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Shrinking Brain
Mental Health is affected by poor brain nutrition
AvMichael Crawford,David Marsh
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
271 kr
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The Global Mental Health Crisis is a direct result of the fact that, over time, the actual size of our brains is getting smaller. This is an historical fact but is entirely reversible with better brain nutrition. This has now reached crisis proportions. In 2023, The European Brain Council recognised that "Brain Health conditions have become a global health emergency". Back in 1972, Graham Rose wrote in the Sunday Times "Unless action is taken to care for the nutrition of the brain 'We will become a race of morons!' Authors Michael A Crawford and David E Marsh have both devoted their lives to this vital area of research. This book is their legacy. In painstaking detail, they put the case of how to reverse the Global Mental Health Crisis. With greater awareness of the problem, it’s cause and the solution required to make a change, their message could not be clearer. By reading this book you will not be able to say, “We didn’t realise”. This book may contain complex research and the result of detailed research, but the message is simple. And so is the action we all need to take. This book may contain complex research and the result of detailed research, but the message is simple. And so is the action we all need to take. We also explain the role of the environment in the evolution of the brain, leading to early Homo sapiens with a brain capacity of over 1,600cc, and explaining why it is now only 1,366 cc and mental ill-health is escalating. The concepts in this book have been fifty-one years in the making. They can't wait any longer. There is no more time. Presented with these incontrovertible facts, it does not need a rocket scientist to work out what will happen if these dumbing down trends continue! Fortunately, solutions are available which will lead to brighter and healthier children of the future.
Roman Republic
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska, 1992
131 kr
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Between the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC and the middle of the second century BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conquered first Italy and then the whole of the Mediterranean. The loyalty of these marrauding heroes, and of the Roman population as a whole, to their leaders was assured by a share in the rewards of victory, rewards which became steadily less accessible as the empire expanded - promoting a decline in loyalty of cataclysmic proportions. Wars, rural impoverishments, civil discord and slavery are a few of the subjects covered in this study.
Roman Republic
AvMichael Crawford
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
192 kr
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Between the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC and the middle of the second century BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conquered first Italy and then the whole of the Mediterranean.The loyalty of these marauding heroes, and of the Roman population as a whole, to their leaders was assured by a share in the rewards of victory, rewards which became steadily less accessible as the empire expanded – promoting a decline in loyalty of cataclysmic proportions. Wars, rural impoverishments, civil discord and slavery are a few of the subjects covered in this study.
Essentials of Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
356 kr
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Parcel Arrived Safely
Tied with String
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
138 kr
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By turns hilarious, revelatory and desperately sad, here is the autobiography of the man whose TV and stage appearances such as Hello Dolly!, Some Mothers Do `Ave 'Em and The Phantom of the Opera have made him a national institution. The story of the true identity of his father, which is behind this book's title, leads into an evocative depiction of his tender childhood years. Whilst all the men were away at war, Crawford was surrounded by loving women. For him this was an idyllic wartime childhood, but the return of the men in peacetime signalled darker times to come. Crawford's infectious enjoyment of stage work illumines his account of his early struggles to make a name for himself in the theatre business, and his early failures with girls are lifted by his abiding sense of the absurd. Both in his private life and his work as a successful actor and TV comedian, he begins a lifetime's habit of pratfalls that he would later turn to good use in the character of Frank Spencer in smash hit 1970s TV comedy show Some Mothers Do`Ave 'Em. His talent for mimicry makes the great personalities in his life come alive on the page; people he has worked with, including Benjamin Britten who taught him to sing, John Lennon - with whom he shared a villa - and Oliver Reed, Michael Winner, Barbra Steisand, Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.
Studies in Stoicism
AvP. A. Brunt,Michael Crawfordm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
3 019 kr
