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The future in plain sight : nine clues to the coming instability
Linden creates several possible scenarios for what life will be like in the year 2050 based on the basic assumption that instability is the norm, and guided by major clues, including the widening gap between rich and poor, the resurgence of infectious disease, the changing global climate, and the currency crises in Mexico and Asia.
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White Burgers, Black Cash
The long and pernicious relationship between fast food
restaurants and the African American community Today, fast
food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and
marketed to Black Americans through targeted advertising. But
throughout much of the twentieth century, fast food was developed
specifically for White urban and suburban customers, purposefully
avoiding Black spaces. In White Burgers, Black Cash , Naa
Oyo A. Kwate traces the evolution in fast food from the early 1900s
to the present, from its long history of racist exclusion to its
current damaging embrace of urban Black communities.
Fast food has historically been tied to the country's self-image
as the land of opportunity and is marketed as one of life's simple
pleasures, but a more insidious history lies at the industry's
core. White Burgers, Black Cash investigates the complex
trajectory of restaurant locations from a decided commitment to
Whiteness to the disproportionate densities that characterize Black
communities today. Kwate expansively charts fast food's racial and
spatial transformation and centers the cities of Chicago, New York
City, and Washington, D.C., in a national examination of the
biggest brands of today, including White Castle, KFC, Burger King,
McDonald's, and more.
Deeply researched, grippingly told, and brimming with surprising
details, White Burgers, Black Cash reveals the
inequalities embedded in the closest thing Americans have to a
national meal.
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All tomorrow's parties
Rydell is on his way back to near-future San Francisco. A stint as a security man in an all-night Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going nowhere, but his friend Laney, phoning from Tokyo, says there's more interesting work for him in Northern California. And there is, although it will eventually involve his former girlfriend, a Taoist assassin, the secrets Laney has been hacking out of the depths of DatAmerica, the CEO of the PR firm that secretly runs the world and the apocalyptic technological transformation of, well, everything. William Gibson's new novel, set in the soon-to-be-fact world of \"Virtual Light\" and \"Idoru\", completes a stunning, brilliantly imagined trilogy about the post-Net world.
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Audiological Research over Six Decades
As a pioneer in the field of audiology, Dr. James Jerger has been involved in cutting-edge resource throughout the development of the field. In his new text, Audiological Research Over Six Decades, readers can experience the evolution of diagnostic audiology through his unique perspective. By detailing case studies from his own work over the years, Dr. Jerger gives his audience a chance to be a fly on the wall for major moments throughout the history of audiology.
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The 100 trillion dollar wealth transfer : how the handover from boomers to Gen Z will revolutionize capitalism
An insider's look into how Generation Z's focus on ethics, climate change and purpose will change capitalism forever.
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Global Health for All
Global Health for All trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health’s practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health’s key epistemic and therapeutic practices like localization, measurement, triage, markets, technology, care, and regulation. Its roving approach traverses policy centers, sites of intervention, and innumerable spaces in between to consider what happens when globalized logics, circulations, and actors work to imagine, modify, and manage health. By resting in these in-between places, Global Health for All simultaneously examines global health as a coherent system and as a dynamic, unpredictable collection of modular parts.
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The 21st century : geopolitics, democracy and peace
This book examines a wide range of issues that are expected to play a dominant role in shaping the 21st century. Delineating key concerns in geopolitics, democracy and peace, it studies the functions and influences of educational institutions, progressive religious and social groups, communities, international institutions such as the United Nations, and forums promoting inter-faith dialogue. The author underscores how the century may be forged by a pluralist ethos: multiple and diverse nation-states, centres of power, faiths, cultures, economies, and languages. He stresses the need to nurture moral strength and enlightened leadership for a life of compassion, peace and holistic development. Lucid and engaging, this book will interest scholars and researchers of political studies, international relations, public policy, governance and development studies.
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Medal Winners
As the ground war in Vietnam escalated in the late 1960s, the US government leveraged the so-called doctor draft to secure adequate numbers of medical personnel in the armed forces. Among newly minted physicians’ few alternatives to military service was the Clinical Associate Training Program at the National Institutes of Health. Though only a small percentage of applicants were accepted, the elite program launched an unprecedented number of remarkable scientific careers that would revolutionize medicine at the end of the twentieth century. Medal Winners recounts this overlooked chapter and unforeseen byproduct of the Vietnam War through the lives of four former NIH clinical associates who would go on to become Nobel laureates. Raymond S. Greenberg traces their stories from their pre-NIH years and apprenticeships through their subsequent Nobel Prize–winning work, which transformed treatment of heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. Greenberg shows how the Vietnam draft unintentionally ushered in a golden era of research by bringing talented young physicians under the tutelage of leading scientists and offers a lesson in what it may take to replicate such a towering center of scientific innovation as the NIH in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Life beside itself
In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way, Stevenson troubles our commonsense understanding of what life is and what it means to care for the life of another. Through close attention to the images in which we think and dream and through which we understand the world, Stevenson describes a world in which life is beside itself: the name-soul of a teenager who dies in a crash lives again in his friend's newborn baby, a young girl shares a last smoke with a dead friend in a dream, and the possessed hands of a clock spin uncontrollably over its face. In these contexts, humanitarian policies make little sense because they attempt to save lives by merely keeping a body alive. For the Inuit, and perhaps for all of us, life is \"somewhere else,\" and the task is to articulate forms of care for others that are adequate to that truth.
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