![]() ![]() If injury mortality rates in low- and middle-income countries were reduced to rates in high-income countries, 2,117,500 lives could be saved per year. Using economic modeling - through the human capital approach and the value of a statistical life approach - the study then demonstrates the associated economic benefit of these lives saved.Ĩ8 percent of injury-related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. This study uses existing data on injury mortality worldwide from the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study to estimate the number of lives that could be saved if injury mortality rates in low- and middle-income countries could be reduced to rates in high-income countries. This study aims to determine the economic benefit of improved injury prevention and trauma care in low- and middle-income countries. ![]() ![]() While many have made the case for improved injury prevention and trauma care, health system development in low- and middle-income countries is often limited by resources. Injury is a significant source of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and often disproportionately affects younger, more productive members of society. ![]()
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![]() The Bridge and Bigend trilogies- made their first appearances.Įlements common to cyberpunk, such as high-tech and low liing, were common to all three books in this series, but were also an intrinsic part of Virtual Light, Idoru and All Tomorrow’s Parties. It is also interesting to see how certain thematic elements which would appear in later trilogies – i.e. And let me begin by saying that it’s very interesting, having read every novel that Gibson has written up until this point, to look back and see how his writing began and evolved over the years. ![]() Luckily, I concluded the book just yesterday and am ready to comment on it at last. And by other books, I mean a tall stack that I’ve been reading, reviewing, and putting down to make room for even more! I tell ya, being a sci-fi reader/writer/reviewer can really burn your brain somedays! I had hoped to include this third and final review in short order, unfortunately other books got in the way. ![]() For those who don’t remember, this began with Neuromancer and Count Zero many months ago. Welcome back to the BAMA*! At long last, I’ve come to the end of William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, while Chase is trying to ignore Arianna they are all continuing to go on group outings. One night Arianna crosses a line with Chase (she kissed him) to test the attraction and she became hard for him to ignore. Although Arianna "loves" Chase, Mason has insisted that his best friends are to have NOTHING to do with his "baby sister". The boys are very protective of them and have been forever. Arianna and Cam are vivacious, flirtatious, and love life. The five of them were given a beach home along the California coastline and this is where they are vacationing together before starting their freshmen year. Her name is Arianna and her childhood love is Chase her twin is Mason, her best friend is Camryn, and her brother's other bestie is Brady. ![]() We are introduced to one of our main characters and learn that she has loved one of her twin's best friends since they were children (12). I am crying as I write this review, so let's get to it! **SPOILER ALERT** The story begins following five teens who have been lifelong friends and are enjoying the summer between the end of senior year and the beginning of college. ![]() ![]() Oh my! What a ride this story was! I just have to start by saying this is my favorite story of all time! It has definitely made it to the top of the "Read Again" list and I just can't wait to do it again. ![]() ![]() A look at the desire for beauty and what constitutes as prettyĥ. A unique twist to Teens leading a rebellion and fighting back against a corrupt systemģ. ![]() A Sci-fi dystopian YA series that has all that early 2000’s teen dramaĢ. Goodreads | Amazon 5 Reasons to Read The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeldġ. Tally’s choice will change her world forever…. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. ![]() When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world-and it isn’t very pretty. And as a pretty, she’ll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is to have fun.īut Tally’s new friend Shay isn’t sure she wants to become a pretty. Pretties essays are academic essays for citation. In just a few weeks she’ll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. ![]() Now I am going to give you 5 Reasons to Read The Uglies Series by Scott Westerfeld! Synopsis I need to get around to reading the spinoff series as soon as I finish rereading this series! The Uglies is such a nostalgic series for me. This is a series that I think would be so fun to see as a tv show. But there was something so unique about it, that I haven’t read a book/series quite like it. ![]() This is a series is an older one, but one I think about a lot. ![]() ![]() After suffering a battlefield injury, the wealthy, well-connected British officer returns home to heal-and to fulfill a dying soldier’s last wish by delivering his coded diary. Nicholas Langdon is no stranger to reserved civility or bloody barbarity. At the In England’s Regency era, manners and elegance reign in public life-but behind closed doors treason and tawdriness thrive. After suffering a battlefield injury, the wealthy, well-connected British officer returns home to healand to fulfill a dying soldiers last wish by delivering his coded diary. ![]() In Englands Regency era, manners and elegance reign in public lifebut behind closed doors treason and tawdriness thrive. ![]() ![]() You can read this before A Spy’s Devotion (The Regency Spies of London, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book A Spy’s Devotion (The Regency Spies of London, #1) written by Melanie Dickerson which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: A Spy’s Devotion (The Regency Spies of London, #1) by Melanie Dickerson ![]() ![]() ![]() While we developed these lessons with middle school in mind, some of the middle school novel units in this list can also be used in upper elementary