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  • What is Translation History?

    A Trust-Based Approach

    by Andrea Rizzi, Birgit Lang, Anthony Pym ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a dynamic history of the ways in which translators are trusted and distrusted. Working from this premise, the authors develop an approach to translation that speaks to historians of literature, language, culture, society, science, translation and interpreting. By examining theories of trust from sociological, philosophical, and historical studies, and with reference to ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • A history of the case study

    Sexology, psychoanalysis, literature

    by Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi, Alison Lewis ...
    This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences.It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of Weimar Germany and to the United States of America in the post-war years.Foregrounding the figures of ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge

    Edited by Joy Damousi, Birgit Lang, Katie Sutton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and the sexed self. This volume interrogates how case studies have been used by doctors, lawyers, psychoanalysts, and writers to communicate their findings both within the specialist circles of their academic disciplines, and beyond, to wider publics. At the same time, it ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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    In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony, “an impressively researched” (Rocky Mountain News) account of the history of America’s only leper colony located on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, is “an utterly engrossing look at a heartbreaking chapter” (Booklist) in American history and a moving tale of the extraordinary people who endured it.Beginning in 1866 and continuing ... Read more

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  • Mayhem

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    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    A searingly powerful memoir about the impact of addiction on a family.In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The couple had struggled with drug addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines. Now, writing with singular clarity and restraint, Hans’ sister, the editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing, ... Read more

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  • Sex She'll Love: How to Keep Her Coming Back for More

    by Don Asterwood ...
    The act of sex is not difficult. However, getting her to come back for more can sometimes be a problem.Whether you're married or just interested in turning your one-night stands into something that lasts a little bit longer, Sex She'll Love: How to Keep Her Coming Back for More details the basics on how to make your woman look forward to having sex with you. Providing tips on cunnilingus, ... Read more

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  • The Norman Conquest

    A Very Short Introduction

    by George Garnett ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Norman Conquest in 1066 was the last time England was successfully invaded, and was one of the most profound turning points in English history, cataclysmically transforming a disparate collection of small nations into a European state. But what actually happened? How was the invasion viewed by those who witnessed it? And how has its legacy been seen by generations since? This fascinating Very ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Sex/Gender

    Biology in a Social World

    by Anne Fausto-Sterling ...
    Series series The Routledge Series Integrating Science and Culture
    Sex/Gender presents a relatively new way to think about how biological difference can be produced over time in response to different environmental and social experiences.This book gives a clearly written explanation of the biological and cultural underpinnings of gender. Anne Fausto-Sterling provides an introduction to the biochemistry, neurobiology, and social construction of gender with ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Hysteria: The Biography

    by Andrew Scull ...
    Series series Biographies of Disease
    The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In this fascinating account, Andrew Scull tells the story of Hysteria - an illness that disappeared not through medical endeavour, but through growing understanding and cultural change. More generally, it raises the question of how diseases are ... Read more

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  • Sexual Deviance

    Theory, Assessment, and Treatment

    Edited by D. Richard Laws, PhD, William T. O'Donohue, PhD ...
    Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this important work provides authoritative scientific and applied perspectives on the full range of paraphilias and other sexual behavior problems. For each major clinical syndrome, a chapter on psychopathology and theory is followed by a chapter on assessment and treatment. Challenges in working with sex offenders are considered in depth. ... Read more

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  • Small Matters

    Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, 1900-1940

    by Mona Gleason ...
    Series Book 39 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
    What was it like to be young and sick in the past? Who taught children how to be healthy and what were they expected to learn? In Small Matters, Mona Gleason explores how medical professionals, lay practitioners, and parents understood young patients and how children responded.During the first half of the twentieth century, particularly in the interwar decades, a number of changes took shape ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Courage to Fail

    A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis

    Edited by Judith P. Swazey ...
    The title of this profound work conveys the bold, uncertain, and often dangerous adventure in which medical professionals and their organ transplant and dialysis patients are engaged. Built around a series of case studies, The Courage to Fail is the product of collaborative first-hand research concerned with various social phenomena generated by transplantation and dialysis. The authors examine ... Read more

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