It's 1988, and secrets that were buried in the jungles of Vietnam twenty years earlier are starting to re-emerge.David "Kick" Tacker is a Canadian-born-but American-made-stone-cold killer, and is barely holding his psyche together; shattered by years of war and violence. He fought in MACV-SOG's secret war in Vietnam until there was no more war to be made, and then sustained himself with clandestine work around the world.Now living in Vancouver, Kick has one goal holding him...

This book will help you think more analytically. Doing so will enable you to better understand the world around you, to make smarter decisions, and to ultimately live a more fulfilling life. It draws on the maxims of Richard Zeckhauser, a legendary Harvard professor, who has helped hundreds of students and colleagues progress toward these goals. These maxims, one-sentence nuggets of wisdom that capture key principles for clear and effective thinking, are illustrated with practical examples...

War causes death, disability, and disease. It damages the health-supporting infrastructure, displaces populations, violates human rights, and diverts resources. And it subsequently leads to more violence. From Horror to Hope documents the health consequences of war, primarily for noncombatant civilians but also for military personnel and veterans, and outlines what can be done to minimize these consequences. Written by a public health physician engaged with this subject for decade...

Following periods of intense debate and eventual demise, kinship studies is now seeing a revival in anthropology. New Directions in Anthropological Kinship captures these recent trends and explores new avenues of inquiry in this re-emerging subfield. The book comprises contributions from primatology, evolutionary anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology. The authors review the history of kinship in anthropology and its theory, and recent research in relation to new directions o...

Climate change is causing, and will increasingly cause, a wide range of adverse health effects, including heat-related disorders, infectious diseases, respiratory and allergic disorders, malnutrition, mental health problems, and violence. The scientific bases for the associations between climate change and health problems are evolving as are the strategies for adapting to climate change and mitigating the greenhouse gases, which are its primary cause. With contributions from 78 leading exp...

This second edition of Climate Change and Public Health comprehensively covers the health impacts of climate change, including heat-related and respiratory disorders, vectorborne and waterborne diseases, malnutrition, mental disorders, and violence. It provides a thorough understanding of the policymaking process and energy, transportation, and agriculture policies for mitigation. It covers health adaptation, sustainable built environments, and nature-based solutions to address cl...

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor—indentured servitude and chattel slavery—in order to produce staple export crops like rice, wheat, and tobacco. This brutal labor regime became common throughout most of the colonies. An important exception was New England, where settlers and their descendants did most work themselves.

Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious methodological response to this important question. By employing rational-choice and game theory, the authors propose a way of extracting empirically testable, general hypotheses from particular cases. The result is both a methodological mani...

The fourth edition of Social Injustice and Public Health, a completely updated edition of the classic text, is a comprehensive, evidence-based resource for understanding and addressing the profound impacts of social injustice on public health. In 31 chapters written by experts in public health, human rights, medicine, nursing, law, and social science, this highly readable book documents the adverse effects of social injustice on specific populations and specific aspects of public ...

Nature’s overriding ambition for us is survival. Yet somehow human beings have a way of short-circuiting that, of seeking oblivion and self-extinction. It’s a difficult subject. In this volume our classic authors take us down the path of several such conflicted characters.1 - Short Stories with Suicidal Characters - An Introduction2 - In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka3 - The Furnished Room by O Henry4 - Volodya by Anton Chekhov5 - Paul's Case by Wil...

Le développement international est un territoire contesté. À cause de l’aggravation des écarts entre le Nord et le Sud, de l’accroissement de la pauvreté mondiale et de l’urgence écologique, de nouveaux défis sociétaux émergent, s’accumulent et conduisent à des besoins criants qu’une aide internationale parvient de moins en moins à combler.Malgré ces tensions, des communautés du Nord et du Sud tentent de reprendre les choses en main et de réinventer le développement autour de princ...

Obligée autrefois de fuir l’Irlande et les siens avec son fiancé pour de mystérieuses raisons, Lilly Bere, à quatre-vingt-neuf ans, revit le chemin parcouru depuis son arrivée dans le Nouveau Monde – le côté de Canaan – au rythme des hommes de sa vie. D’une traversée clandestine à leur installation précaire à Chicago, le jeune couple n’aspire qu’à une vie normale. Mais c’est sans compter avec la menace sourde qui pèse sur eux, et qui va pousser Lilly, désormais seule au monde, à s’enfuir à...