Closing the Gap in a Generation

Closing the Gap in a Generation

Author: WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 9241563702

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Social justice is a matter of life and death. It affects the way people live, their consequent chance of illness, and their risk of premature death. We watch in wonder as life expectancy and good health continue to increase in parts of the world and in alarm as they fail to improve in others.


Bitter Fruit

Bitter Fruit

Author: Stephen Schlesinger

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2020-12-01

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0674260074

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Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. government documents and interviews with former CIA and other officials. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.


Honest John Williams

Honest John Williams

Author: Carol E. Hoffecker

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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"Williams had deep roots in Sussex Country, the most southern, most rural, and most socially conservative part of Delaware. The book examines Williams's involvement in the country's poultry industry from its beginnings during the 1920s through the turbulent World War II years when Sussex poultry producers tangled with federal government officials from the Office of Price Administration and the U.S. Army. The war years coincided with the maturation of poultry production in Sussex that brought the county's people into more complex and wide-ranging economic, social, and political interactions. It was in reaction to these events that John Williams decided to run for the U.S. Senate."--BOOK JACKET.


Poverty in the United Kingdom

Poverty in the United Kingdom

Author: Peter Townsend

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2024-03-29

Total Pages: 1295

ISBN-13: 0520325761

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.