Drinking

DrinkingOver the last decades quite a few studies have been devoted to drinking. Most of these were concerned with alcohol and written by social anthropologists. This book presents multidisciplinary aspects of the ingestion of liquids at large, addressing many of the overt and covert meanings of drinking: from satisfying biological needs to communicating with humans and the hereafter, attempting to reach a differential emotional state or seeking good health

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lung feature extraction in joint PET/CT images

It is not simply that She is superior to the male gods

and the planned economy of the Soviet Union

social and maritime history

This volume attests to the fact that pressing global public health concerns are ever present as subjects of societal discourse and debate in developed and developing states

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Elizabeth Keckley reveals the hardships of slavery and the changing political climate in Washington amongst the country’s most powerful couple

As an artist for whom the personal was always political

In this fifth edition

Sinn reconsiders her work in the light of subsequent research on Hong Kong's history and connects it to recent developments in international scholarly work especially with respect to the study of philanthropy and to ideas of world history

Focusing on critical emerging issues in regard to multicultural families