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  • Health Disparities in the United States

    Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health

    by Donald A. Barr ...
    Challenging students to think critically about the complex web of social forces that leads to health disparities in the United States.The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. In this revised edition of Health ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Questioning the Premedical Paradigm

    Enhancing Diversity in the Medical Profession a Century after the Flexner Report

    by Donald A. Barr ...
    This book raises fundamental questions about the propriety of continuing to use a premedical curriculum developed more than a century ago to select students for training as future physicians for the twenty-first century. In it, Dr. Donald A. Barr examines the historical origins, evolution, and current state of premedical education in the United States.One hundred years ago, Abraham Flexner's ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Introduction to US Health Policy

    The Organization, Financing, and Delivery of Health Care in America

    by Donald A. Barr ...
    Expanded and updated, this is a new edition of an essential look at the history, structure, successes, and problems of the US health care system.The United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world. Yet the health of our society and our access to care are worse than in nearly all our peer countries. In the latest edition of Introduction to US Health Policy, Donald A. ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Crossing the American Health Care Chasm

    Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy

    by Donald A. Barr ...
    Why is there such a deep partisan division within the United States regarding how health care should be organized and financed—and how can we encourage politicians to band together again for the good of everyone?For decades, Democratic and Republican political leaders have disagreed about the fundamental goals of American health policy. The modern-day consequences of this disagreement—particularly ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Biosocial Medicine

    The Social, Psychological, and Biological Determinants of Human Behavior and Well-Being

    by Donald A. Barr ...
    Understanding human behavior is essential if medical students and doctors are to provide more effective health care.While 40 percent of premature deaths in the United States can be attributed to such dangerous behaviors as smoking, overeating, inactivity, and drug or alcohol use, medical education has generally failed to address how these behaviors are influenced by social forces. This new ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Don Quixote and Me

    by Donald A. Barr ...
    As a 12-year old boy, Sandy Preston loves reading books about the great knights of the Middle Ages. One day in the public library, a kindly librarian shows him a book about the famous knight, Don Quixote, written by Miguel Cervantes more than 400 years ago. While reading this book, Sandy is sent through a time warp to 17th century Spain, where he meets the very same Don Quixote who is in the book. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Health Disparities in the United States

    Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health: Third Edition

    by Donald A. Barr, MD, PhD ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 47 min

    The health care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. In this revised edition of Health Disparities in the United States, Donald A. Barr provides extensive new data about the ways low socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On and Off the Wagon

    A Sober Analysis of the Temperance Movement from the Pilgrims through Prohibition

    by Lawrence Watt-Evans Donald Barr Lawrence Watt-Evans Chidsey ...
    "A droll, delightful taradiddle of tales, anecdotes, and facts about the consuption of liquor in America, and who did what to block that booze from the Rock called Plymouth to the 'rock' called Prohibition. Chidsey, who has written many books, has seldom hit the hilarity gong as he has in this one; and under his wit and irony lurks a serious intent that is just relevant enough to ponder when the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Dressed to Kill

    by Donald Barr Chidsey ...
    Kip Carver isn’t just a state police lieutenant—he’s the one they call when a case goes sideways. A wealthy industrialist’s son has vanished, and the only clues are cryptic messages, a crate of homing pigeons, and a father’s guilt. Why would anyone kidnap a spoiled twenty-year-old—and why is Kip the only one who seems to care? ... Read more

    $1.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Panama Canal: An Informal History of Its Concept, Building, and Present Status

    by Donald Barr Chidsey ...
    "The Panama Canal: An Informal History of Its Concept, Building, and Present Status" relates the struggles, conflicts, obstacles, and achievement involved in the construction of the canal. Originally published in 1970, this ebook edition retains all of the photos, drawings, and illustrations of the original edition. A fascinating and detailed history of the Panama Canal! ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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    The Global Church---The First Eight Centuries

    From Pentecost through the Rise of Islam

    by Donald Fairbairn ...
    Narrated by Adam Barr ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 37 min

    Discover the Diversity and Unity of the Early ChurchThe Christian church of the early centuries spread throughout much of Asia, Africa, and Europe, spoke many languages, was situated within diverse cultural settings, and had varied worship practices; yet it maintained a vital unity on core teachings. In The Global Church--The First Eight Centuries: From Pentecost through the Rise of Islam, author ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 101 Science Fiction Short Stories

    by Bruce McAllister, Julian F. Grow, Algis Budrys, Donald Dale, Keith Laumer, Frank Banta, Clifford Simak, Andrew Fetler, Allen Kim Lang, David Mason, Albert Teichn, Kris Neville, Albert Teichner, William Harris, Fritz Leiber, Robert Lory, Frederick Pohl, Gary Wright, Jim Harmon, Vance Aandahl, Bryce Walton, Robert Scott, C.C. MacApp, Charles V. De Vet, Richard Sheridan, James Stame, R.A. Lafferty, Stephen Barr, Donald E. Westlake, Charles Minor Blackford, Jack Sharkey, H.B. Fyfe, Lester Del Rey, William W. Stuart, Robert F. Young, Sylvia Jacobs, Max Williams, James Stamers, Robert Wicks, Christopher Anv, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Scott F. Grenville, Hayden Howard, Art Lewis, Joseph Wesley, Bascom Jones, E. Mittlema, Philip Jose Farmer, James Bell, Arnold Castle, A.M. Lightner, Charles Fontenay, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Harry Harrison, Ron Goulart, Bob Farnham, Mack Reynolds, Jerry Sohl, Miriam Allen DeFord, Rosel George Brown, F.L. Wallace, Theodore L. Thomas, H. Beam Piper, Andre Norton, Frank Herbert, Don Berry, Sol Boren, Poul Anderson, Randall Garrett, Ben Bova ...
    «101 Science Fiction Short Stories», by Bruce McAllister, Julian F. Grow, Algis Budrys, Donald Dale, Keith Laumer, Frank Banta. This digital edition brings together the text and its chapter structure for continuous reading. Contents include: 1. The faces Outside - Bruce McAllister ; 2. Countdown - Julian F. Grow ; 3. Die, Shadow - Algis Budrys ; 4. Another Earth - David Evens & Al Landau ; 5. The ... Read more

    $0.68 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus