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American Dementia

Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society

by Daniel R. George, Peter J. Whitehouse ...

Have the social safety nets, environmental protections, and policies to redress wealth and income inequality enacted after World War II contributed to declining rates of dementia today—and how do we improve brain health in the future?Winner of the American Book Fest Health: Aging/50+ by the American Book Fest, Living Now Book Award: Mature Living/Aging by the Living Now Book AwardsFor decades, ... Read more

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Have the social safety nets, environmental protections, and policies to redress wealth and income inequality enacted after World War II contributed to declining rates of dementia today—and how do we improve brain health in the future?Winner of the American Book Fest Health: Aging/50+ by the American Book Fest, Living Now Book Award: Mature Living/Aging by the Living Now Book AwardsFor decades,
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Transforming the Quality of Life for People with Dementia through Contact with the Natural World

Fresh Air on My Face

by Lorraine Robertson, Marie-José Enders-Slegers, Johanna M. Wigg, Caren Price-Hunt, Peter J. Whitehouse, Rachael Litherland, Brett Joseph, Marcus Fellows, Daniel R. George, Lynda Hughes, Neil Mapes, James McKillop, Trevor Jarvis, Claire Craig, David G McNair, Brian Hennell, June Hennell, Malcolm Goldsmith, Simone de de Bruin, Javier Sánchez Sánchez Merina, Manjit Kaur Kaur Nijjar, Mr John Killick ...

This important book simply but persuasively demonstrates why we should provide the opportunities for people with dementia to experience the great outdoors. It also gives a voice to people with dementia who have felt the benefit of getting closer to nature. The contributors explore many different ways in which people with dementia can experience and interact with nature through pursuits such as ... Read more

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This important book simply but persuasively demonstrates why we should provide the opportunities for people with dementia to experience the great outdoors. It also gives a voice to people with dementia who have felt the benefit of getting closer to nature. The contributors explore many different ways in which people with dementia can experience and interact with nature through pursuits such as
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American Dementia

Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society

by Daniel R. George, Peter J. Whitehouse ...

Narrated by Luis Moreno ...

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For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that dementia rates have actually declined in the United Statesand Western Europe over the last decade. Why is this happening? And what does it mean for brain health in the future?In American Dementia, Daniel R. George, ... Read more

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For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that dementia rates have actually declined in the United Statesand Western Europe over the last decade. Why is this happening? And what does it mean for brain health in the future?In American Dementia, Daniel R. George,
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Rage Becomes Her

The Power of Women's Anger

by Soraya Chemaly ...

***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION***NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION***Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCHRage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities o... ... Read more

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***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION***NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION***Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCHRage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities o...
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Breaking the Age Code

How Your Beliefs About Aging Determine How Long and Well You Live

by Becca Levy, PhD ...

Recipient of the 2023 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Book AwardYale professor and leading expert on the psychology of successful aging, Dr. Becca Levy, draws on her ground-breaking research to show how age beliefs can be improved so they benefit all aspects of the aging process, including the way genes operate and the extension of life expectancy by 7.5 years.The often-surprising results of ... Read more

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Recipient of the 2023 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Book AwardYale professor and leading expert on the psychology of successful aging, Dr. Becca Levy, draws on her ground-breaking research to show how age beliefs can be improved so they benefit all aspects of the aging process, including the way genes operate and the extension of life expectancy by 7.5 years.The often-surprising results of
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Weathering

The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

by Dr. Arline T Geronimus ...

**Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people."Monumental." —Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning**America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced ... Read more

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**Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people."Monumental." —Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning**America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced
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Patriarchy Inc.

What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality?and Why Men Still Win at Work

by Cordelia Fine ...

A razor-sharp and quick-witted analysis of why we need a new approach to fixing the gender inequality embedded in work.Work remains much as it always has: men occupy the vast majority of leadership roles and are overrepresented in positions from engineer to plumber. We see many jobs as “male” or “female,” with women dominating in healthcare and childcare professions. Pretending that this is the ... Read more

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A razor-sharp and quick-witted analysis of why we need a new approach to fixing the gender inequality embedded in work.Work remains much as it always has: men occupy the vast majority of leadership roles and are overrepresented in positions from engineer to plumber. We see many jobs as “male” or “female,” with women dominating in healthcare and childcare professions. Pretending that this is the
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The American Health Care Paradox

Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

by Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A Taylor ...

Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of MedicineFor decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've ... Read more

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Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of MedicineFor decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've
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Dismissed

Tackling the Biases That Undermine our Health Care

by Angela Marshall, M.D., Kathy Palokoff ...

**Facts—women in pain are much more likely than men to receive prescriptions for sedatives rather than pain medication; Black women are more than three times more likely than white women to die of childbirth-related causes. Whether it’s age, body size, sexual orientation, or other cultural factors, bias in healthcare is an uncomfortable truth. In this first-ever book on the subject written from ... Read more

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**Facts—women in pain are much more likely than men to receive prescriptions for sedatives rather than pain medication; Black women are more than three times more likely than white women to die of childbirth-related causes. Whether it’s age, body size, sexual orientation, or other cultural factors, bias in healthcare is an uncomfortable truth. In this first-ever book on the subject written from
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Somebody Should Do Something

How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change

by Michael Brownstein, Daniel Kelly, Alex Madva ...

A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from our collective practices: laws, economies, history, culture, norms, and built environments. The ... Read more

$19.99 USD

A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from our collective practices: laws, economies, history, culture, norms, and built environments. The
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Systemic

How Racism Is Making Us Sick

by Layal Liverpool ...

In the spirit of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body; A science-based, data-driven, and global exploration of racial disparities in health care access by virologist, immunologist, and science journalist Layal Liverpool.Layal Liverpool spent years as a teen bouncing from doctor to doctor, each one failing to diagnose her dermatological complaint. Just when she’d grown used to the idea that ... Read more

$14.99 USD

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In the spirit of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body; A science-based, data-driven, and global exploration of racial disparities in health care access by virologist, immunologist, and science journalist Layal Liverpool.Layal Liverpool spent years as a teen bouncing from doctor to doctor, each one failing to diagnose her dermatological complaint. Just when she’d grown used to the idea that
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Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die

Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America

by Amy Gutmann, Jonathan D. Moreno ...

NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, "PANDEMIC ETHICS"From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price.Shockingly, the United States has among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality rates of any high-income nation, yet, as Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno show, we spend twice as much per ... Read more

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NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, "PANDEMIC ETHICS"From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price.Shockingly, the United States has among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality rates of any high-income nation, yet, as Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno show, we spend twice as much per
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