A Land Not Forgotten: Indigenous Food Security and Land-Based Practices in Northern Ontario
ISBN: 9780887557576 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food insecurity takes a disproportionate toll on the health of Canada's Indigenous people. -A Land Not Forgotten- examines the disruptions in local food practices as a result of colonization and the cultural, educational, and health consequences of those disruptions. This multidisciplinary work demonstrates how some Indigenous communities in northern Ontario are addressing challenges to food security through the restoration of land-based cultural practices. Improving Indigenous health, food security, and sovereignty means reinforcing practices that build resiliency in ecosystems and...
Food insecurity takes a disproportionate toll on the health of Canada's Indigenous people. -A Land Not Forgotten- examines the disruptions in local fo...
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137,88 zł |
Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
ISBN: 9781501713583 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfold soon to become the world's largest cholera epidemic in modern times. In a country that had never before reported cholera, the epidemic mysteriously and simultaneously appeared in river communities of central Haiti, eventually triggering nearly 800,000 cases and 9,000 deaths. What had caused the first cases of cholera in Haiti in recorded history? Who or what was the deadly agent of origin? Why did it explode in the agricultural-rich delta of the Artibonite River? When answers... In October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfold soon to become the world's large... |
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117,64 zł |
World Drug Report: 2016
ISBN: 9789211482867 / Angielski / Miękka / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the world's illicit drug markets. The report provides a global overview of the latest statistics, trends and developments with respect to opiates, cocaine, cannabis and synthetic drugs, and utilizes the Sustainable Development Goals framework to examine the interplay between the drugs phenomenon and the broader development context.
Provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the world's illicit drug markets. The report provides a global overview of the latest stat...
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459,17 zł |
Nigeria: Malaria Operational Plan FY 2017 (President's Malaria Initiative)
ISBN: 9781540805430 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This FY 2017 Malaria Operational Plan presents a detailed implementation plan for Nigeria, based on the strategies of PMI and the National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP). It was developed in consultation with the NMEP and with the participation of national and international partners involved in malaria prevention and control in the country. The activities that PMI is proposing to support fit in well with the National Malaria Control strategy and plan and build on investments made by PMI and other partners to improve and expand malaria-related services, including the Global Fund to Fight...
This FY 2017 Malaria Operational Plan presents a detailed implementation plan for Nigeria, based on the strategies of PMI and the National Malaria Eli...
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67,75 zł |
Networked Cancer: Affect, Narrative and Measurement
ISBN: 9783319514178 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media. Through a range of case studies, it shows that a new type of entrepreneurial cancer narrative is currently evolving. This narrative is characterised by using illness to build projects and produce various forms of economic and social value, to stimulate affectively involved and large-scale public participation and to communicate across various social media platforms. Networked cancer: Affect, Narrative and Measurement offers a theoretical framework for understanding this entrepreneurial cancer...
This book investigates how individual cancer narratives change in an age of networked social media. Through a range of case studies, it shows that a n...
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390,87 zł |
Gendering Drugs: Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals
ISBN: 9783319514864 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, by bringing together critical pharmaceutical studies and feminist technoscience studies, explores the way drugs produce sexed and/or gendered identities for those who take - or resist - them, and how feminist technoscience studies can contribute a theoretical lens with which to observe sex and gender in the pharmaceuticalization processes. Topics explored in this diverse collection include the use of hormones to delay puberty onset for trans children; HPV vaccination against cervical cancer in Sweden, the UK, Austria and Colombia; Alzheimer's discourses; and the medication of... This book, by bringing together critical pharmaceutical studies and feminist technoscience studies, explores the way drugs produce sexed and/or gen... |
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390,87 zł |
Beyond Powerful: Your Chronic Illness Is Not Your Kryptonite
ISBN: 9781683503811 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Achieve anything you want while living with chronic illness. Are you frustrated by being constantly sidelined by your health? Do you feel like every time you dig into a project your chronic disease gets in the way? Do you worry that living with a chronic illness means you will never feel well enough to reach your goals? In Beyond Powerful: Your Chronic Illness Is Not Your Kryptonite by Lala Jackson weaves personal anecdotes of being an overachiever living with autoimmune disease with inspiring and entertaining stories of go-getters who use the super powers gained by life with...
Achieve anything you want while living with chronic illness. Are you frustrated by being constantly sidelined by your health? Do you feel like eve...
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64,51 zł |
The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It
ISBN: 9781250117779 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A leading doctor offers answers on the one of the most urgent questions of our time: How do we prevent the next global pandemic? The 2014 Ebola epidemic in Liberia terrified the world--and revealed how unprepared we are for the next outbreak of an infectious disease. Somewhere in nature, a killer virus is boiling up in the bloodstream of a bird, bat, monkey, or pig, preparing to jump to a human being. This not-yet-detected germ has the potential to wipe out millions of lives over a matter of weeks or months. That risk makes the threat posed by ISIS, a ground war, a massive... A leading doctor offers answers on the one of the most urgent questions of our time: How do we prevent the next global pandemic? The 2... |
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151,00 zł |
Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction
ISBN: 9783319528861 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the connections between sociological, psychological and biological theories of exhaustion, this book examines how exhaustion manifests in the rise of burnout, depression and chronic fatigue, and analyses the interplay between mental health diagnoses, socio-cultural transformations and individual illness experiences.
