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Practical Prescribing for Musculoskeletal Practitioners 2/ed

By: Dr Julie Dawson,Sheena Hennell,Ruth Shepton

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Practical Prescribing for Musculoskeletal Practitioners 2/ed

By: Dr Julie Dawson,Sheena Hennell,Ruth Shepton

This book provides prescribing advice for medical and non-medical prescribers caring for adult patients with common musculoskeletal problems. It will be particularly useful for non-medical practitioners, including independent physiotherapy and podiatry prescribers. Reference is made to current prescribing law and accountability, and the principles of safe prescribing are clearly defined. It gives practical prescribing advice for pain control, corticosteroids, osteoporosis, Paget’s disease, gout and disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. Basic information is provided on each drug, including the mechanism of action where known, evidence grading, dosage and contra-indications. This revised edition incorporates the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance for osteoarthritis, chronic low back pain, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, neuropathic pain and gout, with weblinks giving rapid access to the relevant online documents. For drugs under patent, there are weblinks to the relevant online Summary Product Characteristics (SPC). All references have been updated and a list of common proprietary names has been added. Finally, a new concluding chapter offers a range of clinical case histories so that the reader can consider salient prescribing issues. All these additions make this book a vital purchase for the many autonomous practitioners who need to be familiar with the evidence base, NICE guidance and rationale for prescribing for patients with musculoskeletal disorders.

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M&K Update Ltd

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1907830782

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9781907830785

ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama, vol 50

By: Dr. Mario Longtin

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ROMARD: Research on Medieval and Renaissance Drama, vol 50

By: Dr. Mario Longtin

ROMARD is an academic journal devoted to the study and promotion of Medieval and Renaissance drama in Europe. Previously published under the title of Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (RORD), the journal has been in publication since 1956. ROMARD is published annually at the University of Western Ontario. Manuscripts are submitted to the Editor, Mario Longtin, via email at romard@romard.org. For further details, please visit the ROMARD website at www.romard.org.

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First Circle Publishing

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0991976002

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Educating the Other

Gender, Power and Schooling

By: Dr Carrie Paechter,Carrie Paechter

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Educating the Other

Gender, Power and Schooling

By: Dr Carrie Paechter,Carrie Paechter

Despite improvements in girls' relative academic success at the school leaving level, and despite suggestions in the press that boys are now the underachievers, girls remain second-class citizens in education and beyond. This book aims to show how and why girls' education remains subordinated to that of the boys', and to demonstrate how this analysis can be used as a basis for investigating the position of other subordinated groups - such as children from lower socio-economic groups, ethnic minorities, or those with special educational needs. By focusing on what distinguishes the 'normal' from the 'other' says the author, we can begin to call the normal into question and challenge the ideas and assumptions of our educational system.

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Routledge

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1135710589

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Digital Marketing Trends and Prospects

Develop an effective Digital Marketing strategy with SEO, SEM, PPC, Digital Display Ads & Email Marketing techniques. (English Edition)

By: Dr. Shakti Kundu

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Digital Marketing Trends and Prospects

Develop an effective Digital Marketing strategy with SEO, SEM, PPC, Digital Display Ads & Email Marketing techniques. (English Edition)

By: Dr. Shakti Kundu

Familiarize yourself with different effective strategies in Digital MarketingÊ Ê KEY FEATURESÊ ¥ Understand the basics terminologies in Digital Marketing ¥ Understand the impact of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on online business ¥ Identify important elements of E-mail marketing and its applicability in the digital world ¥ Get familiar with Mobile marketing and Web analytics tools ¥ Understand different Traditional Marketing and Digital Marketing techniques DESCRIPTIONÊ The book starts with the basic concepts of Marketing, benefits & opportunity of Digital Marketing and its usage in various domains of business. You will learn how to work with SEO, E-mail Marketing and Digital Display Advertising. The book will then cover the key metrics of SMM & Mobile marketing and Web analytics.Ê This book not only focusses on Digital Marketing but also covers many real-world examples based on the latest Marketing strategies or techniques in Digital Marketing. Ê WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ¥ Get familiar with B2B SEO and B2C SEO strategies in Digital MarketingÊ ¥ Understand the importance of gathering offline and online data in Email marketing ¥ Learn how to create and test landing pages ¥ Generate traffic and behavior report of marketers and targeted users ¥ Get familiar with the Web analytics tools and process. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for anyone interested in Digital Marketing. Professionals who are working in the Digital Marketing domain can use this book as a reference. Ê TABLE OF CONTENTSÊÊ 1. Introduction to Digital Marketing 2. Search Engine Optimization (SEO): The core of Digital Marketing 3. E-mail Marketing and Digital Display Advertising 4. Social Media Marketing 5. Mobile Marketing and Web Analytics

