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Encyclopedia of Environmental Health, Second Edition, Six Volume
Set presents the newest release in this fundamental reference that
updates and broadens the umbrella of environmental health,
especially social and environmental health for its readers. There
is ongoing revolution in governance, policies and intervention
strategies aimed at evolving changes in health disparities, disease
burden, trans-boundary transport and health hazards. This new
edition reflects these realities, mapping new directions in the
field that include how to minimize threats and develop new
scientific paradigms that address emerging local, national and
global environmental concerns.
"The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for
Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print
Disabled" is a watershed development in the fields of intellectual
property and human rights. As the first international legal
instrument to establish mandatory exceptions to copyright, the
Marrakesh Treaty uses the legal and policy tools of copyright to
advance human rights. The World Blind Union Guide to the Marrakesh
Treaty offers a comprehensive framework for interpreting the Treaty
in ways that enhance the ability of print-disabled individuals to
create, read, and share books and cultural materials in accessible
formats. The Guide also provides specific recommendations to
government officials, policymakers, and disability rights
organizations involved with implementing the Treaty's provisions in
national law.
Anxiety is ubiquitous in everyday life and avoiding sources of
anxiety is often at the core of our everyday choices and can even
shape our life plans. But why are we all so anxious, when is this
normal uniqueness as opposed to a diagnosable anxiety disorder, and
why have anxiety disorders become more prevalent than ever? In All
We Have to Fear, Horwitz and Wakefield argue that psychiatry has
largely generated this epidemic by inflating our socially
inconvenient, yet natural, fears into psychiatric disorders and
ignoring our biologically designed natures, thus allowing the
overdiagnosis of anxiety disorders and facilitating a culture of
medicalization. The result is a society that is afraid of natural,
biologically designed feelings of fear and, overall, anxious about
feeling anxious. All We Have to Fear is a groundbreaking and fresh
look at how to distinguish between anxiety conditions that are
mental disorders, those that are natural reactions to threats, and
those that are natural products of evolution. Building on the new
science of evolutionary psychology, Horwitz and Wakefield
demonstrate a mismatch between our basic biological natures and the
environment that we have created for ourselves. Some of our natural
anxiety is born from situations and objects that posed serious
risks during prehistory, but that are no longer usually dangerous,
for example, a city dweller who is terrified of snakes. This
mismatch generates normal anxiety when there is, in fact, no real
danger. Evolutionary psychology shows that beyond the context in
which the symptoms occur, our biological heritage as a species must
be considered in any psychiatric diagnosis as we are otherwise
bewildered by our own primitive fears and beset by diffuse
anxieties that seem to have no function in our lives. All We Have
to Fear argues that only by paying attention to our evolutionary
shaping can we understand ourselves, our fears, what is normal
versus disordered in what we fear, and make informed choices about
how to approach these fears. The mismatch between our natures,
environment, and our fears is not pathological, but rather reveals
the forces that shaped us and provides an "emotional time machine,"
shedding light on who we were when we were shaped as a species, and
thus, allowing us more insight into who we are today.
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Ripper Street (DVD)
Matthew MacFayden, Jerome Flynn, Amanda Hale
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Haunted by the failure to catch Londonʼs most evil killer, Jack the Ripper, Inspector Edmund Reid now heads up the notorious H Division – the toughest police district in the
East End.
Charged with keeping order in the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel, Reid and his men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law; but always in the background lurks the fear of the Ripper.
The Ripper's Shadow is still felt in the neighbourhood by the vigilantes, the sensation-seeking newspaper hacks and the men who hunted – and failed to find – the notorious murderer. It seems that even though the notorious killer has disappeared, there are plenty more willing to stain the streets of Whitechapel with their victims’ blood...
In this sequel to Sleeping With Strangers, the hunter becomes the
hunted when a hit is taken out on hit man Gideon himself. As he
struggles to stay alive, he must also deal with those from his past
- the woman who taught him to kill has been keeping secrets, and
Arizona, the woman he hoped to have as his own, has asked him to
kill her sister. The stakes are high and Gideon will need to find
out just who his friends - and his enemies - are, if he's going to
get out of London, and the game, alive.
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Miracle On 34th Street (DVD)
Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood, …
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Doris Walker (Maureen O'Hara), an executive at Macy's department
store, believes in taking a common-sense approach to life and is
consequently raising her daughter Susan (Natalie Wood) not to
believe in Santa Claus. This year however, the convictions of both
mother and child are challenged when the kindly old man (Edmund
Gwenn) hired as the store Santa insists that he is in fact the real
thing. No one believes him, some even think he's insane, but he is
willing to go to court to prove his case. Oscars were won by Edmund
Gwenn (Best Supporting Actor) and George Seaton (Best Screenplay)
and the film was remade in 1994 with Richard Attenborough in the
lead.
Turnaround proudly present the first ever UK publication of New
York Times best-selling author, Eric Jerome Dickey. The latest
novel is a story of a marriage in decline - he works days, she
works nights. They are drifting apart in a relationship based on
stolen minutes on the phone at work and empty sexual encounters in
the bedroom. When she discovers his affair, she begins one of her
own, and the delicate fabric of their marriage is torn asunder. Or
is it? What follows is a sexy, searing tale of a couple at a
pivotal moment in their relationship, with a truly unpredictable
ending.
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