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  • The Quest for Sexual Health

    How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life

    Offering an entryway into the distinctive worlds of sexual health and a window onto their spillover effects, sociologist Steven Epstein traces the development of the concept and parses the debates that swirl around it.Since the 1970s, health professionals, researchers, governments, advocacy groups, and commercial interests have invested in the pursuit of something called "sexual health." Under ... Leer más

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  • Inclusion

    The Politics of Difference in Medical Research

    With Inclusion, Steven Epstein argues that strategies to achieve diversity in medical research mask deeper problems, ones that might require a different approach and different solutions.Formal concern with this issue, Epstein shows, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Until the mid-1980s, scientists often studied groups of white, middle-aged men—and assumed that conclusions drawn from studying them ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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    The Quest for Sexual Health

    How an Elusive Ideal Has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life

    Narrado por Steve Menasche ...

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    15 hora 53 minutos

    Since the 1970s, health professionals, researchers, governments, advocacy groups, and commercial interests have invested in the pursuit of something called "sexual health." Under this expansive banner, a wide array of programs have been launched, organizations founded, initiatives funded, products sold—and yet, no book before this one asks: What does it mean to be sexually healthy?Conjoining ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528

    Set in the middle of the Italian Riviera, Genoa is perhaps best known as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus. But Genoa was also one of medieval Europe’s major centers of trade and commerce. In Genoa and the Genoese, 958–1528, Steven Epstein has written the first comprehensive history of the city that traces its transformation from an obscure port into the capital of a small but thriving ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Talents of Jacopo da Varagine

    A Genoese Mind in Medieval Europe

    Jacopo da Varagine (c. 1228–1298) is remembered today primarily for his immensely popular work The Golden Legend**, a massive collection of stories about the saints.** Compiled over the years 1260–67, The Golden Legend quickly eclipsed earlier collections of saints' lives. One indication of its popularity is the fact that so many manuscript copies of the work have survived—more than one thousand ... Leer más

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  • School, Family, and Community Partnerships

    Preparing Educators and Improving Schools

    School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools, 3rd Edition prepares future teachers and administrators to conduct effective and equitable programs of family and community engagement that contribute to student success in school. Renowned authors Joyce L. Epstein and Steven B. Sheldon present the theories, research, policies, and practices that have been shown ... Leer más

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  • Speaking of Slavery

    Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy

    Series series Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
    In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by the language used in medieval Italy to sustain a system of slavery. The author's findings about the surprising persistence of the "language of slavery" demonstrate the difficulty of escaping the legacy of a shameful past.For Epstein, language is ... Leer más

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  • Purity Lost

    Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000–1400

    Series Libro 124 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Purity Lost investigates the porous nature of social, political, and religious boundaries prevalent in the eastern Mediterranean—from the Black Sea to Egypt—during the Middle Ages. In this intriguing study, Steven A. Epstein finds that people consistently defied, overlooked, or transcended restrictions designed to preserve racial and cultural purity in order to establish relationships with those ... Leer más

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  • Wiley GAAP Codification Enhanced

    Your single, authoritative source to GAAP under the new Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) systemBy mid-2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is expected to release its Accounting Standards Codification (ASC), a new, clearer indexing system that is much easier to access and research. Though the Codification does not change U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), ... Leer más

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  • Ethical Issues in Biotechnology

    Ethical Issues in Biotechnology is the first textbook of its kind, written collaboratively by a philosopher and a biologist to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the ethical and scientific fundamentals of biotechnology. Engaging the ethics and the science side by side, the text addresses pressing questions in agricultural, food, and animal biotechnology ... Leer más

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  • The Medieval Discovery of Nature

    This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, people lived in nature and discovered things about it. Ancient societies bequeathed to the Middle Ages both the Bible and a pagan conception of natural history. These conflicting legacies shaped medieval European ideas about the natural order and what ... Leer más

    $114.99 USD

  • Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult Clinical Companion

    Small Animal Toxicology

    Series series Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult
    Small Animal ToxicologyRespond rapidly to small animal poisonings with this up-to-date quick reference guideBlackwell’s Five-Minute Veterinary Consult Clinical Companion: Small Animal Toxicology, Third Edition is an essential resource for managing poisonings in dogs and cats. Using the familiar Five-Minute Veterinary Consult format, the book makes it quick and easy to find the crucial details for ... Leer más

    $111.00 USD