Social lives of medicines

Social Lives of Medicines

Medicines are more than chemical substances with medical effects. They have social lives because they move between people; they carry meaning and offe

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Social Lives of Animals

Everything you ever wanted to know about how animals live together, and what that means for us

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Social Lives of Animals

Everything you ever wanted to know about how animals live together, and what that means for us.

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Secret Social Lives of Reptiles

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American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

From Vanity Fair columnist Nancy Jo Sales - a provocative, urgent, utterly of-the-moment book about how social media is shattering the lives of young girls and women. Instagram. Whisper. Yik yak. Vine. You Tube. Kik. Ask FM. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. How it is influencing their experience of adolescenc...

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Proletarian Lives

An ethnographic study of how people in one of Latin America's most notorious social movements became long-term activists.

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Social Animal

David Brooks weaves a vast array of new research into the lives of two fictional characters, revealing a fundamental new understanding of human nature

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Other Faces of the Empire – Ordinary Lives Against Social Order and Hierarchy

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Social Psychology of Gay Men

This book focuses on the social psychological aspects of gay menÂ’s lives and provides a cutting-edge examination of topics including sexual orientati

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Social Media and Society

This book offers a detailed exploration of the role social media plays in our daily lives and across a variety of contexts, from social networking sit

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Social Reproduction Theory

How do childcare, healthcare, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality affect our lives under capitalism?

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Islam and Social Work

This unique textbook enables social work practitioners to gain a deeper understanding of how Islamic principles inform and influence the lives of Musl

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Social Media Age

We are all aware of social media and how it is seamlessly integrated into our private and public lives as everyday users, but this book aims to provid

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Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s

Focusing on the words and experiences of the poor themselves, this book rewrites our understanding of English social policy for the period from the 17

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Václav Havel (Critical Lives) - Kieran Williams

<p>Václav Havel claimed to want a quiet life dedicated to writing, but he lived exactly the opposite: as the most famous dissident in Czechoslovakia under Communist rule, he spent many years in jail as a political prisoner and, after leading a revolutionary movement in 1989, thirteen years as president and twenty as one of the most respected intellectuals on the wor...

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Social terrorism e-kniha

WHAT IS SOCIAL TERRORISM? Social terrorism represents threats and crimes being committed in the virtual world. Social terrorism occurs in all areas of our daily life and through it, conflict situations (arguments, anger, disagreements, misinformation, manipulation of public opinion, violence, aggressive behavior, intimidation, threats, blackmail, physical and verbal ...

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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on People and their Lives Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book explores the unparalleled adversities and strain that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused on the social and economic lives of people. The book allows readers a glimpse into the experiences of death, loss of livelihood, psychological trauma, restrictions on movement and social life, shifts in international relations and effects on big and small industries caused by ...

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Long Lives are for the Rich Taylor & Francis Ltd

Long Lives are for the Rich is the title of a silent ominous program that affects the lives of millions of people. In all developed countries disadvantaged and, especially, poor people die much earlier than the most advantaged. During these shorter lives they suffer ten to twenty years longer from disabilities or chronic disease. This does not happen accidentally: health ...

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Long Lives are for the Rich Taylor & Francis Ltd

Long Lives are for the Rich is the title of a silent ominous program that affects the lives of millions of people. In all developed countries disadvantaged and, especially, poor people die much earlier than the most advantaged. During these shorter lives they suffer ten to twenty years longer from disabilities or chronic disease. This does not happen accidentally: health ...

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Social terrorism (999-00-037-2537-0)

Elektronická kniha - autor Ladislav Boldi, 200 stran, anglicky WHAT IS SOCIAL TERRORISM? Social terrorism represents threats and crimes being committed in the virtual world. Social terrorism occurs in all areas of our daily life and through it, conflict situations (arguments, anger, disagreements, misinformation, manipulation of public opinion, violence, aggressive be...

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Social terrorism e-kniha - Ladislav Boldi

<p>WHAT IS SOCIAL TERRORISM?</p><p>Social terrorism represents threats and crimes being committed in the virtual world. Social terrorism occurs in all areas of our daily life and through it, conflict situations (arguments, anger, disagreements, misinformation, manipulation of public opinion, violence, aggressive behavior, intimidation, threats, blackmail...

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The School of Life Guide to Modern Manners - School of Life Press The

<p>Modern life is full of minor but acute dilemmas: we get stuck at a gathering with someone unusually boring and wonder how to move on without causing offence; in the course of introducing one friend to another, we realise that we have forgotten one of the party's names; we run into an ex while on an early date with a new partner; we spill red wine across a host's ...

