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“wang zhenyao”

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  • Philanthropy for Health in China

    by Bronwyn Carter, Deng Guosheng, Fan Li, David Faure, Susan A. Jolly, Joan Kaufman, Jeffrey P. Koplan, Vivian Lin, Pam Redmon, Caroline Reeves, Mark Sidel, Darwin H. Stapleton, Wang Zhenyao, Zhang Lu, Zhang Xiulan, Zhao Yanhui, Ray Yip, Mary Brown Bullock, Zhao Xiaoping, Zi Zhongyun, Xu Yongguang, Eve Lee, Mary Ann Burris ...
    Series series
    Drawing on the expertise of Chinese and Western academics and practitioners, the contributors to this volume aim to advance the understanding of philanthropy for health in China in the 20th century and to identify future challenges and opportunities. Considering government, NGO leaders, domestic philanthropists, and foreign foundations, the volume examines the historical roots and distinct stages ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    A Memoir of Recovery

    by Bill Clegg ...
    The goal is ninety. Just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. With six weeks of his most recent rehab behind him he returns to New York and attends two or three meetings each day. It is in these refuges that he befriends essential allies including Polly, who struggles daily with her own cycle of recovery and relapse, and the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Colony

    The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai

    by John Tayman ...
    In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony, “an impressively researched” (Rocky Mountain News) account of the history of America’s only leper colony located on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, is “an utterly engrossing look at a heartbreaking chapter” (Booklist) in American history and a moving tale of the extraordinary people who endured it.Beginning in 1866 and continuing ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Showing Up for Life

    Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime

    by Mary Ann Mackin, Bill Gates Sr. ...
    A heartfelt, deeply personal book that shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up”: lessons that he learned growing up during the Great Depression, and that he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Through the course of several dozen ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • With Charity for All

    Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give

    by Ken Stern ...
    Vast and largely unexamined, the world of American charities accounts for fully 10 percent of economic activity in this country, yet operates with little accountability, no real barriers to entry, and a stunning lack of evidence of effectiveness. In With Charity for All, Ken Stern reveals a problem hidden in plain sight and prescribes a whole new way for Americans to make a difference.Each year, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • House M.D. vs. Reality

    Fact and Fiction in the Hit Television Series

    by Andrew Holtz ...
    Solve the puzzles of TV's smartest doctor.Brilliant diagnostician Gregory House solves puzzles every day-using not just his vast medical knowledge but his razor-sharp instincts about human behavior. This new volume explores some of the questions raised by the hit TV drama-and does the detective work to get the answers.For any fascinated fan, it's a compelling journey into the real-world medicine ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Legacy of Caring

    A History of the Children's Aid Society of Toronto

    by Children's Aid Society Foundation, Gail Aitken, Donald F. Bellamy, John McCullagh ...
    Begun in 1891, the Children's Aid Society of Toronto is the largest child welfare agency in North America. It has played a leading roll as an advocate of children's welfare; it has been instrumental in influencing child welfare practice not only in Ontario but all of Canada and elsewhere. With an emphasis on the post-World War II period, A Legacy of Caring examines the political, social, and ... Read more

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  • Selling Our Souls

    The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States

    by Adam Dalton Reich ...
    Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but to trust those who provide them care, but even those providers confront a great deal of medical ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Values-Based Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

    Working Together in Health Care

    by Jill E. Thistlethwaite ...
    Series series Values-Based Practice
    The provision of care within the context of the modern health service environment involves a wide range of professionals. The health care team might include general practitioners, nurses, midwives, hospital doctors, physiotherapists, other allied health professionals, as well as receptionists and practice managers. To optimise delivery of care at both individual and population levels, team members ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The End of Epidemics

    The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It

    by Jonathan D. Quick, Bronwyn Fryer ...
    "Jonathan Quick offers a compelling and intensely readable plan to prevent worldwide infectious outbreaks. The End of Epidemics is essential reading for those who might be affected by a future pandemic—that is, just about everyone."—Sandeep Jauhar, bestselling author of Heart: A HistoryThe 2020 outbreak of coronavirus has terrified the world--and revealed how unprepared we are for the next ... Read more

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  • Conversing with Cancer

    How to Ask Questions, Find and Share Information, and Make the Best Decisions

    by Lisa Sparks, Anna Leahy ...
    Series Book 22 - Language as Social Action
    With more than 40% of people eventually facing a cancer diagnosis, Conversing with Cancer is a much-needed addition to understanding and improving cancer care through strong communication among providers, patients, and caregivers. Each person whose life is affected by a cancer diagnosis—patient, healthcare provider, caregiver—has information and needs information in order to make the best ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • The Dying Process

    Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care

    by Julia Lawton ...
    Taking as its focus a highly emotive area of study, The Dying Process draws on the experiences of daycare and hospice patients to provide a forceful new analysis of the period of decline prior to death.Placing the bodily realities of dying very firmly centre stage and questioning the ideology central to the modern hospice movement of enabling patients to 'live until they die', Julia Lawton shows ... Read more

    $59.99 USD