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  • Getting Health Reform Right

    A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity

    This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Island of Dreams

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    Island of Dreams: Environmental Crisis in Japan, the classic work that explores Japan's tragic environmental crisis, is back in print to celebrate the book's Fiftieth Anniversary since it was first published in 1975. This edition includes a new preface by the authors to show the relevance of Japan's past experiences with environmental pollution to today's global crisis.The book describes the human ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Universal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development

    A Synthesis of 11 Country Case Studies

    Series series Directions in Development - Human Development
    The goals of universal health coverage (UHC) are to ensure that all people can access quality health services, to safeguard all people from public health risks, and to protect all people from impoverishment due to illness, whether from out-of-pocket payments for health care or loss of income when a household member falls sick. Countries as diverse as Brazil, France, Japan, Thailand, and Turkey ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Failure to Disrupt

    Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education

    by Justin Reich ...
    Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 53 min

    Proponents of large-scale learning have boldly promised that technology can disrupt traditional approaches to schooling, radically accelerating learning and democratizing education. Much-publicized experiments, often underwritten by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, have been launched at elite universities and in elementary schools in the poorest neighborhoods. Such was the excitement that, in 2012, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Une couverture sanitaire universelle pour un développement durable inclusif

    Une synthèse de 11 études de cas pays

    Series series Directions in Development;Directions in Development - Human Development
    La CSU a pour objectifs de s’assurer que tous peuvent avoir accès à des services de santé de qualité, de préserver l’ensemble des individus contre les risques à la santé publique et de protéger toutes les personnes contre l’appauvrissement attribuable à la maladie. Des pays aussi divers que le Brésil, la France, le Japon, la Thaïlande et la Turquie ont réussi à mettre en œuvre la CSU et illustrent ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa

    In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Corporate State, The

    by Charles Reich ...
    Narrated by Michael Toms ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 49 min

    The philosopher/author of The Greening of America and Sorcerer of Bolinas Reef reveals the essence and the dangers of the megalithic corporate conglomerate. An especially relevant conversation for our time. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup

    Politics, Controversy, Change

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers the first, full academic analysis of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. Adopting an international relations perspective, the authors critically interrogate the politics and controversy that has surrounded arguably the most controversial sports event ever. In doing so, this text offers up an imperative examination of Qatar’s desired objectives through their investment in global sport ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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    The Palace

    Narrated by Paul Michael ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Simon Riske

    Unabridged

    12 hours 44 min

    In this third installment of the Simon Riske series an international spy must face a ring of ruthless masterminds and foil a plot with global implications as he becomes the world's most wanted man.Life is good for Rafael de Bourbon. The forty-year-old Spaniard recently married to a wealthy English beauty, and is days away from opening a luxury boutique hotel off the southern coast of Thailand. But ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Once a Thief

    Narrated by Paul Michael ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 5 min

    Facing enemies at every turn, private spy Simon Riske dashes across Europe to find the truth behind a mysterious investor in this high-stakes international espionage series: "comparison to the Bond novels is apt in many ways." (Booklist)Simon Riske sits in sun-dappled Napa Valley, toasting the record hundred-million-dollar sale of a rare 1963 Ferrari which he restored himself. The buyer, a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • When Mandates Work

    Raising Labor Standards at the Local Level

    Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Since then, scholars have documented the effects of those policies on compensation, productivity, job creation, and health coverage. Opponents predicted a range of negative impacts, but the evidence tells a decidedly different ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    Crown Jewel

    Narrated by Paul Michael ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Simon Riske

    Unabridged

    11 hours 59 min

    Stolen sports cars, brilliant casino heists, and the brazen kidnapping of a prince: only shadowy spy for hire Simon Riske can stop the mastermind behind it all.Monte Carlo's lavish casinos have become the target of a sophisticated and brutal team of professional gamblers; a casino dealer has been beaten to death; a German heiress's son has been kidnapped. Who better to connect the crimes and foil ... Read more

    $31.99 USD