Understanding the Dynamics of Health develops a comprehensive framework for understanding health and its impairments, drawing on the work of Bernard Lonergan. By integrating perspectives from common sense, theory, practice, and finitude , this book examines health as a multidimensional phenomenon shaped by organic, psychological, cognitive, and social-historical factors.Providing a systematic and critical foundation for uniting diverse health-related disciplines, from netw...

Understanding the Dynamics of Health develops a comprehensive framework for understanding health and its impairments, drawing on the work of Bernard Lonergan. By integrating perspectives from common sense, theory, practice, and finitude , this book examines health as a multidimensional phenomenon shaped by organic, psychological, cognitive, and social-historical factors.Providing a systematic and critical foundation for uniting diverse health-related disciplines, from netw...

When Slavery Was Called Freedom uncovers the cultural and ideological bonds linking the combatants in the Civil War era and boldly reinterprets the intellectual foundations of secession. John Patrick Daly dissects the evangelical defense of slavery at the heart of the nineteenth century's sectional crisis. He brings a new understanding to the role of religion in the Old South and the ways in which religion was used in the Confederacy.Southern evangelicals argued that their...

Providing a detailed and comparative assessment of the humanitarian responses to a series of major disasters in Asia over the past two decades, including massive earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis, this book explores complex and changing understandings and practices of relief, recovery, and reconstruction. These critical investigations raise questions about the position and responsibilities of a growing range of stakeholders, and provide in-depth explorations of the ways in whic...

The use of computers in archaeology is entering a new phase of unparalleled development, moving on from a specialist methodology on the margins to a powerful practical and analytical tool used across all areas of archaeological interest. With a thorough examination of the ways in which both everyday and cutting-edge technologies can be used to inform and enhance traditional methods, this book brings together ideology from the academic world and pragmatic, concrete examples to show how fiel...

The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments. In the South, African American and white unionists formed a successful biracial coalition that elected state and local officials. White supremacist insurrectionaries battled with these coalitions...

This Handbook is the first major volume to examine the conservation of Asia’s culture and nature in relation to the wider social, political and economic forces shaping the region today.Throughout Asia rapid economic and social change means the region’s heritage is at once under threat and undergoing a revival as never before. As societies look forward, competing forces ensure they re-visit the past and the inherited, with the conservation of nature and culture now driven by the bro...

The War after the War is a lively military history and overview of Reconstruction that illuminates the new war fought immediately after the American Civil War. This Southern Civil War was distinct from the American Civil War and fought between southerners for control of state governments. In the South, African American and white unionists formed a successful biracial coalition that elected state and local officials. White supremacist insurrectionaries battled with these coalitions...

In Business Spotlight Audio 2/2011 präsentieren wir zwei Spezialthemen. Zunächst geht es um Streit in Meetings. Sind alle am Tisch Ja-Sager? Bloß nicht! Wir zeigen Ihnen, wie Meinungsverschiedenheiten positiv eingesetzt werden können, um bessere Entscheidungen zu treffen. Unser zweites Spezialthema befasst sich mit der Frage, wie wir in Zukunft für die wachsende Zahl älterer Mitbürger sorgen. Wir reden mit einem Querdenker über Technologie und Innovationen, die Europas Firmen entwickeln, u...

Wie können Missverständnisse vermieden, welche Regeln sollten im Umgang mit Personen aus anderen Kulturkreisen beachtet werden? Sie arbeiten im Vertrieb? Lernen Sie, was man alles für eine perfekte "Elevator Speech" beachten sollte, so sind Sie optimal auf ein zufälliges Treffen mit potentiellen Kunden vorbereitet. Verbessern Sie Ihre Englische Grammatik mit Übungen zu "False Friends" und dem Gebrauch von "I wish". Die Sprecher dieser Audio-CD kommen aus der gesamten englischsprachigen Wel...

This entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and academic discipline, encompasses the whole globe, and surveys 2.5 million years. From deserts to jungles, from deep caves to mountain tops, from pebble tools to satellite photographs, from excavation to abstract theory, archaeology interacts with nearly every other discipline in its attempts to reconstruct the past.In this new edition, Paul Bahn brin...

Can tourism help a poor remote community to develop? How much does tourism change a village? How can a village have the benefits tourism offers without the problems it can cause? These are the questions that lie at the core of this text. Using an anthropologist’s eye and a high degree of trust, this book uncovers the story of tourism development in two small villages on a remote island of Eastern Indonesia.The ethnography provides a rich description of life in a non-western marginal commun...