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Product Description: This volume discusses the many ways to prevent, identify and control hypertension in African Americans, a common and potent risk factor for virtually all forms of cardiovascular-renal diseases. Comprehensive chapters address modifiable risk factors, such as lifestyle changes, especially sodium restriction, and appropriate combination pharmacotherapy...read more
By Keith C. Ferdinand (editor)

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9781493920099 | 1 edition (Humana Pr Inc, January 3, 2015), cover price $179.00 | About this edition: This volume discusses the many ways to prevent, identify and control hypertension in African Americans, a common and potent risk factor for virtually all forms of cardiovascular-renal diseases.

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Product Description: Bloodstone is the second novel in Gillian Philip's critically acclaimed Rebel Angels series, debuting in the United States for the first time. For centuries, Sithe warriors Seth and Conal MacGregor have hunted for the Bloodstone demanded by their Queen...read more

Hardcover:

9780765333285 | Tor Books, November 19, 2013, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Bloodstone is the second novel in Gillian Philip's critically acclaimed Rebel Angels series, debuting in the United States for the first time.
9780313243806, titled "A Profile of the Negro American" | Olympic Marketing Corp, June 1, 1964, cover price $3.98 | also contains A Profile of the Negro American

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9780765369420 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, June 3, 2014), cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Bloodstone is the second novel in Gillian Philip's critically acclaimed Rebel Angels series, debuting in the United States for the first time.

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By Martin Summers (editor)

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9780816690466 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 1, 2014, cover price $82.50

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9780816690473 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, March 21, 2014, cover price $27.50

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Product Description: In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA's approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race...read more

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9780822353294 | 1 edition (Duke Univ Pr, October 2, 2012), cover price $84.95 | About this edition: In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA's approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race.

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9780822353447 | 1 edition (Duke Univ Pr, October 2, 2012), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA's approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race.

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Product Description: The third edition of The Heart of the Matter, The American guide to Heart Health and Wellness, will stress the importance of preventive and up-to-date steps one can take to prevent heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke.The book will summarize the latest on fats, cholesterol, and lipids and the roles they play in heart disease...read more

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9780984756650 | 3 edition (Hilton Pub, April 30, 2012), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The third edition of The Heart of the Matter, The American guide to Heart Health and Wellness, will stress the importance of preventive and up-to-date steps one can take to prevent heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke.

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Product Description: The Heart of the atter, a devotional guide for a health heart, is a guide to maintaining heart health while taking into context both the physical and spiritual needs of the reader. All of the importance science behind heart healh (healthy diets, foods, exercise, cholesterol levels, etc) are communicated in a medically accurate yet spiritual manor...read more

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9780984756605 | Hilton Pub, May 30, 2012, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The Heart of the atter, a devotional guide for a health heart, is a guide to maintaining heart health while taking into context both the physical and spiritual needs of the reader.

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Product Description: According to the federal Office of Minority Health, African Americans "are affected by serious diseases and health conditions at far greater rates than other Americans." In fact, African Americans suffer an estimated 85,000 excess deaths every year from diseases we know how to prevent: heart disease, stroke, cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes...read more

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9780300137057 | Yale Univ Pr, April 26, 2011, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: According to the federal Office of Minority Health, African Americans "are affected by serious diseases and health conditions at far greater rates than other Americans.

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Product Description: According to the federal Office of Minority Health, African Americans 'are affected by serious diseases and health conditions at far greater rates than other Americans'. In fact, African Americans suffer an estimated 85,000 excess deaths every year from diseases we know how to prevent: heart disease, stroke, cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes...read more

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9780300145823 | 1 edition (Yale Univ Pr, April 26, 2011), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: According to the federal Office of Minority Health, African Americans 'are affected by serious diseases and health conditions at far greater rates than other Americans'.

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Product Description:   With a focus on how to improve the effectiveness and cultural competence of clinical services and research, this authoritative volume synthesizes current knowledge on both the physical and psychological health of African Americans today...read more
By Thomas P. Gullotta (editor)

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9781606237168 | Guilford Pubn, July 16, 2010, cover price $120.00 | About this edition:   With a focus on how to improve the effectiveness and cultural competence of clinical services and research, this authoritative volume synthesizes current knowledge on both the physical and psychological health of African Americans today.

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Hardcover:

9780470436790 | 3 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, November 9, 2009), cover price $90.00

Miscellaneous:

9780470552667 | 3 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, October 22, 2009), cover price N/A
9780470552650 | 3 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, October 16, 2009), cover price $80.00

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Product Description: This seminal work on heart disease in the African American community is updated with the latest information on nutrition and dietary guidelines, heart surgery, and medication in this revised edition. As important today as it was when originally published five years ago, this informative guide provides African Americans with the most cutting-edge information on cardiovascular disease, blood lipids, and strokes, the most current and successful medications and therapies on the market, and recent developments in understanding the role that spirituality plays in recovery...read more

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9780974314440 | Revised edition (Hilton Pub, March 1, 2008), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This seminal work on heart disease in the African American community is updated with the latest information on nutrition and dietary guidelines, heart surgery, and medication in this revised edition.

