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Five Minutes of Amazing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Five Minutes of Amazing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-09-22
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

This story poses a profound question - do we accept the hand that fate deals us, or do we battle to make the most of the life we have and help others in the process? Chris Graham, just 38 years old but already facing the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease, has emphatically chosen the latter. Having lived through a troubled childhood, Chris joined the British Army at a young age and found that the life of a soldier provided him with a much-needed sense of stability. However, his world was turned upside down when, at just 34 years of age, he was diagnosed with a form of early onset dementia. This brutal disease had already claimed the life of his father at 42, along with several other memb...

Life and Death on the 'Royal Charter'.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

Life and Death on the 'Royal Charter'.

The auxiliary steamship 'Royal Charter' was wrecked at Moelfre, Anglesey, North Wales, on the 26th of October, 1859, with great loss of life and a fortune in gold. This book tells the background to the voyage and the story of the disaster using may of the newspaper reports of that era.

The Battle for Standardised Cigarette Packaging in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

The Battle for Standardised Cigarette Packaging in Europe

"This book is essential reading for researchers of tobacco policy change. Too many studies simply complain that change is too slow because tobacco companies are too powerful and politicians lack the will to challenge them. This book goes much further, to help us understand not just industry strategy but the policy processes in which policy advocates engage, learn from each other, and help create essential global tobacco policy change." Paul Cairney, University of Stirling, UK "This book is rare in making genuinely significant contributions across both public health and policy studies. By focusing on the battle for standardised packs, it engagingly addresses one of the most prominent recent i...

Social Policy Review 21
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Social Policy Review 21

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-06-17
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Social Policy Review provides students, academics and all those interested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year. This year the Review takes the opportunity of the 60th anniversary of the key legislation founding the welfare state in the UK to provide a comprehensive overview of policy developments in the UK and internationally. The first part brings together a selection of papers which have been commissioned to examine historical and contemporary developments in policy tackling Beveridge's five evils of want, idleness, disease, squalor and ignorance, looking at how policy has changed since the aims and ideology of the...

The Essential Underwater Guide to North Wales. Volume One, Part Two.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

The Essential Underwater Guide to North Wales. Volume One, Part Two.

The Essential Underwater Guide to North Wales. Volume One, Part Two. Trwyn Porth Dinllaen to South Stack. First published 2017. Latest update 28/2/2023. Practical information for divers, snorkelers, boat-users and sea-anglers. Diving from the shore or boat, mostly in depths of less than 30-metres. Useful data on marine-life, conservation, wrecks, rocks and underwater-caves. Accurate directions and GPS positions. Latitude, Longitude and Ordnance Survey references given where appropriate. Detailed information on where to launch your boat, slack-water and other tidal information, dangers, boat charters, air stations, and dive shops.

Nutrition and Child Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Nutrition and Child Health

Maternal and fetal nutrition - Breastfeeding - Feeding children at different ages - Vitamins and minerals in paediatics - Feeding sick children - Growth and nutritional assessment of children - Feeding children on special diet - Nursing assessment of children's nutritional state during illness - Eating disorders and therapeutic intervention - Causes of feeding problems in infants - Childhood obesity_______________

The Essential Underwater Guide to North Wales. Volume One, Part One.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 431

The Essential Underwater Guide to North Wales. Volume One, Part One.

The Essential Underwater Guide to North Wales. Volume One, Part One. Barmouth to Trwyn Porth Dinllaen. First published 2015. Latest update 2022. Practical information for divers, snorkelers, boat-users and sea-anglers. Diving from the shore or boat, mostly in depths of less than 30-metres. Useful data on marine-life, conservation, wrecks, rocks and underwater-caves. Accurate directions and GPS positions. Latitude, Longitude and Ordnance Survey references given where appropriate. Detailed information on where to launch your boat, slack-water and other tidal information, dangers, boat charters, air stations, and dive shops.

Understanding Global Social Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Understanding Global Social Policy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-02-28
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

The third edition of this leading textbook offers a contemporary, lively and accessible overview of international actors and social policy formation, identifying key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North.

The Global Social Policy Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

The Global Social Policy Reader

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-06-19
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This text collects together a comprehensive range of key papers by international leaders in the field from a wide range of sources that explain the concepts, actors and processes that constitute global social policy.

Understanding Global Social Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Understanding Global Social Policy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03-01
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

This book, written by an international team of leading social policy analysts, is the first student aimed textbook that comprehensively engages with the field of global social policy.