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Assembling Health Care Organizations combines an institutional theory perspective with a materialist view of the technologies, devices, biological specimens, and other material resources mobilized and put to work in health care work.

Summarises current research on pathogenic risks affecting milk and ways they can be controlled on the farm;  Reviews ways of measuring and reducing the environmental impact of dairy farming such as better grassland management;  Assesses the wider role of dairy farming and how it can be improved in the developing world

Scribes Divided presents an anthology of fifty-three memorable flash fiction stories. Ranging from comedy to horror to romance and from the supernatural to the super-real, these ultra-short tales will stop you in your tracks. In this book, award-winning authors from around the world will terrorize, mesmerize, and tantalize you into forgetting for a moment your Existential Dread.

Writing on the theme of strange tales of Aotearoa New Zealand, seven Kiwi authors weave stories of people and creatures displaced in time and space, dangerous odysseys, and even more dangerous discoveries. Praised as "six of the best" by renowned sci-fi writer Phillip Mann, these...

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...

Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the...

Following the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, Croatian was declared to be a separate language, distinct from Serbian, and linguistic issues became highly politicized. This book examines the changing status and norms of the Croatian language and its relationship to Croatian national identity, focusing on the period after Croatian independence.

An overwhelming alien invasion has broken earth’s last human encampment. The few ragged survivors flee into the mountains. But the strange aliens have a horrible secret: they can see the thought-trails the humans leave behind. And now the aliens follow these same trails into the mountainside forest...

Take on diabetes through Diet and Nutrition-control, Yoga and Meditation & Exercise, Nature Cure, Acupressure, Ayurveda/Homeopathy/Herbal Cure and Allopathy. Since diabetes cannot be cured, the only way to deal with it is to learn how to control it. With this clear objective in view, the book offers a complete guide on the ways and means to go about it.

No one has to live with the pain There are over 46 million Americans who suffer from some form of arthritis. Here, longtime arthritis sufferer and internationally renowned consultant Amye L. Long and medical expert in the field of arthritis Dr. Neal S. Birnbaum offer a clear, jargon-free, and...

The authors examine how health governance is being transformed amid globalization, characterized by the emergence of new actors and institutions, and the interplay of competing ideas about global health. They explore how this has affected the governance of specific health issues and how it relates to global governance more broadly.

As research emerges on the effectiveness of psychological therapies for bipolar disorder, this is the first manual guiding the treatment of those in adolescence and early adulthood, taking into account the developmental issues which can have significant impact on therapeutic outcomes. Core issues...

The book tells readers how things operate in life due to astrological influences, so that they can approach life from a new perspective to discover the right vocation and attain great success, happiness, love and peace. Case studies of prominent persons are dealt with extensively to help readers understand...

This book brings together a broad range of topics demonstrating how information and wireless technologies can be used in healthcare In this book, the authors focus on how medical information can be reliably transmitted through wireless communication networks. It explains how they can be optimized...