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What We Owe Each Other : A New Social Contract - Shafik Minouche

Anotace: One of the world`s most influential economists sets out the basis for a new social contract fit for the 21st centuryThis landmark study by Minouche Shafik, Director of the LSE, draws on evidence from across the globe to show that the social contract - how we pool risks, share resources and balance individual and collective responsibility - shapes not just our we...

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Principles of Bach Flower Remedies

Bach flower remedies are natural medicines that have the power to bring balance back into our lives. This concise introduction covers the nature and h

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Islamizing Intimacies

Examines the personal lives and sexual attitudes of educated Muslim Javanese youth in the city of Yogyakarta to explore the dramatic social and ethica

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Little Bits of Sky

It's 1987 and Ira and Zac are being uprooted once again, this time to Skilly House, a home for social care children. Their lives over the next few yea

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Blood of Dragons

'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin The final instalment of Robin Hobb's Sunday Times best-selling series The Rain Wild Chronicles. Dragon blood and scales, dragon liver and eyes and teeth. All required ingredients for medicines with near-miraculous healing powers. The legendary blue dragon Tintaglia is dying of wounds inflicted by hunters sent by the D...

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Mashle: Magic and Muscles 12 - Hajime Komoto

<p>Can muscles crush magic?!In the magic realm, magic is everything-everyone can use it, and one's skill determines their social status. Deep in the forest, oblivious to the ways of the world, lives Mash. Thanks to his daily training, he's become a fitness god. When Mash is discovered, he has no choice but to enroll in magic school, where he must beat the competitio...

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Mashle: Magic and Muscles 8 - Hajime Komoto

<p>Can muscles crush magic?! In the magic realm, magic is everything-everyone can use it, and one's skill determines their social status. Deep in the forest, oblivious to the ways of the world, lives Mash. Thanks to his daily training, he's become a fitness god. When Mash is discovered, he has no choice but to enroll in magic school, where he must beat the competit...

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Mother of All Jobs

It's time for a different conversation about working and parenting. As our working days get ever longer and our phones keep so many of us glued to work, the needs of our children and the world of school and childcare has not changed at all. School summer holidays are still longer than our annual leave. Working mothers everywhere are tearing themselves apart, trying to mee...

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More Boys and Girls of History

The studies in this 1928 book illustrate the lives of children within various different times and social contexts. Created following the enthusiastic

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Complete Book of US Presidents, Fourth Edition

The Complete Book of US Presidents is rich with photos and short biographical essays about the social, cultural, and political lives of 46 United St

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Dream of Europe

'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial TimesHow did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.The great European project was built out of a common desi...

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Rhythms of Recovery Taylor & Francis Ltd

Rhythms of Recovery provides clinicians with effective, time-tested tools for alleviating the destabilizing effects of traumatic events. In the new edition, readers will find practical methods for integrating psychotherapies with somatics and bodywork, yoga, nutrition, herbs, psychedelic medicines, and more. The new edition also draws out the ways in which culture, social...

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Rhythms of Recovery Taylor & Francis Ltd

Rhythms of Recovery provides clinicians with effective, time-tested tools for alleviating the destabilizing effects of traumatic events. In the new edition, readers will find practical methods for integrating psychotherapies with somatics and bodywork, yoga, nutrition, herbs, psychedelic medicines, and more. The new edition also draws out the ways in which culture, social...

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Concise Laws of Human Nature

From the million-copy bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them th...

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Laws Of Human Nature - neuveden

Anotace: Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people`s drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend o...

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The Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our rela...

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Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650-1750

This original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750 highlights the unique

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Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran

This volume explores the lives of women in Iran through the social, political and aesthetic contexts of veiling, unveiling and re-veiling. Through poe

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On the Waves of TSF

The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) and Karel Teige (1900–1951). Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection Na vlnách TSF (On the Waves of TSF) with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World Wars and f...

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Maths of Life and Death

"Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives are suffused by mathematics. Ignorance may bring tragedy or farce. This is an exquisitely interesting book.It's a deeply serious one too and, for those like me who have little maths, it's delightfully readable" - Ian McEwan "Kit Yates is a natural storyteller. Through fascinating stories and examples, he sho...

