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Reimagining Global Health

An Introduction

By: Paul Farmer,Jim Yong Kim,Arthur Kleinman,Matthew Basilico

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Reimagining Global Health

An Introduction

By: Paul Farmer,Jim Yong Kim,Arthur Kleinman,Matthew Basilico

Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides an accessible and engaging framework for the study of global health. Insisting on an approach that is historically deep and geographically broad, the authors underline the importance of a transdisciplinary approach, and offer a highly readable distillation of several historical and ethnographic perspectives of contemporary global health problems. The case studies presented throughout Reimagining Global Health bring together ethnographic, theoretical, and historical perspectives into a wholly new and exciting investigation of global health. The interdisciplinary approach outlined in this text should prove useful not only in schools of public health, nursing, and medicine, but also in undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, sociology, political economy, and history, among others.

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Univ of California Press

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0520271971

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9780520271975

Rogue Warrior: Dictator's Ransom

By: Richard Marcinko,Jim DeFelice

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Rogue Warrior: Dictator's Ransom

By: Richard Marcinko,Jim DeFelice

Is Kim Jong-il really a fanatical fan of Dick Marcinko, the Rogue Warrior? Has the terrifying tyrant actually read every one of Marcinko's many New York Times bestsellers? One thing is certain: the Rogue Warrior wants nothing to do with the brutal despot. When, in Dictator's Ransom, "the loathsome dwarf"--as George W. Bush derided him--invites Marcinko to the Hermit Kingdom, the Rogue Warrior instantly declines...prompting the CIA to RSVP on his behalf. Marcinko is to track down four covert nuclear warheads secreted in the Supreme Leader's palace. More than just a thriller, Dictator's Ransom is a novel of electrifying energy and wicked wit. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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417

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Forge Books

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1429989017

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9781429989015

The Reluctant Communist

My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

By: Charles Robert Jenkins,Jim Frederick

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The Reluctant Communist

My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

By: Charles Robert Jenkins,Jim Frederick

This fast-paced, harrowing tale, told plainly and simply by Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick), takes the reader behind the North Korean curtain and, episode by episode, reveals the inner workings of its isolated society. Jenkins mounted numerous failed escape attempts, was indoctrinated against his will into North Korea's communist cadre system, and endured hunger, cold, and isolation. His loneliness was relieved in 1980 by his marriage to Hitomi Soga. a young Japanese woman whom the North Koreans had abducted as part of a wider campaign to teach Japanese to future spies. Jenkins's account of their life together and as parents of two daughters, as welt as their improbable journey to freedom, which began in 2002, brings this story to a close. Four decades in the world's least known, least visited, and least understood land profoundly changed him; his memoir now offers the reader a powerful testament to the human spirit."--BOOK JACKET.

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Univ of California Press

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0520259998

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9780520259997

The Book Publishing Industry

By: Albert N. Greco

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The Book Publishing Industry

By: Albert N. Greco

The Book Publishing Industry focuses on consumer books (adult, juvenile, and mass market paperbacks) and reviews all major book categories to present a comprehensive overview of this diverse business. In addition to the insights and portrayals of the U.S. publishing industry, this book includes an appendix containing historical data on the industry from 1946 to the end of the twentieth century. The selective bibliography includes the latest literature, including works in marketing and economics that has a direct relationship with this dynamic industry. This third edition features a chapter on e-books and provides an overview of the current shift toward digital media in the US book publishing industry.

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544

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Routledge

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1136850341

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9781136850349

The First Atomic Bomb

An Alternate History of the Ending of WW2

By: Jim Mangi

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The First Atomic Bomb

An Alternate History of the Ending of WW2

By: Jim Mangi

While German and Japanese scientists also labored unsuccessfully to create an atomic bomb, by the summer of 1945, the American-led team was ready to test its first weapon. As the clock ticked down to the detonation time of 05.30 hours on 16 July 1945, the nervous team of technicians and scientists waited ten miles away from ‘Ground Zero’ deep in the New Mexico desert. No one knew how powerful the explosion would be or whether even at such a distance they would be safe from the blast. Even so, some chose to observe the detonation from a point four miles nearer at the control bunker; but then no one was even sure that the bomb would work. What if that is actually what happened? Under schedule pressure from the White House, the scientists assembled the device in part with tape and tissue paper, knowing some components were flawed. These are verifiable facts. It means that, as many of those who gathered in the New Mexico desert feared at the time, the bomb might not have worked during that first test. In The First Atomic Bomb, Jim Mangi explores what might happened in the event that the world’s first atomic bomb had not been ready for use when it was. How would this have affected the end of the war in the Pacific, and indeed the Second World War as a whole? Would Emperor Hirohito’s armed forces have battled on? When might Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, at the controls of his Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay have then made his historic flight over Hiroshima – and would that city even have remained the target? How would Stalin and the Soviets have reacted to such developments, and how would this have played out in the post-war world?

