Prevention is essential for all of us in order to make our environment healthier and reduce the increase of chronic diseases. Lifestyle changes, such as drinking water purification, sewage treatment and the introduction of the refrigerator, brought us far more health benefits than medicines produced by the pharmaceutical industry.

Something has gone bad in our environment: in the animal world caged budgerigars have the highest incidence of cancer. Ovarian and oviduct cancer are frequently fou...

The story of Bridget is about hope and will as well as luck. How many girls called Bridget survive after all? It is about love, the love of a mother and grandfather in a hostile society. It is most of all about the capacity to fight. Fight for the survival of a twitching baby who can neither suck nor crawl nor later walk. Fight for a person to be called human even if all the odds seem against it because of a traditional belief system.

Those around her in her local society mumble: Isn t sh...

We remember still a single farm with chickens and pigs on the farm and cows in the pasture. Increasingly we see grain silos appear with large livestock farming, whose pigs, chickens or cows never outside come. Diseases, which can be transmitted from animals to humans, are the result.

Prevention is essential for all of us in order to make our environment healthier and reduce the increase of chronic diseases.

Lifestyle changes, such as the purification of drinking water, sewage treatment and t...

We remember still a single farm with chickens and pigs on the farm and cows in the pasture. Increasingly we see grain silos appear with consumption animal farms, whose pigs, chickens or cows never outside come. Diseases, which can be transmitted from animals to humans, are the result. The expansion in the intensive livestock and tropical bird breeding threatens the health of us all. It is of great importance that the air we breathe indoors in private homes, public transport, public buildings ...

The one who falls and rises again is so much stronger than the one who never fell.

How do certain beliefs and fears arise?

Why do I do what I do?

What can I do to take control of my life?

How do I create harmony with my environment?

These are important life questions that many people struggle

with, but do not have the answers to. The world is becoming

increasingly complex and there is a growing need for awareness

about ourselves and about life. But how do you become aware,

and of what?

Consciousness is essential in it lie the answers to the why.

Only when you can e...

This is a book about man and his world.

His natural world, his social world, his inner world.

Weaving together psychoanalysis with ecology, anthropology, religion and sociology, I try to advocate a state of freedom and magic as a way for the human race to thrive on Earth.

I do not like our artificial ways of surviving, that have us blindly depending upon fear and the need for survival.

As I see it, fear leads to destruction and that surely is what we are witnessing in our relation to our pla...

Incorporating the most important advances in the rapidly-evolving field of cancer biology, this book remains the defining course text on its subject. Students, instructors, researchers, and clinicians the world over admire its authoritative content, clear explanations, extensive full-color art program, and pedagogical features that promote a deep conceptual understanding of the science through the lens of fascinating tales of scientific discovery.

Principles of Biomedical Ethics, eighth edition, provides a highly original, practical, and insightful guide to morality in the health professions. Acclaimed authors Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress thoroughly develop and advocate for four principles that lie at the core of moral reasoning in health care: respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice.Drawing from contemporary research, and integrating detailed case studies and vivid real-life examples and scenarios, th...

This is a completely revised edition of a comprehensive and popular introduction to the fast moving area of Forensic Genetics. The text begins with key concepts needed to fully appreciate the subject and moves on to examine the latest developments in the field. Now illustrated in full colour throughout, this accessible textbook includes numerous references to relevant casework.

With information on the full process of DNA evidence from collection at the scene of a crime to presentation in a le...