Gilbert Lewis Livres

The plot centers on six hostages held by ISIS terrorists, who are strategically moved to a secure location to maximize ransom negotiations with Western allies. As the high command orchestrates this plan, the tension escalates, highlighting the dire circumstances faced by the hostages and the ruthless tactics employed by their captors. The story delves into themes of survival, the moral complexities of terrorism, and the high stakes involved in hostage situations.

"The book will undoubtedly resume its place as a constant guide and reference for chemists using thermodynamics in their research, and as a textbook and reference for classes in the application of thermodynamics to chemistry." -- The Journal of Chemical Education Since its first publication in 1923, this volume has been considered one of the great books in the literature of chemistry. In the early 60s, two well-known chemists revised and updated it, adding substantial material on solution thermodynamics, results in statistical mechanics, surfaces, gravitational and electromagnetic fields, and other areas. The republication of this foundational work will be welcomed by teachers in the field.

The book explores the intricate relationship between illness and society, highlighting how cultural interpretations and societal responses shape the understanding of health issues. It delves into various types of illnesses and examines the differing perceptions and reactions they evoke across cultures, emphasizing the significance of context in the discourse surrounding health and illness.

The narrative centers on Estella "Rose" Mathews, an MI6 operative who becomes the target of ISIS high command after a failed hostage operation. Rose, alongside British and French Special Forces, orchestrates a daring rescue of six hostages from England, France, and the United States. The tension escalates as the ISIS leadership recognizes her as their primary obstacle, setting the stage for a gripping conflict between intelligence forces and terrorist threats.

"In his 1978 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, unpublished until now, Gilbert Lewis takes on essential problems for medical anthropology. Has there been progress in medicine? Consider what it was like to be ill in a Gnau village in the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea in 1968 and compare it with the experience of illness fifteen years later, after they gained independence. The changes involved some loss of self-reliance. Or consider Bregbo, a community in the Ivory Coast whose prophet offers healing through confession and, in some cases, long-term care in a therapeutic setting. What does this offer that psychiatric approaches to healing do not? Drawing on these and other cases, Lewis conveys the importance of the ethnographic comparison of medical beliefs in dynamic spaces of knowledge to do with illness, health, and healing, especially as these change over time and intersect with others. Capturing debates during a key moment in the development of medical anthropology, these lectures also inspire us to look with new eyes at contemporary problems in the field."-- Publisher's description