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Health and Modernity

The Role of Theory in Health Promotion

By: David V. McQueen,Ilona Kickbusch,Louise Potvin,Jürgen M. Pelikan,Laura Balbo,Thomas Abel

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Health and Modernity

The Role of Theory in Health Promotion

By: David V. McQueen,Ilona Kickbusch,Louise Potvin,Jürgen M. Pelikan,Laura Balbo,Thomas Abel

Pandemics, substance abuse, natural disasters, obesity, and warfare: these are not only health crises but social crises as well. Now a panel of leaders in global health explores the vital but understudied social theories behind the practice of health promotion, including cultural capital, risk and causality, systems theory, and the dynamic between individual and community.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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038737759X

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9780387377599

My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History: The rise and fall of Fascism in Italy c1911-46

By: Sarah Ward,Laura Gallagher

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My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History: The rise and fall of Fascism in Italy c1911-46

By: Sarah Ward,Laura Gallagher

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. - Enables students to plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner - Consolidates knowledge with clear and focused content coverage, organised into easy-to-revise chunks - Encourages active revision by closely combining historical content with related activities - Helps students build, practise and enhance their exam skills as they progress through activities set at three different levels - Improves exam technique through exam-style questions with sample answers and commentary from expert authors and teachers - Boosts historical knowledge with a useful glossary and timeline

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Hodder Education

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1471876535

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9781471876530

My Revision Notes AS Edexcel History: The Triumph of Fascism in Italy, 1896-1943

By: Robin Bunce,Laura Gallagher,Sarah Ward

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My Revision Notes AS Edexcel History: The Triumph of Fascism in Italy, 1896-1943

By: Robin Bunce,Laura Gallagher,Sarah Ward

Unlock your full potential with this revision guide which focuses on the key content and skills you need to know. My Revision Notes Edexcel AS History: The Triumph of Fascism in Italy, 1896-1943 closely combines the content of this Edexcel AS unit with revision activities and advice on exam technique. In addition each section has a model answer with exam tips for you to analyse and better understand what is required in the exam. - Makes revision of the content manageable by condensing topics into easy-to-revise chunks. - Encourages active revision by closely combining content with a variety of different activities. - Helps improve exam technique through tailor-made activities and plenty of guidance on how to answer questions.

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Hodder Education

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1444199587

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9781444199581

Paper Ballerinas

By: Laura Rico

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Paper Ballerinas

By: Laura Rico

Bianca, now an old woman, receives a gift of the diary written years earlier by her dear friend Dora. It casts her into turmoil but is also a chance for her to plunge deep into her memories, reliving the emotions and pain that time has healed. Against the backdrop of Italy’s twenty-year fascist regime, Bianca remembers her past, trying to piece back together the ordeals that marked her and Dora’s childhood and adolescence in Abano, a spa town in the hills of northern Italy. Young Bianca, unable to conform to the expectations of her old-fashioned family and her fascist boyfriend, kicks against convention, defies her tyrannical uncle and the absurd rules for the ‘new Italian woman’. Her rebellion and lust for freedom bring her repeated tragedy, and in her struggle we glimpse the Italian women who, reduced to mothers and second class citizens, found themselves powerless.

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Babelcube Inc

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1071581252

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9781071581254

Chicago For Dummies

By: Laura Tiebert

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Chicago For Dummies

By: Laura Tiebert

From the incredible new Millennium Park to the Magnificent Mile, Cubs games to theater, intimate jazz haunts to grand symphony halls, deep-dish pizza to 5 Star dining, art boutiques to incredible museums, Chicago has it all. And this guide makes exploring the Windy City a breeze with: Info on how to get around A shopper’s guide for power shopping or bargain hunting 4 great itineraries that help you make the most of your time 10 “Oh-so-Chicago” experiences Like every For Dummies travel guide, Chicago For Dummies, Third Edition includes: Down-to-earth trip-planning advice What you shouldn’t miss—and what you can skip The best hotels and restaurants for every budget Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages

