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When Culture Impacts Health

Global Lessons for Effective Health Research

Edited by Cathy Banwell, Stanley Ulijaszek, Jane Dixon ...

Bringing the hard-to-quantify aspects of lived experience to analysis, and emphasizing what might be lost in interventions if cultural insights are absent, this book includes case studies from across the Asia and Pacific regions –Bangladesh, Malaysia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Tuvalu and the Cook Islands. When Culture Impacts Health offers conceptual, ... Read more

$66.59 USD

Bringing the hard-to-quantify aspects of lived experience to analysis, and emphasizing what might be lost in interventions if cultural insights are absent, this book includes case studies from across the Asia and Pacific regions –Bangladesh, Malaysia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Tuvalu and the Cook Islands. When Culture Impacts Health offers conceptual,
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Weight of Modernity

An Intergenerational Study of the Rise of Obesity

by Cathy Banwell, Dorothy Broom, Anna Davies, Jane Dixon ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
Over a half of adults in the US, Canada, Australia and numerous European countries are now overweight or obese, a proportion that has risen sharply in the past two decades. Dominant biomedical explanations focus on the energy equation – an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure - and remedies focus on motivating individuals to restore the balance by eating better and being more active, or ... Read more

$89.09 USD

Over a half of adults in the US, Canada, Australia and numerous European countries are now overweight or obese, a proportion that has risen sharply in the past two decades. Dominant biomedical explanations focus on the energy equation – an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure - and remedies focus on motivating individuals to restore the balance by eating better and being more active, or
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Fast Food/Slow Food

The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System

by Cathy Banwell, Theodore C. Bestor, Michael L. Burton, Jane Dixon, James A. Egan, Sarah Hinde, Valerie Imbruce, Dolores Koenig, Sarah Lyon, Ty Matejowsky, Heather McIntyre, Sidney Mintz, Karen L. Nero, Heather Paxson, Jeffery Pilcher, Lois Stanford, Penny Van Esterik, Gavin Whitelaw ...

Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental ... Read more

$44.59 USD

Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental
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Building a Successful Career

Discover the Proven Tactics On How You Can Quickly and Successfully Climb the Ladder of Career Success!

by Mary Jane Dixon ...

Narrated by Marcus Mulenga ...

Unabridged

11 min

Building a Successful Career: Discover the Proven Tactics On How You Can Quickly and Successfully Climb the Ladder of Career Success!What really is a career? A career is a person’s lifetime venture to develop and enhance one’s knowledge, experiences and skills. By this, you are building up all the events in your life to exploit and maximize every opportunity you have to progress in your career ... Read more

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Building a Successful Career: Discover the Proven Tactics On How You Can Quickly and Successfully Climb the Ladder of Career Success!What really is a career? A career is a person’s lifetime venture to develop and enhance one’s knowledge, experiences and skills. By this, you are building up all the events in your life to exploit and maximize every opportunity you have to progress in your career
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Career Development Mastery Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle

Building a Successful Career and Career Clarity

by Mary Jane Dixon, Kris Thomas ...

Narrated by Marcus Mulenga ...

Unabridged

18 min

Career Development Mastery Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Building a Successful Career and Career ClaritySince we are kids, we are constantly asked what we want to be when we grow up. No one really knows when we're just in Kindergarten but you'll be surprised to know that even grown ups are sometimes still clueless what it is they want to do as a career. It is a sad fate when you end up working a job for ... Read more

$8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Career Development Mastery Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Building a Successful Career and Career ClaritySince we are kids, we are constantly asked what we want to be when we grow up. No one really knows when we're just in Kindergarten but you'll be surprised to know that even grown ups are sometimes still clueless what it is they want to do as a career. It is a sad fate when you end up working a job for
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To Keep You Safe

by Kate Bradley ...

Narrated by Lucy Jane Dixon ...

