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Ivan Pavlov - Bok av Daniel P. (Professor Emeritus of History of Medicine Todes - Häftad

Ivan Pavlov - Bok av Daniel P. (Professor Emeritus of History of Medicine Todes - Häftad

This short biography explores the life and science of the famous Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, focusing on his lifelong quest to understand the torments of our consciousness. Daniel P. Todes analyzes Pavlov's Nobel Prize-winning research on digestion and his iconic studies of conditional reflexes. He demonstrates that, contrary to myth, this brilliant experimenter did not use a bell, was uninterested in training dogs, was not a behaviorist, and was a profoundly anthropomorphic thinker. He also..

SEK 136.00
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Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Steven R. (Professor of Psychology Sabat - Häftad

Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Steven R. (Professor of Psychology Sabat - Häftad

Alzheimer's is swiftly on the rise: it is estimated that every 67 seconds, someone develops the disease. For many, the words \Alzheimer's diseas\ or \dementia\ immediately denote severe mental loss and, perhaps, madness. Indeed, the vast majority of media coverage of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other types of dementia focuses primarily on the losses experienced by people diagnosed and the terrible burden felt by care partners yearning for a \magic bullet\ drug cure. Providing an accessible,..

SEK 200.00
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Latinos in the United States - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Ilan (Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Stavans - H

Latinos in the United States - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Ilan (Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Stavans - H

As the largest and youngest minority group in the United States, the 60 million Latinos living in the U.S. represent the second-largest concentration of Hispanic people in the entire world, after Mexico. Needless to say, the population of Latinos in the U.S. is causing a shift, not only changing the demographic landscape of the country, but also impacting national culture, politics, and spoken language. While Latinos comprise a diverse minority group -- with various religious beliefs, political ideologies,..

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Guide to the Perplexing - A Survival Manual for Women in Religious Studies - Bok av Members of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession

Guide to the Perplexing - A Survival Manual for Women in Religious Studies - Bok av Members of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession

The rise in the numbers of women in the field of religion does not mean that it is always easy for women starting out nor that women no longer face isolation. This manual offers practical help in negotiating the mine-field of an academic career. The authors want to enable women to be pro-active, to have the knowledge that will help them avoid common pitfalls, and to meet other adversities without the feelings of personal failure or self-blame that so often stem fromisolation. While written explicitly..

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Henry James - Bok av Susan L. (William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities Mizruchi - Häftad

Henry James - Bok av Susan L. (William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities Mizruchi - Häftad

From his childhood in a family of leading American intellectuals through his mature life as a major American man of letters, Henry James created a unique body of fiction that represents one of the greatest achievements in the nation's literary history. In this introduction to the work of Henry James, Susan L. Mizruchi places his notoriously difficult and obscure writings in their historical and biographical context. Among the works treated are Washington Square, The Europeans, The Portrait of a Lady,..

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Women in the Workforce - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Laura M. (Professor of Economics Argys - Häftad

Women in the Workforce - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Laura M. (Professor of Economics Argys - Häftad

Women in the Workforce: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) provides an essential and accessible introduction to the significance of women in the economy and the obstacles they face in claiming equal status. Economists Laura M. Argys and Susan L. Averett tackle timely topics like the wage gap, \women's work,\ and gendered workplace interactions in an easy-to-read question and answer format.

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The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction - Bok av Linda (Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law Gr

The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction - Bok av Linda (Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law Gr

For thirty years, Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, chronicled the activities of the justices as the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. In this concise volume, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history as well as of its written and unwritten rules to show the reader how the Supreme Court really works.

SEK 156.00
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Environmental Protection - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Pamela (Adjunct Lecturer in Law Hill - Häftad

Environmental Protection - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Pamela (Adjunct Lecturer in Law Hill - Häftad

Although climate change and pollution make near-daily appearances in the news, humans have not always recognized that the environment needs to be protected. Only after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1962 did environmental protection became a political and social priority. In Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), environmental lawyer Pamela Hill offers clear, engaging answers to some of the most pressing questions facing us today. She discusses the science..

