Materialities of Care addresses the role of material culture within health and social care encounters, including everyday objects, dress, furniture and architecture. Makes visible the mundane and oft
In a world where nearly everyone has a cellphone camera capable of zapping countless instant photos, it can be a challenge to remember just how special and transformative Polaroid photography was in i
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Teaching Others to Defend Christianity deepens your faith, equipping you to be an effective witness. These six lessons are for those desiring an intellectual study to have confidence in God's existenc
Managing a chronic disease like diabetes can be overwhelmingespecially if you’re among the 1.7 million Americans who are newly diagnosed each year. Here is easy-to-read, steady advice in this newly up
AIDS has a unique political history. As fears grew of a global pandemic on the scale of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS was briefly treated as an issue of high politics in the international arena and
Filled with images from a trove of artists from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol, this is the first volume to explore the Polaroid camera's indelible influence on the history of photography. From its incept
For all health care professionals involved in diabetes care, Vora (endocrinology, Royal Liverpool U. Hospital, UK) and Buse (endocrinology, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) compile 26 chapters on
Positing the idea of the ghost not as a physical presence but as a means of expressing concerns about life and death, the passing of time, and the conscious and unconscious mind, the contributors disc
Alex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodovar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous. The director of some of the most important films of
Used across the public health field, this is the leading text in the area, focusing on the context, participants and processes of making health policy.
Photographer Rachael Jablo suffers from chronic migraine. Without medication, the pain makes her lose the ability to speak; with medication, she suffers from side effects that cause her to forget word
The Millennium ushered in renewed interest and investment in global health, in part because of concerns that globalization would intensify the risks of ill-health. But are we taking advantage of emerg
Modeling is a common tool in studies of forest landscape disturbances. After several decades of development and use, these tools could be now examined for their foundations, intentions, scope, advance
This book takes a fresh look at the problem of unconstrained handwriting recognition and introduces the reader to new techniques for the recognition of written words and characters using statistical a
What is a natural forest disturbance? How well do we understand natural forest disturbances and how might we emulate them in forest management? What role does emulation play in forest management? Repr
This is the first book to introduce landscape ecologists to the discipline of knowledge transfer. The discipline of landscape ecology has matured rapidly over the past few decades, generating a wealth
The key selling point of this volume is that its systematic approach to these three pillars of health systems analysis will give readers of various backgrounds authoritative material about subjects ad
The goal of this transdisciplinary book is to identify the problems and challenges facing implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) - from the global, regional and local points of
