Although articles in this volume fall into three thematic clusters, each of those groups exemplifies three general themes: micro-social processes; innovations and the question of continuity versus discontinuity; and the relationship between ideas and practice. Most of these essays touch upon, and some of them are exclusively concerned with, small scale social processes: e.g. the routines of the all-female early-modern childbirth ritual, the different ways that male practitioners were summo...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Your clinic hums with an unspoken question: what’s next for medicine? You feel the shift. AI is not about replacing medical expertise; it is about amplifying it, helping clinicians reach a new level of clarity, efficiency, and insight.That slight apprehension about AI is understandable. Medicine is entering a new frontier where intelligent tools can support decision-making, reduce information overload, and transform the way care...

Originally published 1995 The Making of Man-Midwifery looks at how the eighteenth century witnessed a revolution in childbirth practices. By the last quarter of the century increasing numbers of babies were being delivered by men – a dramatic shift from the women-only ritual that had been standard throughout Western history. This authoritative and challenging work explains this transformation in medical practice and remarkable shift in gender relations. By tracing the actual devel...

When he came into the dining room, a little tired, but with his clothes hanging cool and free on him after his shower, the whole school stood up and clapped and cheered until he slunk down into his seat. From one end of the table to the other, people leaned forward and smiled at him. "Nice work, Lee. Not your fault we didn't win."

In April the winter ceased abruptly. The snow ran down into Black Bear Lake scarcely tarrying for the early golfers to brave the season with red and black balls. Without elation, without an interval of moist glory, the cold was gone.

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan

Collects Ms. Marvel (2014) #12, Generations: Ms. Marvel & Ms. Marvel, Ms. Marvel (2015) #38 and Miles Morales: Spider-Man #24. In all the Marvel-Verse, nobody is more magnificent than the metamorphic Ms. Marvel! These stories prove that Kamala Khan is one of her generation's greatest heroes! Get to know Kamala, her loving family and her fun-filled friends in this collection of action-packed adventures - starting with Loki, Norse god of mischief, crashing the school's Valentine's dance! Ms....

When a forgotten melody resurfaces, a quiet life begins its beautiful second act.Arthur Mercer, a seventy-three-year-old retired history teacher and grieving widower, spends his days quietly sorting donations at a local Manchester charity shop. His life moves in a safe, predictable rhythm until the afternoon he unearths a dusty, unlabelled reel-to-reel tape from an attic clearance box.Partnering with Maya Patel—a twenty-five-year-old freelance animator suffocating under dig...

Volume 1 of this series focused mainly on small molecules which are intrinsically electroactive. Volume 2 continues to provide current approaches to real time measurements of essential species in the central nervous system. It describes microdialysis, a sampling technique, which facilitates the removal of small volumes of solution containing the analyte(s) of interest which can be subsequently separated by chromatography and analyzed by a range of techniques. These include electrochemistry...

This book is the third in a series entitled, Compendium of In-Vivo Monitoring in Real-time Molecular Neuroscience. Its purpose is to provide a cross-section of research addressing monitoring in the rodent, and in some cases, the human brain.Detailed understanding of the neurobiology of the brain is demanding and involves increasingly wider scope of talent ranging from physicists, neurobiologists, chemists, molecular biologists and bioengineers. Coming from varied backgrounds, they do not n...

Ms. Marvel (2014) #1-11 And Material From All-New Marvel Now! Point One. Marvel Comics presents the all-new Ms. Marvel, the groundbreaking heroine who has become an international sensation! Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City — until she suddenly gains extraordinary gifts. But who is she now? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Kamala explores her newfound powers, but will the weight of the legacy before her be too much? Encounters with the maniacal Inventor and the Inhumans’ Royal Fam...

Ms. Marvel 16-19, Amazing Spider-Man 7-8 (A stories)