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“larry krotz”

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  • Trapped by Tourism

    Sustainability Questions for a World Fueled by Travelers

    by Larry Krotz ...
    Travel was once a way in which the world changed us. Now, it is a way in which we change the world.Twenty-five years ago, two things made mass tourism possible: cheap air travel and the credit card. The world has come a long way since then—and very quickly—from the need for either travel agents or traveler’s checks. From the now-vast cruise ship industry to a myriad of niche areas such as do-good ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Uncertain Business of Doing Good

    Outsiders in Africa

    by Larry Krotz ...
    The relationship between Westerners and Africa has long been conflicted and complicated. Frequently exploitative, it is also just as often propelled by an almost irresistible urge to "do good." The persistence of this impulse is intriguing. From Doctor Livingstone 150 years ago to rock star Bono today, outsiders have championed foreign intervention in Africa in political, social, economic, and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Nothing Ordinary

    The Story of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine

    by Larry Krotz ...
    This is the story of how 800,000 citizens created their own school of medicine, and what it has meant for the region and its people.Northern Ontario is a vast territory — almost as big as France and Germany combined — with a widely scattered population the size of only 10% of the rest of the province. Rich in forests, minerals, scenery and brilliant, hardy people, Ontario’s north, like many other ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Diagnosing the Legacy

    The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth

    by Larry Krotz, Heather Dean, Jonathan McGavock, Michael Moffatt, Elizabeth Sellers ...
    In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg began to notice a new cohort appearing in their clinics for young people with diabetes.Indigenous youngsters from two First Nations in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with type 1 (or insulin-dependent diabetes), but with what looked like type 2 diabetes, until then a condition that ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Piecing the Puzzle

    The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa

    by Larry Krotz ...
    In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya’s “sexual diseases problem.” That ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    The surprising truth about what it takes to be healthy In The Cure for Everything! health-law expert Timothy Caulfield exposes the special interests that twist good science about health and fitness in order to sell us services and products that mostly don’t work. Want great abs? You won’t get them by using the latest Ab-Flex-Spinner-Thingy. Are you trying to lose ten pounds? Diet books are a waste ... Read more

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  • Matters of Life and Death

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    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    $16.99 CAD

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  • A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition

    How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy

    by Ryan Meili ...
    A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition, is one doctor’s vision for a new approach to politics – and a new approach to building a healthier world. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician, Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores more fundamental conditions that lead to poor health. The social determinants of health – ... Read more

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  • What's Wrong with Fat?

    by Abigail C. Saguy ...
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  • Fat Land

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  • Eating Ourselves Sick

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    "Louise Stephen's powerful, no-holds-barred demolition of Big Food dissects the profit motive that has filled our food supply with toxic oils and sugar, and shows us how money is destroying our health." DAVID GILLESPIEOur diet has changed radically in the space of 100 years. We have swapped home-cooked food made with whole ingredients for processed food made from sugar, seed oils and refined wheat ... Read more

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