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  • Making Healthy Places, Second Edition

    Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability

    by Nisha Botchwey, Andrew L. Dannenberg, Howard Frumkin ...
    The first edition of Making Healthy Places offered a visionary and thoroughly researched treatment of the connections between constructed environments and human health. Since its publication over 10 years ago, the field of healthy community design has evolved significantly to address major societal problems, including health disparities, obesity, and climate change. Most recently, the COVID-19 ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Obesity, Inflammation and Cancer

    Edited by Andrew J. Dannenberg, Nathan A. Berger ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    In addition to its metabolic and endocrinologic effects, obesity and adipose tissue have now been shown to be associated with low grade inflammation resulting in cellular and humoral inflammatory factors of which the latter may act by endocrine, paracrine and autocrine mechanisms. These inflammatory mediators have increasingly been suggested as contributing to the obesity link to carcinogenesis ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Making Healthy Places

    Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability

    by Emil Malizia, Arthur Wendel, James Sallis, Rachel A. Millstein, Jordan A. Carlson, Carolyn Cannuscio, Karen Glanz, Jonathan Samet, David A. Sleet, Rebecca B. Naumann, Lorraine Backer, William C. Sullivan, Chun-Yen Cheng, Caitlin Eicher, Ichiro Kawachi, Chirs S. Kochtitzky, James Krieger, David E. Jacobs, Paul Schulte, Matt Gillen, Liz York, Kenneth M. Wallingford, Greg Wagner, Craig Zimring, Jennifer DuBose, Jared Fox, Reid Ewing, Gail Meakins, Grace Bjarnson, Holly Hilton, Colin Quinn-Hurst, Timothy Beatley, Margaret Schneider, Lisa M. Feldstein, Manal Aboelata, Leah Ersoylu, Larry Cohen, Nisha Botchwey, Matthew J. Trowbridge, Jennifer C. Johnson, Sandro Galea, Anthony G. Capon, Susan Thompson, Robin F. Abrams, Rose A. Rudd, Donna S. Heidel, L. C. Chosewood ...
    The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments.This book provides a far-reaching ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

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  • Physiology of Prenatal Exercise and Fetal Development

    by Linda E. May ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
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  • Molecular mechanisms and physiology of disease

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  • Cultural Quarters

    Principles and Practice

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  • Green Urbanism In Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers

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    The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging ... Read more

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