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BPB Publications

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9389898587

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The HRD Almanac

By: Dr Vidhya Srinivasan

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The HRD Almanac

By: Dr Vidhya Srinivasan

The thinking on Human Resource Development (HRD) practices has been evidenced for the last one and a half decades. However the pace and volume of change has forced HR managers to meet complex challenges like globalization, a diverse workforce and informed expectations for training learning and development. Both organizations and employees benefit from HRD interventions because an organization’s success critically depends on the levels of employee skills and motivation. The HRD Almanac looks at 4 broad focus areas of HR practices, that are Strategy centric, Organizational alignment related, Employee Empowerment focused, and the Learning Training and Development angle. The author weaves together 25 detailed chapters spanning the gamut of the HRD function. The writing is aligned on a uniform pattern providing answers to the What, consisting of Definitions and Descriptions of the theme, Why, Consisting of Concept Clarifications, Where, the role of the Human Resources department and How, an authentication of data obtained through a pilot study on HR practitioners across industry sectors. The HRD Almanac is a factual compendium of literature, concepts, organizational experiences, and perceptions on some of the most important HRD efforts and will serve as an appropriate and excellent handbook for young and potential HR functionaries.

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Notion Press

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1946515353

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Land, Proto-Industry and Population in Catalonia, c. 1680-1829

An Alternative Transition to Capitalism?

By: Dr Julie Marfany

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Land, Proto-Industry and Population in Catalonia, c. 1680-1829

An Alternative Transition to Capitalism?

By: Dr Julie Marfany

This monograph makes a fresh contribution to a longstanding but far from exhausted debate concerning the transition to capitalism in Europe. The work investigates key aspects of this transformation: the changes on the land, the origins of the industrial revolution, the modern rise of population and the growth of markets. It does so from a new perspective, however, by focusing on an area of southern Europe, Catalonia. Catalonia's interest as an area for study lies in its precocity within a southern European context, as one of the few regions on the European periphery to industrialise in comparable ways and at the same time as areas of northern Europe. Population growth was similarly rapid. The study engages critically with several important debates in economic and social history, such as the transition to agrarian capitalism, whether or not sharecropping should be viewed as a backwards form of agricultural production, theories of proto-industrialisation and theories of population change. It also questions claims that the nuclear family of north-western Europe was a superior model for industralisation than the more extended family structures prevalent in southern Europe. Not only could the extended family be as dynamic as the nuclear family when required but, more importantly, attention needs to be paid to other institutions and factors that may have conditioned family forms and decision-making processes. The approach taken by this work is a micro-study of one community, Igualada, an important proto-industrial centre but also situated within the viticultural region. It grew rapidly over the eighteenth century from around 1,700 inhabitants in 1717 to 4,900 in 1787 and around 7,700 by 1830. Only at the micro-level is it feasible for an individual study to reconstruct networks of relationships and patterns of decision-making at the household level. At the core of the book, therefore, is a family reconstitution of 8,700 families, supplemented by a wide body of additional sources, such as landholding contracts, tax records, manorial surveys, inventories, marriage contracts and letters.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409461696

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Adventures in America, 1883

By: Dr. John Raffensperger,Prof. Richard Krevolin

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Adventures in America, 1883

By: Dr. John Raffensperger,Prof. Richard Krevolin

Here is the third of the "lost" diaries of young Arthur Conan Doyle, written in 1883 while he was a young doctor starting out in his career. This rollicking story of high adventure tells of how Arthur Conan Doyle serves as a British spy along with the legendary Doctor Joseph Bell - who became the real-life inspiration for the world's most famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes. This diary details how Doyle and Dr. Bell journey to America on a secret forensic mission to stop a series of murders and what could escalate into a world war. Peopled with Doyle's real-life literary contemporaries - including Herman Melville and Oscar Wilde, it is an exciting mix of murder, mystery, literary history, and humor sure to please Sherlock Holmes fans everywhere!

