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  • Immaculate Forms

    A History of the Female Body in Four Parts

    de Helen King ...
    “Never has medical history been more entertaining” (Dr Jennifer Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible) than in this turbulent history of women’s bodies from classical Greece to the modern ageA New Yorker Best Book of the YearBreasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb. Across history, these body parts have told women who they are and what they should do. Although knowledge of each part has changed through ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Artistry of Teaching in Higher Education

    Practical Ideas for Developing Creative Academic Practice

    Edición de Helen King ...
    Series series SEDA Series
    Introducing a fresh approach to conceptualising and actioning high-quality teaching in higher education, this essential volume fills a gap in current literature by expanding beyond the mere ‘delivery’ of teaching. Instead, it offers an evidence-based discussion of ‘artistry’ and demonstrates how this may be applied successfully within a higher education setting to enable better student learning. ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Inspiring You!

    de Helen King ...
    This is an inspirational book intended to lead you through a potential road map for how to develop an intimate relationship and walk closer with God. If you are not interested in developing a closer relationship with God, this book will help you to live life better and make you better at life.The ideas are presented from a perspective that encourages introspection from those who read it and ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Developing Expertise for Teaching in Higher Education

    Practical Ideas for Professional Learning and Development

    Edición de Helen King ...
    Series series SEDA Series
    This book provides a contemporary view of the characteristics of expertise for teaching in higher education, based on the strong foundation of research into expertise, and empirical and practical knowledge of the development of teaching in higher education.Taking key themes related to the characteristics of expertise, this edited collection delivers practical ideas for supporting and enabling ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Dossier : Mères et maternités en Grèce ancienne

    Series series Mètis
    Dossier : L’objet est ici de réévaluer l’histoire et les représentations des mères et de la maternité dans le monde grec ancien. Qu’est ce que devenir mère dans la Grèce ancienne ? Le dossier aborde cette question, que ce soit dans ses aspects démographiques, avec l’épineuse question du contrôle des naissances pour le bien de l’oikos, dans ses aspects physiologiques et médicaux en posant la ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Disease of Virgins

    Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty

    de Helen King ...
    From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls.Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen King stresses the continuity of this disease through history,depsite enormous shifts in medical understanding and technonologies, and drawing ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence

    de Helen King ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the mid-sixteenth ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology

    The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium

    de Helen King ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. This collection was first published in 1566, with a second edition in 1586/8 and a third, running to 1097 folio pages, in 1597. While examining the origins of the compendium, Helen ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Health in Antiquity

    Edición de Helen King ...
    How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring their health?For students of classics, history or the history of medicine, answers to these and many previously untouched questions are dealt with by renowned ancient historians, classical scholars and archaeologists.Using a multidisciplined approach, the contributors assess the issues ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Hippocrates' Woman

    Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece

    de Helen King ...
    Hippocrates' Woman demonstrates the role of Hippocratic ideas about the female body in the subsequent history of western gynaecology. It examines these ideas not only in the social and cultural context in which they were first produced, but also the ways in which writers up to the Victorian period have appealed to the material in support of their own theories.Among the conflicting tange of images ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Watching You Without Me

    A novel

    de Lynn Coady ...
    Narrado por Helen King ...

    Completo

    11 hora 9 minutos

    LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE!From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning story collection Hellgoing--an electrifying, brooding novel about the lengths we go to care for family, and what happens when a stranger places himself at the center of one household."Watching You Without Me is like a Lorrie Moore book suffering a Patricia Highsmith fever dream. You slide right along ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Immaculate Forms

    A History of the Female Body in Four Parts

    de Helen King ...
    Narrado por Elaine Claxton ...

    Completo

    15 hora 9 minutos

    The turbulent history of women’s bodies, from classical Greece to the modern dayBreasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb. Across history, these body parts have told women who they are and what they should do. Although knowledge of each part has changed through time, none of them tells a simple story. The way they work and in some cases even their existence have been debated. They can be seen as powerful ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD