Seeing Patients. A Surgeon's Story of Race and Medical Bias, With a New Preface, Paperback - Augustus A. White

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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. 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...

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

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

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...

Hilarious and heart-breaking stories from a life on and off the wards by Adam Kay, multi-million copy bestselling author of This is Going to HurtPu...

Reducere. Here, in this raw account of one doctor's journey to Hell and back ... is the prescription that could save the life of someone you love. Addiction ...

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

Alexandra Wilson, a young mixed-race barrister, provides a compelling insight into the systemic racism in our legal system.

Alexandra, a young mixed-race barrister, gives us a fresh perspective on a broken criminal justice system still dominated by a privileged few.

Reducere. "There I Wuz" refers to being in flight somewhere in the sky or perhaps in an otherwise routine situation when something unforeseen happened. It wa...

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

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

Reducere. Acclaimed author and renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom distills thirty-five years of psychotherapy wisdom into one brilliant volume.The culminat...

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...

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...

Reducere. In these five eloquent and passionate pieces (which she gave as the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC) Patricia J. Williams asks how we might ...

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