Staying Alive provides a fresh perspective on the issues surrounding health, health care, and illness. In addition to the traditional approaches of health sciences and the sociology of health, this book unpacks the impact that human rights issues and political economy have on health. This provocative volume takes up these issues as they occur in Canada and the United States, while placing these analyses in an international context. No book to date has taken such an in-depth look at the construction of health care and illness internationally. With its emphasis on political economy and power distribution, and its global perspective, Staying Alive will become an essential text for those teaching the sociology of health in North America.

The failure of long-term care is the country’s best-kept embarrassing secret. Almost every adult in the United States will either enter a nursing home or have to deal with a parent or other relative who does. Studies show that 40 percent of all adults who live to age sixty-five will enter a nursing home before they die, while even more will use another form of long-term care.

First, the author is the great Dougal Dixon. Second it is about the ice age and prehistoric man, which are both subjects I enjoy. Third, the plot happens to be interesting - your character has to find out what a certain one-horned animal found in cave paintings were - was it really a unicorn?

Silver Games is a collection of open source, multiplayer networked games being developed in Silverlight. All games are tied together with a common lobby server featuring a global ladder ranking system.

This book is about - but not only about - Napster. The story of Napster is important in its own right, but its legacy even more so. The phenomenon that surrounds Napster has highlighted the extraordinary potential for the mass mobilisation of consumer and community power. This irresistible force - the underground Internet - has blown apart conventional models of doing business.

Objects are produced within, and simultaneously affect, the process of organizing as a
consequence of their interaction within social collectives. This paper discusses the impact and
influences of the growth of post-social relations, between human and technological objects, on social
and organisational arrangements. The paper presents a discussion largely at the conceptual level
and draws from a variety of literatures, including the burgeoning sociology of science literature.
The discussion in this paper is based on a view that posits the growth of intimate links with
epistemic objects within organisations and society. Organising through networks of post-social
relations increasingly comes to affect the manner in which differing groups of organisational
participants, and particularly various categories of knowledge workers, experience time and spatial
arrangements within organisations.

The living dead rule the world! From the battle-torn skies over World War I France to the corridors of alien prisoner-of-war satellites, from the opium dens of exotic Victorian Shanghai to the living rooms of suburban America, zombies rise up! And they hunger. They crave revenge, or power, or love. Others desire nothing more than the brains of the living. All pursue their prey with relentless steps. They cannot be stopped. They will not be denied…

Gathered here for the first time are Miles J. Breuer’s first publication, “The Man with the Strange Head”; his neglected dystopian novel Paradise and Iron (appearing here in book form for the first time); stories such as “Gostak and the Doshes” and “Mechanocracy”; and Breuer’s essay “The Future of Scientifiction,” one of the early critical statements of the genre. Also included are some of the author’s letters from the Discussions column of Amazing Stories…

"This book takes a clear approach to the challenges of university life, offers realistic advice, and demonstrates how to acquire transferable skills for future employment. Issues examined include how to maximize your academic performance, develop powers of expression, analyze data, write a dissertation, and identify what employers want."