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John Wiley & Sons

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0764599968

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9780764599965

The Official eBay Guide to Buying, Selling, and Collecting Just About Anything

By: Laura Fisher Kaiser,Michael Kaiser

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The Official eBay Guide to Buying, Selling, and Collecting Just About Anything

By: Laura Fisher Kaiser,Michael Kaiser

HAPPY HUNTING™ ON eBay Aunt Fannie's cameo pin collection...the cartoon-character lunch boxes you had in third grade...that cast-iron doorstop you bought for $2 but is really worth $200....Whether you're a busy buyer, an avid seller, or just a fun-loving browser, you'll find countless collectibles like these on eBay, the world's largest person-to-person online trading community. Now -- in this official primer from the popular Internet site that has revolutionized the collecting world -- the experts at eBay unlock the secrets of successful online buying and selling, for everyone from the enthusiastic beginner to the seasoned pro. Featuring an introduction by Pierre Omidyar, eBay's founder and chairman, and packed with tips and stories from "eBaysians" all over the country, The Official eBay™ Guide is the only authorized book that shows you how to * BUY SMART -- unraveling the mystery of value, bidding to win, and learning how to spot the really good stuff * BE A SAVVY SELLER -- from writing the perfect item listing to collecting payments from your happy customers * LEARN FROM THE EXPERTS -- top eBaysians, Ambassadors, Power Sellers, and eBay employees lend advice and share secrets for success * FIND THE GREAT STUFF -- how to work garage sales, flea markets, tag sales, estate sales, and even the other kind of auction Packed with invaluable resources, information, and practical tips, The Official eBay™ Guide also features entertaining stories about the millions of people who make up the eBay community. It's your must-have companion for mastering the art of buying and selling an astounding range of collectibles and items, from the practical to the whimsical.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439146713

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9781439146712

Developmental Transitions

Exploring stability and change through the lifespan

By: Sarah Crafter,Rachel Maunder,Laura Soulsby

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Developmental Transitions

Exploring stability and change through the lifespan

By: Sarah Crafter,Rachel Maunder,Laura Soulsby

How can we make sense of change and stability through the lifespan of human development? What role does personal experience, our relationships with others, and historical and sociocultural contexts play in shaping these changes? This is the first book to offer an integrative overview of the range of developmental transitions which occur through the lifespan. Bringing together different theoretical and conceptual perspectives and a broad range of empirical research including quantitative and qualitative approaches, this book encompasses a range of complex transitional forms. Covering topics such as health transitions, transitions in friendships and romantic relationships, career transitions, and societal transitions, this book takes the reader beyond a focus on childhood and adolescence, to look at the whole lifespan. Reflecting a perspective that takes into account a sociocultural past and present, this book seeks to show how transitions can be viewed as both an experience of uncertainty and possibility. Transitions perform important functions and present psychosocial opportunities. Developmental Transitions is essential reading for all undergraduate and graduate students of developmental and cultural psychology and is also a valuable resource for academics and practitioner audiences interested in stability and change as people age.

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Routledge

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1317231473

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9781317231479

Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study

By: Laura Massetti

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Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study

By: Laura Massetti

Pindar’s Pythian Twelve is the only choral lyric epinicion in our possession composed for the winner of a non-athletic competition. Often regarded as an ode of straightforward interpretation, close analysis of the text reveals that it presents several challenges to modern readers. This book offers an updated translation of the text and an investigation of the main interpretative issues of the epinicion with the aid of historical linguistics. By identifying devices which Pindar might have inherited from earlier periods of poetic language, the study provides insights into the thematic aspects of the ode as well as on Pindar’s compositional technique.

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BRILL

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9004694137

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9789004694132

Vino Argentino

An Insider's Guide to the Wines and Wine Country of Argentina

By: Laura Catena

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Vino Argentino

An Insider's Guide to the Wines and Wine Country of Argentina

By: Laura Catena

In this book—part wine primer, part cultural exploration, part introduction to the Argentine lifestyle—discover where to eat, what to see, and how to travel like a local with Laura Catena, the Argentina-born, United States-educated, globetrotting wine star. The world's fifth largest producer of wine, Argentina is home to malbec, the country's best-known indigenous grape. More than 400,000 Americans and 600,000 Europeans visit Argentina every year to enjoy the mighty malbec, taste unparalleled food, trek the wide-open country, and tango all night long in Buenos Aires. Vino Argentino provides insider access to beautiful Argentina.

