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This is a true story based on one man's desire/goal to not go on kidney dialysis. The story takes us through the world of chronic kidney disease, mainstream medicine's approaches to treatment and diet, and the need to look outside the box when there is Not Enough information and resources. His wife has been a Registered Nurse for 28 years and helps him wade through the research results of traditional and non-traditional approaches to treatments and diets for chronic kidney disease. We are led through medical tourism with stem cell and acupuncture treatments in Bangkok, Thailand. We get a...

Presenting important work by well-known demographers, American Diversity focuses on U.S. population changes in the twenty-first century, emphasizing the nation's increasing racial and ethnic diversity. Rather than focusing on separate groups sequentially, this work emphasizes comparisons across groups and highlights how demographic and social structural processes affect all groups. Specific topics covered include the formation of race and ethnicity; population projections by race; immigration, fertility, and mortality differentials; segregation; work and education; intermarriage; aging; and...

As a result of international immigration, ethnic diversity has increased rapidly in many countries, not only in major cities, but also in smaller cities. This trend is not limited to the traditional immigrant receiving countries, such as the United States and Canada, but occurs also in many other countries where doors are gradually opening to immigration, especially in Asia. This combination of a growing immigrant population and ethnic diversity has fostered a more complex immigrant integration process.

This book addresses the subject at the city ecological level, inter-group...