Explores the cultural, ecological, and economic impacts that mass international tourism is having on almost every country on earth

Tourists: How Our Fastest Growing Industry is Changing the World

Business & Money

Krotz, Larry

Industries

Faber&Faber

Indian Country

History

Americas

MCCLELLAND STEWART

Midlifeman: A Book for Guys and the Women who Want to Understand Them

With provocative insights and humor Larry Krotz ventures through midlife or as he describes it, "halftime in the locker room."  Too old now to recover easily from colossal mistakes, too young to rest on his laurels, Midlifeman feels a sense of urgency to do it now (whatever it is) and to do it right, a sense that this is the last kick at the can.  Krotz’s book is part memoir, part advice and inspiration---all in all a great read.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Men's Health

From Doctor Livingstone 150 years ago to the rock star Bono today, outsiders have championed foreign intervention in Africa through political, economic, and health care reforms. Although frequently exploitative, the relationship between Westerners and Africa is also often propelled by an almost irresistible urge to "do good." Krotz follows the projects of scientists, NGOs, lawyers, and peacekeepers, all motivated in some manner by the desire to "do good" in Africa. He focuses specifically on the Angolan civil war, AIDS research in Kenya, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and the UNIM circumcision research project in Kenya. Krotz examines the ethical and social implications of these projects, and raises many difficult and critically important questions: How have we come to think the way we do about Africa and its people? What has motivated us to action, for good or ill? And, in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, is there a choice to be made between doing nothing and doing the well intentioned but perhaps wrong thing?

The Uncertain Business of Doing Good: Outsiders in Africa

Economics

Michigan State University Press

In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya’s “sexual diseases problem.” That initial invitation led to a groundbreaking international scientific collaboration that would uncover critical pieces in the complex puzzle that became today’s HIV/AIDS pandemic. In Piecing the Puzzle, journalist and documentary filmmaker Larry Krotz chronicles the fascinating history of the pioneering Kenyan, Canadian, Belgian, and American research team that uncovered HIV/AIDS in Kenya, their scientific breakthroughs and setbacks, and their exceptional thirty-year relationship that began a new era of global health collaboration.

Piecing the Puzzle: The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa

Diseases & Physical Ailments

University of Manitoba Press

In the late 1980s, pediatric endocrinologists at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg began to notice a new cohort appearing in their clinics for young people with diabetes. Indigenous youngsters from two First Nations in northern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were showing up not with type 1 (or insulin-dependent diabetes), but with what looked like type 2 diabetes, until then a condition that was restricted to people much older. Investigation led the doctors to learn that something similar had become a medical issue among young people of the Pima Indian Nation in Arizona though, to their knowledge, nobody else. But these youth were just the tip of the iceberg. Over the next few decades more children would confront what was turning into not only a medical but also a social and community challenge. "Diagnosing the Legacy" is the story of communities, researchers, and doctors who faced―and continue to face―something never seen before: type 2 diabetes in younger and younger people. Through dozens of interviews, Krotz shows the impact of the disease on the lives of individuals and families as well as the challenges caregivers faced diagnosing and then responding to the complex and perplexing disease, especially in communities far removed from the medical personnel a facilities available in the city.

Diagnosing the Legacy: The Discovery, Research, and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Youth

Trapped by Tourism: Sustainability Questions for a World Fueled by Travelers

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

With provocative insights and humor Larry Krotz ventures through midlife or as he describes it, "halftime in the locker room." Too old now to recover easily from colossal mistakes, too young to rest on his laurels, Midlifeman feels a sense of urgency to do it now (whatever it is) and to do it right, a sense that this is the last kick at the can. Krotz’s book is part memoir, part advice and inspiration---all in all a great read.

Midlifeman: A Book for Guys and the Women Who Want to Understand Them (Capital Discovery)

Addiction & Recovery

Capital Books

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