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  • Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach

    • ASIN: 1284074633
    • ISBN: 1284074633
    • Brand: Shi Leiyu
    • Manufacturer: Jones & Bartlett Learning

    Delivering Health Care in America, Enhanced Sixth Edition Includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access, is the most current and comprehensive overview of the basic structures and operations of the U.S. health system--from its historical origins and resources, to its individual services, cost, and quality. Using a unique "systems" approach, the text brings ... [Read More]

  • Public Discourse in America: Conversation and Community in the Twenty-First Century

    • ASIN: 0812221613
    • ISBN: 0812221613
    • Brand: Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
    • Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press

    A distinguished group of scholars and prominent figures here offers thoughtful new perspectives on the tenor and conduct of public life in contemporary America. Originating in a shared concern that our civic culture was becoming coarser and more polarized, Public Discourse in America provides a critical corrective to this widespread misperception a... [Read More]

  • Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community

    • ASIN: 0323321534
    • ISBN: 0323321534
    • Manufacturer: Mosby

    Prepare for a successful career as a community/public health nurse! Public Health Nursing: Population-Centered Health Care in the Community, 9th Edition provides up-to-date information on issues that impact public health nursing, such as infectious diseases, natural and man-made disasters, and health care policies affecting individuals, families, a... [Read More]

  • Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America

    • ASIN: 0140236171
    • ISBN: 0140236171
    • Brand: Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    "This big-shouldered book, full of ardor...offers us a reasonable hope that with attention and care we can again make public education what it was meant to be, and must yet be."—The Los Angeles Times.

  • Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63

    • ASIN: 0671687425
    • ISBN: 0671687425
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Politics in States and Communities (14th Edition)

    • ASIN: 0205109969
    • ISBN: 0205109969
    • Brand: Pearson
    • Manufacturer: Pearson

    Updated in its 14th edition, Politics in States and Communities is distinguished by its focus on politics, its comparative approach, its concern with thorough explanation, its interest in policy, and its focus on conflicts in states and communities and the structures and processes designed to manage conflict

  • Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives)

    • ASIN: 0691088055
    • ISBN: 0691088055
    • Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

    Immigration is perhaps the most enduring and elemental leitmotif of America. This book is the most powerful study to date of the politics and policies it has inspired, from the founders' earliest efforts to shape American identity to today's revealing struggles over Third World immigration, noncitizen rights, and illegal aliens. Weaving a robust ne... [Read More]

  • Health Promotion Programs: From Theory to Practice (Jossey-Bass Public Health)

    • ASIN: 1119163331
    • ISBN: 1119163331
    • Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass

    Comprehensive coverage, real-world issues, and a focus on the practical aspects of health promotion Health Promotion Programs combines theory and practice to deliver a comprehensive introduction to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs. Presenting an overview of best practices from schools, health care organizati... [Read More]

  • Schooling America: How the Public Schools Meet the Nation's Changing Needs (Institutions of American Democracy)

    • ASIN: 0195315847
    • ISBN: 0195315847
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    In this informative volume, Patricia Graham, one of America's most esteemed historians of education, offers a vibrant history of American education in the last century. Drawing on a wide array of sources, from government reports to colorful anecdotes, Graham skillfully illustrates Americans' changing demands for our schools, and how schools have re... [Read More]

  • Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America

    • ASIN: 0143119281
    • ISBN: 0143119281
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States- thoroughly revised and updated. The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries-from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in t... [Read More]

  • Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation (Radical Perspectives)

    • ASIN: 0822342367
    • ISBN: 0822342367
    • Brand: Brand: Duke University Press Books
    • Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books

    Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world, from Paris to Kathmandu, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca to the waterfront of Wellington, New Zealand. Paying particular attention to how race and empire are implica... [Read More]

  • Poverty in America: A Handbook

    • ASIN: 0520276361
    • ISBN: 0520276361
    • Brand: University of California Press
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

    The United States is among the most affluent nations in the world and has its largest economy; nevertheless, it has more poverty than most countries with similar standards of living. Growing income inequality and the Great Recession have made the problem worse. In this thoroughly revised edition of Poverty in America, Iceland takes a new look at th... [Read More]

  • Eugenics and Education in America: Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory (Complicated Conversation)

    • ASIN: 0820481467
    • ISBN: 0820481467
    • Brand: Brand: Peter Lang Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

    Education in America was designed to organize, classify, and sort students according to a definition of ability and human worth provided by a racialized scientism known as eugenics – an ideology whose ultimate goal was the establishment of a superior White race. Eugenicists targeted entire ethnic groups, the urban poor, rural «White trash,» the... [Read More]

  • The California Garden Tour: The 50 Best Gardens to Visit in the Golden State

    • ASIN: 1604697229
    • ISBN: 1604697229
    • Brand: Timber Press
    • Manufacturer: Timber Press

    A fantastic garden journey that only California can provide In The California Garden Tour, veteran travel writer Donald Olson highlights 50 outstanding public gardens and provides all the information you need to make the most of your visit. From San Francisco and the East Bay to Palm Springs and San Diego, Olson includes iconic gardens like the... [Read More]

  • In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

    • ASIN: 030740885X
    • ISBN: 030740885X
    • Brand: Erik Larson
    • Manufacturer: Crown

    Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.A mild-mannered professor from Chi... [Read More]

  • Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison (California Series in Public Anthropology)

    • ASIN: 0520240766
    • ISBN: 0520240766
    • Manufacturer: University of California Press

    In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the "supermaximums"―and the mental health units that complement them―Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and treat. Her often harrowing, sometimes poignant, explo... [Read More]

  • Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

    • ASIN: 0199830002
    • ISBN: 0199830002
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "disorderly" people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill effects their presence inflicts on property values and public safety, many cities have wholeheartedly embraced "zero-tolerance" or "broken window" policing... [Read More]

  • Sam Walton: Made In America

    • UPC: 783324881837
    • ASIN: 0553562835
    • ISBN: 9780553562835
    • Brand: Bantam
    • Manufacturer: Bantam

    Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world.  The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch.  Here, finally, inimitable words.  Genu... [Read More]

  • Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City

    • ASIN: 1595588299
    • ISBN: 1595588299
    • Manufacturer: The New Press

    In a magisterial work of narrative nonfiction that weaves together the racially fraught history of public education in Milwaukee and the broader story of hypersegregation in the rust belt, Lessons from the Heartland tells of an iconic city’s fall from grace—and of its chance for redemption in the twenty-first century. A symbol of middle America... [Read More]

  • Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (Gender and American Culture)

    • ASIN: 0807855855
    • ISBN: 0807855855
    • Brand: Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
    • Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press

    In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics program between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted largely by a series of articles in the Winston-Salem Journal. These stories were inspired in part by the research of Johanna Schoen, who was g... [Read More]

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