This hugely popular textbook provides a broad-based and user-friendly introduction to health promotion and its use in practice. Written by Professor Jane Wills, the book takes the reader through health promotion theory, strategy and methods, settings and implementation. It is clearly structured and accessibly written, with a discursive style that will appeal to readers of all levels and sufficient theoretical depth for undergraduates and postgraduates alike. Foundations for Health Promotio...

Locating localism explores the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft and its implications for the practice of citizenship. Drawing on original research, Jane Wills highlights the importance of having the civic infrastructure and capacity to facilitate the engagement of citizens in local decision making. She looks at the development of community organising, neighbourhood planning and community councils that identify and nurture the energies, talents and creativity of the popul...

One sensational love story.American journalist Ethan Fletcher traversed the globe to claim his late uncle's Fleet Street print shop, only to find his unexpected inheritance shackled by ruinous debt. To save his business and finally direct his own course, he needs to raise capital, and quickly. Good fortune comes in the form of Belinda Sinclair, the eccentric daughter of a respected London judge—and she just so happens to be a beautiful failure of a novelist.

Da die gesundheitliche Aufklärung im Interesse staatlicher Gesundheitspolitik liegt, wird sie in Deutschland als eine übergreifende Daueraufgabe von allen staatlichen Ebenen unter Einbindung der Betroffenen durchgeführt. Die Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) nimmt hierbei auf Bundesebene als Fachbehörde im Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Gesundheit diese Aufgabe wahr. Die deutsche Ausgabe des Werkes wird von der BZgA herausgeben. In diesem Rahmen wurden die I...

This new edition of a very successful textbook provides an up-to-date, broad and authoritative introduction to studying health. With chapters including biology, epidemiology, anthropology, politics and psychology, it is the only book to explore all the major disciplines and highlight how they can contribute to our understanding of health in one single volume.Comprehensive, accessible and written by leading experts in the different fields, this is the introductory text for all stude...

Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organised labour, paying particular attention to: The resilience of the unions' historical heartland areas. The impact of economic restructuring on local union traditions. The shrinking landscape of industrial militancy. The geographical decentralization of the new indu...

This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the early years of the twenty-first century.This book breaks new ground in linking London's new migrant division of labour to the twin processes of subcontracting and increased internationa...

Dissident Geographies is an accessible and lively exploration of radical perspectives in human geography. The perspectives examined in the book reveal and resist certain power relations that have constituted geographical knowledge. The book has two main aims. First, rather than reify 'the' geographical tradition, Dissident Geographies introduces a number of geographical traditions that challenge and destabilize what counts as geographical knowledge. Second, the book shows how the productio...

'Gorgeous ... like being in Pride and Prejudice, if Jane Austen had lived in 70s Mumbai' HARRIET EVANS'So much fun!' KATIE FFORDEIla has her pride. And she's about to discover just how much trouble that can be...It's 1976 and in the Vile Parle suburb of Mumbai, bastion of the Maharashtrian middle-class, Ila Bendre's mother is determined to get her four daughters married off as soon as possible.Ila h...

'Imagine an apocalypse so queer, sultry, and heat-soaked that you wrap your arms around it and give it a lush kiss' Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain Hunger'Sizzling with juicy irreverence, Welcome to the Chaoskampf chooses life at its messiest, and fullest' Gerardo Sámano Córdova, author of Monstrilio'As stunningly outrageous as it is eerily real . . . this book is tremendous' Michelle Tea,...

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, this is one of six classic crime novels being issued in 2020 featuring Inspector French, coming soon to television.The Jane Vosper is plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic by a series of explosions in her hold. With no innocent explanation of the cause, it appears that someone must have sunk the ship for the insurance money. When The Land and Sea Insurance Company’s official in...

Four stories from the world of “smart, sexy, ruthless”* heroine Jane Yellowrock—plus bonus material!In Have Stakes Will Travel, readers get a chance to go deeper into the thrilling world of skinwalker and vampire hunter Jane Yellowrock. In “WeSa,” the Beast who lives inside Jane watches as her hunting grounds become prey. In “Haints,” Jane and her best friend, witch Molly Trueblood, are hired to investigate mysterious paranormal phenomena—and the evil they...