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  • Soda Science

    Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola

    Takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet industry needs.The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. Public health critics pointed to sugary soda as a main culprit and advocated for soda taxes that might decrease the consumption of sweetened ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fat-Talk Nation

    The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat

    In recent decades, America has been waging a veritable war on fat in which not just public health authorities, but every sector of society is engaged in constant "fat talk" aimed at educating, badgering, and ridiculing heavy people into shedding pounds. We hear a great deal about the dangers of fatness to the nation, but little about the dangers of today's epidemic of fat talk to individuals and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Under the Medical Gaze

    Facts and Fictions of Chronic Pain

    This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power plays, and shrewd detective work. Setting a new standard for the practice of autoethnography, Susan ... Read more

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  • Cultivating Global Citizens

    Population in the Rise of China

    Series Book 12 - The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
    Current accounts of China’s global rise emphasize economics and politics, largely neglecting the cultivation of China’s people. Susan Greenhalgh, one of the foremost authorities on China’s one-child policy, places the governance of population squarely at the heart of China’s ascent.Focusing on the decade since 2000, and especially 2004–09, she argues that the vital politics of population has been ... Read more

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  • Contending Approaches to the Political Economy of Taiwan

    This work compares IT parks in China, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hawaii, in search of strategies that policy makers can employ to reduce the Global Digital Divide, advance distributional equity, and soften some of the negative effects of economic globalization. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Can Science and Technology Save China?

    Edited by Susan Greenhalgh, Li Zhang ...
    Can Science and Technology Save China? assesses the intimate connections between science and society in China, offering an in-depth look at how an array of sciences and technologies are being made, how they are interfacing with society, and with what effects.Focusing on critical domains of daily life, the chapters explore how scientists, technicians, surgeons, therapists, and other experts create ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Mr. Science and Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution

    Science and Technology in Modern China

    China is emerging as a new superpower in science and technology, reflected in the success of its spacecraft and high-velocity Maglev trains. While many seek to understand the rise of China as a technologically-based power, the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s may seem an unlikely era to explore for these insights. Despite the widespread verdict of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution as an ... Read more

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  • Collaborations Within and Between Dramatherapy and Music Therapy

    Experiences, Challenges and Opportunities in Clinical and Training Contexts

    In this insightful book, Oldfield and Carr draw together persuasive arguments for combining aspects of music therapy and dramatherapy, whilst retaining their unique facets.Building on the many links between music and drama and the compatibility between the two disciplines, the authors explore how artistic aspects of each therapy can be drawn on to create fresh ways of working. This approach ... Read more

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    Shifting Power

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    Series series Routledge Studies on Modern Korea
    In this interdisciplinary study of governance, Hyuk-Rae Kim traces how civil society and NGOs have evolved over time, how they differ in motivation from their Western counterparts, and the role civil society NGOs have played in consolidating democracy as the governance system in Korea changes from a state-centric to a contested one.This book presents civil society's rise in Korea through in-depth ... Read more

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  • Invisible China

    How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise

    A study of how China's changing economy may leave its rural communities in the dust and launch a political and economic disaster.As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China, the truth is much ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Myth of Normal

    Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“This riveting and beautifully written tale has profound implications for all of our lives, including the practice of medicine and mental health.” —Bessel van der Kolk, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score“Wise, sophisticated, rigorous and creative: an intellectual and compassionate investigation of who we are and who ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD