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  • Who Moved My Crack

    by Dr. Bernard Harris, Ashanti Harris ...
    This is the tale of four inner city characters, who find themselves trying to cope and living day to day under pressure from a society that has a schizophrenic, love/hate relationship with them. Wanting to strive but finding themselves struggling to survive, they turn to dysfunctional and unorthodox strategies to meet their goals. However, when their goals are turned upside down by forces beyond ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Barbed-Wire Blues

    A Blinded Musician's Memoir of Wartime Captivity 1940–1943

    by Bernard Harris ...
    "Quite uplifting . . . This book looks less at the usual escape attempts but concentrates on lifting people of the camp through entertainment." — UK HistorianAs the author, a young Army bandsman lies wounded at the Battle of Corinth, he is shot between the eyes at point blank range. Miraculously he survives but is blinded. In a makeshift hospital a young Greek volunteer saves his life with slices ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gender and Well-Being in Europe

    Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

    by Lina Gálvez ...
    Series series Gender and Well-Being
    This book is the first of four books based on a series of symposia funded by COST, which is an intergovernmental framework for the promotion of European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research. It draws on both historical and contemporary European case-studies to offer a sophisticated account of the relationship between gender and well-being. The authors focus on key ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Race, Science and Medicine, 1700-1960

    Edited by Waltraud Ernst, Bernard Harris ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
    Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration, the distinguished contributors examine the role played by medicine in the construction of racial ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Relapse

    by Sir John Vanbrugh ...
    Series series New Mermaids
    Written in defiance of Jeremy Collier and the budding fashion forsentimental drama, this late Restoration comedy exposes the reformedrake Loveless to the temptations of London and the charms of a merrywidow, neither of which he is able to withstand. More memorable thanthe straying husband, however, is Restoration comedy's ultimatefollower of fashion, Lord Foppington, who defends himself in ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America since 1800

    Edited by Bernard Harris, Paul Bridgen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    International in perspective, the essays in this volume are primarily concerned with two facets of the mixed economy of welfare--charity and mutual aid. Emphasizing the close relationship between these two elements and the often blurred boundaries between each of them and commercial provision, contributors raise crucial questions about the relationship between rights and responsibilities within ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Changing Body

    Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700

    by Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris, Sok Chul Hong ...
    Series series New Approaches to Economic and Social History
    Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change. This fascinating and groundbreaking book presents an accessible introduction to ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

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    Edited by Pedro López-Roldán, Sandra Fachelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the ... Read more

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  • Racism: A Very Short Introduction

    by Ali Rattansi ...
    From subtle discrimination in everyday life and scandals in politics, to incidents like lynchings in the American South, cultural imperialism, and 'ethnic cleansing', racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. But what actually is race? How has racism come to be so firmly established? Why do so few people actually admit to being racist? How are race, ethnicity, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Equity Policies in Global Higher Education

    Reducing Inequality and Increasing Participation and Attainment

    Edited by Orlanda Tavares, Carla Sá, Cristina Sin, Alberto Amaral ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses and analyses global policies and practices aimed at promoting equity in higher education participation and attainment. Although the massification of higher education systems has facilitated the participation of students from deprived backgrounds, socioeconomic inequalities persist in access to the most prestigious institutions and programmes. Privileged students benefit from a ... Read more

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  • Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History

    by Bain Attwood ...
    'Lucid, restrained, persuasive. If there is such a thing as the history wars, then Bain Attwood has struck a major blow for the peace process. Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History is unflinchingly fair, scholarly, and refreshingly accessible.'Hugh Mackay, social researcher and author'Genuinely good Australian history is under serious attack and Attwood's book is a brilliant battlefield ... Read more

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  • History of the Social Determinants of Health

    Global Histories, Contemporary Debates

    Edited by Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Anne Hardy ...
    Every subject has its history, including the Social Determinants of Health. It is a subject that investigates differences in human health that occur because of social life, from income and class to family life and neighbourhood. Social determinants can have very large effects on longevity, just as do other determinants, such as the provision of medical care or clean drinking water. A Commission to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD