War Thoughts from the Periphery: Contemporary Perspectives

Adolescent Bariatric Surgery — Thoughts and Perspectives from the UK

Opinions of healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom regarding bariatric surgery in adolescents are largely unknown. This study aims to explore the perspectives of medical professionals regarding adolescent bariatric surgery. Members of the British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society and groups of primary care practitioners based in London were contacted by electronic mail and invited t...

Perspectives on Contemporary Society

Imagine a town where wealthy residents live in strong, well-built homes in the center of town, and poorer residents live in rather shabby shacks around the edge of the town. Every few nights, without warning, some sort of monster or group of terrorists from the surrounding countryside carries off one of the residents from the homes around the edge of town. The hapless resident is never heard fr...

Faded Images of Old Tidore in Contemporary Southeast Seram: a View from the Periphery

Some published accounts—generally, but not exclusively, older ones— describe the activities of Ternate and Tidore with respect to their historic peripheries in terms of boundaries, territories, and conquest, and speak of entire “islands” being “subject” to these centers of power.2 The prevailing view seems to have been of two polities dividing up Maluku into spheres of influence, Ternate to the...

Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Text

accompanied by informative photographs and illustrations. This gradually leads to Kukić Rukavina’s analysis of Dovniković and Čukli’s comic. The overview is intended for readers who want to find out more about both the novel and the comic, and serves as an excellent source of information for readers who are not acquainted with the novel or for those who just seek to broaden their knowledge in o...

The direction of war: contemporary strategy in historical perspective.