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Andrews UK Limited

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1787051579

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Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance

By: Dr Myk Habets

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Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance

By: Dr Myk Habets

Torrance's vision of Theosis (deification/divinisation) is explored through his doctrine of creation and anthropology, his characterisation of the incarnation, his accounts of reconciliation and union with Christ, and his theology of church and sacraments. Myk Habets' study distinguishes Torrance's Reformed vision of theosis from other possible accounts of salvation as divinisation as they are found, for instance, within patristic thought and Eastern Orthodoxy. This book presents the first critique of the theology of T.F.Torrance to focus on theosis, and examines a model of theosis within the realm of reformed theology built upon Western theology.

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1409478262

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Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective

By: Dr Kirsteen Paton

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Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective

By: Dr Kirsteen Paton

This book reconnects class and the urban through an ethnographically detailed analysis of a neighbourhood undergoing gentrification which historicises class formation, critiques policy processes and offers a new sociological insight into gentrification from the perspective of working-class residents. This ethnography of everyday working-class neighbourhood life in the UK serves to challenge denigrated depictions which are used to justify the use of gentrification-based restructuring. By exploring the relationship between urban processes and working-class communities via gentrification, it reveals the ‘hidden rewards’ as well as the ‘hidden injuries’ of class in post-industrial neighbourhoods.

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1472418506

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The Controlling Husband

What Every Woman Needs to Know

By: Dr. Ron Welch

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The Controlling Husband

What Every Woman Needs to Know

By: Dr. Ron Welch

I can't live this way anymore." "I've given up trying to change him." "I can't ever be good enough." "He won't listen to me anyway." As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Ron Welch has heard many women in controlling marriages pour out their hearts. They feel trapped, helpless, stuck in a situation with no solution and no way out. In this candid book, Welch offers real hope. He shows women how controlling husbands develop, why wives allow themselves to be controlled, and strategies to help both husband and wife change. Welch struggled as a controlling husband for years but found help and healing in his relationship with his wife. He uses that experience, as well as examples from the lives of the couples he's worked with, to show women that just because "he's always been this way" doesn't mean their marriage must be that way forever. He teaches women valuable practical skills for coping with the challenges they face and transforming the power and control issues in their marriages. For wives of controlling husbands, along with the friends and family members who love and are concerned about them, this is an essential resource. Counselors will also find it helpful as they work with hurting couples.

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Revell

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1441245049

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Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England

By: Dr Kaara L Peterson

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Popular Medicine, Hysterical Disease, and Social Controversy in Shakespeare's England

By: Dr Kaara L Peterson

Mining a series of previously uncharted conversations springing up in 16th- and 17th-century popular medicine and culture, this study explores early modern England's significant and sustained interest in the hysterical diseases of women. Kaara L. Peterson assembles a fascinating collection of medical materials to support her discussion of contemporary debates about varieties of uterine pathologies and the implications of these debates for our understanding of drama's representation of hysterica passio cases in particular, among other hysterical maladies. An important aspect of the author's approach is to restore, with all its nuances, the debates created by early modern medical writers over attempts to define the boundaries and resonances of hysterical ailments, which Peterson argues have been largely erased or elided by historicist criticism, including scholarship overly focused on melancholy. One of the main goals of the book is to stress the centrality of gendered concepts of disease for the period and to reveal a whole catalog of early modern literary strategies for representing women's illnesses. Among the medical works discussed are Edward Jorden's central text A Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother (1603) and contemporary plays, including Shakespeare's Pericles, Othello, King Lear, and The Winter's Tale; Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; and Chapman's Bussy D'Ambois.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409475980

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Screening Generation X

The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema

By: Dr Christina Lee

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Screening Generation X

The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema

By: Dr Christina Lee

Screening Generation X: The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema examines popular representations of Generation X in American and British film. In arguing that the various constructions of youth are marked by major cultural shifts and societal inequalities, it analyzes the iconic 'Gen X' figures ranging from the slacker, the teenage time traveller, and third wave feminists, to the oeuvre of Molly Ringwald and Richard Linklater. This book explores the important cultural work performed by films that mediate the experiences of Generation X and critiques the ongoing marginalization of the youth who struggle to find their identity and a voice in increasingly unstable times. Specific analyses of such films as Pump Up the Volume, The Breakfast Club, Heathers, Donnie Darko and Waking Life are used to illustrate the research.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409492176

