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Genetics

Gene From Genetics to Postgenomics

Rheinberger Hans-Jorg, Muller-Wille Staffan

ISBN: PB: 9780226510002, ISBN: HB: 9780226276359, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Few concepts played a more important role in twentieth-century life sciences than that of the gene. Yet at this moment, the field of genetics is undergoing radical conceptual transformation, and some scientists are questioning the very usefulness of...

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Nutrition

Sport

Integrated Periodization in Sports Training & Athletic Development Combining Training Methodology, Sports Psychology, and Nutrition to Optimize Performance

Bompa Tudor, Howell Scott, Blumenstein Boris, Hoffmann James, Orbach Iris

ISBN: PB: 9781782551416, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, August 2018
250 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 150 black&white illus.

"Integrated Periodization in Sports Training & Athletic Development" considers the large problem of training specialists working in isolation and builds a case for integrated periodization as conceived by Tudor Bompa. The book begins by defining peri...

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Physiotherapy

Anatomy & Massage Detailed & Illustrated Techniques, Including New Insights into Massaging Myofascial Tissue

Marmol Josep, Jacomet Arturo

ISBN: PB: 9781782551386, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, June 2018
160 pp., 27.4x21.2 cm, 243 black&white illus., 54 colour illus.

A massage helps in all situations. Massage techniques can be used not only for relaxation, but also in sports – where the right massage technique can be used for regeneration, rehabilitation, and injury prevention. The unique mixture of photos and an...

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Christianity

Public Health

Conversionary Sites Transforming Medical Aid and Global Christianity from Madagascar to Minnesota

Halvorson Britt

ISBN: PB: 9780226557267, ISBN: HB: 9780226557120, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, "Conversionary Sites" investigates the role of religion...

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Public Health

Polio The Odyssey of Eradication

Abraham Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9781849049566, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each...

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Psychology

Geriatrics

My Parent's Keeper The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork, and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving

Gastfriend Jody

ISBN: PB: 9780300221350, Yale University Press, May 2018
352 pp., 21x14 cm

When it comes time to provide care for those who once cared for us, where can we turn? This book offers practical guidance for a broad range of caregiving situations when family caregivers assume their new role. Uses the latest research and draws on...

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Gynecology

Tangled Diagnoses Prenatal Testing, Women, and Risk

Lowy Ilana

ISBN: PB: 9780226534091, ISBN: HB: 9780226534121, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care. Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus...

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Genetics

Visions of Cell Biology Reflections Inspired by Cowdry's "General Cytology"

Matlin Karl, Maienschein Jane, Laubichler Manfred

ISBN: PB: 9780226520513, ISBN: HB: 9780226520483, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 28 line drawings, 2 tables

Although modern cell biology is often considered to have arisen following World War II in tandem with certain technological and methodological advances – in particular, the electron microscope and cell fractionation – its origins actually date to the...

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Psychiatry

Genetics

Model Behavior Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders

Nelson Nicole C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226546087, ISBN: HB: 9780226545929, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today – but it is far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems like alcoholism or anxiety. How do scientists convince funders, fellow s...

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Business & Economics

Public Health

Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs

Aizcorbe Ana, Baker Colin, Berndt Ernst R., Cutler David M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226530857, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2018
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 line drawings, 113 tables

Health care costs represent a nearly 18% of U. S. gross domestic product and 20% of government spending. While there is detailed information on where these health care dollars are spent, there is much less evidence on how this spending affects health...

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