Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History, Paperback - Paul Farmer

Reducere. "Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbreak...

Reducere. In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical dese...

Reducere. Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate a...

Based on contemporary newspaper accounts and genealogical records, Digging Dusky Diamonds tells the story of the people who made the anthracite coa...

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As the future of international law has become a growing site of struggle within and between powerful states, debates over the history of internatio...

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Public Relations, Society and the Generative Power of History examines how histories are used to explore how the past is constructed from the prese...

This troubling book offers a striking illustration of how history can be used and abused-how a gifted individual can create their own self-serving ...

Contributor(s): Author: Paul FarmerForeword by: Amartya SenPathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life-and death-in extreme situations to i...

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Telling the story of the collapsing world of Gedaliah Berman, a rich but unscrupulous Jewish diamond merchant at the time of the First World War, t...

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What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of histo...

DescriptionSo shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian rem...

Reducere. Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History surveys the origins, uses and manifestations of iconoclasm in history, art and public cult...

Bob Dylan's iconic 1962 song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" stands at the crossroads of musical and literary traditions. Alessandro Portelli explores...

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Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with...

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Reducere. Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United Sta...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as fa...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Robert P. NewmanNumber of pages: 201Collection: Frontiers in Political CommunicationPublication date...

When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occur...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Jaimie (University of Alberta, Canada) BaronIllustration(s): 20 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages...

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Reducere. Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides a...

DescriptionThis collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, r...

Reducere. High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient s...

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The farmer meets new friends and goes on an unexpected adventure to the circus in this whimsical and touching trilogy of wordless picture books fro...