Building on the core competences for public health, this book focuses on key areas of surveillance and assessment of the population's health and wellbeing. It is concerned with assessing and describing the needs, health and wellbeing of specific populations, communities and groups. The authors also look at how to monitor these aspects of public health and explore qualitative and quantitative methods for measuring, analysing and interpreting health and wellbeing, needs and outcomes. Case studies, activities and research summaries are used throughout the book to help the reader understand how...
Building on the core competences for public health, this book focuses on key areas of surveillance and assessment of the population's health and wellb...
Clothes protect our vulnerable skin and they keep us warm or cool. They help us show that we are young or old, rich or poor, at work or play, and whether we may be good to know. But though they are basic, much as food and shelter are - and also may be beautiful - they have long had a bad press in serious, moral and philosophical writing. The main reason for this is that they are external to us, a cover we may hide behind, and one on which some people spend too much money, perfecting a pompous plumage of vanity: also they, and the fashions for them, may not last long. Nonetheless, when we...
Clothes protect our vulnerable skin and they keep us warm or cool. They help us show that we are young or old, rich or poor, at work or play, and whet...
Can film capture what our eyes can t see? There are many examples both historical and contemporary of photographs of spirits or ghosts. These images alternately have beenderided as hoaxes or, at the other extreme, held up as irrefutable proof of the otherworld. Photography and Spirit examines thesemesmerizing images of phantoms, psychical emanations, and religious apparitions.
Drawing upon eighty images taken between 1860 and today, John Harvey explores spirit photography from the various perspectives of religion, science, and art. Some of the photographs he considers were...
Can film capture what our eyes can t see? There are many examples both historical and contemporary of photographs of spirits or ghosts. These image...
-Ut pictura poesis-, Horace said, but through the two millennia in which -the sister arts- have been compared, little has been said about the nature of sight itself. What we see in -our mind s eye- as we read has not been explored, though by following the visual prompts in texts, one can anatomize the process of visualization. The Poetics of Sight analyses the role of sight in memory, dream and popular culture and demonstrates the structure of a complex sight within the metaphors of Shakespeare, Pope and Dickens; and within the visual metaphors of Picasso, Magritte and Bacon. This...
-Ut pictura poesis-, Horace said, but through the two millennia in which -the sister arts- have been compared, little has been said about the nature o...
How do you feel about networking? I can help you love it as much as I do. Most people see networking as a necessary evil - something to be endured or even avoided. But there is a minority who really embrace and enjoy networking. Like me, they understand the vast benefits it brings, the extraordinary value it adds to their professional and personal lives and, crucially, they know how to do it well and with ease. In this handy book, I'll show you how you can overcome your reservations and fears about networking, and I'll coach you in all the skills and insider secrets that I've developed over...
How do you feel about networking? I can help you love it as much as I do. Most people see networking as a necessary evil - something to be endured or ...