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The Family Life of Old People
First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families? Thereafter, the author describes the results of …
The Evolution of Music through Culture and Science
The Evolution of Music by Culture and Science aims to recognise the impact of science on music, why it occurs, how we respond, and even to tentatively see if we can predict future …
Old People in Three Industrial Societies
Robert and Helen Lynd's Middletown set the format in sociological theory and practice for hundreds of studies in the decades following its publication in 1929. Old People in Three …
Mysterious Ocean
This book provides an introduction to ocean sciences that is engaging, evocative and accessible to non-experts interested in marine geoscience, while sparking readers' interest in …
Positron Emission Tomography
The use of positron emission tomography (PET) in clinical practice is key to the s- cessful management of many patients with a wide variety of diseases. Whereas in the 1980s and …
Seeing Judaism Anew
In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document 'A Sacred Obligation,' which includes ten statements about …
Positron Emission Tomography
Essential for students, science and medical graduates who want to understand the basic science of Positron Emission Tomography (PET), this book describes the physics, chemistry, …
Fall and Rise of British Railways Steam
From the mid-1950s steam was in decline, to disappear entirely from BR in 1968. Yet from the scrapyards and disused branch lines a remarkable preservation movement emerged, and …
International Analysis Poverty
First published in 1993. The scientific and political debate about poverty has been changing fast -with dramatic implications for intellectual interpretation and action by …
The Dark Side of Technology
Technological progress comes with a Dark Side where good ideas and intentions produce undesirable results. The many and various unexpected outcomes of technology span humorous to …
British Railways Steam
Features the last four dramatic years of steam, recording both working locomotives, shed scenes and a selected number of routes, many of which closed during the period of …
Health and Deprivation
When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in different areas of the North of England. It relates this …