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Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans

Praeger Publishers, 2007

Across history, the condition has been called soldier's heart, shell shock, or combat fatigue. It is now increasingly common as our service men and women return from Iraq, Afghanistan, and other ongoing combat zones. Since 1990, Veterans' centers here have treated more than 1.6 million affected men and women, including an estimated...

Women, Performance and the Material of Memory: The Archival Tourist, 1780–1915

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book proposes that the performance of archival research is related to the experience of tourism, where an individual immerses herself in a foreign environment, relating to and analyzing visual and sensory materials through embodiment and enactment. Each chapter highlights a particular set of tangible objects including: pocket...

The New Art And Science Of Pregnancy And Childbirth: What You Want to Know from Your Obstetrician

World Scientific Publishing, 2008

Edited by prominent obstetricians in KK Women's and Children's Hospital, the largest maternity hospital in Singapore with about 12,000 babies delivered each year, this book provides a comprehensive and informative look at pregnancy and childcare. It covers topics ranging from pre-pregnancy care, pregnancy care, and actual delivery to baby care. It...

Sex For Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry

Routledge, 2009

A groundbreaking collection of essays on the sex industry. Sex for Sale contains original studies on sex work, its risks and benefits, and its political implications. The book covers areas not commonly researched, including gay and lesbian pornography, telephone sex workers, customers of prostitutes, male and female escorts who work...

Early Breast Cancer: From Screening to Multidisciplinary Management, Second Edition

Informa Healthcare, 2005

This book discusses the principles and practice of breast cancer management within the context of multidisciplinary team working and places emphasis on pragmatism. The text provides a comprehensive and contemporary account of the subject and should permit the reader to develop a firm understanding of the disease from epidemiology, genetics...

Organic Chemistry Demystified

McGraw-Hill, 2006

Take the unCONQUERability out of ORGANIC CHEMISTRY!

Now anyone can master organic chemistry -- without tears, unlimited time, or a Ph.D. In Organic Chemistry Demystified, organic chemist and experienced teacher Daniel Bloch provides an effective and painless way to learn or review organic chemistry, from the chemical...

Claiming Your Place at the Fire : Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

More than 10,000 people turn 50 every day in the U.S. This purposeful text presents a new paradigm of successful aging for men and women entering into and moving through the second half of their lives.

Claiming Your Place at the Fire presents a new paradigm of successful aging for men and women entering into and moving through...

Women in Early British and Irish Astronomy: Stars and Satellites

Springer, 2009

Careers in astronomy for women (as in other sciences) were a rarity in Britain and Ireland until well into the twentieth century. The book investigates the place of women in astronomy before that era, recounted in the form of biographies of about 25 women born between 1650 and 1900 who in varying capacities contributed to its progress during the...

The 5-Minute Consult Clinical Companion to Women's Health (The 5-Minute Consult Series)

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006

The 5-Minute Consult Clinical Companion to Women's Health is a quick-reference guide to the diagnosis and management of symptoms and disorders that commonly occur in women. Written by both primary care physicians and obstetrician-gynecologists, the book covers disorders that are unique to women, occur disproportionately in...

Doing Business in 2005: Obstacles to Growth

World Bank Publications, 2004

Doing Business in 2005: Obstacles to Growth is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across more than 130 countries, and over time. The indicators...

Buddy System: Understanding Male Friendships

Oxford University Press, 2008

Much has been made of the complex social arrangements that girls and women navigate, but little scholarly or popular attention has focused on what friendship means to men. Drawing on in-depth interviews with nearly 400 men, therapist and researcher Geoffrey L. Greif takes readers on a guided tour of male friendships, explaining what makes them...

Statistically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations

Taylor & Francis, 1996

Statistically Speaking is a book of quotations. It has, for the first time, brought together in one easily accessible form the best expressed thoughts that are especially illuminating and pertinent to the disciplines of probability and statistics. Some of the quotations are profound, others are wise, some are witty, but none are frivolous....

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