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Departing from the typical discourse about journalistic depictions of Africa, this book focuses on the underexplored journalistic representations created by African journalists reporting on African countries. The book demonstrates that African journalists are crucial actors in the marginalization of African voices through their coverage of Africa.

Introduces scholars and students of literature to previously neglected or unknown works of literature, as well as new approaches to canonical texts. It challenges how previous generations of scholars have understood American modernity and shows the diversity of US Latinx communities and cultures.

Covering the exploration of Mars from 2015 to 2021, this atlas is a detailed visual reference. It presents information from diverse sources, featuring annotated maps, photographs, tables and detailed descriptions of every Mars mission in chronological order. This is a unique resource for planetary and space scientists, historians and cartographers.

This book enables readers to gain knowledge and insight into the ubiquity of competition and its significant role in the evolution of human society across cultures, regions, systems, and eras. It is suitable for everyone across all academic disciplines, as it helps individuals understand their inadvertent involvement in competition arenas.

Provides insights into the regional and local factors influencing water insecurity and its effects on people's daily lives. With practical policy advice, this is a key resource for policy makers and practitioners, as well as researchers in geography, development studies, environmental science, anthropology, economics, and political science.

Bringing together a global team of scholars, this Handbook gives a full overview of multilingual education. It showcases how multilingual competence is developed in national systems of education, making it essential reading for researchers and students of bilingualism, multilingualism, language education, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics.

This book provides a fresh interpretation of Aristotle's account of perception, refocusing the debate and emphasising what remains philosophically relevant. It will engage experts on Aristotle and help those who work in ancient philosophy, including advanced students, while inviting contemporary philosophers to engage with Aristotle's thought.

"What was the social experience of work in the ancient world? This study approaches the topic through the lens of the potters and ceramicists in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. It reconstructs the complex lives of people in the past, demonstrating the importance of studying work and labor as central topics in social and cultural histories"--

This comprehensive introduction to number theory will reward students and researchers with its insight and thoroughness. Suitable for course use and self-study, it avoids unnecessary abstraction and provides a wealth of thought-provoking examples and problems. The history of the birth of analytic and algebraic number theory is woven throughout.

An updated fourth edition of this highly successful book provides detailed, accessible summaries on the core questions in the oral part of the Final FRCA examination. It contains over 200 summaries of the most relevant topics, which test the basic sciences of anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, and clinical measurement.

This book clearly explains how public health officials plan, deliver, and evaluate crisis and emergency risk communication before, during, and after health emergencies. Organized into four parts - precrisis planning, communicating during a health emergency, communicating and evaluating after a health emergency, and crisis leadership - it offers practical information as well as the opportunity to reflect on emergency risk communication best practices and theories. Including information on precrisis planning, implications of public health law, developing communication plans, writing messages, evaluating emergency risk communication, and crisis leadership, this book brings together theory and practical application to provide working professionals with evidence-based research and practical knowledge to effectively communicate during health emergencies. Case studies of emergencies such as COVID-19, Zika, Ebola, Mpox, and water crises all use the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication framework to analyze how health officials provided accurate and actionable health information to the public.

In a world of growing health inequity and ecological injustice, how do we revitalize medicine and public health to tackle new problems? This ground-breaking collection draws together case studies of social medicine in the Global South, radically shifting our understanding social science in healthcare. Looking beyond a narrative originating in nineteenth-century Europe, a team of expert contributors explores a far broader set of roots and branches, with nodes in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Oceania, the Middle East and Asia. This plural approach reframes and decolonizes the study of social medicine, highlighting connections to social justice and health equity, social science and state formation, bottom-up community initiatives, grassroots movements and an array of revolutionary sensibilities. This truly global history offers a more usable past to imagine a new politics of social medicine for medical professionals and healthcare workers worldwide. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

In a world of growing health inequity and ecological injustice, how do we revitalize medicine and public health to tackle new problems? This ground-breaking collection draws together case studies of social medicine in the Global South, radically shifting our understanding social science in healthcare. Looking beyond a narrative originating in nineteenth-century Europe, a team of expert contributors explores a far broader set of roots and branches, with nodes in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Oceania, the Middle East and Asia. This plural approach reframes and decolonizes the study of social medicine, highlighting connections to social justice and health equity, social science and state formation, bottom-up community initiatives, grassroots movements and an array of revolutionary sensibilities. This truly global history offers a more usable past to imagine a new politics of social medicine for medical professionals and healthcare workers worldwide. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

This book analyses the Gulf's decarbonization and economic development strategies following their Paris Agreement pledges. It explores urgent climate action amidst geopolitical shifts, energy transitions, and economic diversification. It is essential reading for researchers and policymakers in energy policy, climate change, and the Middle East.

This book examines the artful mind from an interdisciplinary perspective combining philosophy, empirical sciences, and the humanities. It argues that just as leading-edge theories of cognition can be applied to the arts and aesthetic experience, these topics can serve as a model for interdisciplinary scholarship in cognitive science.