Into the Breach is the true story of paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and heavy-rescue specialists fighting to control trauma and medical emergencies in one of America's toughest and most violent cities: Newark, New Jersey. A riveting account that hauls readers on a first-hand tour of street medicine today, Into the Breach shows what really happens inside an ambulance and some of the diverse and bizarre places EMS workers tread. Through authentic accounts, every facet of emergency care is on display-from the first 911 call to patient discharge or death, including an exclusive look at what is perhaps the biggest decontamination operation ever conducted, which crews performed for victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. A hybrid profession that blends public safety and public health, EMS attracts careerists and volunteers from all sectors of society-from Boy Scouts and housewives to Fortune 500 vice presidents and work-fare recipients. The men and women that make up the Newark EMS graveyard shift, one of the busiest, full-time teams in the nation, are quintessential EMS workers: intense, irreverent, hard-working action junkies who crave autonomy and the instant gratification of solving critical problems in real time. This unflinching profile hones in on award-winning EMS workers as well as those who pollute the industry, ironically, sometimes one and the same. Into the Breach offers an unusual opportunity to bear witness to unimaginable suffering, heroic stoicism, and the inventiveness of American EMS workers fighting to save lives.

Into the Breach: A Year of Life and Death with EMS

Biographies & Memoirs

Karam, J. A.

Professionals & Academics

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J.D. Salinger was one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was also one of its most elusive. After making his mark on the American literary scene, Salinger retreated to a small town in New Hampshire where he hoped to hide his life away from the world. With dogged determination, however, journalist and biographer Paul Alexander captured Salinger's story in this, the only complete biography of Holden Caulfield's creator published to date. Using the archives at Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, NYU and the New York Public Library as well as research in New York and New Hampshire, Alexander has created a great biography of Salinger that's further enriched by interviews with some of the greatest literary figures of our time: George Plimpton, Gay Talese, Ian Hamilton, Harold Bloom, Roger Angell, A. Scott Berg, Robert Giroux, Ved Mehta, Gordon Lish and Tom Wolfe.

Salinger: A Biography

ALEXANDER, Paul

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This Is Milwaukee

History

WELLS, ROBERT W.

Americas

Book by Richard L. Nailen, James S. Haight

Beertown Blazes: A Century of Milwaukee Firefighting

Richard L. Nailen

James S. Haight

The Memoirs of Bishop Calloway Vol 1 the Innocence of Evil (Detective Series, 1)

Lanier, Leon T.

Inclusion Starts with I Eight steps to Inclusion: The Personal Journey

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Frances Winters

Mental Health

Gutsy Leadership: A Common Sense Workbook on Leadership Development

Leon T. Lanier

Psychology & Counseling

A guide to the motion picture and television series includes cast biographies, a guide to makeup special effects, an episode guide to the TV series, and a behind-the-scenes look at the motion picture

Alien Nation: The Unofficial Companion

Humor & Entertainment

Gross, Ed

Television

Collects facts about Marilyn Monroe with information about her family and friends, details about her movies, and a section on conspiracies surrounding her death, with quotations and trivia quizzes

The Ultimate Marilyn: All the Facts, Fantasies, and Scandals about the World's Best-Known Sex Symbol

Cunningham, Ernest W.

In Remembrance of a Special Cat: A Keepsake Memorial

O'Connor, Richard F. X.

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