Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies
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Flesh and Blood is the story of the McGann family as told through seven maladies - diseases, wounds...
Gender and the Professions: International and Contemporary Perspectives
Kaye Broadbent, Glenda Strachan and Geraldine Healy
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This book examines gender and professions in the 21st century. Historically the professions...
Social Research in Health and Illness: Case-Based Approaches
Constantinos N. Phellas and Costas S. Constantinou
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Social Research Methods in Health and Illness offers a theoretically informed guide to practising...
The Athlete's Dilemma: Sacrificing Health for Wealth and Fame
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Sports provide people around the world with unmatched entertainment, from the excitement of victory...
The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming
Andrew Pickering and Keith Guzik
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In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering argued for a...
Biological Clocks, Rhythms, and Oscillations: The Theory of Biological Timekeeping
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All areas of biology and medicine contain rhythms, and these behaviors are best understood through...
Crystalline Materials for Actinide Immobilisation
Boris E. Burakov, Michael I. Ojovan and William (Bill) E. Lee
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This book summarises approaches and current practices in actinide immobilisation using...
Fiber Lasers: Basics, Technology, and Applications
Dongmei Liang and Bryce Samson
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The fiber laser, with its humble beginning in the late 1980s, has undergone tremendous development...
Introduction to Bioinformatics
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A vast amount of biological information about a wide range of species has become available in recent...
Vivarium: Experimental, Quantitative, and Theoretical Biology at Vienna's Biologische Versuchsanstalt
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The Biologische Versuchsanstalt was founded in Vienna in 1902 with the explicit goal to foster the...