This is a book about the risk politics of food safety. Food-related risks regularly grab the headlines in ways that threaten reasoned debate and obstruct sensible policy making. In this book, Ed Randall explains why this is the case. He goes on to make the case for a properly informed and fully open public debate about food safety issues. He argues that this is the true antidote to the politics of scare, scandal and crisis.The book skilfully weaves together the many different threa...

Play Ball!Everything baseball—from the popular Utterly Confused SeriesWhat's a foul ball?Or a swinging third strike?New fans, parents, and first-time coaches need no longer be Utterly Confused about baseball, as the popular series introduces the basics of the sport in a fun and easy-to-follow guide.Peppered with big league interviews and examples, Baseball for the Utterly Confused cuts through the jargon and history to deliver ...

When it comes to baseball glory, no other team comes close to the New York Yankees, winners of forty American League pennants and twenty-seven World Series championships. Amazing Tales from the Yankee Dugout is a compilation of the funniest, strangest, and most unique stories, anecdotes, and tall tales that have been attributed to baseball’s legendary New York Yankees through the years. Fans will gain new insights about the famed Bronx Bombers that they’ve never read before.

The Founding Fathers gave us the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution during the age of Christian Reformation. The Lord allowed them or some of them access to the wisdom from above and they realized that our Creator had all authority in matters of morality and that Denominational bibles needed reform. Many Americans were in this country because of persecution and crusades from Denominational religions. They did not believe that Satan was a fallen angel since it is not in the Bi...

Christianity has been in apostasy for 1680 years 2 Thess. 2:3-11. Now that we are out we can finally identify what a Christian is. A Christian is one who obeys the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven as given to us by God and not man. The Lord allowed us to have bibles and preachers of men, he hid from us the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven Matt. 13:11 so that we would learn the consequences of following men and not God. Now that the world is falling apart it is time for the world to get re...

This is the book of Job edited by Randall Maxwell for the Pillar and Ground of Truth Bible. Humanity was necessarily under a strong delusion where the Lord would not allow us to consider that the ways of God are as high as the heavens above the ways of men and that His Word cannot be reached by men, much less judged, ignored or manipulated by men Isaiah 55:8-11. If you are ready to admit that denominational Bibles do not make a good moral standard for humanity and that the world is an awfu...

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting 250 years ago, some parts of the world began to experience sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the stage for ...

The Western world is in the grip of a consumerism that is unique in human history. We overwork, we spend huge amounts on things we never use, then we chuck them out. The author of the bestselling Growth Fetish pries into our wardrobes, kitchens and backyards, and shows us what choice really means.Our houses are bigger than ever, but our families are smaller. Our kids go to the best schools we can afford, but we hardly see them. We've got more money to spen...

As revealing as Freakonomics, shocking as Fast Food Nation and thought provoking as No Logo, The Politics of Breastfeeding exposes infant feeding as one of the most important public health issues of our time.Every thirty seconds a baby dies from infections due to a lack of breastfeeding and the use of bottles, artificial milks and other risky products. In her powerful book Gabrielle Palmer describes how big business uses subtle techniques to pressure parents to use alternatives to breastmi...

A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition, is one doctor’s vision for a new approach to politics – and a new approach to building a healthier world. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician, Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores more fundamental conditions that lead to poor health. The social determinants of health – income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports – have...

Conventional politics is at a crossroads. Amid recession, depression, poverty, increasing violence and rising inequality, our current politics is exhausted and inadequate. In Red Tory, Phillip Blond argues that only a radical new political settlement can tackle the problems we face.Red Toryism combines economic egalitarianism with social conservatism, calling for an end to the monopolisation of society and the private sphere by the state and the market. Decrying the legacy of both ...

Public health is a term much used in the media, by health professionals, and by activists. At the national or the local level there are ministries or departments of public health, whilst international agencies such as the World Health Organisation promote public health policies, and regional organisations such as the European Union have public health funding and policies. But what do we mean when we speak about 'public health'? In this Very Short Introduction Virginia Berridge exp...