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Lupus is a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks itself, culminating        in disease which can affect multiple organs, including the skin, joints, heart,        lungs, kidneys, and central nervous system. Lupus currently affects about 30,000        patients in the UK, 500,000 in the United States and tens of thousands...

A World HistoryPeople have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "e;natural"e; phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundamental unit from the beginnings of...

China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from a premodern past into a modern world. Mitter takes us through the resulting social...

A gripping, atmospheric novel, which demands reading at one sitting. Five Stars. (Books for Keeps )...

Sensible Finance for a Dynamic EconomyOur prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment-and bear responsibility for outcomes. And widespread enterprise is fostered through dialogue and relationships, not merely prices in anonymous markets. Yet modern finance blatantly...

Four Dimensionalism defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. Along the way many topics concerning the metaphysics of time and identity over time are addressed. These include the status of past and future objects, the nature of motion and change, the existence of composite objects, and examples...