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This important volume fulfills one of Peter Brunt's (1917 - 2005) last wishes: a collection of his most important papers in the area of scholarship that had occupied him in his earliest years of research, and which largely absorbed his attention after his retirement from the Camden Chair of Roman History at Oxford University in 1982.Brunt was interested primarily in Stoicism in the Roman period, and his chief concern was the practical influence of its ethical teaching on political and social life. Although his investigations were historical, they required a complete mastery of the Stoic texts and doctrine. Basing his work almost entirely on the ancient sources, Brunt provides the most complete account and comparison available today not only of the ideas of the Roman Stoic moralists, but also of the political philosophy of the Greek founders of the Stoa. He believed that the ideas of the Stoics of the Roman period were essentially continuous with the thinking of the founders, and he did not accept that the concern with practical everyday morality in later Stoicism was a new development. Studies in Stoicism contains six unpublished and seven republished essays, the latter incorporating additions and changes which Brunt wished to be made. The papers have been integrated and arranged in roughly chronological order and by subject matter, with an accessible lecture to the Oxford Philological Society serving as Brunt's own introduction.
Sins of Benjamin Galt
AvMichael Crawford
E-bok
Engelska
22 kr
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Sources for Ancient History
AvMichael Crawford,Michael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska, 1983
634 kr
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If a scholar wishes to create a picture of a topical society in all its aspects, there is little of what he needs to know that he cannot know, although there may still be much that he cannot understand. For the history of Greece and Rome, there is a great deal that is simply unknowable. From the end of the archaic age of Greece, there is an unbroken sequence of works by Greek and, later, Roman historians down to the end of antiquity. Their vision and range of interest were often limited and much of what they produced has been lost. Some help may be derived from the documentary material supplied in antiquity, material that was the product of officials organising public activities, or heads of families organising their affairs, or individuals leaving their mark on the world. Beyond this, the evidence of archaeology and numismatics may also be helpful. The four essays in this book set out to characterise the nature of the ancient literary tradition, the inscriptional material, the archaeological and numismatic evidence and to explain how and for what purposes they may be used.
Underview of Mental Illness
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
183 kr
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The Roman Republic: Second Edition
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska, 1993
531 kr
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Rome in the Late Republic
AvMary Beard,Michael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
292 kr
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This textbook outlines the factors that every student must assess for a proper understanding of the period, from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of state religion to the function of political institutions. This second edition also contains a new introduction and an updated bibliography.
Ancient History and the Antiquarian
Essays in Memory of Arnaldo Momigliano
AvMichael Crawford,C.R. Ligota
Häftad, Engelska, 1995
286 kr
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Progress City Primer
Stories, Secrets, and Silliness from the Many Worlds of Walt Disney
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
354 kr
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Current Diagnosis & Treatment Cardiology, Sixth Edition
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
1 056 kr
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A concise, authoritative compilation of the essential information needed to diagnose and manage cardiovascular disease
A Doody's Core Title for 2023 & 2026!
Current Diagnosis and Treatment Cardiology, Sixth Edition, covers the latest developments in the field with detailed, consistently structured chapters with sharp clinical images that aid comprehension. Presented in the popular LANGE format, each chapter discusses diagnostic techniques, prevention strategies, treatment, and prognosis.
The detailed, uniform structure, and 200+ sharp clinical images, including ECGs, drawings, graphs, and charts aid reader comprehension. This sixth edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect revised guidelines and treatments.
NEW content: Cardiac Conduction Disorders and Pacing and Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valve DiseaseNEW chapters: Cardio-Oncology and Dilated CardiomyopathyMajor revision of Myocarditis chapter covers Covid-19Essential for board review: Cardiovascular disease is largest part of ABIM internal medicine certification examNEW devices: Cardiac Conduction Disorders and Pacing and Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valve DiseaseMedication news: Endocrinology and the Heart, Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection FractionPercutaneous repair and techniques: Aortic Stenosis, Mitral Regurgitation, and Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections, and more
Current Developments in Anthropological Genetics
Volume 3 Black Caribs A Case Study in Biocultural Adaptation
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
576 kr
