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LEurope des citoyens et la citoyenneté européenne
Évolutions, limites et perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
La construction européenne est souvent présentée ou perçue comme un processus technocratique imposé aux peuples par les élites à la suite du désastre de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et du traumatisme de la Guerre froide. La crise actuelle que connaît l’Union européenne semble ainsi démontrer...
The Battle of Marathon
The Decisive End to the First Greco-Persian War
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of Marathon in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of Marathon. In 490 BC, King Darius I of Persia launched an offensive against the Greeks with the aim of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
This is the final volume in a four-part series covering the development of the university in Europe (east and west) from its origins to the present day, focusing on a number of major themes viewed from a European perspective. The originality of the series lies in its comparative, interdisciplinary,...
by Thomas L. Higgins MD, Linda S. Baillargeon
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Baystate Medical Center was established in 1976 with the merger of the Medical Center of Western Massachusetts and Wesson Memorial Hospital. Baystate�s roots extend to 1870, when Springfield City Hospital was one of just 178 acute-care hospitals in the United States. It was renamed Springfield Hospital...
An Epidemiological Odyssey
The Evolution of Communicable Disease Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This book attempts to set communicable diseases and the efforts to control them in a social and historical context. The primary focus is on England with its particular history, culture and traditions. The timescale covered is extensive and ambitious, and the many strands that came together in the...
Colonialism and Decolonization in National Historical Cultures and Memory Politics in Europe
Modules for History Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Colonialism and decolonization are historical phenomena that are part of the historical experience of many European countries. This volume offers students and teachers a new understanding of how colonialism and decolonization fit into our shared European past and contains teaching materials for history...
The Battle of Lepanto
The Brutal Defeat of the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of Lepanto in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of Lepanto. In the second half of the 16th century, the Christian countries of Western Europe were threatened...
Divide and Conquer
A Comparative History of Medical Specialization
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
This wide-ranging book is the first to examine one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. Based on research in three languages, it traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa shocked the world with its devastation and its rapid migration to multiple continents. As the systems meant to respond to this sort of epidemic failed, the disease exposed not just weaknesses in international infectious disease surveillance and management,...
by Fin Lappin
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout their course; tailored to the 2016 CCEA specification and brought to you by the leading History publisher, this study and revision guide combines clear content coverage with practice questions and sample answers.
- Ensure understanding...
by Jacques Pepin
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence...
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease
The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
For more than 3000 years, hundreds of millions of people have died or been left permanently scarred or blind by the relentless, incurable disease called smallpox. In 1967, Dr. D.A. Henderson became director of a worldwide campaign to eliminate this disease from the face of the earth. This spellbinding...
Liberalizing Contracts
Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
In Liberalizing Contracts Anat Rosenberg examines nineteenth-century liberal thought in England, as developed through, and as it developed, the concept of contract, understood as the formal legal category of binding agreement, and the relations and human practices at which it gestured, most basically...
The Politics of Fear
Médecins sans Frontières and the West African Ebola Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was an unprecedented medical and political emergency that cast an unflattering light on multiple corners of government and international response. Fear, not rational planning, appeared to drive many decisions made at population and leadership levels, which...