Social and cultural anthropology

Alcohol misuse is becoming an increasingly significant issue for people aged 55 and over, and providing effective counselling services to this growing client group requires a unique and specialised approach.

Provides the latest QMRA methodologies to determine infection risk cause by either accidental microbial infections or deliberate infections caused by terrorism Reviews the latest methodologies to quantify at every step of the microbial exposure pathways, from the first release of a pathogen to the actual human infection Provides techniques on how to gather information, on how each microorganism moves through the environment, how to determine their survival rates on various media, and how people are exposed to the microorganism Explains how QMRA can be used as a tool to measure the impact of interventions and identify the best policies and practices to protect public health and safety Includes new information on genetic methods Techniques use to develop risk models for drinking water, groundwater, recreational water, food and pathogens in the indoor environment

Finding fulfillment in both love and work isn't easy--but it's possible.

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An intimate portrait of the Big AppleAs a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called "e;Last Stop.

A practical reference and teaching book of case studies for nutrition practitioners and other healthcare professionals, demonstrating how to apply the latest evidence-informed principles of personalized nutrition.

This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 1,100 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Latinx LGBT communities within the United States, including Puerto Rico.

Polyphenols and carotenoids are abundant in fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, and beverages, such as tea, cocoa and wine providing health-related benefits and antioxidant properties.

This volume is concerned with the hitherto neglected role of the humanities in the histories of the idea of race.

This edited collection makes a progressive intervention into the interdisciplinary field of memory studies with a series of essays drawn from diverse theoretical, practitional and cultural backgrounds.

The environment is increasingly recognized as having a powerful effect on human and ecological health, as well as on specific types of human morbidity, mortality, and disability.

This book discusses egalitarianism in Scandinavian countries through historically oriented and empirically based studies on social and political change.

This book examines the lived experiences of a group of Japanese women through their thirties, revealing the dynamic of human agency responding to the social changes of Japan's 'lost decades'.

Lebanon may be the most complicated place in the world to be a "e;mixed"e; couple.

In Unseen Flesh Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice.

Designing Cultures of Care brings together an international selection of design researchers who, through a variety of design approaches, are exploring the ways in which design intersects with cultures of care.

This book aims to provide the first comprehensive, multi year, systematic, quantitative assessment in the behavioral sciences of how well being changes over time in a small scale rural society of Indigenous People in the Global South.

Until now, very little about the recent history of the Mapuche, Chile's largest indigenous group, has been available to English-language readers.

This book summarizes information related to public health measures on the prevention, detection, and management of iron deficiency anemia.

An incisive study of situated learning, analyzed through a critical theory of social practice as transformational change in everyday life.

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding race in the American military establishment from the French and Indian War to the present day.

Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women.

In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice.

`The work is on an important topic that has been oft debated but rarely systematically studied - the political, cultural, and moral effects of distant news coverage of suffering.

Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013.

Known for a tradition of Confucian filial piety, East Asian societies have some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth.

This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge.

For many Americans, eating is a religion.

In the past decade Muslims in Europe have been the subject of heated debates on the place and role of religion in the public space.

It is a well known fact that our population of persons aged 65 and over are growing at a faster rate than any other demographic.

The Lived Experiences of Claiming Wrongful Conviction in Prison focuses on the lived experience of maintaining innocence in the prison environment and highlights the struggles and pain that such a claim can cause.

According to surveys, the public believes the chickens it is buying are wholesome.

In this book questions about definitions and demarcations of sport science are discussed.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art explores the effects of Queensland government policies on urban First Nation artists.

This classic text by Geneva Smitherman, pioneering scholar of Black Talk, is a definitive statement on African American Language (AAL).

Since the Cold War, Americans and Russians have together cultivated fascination with the workings and failures of communicative channels.

Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon.

This volume explores the experience of hunger and food insecurity among college students at a large, public university in north Texas.

This guide looks beyond the exotic images tracing the story of different indigenous people from their first contact with explorers and colonizers to the present day.

Africa is a 'theme park' for Western tourists to experience untouched wilderness, untamed nature, and truly 'authentic' cultures, where the hosts, too, are part of a discourse about the 'other' and ourselves, about wildness, danger and roots.

On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on shari?

Nuts and dried fruits are part of our daily diet.

Thoroughly updated and revised throughout with brand new chapters on affective bodies, indeterminate bodies, assemblaged bodies and a new conclusion, and featuring essay and classroom questions for classroom use, The Body: Key Concepts, Second Edition, presents a concise and up-to-date introduction to, and analysis of, the complex and influential debates around the body in contemporary culture.

In an effort to counter the confusion and isolation often experienced by a novice synagogue-goer, as well as by many who regularly attend synagogue, The Synagogue Survival Kit: A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services offers introductions and instructions for all aspects of the synagogue experience.

This companion features original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects.

This book surveys the channels through which political ideas and knowledge were conveyed to the English people from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the Revolution of 1688.

This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese village of Ninh Hiep along the Red River Delta, which became a major hub for textiles in the wake of the country's shift towards market socialism.

Food sovereignty is an emerging discourse of empowerment and autonomy in the food system with the development of associated practices in rural and some urban spaces.