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  • How AIDS Ends

    An Anthology from San Francisco AIDS Foundation

    by San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Timothy Ray Brown, Jeanne White Ginder, Cleve Jones, Barbara Lee, Paul Farmer, Robert Gallo, Diane Havlir, Eduardo Xol, Hank Plante, LZ Granderson, Mark Dybul, Mervyn Silverman, Scott Wiener, Neil Giuliano ...
    When the history of HIV/AIDS is written, what will the final chapter look like? How AIDS Ends poses this question to 15 visionaries. We asked them to write history before it happens. The result is this first-of-its-kind anthology from San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Each author has been deeply touched by HIV/AIDS, and each is equally deeply committed to realizing the day when the disease is behind ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds

    Ebola and the Ravages of History

    by Paul Farmer ...
    "Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbreak that struck West Africa in 2014. It is hard to imagine a more timely or important book." —Bill and Melinda Gates"[The] history is as powerfully conveyed as it is tragic . . . Illuminating . . . Invaluable." —Steven Johnson, The New York Times Book ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Haiti After the Earthquake

    by Paul Farmer ...
    "Paul Farmer, doctor and aid worker, offers an inspiring insider's view of the relief effort." -- Financial Times"The book's greatest strength lies in its depiction of the post-quake chaos In the book's more analytical sections the author's diagnosis of the difficulties of reconstruction is sharp." -- Economist"A gripping, profoundly moving book, an urgent dispatch from the front by one of our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Infections and Inequalities

    The Modern Plagues

    by Paul Farmer ...
    Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • After the Miners’ Strike

    A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus Thatcher’s Britain: Volume 1

    by Paul Farmer, Rebecca Hillman, Mark Kilburn ...
    In this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Farmer offers a unique insight into A39’s creation, operation, and artistic practice during a period of convulsive political and social change.The reader is plunged into the national miners’ strike and the collapse of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Epidemic Illusions

    On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

    by Eugene T Richardson ...
    A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities.In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • How to Land a Top-Paying Child welfare directors Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More

    by Farmer Paul ...
    For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Child welfare directors job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On That Day, Everybody Ate: One Woman's Story of Hope and Possibility in Haiti

    by Paul Farmer ...
    Following her husband s untimely death, Margaret Trost visited Haiti to heal her broken heart through service. Struggling to make sense of the extreme poverty and touched by the warmth and resilience of those she met, she partners with a local community and together they develop a program that now serves thousands of meals a week to those in need. On That Day, Everybody Ate tells the story of her ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity

    Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter

    by Alicia Ely Yamin, Paul Farmer ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Directed at a diverse audience of students, legal and public health practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding what human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) to health and development mean and why they matter, Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity provides a solid foundation for comprehending what a human rights framework implies and the potential for social transformation it ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Urban Planning For Dummies

    by Jordan Yin ...
    How to create the world's new urban futureWith the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning—the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially—has become an increasingly vital profession. In Urban Planning For Dummies, readers will get a practical overview of this fascinating field, including ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Santiago's Children

    What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile

    by Steve Reifenberg ...
    Runner-up, Bronze Medal, Independent Publishers Book Awards: Memoir/Autobiography Category, 2009Unclear about his future career path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980s working at a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, where a determined single woman was trying to create a stable home for a dozen or so children who had been abandoned or abused. With little more ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • AIDS and Accusation

    Haiti and the Geography of Blame, Updated with a New Preface

    by Paul Farmer ...
    Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new ... Read more

    $28.49 USD