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Angelo Pontecorboli Editore - Florence – ItalyAcademic Contents, Professional Editing, Premium Design, Online Distribution and Marketing. Editore indipendente con sede a Firenze. Le riviste e gli articoli pubblicati riguardano principalmente l’Antropologia, l’Architettura, il Giardino e le Scienze Umane. Independent publisher based in Florence (Italy). The Journals and Articles it publishes are concentrated mainly in the areas of Anthropology, Architecture, Gardens, and Human Sciences.
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Children's & YAIf you are energetic
by Qian Haiyun/Wang Xiaoxiao
The book introduces six dynamic professions, namely, football player, fireman, dancer, singer, fitness instructor and pilot. It appeals to young reader's energetic nature and leads them to right life philosophy.
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March 2024The Strategy of Rescue
The past and present of a power-political concept
by Johannes F. Lehmann
"Rescue” has two fundamentally different “existential” dimensions. One is aimed at “saving” individual lives that are in danger. Firefighters, for instance, rescue people from fires, while the sea rescue services rescue shipwrecked people from the Mediterranean. The second dimension of “rescue”, on the other hand, concerns systems – think of the bailing out of banks, the euro or the climate disaster – and so points to a larger context that creates the conditions for “life” to even be possible, or at least to be preserved. The complex subject of this stringent essay is just to what extent politics enable or prevent “rescue attempts”, to what extent it understands its actions as “rescue actions”, and how decisively the “narrative”, i.e. the “talk of rescue”, ultimately dominates our entire understanding of politics.
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Humanities & Social SciencesLinn’s Light
Ein Mutmach-Buch für Kinder mit einer Depression
by Mira Rzany, Leonie Heindel, Lukas Maelger, Alina Senßfelder
Linn lives in the land of lights. Everyone who lives there carries a light within them that changes color depending on how he/she feels. Lately, Linn’s parents have been arguing a lot and her school grades are going down. Linn goes out less and less, and she spends a lot of time alone in her room. Her inner light is almost always only grey. She can also no longer see all the beautiful colors. With the help of her teacher, her parents, Mr. Fire-Eater and her friend, Linn gradually manages to take off the grey cloak. This means there are once again days when the light shines very brightly within her and she can feel all the colors clearly. This book aims to help children affected by depression understand their current situation. It shows them they are not alone and how they can overcome their depression. The book provides important information on this topic for children, their parents, siblings, and therapists as well as practical tasks and exercises. For:• children of elementary school age(between 6 and 12) who suffer fromdepression• parents• relatives• therapists
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2021Firefighting
by Daniel Moignot, Daniel Moignot
Climb aboard a fire-engine, sirens blaring! Help firefighters rescue children, grown-ups and animals. See helicopters put out fires in skyscrapers and planes drop water on forest fires. Learn all about the special equipment used by firefighters and how humans discovered fire for the first time. This title forms part of the My First Discoveries series, a unique collection of highly illustrated information books for children aged 4 to 7 that aims to awaken children’s interest in the wonders of the natural, physical and human world around them. There are 4 transparent overlay pages, which reveal hidden surprises, link ideas and show how things evolve.
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FictionMay 2013Hazardous Material
by Kurt Kamm
A firefighter battles a his own painkiller addiction and the infamous Vagos outlaw motorcycle gang. When he joins the Sheriff s Department in a drone search for a meth lab in the Mojave Desert north of Los Angeles, an enigmatic aerospace scientist joins the intrigue. Firefighting, hazardous materials, illicit drugs and aerospace technology are brought together in the fourth in a series of firefighter mysteries by award winning author Kurt Kamm
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Early learning: first word booksDie Feuerwehr kommt! / The Fire Truck is on it’s Way!
by Ulrike Fischer / Irene Brischnik
This title is part of the bilibrini series. These books are recommended for the first contact with a new language and are thematically appropriate for vocabulary-building in pre-school or the early school years. The texts are written in simple, short sentences and include basic vocabulary for a given theme. The word-picture strip on each page depicts key objects from the illustrations for playful vocabulary practice. Vocabulary in this title: fire department. For children from 2 years of age.
