Letters to My Grandchildren when Uncertainty's a Sure Thing
Across generations and geological epochs, a grandfather invested in the care of our planet writes to his grandsons. Intimate and informed, The Planet You Inherit addresses the biggest questions for the next generation, of climate justice, earth ethics, global citizenship, and legacy.
Airline Crashes, the Media, and Transportation Policy
Flying is an extremely safe way to travel. Fewer than 14,000 individuals perished in U.S. airline disasters during the twentieth century. In contrast, nearly three times as many people lose their lives in automobile accidents every year.
Numerous studies have made the 'placebo effect' the most-studied healing phenomenon known to mankind. In The Placebo Response in Manual Therapy Brian Fulton has drawn on these studies to provide an essential resource for all practitioners who work on a one to one basis with their clients. Those manual therapists who learn from this book will find ......
As medical technology and treatment have improved, and time constraints have become more demanding, the beneficial effects of meaningful doctor-patient interactions have too often been overlooked. This title reviews the history of the placebo effect and the evidence of its benefits to health.
The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power extends Foucault's analysis, Of Other Spaces, and the "ideological conflicts which underlie the controversies of our day [and] take place between pious descendants of time and tenacious inhabitants of space." This book uses Foucault's framework to illuminate how mosques have been ......
The Place of the Mosque probes a host of discursive formations-spaces of public assembly and social interaction, quotidian practices, disputed sites, and biopolitics-while critiquing their peculiar anomalies. It goes beyond architectural criticism to emphasize the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of place and space.
The authors in this work examine the importance of the geographical context of music across a wide set of vistas - from Victorian Brass bands to India's early gramophone industry and the cultural politics of the sound in the city.
Arguably her most important and influential book, this controversial work, first published in 1922 by pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger, attempted to broaden the still-radical idea of birth control beyond its socialist and feminist roots