grades. Each title includes a handout for each chapter of the book and tests as well. Over the years, we have created standards-based, engaging, and fun lesson plans and activities for several novels suitable for middle schoolers. This profound book is not only a great read, but our students learn so much about the Holocaust. Another book that we love to read as a class is The Devil’s Arithmetic. Our students fall in love with our class a little more each day as we read this book that makes us laugh and makes us cry. ![]() Our favorite whole class novel that we begin each year reading is The Man Who Loved Clowns. We have a lengthy list of middle school novel units to share! As seventh grade teachers, we use the following middle school novel units for book clubs, as class reads, and for independent novel studies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I basically ranked them with a combination of great writing and general great reading experience. I kept moving these around for one reason or another. By the end of the year, I had read well over twenty books! Yay me! (A few of them were novellas, but the important thing was that I was reading, and I scoped out books in many genres) ![]() In 2012 I had a goal to read at least one book a month. I can usually polish off a novel in a week or so if it is really good. I’m glad to say that I am finding time to read again. Giving myself a goal forced me to go to bed earlier so I would have time to cuddle up with my book before I went to sleep, and made me feel good about saying “yes” when my husband asked if I wanted to read by the fire (which I love doing). I gave myself this goal last year because as a writer, you are supposed to read – and I definitely wasn’t reading. Okay, yeah, I know everyone else posted this list in January, but hey, I’m different, you know (and maybe I totally forgot) □ I had a goal to read a book a month in 2012. ![]() ![]() ![]() What’s a young boy who simply wants to fix things to do? Detailed nicely with the finer points of life in Cleveland, Trevor’s adventure proves believable, his eccentricity notwithstanding. The two have chemistry together, despite the fact that Bea’s home life isn’t quite as picturesque as it may appear: Her father, Bill, is distant and possibly having an affair, while her mother, Evelyn, is moody and prone to “closet-drinking.” After Evelyn throws herself at Trevor in a pitiful display of need, Trevor’s odd life becomes surrounded by the difficulties of other people. Meeting the beautiful Barbara (Bea to friends), with her dyed black hair and luxurious home, he is overcome with the nervous excitement of new love. When a mission to rescue an unwanted lawn mower lands Trevor in a fancy neighborhood, he winds up falling in love. Discovering the things people are throwing out, Trevor enjoys nothing so much as repairing these items in a run-down garage he calls “the Box.” Whether the end result involves giving the repaired items away to charity or handing them over to his alcoholic uncle (“one of the biggest assholes on the planet”) for resale, Trevor finds the refurbishing process fulfilling. ![]() His best friend is a man in his 70s, his childhood involved a mysterious tragic event, and his passion in life is garbage picking. Trevor McNulty is somewhat peculiar for a 17-year-old boy. ![]() Tully’s debut novel concerns the coming-of-age of a teenage boy in suburban Cleveland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Grant Morrison, whose reverence for the Silver Age led to wacky characters like Zur-En-Arrh receiving a deathly serious rendering in the Modern Age, King borrows amply from those older stories. When his Batman tore through a series of goons, King took to juxtaposing the scenes of bloodshed with captions either from Bruce’s personal letters, literature, or, in one memorable arc, a Russian bedtime story.īatman and KGBeast apparently shared a similar taste in bedtime stories as children, as readers learned in Batman #57 from writer Tom King and artist Tony S. For a book that is the equivalent of a summer tentpole in the comics market, King could not have seemed less interested in widescreen action. ![]() Joker, a mainstay of Scott Snyder’s horror-tinged time on the book, was sidelined in favor of Bane, a character who King formally treated as Batman’s equal intellectually, if not physically. King elevated Catwoman to the level of co-star, turning her on-and-off romance with Batman into the story’s centerpiece. What unfolded over the next three-and-a-half years was one of the most polarizing runs in recent comics history. Here was a hotshot creator, fresh off of penning Vision and The Omega Men, two of the more ambitious books to ever emerge from Marvel or DC, and he was going to write Batman? Sign me up. When DC Comics first announced in March 2016 that Tom King was taking over the flagship Batman title, fans like me were elated. The 85-issue epic spun its wheels in an often laborious effort to comb Bruce Wayne’s psyche. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the spring of 2000, six years after my trip to Florence, I go to Venice. I am constantly looking in the dictionary. I underline almost every word on every page. But when, after two years of studying, I try to read Alberto Moravia’s novel La ciociara ( Two Women), I barely understand it. The first teacher is a Milanese woman who lives in Boston. As if I were studying a musical instrument without ever playing it. But I don’t like the silence, the isolation of the self-teaching process. I manage to memorise some conjugations, do some exercises. ![]() Having studied Latin for many years, I find the first chapters of this textbook fairly easy. As if it were possible to learn on your own. An exhortatory title, full of hope and possibility. How is it possible to feel exiled from a language that isn’t mine? That I don’t know? Maybe because I’m a writer who doesn’t belong completely to any language. Almost as soon as we met (on a trip to Florence with my sister in 1994), Italian and I were separated. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language, too.Īs for Italian, the exile has a different aspect. I don’t know how to read it or even write it. In my case, there is another distance, another schism. ![]() |