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  • Compound Solutions

    Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health

    by Susan Craddock ...
    Claiming 1.5 million lives in 2015, tuberculosis is the world’s most deadly infectious disease. Because of the population it overwhelmingly affects, however, pharmaceutical companies are uninterested in developing better drugs for the disease. Compound Solutions examines Product Development Partnerships (PDPs), which arose early in the twenty-first century to develop new drugs and vaccines for ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Influenza and Public Health

    Learning from Past Pandemics

    Edited by Tamara Giles-Vernick, Susan Craddock ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close succession, yet differ in their transmission and impact. With accelerated levels of commercial and population mobility, new forms of flu virus can also spread across the globe with unprecedented speed. Responding quickly and adequately to each outbreak ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

    by Nina Teicholz ...
    A New York Times bestsellerNamed one of The Economist’s Books of the YearNamed one of The Wall Street Journal’s Top Ten Best Nonfiction BooksKirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction BooksForbes’s Most Memorable Healthcare BookIn The Big Fat Surprise,investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong. She documents how... ... Read more

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  • Pandemic

    Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond

    by Sonia Shah ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | A New York Times Editor's Choice“[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study” —NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of the pandemics that have ravaged humanity—and shows us how history can prepare us to confront the most serious acute global health emergency of our time.Over the past fifty years, more than ... Read more

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  • Raw – Recipes for Radiant Living

    The Eagerly Anticipated Cookbook from the No.1 Bestselling Author of 'Eat Yourself Well'

    by Bernadette Bohan ...
    Bernadette Bohan is an ordinary woman whose life was turned upside down by two different types of cancer. She learned the value of her health the hard way, but she recovered and now feels healthier than ever.In order to help herself through cancer treatment, Bernadette focused all her energy on getting informed about health. After meeting Dr Brian Clement from the Hippocrates Institute in Florida ... Read more

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  • Epic Measures

    One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.

    by Jeremy N. Smith ...
    Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time—the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we live and die?—and the visionary mastermind behind it.Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease studies to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die. ... Read more

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  • Building a Healthy Child

    Food Introduction Nutritional Program—A Parent’S Guide to Foundational Childhood Nutrition for Lifelong Health

    by Melina Roberts, N.D. ...
    Melina Roberts, N.D., has developed a revolutionary program that introduces infants and toddlers to food that helps them develop their bodies and health.Many parents feed their children as if theyre adults, without ever thinking that perhaps they should not be eating like a fully-grown adult. The truth is, however, that organs and body systems mature at different times, which means nutrition needs ... Read more

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  • Engineering Genesis

    Ethics of Genetic Engineering in Non-human Species

    Edited by Donald Bruce, Ann Bruce ...
    Few issues have aroused so much public attention and controversy as recent developments in biotechnology. How can we make sound judgements of the cloning of Dolly the sheep, genetically altered foodstuffs, or the prospect of transplanting pigs' hearts into humans? Are we 'playing God' with nature? What is driving these developments, and how can they be made more accountable to the public? ... Read more

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  • Global Health Law

    by Lawrence O. Gostin ...
    The international community has made great progress in improving global health. But staggering health inequalities between rich and poor still remain, raising fundamental questions of social justice. In a book that systematically defines the burgeoning field of global health law, Lawrence Gostin drives home the need for effective global governance for health and offers a blueprint for reform, ... Read more

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  • Quantitative Plate Tectonics

    Physics of the Earth - Plate Kinematics – Geodynamics

    by Antonio Schettino ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This textbook on plate tectonics is designed for students in geology and geophysics to acquire in-depth knowledge of quantitative methods in plate kinematics and dynamics. Quantitative Plate Tectonics can also be used as a reference book by geoscientists who desire to expand their knowledge beyond their own specialization, or by oil-and-gas professionals and ore deposit specialists that need to ... Read more

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  • The Health of Nations

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    by Gavin Mooney ...
    Why, despite vast resources being expended on health and health care, is there still so much ill health and premature death? Why do massive inequalities in health, both within and between countries, remain? In this devastating critique, internationally renowned health economist Gavin Mooney places the responsibility for these problems firmly at the door of neoliberalism.Mooney analyses how power ... Read more

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  • Absolute Age Determination

    Physical and Chemical Dating Methods and Their Application

    by Mebus A. Geyh, Helmut Schleicher ...
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    With the growing recognition during the last two centuries that the Earth has an immense age and processes over long periods of time have changed the morphology and composition of the Earth's crust, geologists have become increasingly interested in determination of absolute ages. A rela tive geochronology was established on the basis of the lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic principles ... Read more

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