Living Better with Low Back Pain
Low back pain is a frustrating dilemma, but the medical system is often ineffective. This book dispels the myths around common diagnoses and treatments, presenting recent medical research in a practical way. Gain insight, reassurance, and find your way to a better back.
From the 1870s to the 1920s, a political struggle raged over public houses. Temperance reformers clashed with the powerful drink trade over compensation for pub closures, creating a stalemate broken only by a controversial deal and radical WWI experiments like State Purchase.
Postcolonial African women have often been represented as weak, subaltern, and speechless. This book shows how Ngugi and Adichie’s novels break from these clichés, depicting the African woman in a versatile and powerful way.
From a physician with 30 years of experience, this book is a profound analysis of the doctor-patient relationship. It addresses placebos, shamanism, and the role lies play, using real-life anecdotes to provide an authentic glimpse into the medical profession for us all.
Philosophy and science go hand-in-hand to answer fundamental questions about how we know the world. This book provides answers to such philosophical problems on the basis of sound and clearly presented argumentation for philosophers, scientists, and inquisitive readers.
Personality Type and Art
Discover the psychological roots of your artistic tastes. Revising the theories of Jung and Freud, this book unveils a new understanding of personality that will irrevocably change how you perceive music and art.
EU growth is slow, but its potential remains high. This vital trade block must find the political capacity for closer integration to close the gap between reality and potential. This book explores how, covering Brexit, capital markets, energy, and trade policy.
For advanced students, this book establishes a path from the study of phase transitions to the current understanding of living matter. It explores concepts from statistical mechanics, non-linear systems, chaos and self-organization drawn from physics, chemistry and biology.
This book explores Sherpa culture, a distinct lifestyle preserved despite outside influence from tourism and modernisation. As the Sherpa language is oral, outside accounts often suffer from mistranslations. Written by a Sherpa, this unique work overcomes these barriers.
This book’s research proves managers can use intellectual capital disclosure to boost firm performance. It reveals how using the balanced scorecard as a measurement tool for intellectual capital can drive success. An essential guide for executives, managers, and academics.
Lessons in Practical Clinical and Operative Surgery
Through his own life, surgeon Salah Abbas reveals the trials of medicine: the difficult decisions and consequences surgeons face daily, the influence of global regimes on medical professionals, and the effects of emigration on their lives.
Since common tuberculosis symptoms are often absent in tubercular lymphadenitis (TBLN), diagnosis can be difficult. This book evaluates molecular diagnostic tools for early detection, using real-time PCR targeting IS6110. It also focuses on TBLN in pediatric patients.
How Political Eras End
Is the UK at ‘the end of a political era’? This book analyses the seismic shifts since the 2016 EU Referendum, comparing them with past eras to make a compelling case. It defines what a political era is, exploring vital issues like democracy, identity, and migration.
A Highland Tour of Victorian Travel Writing
In the 18th century, Scotland was seen as a peripheral land of savage Highlanders. This volume of travel narratives and essays (1722-1907) explores how writers defined Scottish identity, often promoting images of backwardness and the sublime.
For Victorian and Modern women who defied convention, a diagnosis of madness was a constant threat. This book uncovers the reality of unjust institutionalization and reveals how these women actively protested their diagnoses and confinement.
The Pope and the World
Pope Benedict XVI has long engaged in the dialogue between the sacred and the secular. While many accused him of changing his views, this book tracks his ideas over the years, revealing a profound consistency in directing all spheres—from the Liturgy to politics—towards God.
Explore magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) as powerful adsorbents for purifying water. This book provides an in-depth overview of MNP synthesis, properties, and applications in removing heavy metals and organic pollutants, enhancing water quality for environmental and human health.
This book presents a humanistic framework for health promotion, arguing that the key is not to control behavior, but to cultivate autonomy. It reframes health as a matter of social justice—a moral endeavor to remove barriers so everyone can realize their innate capacities.
The New European Union and Its Global Strategy
The European Union faces unprecedented crises. As it projects itself as a global actor, reshaping ties with the United States, China, and Russia, its future remains a subject of intense debate. This volume offers answers regarding the conundrum of the EU’s transformations.
The term ‘border’ has become a ploy for chauvinism and ultra-nationalist bigotry, with notorious coverage in media, cinema, and literature. This volume explores a wide range of literary, linguistic, and media representations of the ‘border.’