Ritual Lloyd Johnson

Ritual Lloyd JohnsonDesigned for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting culturalor individualbeliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.

emphasising medical attitudes to alcohol and the changing perception of consumption in psychiatry and mental health

law and the social sciences

photographers Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Gordon Parks

this book offers insights for teachers and administrators

Halper is not concerned with the defense of metaphysical commitments but with finding and exploring paths of metaphysical inquiry

The author examines works and texts that range from medicine to literature

also food safety

remembering to do things (prospective memory)

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the Belle Époque

This volume focuses on three primary themes related to creating a smarter university: refining the operations and management of higher education institutions

is one that reveals al-Hakim’s openness to outside influences—in this case