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The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World

By: David A. Graff

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The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World

By: David A. Graff

Volume II of The Cambridge History of War covers what in Europe is commonly called 'the Middle Ages'. It includes all of the well-known themes of European warfare, from the migrations of the Germanic peoples and the Vikings through the Reconquista, the Crusades and the age of chivalry, to the development of state-controlled gunpowder-wielding armies and the urban militias of the later middle ages; yet its scope is world-wide, ranging across Eurasia and the Americas to trace the interregional connections formed by the great Arab conquests and the expansion of Islam, the migrations of horse nomads such as the Avars and the Turks, the formation of the vast Mongol Empire, and the spread of new technologies – including gunpowder and the earliest firearms – by land and sea.

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The Eurasian Way of War

Military Practice in Seventh-Century China and Byzantium

By: David A. Graff

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Military Practice in Seventh-Century China and Byzantium

By: David A. Graff

This book is a comparative study of military practice in Sui-Tang China and the Byzantine Empire between approximately 600 and 700 CE. It covers all aspects of the military art from weapons and battlefield tactics to logistics, campaign organization, military institutions, and the grand strategy of empire. Whilst not neglecting the many differences between the Chinese and Byzantines, this book highlights the striking similarities in their organizational structures, tactical deployments and above all their extremely cautious approach to warfare. It shows that, contrary to the conventional wisdom positing a straightforward Western way of war and an "Oriental" approach characterized by evasion and trickery, the specifics of Byzantine military practice in the seventh century differed very little from what was known in Tang China. It argues that these similarities cannot be explained by diffusion or shared cultural influences, which were limited, but instead by the need to deal with common problems and confront common enemies, in particular the nomadic peoples of the Eurasian steppes. Overall, this book provides compelling evidence that pragmatic needs may have more influence than deep cultural imperatives in determining a society’s "way of war.

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Routledge

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1317237099

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Kaufman's Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists E-Book

By: David Myland Kaufman,Howard L. Geyer,Mark J Milstein

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Kaufman's Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists E-Book

By: David Myland Kaufman,Howard L. Geyer,Mark J Milstein

For more than 35 years, Kaufman’s Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists has been the only reference to focus on the must-know aspects of neurology for psychiatrists. Now in a revised 8th Edition, this classic text brings you up to date with essential knowledge in clinical neurology with new topics, new illustrations, and new questions to help you excel on the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology examination. Explains each condition's neurologic and psychiatric features, easily performed office and bedside examinations, appropriate tests, differential diagnosis, and management options. Discusses timely, clinically-relevant topics such as traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer and non-Alzheimer dementias, other age-related neurologic conditions, neurologic illnesses that present with symptoms of autism, neurologic effects of illicit drug use, and current treatments. Correlates neurologic illnesses with the DSM-5. Includes nearly 2,000 multiple-choice questions both in print and online, – all written to help you succeed on the ABPN certifying exam. Features new and improved clinical illustrations throughout: life-like patient sketches, anatomy line drawings, CTs, MRIs, and EEGs that demonstrate clinical features.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032346131X

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9780323461313

EBOOK: Rethinking Experiences of Childhood Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Chronic Childhood Illness

By: Mary Dixon-Woods,Bridget Young,David Heney

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EBOOK: Rethinking Experiences of Childhood Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Chronic Childhood Illness

By: Mary Dixon-Woods,Bridget Young,David Heney

The experiences of the families rang true throughout. I have experienced many of these personally. ...It made me think differently about my personal experience as a parent of a child with cancer and my son's current social experiences." Macmillan Cancer Support This book offers a radical critique of existing psychosocial research on children’s experiences of cancer and proposes an alternative view informed by recent interpretive perspectives. Exploring topics from obtaining a diagnosis of childhood cancer through to sharing decision-making and communication, it reviews a wide-ranging body of research and theory on childhood, chronic illness, and cancer. The book also examines research that has focused on how parents and other family members experience childhood illness. Written by a sociologist, a psychologist and a practising paediatric oncologist, this book is unique in its approach and provides key reading across traditional disciplinary boundaries. In particular, the book highlights the emerging contribution of interpretive work to understanding chronic childhood illness and further develops the dialogue that has only recently emerged between the sociology of illness and the sociology of childhood. Rethinking Experiences of Childhood Cancer is aimed at researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of social science, childhood studies, nursing, medicine, mental health care, social work, clinical psychology and other professions allied to medicine, and will also be of interest to families who have been affected by childhood cancer.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335224865

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Medieval Chinese Warfare 300-900

By: David Graff

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Medieval Chinese Warfare 300-900

By: David Graff

Shortly after 300 AD, barbarian invaders from Inner Asia toppled China's Western Jin dynasty, leaving the country divided and at war for several centuries. Despite this, the empire gradually formed a unified imperial order. Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 explores the military strategies, institutions and wars that reconstructed the Chinese empire that has survived into modern times. Drawing on classical Chinese sources and the best modern scholarship from China and Japan, David A. Graff connects military affairs with political and social developments to show how China's history was shaped by war.

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Routledge

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1134553528

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The Eurasian Way of War

Military Practice in Seventh-Century China and Byzantium

By: David A. Graff

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The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World

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Stitches

A Memoir

By: David Small

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Stitches

A Memoir

By: David Small

With this groundbreaking adult graphic-narrative memoir, award-winning children’s author David Small takes readers on an unforgettable journey into the dark heart of his troubled childhood in 1950s Detroit, in a coming-of-age tale like no other. At the age of fourteen, David awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover his throat had been slashed and one of his vocal chords removed, leaving him a virtual mute for ten years. Yet the silence that resulted was in keeping with the atmosphere of suppressed emotion and seething frustration that permeated the Small household, finding expression in the slamming of cupboard doors, the thumping of a punching bag, the beating of a drum. It wasn’t until David came across a hidden letter written by his withholding mother that he discovered he had had cancer. Eventually he would learn that his well-meaning radiologist father may have inadvertently caused his cancer: when X-rays were still considered a cure-all for everything from asthma to sinus conditions, his father had routinely given young David large doses of radiation as treatment for his respiratory problems. What follows is the compelling and ultimately redemptive story of David’s struggle to reclaim his voice through art. Readers will be riveted by his journey from speechless victim to the troubled teen who makes the risky decision to flee his home at sixteen with nothing more than dreams of becoming an artist. RecallingRunning with Scissorswith its ability to evoke the trauma of a childhood lost,Stitcheswill transform adolescent and adult readers alike with its deeply liberating vision and humanity.

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Random House LLC

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0771081103

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The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World

The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World

The Eurasian Way of War

The Eurasian Way of War

Kaufman's Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists E-Book

Kaufman's Clinical Neurology for Psychiatrists E-Book

EBOOK: Rethinking Experiences of Childhood Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Chronic Childhood Illness

EBOOK: Rethinking Experiences of Childhood Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Chronic Childhood Illness

Medieval Chinese Warfare 300-900

Medieval Chinese Warfare 300-900

The Eurasian Way of War

The Eurasian Way of War

The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World

The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World

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