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Focusing on the interplay of genetic and environmental factors, this work introduces a novel model for understanding health development. By expanding on existing health theories and the salutogenesis model, the authors present a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach called Productive Processing of Reality (PPR). This theory aims to elucidate the processes that contribute to health and well-being, offering fresh insights into the genesis of health and success.

Set against the backdrop of the Islamic State's peak power, the story follows a German journalist captured and sentenced to death. In a desperate bid for his release, the German government dispatches a Jumper—a seasoned secret agent named Paulsen and his eager young partner—to negotiate a ransom in Mosul. As they navigate the dangers of the territory, they encounter unsettling truths and face the daunting task of meeting the caliph, raising questions about trust and the authenticity of his promises.

Adolescents are generally thought to be healthy. However, adolescent risk behaviours, such as substance use, a poor diet or early sexual activity, are topics that keep generating high academic and media interest. Despite considerable explanatory efforts, not much is known yet about the proximate and distal determinants as well as the psychosocial and health-related consequences of risk behaviour in adolescence. The study is among the first to systematically examine the antecedents and consequences of risk behaviour from a comparative perspective over time and across countries. Matthias Richter presents findings from several empirical studies and extends current theoretical and empirical knowledge on adolescent risk behaviour. This book is valuable reading for academics, practitioners and policy makers in a range of disciplines: sociology, psychology, educational sciences, public health and nursing sciences, with a special focus on adolescent risk behaviour.

Secluded in geographical isolation, Northern Vietnam's Black Tai minority is ridden by poverty, unemployment and insecure food supplies. The present study is part of internationally coordinated research that aims at shedding light at the lagging adoption of agricultural innovation in the mountainous Son La province, thus backing efforts to introduce sustainable agriculture in the area. Narrative autobiographical interviews from Chieng Khoi and other northern Vietnamese communes are analysed to illuminate the socio-cultural background of the resident Black Tai minority and to reveal their attitude towards modernisation. The study also puts villagers' life narrations in perspective, comparing them with information obtained through direct observation, a body of existing literature on the Black Tai ethnicity as well as its historical record. Hitherto unheeded dimensions of the Black Tais' own conception of life emerge. The study reveals new insights into ways of adopting innovation, construing the inconsistencies between the villagers' own predications and more objective sources of information.

Verletzungen der Wirbelsäule stellen eine schwerwiegende Bedrohung für den Patienten dar. Die wichtigsten Behandlungsziele sind, Lähmungserscheinungen zu vermeiden bzw. Stabilität und Funktion wiederherzustellen. Mit diesem Band erhalten Sie einen abgerundeten Überblick zu diesem Thema. Es werden die anatomischen, biomechanischen und neurologischen Folgen von Verletzungen der Wirbelsäule dargestellt. Für die verschiedenen anatomischen Regionen werden die klassischen, bewährten operativen Stabilisationsmethoden beschrieben. Die Autoren zählen zu den namhaftesten Wirbelsäulenoperateuren, die wegweisende Beiträge zur Entwicklung der heute üblichen Standardmethoden in der Versorgung von Wirbelsäulenverletzungen geleistet haben.