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  • Nutrition and Lifestyle for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

    by Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson, Chong Yap Seng, Anne Bardsley ...
    Explaining the practical implications of new discoveries in 'life-course biology', Nutrition and Lifestyle for Pregnancy and Breastfeeding is an informed resource on factors that affect offspring development. The impact of parental lifestyle and behavioural choices influence not only fetal development and birth outcomes, but also postnatal development, yet guidance on appropriate diet, behaviour, ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Fat, Fate, and Disease

    Why exercise and diet are not enough

    by Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson ...
    'Why are we losing the war against obesity and chronic disease?' This is the simple question Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson ask, exploring the dominant myth that the exploding epidemic of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes can be tackled by focusing on adult life styles. Addressing the flawed approach of the weight-loss industry, they explain why a continued focus simply on diet and exercise ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Higher Education Assessments

    Leadership Matters

    by Raymond Barclay, Bryan D. Bradley, Peter J. Gray, Coral Hanson, Trav D. Johnson, Jillian Kinzie, Thomas E. Miller, John Muffo, Danny Olsen, Russell T. Osguthorpe, John H. Schuh, Kay H. Smith, Trudy Bers, Vasti Torres ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters reflects the work of a select group of researchers, scholars, and practitioners in higher education assessment with the goal of identifying strategies that assist senior campus leaders as they respond to the challenges of a changing economic landscape and political climate. The contributors, experts in the field, bring to the forefront key issues ... Read more

    $73.79 USD

  • Too Weak to Govern

    Majority Party Power and Appropriations in the US Senate

    by Peter Hanson ...
    Too Weak to Govern investigates the power of the majority party in the United States Senate through a study of the appropriations process over a period of nearly four decades. It uses quantitative analysis, case studies, and interviews with policy makers to show that the majority party is more likely to abandon routine procedures for passing spending bills in favor of creating massive 'omnibus' ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Ingenious

    The Unintended Consequences of Human Innovation

    by Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson ...
    As humans evolved, we developed technologies to modify our environment, yet these innovations are increasingly affecting our behavior, biology, and society. Now we must figure out how to function in the world we’ve created.Over thousands of years, humans have invented ingenious ways to gain mastery over our environment. The ability to communicate, accumulate knowledge collectively, and build on ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

    Edited by Lucilla Poston, Keith M. Godfrey, Peter D. Gluckman, Mark A. Hanson ...
    The concept of the early life developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) in adults has stimulated a new approach to understanding disease trajectories, with major public health implications. Indeed, the principle of the 'lifecourse of disease' now influences health policies internationally. Environmental influences during pregnancy and early life that affect lifelong health are well ... Read more

    $91.09 USD

  • Mismatch

    The lifestyle diseases timebomb

    by Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson ...
    We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But it also has consequences in earlier puberty ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Tales from the Script

    50 Hollywood Screenwriters Share Their Stories

    Edited by Peter Hanson, Paul Robert Herman ...
    Discover the secrets of Hollywood storytelling in this fascinating collection, in which fifty screenwriters share the inside scoop about how they surmounted incredible odds to break into the business, how they transformed their ideas into box-office blockbusters, how their words helped launch the careers of major stars, and how they earned accolades and Academy Awards.Entertaining, informative, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cinema of Generation X

    A Critical Study of Films and Directors

    by Peter Hanson ...
    When Steven Soderbergh exploded onto movie screens with sex, lies, and videotape in 1989, it represented more than the arrival of an important new director--it heralded the arrival of an entire generation of important new directors. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), Kevin Smith (Dogma), David Fincher (Fight Club), M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), Ben Stiller (Reality Bites), Michael Bay ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Audiobook

    Joy of Stress, The

    by Peter Hanson ...
    Narrated by Peter Hanson ...

    Unabridged

    47 min

    Born in Vancouver, Peter Hanson got his MD degree at age 24 which began at age 14 with comedy monologues on live TV. He became an emergency room physician for 3 years before he established his own family practice where he delivered over 1000 babies, made over 5000 house calls and saw the effects of stress on his many patients… He was particularly inspired by his patients who were able to thrive ... Read more

    $9.50 USD

  • Introduction to Public Health in Pharmacy

    Edited by Bruce Levin, Ardis Hanson, Peter D. Hurd ...
    Pharmacists are on the frontlines of public health. Their public-facing roles uniquely position them to identify and address emerging disease challenges, discrepancies in health literacy, and barriers to treatment in the communities they serve. In today's interconnected world, the clients consulting a neighborhood pharmacist are just as likely to hail from across an ocean as they are from around ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Symbolic Interaction

    An Introduction to Social Psychology

    by Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler, Leon Anderson, Herbert Blumer, David G. Bromley, Richard A. Brymer, Steven L. Buban, Spencer Cahill, Charles H. Cooley, Carl Couch0, John Dewey1, Mary Lorenz Dietz2, Andrea Fontana3, George M. Gmelch4, Erving Goffman5, Peter M. Hall6, Bill Hanson7, Michael A. Katovich8, Lewis M. Killian9, David R. Maines0, Jerome Manis1, Joseph Marolla2, Don Martindale3, Bernard N. Meltzer4, Charlene Miall5, Dan E. Miller6, Warren R. Paap7, C Eddie Palmer8, Robert Perinbanayagam9, John W.Petras0, Robert Prus1, Larry T. Reynolds2, Laurel Richardson4, Diana Scully5, William Shaffir6, Tamotsu Shibutani7, Anson D. Shupe Jr8, David A. Snow9, Stephan Spitzer0, John Stratton1, W.I Thomas2, Scott Thumma3, Ruth A. Wallace4, Alison Wolf5 ...
    Series series The Reynolds Series in Sociology
    This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory. ... Read more

    $129.59 USD