Noise and Military Service

Noise and Military Service
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2006-01-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309099498

The Institute of Medicine carried out a study mandated by Congress and sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide an assessment of several issues related to noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus associated with service in the Armed Forces since World War II. The resulting book, Noise and Military Service: Implications for Hearing Loss and Tinnitus, presents findings on the presence of hazardous noise in military settings, levels of noise exposure necessary to cause hearing loss or tinnitus, risk factors for noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus, the timing of the effects of noise exposure on hearing, and the adequacy of military hearing conservation programs and audiometric testing. The book stresses the importance of conducting hearing tests (audiograms) at the beginning and end of military service for all military personnel and recommends several steps aimed at improving the military services' prevention of and surveillance for hearing loss and tinnitus. The book also identifies research needs, emphasizing topics specifically related to military service.

British Images of Germany

British Images of Germany
Author: R. Scully
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137283467

British Images of Germany is the first full-length cultural history of Britain's relationship with Germany in the key period leading up to the First World War. Richard Scully reassesses what is imagined to be a fraught relationship, illuminating the sense of kinship Britons felt for Germany even in times of diplomatic tension.

The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: 1911-19

The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: 1911-19
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 640
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780877456575

The fourth volume of Rudyard Kipling's letters, now collected and edited for the first time, continues the story of his life from the end of the Edwardian era through the Great War, a crisis in Kipling's life as well as in that of the world. The years before the war saw the publication of Rewards and Fairies and Songs from Books. In politics, the great issue was Irish home rule and the fate of Ulster. At the outbreak of the war Kipling devoted himself to the struggle. He wrote patriotic verse, made recruiting speeches, and traveled as a correspondent to the French and Italian fronts. He published no new fiction, only what he wrote as correspondent and propagandist: France at War, The Fringes of the Fleet, and The Eyes of Asia. In 1915 his only son, John, was killed in the Battle of Loos; at the same time Kipling began to suffer from the undiagnosed ulcer that would torment him for the rest of his life. His last volume of poems, The Years Between, published in 1919, embodies the suffering and bitterness of these years.

Manifesta 10

Manifesta 10
Author: Kasper König
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN: 9783863355661

Published on the occasion of Manifesta 10, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg, Russia, this illustrated volume collects artworks, concepts, and essays that invite the reader to explore the possibilities of contemporary art in deeply historical settings. For the first time, Manifesta is hosted by a museum, uniting the State Heritage Museum's 250th anniversary and Manifesta's twentieth anniversary as a nomadic biennial. This book, which is structured like a classic catologue, reflects the intuitive and playful nature of Kasper Konig's exhibition. Contemporary art stands alongside the historical and cultural heritage of the Hermitage, and many projects create a unique homage to it and to the city of St. Petersburg. New works claim their place in ways that are often subtle and surprising, inviting viewers and readers to grapple with the endless ways in which contemporary art questions, complements, or even dovetails with tradition.

The Bennion Family of Utah

The Bennion Family of Utah
Author: Harden Bennion
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1931
Genre: Cattle trade
ISBN:

Samuel Bennion (1818-1889) and John Bennion (1820-1877), brothers and Mormon converts, immigrated from Wales to Nauvoo, Illinois, later moving to Salt Lake City and in 1850 to Taylorsville, Utah. Descendants lived in Utah, Idaho, California and elsewhere. Includes some Welsh ancestry.