Nina L. Etkin 
Plants and Indigenous Medicine and Diet [PDF ebook] 
Biobehavioral Approaches

This book examines the intersections between debates in critical studies of men and masculinities and debates on visual representation, investigating representations of men and masculinities in conte …

Based on first-hand accounts, the book is a definitive retrospective and the first detailed history/analysis of the unit. A supreme record of an ‘iconic’ social experiment which includes diverse and …

The nature and structure of work is changing across Europe with new working patterns, flexible working practices, and demands for new unemployment rights. Moreover, the move towards establishing a Si …

This collection examines the work of the Italian economist and social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic disciplines. …

How do non-governmental humanitarian aid organizations initiate, terminate and extend their project activities? Humanitarian aid organizations regularly face difficult decisions about life and death …

The concept of the ”ideal city” is, perhaps, more important today – when planners and architects are so firmly confined by considerations of our immediate environment – than ever before. Yet it is …

By examining the fiction of three women modernists–Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen–this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar p …

This work on homelessness amongst women investigates how far it is a gender- based condition. Describing the lives of women without homes, and drawing upon homeless women”s views of themselves and s …

`The Prevention Society” is a definition that can otherwise be summarized as: the information society, the risk society, the surveillance society or the insecure society. This book shows the connect …

The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a segment of the world of work or of a particular subject group, but is also a standpoint for an overview of the condition of the socia …