. Its stark sense of reality comes as much from the grit between the pages as from the pure gold those pages spin. Laura claridge, Boston Sunday Globe“Stunning. An astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views. Profound and powerful, peru, cuba, mountains beyond mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, and Russia as Farmer changes people’s minds through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real nation is humanity.
Praise for mountains beyond Mountains“A true-to-life fairy tale, one that inspires you to believe in happy endings. Throughout, kidder captures the almost saintly effect Farmer has on those whom he treats. Publisher’s weekly starred review“A skilled and graceful exploration of the soul of an astonishing human being.
Kirkus reviews starred review.
To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation California Series in Public Anthropology
Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times.
New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People
University of California Press. A while ago, ddt and the antimalarial drug chloroquine seemed sure to make us all safe from such invisible assault. Meanwhile Dr. The medical tapestry of the world is full of organisms too small to see, carried by flying and creeping creatures too numerous to eradicate.
Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction California Series in Public Anthropology
University of California Press. The interdisciplinary approach outlined in this text should prove useful not only in schools of public health, and medicine, political economy, and history, but also in undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, nursing, sociology, among others. Drawn from a harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides an accessible and engaging framework for the study of global health.
Insisting on an approach that is historically deep and geographically broad, the authors underline the importance of a transdisciplinary approach, and offer a highly readable distillation of several historical and ethnographic perspectives of contemporary global health problems.
The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
The blue sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and find powerful new ways of tackling it. She shows, in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking, how traditional charity often fails, but how a new form of philanthropic investing called "patient capital" can help make people self-sufficient and can change millions of lives.
University of California Press. That the sweater had made its trek all the way to rwanda was ample evidence, how our actions―and inaction―touch people every day across the globe, she thought, of how we are all connected, people we may never know or meet. From her first stumbling efforts as a young idealist venturing forth in Africa to the creation of the trailblazing organization she runs today, unwed mothers starting a bakery, Novogratz tells gripping stories with unforgettable characters―women dancing in a Nairobi slum, courageous survivors of the Rwandan genocide, entrepreneurs building services for the poor against impossible odds.
More than just an autobiography or a how-to guide to addressing poverty, The Blue Sweater is a call to action that challenges us to grant dignity to the poor and to rethink our engagement with the world. It all started back home in virginia, with the blue sweater, a gift that quickly became her prized possession―until the day she outgrew it and gave it away to Goodwill.
.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The hmong see illness aand healing as spiritual matters linked to virtually everything in the universe, while medical community marks a division between body and soul, and concerns itself almost exclusively with the former. When lia lee entered the american medical system, diagnosed as an epileptic, her story became a tragic case history of cultural miscommunication.
Parents and doctors both wanted the best for Lia, but their ideas about the causes of her illness and its treatment could hardly have been more different. Winner of the national book critics circle award for nonfictionWhen three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover.
Lia's doctors ascribed her seizures to the misfiring of her cerebral neurons; her parents called her illness, qaug dab peg--the spirit catches you and you fall down--and ascribed it to the wandering of her soul. Lia's pediatricians, neil ernst and his wife, Peggy Philip, cleaved just as strongly to another tradition: that of Western medicine.
University of California Press. The hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants, adhering steadfastly to the rituals and beliefs of their ancestors.
When Breath Becomes Air
. Seven words from samuel beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. What makes life worth living in the face of death? what do you do when the future, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, exquisitely observed memoir.
A hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures. Used book in Good Condition. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. 1 new york times bestseller • pulitzer prize finalist • this inspiring, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational MemoirAt the age of thirty-six, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.
When breath becomes air chronicles kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, given that all organisms die, “by the question of what, ” as he wrote, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
Strength in What Remains Random House Reader's Circle
. University of California Press. A hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures. Having survived a civil war and genocide, he lands at JFK airport with two hundred dollars, no English, and no contacts. Named one of the best books of the year by:los angeles times • san francisco chronicle •chicago Tribune • The Christian Science Monitor • Publishers WeeklyIn Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances.
Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new life. He ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores. Random House Trade Paperbacks.
History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
Nature, care, energy, work, money, food, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. Used book in Good Condition. University of California Press. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today’s planetary emergencies.
At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, slave revolts, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, and other rebellions and uprisings, indigenous struggles, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism.
.
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
The ethiopian woman had her injuries repaired and in time became a surgeon. That cambodian girl eventually escaped from her brothel and, with assistance from an aid group, built a thriving retail business that supports her family. University of California Press. Unleashing that process globally is not only the right thing to do; it’s also the best strategy for fighting poverty.
Deeply felt, and inspirational, pragmatic, Half the Sky is essential reading for every global citizen. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. Countries such as china have prospered precisely because they emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy.
A zimbabwean mother of five, counseled to return to school, earned her doctorate and became an expert on AIDS. Through these stories, kristof and WuDunn help us see that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. They make clear how so many people have helped to do just that, and how we can each do our part.
A hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures.
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Used book in Good Condition. He hangs out with the teenagers who make the restaurants run and communes with those unlucky enough to hold America's most dangerous job -- meatpacker. Along the way, schlosser unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate.
That's a lengthy list of charges, wry wit, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, and careful reasoning. Schlosser then turns a critical eye toward the hot topic of globalization -- a phenomenon launched by fast food. University of California Press. University of California Press.
Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from the California subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. Are we what we eat? to a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca.