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In Chanel: An Intimate Life, acclaimed biographer Lisa Chaney tells the controversial story of the fashion icon who starred in her tumultuous era Coco Chanel was many things to many people. Raised in emotional and financial poverty, she became one of the defining figures of the twentieth century. She was mistress to aristocrats, artists and spies. She broke rules of style and decorum, seducing both men and women, yet in her work expected the highest standards. She took a 'plaything' and turned it into a global industry which defined the modern woman. Filled with new insights and thrilling discoveries, Lisa Chaney's Chanel provides the most defining and provocative portrait yet. 'Chaney's res...
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Con frecuencia al hablar sobre las vacunas se tiene la sensación de que constituyen un elemento de la medicina preventiva presente entre nosotros desde siempre, que nos han acompañado en nuestro crecer. Forman parte de nuestra vida cotidiana, porque en general todos alguna vez hemos acudido a recibir alguna vacuna, a administrársela a nuestros hijos o a nuestros mayores. Más cercano todavía, en el caso del personal sanitario, que hacen posible la acción de la "vacunación" al prescribirla y/o administrarla. En el pasado, vacunar o vacunarse, era un hecho que, la población o los profesionales sanitarios realizaban sin mayor reflexión al respecto. Se vacunaba, e incluso existía la cre...
Con este libro, la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología y Salud Pública Oral (SESPO), en consonancia con sus fines fundacionales, quiere abundar una vez más en el conocimiento de las técnicas mínimamente invasivas y en la remineralización. La remineralización, como todos sabemos, constituye un proceso natural de las lesiones producidas por desequilibrio entre la pérdida de minerales y su posterior recuperación. Este proceso que se conoce desde hace más de 100 años pero sólo en las últimas décadas se ha aceptado su rol terapéutico en el control de la caries dental. Las estrategias de remineralización se centran en la posibilidad de revertir los procesos iniciales de la enfermed...
Esta obra es una nueva edición de libro original Vacuna a vacuna, de la AEV. La obra pretende ser, en cada nueva edición, un texto de actualización de la anterior, para así permitir al lector conocer la información crítica y actual sobre las vacunas disponibles de uso más habitual en España y los últimos avances en materia de seguridad vacunal. También se incluyen nuevos capítulos, como el dedicado al bicentenario de la Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna y el homenaje de la AEV a Josep Salvany, ¿Cómo funcionan las vacunas?, Vacunaciones en grupos de riesgo y Vacunología de índole social, que hacen que la obra ofrezca textos inéditos adicionales a las actualizaciones....
Recent research in the area of suicidology has provided significant new insights in the epidemiological,psychopathological,and biological characteristics of suicidal behaviour. The International Handbook of Suicide and Attempted Suicide is the first book to bring together this expertise and translate it into practical guidelines for those responsible for policy issues and for those involved in the treatment and prevention of suicidal behaviour. Leading international authorities provide a truly comprehensive and research-based reference to understanding, treating, and preventing suicidal behaviour. They explore concepts and theories which best guide work within this field and detail key resea...
The auditory system has a remarkable ability to adjust to an ever-changing environment. The six review chapters that comprise Plasticity of the Central Auditory System cover a spectrum of issues concerning this ability to adapt, defined by the widely applicable term "plasticity". With chapters focusing on the development of the cochlear nucleus, the mammalian superior olivary complex, plasticity in binaural hearing, plasticity in the auditory cortex, neural plasticity in bird songs, and plasticity in the insect auditory system, this volume represents much of the most current research in this field. The volume is thorough enough to stand alone, but is closely related a previous SHAR volume, Development of the Auditory System (Volume 9) by Rubel, Popper, and Fay. The book fully addresses the difficulties, challenges, and complexities of this topic as it applies to the auditory development of a wide variety of species.
After introductory chapters devoted to the safe production and distribution of vaccines, the book addresses the question of adult vaccination in the framework of a life-course approach to vaccination. It presents the proceedings of multidisciplinary expert discussions with an excellent summary of the current state of knowledge on adult vaccination in various diseases, as well as an overview of the professionals involved and the obstacles to achieving greater vaccine uptake, and how these may be addressed. The book systematically discusses the major vaccine-preventable diseases, as well as regulatory issues in vaccine provision, and presents the results of an expert meeting designed to identi...
An innovative volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory, Playthings in Early Modernity emphasizes the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. Thus, the titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part of daily life, a strategic psychosocial endeavor.
One morning, Emma wakes up feeling excited about a very special dream. She flies up high through the clouds and comes to a beautiful land called heaven where she has all sorts of adventures. Is this just a dream, or is there something magical about her journey?