Health Policy category: 748 books
The Brain Defense
Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Called “the best kind of nonfiction” by Michael Connelly, this riveting new book combines true crime, brain science, and courtroom drama.
In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman’s husband, Herbert...
by Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
What We Leave Behind is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, award-winning author Derrick Jensen and activist Aric McBay...
The Derrick Jensen Reader
Writings on Environmental Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
In an age marked by seemingly unstoppable environmental collapse and the urgent quest for solutions, environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, the voice of the growing deep ecology movement, reveals for us new seeds of hope. Here for the first time in The Derrick Jensen Reader are collected generous...
From Max Weber
Essays in Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This classic collection draws together his key papers. This edition contains a new preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner.
After Morgentaler
The Politics of Abortion in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The landmark decision R. v. Morgentaler (1988) struck down Canada’s abortion law and is widely believed to have established a right to abortion, but its actual impact is much less decisive; and women’s access to abortion in Canada remains uneven and at risk of being curtailed. In After Morgentaler,...
Humanity on a Tightrope
Thoughts on Empathy, Family, and Big Changes for a Viable Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
When we think of family, we most often think of our sisters and brothers, our cousins and grandparents, rather than our world family or even our community connections. We still identify with our differences more than our similarities, unless it's convenient to do otherwise. Here, two seasoned authors...
NoNonsense The Money Crisis
How Bankers Have Grabbed Our Money - and How We Can Get It Back
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Bankers and speculators build castles in the air but when they come crashing down ordinary people have to pick up the tab. How we've made such a mess of our money system is explained, from the earliest banks right through to "collateralized debt obligations." The author suggests the framework...
by Norm Wolfer
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In this book, you will learn how to recognize America’s current and coming monetary problems and ways you can protect yourself from the inevitable financial meltdown; the disappearing dollar. You will gain some understanding about the history of money, different forms of money, and the history of...
The Moneyless Manifesto
Live Well, Live Rich, Live Free
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
That we need money to live like it or not is a self-evident truism. Right? Not anymore. Drawing on almost three years of experience as The Moneyless Man, ex-businessman Mark Boyle not only demystifies money and the system that binds us to it, he also explains how liberating, easy and enjoyable it is...
Big Medicine:
The Cost of Corporate Control and How Doctors and Patients Working Together Can Rebuild a Better System
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Elaina George, MD, is an Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) specialist practicing in Atlanta, Georgia. "All I ever wanted to do was be a doctor. Taking the time to sit with a patient, get to know what makes them who they are in order to help them is the foundation of good medicine." Big Insurance,...
by Janet Quin
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Pain is part of our life but suffering is optional in life. This book will show you the fastest and successful way to rise above your weakness no matter what it is. it will help you find your passion and show you how to monetize them. Not only that, you also get 3 fantastic ebooks on how to make money...
The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution
100 Ways to Build a Fossil-Free Future, Raise Empowered Kids, and Still Get a Good Night’s Sleep
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
“Relax,” writes author Mary DeMocker, “this isn’t another light bulb list. It’s not another overwhelming pile of parental ‘to dos’ designed to shrink your family’s carbon footprint through eco-superheroism.” Instead, DeMocker lays out a lively, empowering, and doable blueprint for...
Our Peaceful Planet
Healing Ourselves and Our World for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Transform yourself and transform the world. The steps you can take to positively shape your reality and then pay it forward . . .
*Our Peaceful Planet *contains extraordinary ideas that have the power to transform lives and the planet. It is unique because it provides a practical healing framework...
Why Empathy Matters
The Science and Psychology of Better Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
A road map to empathic and efficient decisions and policies, constructed from new insights in the science of human judgment
Faced with another's suffering, human beings feel sympathy and may even be moved to charity. However, for all our good intentions and vaunted free will, we are lousy at...