Based on extensive fieldwork and longitudinal studies, this book posits that the household registration (hukou) system is a fundamental institutional arrangement in contemporary China.
This book aims to enhance our intellectual understanding of the relationship between human beings and domestic animals, with a focus on a specific breed of dog: the greyhound.
This book examines six English translations of Tang Shi San Bai Shou (Three Hundred Tang Poems), the renowned anthology of Tang poetry, and explores the challenges and strategies involved in conveying the essence of classical Chinese poetry to an English-speaking audience.
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wilde's major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement.
Detailed Review of Nutritional Therapies Used to Combat Elderly Health IssuesThe combination of the aging baby-boomer generation and their increased longevity has been fortunately met with increased research and greater understanding of health promotion and disease prevention in the elderly.
Early Modern Women's Work examines the contributions of female writers, artists, scientists, religious leaders, and patrons who engaged in entrepreneurial, intellectual, and emotional labor in German-speaking Europe.
This handbook of nutrition and diet provides information on food nutrients and their functions; food safety and distribution; food composition, consumption and utilization; adequacy of diet; and the nutritional management of diseases and disorders.
Consumers look to health professionals for guidance on how to integrate complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies into their lifestyles, yet most health care professionals are trained only in conventional practices.
Truffles are hypogeous ectomycorrhizal ascomycetous edible mushrooms distributed worldwide in terrestrial ecosystems, including deserts, as non-timber forest products.
While the science of yogurt is nearly as old as the origin of mankind, there have been rapid changes in yogurt development since the turn of the 19th century, fueled by continuing developments in biological sciences.
This is the first study on the development of Italian ethnic identity in North America (United States and Canada) from a gender perspective and based on memoir.
Oxidative Stress and Age-Related Neurodegeneration brings together researchers from a variety of fields to compare normal aging and disease-related neurodegeneration in terms of susceptibility to and effects of oxidative stress.
The Russian intelligentsia is the historic phenomenon of an educated opposition, and it has provoked a substantial body of Russian and Western publications.
Abbreviating Middle English: Scribal practices, Visual Texts and Medieval Multimodalities investigates the changing dynamics of scribal abbreviating practices in a corpus of late Middle English manuscripts of Richard Rolle's, John Lydgate's and John Gower's works and reinterprets these practices from new perspectives of visual pragmatics, medieval multimodalities and visual code-switching.
Characterized by obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, metabolic syndrome is associated with the risks of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease.
Das Buch untersucht den Literaturpreis Adelbert-von-Chamisso (1985-2017), eine der einflussreichsten sowie kontroversesten Auszeichnungen der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, deren kulturpolitische Tragweite weit uber den Literaturbereich hinausreicht.
This book comprehensively accounts the current understanding of genetic mechanisms of obesity by analyzing obesity phenotypes and genotypes and, gene polymorphisms and mutations, and current results from animal model research and genetic studies in human models.
Evodio Escalante, reconocido crítico literario e investigador de la literatura mexicana, presenta seis ensayos en los que se develan los símbolos literarios de José Revueltas y sus fuentes más trascendentes.
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wilde's major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement.
