Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease

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Health and Social Justice draws on the growing body of recent literature to offer a comprehensive collection of articles written by a panel of expert contributors who represent a broad range of fields?sociology, epidemiology, public health, ecology, politics, organizing, and advocacy. Each article explores a particular aspect of health inequalities and demonstrates how the sources of health inequalities are rooted in injustices associated with racism, sex discrimination, and social class. This important book examines the political implications of various perspectives used to explain health inequities and explores alternative strategies for eliminating them. Health and Social Justice covers a broad spectrum of topics and

• Analyzes the politics of health inequities
• Shows how market values often dominate over collective needs for well-being
• Examines the politics of methodology and its implications for research and public policy
• Critiques the ideological implications of contemporary health promotion as a model for public health
• Reviews approaches that influence the social determinants of health
• Evaluates strategies drawn from the European experience, and others, aimed at eliminating health inequities
• Proposes principles for action and research
• Analyzes the role of the mass media in influencing the conceptualization of public health issues

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  Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease Review

  With the onset of an election year, Richard Hofrichter's book Social Justice and Health is incredibly timely and important. Despite being the 2nd richest nation in the world (only Luxembourg has a higher average GDP), Americans have one of the worst health profiles. The contributers to Hofrichter's book points out the many reasons why this is the case: The USA has the greatets proportion of citizens in low paying jobs, has the greatest number of poor people, and the greatest gap between rich and poor. This condition is made worse by its especially low spending on social infrastructure and on services that support the citizenry.This profile is a result of policy decisions made by governments and endorsed by many Americans for whom these decisions are clearly not in their own interest. The book outlines many policy solutions, but such solutions will require that there is recognition of the fundamental injustice of the profound economic inequality present in the US.Another important aspects of the book is the documenting of the strong links between political, economic, and social aspects of a society and the health of its citizenry. Americians and others need to be made aware that the primary determinants of whether they stay healthy or not is not whether they exercise, eat fruits and vegetables but rather the economic and social conditions to which they are subjected.This book is a must-read for anyone working in health care, public health, social services or any sector concerned with the well-being of citizens. It will be especially of interest for the well-educated general reader concerned with the direction in which American public policy is moving. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews� Was this review helpful to you?�Yes No Report abuse | PermalinkComment�Comment
  
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Physical and Chemical Equilibrium for Chemical Engineers

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This book concentrates on the topic of physical and chemical equilibrium. Using the simplest mathematics along with numerous numerical examples it accurately and rigorously covers physical and chemical equilibrium in depth and detail.� It continues to cover the topics found in the first edition however numerous updates have been made including: Changes in naming and notation (the first edition used the traditional names for the Gibbs Free Energy and for Partial Molal Properties, this edition uses the more popular Gibbs Energy and Partial Molar Properties,) changes in symbols (the first edition used the Lewis-Randal fugacity rule and the popular symbol for the same quantity, this edition only uses the popular notation,) and new problems have been added to the text. Finally the second edition includes an appendix about the Bridgman table and its use.

Physical and Chemical Equilibrium for Chemical Engineers Review

Wonderful book! It's excellent for teaching yourself.

One minor problem - I'd condense the material of the first three chapters into one chapter, as they barely scratch the surface of calculation and aren't quite meaty/quantitative enough for my taste.

I started reading the book at Chapter 4, but, short of skipping Chapter 1 (usually on trite things like "units"), I feel my studies to be incomplete when I start at such a late chapter.

So, five stars for clarity (probably the most important characteristic of a book), but four far-less-weighted-and-therefore-negligible stars for its slow start.

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Structural Design: A Practical Guide for Architects

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Written for the practicing architect, Structural Design addresses the process on both a conceptual and a mathematical level. Most importantly, it helps architects work with structural consultants and understand all the necessary considerations when designing structural systems. Using a minimum of simple math, this book shows you how to make correct design calculations for structures made from steel, wood, concrete, and masonry. What?s more, this edition has been completely updated to reflect the latest design methods and codes, including LRFD for steel design. The book was also re-designed for easy navigation. Essential principles, as well as structural solutions, are visually reinforced with hundreds of drawings, photographs, and other illustrations--making this book truly architect-friendly.

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i'm an architecture student...n taking structures for one of my classes, i found this book immensely helpful, especially, when the teacher's not that great!!!!!!

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Analog Circuit Design Volume 2: Immersion in the Black Art of Analog Design

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Analog circuit and system design today is more essential than ever before. With the growth of digital systems, wireless communications, complex industrial and automotive systems, designers are being challenged to develop sophisticated analog solutions. This comprehensive source book of circuit design solutions aids engineers with elegant and practical design techniques that focus on common analog challenges. The book� s in-depth application examples provide insight into circuit design and application solutions that you can apply in today’s demanding designs.

• This is the companion volume to the successful Analog Circuit Design: A Tutorial Guide to Applications and Solutions (October 2011), which has sold over 5000 copies in its the first 6 months of since publication. It extends the Linear Technology collection of application notes, which provides analog experts with a full collection of reference designs and problem solving insights to apply to their own engineering challenges.
• Full support package including online resources (LTSpice).
• Contents include more application notes on power management, and data conversion and signal conditioning circuit solutions, plus an invaluable circuit collection of reference designs.

