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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jonathan engel”
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  • Transforming American Science

    Universities, the Government, and the Cold War

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
    Transforming American Science documents the ways in which federal funds catalyzed or accelerated changes in both university culture and the broader system of American higher education during the post-World War II decades.The events of the book lie within the context of the Cold War, when pressure to maintain parity with the Soviet Union impelled more generous government spending and a willingness ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Fat Nation

    A History of Obesity in America

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    The diet and weight-loss industry is worth $66 billion – billion!! The estimated annual health care costs of obesity-related illness are 190 billion or nearly 21% of annual medical spending in the United States. But how did we get here? Is this a battle we can’t win? What changes need to be made in order to scale back the incidence of obesity in the US, and, indeed, around the world? Here, ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • The Epidemic

    A Global History of Aids

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    This "perceptive and concise" history chronicles humanity's relationship with the AIDS virus ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).From the Castro bathhouses to AZT and the denial of AIDS in South Africa, this sweeping look at AIDS covers the epidemic from all angles and across the world. Engel seamlessly weaves together science, politics, and culture, writing with an even hand—noting the excesses ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poor People's Medicine

    Medicaid and American Charity Care since 1965

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    Poor People’s Medicine is a detailed history of Medicaid since its beginning in 1965. Federally aided and state-operated, Medicaid is the single most important source of medical care for the poorest citizens of the United States. From acute hospitalization to long-term nursing-home care, the nation’s Medicaid programs pay virtually the entire cost of physician treatment, medical equipment, and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • American Therapy

    The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    From Freud to Zoloft, the first comprehensive history of American PsychotherapyFifty percent of Americans will undergo some form of psychotherapy in their lifetimes, but the origins of the field are rarely known to patients. Yet the story of psychotherapy in America brims with colorful characters, intriguing experimental treatments, and intense debates within this community of healers.American ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Global Development

    Edited by Kearrin Sims, Nicola Banks, Susan Engel, Paul Hodge, Jonathan Makuwira, Naohiro Nakamura, Jonathan Rigg, Albert Salamanca, Pichamon Yeophantong ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the world’s most pressing global development challenges – including how they may be better understood and addressed through innovative practices and approaches to learning and teaching.Featuring 61 contributions from leading and emerging academics and practitioners, this multidisciplinary volume is organized into five thematic parts ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • ICT Policy, Research, and Innovation

    Perspectives and Prospects for EU-US Collaboration

    by Svetlana Klessova, Sebastian Engell, Maarten Botterman, Jonathan Cave ...
    Series series IEEE Press Series on Technology Management, Innovation, and Leadership
    A comprehensive discussion of the findings of the PICASSO initiative on ICT policyICT Policy, Research, and Innovation: Perspectives and Prospects for EU-US Collaboration provides a clearly readable overview of selected information and communication technology (ICT) and policy topics. Rather than deluge the reader with technical details, the distinguished authors provide just enough technical ... Read more

    $155.99 CAD

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  • North Of Normal

    A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

    by Cea Sunrise Person ...
    In the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s family left a comfortable existence in California to live off the land in northern Alberta. But unlike most commune dwellers of the time, the Persons weren’t trying to build a new society—they wanted to escape civilization altogether. Led by Cea’s grandfather Dick, they lived in a canvas Teepee, grew pot, and hunted and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Wild

    From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

    by Cheryl Strayed ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century**At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was ... Read more

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  • The Noonday Demon

    An Atlas Of Depression

    by Andrew Solomon ...
    The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide prevention and anti-depressants including SSRIs, pregnancy and postpartum depression, ... Read more

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  • Understanding Development

    by Paul Hopper ...
    Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and ... Read more

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