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Geographies of Obesity
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 124.95Over the past two decades, rates of adult and childhood obesity in the developed world have risen sharply. This study assembles the evidence for a geographical explanation of this trend, examining the ways in which environment and living conditions promote an imbalance of energy intake over energy expenditure. more...
A Teacher's Guide To Education Law
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 51.95This clearly written text, which is adapted from its parent volume, Education Law, Fourth edition, provides a concise introduction to topics in education law that are most relevant to teachers. The greater the likelihood of litigation or error in a particular area of professional practice the more extensive the discussion. Topics concerning teacher... more...
A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 24
BRILL 2006; US$ 97.00Part of "A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child" series, this work presents a commentary on Article 24. The series is sponsored by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office. more...
Educational Records
R&L Education 2009; US$ 54.99This book's question-and-answer format, as well as its analysis of court opinions and opinion letters of the United States Department of Education's Family Policy Compliance Office, provide educators with the resource they need to quickly and authoritatively address records issues. more...
Framing Equal Opportunity
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 28.95This book reveals the important role lawyers, law, and courts play in struggles over educational resources, especially when it comes to the translation of policy goals into legal claims. more...
Health Systems Governance in Europe
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 43.00A comprehensive discussion of a number of current and emerging governance issues in EU health policy. more...
Falls Aren't Funny
Government Institutes 2010; US$ 28.99In this book, author Russell J. Kendzior provides a comprehensive look at one of the most pervasive yet seldom addressed problems facing our world today. The book's three parts explore slip-and-fall accidents themselves, what causes them, and what can be done to prevent them. The book is replete with stories of real slip-and-fall accidents and injuries,... more...
War, Politics, and Philanthropy
University Press of America 2009; US$ 43.99This book describes the development of this remarkable field of medical care from its inception in WWI and WWII, responding to the need for care and rehabilitation of wounded soldiers, disabled veterans, and members of the workforce, through its dramatic expansion during the 1980s, as stimulated by the Medicare program. more...
The NAACP's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950
The University of North Carolina Press 1900; US$ 22.00The NAACP's fight against segregated education--the first public interest litigation campaign--culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization as revealed in its own documents. He argues that... more...
Law in the Health and Human Services
Free Press 2010; Not AvailableProfessor Dickson provides students with examples of a legal way of thinking about significant issues in social policy. This book can be used in policy and practice courses in the fields of mental health, child welfare, the family, developmental and physical disabilities, and professional ethics. Provides excellent selection of relevant court decisions... more...









