Something’s up down below …Urinary tract infections result in 8.1 million visits to a doctor every year, and between 50% and 60% of adult women will have at least one UTI in their lifetime. Meanwhile, overactive bladder affects nearly one in five of the over-40, yet many people wait years before seeking treatment.Maybe it’s time we started taking pee a bit more seriously … Home and Dry is the ultimate guide to the bladder; not only will it help you...

Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the introduction of agriculture, and a later influx from the Pontic-Caspian steppes which without any...

How would you feel if, at eight years old, you lost your parents, a war began, and you were declared an enemy of the state? This is the reality for a young boy named Victor on the brink of WWII. Even Without Blood is a profoundly moving debut novel based on a true story of familial displacement spanning Indonesia, Austria, Holland, and Canada. This novel was first published in Dutch as Schuilen tussen bamboe by HarperCollins Holland and praised by Dutch readers as...

The modern German classic that has shaped an entire generation.A mother and her two teenage children sit at the dinner table. In the middle stands a large pot of cooked mussels. Why has the father not returned home? As the evening wears on, we glimpse the issues that are tearing this family apart.'I wrote this book in August 1989, just before the Fall of the Berlin Wall. I wanted to understand how revolutions start. It seemed logical to use the figure of a tyrannical father...

In easily accessible language, this book analyses the impact of Economic and Monetary Union on Small and Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. This overarching and widely researched study explains in a jargon-free manner the mechanisms of EMU and it's likely effect on SMEs. The book then goes on to explain and examine the results of seven case

Birgitta Anderson, or Birgit, as she is known has three problems in her life: a lousy sense of direction, a broken-down car, and a strange mechanic named Reno. The first problem she was born with; the second a good junkyard could take care of, but the last might be a little more difficult to deal with—especially when it comes with three matchmaking brothers.Reno Brewerigeron has his hands full dealing with his three younger brothers, who have decided it is his responsibility to con...

Entangled in shifting alliances, a young English warrior fights for love, honour and survival in blood-soaked Northumbria.England, 1066. In a remote Northumbrian village, young Oswulf is to become an elite warrior for the English king.But as English, Norse and Norman forces wage war against each other to secure control over Northumbria, Oswulf is caught in a perilous web of fickle loyalities and relentless ambition that drive friend and foe alike.Sh...

Olivia Evezi's childhood is a happy one; her days are spent listening to highlife records and poring over the colourful postcards from Germany. When she leaves her hometown of Warri behind to live out her Enid Blyton fantasies in a boarding school in Lagos, instead of adventure and lacrosse, she is met with punishments, endless chores and hazing rituals. Olivia's restlessness takes her to Germany, her mothe's homeland, where she is thrown into a hidden world of workers and migrants; a worl...

Northern England in the 11th century. A warrior, a vassal, a jongleur – three teenagers, three destinies and a fight for survival, recognition and freedom. Immerse yourself in the three decades following the Norman conquest of England and experience the lives and struggles of the young heroes during the most revolutionary period of English history!Get the complete medieval historical adventure series, comprising all three books, the prequel, plus an exclusi...

The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents provides a comprehensive overview of the research fields of Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics. Socially Interactive Agents (SIAs), whether virtually or physically embodied, are autonomous agents that are able to perceive an environment including people or other agents, reason, decide how to interact, and express attitudes such as emotions, engagement, or empathy. They are cap...

"Doing Fach.Didaktik" beleuchtet das Zusammenspiel von Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik, wie es in der Ringvorlesung an der Universität Innsbruck initiiert wurde. Der Sammelband bietet spannende Einblicke in aktuelle Forschung und Praxis, von inter- und transkulturellem Lernen über innovative Medien wie Instapoetry bis hin zur Aufgabenorientierung im Sprachunterricht. Die Autor:innen vereinen wissenschaftliche Tiefe mit praxisnahen Ansätzen und stellen so wertvolle Impulse für Lehrkräfte,...

Gendering the State is a ground-breaking collection of studies that examines the efforts of women in countries all over the world to frame public policy debates on nationally critical issues in gendered terms. This is the latest volume in the Research Network on Gender and the State (RNGS) collaborative studies. Using the RNGS model of women's movement and women's policy actor strategies to influence public policy debates and state response, the book looks at data gathered from ten Europea...