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Thieves in Court
The Making of the German Legal System in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
From the seemingly insignificant theft of some bread and a dozen apples in nineteenth century rural Germany, to the high courts and modern-day property laws, this English-language translation of Habermas' Diebe vor Gericht explores how everyday incidents of petty stealing and the ordinary people involved...
Epidemic
Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Wilson examines the global response to a deadly outbreak and exposes the current holes in a global health system that is unprepared to handle the next big outbreak.
The heartbreaking story of the devastation wrought in three desperately poor countries — and the heart stopping truth about how close the world came to a global pandemic.
by Nick James
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
In 1961 John F. Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Nine years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Ten years later, Richard Nixon echoed this pledge by declaring a 'war' on cancer. More than 30 years later, however, cancer remains one of the largest...
by Henry Jefferies
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout their course; tailored to the 2016 CCEA specification and brought to you by the leading History publisher, this study and revision guide combines clear content coverage with practice questions and sample answers.
- Ensure understanding...
La batalla de Maratón
La mítica batalla final de la Primera Guerra Médica
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la batalla de Maratón, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:• Entender los deseos expansionistas del Imperio Persa y las revueltas griegas que se encuentran...
by Jennifer L. Pomeranz
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Food and its many aspects -- production, consumption, marketing, labeling, procurement, safety -- have become a mainstay of both popular discourse and the practice of public health. As topics such as GMO labeling, food-borne illness outbreaks, soda bans, and food taxes have come to the forefront of...
Lethal But Legal
Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back from their responsibility...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This unique introduction to the essentials of global health has been constructed by medical students from all over the world through the help of Medsin (now Students for Global Health) and the International Federation of Medical Students’ Association (IFMSA). The global student and trainee author...
When Culture Impacts Health
Global Lessons for Effective Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Bringing the hard-to-quantify aspects of lived experience to analysis, and emphasizing what might be lost in interventions if cultural insights are absent, this book includes case studies from across the Asia and Pacific regions –Bangladesh, Malaysia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea,...
The Battle of Tours
The Turning Point in the Struggle Against Islam
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of Tours in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of Tours. In the year 732, Christian Frankish and Burgundian troops under Charles Martel clashed with soldiers...
by Patrick Pead
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2017
If you think you know how vaccination began - think again - because its dawn is clouded in myth and misrepresentation. Not a ‘discovery or an ‘invention’, vaccination was a development of what had gone before. Man’s battle against infectious disease had started in the Far East long ago with...
by Richard A. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Founded in 1907 amidst protests and a burgeoning suffrage movement, Essex Mountain Sanatorium was the result of two Montclair, New Jersey, women who successfully lobbied local government to establish a tuberculosis sanatorium in a then vacant cottage for wayward girls. From these humble beginnings, the...
The Industrial Revolution
The Birth of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Industrial Revolution in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Industrial Revolution. In the second half of the 18th century, industrial production in Britain skyrocketed,...
by Christof Rolker
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Ivo of Chartres was one of the most learned scholars of his time, a powerful bishop and a major figure in the so-called 'Investiture Contest'. Christof Rolker here offers a major new study of Ivo, his works and the role he played in the intellectual, religious and political culture of medieval Europe...