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    • Pain Medicine and Management: Just the Facts, 2e 

      Staats, Peter; Wallace, Mark (McGraw-Hill Education, 2015)
      GET YOUR HIGHEST SCORE POSSIBLE ON THE PAIN MEDICINE CERTIFICATION AND RECERTIFICATION EXAM WITH THIS ALL-IN-ONE REVIEW This concise yet comprehensive review, edited by two of today's leading pain clinicians/scientists, ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Ageing and Physical Activity Promotion 

      Nyman, Samuel R. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      The ageing of our population is a key societal issue across the globe. Although people are living longer, they need to be living longer in good health to continue to enjoy quality of life and independence and to prevent ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society 

      Meloni, Maurizio (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the often-fractured relationship between the study of biology and the study of society. Bringing together a compelling array of interdisciplinary contributions, the authors demonstrate ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies 

      Stone, Philip R. (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education 

      Mansfield, Louise (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This handbook provides an original, comprehensive and unparalleled overview of feminist scholarship in sport, leisure and physical education. It captures the complexities of past, current and future developments in feminism ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Global Citizenship and Education 

      Davies, Ian (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This Handbook is a much needed international reference work, written by leading writers in the field of global citizenship and education. It is based on the most recent research and practice from across the world, with the ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Indicators in Global Governance 

      Malito, Debora Valentina; Umbach, Gaby; Bhuta, Nehal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This volume brings together both academic and institutional perspectives to examine the production, use and contestation of indicators in global governance. It provides a unique and comprehensive guide to the latest research ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Paralympic Studies 

      Brittain, Ian; Beacom, Aaron (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This handbook provides a critical assessment of contemporary issues that define the contours of the Paralympic Movement generally and the Paralympic Games more specifically. It addresses conceptualisations of disability ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites 

      Best, Heinrich; Higley, John (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This handbook presents a comprehensive view of the current theory and research surrounding political elites, which is now a pivotal subject for academic study and public discourse. In 40 chapters by leading scholars, it ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe 

      Ongaro, Edoardo; Thiel, Sandra Van (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This Handbook offers a systematic review of state-of-the-art knowledge on public administration in Europe. Covering the theoretical, epistemological and practical aspects of the field, it focuses on how public administration ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Relational Sociology 

      Dépelteau, François (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This handbook on relational sociology covers a rapidly growing approach in the social sciences—one which is connected to the interests of a large, diverse pool of researchers across a range of disciplines. Relational ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Research Design in Business and Management 

      Strang, Kenneth D. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
      Any research study needs a solid design before data collection or analysis can begin. This design ensures that any experimental evidence obtained by a researcher serves its purpose in making the researcher's argument more ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Survey Research 

      Vannette, David L.; Krosnick, Jon A. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This handbook is a comprehensive reference guide for researchers, funding agencies and organizations engaged in survey research. Drawing on research from a world-class team of experts, this collection addresses the challenges ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery 

      Schlich, Thomas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of ...

    • The Palgrave International Handbook on Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning 

      Milana, Marcella (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a ...

    • The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, Books II and III: De Fide 

      Williams, Frank (Brill Academic Publishers, 2013)
      n 376 Epiphanius, chief bishop of Cyprus, published, in three Books, an historical encyclopedia of heretical sects, with the arguments, chiefly scriptural, needed to counter them, and called it the "Panarion" (Medicine ...

    • Paper Cutting Book Contemporary Artists, Timeless Craft 

      Heyenga, Laura (Chronicle Books, 2011)
      Theres a renaissance underway in the art form of cut paper, with an explosion of raw talent and an abundance of amazing work produced in the medium in recent years. This gorgeous volume features work from 26 contemporary ...

    • The paradox of hope: journeys through a clinical borderland 

      Mattingly, Cheryl (University of California Press, 2010)
      Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. The Paradox of Hope focuses on a group ...

    • The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists 

      Amar, Tarik Cyril (Cornell University Press, 2015)
      In The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv, Tarik Cyril Amar reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of one of East Central Europe's most important multiethnic borderland cities into a ...

    • Paranoid Pedagogies: Education, Culture, and Paranoia 

      Sandlin, Jennifer A.; Wallin, Jason J. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This edited book explores the under-analyzed significance and function of paranoia as a psychological habitus of the contemporary educational and social moment. The editors and contributors argue that the desire for ...