Die Migränepatientin erzählt, ihr Neurologe gibt Ratschläge - gemeinsam schreiben sie einen Ratgeber, in dessen Fokus nicht medizinisch-wissenschaftliche Aspekte, sondern die persönlichen Erfahrungen mit Migräne und deren Bewältigung stehen: Die Journalistin Praxedis Kaspar-Schmid berichtet von ihrem Leben, das von schwerer Migräne, aber auch von deren Folgen wie Kopfschmerz bei Medikamentenübergebrauch geprägt war.
Rekordtemperaturen, Dürre-Katastrophen und Starkregenereignisse treten heute immer häufiger auf, so dass die Folgen des Klimawandels im gesellschaftlichen Bewusstsein immer präsenter werden und nicht mehr zu verharmlosen sind.
Die "Lowen Diät" bietet einen innovativen Ansatz zur Förderung eines gesunden Lebensstils in einer Zeit, in der Übergewicht und damit verbundene Gesundheitsprobleme zunehmen.
Hindu Customs and their Origins (1937) primarily examines the topic of caste in India, looking at the ancient ideas of the origins of caste and testing modern theories through a critical examination.
Forty Years of the Landless Workers Movement: Landless Perspectives presents ethnographic insights into Latin America's largest social movement as it celebrates its 40th anniversary.
Detective Fiction on the Case of Community uses one of the most popular forms of modern literature to examine one of modernity's most trenchant problems.
Dieses kleine Handbuch (12cm x 19cm) ist ideal für unterwegs und bietet einen umfassenden Leitfaden zur Stoffwechselkur, auch bekannt als HCG-Diät, basierend auf unterschiedlichen Informationen und persönlichen Erfahrungen.
A compilation of historical documents written by Europeans during the colonization of southwest FloridaWhen Europeans arrived in southwest Florida in the early sixteenth century, they encountered a complex and powerful society.
On the whole, the debates surrounding the issues of breast-feeding - often reflecting ethnographic and ill-informed medical and demographic approaches - have failed to treat the deeper issues.
Based on interviews and conversations in the Bosnian Federation with women survivors of war rape, children born of armed conflict, leaders of NGOs who work with survivors, and people who lived through the war and who experienced it in different ways, this book challenges one-dimensional representations of the Yugoslav war and subsequent peacebuilding processes.
Joseph du Sorbiers de la Tourrasse (1866-1931) n’a que vingt ans et un bagage universitaire limité quand, en 1886, il quitte la France et part au Sénégal pour y servir une société de commerce.
Exploring the difficult and contested sites of deindustrialized society on the brink of transformation to either heritage or wasteland, this volume looks at the creative ways that such sites are (re)used and suggests that they are not always merely abject or abandoned.
Thanks to new tools of research and the heightened scientific rigor with which they are applied, medical science has reached a far more heightened understanding of nutrition's complex relation with digestive disease.
All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation.
Palestine of the Jews (1919) examines the history of Jewish Palestine, from 4,000 years ago to the early twentieth century and the Balfour Declaration.
Recent research has emphasized that socially transmitted information may affect both the gene pool and the phenotypes of individuals and populations, and that an improved understanding of evolutionary issues is beneficial to those working towards the improvement of human health.
This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure.
This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure.
The Political Anthropology series offers a forum for the publication of original essays in the pioneering new multidisciplinary field of political anthropology.