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  • About Canada: Health and Illness, 3rd Edition

    by Dennis Raphael ...
    Series Book 16 - About Canada
    Living a long, healthy life is one obvious goal of pretty much all of us. We are told, over and over, to change our “lifestyles” and accept that if we become ill, we have likely brought it on ourselves. Yet, hundreds of studies, over the past four decades, tell the real story: the living and working conditions we experience every day play a determining role in our health. How income and wealth, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd ed.

    by Dennis Raphael ...
    Series Book 11 - About Canada
    Most Canadians believe that their experiences of health and illness are shaped by genetics, medical care and lifestyle choices. Governments, the media and disease associations reinforce this perception by pointing to medical research and a healthy lifestyle as the keys to health. About Canada: Health and Illness tells a different story.In this new, updated edition, Dennis Raphael shows that living ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Politics of Food Insecurity in Canada and the United Kingdom

    Edited by Zsofia Mendly-Zambo, Dennis Raphael ...
    Addressing a neglected area in academic research, media coverage and public understanding, this book takes a critical political economy approach to understanding food insecurity in Canada and the UK.It examines how current economic and political systems create food insecurity and why food charity does little to address the problem, diverting the attention of policy makers, the media and the public ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Las Madres

    Latinas in the Heartland Who Led Their Family to Success

    by Dennis Raphael Garcia ...
    Bronze, International Latino Book Awards, Most Inspirational Nonfiction BookGold Medal, International Latino Book Awards, Mimi Lozano Best Family History BookGold Medal, International Latino Book Awards, Dolores Huerta Best Cultural & Community Themed BookA Kansas Notable BookLas Madres is an incredible story of generational resilience and transformation with family and community at... ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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    How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction

    by Travis Lupick ...
    North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic; with the introduction of fentanyl, the chances of a fatal overdose are greater than ever, prompting many to rethink the war on drugs. Public opinion has slowly begun to turn against prohibition, and policy-makers are finally beginning to look at addiction as a health issue as opposed to one for the criminal justice system. While deaths across the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • About Canada: Health Care, 2nd ed.

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
    Series Book 10 - About Canada
    Health care is Canada’s best-loved social program — and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services based on need rather than on ability to pay. Yet we hear almost daily accounts of problems with the system. We are bombarded with warnings that public health care is unsustainable, especially in light of the baby boomer generation reaching retirement ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Health and Health Care Inequities

    A Critical Political Economy Perspective

    by Arnel M. Borras ...
    This book provides an in-depth examination of health and health care inequities, delving into the interplay between power dynamics, policy advocacy, evidence-based research, and political economy. It uniquely integrates document and interview data to critically analyze how inequalities related to class, race, ethnicity, and gender contribute to health inequities. By exploring the roles of various ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Sustainable Development Disciplines for Humanity

    Breaking Down the 5Ps—People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnerships

    Edited by Shujiro Urata, Kazuo Kuroda, Yoshiko Tonegawa ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Open Access book provides eight problem solving lectures for sustainable development for people, peace, and partnerships. Those are three of the five keywords for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): people, the planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships or “the 5Ps”.Each of these lectures is classified into one of the keywords for SDGs and based on the history of social thought, human ... Read more

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  • Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman - Biography of a Billionaire Fugitive

    by James Bush ...
    The U.S. Treasury Department called Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman "the world's most powerful drug trafficker."Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has appeared on Forbes list of the world's richest people, with an estimated fortune of $1 billion.While, El Chapo has a $7 million dollar bounty on his head after a prison escape in 2001, he's received a number of accolades. His story is compelling ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Health Care in Canada

    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    by Katherine Fierlbeck ...
    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Local and Regional Development

    by Andy Pike ...
    Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; concerns about economic, social and ecological sustainability, climate change and resource shortages; new multi ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Population and Society

    An Introduction

    by Gregg Lee Carter ...
    This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a better understanding of social phenomena once thought to be largely the products of culture, politics, or the economy.Five key chapters concentrate on (1) ... Read more

    $25.00 USD