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Frontline Books

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1399009842

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9781399009843

The Willing World

Shaping and Sharing a Sustainable Global Prosperity

By: James Bacchus,Jim Bacchus

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The Willing World

Shaping and Sharing a Sustainable Global Prosperity

By: James Bacchus,Jim Bacchus

Explains how to grow and govern the global economy in ways that will work economically and environmentally for sustainable development.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108428215

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Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hirohito & Hitler

What Might Have Happened if the A-Bomb Had Been Ready Early

By: Jim Mangi

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Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hirohito & Hitler

What Might Have Happened if the A-Bomb Had Been Ready Early

By: Jim Mangi

On 2 August 1939, the renowned theoretical physicist Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt in which he declared that ‘it might become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium’. He went on to declare that ‘extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed’. Shortly after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress allocated substantial funds to allow research to be undertaken to follow through on Einstein’s idea and build an atomic bomb. Few, if any, could have imagined what they had agreed to support. But what if actual events had taken a different course? The First Atomic Bomb: An Alternate History to the Ending of WW2 is a highly accurate, thoroughly researched, alternative history presenting a narrative of events exploring what might have happened if the atom bomb had been available somewhat earlier than it really was. What if the atomic bomb had been ready for deployment in, say, February 1945? Had the atomic bomb been ready sooner, how would this have affected the war in Europe, and in particular Germany’s surrender? What would the impact have been in the war in the Pacific against Imperial Japan, and how would the Soviets have reacted? And what would the following Cold War have looked like? These are all questions and scenarios that the author rigorously examines. Solidly based on real people and actual events, in this book James Mangi describes the Manhattan Project to build the atom bomb getting an earlier start after President Roosevelt appointed an energetic scientist, Walter Mendenhall, to study the feasibility of the bomb, instead of the more traditional bureaucrat, Lyman Briggs, he actually chose. This scenario, he reveals, might well have produced a war-ending atomic bomb earlier, the effects of which rippled through the post-war world.

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Frontline Books

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1399093169

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9781399093163

Foraging Mushrooms Oregon

Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Mushrooms

By: Jim Meuninck

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Foraging Mushrooms Oregon

Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Mushrooms

By: Jim Meuninck

Detailed descriptions of edible mushrooms; tips on finding, preparing, and using mushrooms; a glossary of botanical terms; color photos. Use Foraging Mushrooms as a field guide or as a delightful armchair read. No matter what you’re looking for, be it the curative Heal-All or a snack, this guide will enhance your next backpacking trip or easy stroll around the garden, and may just provide some new favorites for your dinner table.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493026704

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9781493026708

Formal Methods and Software Engineering

5th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2003, Singapore, November 5-7, 2003, Proceedings

By: Jin Song Dong,Jim Woodcock

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Formal Methods and Software Engineering

5th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2003, Singapore, November 5-7, 2003, Proceedings

By: Jin Song Dong,Jim Woodcock

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2003, held in Singapore in November 2003. The 34 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on testing and validation, state diagrams, PVS/HOL, refinement, hybrid systems, Z/Object-Z, Petri nets, timed automata, system modelling and checking, and semantics and synthesis.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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354020461X

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9783540204619

Advances in Surgical Pathology: Prostate Cancer

By: Steven S. Shen,Qihui Jim Zhai,Alberto G. Ayala

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Advances in Surgical Pathology: Prostate Cancer

By: Steven S. Shen,Qihui Jim Zhai,Alberto G. Ayala

A concise and updated review of prostate cancer pathologic diagnosis with emphasis on practical issues and recent developments in the field. Each chapter addresses the basic diagnostic features, differential diagnoses, pitfalls and ways to resolve the problem. Additionally, a brief introduction of prostate cancer screening, clinical management and treatment are summarized. Recent development of immunohistochemistry, molecular testing in the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment are also reviewed. Finally, current knowledge of molecular alteration of prostate cancer carcinogenesis and impact in diagnosis and treatment are discussed.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1608314340

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9781608314348

Jim Dator: A Noticer in Time

Selected work, 1967-2018

By: Jim Dator

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Jim Dator: A Noticer in Time

Selected work, 1967-2018

By: Jim Dator

This book features a selection of the published writings and public presentations of Jim Dator. Most of the chapters are directly concerned with futures studies and ideas about the futures. The topic covers many disciplines and subjects. It is also concerned with many different parts of the world, even Mars. In addition, a few of the earlier papers contained here are about more conventional topics in politics and religion. The collection spans a more than 50 year period of thought, reflection, and instruction. In particular, the papers examine six main topics. These include meditations on the very nature of future studies, visions of preferred futures, ideas about alternative futures, and details on future theories and methods. Coverage also considers such specific topics as AI and robots, the environment, food, culture, energy, families, future generations, and more. Overall, these papers help readers gain insight into what it takes to weave together alternative images of the future in useful ways. They also reveal cross-disciplinary patterns in key fields of human endeavor that will help readers better understand trends and emerging issues.

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Springer Nature

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3030173879

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9783030173876

Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever

By: Jim Craddock

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Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever

By: Jim Craddock

Describes and rates more than twenty thousand videos, and provides indexes by theme, awards, actors, actresses, and directors.

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0787689807

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9780787689803

Book's by Jim Yong Kim

Reimagining Global Health

Reimagining Global Health

Rogue Warrior: Dictator's Ransom

Rogue Warrior: Dictator's Ransom

The Reluctant Communist

The Reluctant Communist

The Book Publishing Industry

The Book Publishing Industry

The First Atomic Bomb

The First Atomic Bomb

The Willing World

The Willing World

Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hirohito & Hitler

Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hirohito & Hitler

Foraging Mushrooms Oregon

Foraging Mushrooms Oregon

Formal Methods and Software Engineering

Formal Methods and Software Engineering

Advances in Surgical Pathology: Prostate Cancer

Advances in Surgical Pathology: Prostate Cancer

Jim Dator: A Noticer in Time

Jim Dator: A Noticer in Time

Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever

Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever

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