Month: October 2015

Author: Brian Bolton Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan – 231 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram The word ‘sustainable’ brings to mind these adjectives: defensible, justifiable, long-lasting, persistent, reasonable, semi-permanent (if not permanent), solid, and survivable. Sometimes, companies come out with a great new gadget and its earnings double or triple. But after a few years, interest in that product wanes, or copycats come out with a similar product priced far less. The company cannot or perhaps will not compete on price, and earnings go back to the level they were before that product came out. Result: unsustainable earnings. This book...

Author: Thomas Schneid, PhD Publisher: Taylor & Francis – 313 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Emergency medical services or EMS (sometimes known as Emergency Medical Ambulance Service or EMAS; or Emergency Medical Ambulance Rescue Service or EMARS) are a type of emergency health and life-saving service in the United States, dedicated to providing out-of-hospital or acute medical care, transport to a care facility, or medical transport of patients with illnesses and injuries which prevent them from transporting themselves. Emergency medical services may also be locally known as an ambulance service or squad, a first aid squad, emergency squad, a life squad, or a rescue squad....

(A volume in the series: Advances in Labour Studies) Editors: Marc Lavoie and Engelbert Stockhammer Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan – 193 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Does the rise in wages lead to more demand for goods and services which in turn leads to larger production of those goods and services, creating a rise in gross domestic product or GDP? In other words, is economic growth principally driven by creating larger demand, or is it driven by enlarging the supply of such goods and services? Of course, supply and demand co-exist in any given economy, but the question to...

Author: Janet L. Abrahm, MD; with Amanda Moment, MSW; and Arden O’Donnell, MPH Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press – 630 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani The American Cancer Society, in a published online article entitled Cancer Facts and Figures 2014 estimated that 585,720 people, or an average of about 1,600 per day, will die of cancer in that year in the United States. Of that, it indicated that about one-third or 195,220 of the total cancer deaths will be due to obesity, overweight conditions, and poor nutrition; and another about 30 percent or 176,000 people will die of...

Authors: Michael D. Zanolli, MD; and Steven R. Feldman, MD Publisher: Informa Healthcare, a division Taylor & Frances – 175 pages Book Review by: Nano Khilnani Phototherapy is the use of light in the treatment of physical or mental illness, if defined in the most basic sense. The light can be of two main kinds: natural such as sunlight, or man-made light such as the various types of ultraviolet (UV) light. Phototherapy is commonly used in curing skin problems. Some common skin conditions are: atopic dermatitis, which affects about 20 percent of the people at some point in their...