Healing Appalachia is the first book to apply "appropriate technology," or the simplest level of technology that can effectively achieve the desired result, specifically to the Appalachian region. The authors examine thirty low-cost, people-friendly, and environmentally benign appropriate technologies that are concerned with such issues as food preservation, land use, shelter, and transportation. They pay close attention to the practicality of each technique according to affordability, ease of use, and ecological soundness. Details on construction and maintenance and resources for locating further information are included, making this an essential volume for everyone who cares about the future of Appalachia.

Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced. The Appalachian women featured in Barry’s book have firsthand experience with the negative impacts of Big Coal in West Virginia. Through their work in organizations such as the Coal River Mountain Watch and the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, they fight to save their mountain communities by promoting the development of alternative energy resources. Barry’s engaging and original work reveals how women’s tireless organizing efforts have made mountaintop removal a global political and environmental issue and laid the groundwork for a robust environmental justice movement in central Appalachia.

On this pleasant day in 1947, my dad and my mom were wed. Their mutual Love united with their parental agreement as well as all the good wishes of relatives and friends led their close relationship of seven annual anniversaries of friendship to share this secret openly. My mom was born during the last week of August 1922 and my dad during the first week of October 1914. They met a few weeks before my Dad attended the piano recital where my mom at the age of 18 years old played the Blue Danube.

"This bibliography of books, articles, monographs, and dissertations features more than 4,700 entries, divided into twenty-four subject areas such as activism and protest; Appalachian studies; arts and crafts; community culture and folklife; education; environment; ethnicity, race and identity; health and medicine; media and stereotypes; recreation and tourism; religion; and women and gender. Two indexes conclude the bibliography"--Provided by publisher.

Their global audit runs from China to Peru, from the Polish Tatra and the Scottish Highlands to the Alps and the great mountain chains of Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as many lesser known ranges in the former Soviet Union, Japan, the Caribbean and elsewhere.

An introduction to aspects of community health nursing, from health promotion to care of existing illness, and from care of individuals and their families to care of population groups. The epidemiologic model of health policy analysis incorporates principles of public health science and the nursing process throughout the book. This model provides a structural approach for nursing students in applying the principles of both public health science and professional nursing to community health nursing practice.

In this book, 17 psychologists, anthropologists, social workers and others explore important theoretical and applied issues concerning the mental health of Appalachian people. Rejecting the view of Appalachia as an area dominated by a culture of poverty, these papers portray a strong regional culture based on family, community, and religion. This cultural context has implications for development of mental health problems and coping skills, and for delivery of mental health services. Part I, "The Appalachian Context," contains papers on past and present Appalachian cultural systems, Appalachian family ties, and religion in southern Appalachia. Part II, "Sociocultural Systems and Mental Health Problems," contains papers on adaptive socialization values of low-income Appalachian mothers; gender, class, and self-image; the social context of "nerves" in eastern Kentucky; and social support networks of families with handicapped children. Part III contains three papers on factors affecting the use of mental health services, ways to enhance service utilization, and differences in service utilization between Appalachians and non-Appalachians. Part IV, "Cultural Considerations in Therapeutic Encounters," contains papers on cross-cultural conflict between providers and local staff members and clients, Appalachian family therapy, and hospitalized Appalachian adolescents. Part V contains two papers on "Problems and Promise in Appalachian Mental Health Service Delivery." (SV)

This book is a genuine breakthrough in understanding both the type of protestant religion intrinsic to the Appalachian area and the origin of that peculiar type of religion.