Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective by Michael Butter (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world. Covid conspiracy theories have attracted considerable attention from researchers, journalists, and politicians, not least because conspiracy beliefs have the potential to negatively affect adherence to public health measures. While most of this focus has been on the United States and Western Europe, this collection provides a ...

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Childhood Abuse, Body Shame, and Addictive Plastic Surgery: The Face of Trauma by Mark B. Constantian (Routledge) (22 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Childhood Abuse, Body Shame, and Addictive Plastic Surgery explores the psychopathology that plastic surgeons can encounter when seemingly excellent surgical candidates develop body dysmorphic disorder postoperatively. By examining how developmental abuse and neglect influence body image, personality, addictions, resilience, and adult health, this highly readable book uncovers the childhood sources of body dysmorphic disorder. Written from the unique perspective of a leading plastic surgeon with extensive experience in this area and ...

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Thaumaturgia Or, Elucidations of the Marvellous by Oxonian (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Low Purine Diet: 5 Manuscripts in 1 – 200+ Recipes designed for a delicious and tasty Low Purine diet by Sussane Davis (PublishDrive) (6 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

LOW PURINE DIET: 5 Manuscripts in 1 - 200+ Recipes designed for a delicious and tasty Low Purine diet Do you want to learn about low-purine recipes? Do you want to know how to prepare the most delicious meals that fit your diet? This book is the answer to your questions! In this cookbook, you will find: Salad recipes like: Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad Spinach Strawberry Salad Quinoa and Vegetable Salad Stew recipes like: Low Purine Chicken and Barley Stew Low Purine Beef and Vegetable Stew Low Purine Moroccan Chickpea ...

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Low Purine Diet: 6 Manuscripts in 1 – 240+ Low Purine - friendly recipes for a balanced and healthy diet by Sussane Davis (5 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

LOW PURINE DIET: 6 Manuscripts in 1 - 240+ Low Purine - friendly recipes for a balanced and healthy diet Do you want to learn about low-purine recipes? Do you want to know how to prepare the most delicious meals that fit your diet? This book is the answer to your questions! In this cookbook, you will find: Side dish recipes like: Roasted Garlic Cauliflower Mash Balsamic Glazed Brussels Sprouts Sauteed Spinach with Garlic Pasta recipes like: Lemon Garlic Shrimp Pasta Mushroom and Spinach Pasta Roasted Vegetable Penne ...

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Transforming Trauma: Resilience and Healing Through Our Connections With Animals (New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond) by Philip Tedeschi (Purdue University Press) (28 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Have you ever looked deep into the eyes of an animal and felt entirely known? Often, the connections we share with non-human animals represent our safest and most reliable relationships, offering unique and profound opportunities for healing in periods of hardship. This book focuses on research developments, models, and practical applications of human-animal connection and animal-assisted intervention for diverse populations who have experienced trauma. Physiological and psychological trauma are explored across three broad and ...

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Augmented Humanity: Being and Remaining Agentic in a Digitalized World by Peter T. Bryant (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This open access book will examine the implications of digitalization for the understanding of humanity, conceived as a community of intelligent agency. It addresses important topics across a range of social and behavioral theories and identifies a range of novel mechanisms and their social behavioral effects. Across the book, the author highlights the expansion of intelligent processing capability brought about by digitalization and the challenges this exposes for integrating artificial and human capabilities. It includes the ...

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Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health: From Policy Spaces to Sites of Practice (Global Maternal and Child Health) by Lauren J. Wallace (Springer) Price verified 59 minutes ago

This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies are formed and implemented in diverse locales around the world, from global policy spaces to sites of practice. The authors - both internationally respected anthropologists and new voices - demonstrate the value of ethnography and the utility of reproduction as a lens through which to generate rich insights into professionals' and lay people's intimate encounters with policy. Authors look closely at core ...

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Life Skills Education for Youth: Critical Perspectives (Young People and Learning Processes in School and Everyday Life Book 5) by Joan DeJaeghere (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access volume critically reviews a diverse body of scholarship and practice that informs the conceptualization, curriculum, teaching and measurement of life skills in education settings around the world. It discusses life skills as they are implemented in schools and non-formal education, providing both qualitative and quantitative evidence of when, with whom, and how life skills do or do not impact young women's and men's lives in various contexts. Specifically, it examines the nature and importance of life skills, and how ...

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Antioxidants in Health and Disease by Antonis Zampelas (CRC Press) (30 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Antioxidant use in health promotion and disease prevention either through dietary intake or supplementation is controversial. This book reviews the latest evidence-based research in the area, principally through prospective cohort studies and randomized controlled trials. It assesses major dietary antioxidants and discusses their use in diseases such as cancer, diabetes, stroke, coronary heart disease, HIV/AIDS, and neurodegenerative and immune diseases. The use of antioxidants in health is also discussed along with common adverse ...

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Feeling Gender: A Generational and Psychosocial Approach (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life) by Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen (Palgrave Macmillan) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, what is continued, what triggers gradual or abrupt changes between generations - and between women and men within these generations. The book explores how new feelings of gender gradually change gender norms from within, and how they ...

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Advancing Human Assessment: The Methodological, Psychological and Policy Contributions of ETS (Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment) by Randy E. Bennett (Springer) (13 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.?? This book describes the extensive contributions made toward the advancement of human assessment by scientists from one of the world's leading research institutions, Educational Testing Service. The book's four major sections detail research and development in measurement and statistics, education policy analysis and evaluation, scientific psychology, and validity. Many of the developments presented have become de-facto standards in educational and psychological measurement, ...

