The greatest revolutions in twentieth-century public health and preventive medicine have been the concepts of risk factors and healthy lifestyles as methods of preventing disease. A risk factor is anything that increases the risk of disease in an individual. Lifestyle refers to the individual's pers[...]
Here is the ultimate book for anyone who has ever dreamed of designing their own magazine or who wants to restructure and/or re-brand an existing one."Designing Magazines" brings together thirty-five highly experienced editors, in-house designers, and consultants to provide insight into the goals an[...]
A Naval Postgraduate School professor and former career Special Forces officer looks at why the U.S. military cannot conduct unconventional warfare despite a significant effort to create and maintain such a capability. In his examination of Operation Enduring Freedom, Hy Rothstein maintains that alt[...]
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, swarming through the networks, and soon, we're told, they'll be delivering our shopping. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything fro[...]
In this book the authors tackle the concept of 'quality of government' (QoG) both conceptually and empirically and apply their focus to EU countries and regions. In a pioneering empirical effort, they map out regional QoG for the first time for 172 NUTS 1 and 2 regions throughout 18 countries in the[...]
Following on from the publication of the first six titles featuring The Library of Congress' internationally renowned collection of Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) photographs, the 'Fields of Vision' series continues with images showcasing the work of Arthur Ro[...]
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The authors have been asked to present their ideas of what a secular study of religion should be like, what methods it should apply, what aims, and what kind of scientific thinking to pursue. The result is a broad pattern of approaches, some wholly theoretical, some also based on case studies. All i[...]
Der kan ikke herske tvivl om, at løbekulturen spiller en vigtig rolle i vores liv. Og antallet af løbere er stadigt voksende. Men hvorfor løber vi? Og hvad var det ved løbet som kultur, der optager så mange?Frisk fisk til inkaen handler om løbets nødvendighed. Om løb som civi[...]
Few religious currents have been as influential as the Theosophical. Yet few currents have been so under-researched, and the Brill Handbook of the Theosophical Current thus represents pioneering research. A first section surveys the main people and events involved in the Theosophical Society from it[...]
Politik i den moderna staten är till stor del en fråga om organisation. Den offentliga förvaltningens organisationsform spelar därför en betydelsefull roll för vår förståelse av politik. Detta har särskilt kommit att uppmärksammas inom områden som välfärds- och utbildningspolitik samt [...]
Här ställs bl.a. frågorna: Hur fungerar valrörelserna? Vem har kontrollen över den politiska dagordningen? Vilken är massmediernas roll?[...]
Tillit till medmänniskorna, uppfattningen om andras laglydighet, hederlighet och allmänna hygglighet är avgörande för samhällets sätt att fungera. Bristande tillit leder lätt till att man inte samarbetar för det gemensamma bästa, trots att aktörerna inser att alla förlorar på detta. Mis[...]