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Wax Trash and Vinyl Treasures: Record Collecting as a Social Practice

By: Dr Roy Shuker

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Wax Trash and Vinyl Treasures: Record Collecting as a Social Practice

By: Dr Roy Shuker

This study examines the history of record collecting; profiles collectors and the collecting process; considers categories—especially music genres—and types of record collecting; and outlines and discusses the infrastructure within which collecting operates. Shuker situates this discussion within the broader literature on collecting, along with issues of cultural consumption, social identity and 'the construction of self' in contemporary society. Record collecting is both fascinating in its own right, and provides insights into broader issues of nostalgia, consumption and material culture.

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1409493970

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The Autism Revolution

Whole-Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be

By: Dr. Martha Herbert,Karen Weintraub

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The Autism Revolution

Whole-Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be

By: Dr. Martha Herbert,Karen Weintraub

“An in-depth, scientific—yet hopeful and positive—look at how the brain and body work together . . . [Dr. Martha Herbert] has developed a new way of seeing autism.”—Library Journal After years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, Harvard Medical School researcher and clinician Dr. Martha Herbert offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism, she concludes, is not a hardwired impairment programmed into a child’s genes and destined to remain fixed forever. Instead, it is the result of a cascade of events, many seemingly minor. And while other doctors may dismiss your child’s physical symptoms—the anxiety, sensory overload, sleeplessness, frequent illnesses or seizures—as coincidental or irrelevant, Dr. Herbert sees them as vital clues to what the underlying problems are, and how to help. Drawing from the newest research, technologies, and insights, as well as inspiring case studies of both children and adults, Dr. Herbert guides you toward restoring health and resiliency in your loved one with autism. Her specific recommendations aim to provide optimal nutrition, reduce toxic exposures, limit stress, and open the door to learning and creativity. As thousands of families who have cobbled together these solutions themselves already know, this program can have dramatic benefits—for your child with autism, and for you, your whole family, and perhaps your next baby as well. “Invaluable . . . a must-read . . . Dr. Martha Herbert gets it. She not only gets it, but she puts it out there in an awesome book so the rest of us can get it, too.”—Autism Watch “[Herbert] goes further than most autism specialists. Her impressive science background merges with common sense and even intuitive sense [making] complex scientific and medical materials seamlessly blend with a holistic viewpoint.”—Relieve Autism “Hope and practical guidance . . . With this easy-to-read book, parents can gain wisdom on how to guide your child to achieve a healthy and thriving life.”—Mom Central

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Ballantine Books

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0345527208

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Think, Learn, Succeed

Understanding and Using Your Mind to Thrive at School, the Workplace, and Life

By: Dr. Caroline Leaf

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Think, Learn, Succeed

Understanding and Using Your Mind to Thrive at School, the Workplace, and Life

By: Dr. Caroline Leaf

Our thought lives have incredible power over our mental, emotional, and even physical well-being. In fact, our thoughts can either limit us to what we believe we can do or release us to experience abilities well beyond our expectations. When we choose a mindset that extends our abilities rather than placing limits on ourselves, we will experience greater intellectual satisfaction, emotional control, and physical health. The only question is . . . how? Backed by up-to-date scientific research and biblical insight, Dr. Caroline Leaf empowers readers to take control of their thoughts in order to take control of their lives. In this practical book, readers will learn to use - The 5-step Switch on Your Brain Learning Program, to build memory and learn effectively - The Gift Profile, to discover the unique way they process information - The Mindfulness Guide, to optimize their thought life and find their inner resilience Dr. Leaf shows readers how to combine these powerful tools in order to improve memory, learning, cognitive and intellectual performance, work performance, physical performance, relationships, emotional health, and most importantly a meaningful life well lived. Each of us has significant psychological resources at our fingertips that we can use in order to improve our overall well-being. Dr. Leaf shows us how to harness those resources to unlock our hidden potential.

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Baker Books

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1493407899

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MOVING CAMERAS AND LIVING MOVIES

By: STEVE ESOMBA, Dr.

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MOVING CAMERAS AND LIVING MOVIES

By: STEVE ESOMBA, Dr.

