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CHAPTER ONE Elizabeth Warner held the small stack of photos tightly as she stared out the car windshield. The snow drifts were crowding the road more rapidly than just a few minutes earlier and she was beginning to fret. Right then the car skimmed another drift forming across the road with the onslaught of snow and wind. Pulling her eyes left, Elizabeth worriedly said to her husband, "Josh, the wind is blowing harder now and we still have a good half hour drive yet. Do you think we should turn around and head back to your Mom's? It's closer than our place." Joshua Warner ran one hand through...

The sharing of knowledge is one of the key elements of a society's economic, social, scientific and cultural development. Social and human science research addresses some of society's most pressing problems, such as poverty, illiteracy, high dropout rates in schools, marginalization of social groups to name but a few. Despite its vital role in building a civil society, research in the social and human sciences has been criticized for being little known by the public. This lack of large-scale visibility detracts from its social and scientific significance and legitimacy in a media-driven...

Increasing concern about a positive return on investment in health leads to a need to make choices. As a result, skills in planning are increasingly being required of managers, providers and policy makers in health care. Experienced planners and teachers Kathy Eagar, Pamela Garrett and Vivian Lin have written a comprehensive introduction that bridges the theory and practice of health planning. They outline the health policy and planning context, the impact of different resource allocation environments on planning, and explain the processes and the technical skills needed to undertake service,...

Early residents in Raymond and Casco pioneered the land, building roads and carving a life out of the wilderness. In the late 1800s, local manufacturers harvested and sold ice blocks. Later residents built yachts and established radio communications. Local poets and authors like Martin Dibner and Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of characters and folklore. The many vintage photographs in Images of America: Raymond and Casco depict hardworking men and women in their corn shops, blacksmith shops, sawmills, schools, and places of worship, taking readers back in time to a way of life that is since long...