Published December, 2019
By Terry Leahy
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A must-have tool for understanding how value perspectives cannot be eliminated from the social sciences, this book is essential for undergraduates, postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers interested in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women's studies, social work, human geography, political philosophy and ecology.

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Published December, 2019
By Janet C. Myers and Deirdre H. McMahon
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Focusing on everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain and its imperial possessions"from preparing tea to cleaning the kitchen, from packing for imperial adventures to arranging home decor"the essays in this collection analyze the idiosyncratic and ideological contours of materiality.

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Published December, 2019
By Justin Waring and Mark Bevir
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This book offers a unique analysis of the changing landscape of healthcare reform in Britain, as an example of decentralized reforms across the developed world. The collection is framed by the recognition that healthcare reform has resulted in variegated and decentralized forms of governance.

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Published December, 2019
By Cornelius Borck, Ann M. Hentschel and Ann Hentschel
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In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius Borck focuses on a recording technique developed by the German physiologist Hans Berger to register electric brain currents; a technique that was expected to allow the brain to write in its own langu

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Published December, 2019
By Marco Bresadola, Maria Conforti and Silvia De Renzi
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This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. It shows how autopsies informed the understanding of pathology of those involved, from medical practitioners' debates to laypeople's experience of suffering.

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Published December, 2019
By Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
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Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians to the rise of the Seleucids, this book argues that the Sumerian emphasis on the divine favour that the fertility goddess and the Sun god bestowed upon the king should be understood metaphorically from the start and that these metaphors survived in later

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Published December, 2019
By Christopher Dowrick
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Primary care, grounded in the provision of continuous comprehensive person-centred care, is vital to the delivery of effective health care. The central notion of person-centred care, however, relies on often-unexamined concepts of self. This book explores contemporary pressures on the sense of self for both patient and health professional

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Published December, 2019
By Mike McGuigan
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Testing and Evaluation of Strength and Power provides a detailed explanation of testing and evaluation methods for strength and power. The text considers the relationship between the methods of assessment, research on the various approaches to evaluation and how practitioners and researchers can use the information in applied settings.

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Published December, 2019
By Mark Jackson
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This book presents a varied range of case studies and perspectives on the patterns, technologies and narratives of disease that can be identified in the past and that continue to influence our present. Chapters examine particular forms and conceptualizations of disease.

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Published December, 2019
By M. Saiful Islam and M. Islam
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Recently, mass arsenic poisoning of groundwater has emerged as a disastrous public health concern in Bangladesh. Apart from hundreds of deaths that have already been reported, 85 million people are estimated to be at high risk of developing deadly arsenicosis symptoms. This book examines how the actual patients perceive, explain, manage, and res

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