Heroic Efforts

Author: Jennifer Lois
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0814751849

Heroic Efforts: The Emotional Culture of Search and Rescue Volunteers

Winner of the 2006 Outstanding Recent Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Emotions SectionMany search and rescue workers voluntarily interrupt their lives when they are called upon to help strangers. Download Heroic Efforts: The Emotional Culture of Search and Rescue Volunteers from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. They awake in the middle of the night to cover miles of terrain in search of lost hikers or leave work to search potential avalanche zones for missing skiers, snowboarders, and snowmobilers in blizzard conditions. They often put their own lives in danger to rescue stranded, hypothermic kayakers and rafters from rivers. Drawing on six years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, Jennifer Lois examines the emotional subculture of "Peak," a volunteer mountain-environment search and rescue team. Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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