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  • Bacteria to Buddha

    How Cooperation Shaped Consciousness – and Makes Us Human

    by Ramanan Laxminarayan ...
    What if consciousness evolved not simply to think, but to cooperate?From the first cells that learned to share energy to human societies that share meaning, life became more complex because organisms learned to work together.In this provocative book, Ramanan Laxminarayan argues that consciousness emerged as one of evolution's solutions to the challenge of sustaining cooperation. Our brains, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Value of Information

    Methodological Frontiers and New Applications in Environment and Health

    Edited by Ramanan Laxminarayan, Molly K. Macauley ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The book examines applications in two disparate fields linked by the importance of valuing information: public health and space. Researchers in the health field have developed some of the most innovative methodologies for valuing information, used to help determine, for example, the value of diagnostics in informing patient treatment decisions. In the field of space, recent applications of value ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Decision Making Under Uncertainty Via Optimization, Modelling, and Analysis

    Edited by Laxminarayan Sahoo, Tapan Senapati, Madhumangal Pal, Ronald R. Yager ...
    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
    This book focuses on cutting-edge developments in optimal decision-making incorporating modeling and optimization for determining renewable energy sources, supply chain management, and environmental planning under uncertainty. It addresses mathematical models of cost-effective management policies. This book presents the best decision-making practices for solving real-world challenges. This book ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides

    An Economic Approach

    Edited by Ramanan Laxminarayan ...
    The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, and pests to pesticides, threatens to undo some of the most remarkable advances made in public health and agriculture during the past century. Though the potential consequences of increased antibiotic and pesticide resistance are far reaching, regulatory efforts to address the problem are at a very early stage. Battling Resistance to ... Read more

    $166.99 USD

  • Real Life Applications of Multiple Criteria Decision Making Techniques in Fuzzy Domain

    Edited by Laxminarayan Sahoo, Tapan Senapati, Ronald R. Yager ...
    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
    This edited book discusses creative and recent developments of fuzzy systems and its real-life applications of multiple criteria decision making. Keeping on the existing fuzzy sets and recent developed fuzzy sets, viz., intuitionistic fuzzy, Pythagorean fuzzy, Fermatean fuzzy, Hesitant fuzzy and multiple criteria decision approaches, this book is committed to probing the soft computing techniques ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 9)

    Improving Health and Reducing Poverty

    Edited by Dean T. Jamison, Hellen Gelband, Susan Horton, Prabhat Jha, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Charles N. Mock, Rachel Nugent ...
    Series series Disease Control Priorities
    As the culminating volume in the DCP3 series, volume 9 will provide an overview of DCP3 findings and methods, a summary of messages and substantive lessons to be taken from DCP3, and a further discussion of cross-cutting and synthesizing topics across the first eight volumes. The introductory chapters (1-3) in this volume take as their starting point the elements of the Essential Packages ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Angiography and Plaque Imaging

    Advanced Segmentation Techniques

    Edited by Jasjit S. Suri, Swamy Laxminarayan ...
    Series series Biomedical Engineering
    Recent, rapid advances in mathematical engineering and applied mathematics have opened the door to solving complex problems in angiography imaging. For the first time, this book presents the different medical imaging modalities--MR, CT, x-ray, and ultrasound--for performing angiography and its analysis. Pioneers from a variety of relevant disciplin ... Read more

    $88.99 USD

  • Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 4)

    Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders

    Edited by Vikram Patel, Dan Chisholm, Tarun Dua, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Mari'a Lena Medina-Mora ...
    Series series Disease Control Priorities
    Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are common, highly disabling, and associated with significant premature mortality. The impact of these disorders on the social and economic well-being of individuals, families, and societies is large, growing, and underestimated. Despite this burden, these disorders have been systematically neglected, particularly in low- and middle-income ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 4)

    Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders

    Edited by Vikram Patel, Dan Chisholm, Tarun Dua, Laxminarayan, Mari'a Lena Medina-Mora, Theo Vos ...
    Series series Disease Control Priorities
    Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are common, highly disabling, and associated with significant premature mortality. The impact of these disorders on the social and economic well-being of individuals, families, and societies is large, growing, and underestimated. Despite this burden, these disorders have been systematically neglected, particularly in low- and middle-income ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 2)

    Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health

    Edited by Robert Black, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Marleen Temmerman, Walker ...
    Series series Disease Control Priorities
    The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and influences to pregnancy and pre ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 2)

    Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health

    Edited by Robert Black, Marleen Temmerman, Neff Walker, Ramanan Laxminarayan ...
    Series series Disease Control Priorities
    The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and influences to pregnancy and pre ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Extending the Cure

    Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance

    by Ramanan Laxminarayan, Anup Malani, David Howard, David L. Smith ...
    Our ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years. However, the authors of this report make it clear that sustaining a supply of effective and affordable antibiotics cannot be without changes to the incentives facing patients, physicians, hospitals, insurers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. In fact, increasing resistance to these drugs is already exacting ... Read more

    $55.99 USD