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Chronicle Books

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1452100381

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9781452100388

Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, ICTS'07

Rome, Italy, 3-5 October 2007

By: Giuseppe F. Italiano,Eugenio Moggi,Luigi Laura

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Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, ICTS'07

Rome, Italy, 3-5 October 2007

By: Giuseppe F. Italiano,Eugenio Moggi,Luigi Laura

Many researchers from different countries converged at the 10th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS 2007) to discuss recent developments in theoretical computer science. The volume contains all contributed papers selected for presentation with the invited lectures delivered. The subjects of this book range from logical and mathematical aspects of computing, design and analysis of algorithms, to semantics of programming languages. Sample Chapter(s). Part A: Invited Talks: Clairvoyance and Laziness for on Line Travelling Agents (27 KB). Contents: Clairvoyance and Laziness for on Line Travelling Agents (G Ausiello); Symmetries in Foundations (G Longo); On the Approximability of Dense Steiner Tree Problems (M Hauptmann); Analyzing Non-Inteference with Respect to Classes (D Zanardini); Modeling Fuzzy Behaviours in Concurrent Systems (L D''Errico & M Loreti); Sorting Streamed Multisets (T Gagie); Dichotomy Results for Fixed Point Counting in Boolean Dynamical Systems (S Kosub & C M Homan); Definable Sets in Weak Presburger Arithmetic (C Choffrut & A Frigeri); and other papers. Readership: Theoretical computer scientists.

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World Scientific

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9812770992

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9789812770998

Human Factors Methods

A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design

By: Dr Chris Baber,Dr Daniel P Jenkins,Dr Guy H Walker,Dr Laura A Rafferty,Professor Paul M Salmon,Professor Neville A Stanton

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Human Factors Methods

A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design

By: Dr Chris Baber,Dr Daniel P Jenkins,Dr Guy H Walker,Dr Laura A Rafferty,Professor Paul M Salmon,Professor Neville A Stanton

This second edition of Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design now presents 107 design and evaluation methods including numerous refinements to those that featured in the original. The book acts as an ergonomics methods manual, aiding both students and practitioners. Offering a 'how-to' text on a substantial range of ergonomics methods, the eleven sections represent the different categories of ergonomics methods and techniques that can be used in the evaluation and design process.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472408152

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9781472408150

Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology

By: Robert J. Means, Jr.,George Rodgers,Bertil Glader,Daniel A. Arber,Frederick R. Appelbaum,Angela Dispenzieri,Todd A. Fehniger,Laura Michaelis,John P. Leonard

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Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology

By: Robert J. Means, Jr.,George Rodgers,Bertil Glader,Daniel A. Arber,Frederick R. Appelbaum,Angela Dispenzieri,Todd A. Fehniger,Laura Michaelis,John P. Leonard

Comprehensive in scope and thoroughly up to date, Wintrobe’s Clinical Hematology, 15th Edition, combines the biology and pathophysiology of hematology as well as the diagnosis and treatment of commonly encountered hematological disorders. Editor-in-chief Dr. Robert T. Means, Jr., along with a team of expert section editors and contributing authors, provide authoritative, in-depth information on the biology and pathophysiology of lymphomas, leukemias, platelet destruction, and other hematological disorders as well as the procedures for diagnosing and treating them. Packed with more than 1,500 tables and figures throughout, this trusted text is an indispensable reference for hematologists, oncologists, residents, nurse practitioners, and pathologists.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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197518470X

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9781975184704

A First Course in Probability and Markov Chains

By: Giuseppe Modica,Laura Poggiolini

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A First Course in Probability and Markov Chains

