(Išleidimo metai: 23-Jan-2014, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199685875)
The senses can be powerful triggers for memories of our past, eliciting a range of both positive and negative emotions. In this book we explore what is so special about sense memories, how they work in the brain, how they can enrich our daily life,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Dec-2013, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199944972)
The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience takes readers on the real-life journeys of gay men who were infected with HIV as young men and have survived to enter middle age. The book examines the tumultuous life paths of these men and th...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Oct-2013, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199685011)
Life to be Lived examines the process of adjustment that patients and their families go through when they face the end of life. Personal research and case-based examples provide a candid look at the challenges from dealing with options from symptom...Daugiau...
Serija: Environmental Ethics & Science Policy Series
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Aug-2013, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199985388)
Environmental pollutants such as lead, mercury, and pesticides interfere with brain development, yet we do not test industrial chemicals for brain toxicity. In this book, Philippe Grandjean argues for the necessity of protecting the brains of future...Daugiau...
Julie Birkenmaier, Jami Curley, Margaret S. Sherraden
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Feb-2013, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199755950)
This book introduces the concept of financial capability and assembles the latest evidence from ground-breaking innovations with financially vulnerable families, and links it to education, policy, and practice. It is a key resource for those interes...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Aug-2012, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199856268)
Dagmar Wujastyk explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts of Ayurveda, showing how these works testify to an elaborate system of medical ethics and etiquette....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Mar-2010, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199257829)
Enchanted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of Europes long, complex relationship with its own folklore and popular religion. From debates over the efficacy of charms and spells, to belief in fairies and demons, Euan Cameron constructs...Daugiau...
Daniel A. Strickman, Stephen P. Frances, Mustapha Debboun
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Nov-2009, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195365771)
This book provides anyone, anywhere with the information they need to prevent bites and stings from scorpions, spiders, mites, ticks, centipedes, lice, and other such creatures....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Oct-2008, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198566397)
We are defined by our faces. They give identity but, equally importantly, reveal our moods and emotions through facial expression. So what happens when the face cannot move? This book is about people who live with Möbius Syndrome, which has as its m...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-May-2008, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199230136)
The mental gap between man and ape is immense. As the brain is the organ of the mind, we must assume that throughout evolution there were changes in the brain that created this gap. This book is a search for those changes. Written in a lively style,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Mar-2008, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195368536)
The story of our lives is the story of our passions. We fall in love, we are gripped by scientific curiosity and religious fervor, we fear death and grieve for others, we humble ourselves in envy, jealousy, and resentment. In this remarkable book, R...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Nov-2007, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195306354)
This book to fully examines the web of legal and ethical questions that arise when criminal prosecutions are mounted against parents whose children die as a result of religion-based medical neglect. It explores efforts to balance judicial protection...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Jul-2007, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195325379)
The Weeping Willow illustrates, through clinial case vignettes, an extremely practical approach to dealing with grief. It is designed for the general reader as well as the student and the professional, for the comforter and learner as well as the gr...Daugiau...
David Blitzstein, Olivia S. Mitchell, Stephen P. Utkus
Serija: Pensions Research Council
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Aug-2006, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199204656)
This book higlights the importance of retirement security as a major policy concern of our time. A generation of Baby Boomers is on the verge of retirement, yet pension systems confront crushing challenges, and governments often appear confused ab...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Jul-2005, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195160031)
Shows that Zen Buddhism offers resources for successfully meeting the challenges of the working world. This book describes the way Zen embraces two different yet harmonious paths - the Way of the Hermit and the Way of the Warrior. This book offers a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Nov-2003, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199266913)
The book offers new ways to think about retirement security in a volatile financial environment. Myriad retirement risks confront employees, retirees, employers, and governments. This book illustrates how stakeholders can reinvent pensions that perf...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Nov-2002, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195154696)
The religion and health movement, as it has become known, has attracted its fair share of skeptics. While most root their criticism in science or secularism, the authors of Heal Thyself, one a theological ethicist, the other a physician, instead cha...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Oct-2002, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192632890)
How far is the health of middle-aged and older women shaped by biological, social, and psychological processes that begin in pre-natal development, childhood, adolescence, or early adult life? In this book, a group of international experts criticall...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Feb-2002, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198504986)
Theories of human evolution portray men as active individuals who shaped future generations by competition, creating a critical gulf between reproductive winners and losers. But what role is left for women within such thinking? Have women just been...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Feb-2002, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198288626)
This book aims to explain systematically how income and wealth are produced and distributed. It not only analyses income distribution as a consequence of economic activities, but also focuses on the process of obtaining income. He surveys a wide ran...Daugiau...
The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been profoundly influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living ones life. A. A. Long, a scholar of later ancient philosophy,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Nov-1999, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198207443)
The first scholarly study of the only religion which England has ever given the world; modern pagan witchcraft. It tells the story of its development and nature, and uses that story as a microhistory for a general consideration of attitudes to pagan...Daugiau...
Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, this book examines the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the 19th century thought about madness, about femininity, and about narrative convention. It traces the fortunes of love-mad...Daugiau...
