Personal & Public Health

A frank, funny and inspiring new memoir from the bestselling author of The Language of Kindness about the search for meaning in midlife'Brilliant.....

The Biennial Jake Harwood Outstanding Book Award 2024National Communication Association Communication and Ageing Division, Outstanding Book Award 2...

New bonus chapter - Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic - will be added to the existing eBook for fall courses. Offering a thorough, accessible an...

New bonus chapter - COVID-19: A Global Pandemic - will be added to the eBook for Fall 2020 classes. Designed to introduce senior undergraduates an...

Part of the Essential Public Health Series, Essentials of Public Health Research Methods is specifically written for undergraduate students studyin...

First published in 1986, Handicapping Conditions in Children provides an accessible overview of a wide range of handicapping conditions and their r...

What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions, and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited collection offers a multidiscipli...

Declining fertility rates and increased life expectancies over the last few decades have conspired to make China one of the more rapidly aging soci...

Social Work, Social Welfare, Unemployment and Vulnerability Among Youth critically analyses contemporary welfare state interventions on unemploymen...

Game Over tells the harrowing true story of teenager Breck Bednar, who was groomed over the internet and brutally murdered on 17 February 2014 by a...

'The book the NHS has always deserved' Andrew Marr'A sensational and much-needed book . . . thorough, scholarly and above all readable' Chris van T...

The health sector is known to be one of the major contributors towards the greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis, the greatest health...

Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation is the first book of its kind to provide an educational and systematic...

Body art, especially tattoos and piercings, has enjoyed an explosion of interest in recent years. However, the response of many health professional...

A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceShortli...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What is the environment, this elusive o...

What does it mean to think of HIV/AIDS policy in a critical manner? Seeing Red offers the first critical analysis of HIV/AIDS policy in Canada. Fea...

The essential new book from the authors of the international bestseller The Spirit Level'Why are people, particularly young people, experiencing in...

The international community has made great progress in improving global health. But staggering health inequalities between rich and poor still rema...

*** #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ***'Immensely helpful...a tome of medical knowledge. I'm mildly obsessed by Louise Newson. Buy the book!' Davina McC...

People have searched for the fountain of youth everywhere from Bimini to St. Augustine. But for a steadfast group of scientists, the secret to a lo...