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Economic Development, Education and Transnational Corporations
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95In the early 1960s, Mexico and South Korea were agrarian societies and both equally undeveloped. The development strategies used by each country resulted in dramatically different results. Mark Hanson's incisive new monograph concentrates on comparing and contrasting these countries and answering the wider question of why some Third World nations... more...
Breaking Through Concrete
University of California Press 2011; US$ 29.95People have always grown food in urban spaces?on windowsills and sidewalks, and in backyards and neighborhood parks?but today, urban farmers are leading an environmental and social movement that transforms our national food system. To explore this agricultural renaissance, brothers David and Michael Hanson and urban farmer Edwin Marty document twelve... more...
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 198.00This compilation, written by many of the world's leading experts, summarizes the scientific and clinical advances in our understanding of the link between early development and the onset of chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, diabetes and osteoporosis. more...
The Fetal Matrix
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 70.00A ground-breaking and fascinating account of fetal origins of adult disease. more...
Post-Katrina Recovery of the Housing Market Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast
RAND Corporation 2007; US$ 9.95In summer 2006, the Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal asked the RAND Gulf States Policy Institute to describe the state of the pre-Hurricane Katrina housing markets in Mississippi's three coastal counties, to estimate the damage the storm di more...
Mismatch
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 17.95Our modern lifestyles, city-bound with abundant nutrition - are far removed from the hunter-gatherer lifestyles of our ancestors. However we have not evolved to reflect this change. This fascinating and controversial book explores whether it is this 'mismatch' that has led to the deadly explosion in lifestyle diseases we face today. - ;We have... more...
Mismatch
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 18.99We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity.... more...
Fat, Fate, and Disease : Why we are losing the war against obesity and chronic disease
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 21.99Why are we losing the war against obesity and chronic disease?' This is the simple question Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson ask, exploring the dominant myth that the exploding epidemic of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes can be tackled by focusing on adult life styles. Addressing the flawed approach of the weight-loss industry, they explain... more...
The Public Benefit of Energy Efficiency to the State of Washington
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95Addresses the public benefits of improvements in energy efficiency to the economy of Washington state. Under the sponsorship of the Energy Foundation, a partnership of major foundations interested in sustainable energy, the authors estimated energy efficiency using measures of energy intensity that have been controlled for sectoral composition and... more...
Principles of Evolutionary Medicine
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 48.99Evolutionary science is critical to an understanding of integrated human biology and is increasingly recognised as a core underpinning discipline by medical and public health professionals. Advances in the fields of genomics, epigenetics, developmental biology and epidemiology have led to the growing realisation that incorporating evolutionary thinking... more...









