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Reasoning and Public Health: New Ways of Coping with Uncertainty
This book argues that in order to be truly effective, public health must embrace a group of reasoning strategies that have traditionally been characterized as informal fallacies. It will be demonstrated that these strategies can facilitate judgements about complex public health issues in contexts of uncertainty. The book explains how scientists and lay people routinely resort to the use of the…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-15013-0
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- XIII, 242
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- 153
Eating Identities : Reading Food in Asian American Literature
Eating Identities' is the first book to link food to a wide range of Asian American concerns such as race and sexuality. Xu provides lucid and informed interpretations of seven Asian American writers (John Okada, Joy Kogawa, Frank Chin, Li-Young Lee, David Wong Louie, Mei Ng, and Monique Truong), revealing how cooking, eating, and food fashion Asian American identities in terms of race/ethnicit…
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- 9780824831950
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- 800 XUW e
Chest Surgery
Chest Surgery provides readers with a comprehensive and authoritative text that explains and illustrates all thoracic surgery procedures, with the exception of those on the heart and esophagus. The easy-to-read text is supported by clear, instructive line drawings and intraoperative photographs. The result is a well-illustrated practical guide for the seasoned and novice practitioner alike. The…
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- 617.95
Constructing Virtue and Vice; Femininity and Laughter in Courtly Society (ca.…
The study examines textual representations of women’s laughter and smiling and their imagined connection to female virtue in a wide variety of discourses and contexts of the German Middle Ages, including medieval epic, ecclesiastical texts, conduct literature, lyric, and sculpture
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- 5
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- 9783737001199
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- 179.9 TRO c
Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway; Same but Dif…
This book compares perspectives on gender equality in Norway and Japan, focusing on family, education, media, and sexuality and reproduction as seen through a gendered lens.
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- 1
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- 1000528405, 9781000528404
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- 155.33 KUN c
Rudolph Agricola : Six Lives and Erasmus’s Testimonies
Rudolph Agricola: Six Lives and Erasmus’s Testimonies The Frisian humanist Rudolph Agricola (1443-1485) is rightly famous for single-handedly bringing the Italian Renaissance to the North. Owing to his fascinating personality and many talents, he attracted the love and admiration of his contemporaries and the following generations. As a result, six biographies on Agricola have been preserved.…
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- 978 90 232 5072 2
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- 144.092 RUD
Group Sequential and Confirmatory Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials
This book provides an up-to-date review of the general principles of and techniques for confirmatory adaptive designs. Confirmatory adaptive designs are a generalization of group sequential designs. With these designs, interim analyses are performed in order to stop the trial prematurely under control of the Type I error rate. In adaptive designs, it is also permissible to perform a data-driven…
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- 978-3-319-32560-6
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- XVI, 301
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Early Modern Russian Letters : Texts and Contexts
Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature, from authorship and philosophy to gender and religion in Russian Enlightenment culture. The first part of the collection explores…
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- 9781934843680
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- 800 LEV e
Bases of Adult Attachment : Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior
A great deal is known about how infants form attachments, and how these processes carry over into adolescence. But after that, the trail grows cold: the study of adult attachment emphasizes individual variations, paying little attention to the normative mechanisms of adult bonding. A much-needed corrective, Bases of Adult Attachment examines this under-investigated topic with an eye toward c…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4614-9621-2
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- XIII, 196
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- Call Number
- 150
Behavioral Analysis of Maternal Filicide
Maternal filicide has been discussed in the medical, mental health, and child abuse fields, yet little research exists with a criminal justice/law enforcement perspective. Nevertheless, criminal justice professionals responsible for investigation and prosecution of these offenders often must give attention to unique behavioral, social, and psychological dynamics not considered in many other typ…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-08150-2
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- XV, 108
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- SpringerBriefs in Psychology
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- 150
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