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Childhood Obesity
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Childhood Obesity

This book aims to provide readers with a general as well as an advanced overview of the key trends in childhood obesity. Obesity is an illness that occurs due to a combination of genetic, environmental, psychosocial, metabolic and hormonal factors. The prevalence of obesity has shown a great rise both in adults and children in the last 30 years.
 
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Fashion: A Very Short Introduction
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Fashion: A Very Short IntroductionFashion: A Very Short Introduction

Fashion is a gigantic global industry, generating some three hundred billion dollars in revenue every year, and playing a significant role in the economic, political, cultural and social lives of a vast international audience. Despite this, and perhaps in part because of its prevalence in the media, it is often denigrated as trivial and superficial, as a sign of vanity and narcissism. 
 
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Temporary Organizations: Prevalence, Logic and Effectiveness
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Temporary Organizations: Prevalence, Logic and EffectivenessTemporary Organizations: Prevalence, Logic and Effectiveness

This important and timely book provides a systematic treatment of temporary organizations - an increasingly prevalent organizational form in which organizations work together on a joint task - for example, a movie production, a rescue operation, development of a new product - for an ex ante limited period of time.


 
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