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  • Infectious Diseases along the Silk Roads

    The Spread of Parasitoses and Culture Past and Today

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The heart of this volume is exploring the links between human disease spread and the broad Silk Road trading networks which connect Eurasian civilizations past and today. Compiled by an international team of subject authors, this book includes two themed parts. Readers are first introduced into history naming, former, present and future routes of the Silk Road, representing the longest trade way ... Read more

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  • Research on Community-Centered Poverty-Alleviation Social Work

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book starts with detailed community-based poverty-alleviation cases and focuses on several important aspects in this field to demonstrate the intervention methods, theoretical paradigms, and intervention models of poverty-alleviation social work. Based on the introduction to the characteristics, theoretical foundation, and practical model of community-based poverty-alleviation social work, ... Read more

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