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Communicating health risks to the public a global perspective / by Hillier, Dawn, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…View from the global village -- Cultural meaning of risk -- How do we perceive risks? -- The art and science of health risk communication -- The amplification of risk : styles and approaches to contemporary health risk communication -- Fast cars and cool cigarettes : resilience of risky behaviour in young people -- Risk communication and the media -- Social life of risk communication -- Communication shapes the world.…”
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African gender scholarship : concepts, methodologies, and paradigms /

Behind the crisis Marx's dialectics of value and knowledge / by Carchedi, Guglielmo

Table of Contents: “…-- Formal logic and dialectical logic -- Induction, deduction and verification -- Debates -- Recasting the issues -- Abstract labour as the only source of (surplus-) value -- The materiality of abstract labour -- The tendential fall in the average profit-rate (ARP) -- The transformation-'problem' -- The alien rationality of homo economicus -- Crises -- Alternative explanations -- The cyclical movement -- The subprime debacle -- Either Marx or Keynes -- Subjectivity -- Crisis-theory and the theory of knowledge -- Neither information-society nor service-society -- Individual knowledge -- Social knowledge -- Labour's knowledge -- Knowledge and value -- The general intellect -- Science, technique and alien knowledge -- Trans-epochal and trans-class knowledge -- Knowledge and transition.…”
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Civil society and the search for development alternatives in Cameroon

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Advanced Studies in Multi-Criteria Decision Making

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Risky sexual behaviours among migrant tea workers in Kenya / by Ondimu, Kennedy Nyabuti

The sexual organization of the city

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Shaping entrepreneurship research : made, as well as found /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A pluralistic approach to entrepreneurship research2. The Sciences of the Artificial (Herbert A. Simon) 3. Three Varieties of Knowledge (Donald Davidson)4. …”
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Sleep needs, patterns, and difficulties of adolescents summary of a workshop : forum on adolescence /

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Valuing health risks, costs, and benefits for environmental decision making report of a conference /

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Democratizing Japan : The Allied Occupation /

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Pan-Africanism or pragmatism? : lessons of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar union / by Shivji, Issa G.

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Gender and citizenship in the global age /

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Post-referendum Sudan : national and regional questions /

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Approaches to language anthropological issues /

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Agrarian structures and agrarian reform : exercises in development theory and policy / by Cohen, Suleiman Ibrahim

Climate change education : engaging family private forest owners on issues related to climate change : a workshop summary /

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Ecological approaches to health interactions between humans and their environment / by Dumont, Claire, 1954-

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Making an impact on mental health : the applications of psychological research /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Psychological Impacts on Mental Health: How Psychological Science Informs How We Approach Mental Health / James N. …”
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Punishment and shame a philosophical study / by Hamblet, Wendy C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Justice and the cosmic order in Greek mythology -- Justice and punishment in Greek tragedy -- Honor and shame in the heroic worldview -- Justice and punishment in classical Athens -- From avenging to healing -- Shame as witness to education -- Plato's revolutionary penology -- The science of penal measure -- Toward a Christian philosophy of punishment -- From karitas to penal spectacle -- The business of punishment -- Modernity's shameful penology -- Shame, social injustice, and the poor's right to crime.…”
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