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, Epidemiological studies have estimated that approximately 35 percent of cancers are potentially avoidable by nutritional modification.

The East Asian economic miracle of the twentieth century is now a fond memory.

During the period 29 June to 2 July 1980, a Workshop was held at Timberline Lodge, Mt.

Democratic Insecurities focuses on the ethics of military and humanitarian intervention in Haiti during and after Haiti's 1991 coup.

How have the waves of democracy and decentralization that swept the developing world in recent decades affected states-among the most important drivers of poverty and prosperity-at national and local levels in Ghana and beyond?

Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world.

This book applies a framework of 'trans vitalities' through an ethnographically-anchored exploration of trans coalitional labor and activism in Washington, DC.

Old sergeants say, "e;we're here to defend democracy, not to practice it!

Building Jewish Roots offers an exploration of how participants build rich and varied Jewish identities through their experiences in Israel at the long-established Livnot U'Lehibanot program.

This book provides the reader with an understanding of human nutritional and metabolic physiology and how it goes wrong in illness.

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it is known to its inhabitants, is located in the Pacific Ocean, 3600 kilometres west of South America.

Based on an EU workshop at the end of 2005, the book discusses risk and our food supply.

Created to counteract the spiritual imbalance that MI can cause, the Moral Injury Reconciliation (MIR) methodology is a 9-week, 3-phased spiritual care treatment, for Veteran and family transformation.

The desire to engage and confront traumatic subjects was a facet of Irish literature for much of the twentieth century.

The rising visibility of interracial couples calls for increased attention to the overlapping of culture and race, in safe spaces centered on small-group dynamics, or in public spaces where peoples of African descent are under the public gaze.

Navigating Life Transitions for Meaning explores the central human motivation of meaning making, and its counterpart, meaning disruption.

L’anorexie est un long combat qui ne se gagne pas seul.

This book provides a critical, ethnographically grounded examination of the hype surrounding the idea of impact by investigating the work of those attempting to create innovative social ventures.

Introduction to Nutrition and Metabolism equips readers with an understanding of the scientific basis of what we call a healthy diet.

Throughout its history the concept of Uzbekness, or more generally of a Turkic-speaking sedentary population, has continuously attracted members of other groups to join, as being Uzbek promises opportunities to enlarge ones social network.

Bringing together adistinguished interdisciplinary team of contributors, this volumeprovides a comprehensive exploration of translational toxicology a systematicapproach to developing therapeutic interventions that can protect against,mitigate, or reverse the effects of exposures.

Ideal Marriage deals with the physical problems of marriage.

This book opens up a new route to the study of knowledge dynamics and the sociology of knowledge.

Based on over 40 years of research and hundreds of leading studies, The Vitamin Cure is a comprehensive guide to improving overall health with vitamin and essential element therapies.

What distinguishes humans from nonhumans?

This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber's ground-breaking article, "e;Popular Arts in Africa"e;, which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories.

Introduces a Powerful New Brief Therapy ApproachThis groundbreaking book is the first to provide a comprehensive model for effectively blending the two main postmodern brief therapy approaches: solution-focused and narrative therapies.

The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This original introduction to cultural anthropology is a textbook like no other.

Bringing together contributions from established scholars as well as promising younger academics, the seventeenth volume of this established series offers a broad-ranging view of why Judaism, a religion whose observance is more honored in the breach in most western Jewish communities, has garnered attention, authority, and controversy in the late twentieth century.

Fight cancer from the inside out Cancer treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation can be as hard on the body as the disease itself, and detailed nutritional advice is usually not part of the program.

Nutritional Toxicology, Volume III is a compilation of reviews and research regarding nutrition and toxicology, specifically the issues that affect public health and regulation.

The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline.

What was the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South, and how has that legacy been handed through generations?

An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland todaySince the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival, largely driven by non-Jewish Poles with a passionate new interest in all things Jewish.

The book challenges three perspectives on the modern architectural canon: explanations that disregard impacts and effects beyond the North Atlantic (monologic), superficial modifications that simply add "e;Other"e; figures to the canon, and views that reject the canon itself.

This book brings together an international group of agriculture and food lawyers and scientists to define the field of Food System Transparency in three parts: the big picture, food safety and health, and the global view.

Hugh Brody is renowned for his work with indigenous peoples.

The city below the hill is a detailed investigation of social conditions in a working class quarter of Montreal during the 1890s.

The book, Clinical Studies in Nutraceuticals and Dietary Supplements, presents extensive information on all the vital aspects and evidence-based studies on nutraceuticals and dietary supplements.

This edited volume applies the analytic notions of paradox and play to the ethnographic manifestation of spirits, angels, and demons in different locations around the world.