Social aspects
- Auteur:Belton, JohnSommaire:
- Auteur:McBride, Stephen, Mahon, Rianne, Boychuk, Gerard W.Sommaire:
The 2007-08 financial crisis marked a turning point for social policy. World leaders were forced to take a position: Should they entrench neo-liberal policies in response to the crisis? Or should they implement alternative measures to...
- Auteur:Cavanaugh, John C.Sommaire:
- Auteur:Raphael, DennisSommaire:
This book is an introduction to issues of the social determinants of health. Social determinants of health of the living and working conditions that shape whether we remain healthy or become ill the social determinants of health are...
- Auteur:Adese, JenniferSommaire:
"In Aboriginal TM, Jennifer Adese explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term "Aboriginal" and its displacement by the word "Indigenous." In the Constitution Act, 1982, the term's express purpose was to speak to specific "...
- Auteur:Elliott, AliciaSommaire:
The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated as a mind spread out on the ground. In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of the personal,...
- Auteur:Heying, Heather, Weinstein, BretSommaire:
A provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes and what we can do about it. We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and...
- Auteur:Hirsch, Moshe, Kotwal, Ashok, Ramaswami, BharatSommaire:
Over the last twenty years, India has enacted legislation to turn development goals such as food security, primary education, and employment into legal rights for its citizens. But enacting laws is different from implementing them. A...
- Auteur:Meili, RyanSommaire:
This gripping account of the COVID-19 experience in Saskatchewan goes beyond pandemic memoir to draw lessons we can use to create a healthier future. Filled with moving stories of how COVID changed people's lives, Ryan Meili's deeply...
- Auteur:Briggle, AdamSommaire:
From the front lines of the fracking debate, a "field philosopher" explores one of our most divisive technologies. When philosophy professor Adam Briggle moved to Denton, Texas, he had never heard of fracking. Only five years later he...
- Auteur:Forth, GregorySommaire:
The Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores refer to someone who begins something but is regularly distracted by other matters as "a dog pissing at the edge of a path." In this first comprehensive study of...
- Auteur:Barrett, David DeanSommaire:
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armageddon on August 6, 1945.