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Community Health Equity A Chicago Reader
ISBN: PB: 9780226614625, ISBN: HB: 9780226614595, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 58 halftones, 55 tables
Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic inequity".Community Health Equity" assembles a century of research to show the range of effects that Chicago's structural socioecono...
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£34,00
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£102,00
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No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me One Man's Quest for a Leprosy-Free World
ISBN: HB: 9781787381377, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Leprosy has tormented mankind since records began. For much of its long history it was without cure – a disfiguring disease that stigmatised those it affected, isolating them from society. Today there is an effective treatment,...
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£25,00
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Anatomy & Yoga Muscles in Action
ISBN: PB: 9781782551522, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, February 2019
144 pp., 27.4x21 cm, 250 colour photos
"Anatomy & Yoga" is a complete work that introduces the yoga tradition from a practical and scientific point of view. It is aimed at students, teachers, people who practice yoga, and those who want to familiarize themselves with this millennia-old pr...
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£19,95
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Master and His Emissary The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
ISBN: PB: 9780300245929, Yale University Press, February 2019
616 pp., 21x14 cm, 15 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the 'rational' side, the superior partner to the right. But is this...
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£14,99
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Sick-Note Britain How Social Problems Became Medical Issues
ISBN: HB: 9781787381223, Hurst Publishers, February 2019
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot "fix", while patients with treatable diseases queue for appointments. This is Britain's grave error: our hyper-medi...
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£20,00
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Gene From Genetics to Postgenomics
ISBN: PB: 9780226510002, ISBN: HB: 9780226276359, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual transformation, and some scientists are questioning the very usefulness of...
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Integrated Periodization in Sports Training & Athletic Development Combining Training Methodology, Sports Psychology, and Nutrition to Optimize Performance
ISBN: PB: 9781782551416, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, August 2018
250 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 150 black&white illus.
"Integrated Periodization in Sports Training & Athletic Development" considers the large problem of training specialists working in isolation and builds a case for integrated periodization as conceived by Tudor Bompa. The book begins by defining peri...
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£24,95
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Anatomy & Massage Detailed & Illustrated Techniques, Including New Insights into Massaging Myofascial Tissue
ISBN: PB: 9781782551386, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, June 2018
160 pp., 27.4x21.2 cm, 243 black&white illus., 54 colour illus.
A massage helps in all situations. Massage techniques can be used not only for relaxation, but also in sports – where the right massage technique can be used for regeneration, rehabilitation, and injury prevention. The unique mixture of photos and an...
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£19,95
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Conversionary Sites Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota
ISBN: PB: 9780226557267, ISBN: HB: 9780226557120, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, "Conversionary Sites" investigates the role of religion...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Polio The Odyssey of Eradication
ISBN: HB: 9781849049566, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each...
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£25,00
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