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A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability': The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe by C.F. Goodey (Routledge) (25 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical contingencies, C.F. Goodey's paradigm-shifting study traces the rich interplay between labelled human types and the radically changing characteristics attributed to them. From the twelfth-century beginnings of European social administration to the onset of formal human science disciplines in the modern era, A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability' reconstructs the ...

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Antioxidants in Health and Disease by Antonis Zampelas (CRC Press) (26 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Antioxidant use in health promotion and disease prevention either through dietary intake or supplementation is controversial. This book reviews the latest evidence-based research in the area, principally through prospective cohort studies and randomized controlled trials. It assesses major dietary antioxidants and discusses their use in diseases such as cancer, diabetes, stroke, coronary heart disease, HIV/AIDS, and neurodegenerative and immune diseases. The use of antioxidants in health is also discussed along with common adverse ...

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Confidence: Your Practical Training: How to Develop Healthy Self Esteem and Deep Self Confidence to Be Successful and Become True Friends with ... by Ian Tuhovsky (420 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Have you ever considered how many opportunities you have missed and how many chances you have wasted by lacking self-confidence when you need it most? Have you ever given up on your plans, important goals, and dreams not because you just decided to focus on something else, but simply because you were too SCARED or hesitant to even start, or stick up to the plan and keep going? Are you afraid of starting your own business or asking for a promotion? Petrified of public speaking, socializing, dating, taking up new hobbies, or going to ...

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Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation (International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development Book 29) by Mariane Hedegaard (Springer) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children's own engagement or are demanded of them through undertaking specific tasks within different institutional settings. It shows how the conditions for children's exploration form a web of activities in different settings with social relationships, local landscapes and artefacts. The book builds on the understanding of cultural ...

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The Aria of Galvanize: A Post Apocalyptic Thriller by Wilder Page (Skyland Press) (103 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

She was MADE to survive, she just doesn't know it yet! A hero born of cybernetic experimentation... Incarnate Number Seven, a cybernetically enhanced young woman with no memories and only a basic operating system, awakens to a devastated world painted in blood, desperation, and genocide. Guided only by a moody artificial intelligence program and scattered digital memories into the past, Seven must traverse the perilous Gateway region, fighting past its savage inhabitants and monsters to learn who she was and what happened to her ...

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Cultivating Teacher Resilience: International Approaches, Applications and Impact by Caroline F. Mansfield (Springer) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This open access book follows the development of the Building Resilience in Teacher Education (BRiTE) project across Australia and internationally. Drawing on the success of this project and the related research collaborations that have since emerged, it highlights the importance of cultivating resilience at various stages of teachers' careers. Divided into three sections, the book includes conceptual, empirical and applied chapters, designed to introduce readers to the field of research, provide empirical evidence and showcase ...

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Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2: Milgram’s Obedience Experiments and the Holocaust by Nestar Russell (Palgrave Macmillan) (54 Reviews)    Price verified 49 minutes ago

Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue scholars. Based on unpublished archival data from Milgram's personal collection, volume one of this two-volume set introduces readers to a behind the scenes account showing how during Milgram's unpublished pilot studies he step-by-step invented his official experimental procedure -- how he gradually learnt to ...

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Extended Working Life Policies: International Gender and Health Perspectives by Áine Ní Léime (Springer) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, it tackles issues as gender, health status and job/ occupational characteristics that structure the capacity and outcomes associated with working longer. The volume starts with an overview of the empirical and policy literature; continues with a discussion of the relevant theoretical perspectives; includes a ...

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Children and Peace: From Research to Action (Peace Psychology Book Series) by Nikola Balvin (Springer) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This open access book brings together discourse on children and peace from the 15th International Symposium on the Contributions of Psychology to Peace, covering issues pertinent to children and peace and approaches to making their world safer, fairer and more sustainable. The book is divided into nine sections that examine traditional themes (social construction and deconstruction of diversity, intergenerational transitions and memories of war, and multiculturalism), as well as contemporary issues such as Europe's "migration ...

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Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum: Doctors, Patients, and Practices (Mental Health in Historical Perspective) by Jennifer Wallis (Palgrave Macmillan) (45 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the 'truth' of mental disease, a whole host of techniques and technologies were brought to bear upon the patient's body. These practices encompassed the clinical and the pathological, from testing the patient's reflexes to dissecting the brain. Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum takes a ...

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The Handbook of Salutogenesis by Maurice B. Mittelmark (Springer) (18 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This in-depth survey of salutogenesis shows the breadth and strengths of this innovative perspective on health promotion, health care, and wellness. Background and historical chapters trace the development of the salutogenic model of health, and flesh out the central concepts, most notably generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence, that differentiate it from pathogenesis. From there, experts describe a range of real-world applications within and outside health contexts, from positive psychology to geriatrics, from ...

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Issues and Opportunities in Primary Health Care for Children in Europe: The Final Summarised Results of the Models of Child Health Appraised (MOCHA) ... by Mitch Blair (Emerald Publishing Limited) Price verified 9 hours ago

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This book reports on a project which studied of how primary care services are delivered to children. The study, the first of its kind, has been undertaken over three years, with 20 scientific partners, and an expert agent in each country. Chapters address key questions such as professional patterns, service structure, and e-health. But it also addresses cross-cutting issues which have emerged, such as equity, listening to children and parents, ...

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An Outline of Occult Science by Rudolf Steiner (274 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Various (8 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various (47 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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