Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.

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Newly organized and featuring new editors and hundreds of new images, Peters' Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Seventh Edition, brings you up to date with today's greatest challenges in tropical medicine. Increased global travel, climate change, human conflict, short-term/large-scale human assemblies, potent therapeutic agents, drug resistance, and vaccine misinformation have contributed to a greatly changed landscape in this complex field. This practical, highly visual guide prov...

Essential chemistry for health careers and everyday life.

Now available with Achieve, Guinn’s Essentials of General, Organic and Biochemistry uses health and medicine as the framework for learning the fundamentals of chemistry in this student-centered one-semester text. The third edition focuses on core concepts and necessary maths skills, and features a revamped organization to align with traditional course organization and shorter, more condensed chapters. Easily digestible content and ...

Business Partner is an eight-level business English course that teaches real-world language and business skills.

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Infecties zijn op de intensive care veelvoorkomend. Patiënten worden met een infectie opgenomen, of kunnen een infectie oplopen op de intensive care. Ernstige sepsis en septische shock zijn belangrijke doodsoorzaken bij intensive care patiënten. Antibiotica zijn effectieve medicijnen indien tijdig toegediend en ook passend bij de bacterie die de infectie veroorzaakt. Infecties - bacteriën - antibiotica zijn dus een drie-eenheid, die voor een effectieve behandeling gedegen kennis behoeft. D...

For undergraduate Principles of Marketing courses. Real people making real choices Marketing: Real People, Real Choices is the only text to introduce marketing from the perspective of real people, who make real marketing decisions, at leading companies every day. Timely, relevant, and dynamic, this reader-friendly text shows students how marketing concepts are implemented, and what they really mean in the marketplace.

The 9th Edition presents more information than ever on the core issues ever...

This is the ultimate book on what is now an established methodology in teaching the fundamentals of communication to children and adults who have severe learning difficulties or autism.

Taking readers from media students to media professionals, Introducing Media Practice brings together the 'why' and the 'how to' of media studies. It explains how adding theory to practice improves students' media projects, and shows them how to develop the kind of project skills they need for a career in the creative and media industries. With a clear, easy-to-follow structure, the book: Covers the full range of media practice skills, from building production teams and writing briefs, throug...