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Townes describes the lamentable history of health care in African American communities, offers models of care that have worked, and provides practical recommendations that are both sensitive to class and cultural context, and relevant to the needs of the Black Church and the African American community.

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9780826411211 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, November 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Townes describes the lamentable history of health care in African American communities, offers models of care that have worked, and provides practical recommendations that are both sensitive to class and cultural context, and relevant to the needs of the Black Church and the African American community.

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9781597525374 | Wipf & Stock Pub, February 1, 2006, cover price $24.00
9780826413680 | Reprint edition (Continuum Intl Pub Group, October 1, 2001), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Townes describes the lamentable history of health care in African American communities, offers models of care that have worked, and provides practical recommendations that are both sensitive to class and cultural context, and relevant to the needs of the Black Church and the African American community.

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Product Description: What is it like to be a black person in America today? The voices of middle class African Americans captured in this book will surprise those who think the era of racial discrimination is past. The Many Costs of Racism is a vivid account of the mental, physical health, and economic effects of everyday racism for Black Americans--and of racism's high costs for all Americans...read more

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9780742511187 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 30, 2005, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: What is it like to be a black person in America today?

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Product Description: A culturally sensitive discussion of health care for African-American families, this guide presents real-life situations that make information come alive. Includes information on the diseases that affect African Americans specifically and explores nutrition, children's health, spirituality, and minority health resources...read more

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9780967525860 | Hilton Pub, November 30, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A culturally sensitive discussion of health care for African-American families, this guide presents real-life situations that make information come alive.

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Product Description: Mindful Messages skillfully scans complex social and issues through a poetic healing conscious and mindfully intervenes with some simple solutions. That healing conscious is spoken word. In particular it focuses on the social and cultural impact the HIV/AIDS pandemic is having on the black community as it races across the country and around the globe...read more

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9780970404824 | 2 edition (Ashay by the Bay, May 30, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Mindful Messages skillfully scans complex social and issues through a poetic healing conscious and mindfully intervenes with some simple solutions.

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Product Description: Dr. James Gavin covers wellness and the tools to achieve it. He discusses health topics of particular concern to the African American population: obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer...read more

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9781580402040 | Amer Diabetes Assn, April 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Dr.

Health Concerns of Black Americans This is an important book--a vital source for policy makers and for all citizens concerned with issues of importance to the nation and to the black community. --John E. Jacob, president and CEO, National Urban League, Inc. A detailed look at how health risks such as AIDS, chemical depAndency, cancer, violence, sickle-cell anemia, infant mortality, and lead poisoning are affecting the black community. It offers health professionals helpful strategies for providing improved health care and disease prevention efforts to this population.
By Ronald L. Braithwaite (editor) and Sandra E. Taylor (editor)

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9780787952365 | 2 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, April 12, 2001), cover price $80.00
9781555424770 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, October 1, 1992, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Health Concerns of Black Americans This is an important book--a vital source for policy makers and for all citizens concerned with issues of importance to the nation and to the black community.

Miscellaneous:

9780787960056 | 2 edition (Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, March 15, 2004), cover price $80.00

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Product Description: In spite of the pleas made to the United States government for reparations, there are significant limitations to what the U.S. government can do to heal the tremendous pain and suffering of Black people. There should be no doubt about this...read more

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9780965886468 | Techdoc Inc, August 30, 2003, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: In spite of the pleas made to the United States government for reparations, there are significant limitations to what the U.

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Product Description: Increase your awareness of the concerns facing the black disabled community! Disability and the Black Community addresses physical, mental, and learning disabilities experienced across age, gender, and ethics groups by the black race in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Sheila D. Miller (editor)

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9780789020765 | Routledge, August 1, 2003, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Increase your awareness of the concerns facing the black disabled community!

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9780789020772 | Routledge, July 1, 2003, cover price $60.95

Product Description: In Building Health Coalitions in the Black Community, Professor Ronald Braithwaite and his colleagues examine the phenomenon of coalition building with respect to diverse problems and situations they have encountered in their research...read more

Hardcover:

9780803973091 | Sage Pubns, November 30, 1999, cover price $69.00

Paperback:

9780803973107 | Sage Pubns, May 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In Building Health Coalitions in the Black Community, Professor Ronald Braithwaite and his colleagues examine the phenomenon of coalition building with respect to diverse problems and situations they have encountered in their research.

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The author details the numerous consequences of racism, from discrepancies in income to differences in sentencing for various crimes to inequalities in education and life expectancy.

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9780742511170 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, January 1, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The author details the numerous consequences of racism, from discrepancies in income to differences in sentencing for various crimes to inequalities in education and life expectancy.

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