journey towards the responsibilities of adulthood. In spite of being popular, Deanna struggles to maintain her acceptance with peers and more importantly with boys. Very early in the book she learns that her boyfriend has been cheating on her while at the same time she encounters other problems that help her quickly learn the true meaning of responsibility for one's actions. As the book continues, she meets Colby and has to decide whether she is ready for a new relationship and has what it takes to maintain one. All the while, Deanna and her friends are making difficult choices about their lives beyond high school.

C. Annette Boyd addresses issues that many teens face including teenage pregnancy, drugs, education, and peer acceptance. The characters and dialogue were realistic and really seemed to put what goes on in the minds of many teens on paper. While the plot dragged at times, overall, the author had enough drama to keep the story interesting without going over the top. The ending left a few ends untied, and I hope to see a sequel to this book in the future. Many young adults will be able to identify with this book and its characters and I think older adults will find it a pleasure to read as well.

Reviewed by Stacey Seay

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Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (Wyoming Stories)
Annie Proulx
Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1416571663

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Fine typed letter signed in full by the then Governor of New York just
Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT
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