I can say with absolute certainty that, everybody enjoys watching movies, cinema, films and television. But few, if any, know how a film is made: a film has inbuilt special effects or 'tricks'to make it appealing to audiences. MOVING CAMERAS AND LIVING MOVIES reveals to you ALL about films & Filmmaking; it is a hard and tasking enterprise involving tens of thousands of workers and millions of investment dollars. After reading MOVING CAMERAS...your love for movies will triple. Movie technicians and camera gurus have a license to mould, alter, and manipulate the screen to produce or induce rain, sunlight, snow, fire, or fly any object in space in defiance of gravity or even cause 'accidents'or 'raise' the dead to life. Learn the fascinating, exciting world of film, actresses, actors, fashion, and fictional entities.

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Lulu.com

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1291351574

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Staying Healthy When You Travel, New Edition

Avoiding Bugs, Bites, Bellyaches, and More

By: Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth

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Staying Healthy When You Travel, New Edition

Avoiding Bugs, Bites, Bellyaches, and More

By: Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth

The ultimate guide to research, plan, and prepare for your next vacation abroad, Staying Healthy When You Travel is filled with over 300 pages that will prepare you for anything! Author Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth is an expert in parasitology, vector ecology, and child health, and she's also traveled around the world to treat the sick. She condenses all her years of medical experience into this incredibly helpful guide that's packed with international travel tips and crucial case histories, advice on immunizations and other precautions to take, tables and maps that match disease risk to countries, health tips to protect yourself from insects and worms, and so much more. While the author wrote this book with the world traveler in mind, it is also an excellent source for anyone who spends time outside camping or hiking or traveling locally, with helpful advice on protection from mosquitos, treatments for minor injuries, and first aid for cuts wouldn, dehydration, fainting, snake bites and more! So before you prepare to travel in a post-COVID world and head to the airport, do your research with this travel book and you'll be good to go!

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Fox Chapel Publishing

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1620083795

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The Naked Doctor

By: Dr Evadne Hinge

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The Naked Doctor

By: Dr Evadne Hinge

At last Doctor Evadne Hinge emerges from the shadow of her former colleague and oldest friend, world-renowned soprano Dame Hilda Bracket, to tell her own story. And it's not the story you might imagine. Against a lovingly-drawn background of music and theatre, Doctor Hinge speaks frankly about her personal life. Her student days and her first love; her friendships with the good, the bad, the ugly, and the downright criminal; the men in her life and her troubles with her unusual family - whose hobbies, she tells us, include murder, blackmail, drug abuse, adultery and other less light-hearted pastimes. After the death of Dame Hilda in 2002, Doctor Hinge agreed to speak at some length about her life to her close friend, George Logan. She stipulated that these reminiscences, recorded on tape, should remain unpublished until after her death. However, since it appears that that event is yet some way off - the Doctor is now a robust ninety-four - she has finally agreed to their wider dissemination.

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0957624298

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Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France

By: Dr Cathy McClive

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Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France

By: Dr Cathy McClive

Early modern bodies, particularly menstruating and pregnant bodies, were not stable signifiers. Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France presents the first full-length discussion of menstruation and its uncertain connections with embodied sex, gender and reproduction in early modern France. Attitudes to menstruation are explored in three inter-linked arenas: medicine, moral theology and law across the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Drawing on a wide range of diverse sources, including court records and private documents, the author uses case studies to explore the relationship between the exceptional corporeality of individuals and attempts to construct menstrual norms, reflecting on how early modern individuals, lay or otherwise, grappled with the enigma of menstruation. She analyzes how early modern men and women accounted for the function, recurrence and appearance of menstruation, from its role in maintaining health to the link between other physiological and bodily processes, including those found in both male and female bodies. She questions the assumption that menstruation was exclusively associated with women by the second half of the eighteenth century, arguing that whilst sex-related, menstruation was not sex-specific even at the turn of the nineteenth. Menstruation remains a contentious topic today. This book is not, therefore, simply a study of periods in early modern France, but is also of necessity an exploration about the nature and constitution of historical evidence, particularly bodily evidence and how historians use this evidence. It raises important questions about the concept of certainty and about the value of observation, testimony, expertise, the nature of language and the construction of bodily truths - about the body as witness and the body as evidence.

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1472453816

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