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While the previous two volumes in this series were based upon methodol ogy, theory, and the relationship between ecology and population structure, this book can be viewed as an in-depth case study. The population genetics of a multitude of diverse groups geographically distributed throughout the world was examined in the first two volumes. In contrast, this volume focuses upon a single ethnic group, the Black Caribs (Garifuna) of Central America and St. Vincent Island, and explores the interrelationships among the ethnohistory, sociocultural characteristics, demography, morphology, and genetic structure of the group. This volume offers a broad and intensive treatment of the Black Caribs and their interactions with surrounding populations. My interest in the genetics of the Black Caribs was sparked by an accidental meeting in Amsterdam, Holland, in March 1975. A conversation with Nancie Gonzalez at the Applied Anthropology Meetings revealed the "truth-is-stranger than·fiction" history of the Black Carib peoples of the Caribbean. This was a popUlation with a small-sized founding group and a unique biological success story. Nancie Gonzalez was particularly interested in estimating the Carib Indian admixture in the contemporary Garifuna popUlation. Given my previous experi ence in estimating Spanish and African admixture in the Tlaxcaltecan population (whose gene pool consisted predominantly of Indian alleles), a group that appeared to be primarily African with some Indian admixture was of great interest. Aside from the ethnohistorical interest, I believe that such a population may add conSiderably to our understanding of the inheritance of complex morphological traits.
Current Developments in Anthropological Genetics
Volume 3 Black Caribs A Case Study in Biocultural Adaptation
AvMichael Crawford
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2012
732 kr
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While the previous two volumes in this series were based upon methodol ogy, theory, and the relationship between ecology and population structure, this book can be viewed as an in-depth case study. The population genetics of a multitude of diverse groups geographically distributed throughout the world was examined in the first two volumes. In contrast, this volume focuses upon a single ethnic group, the Black Caribs (Garifuna) of Central America and St. Vincent Island, and explores the interrelationships among the ethnohistory, sociocultural characteristics, demography, morphology, and genetic structure of the group. This volume offers a broad and intensive treatment of the Black Caribs and their interactions with surrounding populations. My interest in the genetics of the Black Caribs was sparked by an accidental meeting in Amsterdam, Holland, in March 1975. A conversation with Nancie Gonzalez at the Applied Anthropology Meetings revealed the "truth-is-stranger than·fiction" history of the Black Carib peoples of the Caribbean. This was a popUlation with a small-sized founding group and a unique biological success story. Nancie Gonzalez was particularly interested in estimating the Carib Indian admixture in the contemporary Garifuna popUlation. Given my previous experi ence in estimating Spanish and African admixture in the Tlaxcaltecan population (whose gene pool consisted predominantly of Indian alleles), a group that appeared to be primarily African with some Indian admixture was of great interest. Aside from the ethnohistorical interest, I believe that such a population may add conSiderably to our understanding of the inheritance of complex morphological traits.
Lili's Story
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska
384 kr
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Itches
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska
257 kr
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Bonaparte's Wager
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska
171 kr
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Tosh and the Mayan Medallion
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska
185 kr
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From the Mouse's House to the Penthouse
What I Learned from Making Deals, Building Brands, and Running Businesses in Asia
AvMichael Crawford
E-bok
Engelska, 2023
115 kr
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He negotiated the deal of a lifetime: the first Disney theme park in mainland China.
In From the Mouse''s House to the Penthouse, Michael Crawford reveals the lessons he learned about allowing culture and geography to shape his approach so you too can build and operate high-profile brands on an international scale.
Crawford shares his personal experiences in Asia, diving deeply into everything you must know to build relationships and create win-win outcomes in coveted world markets.
Crawford''s decade in Asia as an executive of two global brands taught him that humility works and ego doesn''t. He developed strategies for navigating political and corporate environments that will help to increase buy-in to your company''s objectives. From the Mouse''s House to the Penthouse features his techniques for getting all parties involved to strike the right balance. Compromise doesn''t mean losing.
From the Mouse's House to the Penthouse: What I Learned from Making Deals, Building Brands, and Running Businesses in Asia
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
232 kr
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From the Mouse's House to the Penthouse
What I Learned from Making Deals, Building Brands, and Running Businesses in Asia
AvMichael Crawford
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
293 kr
