Pushed

Author: Jennifer Block
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780738210735
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In the United States, more than half the women who give birth are given drugs to induce or speed up labor; for nearly a third of mothers, childbirth is major surgery - the cesarean section. For women who want an alternative, choice is often unavailable: Midwives are sometimes inaccessible; in eleven states they are illegal. In one of those states, even birthing centers are outlawed.When did birth become an emergency instead of an emergence? Since when is normal, physiological birth a crime? A groundbreaking journalistic narrative, Pushed presents the complete picture of maternity care in America. Crisscrossing the country to report what women really experience during childbirth, Jennifer Block witnessed several births - from a planned cesarean to an underground home birth. Against this backdrop, Block investigates whether routine C-sections, inductions, and epidurals equal medical progress. She examines childbirth as a reproductive rights issue: Do women have the right to an optimal birth experience? If so, is that right being upheld? Block's research and experience reveal in vivid detail that while emergency obstetric care is essential, there is compelling evidence that we are overusing medical technology at the expense of maternal and infant health: Either women's bodies are failing, or the system is failing women.

Pushed Out

Author: Ryanne Pilgeram
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295748702
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
What happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses? When new money comes in, who gets left behind? Pushed Out offers a rich portrait of Dover, Idaho, whose transformation from “thriving timber mill town” to “economically depressed small town” to “trendy second-home location” over the past four decades embodies the story and challenges of many other rural communities. Sociologist Ryanne Pilgeram explores the structural forces driving rural gentrification and examines how social and environmental inequality are written onto these landscapes. Based on in-depth interviews and archival data, she grounds this highly readable ethnography in a long view of the region that takes account of geological history, settler colonialism, and histories of power and exploitation within capitalism. Pilgeram’s analysis reveals the processes and mechanisms that make such communities vulnerable to gentrification and points the way to a radical justice that prioritizes the economic, social, and environmental sustainability necessary to restore these communities.

Push

Author: Sapphire
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 9780307474841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139

Book Description
A courageous and determined young teacher opens up a new world of hope and redemption for sixteen-year-old Precious Jones, an abused young African American girl living in Harlem who was raped and left pregnant by her father.

Don’t Push the Button!

Author: Bill Cotter
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402287488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
There's only one rule in Larry's book: don't push the button. (Seriously, don't even think about it!) Even if it does look kind of nice, you must never push the button. Who knows what would happen? Okay, quick. No one is looking... push the button. Uh, oh.

Hard Pushed

Author: Leah Hazard
Publisher: Hutchinson
ISBN: 9781786331601
Category : Midwifery
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Life on the NHS front line, working within a system at breaking point, is more extreme than you could ever imagine. From the bloody to the beautiful, from moments of utter vulnerability to remarkable displays of strength, from camaraderie to raw desperation, from heart-wrenching grief to the pure, perfect joy of a new-born baby, midwife Leah Hazard has seen it all

I'm Gonna Push Through!

Author: Jasmyn Wright
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 153443965X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Based on the Push Through movement that inspires kids worldwide, this is an empowering, energetic, and all-inclusive picture book that celebrates resilience in the face of adversity. Hold your head high. No matter what stands in the way of your dreams, remember this: YOU can push through anything! If someone tells you it’s too hard, don’t you ever listen. You tell them, “I’m gonna push through!” Inspired by a mantra written for her third-grade students, Jasmyn Wright’s uplifting call to “push through” is an invitation to young readers to announce their own power and to recognize and reaffirm that of others, regardless of setbacks. Her empowering words not only lift children up, but show them how to lift themselves up and seize their potential.

Pushed (pray Until Something Happens Everyday)

Author: Deonte Moss
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578551425
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

PUSH

Author: Johnny Quinn
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 164146299X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Book Description
Johnny Quinn shares his “wild dream” of playing in the NFL, being crushed after getting cut three times, losing $2.6 million in contracts, and blowing out his knee. At age thirty, when most professional athletes are considered “over the hill,” Johnny was competing for Team USA in the sport of bobsled at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. This book ushers readers through the valleys of life to the thrills of rocketing down icy mountains at 80+ mph with no seat belt. Discover how the author overcame failure on the road to achieving greatness. From an NFL failure to a US Olympian, Johnny Quinn had a “what’s next” attitude that led him to success he had never imagined. In Push, he looks at failure as a season of life rather than a death sentence. He provides incredible insight into the “what’s next” instead of “what could have been.” We all experience failure at some level; Quinn equips us to embrace change, accept risks, and learn to push through barriers, to live life on purpose.

Pushed

Author: Corrine Jackson
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 0758291558
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
When a seventeen-year-old girl is caught between supernatural rivals, knowing who to trust becomes nearly impossible—in this YA romantic adventure series. Remy O’Malley was just learning to harness her uncanny healing power when she discovered the other, darker half of her bloodline. Now she’s trapped between two worlds, uneasy among her fellow Healers—and relentlessly hunted by the Protectors. Remy must conceal her dual identity, and the presence of her Protector boyfriend Asher Blackwell, at all costs. But when she encounters a shadow community of Healers, her loyalties will be put to the test. With the lives of her loved ones hanging in the balance, Remy must decide whether to take sides in a centuries-old war—or go to a place from which she may never return . . .

Were They Pushed Or Did They Jump?

Author: Diego Gambetta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521324904
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
This book explores the factors which govern the range of educational decisions confronting individuals between compulsory school education and university. The data on which it draws come from two surveys conducted in north-west Italy, one of unemployed young people and one of high-school pupils. The author is in effect testing the two fundamental and opposed paradigms of explanation which are generally applied in the sociology of education; one which holds that the individual agents are essentially passive, being either constrained by lack of alternatives or pushed by causal factors of which they are unaware; and the other in which they are regarded as capable of purposive action, of weighing the available alternatives with respect to some future rewards.