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Educational materialMaddy's Meltdown
by Sandy McKay
It’s Saturday and Maddy is left in charge of her mother’s ice-cream shop. When there is a power cut, she has to do something to stop the ice creams from melting. Team Turbo is a great help!
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AdventureSeptember 2012ONE FOOT IN THE BLACK
by Kurt Kamm
One Foot in the Black tells the coming-of-age story of a young wildland firefighter. At eighteen, Greg Kowalski, leaves an abusive home in Michigan for California to become a helitack (helicopter attack) wildland firefighter. He finds a new family in fire crew but suffers the loss of his captain and mentor while fighting a major burn on a mountainside. In time, Greg comes to terms with the death of his captain but has greater difficulty overcoming his abusive father s influence on his life.
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October 2019Forest Fire
Prevention, Control, Reforestation
by Henning, Bernhard
With rising temperatures and increasing dry periods, there will be more and more frequent fires in Central European forests. Forest fires represent a major economic loss. This book explains in five chapters to forest owners and firefighters how fires occur in forests, which measures reduce the risk of forest fires, how to behave correctly in case of fire and how to promote the forest regeneration.
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FictionRed Flag Warning
A Serial Arson Mystery
by Kurt Kamm
Los Angeles County is burning. A serial arsonist is setting the parched hills on fire. Plunge into infernos and face the smoke, heat and danger with the men on the fire lines. While NiteHeat prowls in the darkness, setting fires and taunting investigators, the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Arson Unit struggles to find the fire-setter and stop the devastation. Who is NiteHeat? Is it Ruffy, the 911 dispatcher who has failed firefighter training? Is it Mikey, a dropout who appears at every fire and steals firefighting equipment? Is it Father Dom who claims the fires are started by Satan? Discover the incendiary device triggered by a cooking timer from Williams Sonoma. Did you ever wonder how wildland arson investigators find the point of origin and evidence in a fire which consumes thousands of acres? Did you ever wonder what goes through the mind of an arsonist? Read RED FLAG WARNING.
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Sociology: work & labourOctober 2008The Personal Protective Technology Program at NIOSH
by Committee to Review the NIOSH Personal Protective Technology Program; Board on Health Sciences Policy; Institute of Medicine; National Research Council
Maintaining the health and safety of workers in the United States and globally is accomplished in part by reducing hazardous exposures through the use of personal protective equipment. Personal protective technologies (PPT) include respirators worn by construction workers and miners; protective clothing, respirators, and gloves worn by firefighters and mine rescue workers; and respirators and protective clothing worn by healthcare workers. An estimated 5 million workers are required to wear respirators in 1.3 million U.S. workplaces. For some occupations, such as firefighting, the worker's protective equipment is the only form of protection against life-threatening hazards; for other workers, the PPT is a supplement to ventilation and other environmental, engineering, or administrative hazard controls. In the United States, federal responsibility for civilian worker PPT is integral to the mission of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). This book examines the NIOSH Personal Protective Technology Program (PPT Program) and specifically focuses on the relevance and impact of this program in reducing hazardous exposures and improving worker health and safety.
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Biography & True StoriesMay 2020Care Under Fire
by Bill Strusinski
For many surviving military veterans, the Vietnam War is an indelible part of their lives. That they survived is due in many cases to the heroic, life-saving actions of combat medics like Bill "Doc" Strusinski. Being a frontline medic was, and still is, one of the most dangerous jobs in the Army. Medics were targeted by the enemy and often called upon to aid fallen soldiers in the line of fire. In Strusinski's riveting book, Care Under Fire, Strusinski thrusts the reader squarely into moments of terror during firefights, the exhaustion of endless patrols, the anguish of losing buddies despite best efforts to save them, and the intimate bonds created during times of desperate need. This is a book about war, yes, but even more about how one man was transformed by his "sacred duty" to offer care under fire to the young soldiers he fought beside.
