wyszukanych pozycji: 7
The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease
ISBN: 9780521808347 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (CWHHD) was first published by Cambridge in 1993. The basis of this Dictionary is Part VIII, the last section of the work, that comprises a history and description of the world's major diseases of yesterday and today in chapters organized alphabetically from "Acquired Immune Deficient Syndrome (AIDS)" to "Yellow Fever." The last section of CWHHD has been fully revised and the essays have been condensed into shorter entries, with up-to-date information on AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, Ebola, and Tuberculosis. The Dictionary also includes three chapters...
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (CWHHD) was first published by Cambridge in 1993. The basis of this Dictionary is Part VIII, the last sec...
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367,79 zł |
A Movable Feast
ISBN: 9780521793537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the last twenty-five years alone, the range of fruits and vegetables, even grains, that is available at most local markets has changed dramatically. Over the last 10,000 years, that change is almost unimaginable. This groundbreaking new work, from the editor of the highly regarded Cambridge World History of Food, examines the exploding global palate. It begins with the transition from foraging to farming that got underway some 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, then examines subsequent transitions in Egypt, Africa south of the Sahara, China, southeast Asia, the Indus Valley Oceanic,...
In the last twenty-five years alone, the range of fruits and vegetables, even grains, that is available at most local markets has changed dramatically...
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397,15 zł |
The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History
ISBN: 9780521524704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This study focuses on the black biological experience in slavery, in the Caribbean. It begins with a consideration of the rapidly changing disease environment after the arrival of the Spaniards; it also looks at the slave ancestors in their West African homeland and examines the ways in which the nutritional and disease environments of that area had shaped its inhabitants. In a particularly innovative chapter, he considers the epidemiological and pathological consequences of the middle passage for newly enslaved blacks. The balance of the book is devoted to the health of the black slave in...
This study focuses on the black biological experience in slavery, in the Caribbean. It begins with a consideration of the rapidly changing disease env...
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313,46 zł |
The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease
ISBN: 9780521530262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (CWHHD) was first published by Cambridge in 1993. The basis of this Dictionary is Part VIII, the last section of the work, that comprises a history and description of the world's major diseases of yesterday and today in chapters organized alphabetically from "Acquired Immune Deficient Syndrome (AIDS)" to "Yellow Fever." The last section of CWHHD has been fully revised and the essays have been condensed into shorter entries, with up-to-date information on AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, Ebola, and Tuberculosis. The Dictionary also includes three chapters...
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (CWHHD) was first published by Cambridge in 1993. The basis of this Dictionary is Part VIII, the last sec...
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152,82 zł |
Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora: Diet, Disease and Racism
ISBN: 9780521236645 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is an engrossing study of black disease immunities and susceptibilities and their impact on both slavery and racism. Its pages interweave the nutritional, biological, and medical sciences with demography. The book begins with an examination of the pre-slavery era in Africa and then pursues its subject into the slave societies of the West Indies and the United States. This truly interdisciplinary approach permits the blending of two distinctive concepts of racial differences, that of the hard sciences based on gene frequencies and that of the social sciences stressing environmental...
This is an engrossing study of black disease immunities and susceptibilities and their impact on both slavery and racism. Its pages interweave the nut...
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445,96 zł |
Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora: Diet, Disease and Racism
ISBN: 9780521528504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is an engrossing study of black disease immunities and susceptibilities and their impact on both slavery and racism. Its pages interweave the nutritional, biological, and medical sciences with demography. The book begins with an examination of the pre-slavery era in Africa and then pursues its subject into the slave societies of the West Indies and the United States. This truly interdisciplinary approach permits the blending of two distinctive concepts of racial differences, that of the hard sciences based on gene frequencies and that of the social sciences stressing environmental...
This is an engrossing study of black disease immunities and susceptibilities and their impact on both slavery and racism. Its pages interweave the nut...
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192,87 zł |
Biological Consequences of the European Expansion, 1450-1800
ISBN: 9780860785187 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. a Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.a So wrote Charles Darwin in 1836. Though there has been considerable discussion concerning their precise demographic impact, reflected in the articles here, there is no doubt that the arrival of new diseases with the Europeans (such as typhus and smallpox) had a catastrophic effect on the indigenous population of the Americas, and later of the Pacific. In the Americas, malaria and yellow fever also came with the slaves from Africa, themselves imported to work the depopulated land. These diseases placed Europeans at risk...
a Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.a So wrote Charles Darwin in 1836. Though there has been considerable discussio...
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954,06 zł |