By: Giuseppe Modica,Laura Poggiolini

Provides an introduction to basic structures of probability with a view towards applications in information technology A First Course in Probability and Markov Chains presents an introduction to the basic elements in probability and focuses on two main areas. The first part explores notions and structures in probability, including combinatorics, probability measures, probability distributions, conditional probability, inclusion-exclusion formulas, random variables, dispersion indexes, independent random variables as well as weak and strong laws of large numbers and central limit theorem. In the second part of the book, focus is given to Discrete Time Discrete Markov Chains which is addressed together with an introduction to Poisson processes and Continuous Time Discrete Markov Chains. This book also looks at making use of measure theory notations that unify all the presentation, in particular avoiding the separate treatment of continuous and discrete distributions. A First Course in Probability and Markov Chains: Presents the basic elements of probability. Explores elementary probability with combinatorics, uniform probability, the inclusion-exclusion principle, independence and convergence of random variables. Features applications of Law of Large Numbers. Introduces Bernoulli and Poisson processes as well as discrete and continuous time Markov Chains with discrete states. Includes illustrations and examples throughout, along with solutions to problems featured in this book. The authors present a unified and comprehensive overview of probability and Markov Chains aimed at educating engineers working with probability and statistics as well as advanced undergraduate students in sciences and engineering with a basic background in mathematical analysis and linear algebra.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111847774X

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9781118477748

Frommer's Chicago with Kids

By: Laura Tiebert

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Frommer's Chicago with Kids

By: Laura Tiebert

Let Frommer's show you where your kids can: Crawl inside a coal mine Anchor their very own newscast Root, root, root for the home team Cruise the waterways on a private boat Spend an exhilarating night at the theatre Roll out a sleeping bag with the dinosaurs Ride through city canyons on an elevated train Discover Chicago's parks and all they have to offer Devour a Chicago red hot or a slice of deep-dish pizza Have a good time without breaking the bank Plus invaluable travel tips on: Age ranges for each sight and activity Hotels that offer cribs and rollaway beds Restaurants with kids' menus, boosters, and high chairs Shopping for everything from baby booties to blues music A Chicago parent's words of wisdom on safety in the city

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*Frommers

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0470124814

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9780470124819

Chicago For Dummies?

By: Laura Johnston

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Chicago For Dummies?

By: Laura Johnston

This easy-to-follow, down-to-earth guide is the key to planning and enjoying a terrific trip to the Windy City. With Chicago for Dummies in hand, you'll know how to get Cubs tickets, where the best jazz clubs are and which spiffy new hotels have opened recently. With accommodations and dining choices for a range of budgets and tastes, you're sure to find something that suits you, from a deep-dish pizza dinner at Gino's East to cocktails at the hottest spots in town. Our authors include all of the newest additions to Chicago, like the new Chicago Winter Break, a three-month long winter celebration featuring all kinds of blockbuster events and discounts at hotels and restaurants. Chicago for Dummies makes planning a trip to this fabulous city a snap!

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For Dummies

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0764553879

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9780764553875

Un amore mai dimenticato: Silvio Pellico e Cristina Archinto Trivulzio

By: Cristina Contilli,Laura Gay

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Un amore mai dimenticato: Silvio Pellico e Cristina Archinto Trivulzio

By: Cristina Contilli,Laura Gay

MAHARET: "non so resistere a quegli occhi e a quel sorriso, quasi fossi sotto un terribile incantesimo." Una storia d'amore vera e appassionata, da un tempo lontano le voci di Silvio Pellico e della contessa Cristina raccontano attraverso le loro lettere il loro legame, un'amicizia che in realtà ha sempre nascosto un grande amore, nonostante tutto e tutti... un romanzo storico biografico molto coinvolgente, scritto con uno stile chiaro, scorrevole, una lettura piacevole, romantica e commovente che consiglio davvero di leggere. Complimenti a Cristina e a Laura!! EDIZIONE CON LE ILLUSTRAZIONI IN BIANCO E NERO

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Lulu.com

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1471718700

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9781471718700

Laura Z

The Early Years and Years of Fulfillment

By: Laura Z. Hobson

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Laura Z

The Early Years and Years of Fulfillment

By: Laura Z. Hobson

Continues the author's story of personal crises, highlighted by the irony and humor that paralleled her professional triumph, and includes anecdotes of the famous and infamous

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