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The Provisions of War: Expanding the Boundaries of Food and Conflict, 1840-1990
ISBN: 9781682261965 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict. Historians as well as scholars of literature, regional studies, and religious studies problematize traditional geographic boundaries and periodization in this essay collection, analyzing various conflicts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a foodways lens to reveal new insights about the parameters of armed...
The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weap...
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281,76 |
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The Eroticizing of HIV: Viral Fantasies
ISBN: 9783031113512 / Angielski / Twarda / 121 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines sexual fantasies and their influence on everyday life through the stories of twenty-two men who introduce themselves as bugchasers, i.e. gay men who eroticize HIV. The author defines bugchasing, charts its history and contexts, and considers how it has changed in the age of internet and PrEP. Through the participants, their experiences and contexts, this text also theorizes about sexual fantasies, seeking to understand how people define sexual fantasies and use the internet as a space to navigate their desires, meet others, and find support. Chapters also consider the...
This book examines sexual fantasies and their influence on everyday life through the stories of twenty-two men who introduce themselves as bugchasers,...
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201,24 |
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Quality and Regulation in Health Care: International Experiences
ISBN: 9781032363103 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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437,16 |
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Gene Tierney: Star of Hollywood's Home Front
ISBN: 9780814348208 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines Gene Tierney's promotion, publicity, and reception as a star and offers an alternative history of the United States wartime efforts demonstrated through the arc of Tierney's career as a star working on the home front. The book's analysis aims to showcase that Tierney was more than just 'the most beautiful woman in movie history'.
Examines Gene Tierney's promotion, publicity, and reception as a star and offers an alternative history of the United States wartime efforts demonstra...
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344,90 |
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We the Scientists: How a Daring Team of Parents and Doctors Forged a New Path for Science
ISBN: 9780399576133 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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125,76 |
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Social Justice Case Studies: Interdisciplinary and Non-Traditional Interdisciplinary Approaches
ISBN: 9781804557471 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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230,11 |
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Who Killed My Father
ISBN: 9780811235044 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,08 |
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Sugar Rush: Science, Politics and the Demonisation of Fatness
ISBN: 9781526151544 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived ‘war on obesity’ levelled at ‘unhealthy’ foods and the people who enjoy them. Are the evils of sugar based on purely scientific fact, or are other forces at play? Sugar rush explores the social life of sugar in its rise to infamy. The book reveals how competing understandings of the ‘problem’ of sugar are smoothed over through appeals to science and the...
In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something nee...
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434,65 |
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Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town
ISBN: 9781978823532 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,54 |
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Risk and Adaptation in a Cancer Cluster Town
ISBN: 9781978823549 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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607,23 |
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Managing Risk During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Global Policies, Narratives and Practices
ISBN: 9781447365242 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The past 30 years have seen risk become a major field of study, most recently with the COVID-19 pandemic positioning it at the centre of public awareness, yet there is limited understanding of how risk can and should be used in policy making. This book provides an accessible guide to the key elements of risk in policy making, including its role in rhetoric to legitimise decisions and choices. Using risk as a framework, it examines how policy makers in a range of countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and explains why some were more successful than others.
The past 30 years have seen risk become a major field of study, most recently with the COVID-19 pandemic positioning it at the centre of public awaren...
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439,71 |
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Never Say Invisible: A Memoir of Living and Being Seen with ALS
ISBN: 9781954861008 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,64 |
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Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health
ISBN: 9780367423445 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the disciplines and fields of study that inform the work of promoting health into one book and provides many examples of practice.
Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the disciplines and fields of study that inform the work of promoting he...
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179,69 |
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Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health
ISBN: 9781032411248 / Angielski / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the disciplines and fields of study that inform the work of promoting health into one book and provides many examples of practice.
Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the disciplines and fields of study that inform the work of promoting he...
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631,52 |
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Positive Caregiving: Caring for Older Loved Ones Using the Power of Positive Emotions
ISBN: 9781685559533 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,03 |
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The Role of GIS in COVID-19 Management and Control
ISBN: 9781032129754 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edited by medical geographer and GIS Professor Dr. Esra Ozdenerol, this book highlights key GIS capabilities and lessons learned during the COVID-19 response and can help communities prepare for the next crisis. 12 global projects are discussed with a multidisciplinary approach, illustrating the role of GIS in crisis management.
Edited by medical geographer and GIS Professor Dr. Esra Ozdenerol, this book highlights key GIS capabilities and lessons learned during the COVID-19 ...
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607,23 |
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The Power of Parasites: Malaria as (un)conscious strategy
ISBN: 9789811667664 / Angielski / Miękka / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Pälawan communities living in the forested foothills of the municipality of Bataraza on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. Tracing the arc of malaria on the archipelago from colonial encounters to the present day, it examines the ways in which malaria parasites have become entangled in contemporary lives. It uniquely explores the experiences of local government leaders working towards sustainably developing this last ecological frontier, health workers trying to meet international targets to eliminate...
This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Pälawan communities living in the forested foothills of the muni...
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201,24 |
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Salutogenic Urbanism: Architecture and Public Health in Early Modern European Cities
ISBN: 9789811978500 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a new, salutogenic, perspective on the development of early modern cities by exploring profound and complex ways in which architecture and landscape design served to promote public health on an urban scale. Focusing on fifteenth- through nineteenth-century Europe, it addresses the histories of spaces and institutions that supported salubrious living, highlighting the intersections of medical theory, government policy, and architectural practice in designing, improving, and monumentalizing the infrastructure of sanitation and healthcare. Studies in this book highlight the...
This book offers a new, salutogenic, perspective on the development of early modern cities by exploring profound and complex ways in which architectur...
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523,30 |
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Stepping Up: COVID-19: Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga
ISBN: 9781775506713 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the roadside checkpoints that were set up by Māori to protect communities during the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Case studies of four different checkpoints are examined, each of which looked slightly different, but all of which were underpinned by tikanga Māori. The checkpoints are discussed as practical expressions of whanau, hapū, iwi and Māori rangatiratanga and indicate the ongoing existence and flourishing of rangatiratanga.
This book discusses the roadside checkpoints that were set up by Māori to protect communities during the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Ca...
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38,82 |
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Rights at Stake and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Two Special Issues of the Journal of Human Rights
ISBN: 9781032218250 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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631,52 |
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