Dive into a gripping historical mystery centered on a fierce archaeological debate: genuine Viking relic or clever hoax? When a carved stone surfaced in 1898 Minnesota, it ignited a century-long war between devoted amateurs and rigorous scholars. Perfect for an inquisitive daily commute, this captivating narrative tracks the treacherous linguistic and scientific battlegrounds surrounding an alleged 14th-century Norse inscription.Delve into a suspenseful and thought-provoking invest...

Stop letting chronic snoring destroy your sleep quality and strain your most important relationships. Far from a harmless nighttime habit, those noisy disruptions are your body's urgent signal that airway mechanics and oxygen levels need immediate attention. If daytime fatigue and brain fog haunt your mornings, understanding the science of nighttime breathing is your first step toward true vitality.Whether you are the exhausted partner pushed into a separate bedroom or the frustrat...

Conquer research design and beat geography thesis stress with this step-by-step educational survival guide. Turn broad spatial curiosity into focused questions that drive real-world impact. Stop feeling overwhelmed and execute a confident strategy from literature review to the final write-up.Perfect for deep focus study sessions or your campus commute, this reassuring audio walkthrough acts as a personal mentor. It replaces deadline anxiety with structured progress, helping you nav...

Step into the epic military history of enslaved warriors who rose to conquer and rule a sweeping medieval Islamic empire. Perfect for an engrossing commute or a focused afternoon of armchair exploration, this dramatic narrative captures the brutal clash between fierce Crusaders, invading Mongols, and the unstoppable military caste that outlasted them all.Immerse yourself in a gripping saga of palace coups, brilliant statecraft, and shifting global power dynamics. As you listen, you...

Medical technology broadly defined to include all aspects of the process of treating disease (e.g., pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and surgical procedures) is profoundly important for individual health and, consequently, also for general welfare. Advances in medical technology convey the prospect of both improved population health and increased general welfare. However, because of the extensive regulation of the markets for healthcare goods and services, the development and application ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2017, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in September 2017, in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on eParticipation, ePart 2017.The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers are clustered under the following topical sections: Smart Governance, Government and Cities; Service delivery; Organizatio...

Human capital is embodied in human beings. It embraces the individual’s capacity to perform and enjoy activities that provide money and/or psychic income. Health behaviour affects human capital and is itself affected by the individual’s human capital. This volume consists of original theoretical and empirical contributions to our knowledge of the interdependence between Human Capital and Health Behaviour.

A snapshot of ecocriticism in action, Coming into Contact collects sixteen previously unpublished essays that explore some of the most promising new directions in the study of literature and the environment. They look to previously unexamined or underexamined aspects of literature's relationship to the environment, including swamps, internment camps, Asian American environments, the urbanized Northeast, and lynching sites. The authors relate environmental discourse to practice, in...

From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testingGoing against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses. Documenting the excesses of American medical practice that labels far too many of us as sick, Welch examines the soci...

The definitive story of American health care today -- its causes, consequences, and confusions.In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was controversial and highly political, and the law faced legal challenges reaching all the way to the Supreme Court; it even precipitated a government shutdown. It was a signa...

A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people and en...

Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art.