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  • Inequality and Health

    A Quantitative Approach

    by Caterina La Porta, Stefano Zapperi ...
    Economic inequality is one of the defining challenges of our time, with profound consequences on health. Inequality and Health: A Quantitative Approach examines the connections between socioeconomic disparities and health outcomes across continents, combining general pathology with the physics of complex systems. Drawing on international data, the book traces the rise of chronic disease, the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation

    Edited by Caterina AM La Porta, Stefano Zapperi, Luciano Pilotti ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book explores the role of exaptation in diverse areas of life, with examples ranging from biology to economics, social sciences and architecture. The concept of exaptation, introduced in evolutionary biology by Gould and Vrba in 1982, describes the possibility that already existing traits can be exploited for new purposes throughout the evolutionary process. Edited by three active scholars in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Physics of Cancer

    by Stefano Zapperi, Caterina A. M. La Porta ...
    Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of theoretical and experimental contributions to cancer research from different fields of physics, from biomechanics and soft-condensed matter physics to the statistical mechanics of complex systems. Reviewing these contributions and providing a sophisticated overview of the topic, this is the first book devoted to the emerging interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $66.49 USD

  • Cell Migrations: Causes and Functions

    Edited by Caterina A. M. La Porta, Stefano Zapperi ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Cell migration plays an important role during development and in many physiological and pathological processes, from wound healing to cancer. This edited volume presents a collection of contributions meant to illustrate the state of the art on this topic from an interdisciplinary perspective.Readers will find a detailed discussion of the properties of individual and collective cell migration, ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

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    Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

    by Angus Deaton ...
    The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting 250 years ago, some parts of the ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

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  • The Spirit Level

    Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

    by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett ...
    Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it."Get your hands on this book."-Bill MoyersThis groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them-the well-off and the poor. The remarkable data the ... Read more

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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

    $17.99 USD

  • What We Owe Each Other

    A New Social Contract for a Better Society

    by Minouche Shafik ...
    From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • Getting Better

    Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More

    by Charles Kenny ...
    As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. Getting Better, in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist Charles Kenny argues against development naysayers by pointing to the evidence of widespread improvements in health, education, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Healthy Society

    How a Focus on Health can Revive Canadian Democracy

    by Ryan Meili ...
    Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that make the greatest difference in our health. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician in the inner city of Saskatoon, Mozambique, and rural Saskatchewan, Dr. Ryan Meili uses scholarship and patient ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • international Health: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, 3rd Edition

    by Raywat Deonandan ...
    We live in an era where someone can contract an infectious disease in Hong Kong, get on a plane, and land in New York City before the incubation period is over. We also live in a time where the wealthiest one percent of people control 34 times more than the wealth of the entire bottom 50 percent of the world's population. Climate change, mass migration, war, and the rise of Artificial Intelligence ... Read more

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  • Toward the Healthy City

    People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning

    by Jason Corburn ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease ... Read more

    $25.99 USD