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Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one wife. With economic development and massive Chinese social and political reforms, including new marriage laws prohibiting plural...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Cancer Intersections is an ethnographic analysis of the complex and paradoxical...

An influential thinker distills years of work on the philosophy of movement into one accessible account Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant groups so often maligned...

Based on over ten years of fieldwork in Peru and Aotearoa New Zealand, Recovering Our Ancestral Foodways explores how Quechua and Māori peoples describe, define, and enact well‑being through the lens of foodways. By analyzing how these two Indigenous...

Introducing an innovative, systematic approach to understanding differential diagnosis, Andre M. Mansoor's Frameworks for Internal Medicine, 2nd Edition, trains students and other learners to think like clinicians and master the methodology behind...

Media and Gender Adaptation examines how fans and professionals change the gender of characters when they adapt existing work. Using research into fans, and case studies on Sherlock Holmes, Ghostbusters and Doctor Who, it illustrates the foundation of...

In this important study, Raju J Das, Jamie Gough and Aram Eisenschitz provide a Marxist critique of new social democracy as the dominant contemporary strategy for local economic and social development.In both the global North and South, new social...

Robert Kane is one of the most prominent contributors to debates on free will over the last 50 years. Here he discusses the evolution of his views since his 1996 volume The Significance of Free Will, and provides responses to some of the latest critical...

This is a must-have companion for those on placement or in professional practice – or indeed anyone who is being encouraged to reflect more deeply on what they do. A powerful tool for processing your thoughts, feelings and actions, The Reflective Journal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750353908Author Saurabh BhatiaFormat HardbackImprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506496436Author Dianna E. AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Crash Course - your effective every-day study companion PLUS the perfect antidote for exam stress! Save time and be assured you have the essential information you need in one place to excel on your course and achieve exam success. A winning formula...

Racially and economically segregated schools across the United States have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education technology (edtech) companies who promise their products will rectify the failures of public education. Edtech's...

Contemporary America is centered around urban society. Most Americans reside in cities or their surrounding suburbs, and both the media and modern American sociology focus disproportionately on urban life. Rural and Small-Town America looks at what we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593594056Author Kristian RönnFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

The cognitive potency of the human mind can be fully appreciated only if it is conceived of as a linguistic mind. This is the starting point of Nikola Kompa’s investigation into the relationship between language and cognition. Underpinned by...

Systemic racism affects every sector of the medical education work and learning environment, from the staff and faculty who are the backbone of every medical school, to what and how medical students are taught, who teaches them, and how they are...

Environmental degradation is not new, yet the impact of pollution on human health and wellbeing is growing. According to the World Health Organization, 12.6 million people die annually from living or working near toxic pollution, amounting to one-quarter...

The sixth edition of Introduction to Clinical Neurology continues to present a straightforward and systematic approach to diagnosing diseases of the nervous system. Extensively revised to reflect medical advances and now including supplementary tables...

In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo ran the now famous Stanford prison experiment to show that prison could make normal people behave in pathological ways. Based on the first thorough investigation in the archives of the experiment and on interviews...

The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Political Science sketches the landscape of a new approach to political science: Behavioral Political Science (BPS). The work in the volume shows that ideas from different fields help to explain many of the phenomena...

The Japanese philosopher Miki Kiyoshi opens doors to all those interested in rethinking the problem of imagination, myth, and technology. Miki Kiyoshi is one of the central figures in the Kyoto School, often spoken of as the heir of Kitaro Nishida. Born...

Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and post-release theater workshops See Me is a collection of intimate dialogues about collective experiences in the context of prison theater workshops. Each essay is a collaboration between two...

In 1952, politicians from Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg formed the first Ad Hoc Assembly with the aim of drafting a constitution for a future European Political Community. Rediscovering this previously neglected origin...

Provide quality care for clients from culturally diverse backgrounds! Transcultural Nursing, 9th Edition shows you how to apply assessment and intervention strategies to individuals from a variety of different cultures. Based on Giger and Davidhizer's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788534130Author Ian SmillieFormat HardbackPage Count 382Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765130933Author Paul FrazierFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of impending catastrophe. The book starts out from the puzzle of peoples’ responses and reactions to this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781098141783Author Andrew StellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 780Imprint O'Reilly MediaPublisher O'Reilly Media

In this issue of Surgical Clinics, guest editor Drs. Andrea Gillis and Jessica McMullin bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Endocrine Surgery. Top experts provide review articles on the current surgical management of the major endocrine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499246Author David R. CastilloFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Europe is often described as "flooded" by migrants or by Muslim "others," with Western African men especially portrayed as a security risk. At the same time the intensified mobility of privileged people in the Global North is celebrated as creating an...

In 1894 Great Britain invited ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan, the amir of Afghanistan, to England for a state visit. Then at the height of its imperial might, Britain sought to strengthen ties with the strategically important Afghanistan, which shared a long...

This volume is the first English resource to shed light on the philosophy of Joseph Petzoldt (1862-1929), the main pupil of Ernst Mach and founder of the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Philosophie, later the association of Berlin logical positivists...

How animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortalityWhen the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her...

As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a silent coup – namely, the unstoppable rise of global...

An in-depth, authoritative, and timely look at the unprecedented economic war against Russia after Putin's invasion of Ukraine – written by a veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources Undeterred by eight years of timid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765105481Author James MackayFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

First English-language book on the history of commercial sex in BelgiumIn 2022, the Belgian parliament made a landmark decision by approving the decriminalisation of sex work. This move positioned the small nation as the first country in Europe – and the...

Due to the international importance attached to the reporting of conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) over the last two decades, scholars have been able to examine the magnitude of the problem across different situations and types of...