Lost Highway 2001 Edition

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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Lost Highway 2001 Edition by Richard Currey

Lost Highway tells the story of Sapper Reeves a gifted country musician and songwriter working the rainy backroads and forlorn taverns of the southern mountains in the years after World War II. Leaving his wife and son behind in his small West Virginia hometown he is able to make only a paltry living with his music and finds that his talent is as underappreciated as the country he and his band travel through. Eventually Sapper reaches a crisis of faith one that reverberates from the ragged hope of the Eisenhower era to the anguish of Vietnam where his son serves as a Marine. A nuanced and poetic first-person narrative Lost Highway is at once the story of a brilliant musician's struggle for self-respect and artistic integrity and a textured portrait of an American family - a father's complex love for his son a combat veteran's endurance and dignity and a redeeming love affair that crosses half a century. In its lyricism range and maturity Lost Highway fulfills the extraordina Table of contents : 1 What Is the Internet?.- What Is the Internet?.- Who Owns and Operates the Internet?.- What Does the Internet Look Like?.- Where Did the Internet Come From?.- What Can I Do with the Internet?.- Electronic Mail.- Newsgroups.- Data Base Searching.- How Do I Get There From Here?.- 2 How Does the Internet Work?.- Connecting to the Internet.- Types of Internet Connections.- Direct Connection to the Internet.- Connecting Through Another's Gateway.- Connecting Through a Commercial Service Provider.- Connecting Through an Indirect Service Provider.- What to Look for When Choosing an Internet Provider.- Finding Information on the Internet.- Internet Addresses.- 3 Using Electronic Mail (E-mail).- Anatomy of an E-mail Message.- Legal Issues.- E-mail Etiquette.- Mailing Lists.- Subscribing Unsubscribing and Mailing to Mailing Lists.- Mailing List Etiquette.- 4 Newsgroups.- What Is Usenet?.- Components of a Usenet Article.- Joining a Newsgroup.- Reading Articles.- Posting Articles.- Final Thoughts.- 5 Telnet and FTP: Remote Login and Retrieval of Information.- FTP.- Locating Files Using Archie.- 6 Finding Information on the Internet.- The Gopher.- Gopher Searching.- Veronica and Jughead Searching.- WAIS.- World Wide Web.- History of the Web.- Hypertext.- Web Browsers.- Search Sites.- Final Thoughts.- 7 Using and Citing Information from the Internet.- Using Information from the Internet.- Citing Information from the Internet.- Electronic Sources: APA Style of Citation.- Electronic Sources: MLA Style of Citation.- 8 Implications for the Future: Science Fiction Versus Reality.- Variables.- Impact of the Internet on Health Care.- Education programs.- Electronic books.- Simulations of Clinical Situations.- Continuing Education.- Distance Education.- Personal Communication.- Information Gathering.- Decision Support.- Telehealth.- Health Education for the Public.- Long Term Care Facilities.- Conclusion (or Beginning?).- Appendix 1: Top Ten Favourite Web Sites.- 1. Food and Nutrition Information Center.- 2. GoldenAge Net.- 3. Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources.- 4. Magellan: Health and Medicine.- 5. MedWeb.- 6. Peter Ramme's Idea Nurse.- 7. Points of Interest: Pediatrics.- 8. Virtual Hospital.- 9. Virtual Pharmacy.- 10. Yahoo! Health Directory.- Appendix 2: Health-Related Internet Resources.- Profession Specific.- Health-Related topics.- Online Journals.- Searchable Health-Related Literature Databases.