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Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population        had an anxiety disorder. Today, some estimates are over fifty percent, a tenfold        increase. Is this dramatic rise evidence of a real medical epidemic?In All We Have        to Fear, Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield argue that psychiatry itself has...

The set of techniques known collectively as real-time data capture (RTDC) is becoming increasingly important in medical research. This volume gives the most complete view yet of the state of RTDC science and its potential for use across the health and behavioural sciences....

This new edition of Rant on the Court Martial, Discipline, and the Criminal        Process in the Armed Services follows the Armed Forces Act 2006, which overhauls the        naval and military justice systems, establishing a single system of service law and        removing the need for separate consideration of the law applicable to the...

Jose L. Zalabardo defends a reliabilist theory of knowledge that        belongs firmly in the truth-tracking tradition. His account refutes standard lines        of sceptical reasoning--including the regress argument, sceptical hypotheses, and        the problem of the criterion--but Zalabardo goes on to explore one argument against        which...

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Pliny the Elder's   Natural History, from first-century Rome, is the most important surviving encyclopedia of the ancient world. As a guide to the cultural meanings of everyday things in ancient Rome it is unparalleled. Concentrating on Pliny's accounts of foreign lands and peoples, monsters, and barbarians, Trevor Murphy demonstrates the political...