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Tommy the Speedy Turtle
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
154 kr
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Tommy the Speedy Turtle
AvMichael Crawford
E-bok
Engelska, 2022
150 kr
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Tommy, a unique turtle, a turtle with an orange spot on his shell, can move very fast, faster than any other turtle, who loves to look for new adventures, see new things, play with other turtles, and be with new friends in a new place. One day, Tommy sets out for a new adventure to leave his home, Moss Pond, and travel to be in a new and distant pond, Stump Pond. And the adventure begins.
Tommy the Speedy Turtle
AvMichael Crawford
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
254 kr
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Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab
AvMichael Crawford
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
402 kr
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Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792) aroused great controversy in his lifetime. More than two centuries after his death he still elicits strong views. For some he is the model of a pious religious activist who fought to establish a regime of Islamic godliness in the least promising of environments. For others, especially Muslims associated with mystic orders or who belong to the Shi‘i branch of Islam, he is a hate figure. Few would contest that he shaped the Muslim world.For over two hundred and fifty years the Wahhabi religious movement has rested on the twin pillars of a clear, compelling credo and an indissoluble alliance with temporal power in Arabia. Absolutist, uncompromising theology and political and religious ambition combined to make it the dominant force there, turning its champions, the Al Sa‘ud clan, from petty rulers of a middle-sized settlement with a talent for balancing interests, into the guardians of Islam’s Holy Places, disposing of the earth’s greatest identified oil reserves. This thought-provoking and incisive biography, which charts the relationship between religious doctrine, political power and events on the ground, is ideal for readers interested in uncovering the life and convictions of the man who founded the Wahhabi movement and a dynastic alliance between his clerical descendants and Saudi princes that has lasted to the present day.
Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab
AvMichael Crawford
E-bok
Engelska, 2014
365 kr
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Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792) aroused great controversy in his lifetime. More than two centuries after his death he still elicits strong views. For some he is the model of a pious religious activist who fought to establish a regime of Islamic godliness in the least promising of environments. For others, especially Muslims associated with mystic orders or who belong to the Shi‘i branch of Islam, he is a hate figure. Few would contest that he shaped the Muslim world. For over two hundred and fifty years the Wahhabi religious movement has rested on the twin pillars of a clear, compelling credo and an indissoluble alliance with temporal power in Arabia. Absolutist, uncompromising theology and political and religious ambition combined to make it the dominant force there, turning its champions, the Al Sa‘ud clan, from petty rulers of a middle-sized settlement with a talent for balancing interests, into the guardians of Islam’s Holy Places, disposing of the earth’s greatest identified oil reserves. This thought-provoking and incisive biography, which charts the relationship between religious doctrine, political power and events on the ground, is ideal for readers interested in uncovering the life and convictions of the man who founded the Wahhabi movement and a dynastic alliance between his clerical descendants and Saudi princes that has lasted to the present day.
Nutrition and Mental Health: a Handbook
An Essential Guide to the Relationship Between Diet and Mental Health
AvMichael Crawford,Oscar Umahro Cadoganm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
209 kr
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The role of nutrition is fundamental to human health and well-being. It is, however, often overlooked when treating people with mental health problems. This handbook explains the science behind nutrition and its effects on mental health.
A Matter of Time
AvMichael Crawford
Häftad, Engelska, 1997
181 kr
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Michael Crawford – författare

Shrinking Brain

Roman Republic

Roman Republic

Essentials of Diagnosis & Treatment in Cardiology

Parcel Arrived Safely

Studies in Stoicism

Sins of Benjamin Galt

Sources for Ancient History

Underview of Mental Illness

The Roman Republic: Second Edition

Rome in the Late Republic

Ancient History and the Antiquarian

Progress City Primer

Current Diagnosis & Treatment Cardiology, Sixth Edition

Current Developments in Anthropological Genetics

Current Developments in Anthropological Genetics

Lili's Story

Itches

Bonaparte's Wager

Tosh and the Mayan Medallion

From the Mouse's House to the Penthouse

From the Mouse's House to the Penthouse: What I Learned from Making Deals, Building Brands, and Running Businesses in Asia

From the Mouse's House to the Penthouse

Tommy the Speedy Turtle

Tommy the Speedy Turtle

Tommy the Speedy Turtle

Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab

Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab

Nutrition and Mental Health: a Handbook

A Matter of Time