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Sustainability - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Paul B. (W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural Food Thompson - Häftad

Sustainability - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Paul B. (W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural Food Thompson - Häftad

Achieving sustainability has been a driving ideal in fields as diverse as business management, environmental policy, and ecological science for more than twenty years, yet until now there has been no book that combines a non-technical introduction to the basic concepts of sustainability with examples that illustrate how these concepts are being applied in different fields. Sustainability: What Everyone Needs to Know® introduces readers to the systemsthinking that underpins sustainability in its..

SEK 170.00
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From Expressionism to Post-Modernism - Styles and Movements in 20th Century Western Art - Bok - Häftad

From Expressionism to Post-Modernism - Styles and Movements in 20th Century Western Art - Bok - Häftad

The 20th century has witnessed an explosion of diverse art movements, styles, and schools, with contemporary artists breaking traditional boundaries again and again. In more than 350 essays, the most popular and influential styles and movements are examined alongside recent experiments in new media-video art, land art, and computer art. The origins and artistic aims of such intriguing movements as the Donkey's Tail, the Kitchen Sink school, and the Stupid group arealso fully covered. This is an ideal..

SEK 170.00
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A Slap in the Face - Why Insults Hurt - And Why They Shouldn't - Bok av William B. (Professor of Philosophy Irvine - Häftad

A Slap in the Face - Why Insults Hurt - And Why They Shouldn't - Bok av William B. (Professor of Philosophy Irvine - Häftad

In A Slap in the Face, William Irvine undertakes a wide-ranging investigation of insults, their history, the role they play in social relationships, and the science behind them. He offers advice, based primarily on the writings of the Stoic philosophers, on how best to curb our own insulting tendencies and how to respond to the insults that are directed our way. A rousing follow-up to A Guide to the Good Life, A Slap in the Face willinterest anyone who's ever delivered an insult or felt the sting..

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Faith in the Halls of Power - How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite - Bok av D. Michael (Assistant Professor of Sociology Lindsay - Häftad

Faith in the Halls of Power - How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite - Bok av D. Michael (Assistant Professor of Sociology Lindsay - Häftad

Evangelicals, once at the periphery of American life, now wield power in the White House and on Wall Street, at Harvard and in Hollywood. How have they reached the pinnacles of power in such a short time? And what does this mean for evangelicals-and for America? Drawing on personal interviews with an astonishing array of prominent Americans - including two former Presidents, dozens of political and government leaders, more than 100 top business executives, plus Hollywood moguls, intellectuals, athletes,..

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Taxes in America - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Leonard E. (Paul Volcker Professor of Behavioral Economics Burman - Häftad

Taxes in America - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Leonard E. (Paul Volcker Professor of Behavioral Economics Burman - Häftad

Taxes in America offers a clear, concise explanation of how our tax system works, how it affects people and businesses, and how it might be improved, in an accessible and occasionally humorous manner. The book explores what makes a tax system fair, simple, and efficient, why our system falls short, and whether the new tax law promises much, if any, improvement.

SEK 156.00
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The Day Wall Street Exploded - A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror - Bok av Beverly ( Gage - Häftad

The Day Wall Street Exploded - A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror - Bok av Beverly ( Gage - Häftad

On its 90th anniversary, the first major account of the 1920 terrorist bombing on Wall Street is now available in paperback. Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for their lunchtime break, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire, turning the busiest corner of the financial center into a war zone. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay wounded, making the Wall Streetexplosion the worst terrorist attack to..

SEK 196.00
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Highly Irregular - Bok av Arika (Linguist and author of In the Land of Invented Languages Okrent - Häftad

Highly Irregular - Bok av Arika (Linguist and author of In the Land of Invented Languages Okrent - Häftad

Highly Irregular is an illustrated history of English as told through all the things that are weird about it. Why are there so many silent letters? Why do we have irregular verbs? What is the deal with the word 'colonel'? The weirdness of English can be blamed on specific influences that shaped it, and in this book Arika Okrent investigates the many puzzles of our language to show how English came to be the way it is today.

SEK 160.00
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