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Cover: The Cost of Inaction: Case Studies from Rwanda and Angola

The Cost of Inaction: Case Studies from Rwanda and Angola

Anand, Sudhir
Desmond, Chris
Fuje, Habtamu
Marques, Nadejda

Case studies from Rwanda and Angola show how the cost of inaction can be greater than the cost of action. Failure to reduce extreme poverty, for example, often results in malnutrition, preventable morbidity, premature death, and incomplete basic education. Differences between the COI approach and traditional benefit–cost analysis are highlighted.

Cover: Learning to Dance: Advancing Women’s Reproductive Health and Well-Being from the Perspectives of Public Health and Human Rights

Learning to Dance: Advancing Women’s Reproductive Health and Well-Being from the Perspectives of Public Health and Human Rights

Yamin, Alicia Ely

This book elucidates how the fields of health and human rights can better work together, including both addressing human rights implications of reproductive health interventions and fostering rights-based policies and laws relating to sexuality and reproductive health.

Cover: Health and Human Rights: Basic International Documents, Third Edition

Health and Human Rights: Basic International Documents, Third Edition

Marks, Stephen P.

Health and Human Rights: Basic International Documents assembles in one book the basic instruments of international law and policy that express the values of human rights for advancing health. Topics include ethics; biotechnology; right to health; freedom from torture; women and reproductive health; children; right to a clean environment; and more.

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Jacket: Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500, by Peter Wilson, from Harvard University Press

A Lesson in German Military History with Peter Wilson

In his landmark book Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500, acclaimed historian Peter H. Wilson offers a masterful reappraisal of German militarism and warfighting over the last five centuries, leading to the rise of Prussia and the world wars. Below, Wilson answers our questions about this complex history,