Product Description: The meanings of disease have undergone such drastic changes with the introduction of modern Western medicine into China during the last two hundred years that new discourses have been invented to theorize illness, redefine health, and reconstruct classes and genders...read more

The purpose of this newly revised edition is to teach the reader how to construct and schedule a variety of sports tournaments in a variety of ways. It also presents the factors that influence the selection of a particular tournament to satisfy a particular set of conditions or intentions. The text provides a comprehensive yet easily understandable background to the structural design of tournaments, the mathematics that are part of their construction, and the processes involved with scheduling participants for play within virtually all types of elimination, consolation, placement, and round-robin tournaments. Using a step-by-step format, the author explains how the various types of tournaments work, what they can and cannot do, how to form them given any set of circumstances, the advantages and disadvantages of their use, and the calculations that can be made to determine the time to complete a tournament. Acceptance of entries, structuring schedules, methods of communicating schedules with participants, and the determination of exactly where and when who plays whom are thoroughly presented. The original 20 chapters have been significantly revised to reflect different and updated approaches to conducting sports tournaments. This latest edition will serve as a comprehensive guide for recreation directors, coaches, and physical educators.

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A detailing of the implications of Kozo Uno's political and economic theory. Tries to explain the humanistic potential of Marxist theory.

Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most controversial but important questions facing us today. Topics addressed include: The range of moral theories underpinning bioethics Arguments for the rights and wrongs of abortion, euthanasia and animal research Healthcare ethics including the nature of the practitioner-patient relationship Public policy ethics and the implications of global and public health Concise, readable and authoritative, this is the ideal primer for anyone interested in the study of bioethics.