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The Death of Vivek Oji - Emezi Akwaeke

Anotace: SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 'Astonishing.' Stylist 'Electrifying.' O: The Oprah Magazine 'Brilliant and heartbreaking.' Marie Claire 'Propulsive and resonant.' Esquire They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died. One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son's body s...

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The School of Life Guide to Modern Manners - The School of Life Press

Anotace: Modern life is full of minor but acute dilemmas: we get stuck at a gathering with someone unusually boring and wonder how to move on without causing offence; in the course of introducing one friend to another, we realise that we have forgotten one of the party`s names; we run into an ex while on an early date with a new partner; we spill red wine across a host`s...

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The Utopia of Rules : On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, 1. vydání - David Graeber

<p>From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, the...

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The Concise Laws of Human Nature - Greene Robert

Anotace: From the million-copy bestselling author of The 48 Laws of PowerRobert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people`s drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of...

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The Concise Laws of Human Nature - Robert Greene

<p>From the million-copy bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious o...

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The Laws of Human Nature, 1. vydání - Robert Greene

<p>Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend o...

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Make, Think, Imagine : The Future of Civilisation - John Browne

<p>Today's unprecedented pace of change leaves many people wondering what new technologies are doing to our lives. Has social media robbed us of our privacy and fed us with false information? Are robots going to take our jobs? Will better healthcare lead to an ageing population that cannot be cared for? And has our demand for energy driven the Earth's climate to the...

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Hands of Time: A Watchmaker´s History of Time. ´An exquisite book´ - STEPHEN FRY - Rebecca Struthers

<p>'5/5 A true joy. A work of staggering complexity and bewildering economy.' TELEGRAPH'A rattling, wonderful read.' OBSERVER'Every page glitters' SPECTATOR'Mesmerising' NEW STATESMAN'An exquisite book, beautifully put together... What a very wonderful book.' STEPHEN FRY 'Absolutely gorgeous. It blew my socks off' JAY BLADES'An intensely personal, finely-tuned medit...

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On the Waves of TSF / Na vlnách TSF - Jaroslav Seifert

<p>The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) and Karel Teige (1900–1951). Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection Na vlnách TSF (On the Waves of TSF) with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World W...

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On the Waves of TSF / Na vlnách TSF

The famous modernist manifesto Revolutionary Anthology Devětsil, published in the winter 1922, lists two editors, Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986) and Karel Teige (1900–1951). Similarly, we should preface the 1925 collection Na vlnách TSF (On the Waves of TSF) with the names of these two authors, leading representatives of the Czech avantgarde between the two World Wars and f...

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The Routledge International Handbook of Children´s Rights and Disability Taylor & Francis Ltd

This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world. It will be of interest to researchers and students working in disability studies, education, allied health, law, philosophy, play studies, social policy, and the sociology of childhood. It will also be a valuable resource for pro...

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Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest (0241389356)

Kniha - autor Suzanne Simard, 256 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest–a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery. In her first book, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees...

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A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power - James Walvin

<p>A major study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldFor the best part of four centuries, enslaved Africans were the human cogs in a vast machine which transformed the face of the Americas, enhanced the well-being of the Western world, and created cultural habits we are familiar with today. In A World Transformed, celebrated historian James Wal...

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Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality - Venki Ramakrishnan

<p>A major exploration of the science of why and how we age and die - from a Nobel Prize-winning biologist and former president of the Royal Society.'Utterly fascinating. Clear, enthralling and packed with insights.' BILL BRYSON'A thrilling ride through the science of ageing and death. A must read.' STEPHEN FRYWe are living through a revolution in biology. Giant str...

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The Power of Habit : Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change - Duhigg Charles

Anotace: In "The Power of Habit", award-winning "New York Times" business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding...

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Graying Siblinghood - A Sociological Study of Siblinghood in Late Adulthood - Dana Sýkorová

<p>This monograph provides insight into the thus far sociologically neglected issue of siblinghood in older adulthood. The authors answer questions about the meaning of siblinghood through qualitative research conducted in the Czech context, which included nearly one hundred individual interviews and several focus groups with older men and women who have at least on...

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The Dream of Europe : Travels in a Troubled Continent - Mak Geert

Anotace: How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.The great European project was built out of a common desire for peace, prosperity and freedom; a wish for a united E...

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The Dream of Europe : Travels in a Troubled Continent - Geert Mak

<p>How did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here? From the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium. The great European project was built out of a common desire for peace, prosperity and freedom; a wish for a unite...

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