Exploring the connections between sociological, psychological and biological theories of exhaustion, this book examines how exhaustion manifests in th...
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625,42 zł |
Goodbye Daddy: Speak Up Before It's Too Late
ISBN: 9780986181856 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thoughtful and heartfelt, Goodbye Daddy is a journey of comfort, relief, enlightenment and advocacy all rolled into one woman's insightful experiences with hundreds of families and their caregivers. Beyond the sorrow, tears, denial, disbelief and pain of losing a loved one, Beverly Dotson, a hospice and palliative care social worker, shares stories her eyes have seen and her heart has felt. Inspired by her family's unpreparedness in losing her own father, the author chose a life-long career of being a voice for families and their loved ones. Beverly encourages... Thoughtful and heartfelt, Goodbye Daddy is a journey of comfort, relief, enlightenment and advocacy all rolled into one woman's insightful... |
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85,81 zł |
Moving Aboriginal Health Forward: Discarding Canada's Legal Barriers
ISBN: 9781895830798 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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173,99 zł |
Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique
ISBN: 9781558614376 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology assembles two decades of work initiated by SisterSong Women of Color Health Collective, creators of the human rights-based "reproductive justice" framework to move beyond polarized pro-choice/pro-life debates. Rooted in Black feminism and built on intersecting identities, this revolutionary framework asserts a woman's right to have children, to not have children, and to parent and provide for the children they have. This anthology assembles two decades of work initiated by SisterSong Women of Color Health Collective, creators of the human rights-based "reproduc... |
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129,24 zł |
Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Global Health
ISBN: 9781138238596 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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997,85 zł |
What Are You Eating? Food Journal for Eating Healthy
ISBN: 9781541910058 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Healthy eating isn't a myth. Even if you are surrounded with so many 3-minute meals out of boxes, you can still be determined to eat healthy by keeping a journal. A journal awakens your consciousness and helps you identify opportunities as they come. Keeping a food journal will also help you break down your food's nutritional values to determine if you're overeating or undereating.
Healthy eating isn't a myth. Even if you are surrounded with so many 3-minute meals out of boxes, you can still be determined to eat healthy by keepin...
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81,95 zł |
America's Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins
ISBN: 9781503603875 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Eastern wars--especially the U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan--to the current refugee crisis, Marcia C. Inhorn examines how refugees fare once resettled in America. In the U.S., Arabs are challenged by discrimination, poverty, and various forms of vulnerability. Inhorn shines a spotlight on the plight of resettled Arab refugees in the ethnic enclave community of "Arab Detroit," Michigan. Sharing in the poverty of Detroit's... America's Arab Refugees is a timely examination of the world's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Tracing the history of Middle Easter... |
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112,20 zł |
Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Conversations Inviting Change
ISBN: 9781138714373 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care outlines a vision of how witnessing narratives, paying attention to them, and developing an ability to question them creatively, can make the person's emerging story the central focus of health and social care, and of healing. This text gives an account of the practical application of ideas and skills from contemporary narrative studies to health and social care. Promoting narrative-based practice in everyday encounters with patients and clients, and in supervision, teaching, teamwork and management, it presents... Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care outlines a vision of how witnessing narratives, paying attention to them, and developin... |
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690,82 zł |
Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care: Conversations Inviting Change
ISBN: 9781138714359 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care outlines a vision of how witnessing narratives, paying attention to them, and developing an ability to question them creatively, can make the person's emerging story the central focus of health and social care, and of healing. This text gives an account of the practical application of ideas and skills from contemporary narrative studies to health and social care. Promoting narrative-based practice in everyday encounters with patients and clients, and in supervision, teaching, teamwork and management, it presents... Narrative-Based Practice in Health and Social Care outlines a vision of how witnessing narratives, paying attention to them, and developin... |
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184,17 zł |
Fracking the Neighborhood: Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling
ISBN: 9780262534628 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessica Smartt Gullion examines what happens when natural gas extraction by means of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," takes place not on wide-open rural land but in a densely populated area with... When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fe... |
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187,55 zł |
What to Eat This Week? Mixing It Up Edition Journal
ISBN: 9781683265443 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,32 zł |
Precarity Within the Digital Age: Media Change and Social Insecurity
ISBN: 9783658176778 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book deals with precarity within the digital age and focuses on media change and social insecurity.Change arising from digital developments takes place on micro-, meso- and meta-levels and have always social implications. Concepts such as Social Media, eHealth and Digital Capitalism, Informational Capitalism and Social Exclusion, Digital Globalization and Motility frame the social dynamics and implications of changes in digital media. These changes evoke a double precarity or stable unstability: Social practices throughout the diverse societal fields are questioned through the media...
The book deals with precarity within the digital age and focuses on media change and social insecurity.Change arising from digital developments takes ...
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214,97 zł |