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Color Atlas of Pharmacology

Thieme Medical Publishers, 2005

In many countries, medicine is at present facing urgent political and economic calls for reform. These socioeconomic pressures notwithstanding, pharmacotherapy has always been an integral part of the health care system and will remain so in the future. Well-founded knowledge of the preventive and therapeutic value of...

Progress in Colorectal Surgery

Springer, 2005

In a previous publication, the authors attempted to cover not only topical issues but also difficult problems that might confront recently appointed trainees in the decisions they make that confront these individuals in their future practices.

Since that time, much of the thrust of coloproctology and government...

The Discourse of Security: Language, Illiberalism and Governmentality (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21^st century. Combining the latest critical theories in poststructuralist and political philosophy with discourse analysis techniques, it uses corpus tools to investigate four collections of documents harvested from national and...

Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity

University of California Press, 2019

A free open access ebook is upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Flight during times of persecution has a long and fraught history in early Christianity. In the third century, bishops who fled were considered cowards or, worse yet,...

Global Energy Transformation: Four Necessary Steps to Make Clean Energy the Next Success Story

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Over the next few years, political and financial power will move in the direction of individuals, companies and nations that are able to use energy in a more efficient way. This book describes this challenge and presents a way forward by which we may achieve the goal of increased energy efficiency in the different areas that need to...

Climate Change (Global Viewpoints)

Greenhaven Press, 2009

Global interdependence has become an undeniable reality. Mass media and technology have increased worldwide access to information and created a society of global citizens. Understanding and navigating this global community is a challenge, requiring a high degree of information literacy and a new level of learning sophistication.

Building...

Western Constitutionalism: History, Institutions, Comparative Law

Springer, 2019

This innovative textbook provides an introduction into comparative constitutional law to undergraduate and graduate students. Combining a clear and practical explanation of the topics with scientific knowledge, the textbook analyzes the origins and the development of constitutional law in the Western world, as well as the structure...

Newton: A Very Short Introduction

Oxford University Press, 2007

This Very Short Introduction uses Newton's own unpublished writings to provide fascinating insight into the man who kept the Royal Society under his thumb, was Head of the Mint, and whose contributions to our understanding of the heavens and the earth are considered by many to be unparalleled. The author begins with the legends surrounding...

Global Expansion: Britain and its Empire, 1870-1914 (Pluto Critical History)

Pluto Press, 2000

This short volume focuses upon the British empire and the development and growth of the country’s imperial system between 1870 and the outbreak of World War I, in the context of historically unprecedented global expansion by certain European powers. The British was incomparably the largest both in area and population of the European overseas...

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

Ballantine Books, 1992

Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, the continued relevance of his militant analysis of white racism, and his emphasis on...

HIV & AIDS in Schools: The Political Economy of Pressure Groups & Miseducation (Occasional Paper, 121)

Institute of Economic Affairs, 2001

HIV and Aids teaching is compulsory in British schools but the content is not prescribed. Should teaching in such a difficult field, where there are disputes among experts, be left to secondary school teachers with no specialist knowledge? And is it right that the subject should be compulsory? These awkward issues are confronted in this...

Global Issues: An Introduction

John Wiley & Sons, 2016

Now reorganized and updated throughout, the fifth edition of this well-regarded introductory global issues text continues to reflect the most important aspects of an increasingly globalized world.

Reorganized into more accessible chapters better suited to semester-long courses, with new sections covering development,...

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