Analog Circuit Design Volume 2: Immersion in the Black Art of Analog Design Review

The old Boolean Boogie and "calculator" books on Assembly Bebop to the Boolean Boogie, Third Edition: An Unconventional Guide to Electronics, and also by Maxfield: The Definitive Guide to How Computers Do Math : Featuring the Virtual DIY Calculator -- prior to these wonderful two new books by Bob Dobkin, were the only place a circuit designer new to or rusty in analog design could "brush up" on the assembly foundations and real world tips and tricks of analog circuits.

Dobkin makes the sad point that, due to the massive presence of digital in embedded and FPGA applications, analog was becoming a "lost art" in many ways. For the beginner, you've got to realize that the "number" output you see on a digital calculator is simply a translation matrix (not an energy transduction) of 1's and 0's into a value, whereas that same display on an analog device is the ACTUAL complex trigonometry of, for example, cross sections of WIRES that measure voltage drop and other physical attributes! IOW, analog devices are actually "displaying" atomic physical values in a deep quantum sense, which means a LOT can go wrong with signal vs. noise!

Analog Circuit Design: A Tutorial Guide to Applications and Solutions by the same author Analog Circuit Design: A Tutorial Guide to Applications and Solutions is a runaway smash best seller due to the above factors, as well as the many "practical" real world tips from the Linear Tech guys, who really understand the "guts" of HP, TI and other older embedded analog, as well as the new applications in medical devices, etc. From a design standpoint, even though this is an older technology in some senses, ironically, there are probably more new discovery and patent opportunities in the "wiring" in analog than in digital, due to the need to translate between A/D in many new applications. I've reviewed the ASRAP dot org databases on new royalty filings in analog, and there are almost twice as many requests for circuit protection as algorithm protection in new patents!

Not to downplay algorithms! Analog has even more "sticky" issues with memory allocation, access to the GPU, interface with brute force calculation (eg sieve methods) and other coding challenges. Finding a voltage that displays two added numbers is much different than finding one that solves a differential equation, even though "physical" systems are the ones most amenable to ODE's!

If you're new, you might find this above your head unless you get the Boolean Boogie and Bob's first volume, if you're an old PCB designer, you'll find not only good review material, but a huge number of practical tips that will save you months of frustration by not repeating the mistakes and problems Linear Tech has already solved! In some ways this IS a commercial for their firm, which a few other reviews have dinged online, but honestly, these guys are EDITORS, not just authors, and draw on many tools and technologies, some proprietary to LT (some reviewers claim these books are just free LT appnotes, but this is NOT the case-- this is much more logically organized and indexed than the LT site, and you don't have to be a customer to benefit from this text), and many tips are chip dependent and focused as well as LT product focused, which makes them more a commercial for the chip and component developers than just promoting an Engineering group, if you must focus on the tools being promoted! MUST HAVE for ANYONE in or contemplating circuit design-- analog is a field that can't be ignored because of its rebirth where it started-- in embedded systems.

Question: This is a lot of money, do I really need BOTH books?

Answer: It's obvious that LT reviewed some of the criticism of the first volume (lack of coverage of RF, for example) and tried to expand the "appnote" feel to more "arcane" but real world techniques and solutions that can be generalized with this second volume, and even used in classes on circuit design. Yes, you could combine THIS volume with the LT appnotes online and get a somewhat cheaper version of both by skipping the first book, but it all depends on how much you value your time, and how frequently you need to access design tips. I'm old school and there is nothing like a physical book, especially the first one which, being appnotes, IS a manual.

IF this is mostly for learning, the above technique of the LT site plus this book might work for you. If you're into serious daily analog design, I'd buy both books just for the "write in the margins," organize, index and relate the material to your own design challenges aspects. Compare that investment to the $500,000 you'll get for your new analog patent-- pretty good ROI!

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Authoring Performance (What is Theatre?)

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Provides a comparative approach to the internationally wide-spread phenomenon of the contemporary director-auteur in the theatre, urging a historical and theoretical exploration of the visions, methods, and stage idioms in the work of established artists. Sidiropoulou examines prominent examples of both older and more recent director-auteur work, aiming at re-asserting - to its artistic and academic audience - the value of balancing the established emphasis on the diegetic aspects of theatre with the ever-spreading varieties of dramatic de-"centering" and "dis-semination." This exciting work also poses questions of authorship, which necessarily imply the redefinition of the relationship between "playwright" and the director-playwright.

Authoring Performance (What is Theatre?) Review

Avra Sidiropoulou's study Authoring Performance: the Director in Contemporary Theatre comes to fill a void in the theoretical exploration of directing practice worldwide and would make for a valuable handbook for students of directing, acting, theatre studies and performance theory on both undergraduate and graduate level. Not only does the book plunge into the history of directing from the beginnings of the twentieth century on, but it also draws very helpful parallels between the work of the early experimentalists and avant-garde directors today, identifying the methods and aesthetics these employ during the "writing" of the performance. I found Chapters 4 and 5 extremely well-written and original in scope, especially the part where Sidiropoulou argues for the need of meaningfulness as a complementary component to formalist structures, balancing masterfully the pros of a powerful visual idiom to the cons of gratuitous stage wizardry. The book is also a must-have for playwrights: Chapter 6 in fact asks all the right questions, examining the boundaries of directorial freedom and the issues of interpretation and authorship that seem to be constantly present in the on-going dialogue between writers and directors, but also among all those involved in the making and the "reading" of the performance, actors and spectators, included.

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