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“paul krabbe”

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  • The Measurement of Health and Health Status

    Concepts, Methods and Applications from a Multidisciplinary Perspective

    by Paul Krabbe ...
    The Measurement of Health and Health Status: Concepts, Methods and Applications from a Multidisciplinary Perspective presents a unifying perspective on how to select the best measurement framework for any situation. Serving as a one-stop shop that unifies material currently available in various locations, this book illuminates the intuition behind each method, explaining how each method has ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

    Travels in the New Third World

    by Michael Lewis ...
    As Pogo once said "We have met the enemy and he is us." The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    by Joseph E. E. Stiglitz ...
    A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Third World America

    How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

    by Arianna Huffington ...
    It’s not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel with an eight-track player. That the United States of America is in danger of becoming a third world nation.The evidence is all around us:Our industrial base is vanishing, taking with it the kind of jobs ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Dances with Dependency

    Out of Poverty Through Self-Reliance

    by Calvin Helin ...
    Dances with Dependency offers effective strategies to eliminate welfare dependency and help eradicate poverty among indigenous populations. Beginning with an impassioned and insightful portrait of today's native communities, it connects the prevailing impoverishment and despair directly to a "dependency mindset" forged by welfare economics. To reframe this debilitating mindset, it advocates policy ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Undercover Economist Strikes Back

    How to Run--or Ruin--an Economy

    by Tim Harford ...
    A provocative and lively exploration of the increasingly important world of macroeconomics, by the author of the bestselling The Undercover Economist.Thanks to the worldwide financial upheaval, economics is no longer a topic we can ignore. From politicians to hedge fund managers to middle-class IRA holders, everyone must pay attention to how and why the global economy works the way it does.Enter ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

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  • Northern Light: Lessons for America from Canada's Fiscal Fix

    by Niels Veldhuis ...
    As the US wrestles with its growing fiscal crisis, Northern Light examines what lessons Americans and their political leaders might draw from how Canada in the 1990s slew its deficit dragon, balanced the budget, fixed public pensions and social welfare and in so doing helped forge a national consensus in favour of responsible public finances that endures to this day. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • IP, Big Data, and Society (Entering the Shift Age, eBook 10)

    by David Houle ...
    We are leaving the Information Age and transitioning into the Shift Age, a time of transformation and change that offers both great risk and incredible opportunity. In Entering the Shift Age, David Houle identifies and explains the dynamics and forces that have shaped our world and will continue to reshape our world for the next 20 years. He shows how the Shift Age means a world fully global yet ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • 101 Things Everyone Needs to Know about the Global Economy

    The Guide to Understanding International Finance, World Markets, and How They Can Affect Your Financial Future

    by Michael Taillard ...
    The principles of global economics in easy-to-understand terms!The news is full of accounts of the rise and fall of economies around the world, but you may not know how these changes can affect your life. 101 Things Everyone Needs to Know about the Global Economy takes the basics of global economics and breaks them into ten straightforward chapters. From the organizations involved and trade ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • The Global War on Tobacco

    Mapping the World's First Public Health Treaty

    by Heather Wipfli ...
    "A major contribution not just to tobacco control research but also to research on global governance and public health . . . thorough [and] compelling." —Frank J. Chaloupka IV, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois–ChicagoAs the era of globalization progressed, the tobacco industry capitalized on its elements—including trade liberalization, foreign direct investment, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Health Care and the Charter

    Legal Mobilization and Policy Change in Canada

    by Christopher P. Manfredi, Antonia Maioni ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Since the introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, individuals and organizations have increasingly turned to the courts to try to bring about policy change in areas such as health care. Health Care and the Charter explores the systematic use of Charter litigation in the area of health care and the ultimate policy impact of the resulting judicial decisions. Christopher P ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Global Biopolitics of the IUD

    How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies

    by Chikako Takeshita ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.The intrauterine device (IUD) is used by 150 million women around the world. It is the second most prevalent method of female fertility control in the global South and the third most prevalent in the global North. Over its five decades of use ... Read more

    $25.99 USD