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Immaculate Forms

A History of the Female Body in Four Parts

by Helen King ...

“Never has medical history been more entertaining” (Dr Jennifer Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible) than in this turbulent history of women’s bodies from classical Greece to the modern ageA New Yorker Best Book of the YearBreasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb. Across history, these body parts have told women who they are and what they should do. Although knowledge of each part has changed through ... Read more

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“Never has medical history been more entertaining” (Dr Jennifer Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible) than in this turbulent history of women’s bodies from classical Greece to the modern ageA New Yorker Best Book of the YearBreasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb. Across history, these body parts have told women who they are and what they should do. Although knowledge of each part has changed through
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The Artistry of Teaching in Higher Education

Practical Ideas for Developing Creative Academic Practice

Edited by Helen King ...

Series series SEDA Series
Introducing a fresh approach to conceptualising and actioning high-quality teaching in higher education, this essential volume fills a gap in current literature by expanding beyond the mere ‘delivery’ of teaching. Instead, it offers an evidence-based discussion of ‘artistry’ and demonstrates how this may be applied successfully within a higher education setting to enable better student learning. ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Introducing a fresh approach to conceptualising and actioning high-quality teaching in higher education, this essential volume fills a gap in current literature by expanding beyond the mere ‘delivery’ of teaching. Instead, it offers an evidence-based discussion of ‘artistry’ and demonstrates how this may be applied successfully within a higher education setting to enable better student learning.
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Inspiring You!

by Helen King ...

This is an inspirational book intended to lead you through a potential road map for how to develop an intimate relationship and walk closer with God. If you are not interested in developing a closer relationship with God, this book will help you to live life better and make you better at life.The ideas are presented from a perspective that encourages introspection from those who read it and ... Read more

$9.99 USD

This is an inspirational book intended to lead you through a potential road map for how to develop an intimate relationship and walk closer with God. If you are not interested in developing a closer relationship with God, this book will help you to live life better and make you better at life.The ideas are presented from a perspective that encourages introspection from those who read it and
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Developing Expertise for Teaching in Higher Education

Practical Ideas for Professional Learning and Development

Edited by Helen King ...

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This book provides a contemporary view of the characteristics of expertise for teaching in higher education, based on the strong foundation of research into expertise, and empirical and practical knowledge of the development of teaching in higher education.Taking key themes related to the characteristics of expertise, this edited collection delivers practical ideas for supporting and enabling ... Read more

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This book provides a contemporary view of the characteristics of expertise for teaching in higher education, based on the strong foundation of research into expertise, and empirical and practical knowledge of the development of teaching in higher education.Taking key themes related to the characteristics of expertise, this edited collection delivers practical ideas for supporting and enabling
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The Disease of Virgins

Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty

by Helen King ...

From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls.Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen King stresses the continuity of this disease through history,depsite enormous shifts in medical understanding and technonologies, and drawing ... Read more

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From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls.Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen King stresses the continuity of this disease through history,depsite enormous shifts in medical understanding and technonologies, and drawing
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Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology

The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium

by Helen King ...

Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. This collection was first published in 1566, with a second edition in 1586/8 and a third, running to 1097 folio pages, in 1597. While examining the origins of the compendium, Helen ... Read more

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The Gynaeciorum libri, the 'Books on [the diseases of] women,' a compendium of ancient and contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield of medicine. This collection was first published in 1566, with a second edition in 1586/8 and a third, running to 1097 folio pages, in 1597. While examining the origins of the compendium, Helen
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The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence

by Helen King ...

Series series The History of Medicine in Context
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the mid-sixteenth ... Read more

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By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the mid-sixteenth
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Health in Antiquity

Edited by Helen King ...

How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring their health?For students of classics, history or the history of medicine, answers to these and many previously untouched questions are dealt with by renowned ancient historians, classical scholars and archaeologists.Using a multidisciplined approach, the contributors assess the issues ... Read more

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How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring their health?For students of classics, history or the history of medicine, answers to these and many previously untouched questions are dealt with by renowned ancient historians, classical scholars and archaeologists.Using a multidisciplined approach, the contributors assess the issues
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Hippocrates' Woman

Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece

by Helen King ...

Hippocrates' Woman demonstrates the role of Hippocratic ideas about the female body in the subsequent history of western gynaecology. It examines these ideas not only in the social and cultural context in which they were first produced, but also the ways in which writers up to the Victorian period have appealed to the material in support of their own theories.Among the conflicting tange of images ... Read more

$69.99 USD

Hippocrates' Woman demonstrates the role of Hippocratic ideas about the female body in the subsequent history of western gynaecology. It examines these ideas not only in the social and cultural context in which they were first produced, but also the ways in which writers up to the Victorian period have appealed to the material in support of their own theories.Among the conflicting tange of images
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Watching You Without Me

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by Lynn Coady ...

Narrated by Helen King ...

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11 hours 9 min

LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE!From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning story collection Hellgoing--an electrifying, brooding novel about the lengths we go to care for family, and what happens when a stranger places himself at the center of one household."Watching You Without Me is like a Lorrie Moore book suffering a Patricia Highsmith fever dream. You slide right along ... Read more

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LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE!From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning story collection Hellgoing--an electrifying, brooding novel about the lengths we go to care for family, and what happens when a stranger places himself at the center of one household."Watching You Without Me is like a Lorrie Moore book suffering a Patricia Highsmith fever dream. You slide right along
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Immaculate Forms

A History of the Female Body in Four Parts

by Helen King ...

Narrated by Elaine Claxton ...

Unabridged

15 hours 9 min

The turbulent history of women’s bodies, from classical Greece to the modern dayBreasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb. Across history, these body parts have told women who they are and what they should do. Although knowledge of each part has changed through time, none of them tells a simple story. The way they work and in some cases even their existence have been debated. They can be seen as powerful ... Read more

$31.99 USD

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The turbulent history of women’s bodies, from classical Greece to the modern dayBreasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb. Across history, these body parts have told women who they are and what they should do. Although knowledge of each part has changed through time, none of them tells a simple story. The way they work and in some cases even their existence have been debated. They can be seen as powerful
... Read more

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Hideaway

by Nicole Lundrigan ...

Narrated by Christian Barillas, Laura Ortiz ...

Unabridged

12 hours 10 min

"Authentic, disturbing and unbearably tense, Hideaway will leave you reeling." —Shari Lapena, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Couple Next DoorGloria Janes appears to be a doting suburban mother and loving wife. But beyond her canary-yellow door, Gloria controls her husband, Telly, as well as seven-year-old Maisy and her older brother Rowan, through a disorienting cycle of adoration ... Read more

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"Authentic, disturbing and unbearably tense, Hideaway will leave you reeling." —Shari Lapena, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Couple Next DoorGloria Janes appears to be a doting suburban mother and loving wife. But beyond her canary-yellow door, Gloria controls her husband, Telly, as well as seven-year-old Maisy and her older brother Rowan, through a disorienting cycle of adoration
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