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  • Global Pension Challenges

    Pensions, Saving and Retirement in the Twenty-First Century

    by Patrick J. Ring, Jonquil Lowe, Lien Luu ...
    Series series Contemporary Issues in Finance
    National pension systems face a range of tough social and economic demands and pressures. These are complex to navigate, especially in a twenty-first century world that has ushered in global uncertainty and pressing challenges – even threatening the planet’s very sustainability – with implications for pensions that policymakers, financial services providers and individuals themselves must address ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Anaphylaxis

    by T.A.E. Platts-Mills ...
    Series series Chemical Immunology and Allergy
    Anaphylaxis is the most dramatic and potentially life-threatening manifestation of an immediate-type hypersensitivity reaction. Although known for over 100 years, it still poses many unresolved questions, and its practical management and acute treatment are often more empiric in nature than evidence-based. In this book a multidisciplinary group of experts review the state of the art in the ... Read more

    $251.99 USD

  • History of Allergy

    by T.A.E. Platts-Mills ...
    Series series
    The prevalence of allergic diseases has increased dramatically over recent decades, both in terms of the number of sufferers and the number of allergies. This is a trend that has frequently been referred to as "the epidemic of the 21st century". As described in ancient texts, allergies have been known for over 2,000 years, but the term "allergy" was only coined at the beginning of the 20th century ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • New Trends in Allergy and Atopic Eczema

    by T.A.E. Platts-Mills ...
    Series series
    Allergy and allergic diseases have increased in prevalence worldwide during the last decade. Relevant determinants influencing the development of allergic inflammation come from the environment and are either enhancing (e.g. environmental pollutants both indoors and outdoors) or protective (e.g. parasite infestations causing early stimulation of the immune system). In spite of considerable ... Read more

    $173.69 USD

  • The Discourse of Slavery

    From Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison

    Edited by Carla Plasa, Betty J. Ring ...
    First published in 1994. The Discourse of Slavery is an innovative collection of fascinating essays addressing the problematic of slavery within literary, cultural and political writings. For the first time, slavery is examined critically within both the British and the American context, and related to contemporary concerns around race and gender. Writers discussed include: Aphra Behn William ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • New Trends in Allergy

    Edited by J. Ring, G. Burg ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    From the first to the third of August, 1980, an international sym posium entitled "New Trends in Allergy" was held in Munich, sponsored by the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, in cooperation with the German Society for Allergy and Immunity Research and the European Society for Dermatological Research. The symposium pursued two main goals: to bring allergy oriented colleagues from various ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward

    by C. Vann Woodward ...
    C. Vann Woodward is one of the most significant historians of the post-Reconstruction South. Over his career of nearly seven decades, he wrote nine books; won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes; penned hundreds of book reviews, opinion pieces, and scholarly essays; and gained national and international recognition as a public intellectual. Even today historians must contend with Woodward's sweeping ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Gaming the System

    Nine Games to Teach American Government through Active Learning

    by Alexander H Cohen, John Alden, Jonathan J. Ring ...
    Gaming the System takes an active approach to learning about American government, using novel, exciting, and highly instructive games to help students learn politics by living it. These timeless games are the perfect complement to a core textbook in American government—covering key topics like the Constitution, the Supreme Court, Congress, political participation, campaigns and elections, the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Problem South

    Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, 1880-1930

    by Natalie J. Ring ...
    For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion, a process that is said to have downplayed sectional grievances and celebrated racial and industrial harmony. In truth, says Natalie J. Ring, this buoyant mythology competed with an equally ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Keywords for Southern Studies

    by Erich Nunn, Leigh Anne Duck, Melanie Benson Taylor, Deborah Cohn, Martyn Bone, Coleman Hutchinson, Houston A. Baker Jr., Steven Knepper, John T. Matthews, Michael Bibler, Sylvia Shin-Huey Chong, Briallen Hopper, Claudia Milian, Wanda Rushing, Anna Brickhouse, Eric Lott, Harilaos Stecopoulos, Jayna Brown, Matthew Guterl, Ted Atkinson, Natalie J. Ring, Suzanne Jones, Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, Thomas F. Haddox, Eric G. Anderson, Dr. Keith Cartwright ...
    Series series
    In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to modern life in general.The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Human Body Temperature

    Its Measurement and Regulation

    by Y. Houdas, E.F.J. Ring ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The physiology of man is a complex subject. Unfortunately the regulation of temperature in the human body is not always well explained in textbooks. Many conference proceedings on the subject have been produced that give excellent detail on research topics. However, the subject matter is rarely presented as a composite whole. New technology has broadened the scope of methods available for studying ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Folly of Jim Crow

    Rethinking the Segregated South

    by Natalie J. Ring, Melissa Stein, Theda Perdue, Peter Wallenstein, Mia Bay, Jane Dailey ...
    Series Book 43 - Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
    Although the origins, application, and socio-historical implications of the Jim Crow system have been studied and debated for at least the last three-quarters of a century, nuanced understanding of this complex cultural construct is still evolving, according to Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring, coeditors of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South. Indeed, they suggest, scholars ... Read more

    $8.69 USD