Motivated by ongoing debates over welfare state retrenchment and growing economic insecurity, this book compares the situation of older workers in Germany and the United States over the past three decades. Both nations are seeing a rise in insecurity for older workers, but the differences in support programs, pensio...

It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis, Global Recession and European Debt Crisis - as well as the recent waves of protest that followed them - have catapulted debt politics into the limelight of public debate...

The concept of madness as a challenge to communities lies at the core of legal sources. Medieval Communities and the Mad: Narratives of Crime and Mental Illness in Late Medieval France considers how communal networks, ranging from the locale to the realm, responded to people who were considered mad. The madness of i...

Body, Capital and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century brings together new research from leading scholars from Europe and North America working at the intersection of film and media studies and social and cultural history of the body. The volume focuses on visual media in the twentieth cent...

Asian countries have dealt with COVID-19 with varying levels of success. The WHO’s lack of effective leadership in the region has resulted in increasingly contested global health governance. The pandemic continues to undermine global health, and the highly interdependent economies in Asia have exposed the speed with...

Leeuwenhoek’s Legatees and Beijerinck’s Beneficiaries: A History of Medical Virology in The Netherlands offers a tour of the history of Dutch medical virology. Beginning with the discovery of the first virus by Martinus Beijerinck in 1898, the authors investigate the reception and redefinition of his concept in medi...

In this accessible, unique study of a forgotten but noteworthy figure, the author tells the story of the life of Kurt Baschwitz (1886ー1968), a scholar who fled from the Nazis. He wrote six books, never translated into English, on four related themes: the press, propaganda, politics, and persecution. Baschwitz indep...

This book explores how the demise of the traditional language of melancholy lies at the root of contemporary difficulties in engaging with darker aspects of human affective experience. Melancholy – or melancholia – was a concept transmitted for millennia through a living tradition involving philosophers, physicians,...

A richly absorbing book... Overy is unquestionably one of our finest living historians - The Daily Telegraph Why has warfare always been part of the human story? From biology to belief, what explains the persistence of violent conflict? What light can this shed on humanity’s past – and its future? There can be few m...

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〓 Unlock the secrets to wealth, success, and personal achievement with Napoleon Hill, one of the most influential success mentors of all time. The Prosperity & Wealth Bible gathers Hill's most powerful insights into prosperity, mindset, and financial freedom. Blending practical principles with timeless wisdom, this...

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Omniprésent dans les médias et sur les emballages alimentaires, le gluten fait parler de lui. Issu de l’hydratation et du malaxage de la farine de blé, d’orge ou de seigle, il offre de nombreuses propriétés technologiques. Pourtant, il suscite autant d’intérêt que de méfiance. Cet ouvrage explore la place du gluten ...

La bêta-thalassémie est une maladie du sang héréditaire (avec laquelle on nait). Elle affecte les globules rouges. La bêta-thalassémie est une maladie due à des modifications (mutations) dans les gènes qui sont transmises de parents à enfant. Vous êtes atteint(e) de bêta-thalassémie lorsque vos deux parents vous ont...