Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated with a New Preface, Paperback - Paul Farmer

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

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...

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological AssociationCo-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, ...

This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the 20th century as an expressi...

"Paints in chilling detail the distance between Martin Luther King's dream and the reality of present-day America."--Anthony Walton, Harper's "Inte...

Al-Fārābī who was conferred the distinguished title of al-Mu'allim al-thānī (The Second Teacher), is here sympathetically portrayed as a deeply rel...

Reducere. In 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps: one proclaiming (in the tradition of Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of th...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edward O. WilsonView a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities""In...

Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surg...

Reducere. DescriptionThe little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life I...

DescriptionA Times Higher Education Book of the WeekUnder certain conditions, the right small simple actions can produce large and complex "butterf...

Reducere. Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing th...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Leslie J. ReaganIllustration(s): 6 illustrations, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 432Publication date:...

This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indonesia, particularl...

Publisher: Monkfish Book PublishingAuthor(s): Mark MatousekIllustration(s): NoNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 191 x 228 x 24C...

Contributor(s): Author: Jason BrennanPreface by: Jason BrennanMost people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe peo...

Reducere. Description"A page turner . . . heart-stopping and enraging . . . focused, justified, and without a trace of self-pity. Shot through with poignancy...

In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from continuing investigations over...

A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory-the situations w...

Why is it that in the '90s, business in California's Silicon Valley flourished, while along Route 128 in Massachusetts it declined? The answer, Ann...

Reducere. From two pioneers in business analytics, an update of the classic book on how analytics and business intelligence are transforming competition and ...

Reducere. Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and explor...

Reducere. DescriptionAre you the boss you need to be?You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations fr...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public ...

With a new foreword by Mark Cuban and a new preface by the author.

DescriptionEven the most powerful men in the world are human-they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ail...

Reducere. DescriptionIn honor of the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, we are happy to reissue Nancy Milio's 9226 Kercheval, a groundbreaking b...

Reducere. "Paul Harvey would be proud of Levi Lyle. He truly embodies what it means to be a steward of the land. He has shown that working with nature can no...

Reducere. Aquaponic farming--raising fish and vegetables together commercially--is the most promising innovation for a sustainable, profitable, localized foo...

This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empi...

Reducere. From Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Truck Full of Money, and adapted by Michael French comes this captivating and critically accl...

FULLY UPDATED AND REVISED, INCLUDING TWO NEW CHAPTERS TO BRING THE STORY UP TO DATEPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Paul BranniganIllu...

Reducere. American Library Association's Choice Outstanding Academic Title (1999) One of the Globe and Mail's 100 Notable Books of 1998. This classic book on...

Reducere. "Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time, " declares M. I. F...

Celebrating the 125th anniversary of MacKintosh's birth, this updated edition of the definitive biography includes a new preface.Publisher: Sandsto...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The keys to global business success, as taught by a T-shirt's journey The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy is a critically-acclaimed narr...

DescriptionAre you an authentic leader? Too many companies are managed not by leaders but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What would...

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...

New B-format paperback - The definitive history of the virulent and fatal plague outbreaks that wiped out half of London's populations from the med...

Reducere. Greek Homosexuality: Updated and with a New PostScript, Paperback

New Tools for Succeeding GloballyWhy do so many global strategies fail--despite companies' powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Be...

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

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Paul E. CeruzziIllustration(s): 88 figuresNumber of pages: 536Collection: History of ComputingPublication date: ...

Reducere. DescriptionGreek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, lived in the 4th century B.C. and is thought of as one of the most important figures from cl...