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Walden Authors From climate chaos to surviving grief, alumni are sharing their expertise in new books.
Why should we care about climate chaos and global warming? Because, this book argues, among other risky outcomes, they may seriously harm our health.
Scientists around the world are in agreement that global warming, more aptly named climate change, is occurring and that human activity is the primary cause. The debate now is in the scientific and policy worlds about just how harmful climate change will be and what the best ways are to stop it.
One of those scientists is author Cindy Parker, who believes that climate change is the most health-damaging problem humanity has ever faced. Parker has thus immersed herself during the past 10 years in educating the public and health professionals about how climate change will affect our well-being. Here, she and husband Steve Shapiro, a psychologist and former journalist, describe what we can expect if climate change continues unabated.
The authors explain our possible physical and mental responses to such climate change factors as heat stress, poor air quality, insufficient water resources, and the rise of infectious diseases fueled by even minor increases in temperature. They also show how other changes that may result from climate change—including sea level rise, extreme weather events and altered food supplies—can harm human health.
Parker and Shapiro have found, however, that just talking about the problem is not enough. Actions that can prevent or reduce climate change's harm are presented in each chapter. To illustrate how much global warming will affect our lives, Parker and Shapiro begin their book with a chapter describing the worst-case scenario if climate change continues without intervention, and end the book with the best-case scenario if we act now. Their eye-opening work will appeal to everyone who wants to remain healthy as we challenge this world-altering problem of our own making.
While written for a lay audience in a manner that limits technical terminology, the book will also appeal to students and professionals of public health, medicine, environmental psychology and science, who will find the focus on health and the extensive referencing useful.
Loneliness has been determined to have adverse effects on mental health, and Moses’ book seeks to determine whether using technology in the form of an email system to communicate with loved ones, or kind strangers, could eliminate loneliness and improve the health of the subjects. The research concludes that there is a direct correlation between the amount of perceived access seniors have to others and their reduction in loneliness. The results indicate that seniors can benefit from such a program regardless of being paired with a friend, relative or caring stranger.
This book carries a message of hope and life to nurses in a troubled and challenging profession. It is the power boost every nurse needs today. Readers experience the real reason behind the nurse’s behavior: caring. Why and how do we care? Do we care enough? How can we keep on caring? Where is the source of caring?
Readers embark on this exciting journey through the life of the nurse: her joys, sorrows, achievements, and crosses. They visit the nurse’s mysterious dimension of faith. They laugh and cry and become inspired and refreshed. Some will be inspired to study nursing and others will try to be better nurses, while yet others will decide to stay in nursing even longer. There is something for everyone: a taste of what really matters in nursing—caring. Christina Feist-Heilmeier, R.N., has spent 30 years in the health care world, specializing in geriatric, obstetrical and medical/surgical nursing. She holds a M.S. degree in Nursing and has two honorable discharges from military service as a commissioned officer in the Indian Health Service and the United States Air Force. She has worked in nursing "from sea to shining sea," spanning Alaska to the East Coast, to Mexico and the Caribbean, witnessing dramatic events throughout her work and travels. She now translates her career experiences into learning experiences for her students as a faculty member at the College of Southern Maryland nursing department and the staff development coordinator at St. Mary’s Nursing Center.
This book is a coping instrument: a collection of inspirational reflections on navigating through the rough waters that accompany the grieving and mourning process. It contains research, reflections, recommendations, realities and reassurances for those who face the loss of a loved one.
Psychologist Dr. Stanley Giannet's insight takes readers on an engaging, deeply moving exploration of the grieving and mourning process. Love is Stronger Than Death is a soulful, eloquent invitation to embrace the unconquerable power of love as the primary vehicle for overcoming the anguish that accompanies our losses.
Long’s book is a nostalgic look at a son and father hunting and fishing in the American West. The author gives an account of coming of age in the 1950s. The story describes a son’s memories, with great descriptions of many places in the state of Arizona.
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Climate Chaos: Your Health at Risk—What You Can Do to Protect Yourself and Your Family 
It Takes a Village to Survive in a Virtual Community: A Senior's Guide to Online Living 
Nurses Are From Heaven
Love Is Stronger Than Death: Encountering Our Struggle With Grief (Paperback)
Hunting With Father: Tales of a Father & Son Coming of Age, Hunting the American West