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 The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World By Michael Marmot 2015 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 1632860783 | EPUB | 3 MB In this groundbreaking book, Michael Marmot, president of the World Medical Association, reveals social injustice to be the greatest threat to global healthIn Baltimore's inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man's life expectancy is sixty-three; not far away, in the Greater Roland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three. The same twenty-year avoidable disparity exists in the Calton and Lenzie neighborhoods of Glasgow, and in other cities around the world.In Sierra Leone, one in 21 fifteen-year-old women will die in her fertile years of a maternal-related cause; in Italy, the figure is one in 17,100; but in the United States, which spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, it is one in 1,800. Why?Dramatic differences in health are not a simple matter of rich and poor; poverty alone doesn't drive ill health, but inequality does. Indeed, suicide, heart disease, lung disease, obesity, and diabetes, for example, are all linked to social disadvantage. In every country, people at relative social disadvantage suffer health disadvantage and shorter lives. Within countries, the higher the social status of individuals, the better their health. These health inequalities defy the usual explanations. Conventional approaches to improving health have emphasized access to technical solutions and changes in the behavior of individuals, but these methods only go so far. What really makes a difference is creating the conditions for people to have control over their lives, to have the power to live as they want. Empowerment is the key to reducing health inequality and thereby improving the health of everyone. Marmot emphasizes that the rate of illness of a society as a whole determines how well it functions; the greater the health inequity, the greater the dysfunction.Marmot underscores that we have the tools and resources materially to improve levels of health for individuals and societies around the world, and that to not do so would be a form of injustice. Citing powerful examples and startling statistics ("young men in the U.S. have less chance of surviving to sixty than young men in forty-nine other countries"), The Health Gap presents compelling evidence for a radical change in the way we think about health and indeed society, and inspires us to address the societal imbalances in power, money, and resources that work against health equity.
 The Gran Sasso Raid: The History of the Nazi Operation to Rescue Benito Mussolini from Captivity during World War II by Charles River Editors English | July 2, 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B098LXT2W5 | 50 pages | EPUB | 1.02 Mb *Includes pictures  J. Richard Smith - The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Profile Publications | 1966 | ISBN: N/A | English | 16 pages | PDF | 20.11 MB Aircraft Profile Number 99  The Descent of Darwin: The Popularization of Darwinism in Germany, 1860-1914 By Alfred Kelly 2011 | 196 Pages | ISBN: 0807896977 | PDF | 2 MB In Germany, more than anywhere else, Darwinism was a sensational success. Setting his analysis against the background of popular science, Kelly follows popular Darwinism as it permeated education, religion, politics, and social thought in Germany. He explains how the popularizers changed Darwin's thought in subtle ways and how these changes colored their perceptions of Darwinism. Among the first purveyors of mass culture, the Germans provide valuable clues as to how seminal ideas move through a society.Originally published in 1981.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
 Martha Smithey, "The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide: A Crying Baby and the Inability to Escape" English | ISBN: 1787433285 | 2020 | 144 pages | PDF | 1313 KB Almost every story of maternal infanticide starts with 'the baby wouldn't stop crying'. But the story is more than just bad or mentally ill mothers who lethally assault their baby. The story is about how hard it is to be a good mother in a society where women are expected to raise their children in their spare time and with their spare change. This expectation is grounded in a modern mothering ideology of unclear, overwhelming gender socialized expectations of what good mothers are supposed to be and do and assumes mothers have access to the economic and support resources necessary for this monumental job. The struggle of being a 'good mother' is common to all mothers and requires much more time and resources than most mothers have available to them. In today's society, almost all mothers must have a paying job just to make ends meet. Their job takes up most of their day and leaves little time for the demands of parenting. Gender segregated jobs and economic inequality of women leave mothers with pay checks that are insufficient for homecare, childcare, and healthcare and leaves them eking out basic goods such as food, diapers, and medicine. And they are powerless to change their situation. For some mothers, like the ones discussed in this book, the struggle overwhelms them and they commit a terrible, heavily-regretted act that costs them their child's life, their family, their freedom, and their piece of mind for the rest of their lives.
 The Creative Brief Blueprint: Crafting Strategy That Generates More Effective Advertising by Kevin McTigue, Derek Rucker English | August 24th, 2021 | ISBN: 1098390458, 1098380754 | 150 pages | True EPUB | 4.25 MB As the world of marketing communications has become more tactically complex, the strategy behind the work has suffered. Most ads aren't good. They don't achieve the results that the company desires. They end up costing precious time and money. Neither you nor the target like to look at them either. Humanity has been creating marketing communications for over 8000 years. You would think people would be good at this by now.
 The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism: Visual Theology and Artistic Invention By Jack M. Greenstein 2016 | 266 Pages | ISBN: 110710324X | PDF | 21 MB Depicting the Creation of Woman presented a special problem for Renaissance artists. The medieval iconography of Eve rising half-formed from Adam's side was hardly compatible with their commitment to the naturalistic representation of the human figure. At the same time, the story of God constructing the first woman from a rib did not offer the kind of dignified, affective pictorial narrative that artists, patrons, and the public prized. Jack M. Greenstein takes this artistic problem as the point of departure for an iconographic study of this central theme of Christian culture. His book shows how the meaning changed along with the form when Lorenzo Ghiberti, Andrea Pisano, and other Italian sculptors of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries revised the traditional composition to accommodate a naturalistically depicted Eve. At stake, Greenstein argues, is the role of the artist and the power of image-making in reshaping Renaissance culture and religious thought.  The Complete Cook's Country TV Show Cookbook Includes Season 14 Recipes: Every Recipe and Every Review from All Fourteen Seasons by America's Test Kitchen English | August 24th, 2021 | ISBN: 1948703726 | 920 pages | True EPUB | 391.90 MB Hit the road with top-rated Cook's Country TV and devour another year of great American recipes.
 The Clutter Remedy: A Plan for Getting Organized for Those Who Love Their Stuff by Marla Stone English | 3 Dec. 2019 | ISBN : 1608686299 | 256 pages | True AZW3 | 0.6 MB [center]  The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai English | August 24th, 2021 | ISBN: 0393634167 | 464 pages | True EPUB | 21.55 MB How Chinese migration to the world's goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race. |
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