"Supersizing Urban America reveals the little-known story of how the U.S. government got into the business of encouraging fast food in inner cities, with unforeseen consequences we are only beginning to understand. Chin Jou begins her story in the late 1960s, when predominantly African-American neighborhoods went from having no fast food chain restaurants to being littered with them. She uncovers the federal policies that have helped to subsidize...

McKenna reveals the hidden history of MRSA's relentless advance-- how it has overwhelmed hospitals, assaulted families, and infiltrated agriculture and live-stock, moving inexorably into the food chain.

"The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pill, IUD, and sterilization. Fit to Be Tied provides a history of sterilization and what would prove to become, at once, socially divisive and a popular form of birth control. During the first half of the twentieth century, sterilization (tubal ligation and vasectomy) was a tool of eugenics. Individuals...

"This book gives you everything you need to understand our rapidly evolving economy--as well as the economic fundamentals that never change. What's the best way to fight poverty? What can be done to protect endangered species and the environment? This book explains the answers to those questions--and many more--in plain English"--Page 4 of cover. Grasp the history, principles, theories, and terminology of economics. This updated guide gives you a...