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Paul Rice
From the founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA, a critical account of the past, present and future of conscious capitalism--the change it has wrought in the world and the…
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Paul Farmer
As a child of the 70's...
...Nick loved Jailhouse Rock.
What if Elvis hadn't died?
It's 2010, he's in his forties and Nick is throwing everything he had into his…
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Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, this book points out that most explanatory strategies, from ‘cost-effectiveness’ to patient ‘noncompliance,’ inevitably lead to blaming the victims.
Does the scientific theory that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Addressing…
The acclaimed New York Times and IndieBound bestseller: Farmer’s passionate book bring(s) Haiti’s appalling tragedy back to the world’s attention –Foreign Affairs
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The public health legend Paul Farmer offers an essential and provocative account of the West African Ebola crisis and why it occurred
Jennie Weiss Block
Biography of a physician whose Catholic faith spurs him to provide medical care to the poor internationally.
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Collects the author’s writings from 1988 to 2009 on anthropology, epidemiology, health care for the global poor, and international public health policy, providing an overview of his work. This work…
Suitable for graduates, students, and everyone seeking to help bend the arc of history toward justice, this title challenges readers to counter failures of imagination that keep billions of people…
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Mark Schuller
Set in Haiti following the 2004 coup and enhanced by research carried out after the 2010 earthquake, Killing with Kindness analyses the impact of official development aid on recipient NGOs…
Steve Reifenberg
A beautifully written memoir about life among the most vulnerable, yet resilient residents of Latin America-its poor children.
Steven Werlin,Paul Farmer
To Fool the Rain tells the story of the women who use Fonkoze’s Chemen Lavi Miyo program to help change their families’ lives. This program addresses extreme poverty, and we…
Steven Werlin
Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of the poor is the most importanthuman rights struggle of our…
Paul Farmer,Richard Lyal
Examines in some detail the various tax regimes affecting the Community and uncovers the links between policy and law-making in a way which should give all readers a firm understanding…
Paul Farmer (Partners in Health)
A look at what has happened to the health of the poor in Haiti since the coup.
In this rich memoir, the first of two volumes, Paul Farmer traces the story of A39, the Cornish political theatre group he co-founded and ran from the mid-1980s to the…
M. Catherine Maternowska
Through a detailed study of the attempt to provide modern contraception in the community of Cite Soleil, this book demonstrates the complex interplay between local and global politics that so…
Alicia Ely Yamin
Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity provides a solid foundation for comprehending what a human rights framework implies and the potential for greater justice in health it entails.
Eugene T. Richardson,Paul Farmer
A physician and anthropologist questions the Global North’s monopoly on truth in global public health science.
A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices–from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment–help perpetuate global…
M.D. Salmaan Keshavjee
Neoliberalism has been the defining paradigm in global health since the latter part of the twentieth century. This book offers a tale about the forces driving decision making in health…
Jordan Yin
How to create the world’s new urban future With the majority of the world’s population shifting to urban centres, urban planning–the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape…
Reviews the massive epidemic sweeping Sub-Saharan Africa and many other parts of the Third World.
Utpal Sandesara,Tom Wooten
Offers a researched examination of the little-known, but devastating Machhu Dam disaster in India. On August 11, 1979, after a week of extraordinary monsoon rains in the Gujurat province of…
Arc of Interference revisits the vital and core insights of medical anthropology in light of contemporary planetary and social crises, showing how the field provides central practices for understanding, interfering…
This book reflects intersection between the lives, commitments, and strategies of two highly respected figures Dr. Paul Farmer and Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez joined in their option for the poor, their…
Wendy Custable,Paul C Farmer
All teachers–including career and technical education (CTE) teachers–play a vital role in building a thriving PLC. In this practical resource, the authors explicitly outline how to improve teaching and learning…
Tracy Kidder
The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world –Cover.
This magnificent, inspiring account of Dr. Paul Farmer shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and how one person can make a difference in solving…
John G. Gabriel,Paul C. Farmer
Replicable strategies and practical tools to help education leaders develop a healthy school culture, improve student achievement and professional practice, and make the most of their time and resources.
Paul Leland Haworth
Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you…
Years before as a boy he had copied into a wonderful copy-book that is still preserved in the Library of Congress some verses that set forth pretty accurately his ideal…
David Oliver Relin
From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors–one from the United States, the other from Nepal–united in a common mission: to…
Provides an introduction to the field of global health. This title is suitable for schools of public health, nursing, and medicine, and also in undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology…
Tracy Kidder,Michael French
Paul Hodgson
Paul Booth,Andy Simmonds
From 1993-2000 Oxford Archaeology examined a sequence of rural landscapes at Hanson Aggregates’ Sutton Courtenay Pit ahead of gravel extraction. The earliest of these, a rectilinear system of trackways and…
Felix Timmermans
One of the best in the Dutch literary canon. A Peasant Farmer's Psalm is one of Felix Timmermans' most renowned novels. In it, a farmer recounts the story of his…
Paul J Campbell, Jr
As a child, I grew up on Chestnut Ridge in the mountains of Latrobe Pennsylvania. My brothers and cousins would wonder thru the woods playing, and one of the people…
