This is the first truly comprehensive history of smoking, describinbg all of its forms, practices, paraphernalia and materials, in cultures, locations and times throughout the world.

Focusing on the Spanish Empire, Marcy Norton investigates how tobacco and chocolate became material and symbolic links to the pre-Hispanic past for colonized Indians and colonizing Europeans alike.

This books offers an extensive coverage of the human anatomy and physiology covering the skin, body parts, skeleton, joints, muscles, tissues, nervous system, senses, the endocrine system, hormones, blood, the heart, cardiovascular system ...

As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally informed of his medical history, made the decision to live as a male.

This book covers the latest information on the anatomic features, underlying physiologic mechanisms, and treatments for diseases of the heart.

Human hair is the subject of a remarkably wide range of scientific investigations, and the third edition of this book confirms its position as the definitive monograph on the subject.

The Modern Period ties historical changes in menstrual practices to a much broader argument about American popular modernity in the twentieth century.

It goes well beyond its central concern with the 'science of work' to illuminate everything it discusses, from Marxism to the social uses of photography, from cultural decadence to the impact of the First World War."—Martin Jay, ...

Please note: This text was replaced with a seventh edition. This version is available only for courses using the sixth edition and will be discontinued at the end of the semester.

This is a guide for musculoskeletal medicine trainees and physicians to the art and science of writing prescriptions and developing individualized treatment plans.