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MedicineFebruary 1994Food Components to Enhance Performance
An Evaluation of Potential Performance-Enhancing Food Components for Operational Rations
by Institute of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board, Committee on Military Nutrition Research, Bernadette M. Marriott
The physiological or psychological stresses that employees bring to their workplace affect not only their own performance but that of their co-workers and others. These stresses are often compounded by those of the job itself. Medical personnel, firefighters, police, and military personnel in combat settings--among others--experience highly unpredictable timing and types of stressors. This book reviews and comments on the performance-enhancing potential of specific food components. It reflects the views of military and non-military scientists from such fields as neuroscience, nutrition, physiology, various medical specialties, and performance psychology on the most up-to-date research available on physical and mental performance enhancement in stressful conditions. Although placed within the context of military tasks, the volume will have wide-reaching implications for individuals in any job setting.
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Dietetics & nutritionFebruary 1994
Food Components to Enhance Performance
An Evaluation of Potential Performance-Enhancing Food Components for Operational Rations
by Bernadette M. Marriott, Editor; Committee on Military Nutrition Research, Food and Nutrition Board
The physiological or psychological stresses that employees bring to their workplace affect not only their own performance but that of their co-workers and others. These stresses are often compounded by those of the job itself. Medical personnel, firefighters, police, and military personnel in combat settings--among others--experience highly unpredictable timing and types of stressors. This book reviews and comments on the performance-enhancing potential of specific food components. It reflects the views of military and non-military scientists from such fields as neuroscience, nutrition, physiology, various medical specialties, and performance psychology on the most up-to-date research available on physical and mental performance enhancement in stressful conditions. Although placed within the context of military tasks, the volume will have wide-reaching implications for individuals in any job setting.
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Anger at Work
Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment In High-Risk Occupations
by Amy B. Adler, David Forbes
This book reveals the impact of problematic anger on job performance and in the workplace, with a particular focus on police, firefighters, and the military.Problematic anger can cause major disruptions in the workplace. It negatively influences individual performance, and the health and well-being of entire organizations. This is a serious problem in high-risk occupations, where the consequences of prolonged, unhealthy anger can be devastating.This book aims to help researchers and practitioners understand unhealthy, unproductive anger, and its links to problems such as depression, alcohol abuse, and PTSD.Contributors examine new and useful conceptual frameworks such as moral injury, and risk factors including risk-taking, irritability, hypervigilance, and chronic physiological activation. Anger is examined within individual and team contexts. Treatments and interventions, including cognitive bias modification, are presented to help clinicians and practitioners put these insights to practical use.
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April 2021Red
by KOZ
An unusual number of forest fires have ignited outside of Marseilles and a particularly deadly one takes the lives of 35 firefighters. The investigation indicates that not just one fire was started on the scene but several, essentially encircling the fire fighters and making it impossible for them to survive. Foul play is suspected. Hugo Kezer, head of the « new threats » task force happens to be in the area on vacation, visiting his daughter Mila who is a volunteer for Feu Sacré, a charitable organization that helps protect wildlife threatened by forest fires. The man who created Feu Sacré lost his son in a forest fire years earlier and clues start pointing Kezer and his team in Feu Sacré’s direction. As forest fires start blazing throughout France and Mila disappears, Kezer must find the culprit before France goes up in flames…
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Body Heat
by Katherine Garbera
When it’s hot, it’s hot. She can take the heat of a five-alarm fire. But can she fight the sizzling passion when she meets the man of her dreams? Raised in an all-male family of firefighters, Andi O’Roarke has the right stuff to be a fire chief—one of only a few women who’ve overcome grueling odds to earn the job. Her brawny, tough-guy firemen respect her and treat her like one of the boys. That’s fine with Andi. She’s totally inside her comfort zone when barking orders and hoisting fire gear. Outside the job, however, she’s clueless about dealing with men. Which means arson investigator Tucker Fields is going to turn up the heat on a flame she can’t control. Forget about the easy boy’s-club friendship she has with her firemen; with Tucker the vibes are pure sex, desire, and temptation. He recognizes how hard she’s fought to downplay every aspect of her femininity in the macho world of firefighting. When he and Andi are thrown together night and day on an investigation, Tucker entices her to lose every inhibition, to give all control, to explore the scorching passion that can change their lives forever—and destroy Andi’s career. As Andi hides their relationship from her men, she fears that falling in love will leave her heart in ashes.