Unabridged

10 hours 38 min

When ex-soldier-turned-teacher Jenni Wales sees fifteen-year-old Destiny's black eye, she's concerned. Destiny isn't your average student: she's smart, genius IQ smart, and she's in care. But concern turns to fear when Jenni witnesses an attempt to abduct Destiny from school. With social services and the police not taking the threat seriously, Jenni does the only thing she can think of to keep ... Read more

$24.99 USD

When ex-soldier-turned-teacher Jenni Wales sees fifteen-year-old Destiny's black eye, she's concerned. Destiny isn't your average student: she's smart, genius IQ smart, and she's in care. But concern turns to fear when Jenni witnesses an attempt to abduct Destiny from school. With social services and the police not taking the threat seriously, Jenni does the only thing she can think of to keep
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Affluenza

When too much is never enough

by Clive Hamilton, Richard Denniss ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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Creating The World We Want To Live In

How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

by Bridget Grenville-Cleave, Dóra Guðmundsdóttir, Felicia Huppert, Vanessa King, David Roffey, Sue Roffey, Marten de Vries ...

This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in. Our hope is to provoke conversation, and gently challenge possibly long-held views, beliefs, and ideologies about the way the world works and the people in that world.Written by eminent researchers and experienced practitioners, the book explores the principles that underpin living well, and gives ... Read more

$32.99 USD

This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in. Our hope is to provoke conversation, and gently challenge possibly long-held views, beliefs, and ideologies about the way the world works and the people in that world.Written by eminent researchers and experienced practitioners, the book explores the principles that underpin living well, and gives
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Changeology

How to enable groups, communities and societies to do things they’ve never done before

by Les Robinson ...

A toolkit for effective change, packed with useful information on how to influence the behaviour of human beings for the better.The pressing issues of today clamour for solutions, yet to a surprising degree past and present efforts to effect social change have been based on little more than hunches. This book dispels many of the myths that prevent social change projects from succeeding, and ... Read more

$19.69 USD

A toolkit for effective change, packed with useful information on how to influence the behaviour of human beings for the better.The pressing issues of today clamour for solutions, yet to a surprising degree past and present efforts to effect social change have been based on little more than hunches. This book dispels many of the myths that prevent social change projects from succeeding, and
... Read more
The Work of Professional Football

A Labour of Love?

by Martin Roderick ...

A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players a career in football is insecure and short-lived.A former professional, Martin Roderick’s familiarity with the world of football is the foundation ... Read more

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A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players a career in football is insecure and short-lived.A former professional, Martin Roderick’s familiarity with the world of football is the foundation
... Read more
The Social Brain

The Psychology of Successful Groups

by Tracey Camilleri, Samantha Rockey, Robin Dunbar ...

'A remarkable and important book . . . a highly accessible, timely and invaluable guide to anybody working in groups.' Prof Paul Gilbert OBE___________________________________________________How many people does the ideal team contain? How do groups bond, earn trust and forge shared identities? How can leaders build environments adaptable enough to respond to shocks and still enable people to ... Read more

$13.99 USD

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'A remarkable and important book . . . a highly accessible, timely and invaluable guide to anybody working in groups.' Prof Paul Gilbert OBE___________________________________________________How many people does the ideal team contain? How do groups bond, earn trust and forge shared identities? How can leaders build environments adaptable enough to respond to shocks and still enable people to
... Read more

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What Makes a Good School?

by Chris Bonner, Jane Caro ...

School choice has become one of the most agonizing issues of parenthood; while schools boast of unsurpassed facilities, genius teachers, and stellar academic achievement, parents wonder whether the marketing hype is actually true. Drawing on the authors' experiences and knowledge—one as a school principal and both as parents and advocates—this account compares public, Catholic, private, selective, ... Read more

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School choice has become one of the most agonizing issues of parenthood; while schools boast of unsurpassed facilities, genius teachers, and stellar academic achievement, parents wonder whether the marketing hype is actually true. Drawing on the authors' experiences and knowledge—one as a school principal and both as parents and advocates—this account compares public, Catholic, private, selective,
... Read more

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