Published February, 2013
By Shane Doyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
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Two of the most important questions in modern African history are the causes of its population explosion, and the origins of the HIV pandemic. Before HIV shows that the more permissive sexual culture which permitted HIV to spread so quickly can be traced back to the mid-20th century, when new patterns of socialization and sexual networking emerged.

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Published January, 2013
By Abigail Saguy
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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What's Wrong with Fat? examines the social implications of understanding fatness as a medical health risk, disease, and epidemic. Examining the ways in which debates over fatness have developed, Abigail Saguy argues that the obesity crisis literally makes us fat, intensifies negative body image, and justifies weight-based discrimination.

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Published January, 2013
By Jerome Engel, Jr. and Jerome Engel
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Contemporary Neurology Series
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Published January, 2013
By Donald T. Stuss and Robert T. Knight
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Principles of Frontal Lobe Function, Second Edition is an expanded volume, divided into 9 sections representing major research and clinical disciples, including new topics such as social neuroscience. This book will provide clinicians, researchers, and students with the most current information as the mystery of the frontal lobes is unraveled.

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Published January, 2013
By Leonard A. Jason
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Advances in Community Psychology
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Principles of Social Change is written for those who are impassioned and driven by social justice issues in their communities and seek practical solutions to successfully address them. Leonard A. Jason, a leading community psychologist, demonstrates how social change can be accomplished and fostered by observing five key principles.

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Published January, 2013
By Joanna Chikwe, David Cooke, Aaron Weiss, David A. Cooke and Andrew Goldstone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Surgery
Rating: 2.00
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Cardiothoracic Surgery covers all areas of adult and paediatric, cardiac and thoracic surgery and intensive care. This new edition, with updated cardiac surgery and thoracic sections, provides practical on-the-spot guidance to common and less common operative procedures.

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Published January, 2013
By Sri G. Thrumurthy, Tania S. De Silva, Zia M. Moinuddin, Stuart Enoch, Tania Samantha De Silva and Zia Moinuddin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Specialty Training: Revision Texts
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This revision book is specifically designed to help candidates revise the MRCS syllabus, as defined by the Intercollegiate Surgical Curriculum Project (ISCP). The book features 250 questions divided into 96 themes.

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Published January, 2013
By John Playfair, Gregory Bancroft and J. H. L. Playfair
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Gives a perfectly balanced overview of the field, describing the key infectious agents our bodies encounter and how our immune system responds to them. It also explains how diseases are spread and what measures we can take to control this spread, from vaccination to increasing public awareness.

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Published January, 2013
By Dominic Wilkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Dominic Wilkinson combines philosophy, medicine, and science to explore the profound and contentious ethical issues facing those who work with critically ill children and infants. He addresses questions about the accuracy of predictions for future quality of life; about when to allow children to die; and about how much say parents should have.

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Published January, 2013
By Monica K. Miller and Brian H. Bornstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: American Psychology-Law Society Series
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Stress, Trauma, and Wellbeing in the Legal System presents theory, research, and scholarship from a variety of social scientific disciplines and offers suggestions for those interested in exploring and improving the wellbeing of those who are voluntarily or involuntarily drawn into the legal system.

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