Beautyscapes explores the global phenomenon of international medical travel, focusing on patient-consumers seeking cosmetic surgery outside their home country and on those who enable them to...więcej »
The book is a compilation of poems expressive different experiences in life and embracing all life's possibilities, the good and the bad Appreciating and acknowledging different perceptions and fee...więcej »
In Platonic ontology, all beings, both the visible or physical and the invisible or metaphysical ones, are located somewhere. Why however does Plato attribute such importance to the concept of plac...więcej »
This autoethnography presents the experience of being othered to becoming an agent of change. Topics are presented as autoethnographic vignettes. The vignettes are critically analyzed from multiple...więcej »
Autism can be defined as a persistent deficit in communication and social interaction in multiple contexts, as well as restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests and activities. Base...więcej »
This book analyses how racism and anti-racism affects Black British middle-class cultural consumption. In doing so, it challenges the dominant understanding...więcej »
To overcome the democratic deficit that has been criticized since the creation of the European Union, a "democratic package" comprising two central measures could be put in place quickly and withou...więcej »
Cancer is the second most common cause of mortality and morbidity in kidney transplant recipients. Kidney transplant recipients have at least a twofold higher risk of developing or dying from cance...więcej »
The transition from being a child to teen is not an easy one-mental trauma, guilt, happiness, regret, crushes, confusion...too much happens in a short period and can be quite overwhelming "Caramel ...więcej »
This book is about catalysing and supporting positive change. Its primary target audience is non-specialist individuals who engage with organisations as a whole, or significant parts thereof, as in...więcej »
This book was as the result of a study that was carried out in Uganda to assess the Causes of Achild Abuse : A case study of Nsambya Police Barracks. Specifically this study was done to; Identify t...więcej »
A significant aspect of the urban population are women who live in a situation marked by historic marginalisation and numerous deprivations. Women and girls frequently experience the most horrible ...więcej »
This book on internationally acclaimed film director Chantal Akerman provides an illuminating overview of her filmmaking and an in-depth analysis of her multi-faceted film style.więcej »
Details contemporary debates about the purpose of history teaching and the influence of late-Victorian and Edwardian educational culture, and goes on to examine how pedagogical developments shape...więcej »
This book offers a panoramic view of Georgian London, redefining the city's role in the industrial, agricultural and consumer revolutions. It does this by examining, for the first time, the huge co...więcej »
Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of the nation-state through the lens of political conflict and violence. Instead the bo...więcej »
This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sove...więcej »
The world appears bedeviled with violence. But violence has not done anybody any good. Proponents of nonviolence still hold that the path of peace and love is the best way to get redress. This book...więcej »
For Aristotle, ethics is the search for happiness, and the science that accompanies it. It concerns friendship as well as virtues. But the Stagirite does not seek to revolutionize morality, far fro...więcej »
What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of w...więcej »