Allergy victims can fight back with up-to-date expert advice on airborne allergies and immunology. Readers can learn the latest techniques for controlling symptoms through conventional medicines and diet, how to make a home allergen-free, and discover the exciting promise offered by lgE blockers and improved immunotherapy.

In this volume, experts from around the world investigate childhood in the past, showing why it is important to understand childhood, why different cultures construct different ideas of how to rear children, what part children play in the community, and when and why childhood ends.