Böcker av Gary Saunders

Gary Saunders, an x-ray technologist, served from 1970 to 1971 in MASH (mobile army surgical hospital) units in Vietnam. In this memoir, he shares his story of basic training, his journey to and arrival in Vietnam, and time he spent in the 27th Surgical Hospital in Chu Lai, as well as the 91st Evacuation Hospital, and 23rd Medical Company. Besides x-raying patients, he served on guard duty.The book's title, Hold Your Breath, reflects what Gary told patients when they were x-rayed, but it serves as a broader metaphor for what happens in a war zone. Gary shares how he worked in a surgical hospital with limited equipment and staff who were trained in army programs. He recalls horrendous stories of amputees-including US soldiers and Vietnamese children. He details the stress of being under attack and trying to protect the patients from artillery.Vietnam was not all bad, however. Gary made some lifelong friends. He discovered the beauty of Vietnam and enjoyed holiday meals and days spent at the beach. Overall, he had the experience of a lifetime in a time and place most of us can only imagine.Hold Your Breath helps fill a gap in Vietnam War history. It is compelling reading for history and military buffs and anyone who wants to understand what it is like to live in a war.Gary Saunders grew up in rural Ohio. After high school, he became an x-ray technologist before being drafted to serve in the Vietnam War in a MASH unit. After the war, he had a successful decades-long medical career at several different hospitals in Ohio. Today, he is enjoying retirement with his wife Joyce.

Using an Open Marxist theoretical framework, this book provides a critique of the neoliberal reforms made to higher education since the late 1970s and the impact this has had on the sector. Rather than arguing for a return to the idea of the public university, the book argues that public and private models of higher education are both forms of capitalist accumulation and have historically perpetuated forms of oppression, exploitation and discrimination; thus, a more radical solution that addresses both the current crisis of higher education and the contradictory and exploitative nature of late capitalism is required. This book critically examines the autonomous learning spaces that emerged out of the UK student protests (2009-2010) and documents what can be learned from them to prefigure the idea of the university for a post-capitalist society.

"The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other. In nine sections, Earthkeeping ruminates on the necessity of love and earthkeeping, on forage fish and robinsongs, and on the stewardship of our ecological landscape. Offering an antidote to the world's anxiety about climate change, plastic pollution and biodiversity loss and illustrated with around 50 pieces of Saunders's art, Saunders writes with a deep connection with the natural world and his signature humane zest for life. Lovingly illustrated with Saunders' own artwork, the result is a joyful, personal, and deeply attentive stroll through an enchanted land of blue and green."--

An engrossing story of a bright John Hopkins graduate who fell in love with Newfoundland as a student, and who stayed to himself become the medical care system in northeastern Newfoundland for forty years. Crusty, caring and unconventional, Dr. Olds' skill and devotion made him such a folk hero that Newfoundland declared a province-wide Doctor Olds' Day. Asked why he came to Twillingate for one year and stayed for forty, Newfoundland's Connecticut Yankee tersely replied, Because I liked it.