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Crime & mystery fiction (Children's/YA)February 2021The Secret of the Haunted House
by Yerby, Jack||Hanna Al-Shaer illustrator
There’s a mysterious light in the old, burned down house across the road. Could it be the ghost of old lady Hampton? Or maybe the firefighter who died trying to save her? And why is Mrs. Tsosie so afraid to get close to the property? Kenny doesn't believe in ghosts, but when strange footprints are discovered in the neighborhood, he and his brother search the old ruins for clues. Kenny knows he is getting close to unraveling the mystery when he discovers firsthand just how dangerous crime solving can be!
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RomanceSeptember 2015Controlled Burn
by Duncan, Nikki
Hardened by scars. Softened by heart. Melded by fire. Scarred Hearts, Book 1 Petite in stature but not in attitude, Delancey Winston put her fellow firefighters’ doubts to rest when she carried a half-burned man out of an arson fire. But she can’t shake the need to learn more about the haunting power of the man in her dreams—the one she pulled from a dead woman’s side to save. Even more disturbing is the power of newly awakened memories she’s tried to bury. Logan Mathis lost more than his accounting firm that day. He lost his beloved sister, his only remaining family. Now, his days filled with painful skin grafts and therapy, he works to avoid people. Until he runs into the woman who saved his life, who seems to see beyond his scars. Slowly, Delancey’s generosity of spirit begins healing Logan from the inside. But their connection resurrects memories Logan would rather forget. Memories that could make Logan a target of someone who’s still trying to burn away his tracks. Warning: The damsel saves the dude, and that’s not a spoiler. It’s a clue that things are about to get hot. Really hot.
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December 2006Traumatic Incident Reduction and Critical Incident Stress Management
A Synergistic Approach
by Victor R. Volkman (Editor),John Durkin (Foreword)
From the Foreword: TIR offers an opportunity for the members of a CISM team to deal with any accumulated emotional baggage that their involvement in crisis-intervention has created. Training in TIR adds another tool to the toolkit of crisis-intervention techniques and enables peer-support to ad-dress an extended range of crisis-reactions, even those that might justify a clinical diagnosis. If virtually all the emotional reactions of a colleague in crisis could be ac-commodated and addressed through CISM and TIR, then the difference to the individual, the CISM team and the community would be immense. I look forward to the day that what practitioners of CISM and TIR already know is recognized in order for these approaches to be embraced and enjoyed more widely. What Traumatologists Are Saying about TIR and CISM... "Now, as a psychologist, I think I can see what would have helped me-after the injury that led to PTSD andretirement as a firefighter-and why. I now train firefighters and paramedics in the crisis-intervention tactics of CISM and offer TIR training to the same people." -John Durkin, www.FireStress.co.uk "After the crisis is over, and the CISM team has done crisis management briefings and debriefings, both crisis responders and victims who continue to be negatively affected by the traumatic incident will benefit greatly by using TIR to get back to normal as quickly as possible." -Nancy Day, CTS, TIR Trainer "Specific training in TIR skills speeds the process of a person moving from novice to fully effective practitioner. One idea would be for this skill set to be included in CISD training." -Jill Boyd, RN, MS "TIR has developed crucial understanding and training by managing communication and the development of rules of practice that can surely inform and enrich CISD sessions as well as other similar techniques." -Carlos Velazquez-Garcia, Psych., CT (Puerto Rico) "Each modality can be enhanced by the skills and training that the other provides. CISM without TIR is missing the opportunities to complete the process. TIR without CISM training is missing the structure for working with and understanding the bigger process." -Gerry Bock, MA, RCC (Vancouver, BC) About the TIR Applications Series This new series from Loving Healing Press brings you information and anecdotes about Traumatic Incident Reduction and related techniques. Practitioners around the world use these Applied Metapsychology techniques. It is our opinion that stories of real-world experience convey the opportunity for healing that TIR provides. Readers interested in the theories behind TIR and Applied Metapsychology (the subject from which TIR is derived) should also consider the Explorations in Metapsychology Series from Loving Healing Press. Learn more at www.TIR.org
