Published March, 2021
By Joe Piggin
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Defining 'politics' as contests over ideas, values and visions about what a physically active society could be, this book uses critical analysis to challenge accepted truths about physical activity and therefore opens up a pathway to more effective, and more socially just, physical activity policy.

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Published March, 2021
By Suvi Salmenniemi, Johanna Nurmi, Inna Perheentupa and Harley Bergroth
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This volume examines the ways in which people engage with therapeutic practices, such as life coaching, mindfulness, complementary and alternative medicine, sex and relationship counselling, spiritual healing and self-tracking.

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Published March, 2021
By Aron Katsenelinboigen
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Originally published in 1997 Evolutionary Change explores the biological mechanisms of change in their entirety - as they fit into the general dynamics of biological systems - and demonstrates the pitfalls of tackling change from a narrow perspective.

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Published March, 2021
By Markus Wahl
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This book draws on the example of the major cities of Leipzig and Dresden to illustrate continuity and change in public health in the German Democratic Republic.

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Published March, 2021
By Laura Davidson
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Despite its enormous impact on individuals, families, communities, and economies, globally mental health has always been a low priority, with mental health budgets rarely protected and often the first to be axed in times of austerity.

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Published March, 2021
By Jens Bangsbo, Anne-Marie Elbe, Peter Krustrup, Peter Riis Hansen, Laila Ottesen and Gertrud Pfister
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Science and Football VIII showcases the very latest scientific research into the variety of sports known as 'football'. These include soccer, the national codes (American football, Australian rules football and Gaelic football), and the rugby codes (union and league).

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Published March, 2021
By Maya Unnithan
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Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, the book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state, caste and kin groups.

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Published March, 2021
By Anthony Elliott
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The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers a remarkably clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century.

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Published March, 2021
By Austen Garwood-Gowers
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Medical use of the human being can be described as the phenomenon of employing medical means to make use of humans individually and as a species. However, scholarly discourse has only tackled it in a fragmented way rather than as a whole. This book adroitly fills the gap.

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Published March, 2021
By Katinka de Wet
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This book explores the normalization of HIV and AIDS, reflecting upon the intended and unintended consequences of the multifarious "AIDS industry".

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