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  • Underdogs

    Pets, People, and Poverty

    par Arnold Arluke, Andrew Rowan ...
    Collections series
    Underdogs looks into the rapidly growing initiative to provide veterinary care to underserved communities in North Carolina and Costa Rica and how those living in or near poverty respond to these forms of care. For many years, the primary focus of the humane community in the United States was to control animal overpopulation and alleviate the stray dog problem by euthanizing or sterilizing dogs ... En savoir plus

    $142.99 CAD

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  • What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

    par Aubrey Gordon ...
    From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Fat Studies Reader

    Modifié par Esther Rothblum, Sondra Solovay ...
    Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in PsychologyWinner of the 2010 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture AssociationWe have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat person walking on the sidewalk, her face out of frame so she can't be identified, as some disconcerting findings about ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Healthy Society

    How a Focus on Health can Revive Canadian Democracy

    par Ryan Meili ...
    Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our health. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner city of Saskatoon, Mozambique, and rural Saskatchewan, Dr. Ryan Meili uses scholarship and patient ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • XXL

    Obesity and the Limits of Shame

    par Patrick Luciani, Neil Seeman ...
    Obese individuals are twice as likely to experience heart failure as non-obese people. More than eighty-five per cent of type 2 diabetes sufferers are overweight. And in the United States, obese and overweight individuals make up more than two-thirds of the adult population. Public health organizations and governments have traditionally tried to combat obesity through shame-inducing policies, ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Industrial Diet

    The Degradation of Food and the Struggle for Healthy Eating

    par Anthony Winson ...
    The Industrial Diet chronicles the long-term transformation of food from a natural resource into an edible commodity that far too often fails to nourish us. Anthony Winson reveals how a combination of technological changes, population growth, and political and economic factors helped constitute and transform mass dietary regimes from the nineteenth century to the present day, and he offers new ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Toward the Healthy City

    People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning

    par Jason Corburn ...
    Collections series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

  • Shades of Difference

    Why Skin Color Matters

    Modifié par Evelyn Nakano Glenn ...
    Shades of Difference addresses the widespread but little studied phenomenon of colorism—the preference for lighter skin and the ranking of individual worth according to skin tone. Examining the social and cultural significance of skin color in a broad range of societies and historical periods, this insightful collection looks at how skin color affects people's opportunities in Latin America, Asia, ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Unanticipated Gains

    Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life

    par Mario Luis Small ...
    Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks. But why do some people have better networks than others? Unanticipated Gains argues that the practice and structure of the churches, colleges, firms, gyms, childcare centers, and schools in which people happen to participate routinely ... En savoir plus

    $29.59 CAD

  • Companion Animal Ethics

    par Sandra Corr, Clare Palmer, Peter Sandøe ...
    Collections series UFAW Animal Welfare
    Companion Animal Ethics explores the important ethical questions and problems that arise as a result of humans keeping animals as companions.The first comprehensive book dedicated to ethical and welfare concerns surrounding companion animalsScholarly but still written in an accessible and engaging styleConsiders the idea of animal companionship and why it should matter ethicallyExplores problems ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

  • Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality

    par Ben Kirshner ...
    Collections Livre 2 - Qualitative Studies in Psychology
    Winner, 2016 Best Authored Book presented by the Society for Research on AdolescenceDiverse case studies on how youth build political power during an era of racial and educational inequality in AmericaThis is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate new school discipline policies to end the school to jail track. Latino and African American students march to district ... En savoir plus

    $28.59 CAD

  • The Drug Company Next Door

    Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico

    par Alexa S. Dietrich ...
    "This fascinating and most timely criticalmedical anthropology study successfully binds two still emergent areas ofcontemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature andsignificant impact of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on humansocial life everywhere, and the contribution of corporations to the fast-paceddegradation of our life support system, planet Earth. . . . ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD