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Concepts, Measures, and EthicsWhich inequalities in longevity and health among individuals, groups, and nations are unfair? And what priority should health policy attach to narrowing them? These essays by philosophers, economists, epidemiologists, and physicians attempt to determine how health inequalities should be conceptualized, measured,...

The Cretaceous ChaseWelcome to the Cretaceous! It really is awesome and Jamie and Tom love to explore their secret world of dinosaurs. But when Nacho the puppy decides to follow them into the Cretaceous, it can only mean one thing ...trouble! As soon as Nacho sees a lizard speeding past, he's off! The boys and Wanna give chase but they...

Athletes, Gender, and German ModernityBody by Weimar argues that male and female athletes fundamentally recast gender roles during Germany&'s turbulent post-World War I years and established the basis for a modern body and modern sensibility that remain with us to this day. Sportswomen and men embodied modernity - quite literally - in all of its...

This handbook provides powerful ways to understand changes in the current media landscape. Media forms and genres are proliferating as never before, from movies, computer games and iPods to video games and wireless phones. This essay collection by recognized scholars, practitioners and non-academic writers opens discussion in exciting new...

Doubt and Darkness, 1895-1897In Therese of Lisieux: God's Gentle Warrior, Thomas Nevin examined the popular saint in the broad context of her life with her family and as a Carmelite nun. Now he focuses on her writings, especially the last of her three "e;autobiographical"e; manuscripts, known simply as "e;C"e;. During her last...

The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only available overview of early modern English prose writing. It considers the range and variety of the substance and types of English prose, and also analyses the forms and styles of writing adopted in the early modern period....