Author: Committee on Review and Evaluation of Internationa
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: chemical, warfare, materiel, recovered, destruction, international, technologies, review
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-11-02
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0309102030
ISBN-13: 9780309102032

Authors:Keith Rodney Benson, Philip F. Rehbock, Internationa
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: history, congress, international, pacific, oceanographic, proceedings
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2002-07
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 029598239X
ISBN-13: 9780295982397

From a study of knowledge of the sea among indigenous cultures in the South Seas to inquiries into the subject of sea monsters, from studies of Pacific currents to descriptions of ocean-going research vessels, the sixty-three essays presented here reflect the scientific complexity and richness of social relationships that characterize ocean-ographic history. Based on papers presented at the Fifth International Congress on the History of Oceanography held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (the first ICHO meeting following the cessation of the Cold War), the volume features an unusual b

Author: Els van Dongen
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: practice, medical, anthropology, internationa, theory, strategists, psychotic, people, wanderers, bricoleurs, worlds
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2004-03-25
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0415303907
ISBN-13: 9780415303903

Worlds of Psychotic People brings a fresh twenty-first century voice to the lives of those with serious psychological disorders, focusing on the manner in which psychiatric patients experience their subjective worlds. Based on ethnographic research gathered at the psychiatric hospital of Saint Anthony’s in the Netherlands over a period of five years, it seeks to describe from the perspective of the mental patient some of the fears and hopes that mark an individual’s encounter with the fixed reality-structures of a clinical mental ward.

Authors:Christine Greenway, Joan D. Koss-Chioino, Thomas Lea
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: medical, anthropology, internationa, practice, theory, pluralism, andes
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-12-13
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0415299187
ISBN-13: 9780415299183

Medical Pluralism in the Andes is the first major collection of anthropological approaches to health in the Andes for over twenty years. Written in tribute to Libbet Crandon Malamuds pioneering work on Andean medicine, this readable, extensively illustrated and instructive book reflects the diversity of approaches in medical anthropology that have evolved during the past two decades. Capturing the intricacies of health practice within the context of Andean social history, cultural tradition, community and folklore, this is a remarkable and intimate chronicle of Andean culture and everyday life

Authors:R. E. Sah, et al,
Publisher: Electrochemical Society
Keywords: silicon, dioxide, insulating, mitride, thin, symposium, proceedings, nitride, emerging, dielectrics, internationa
Number of Pages: 857
Published:
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 1566777100
ISBN-13: 9781566777100