The perfect balance of readability and formalism.

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250

Solutions to Fragmentation in Behavioral Health Services: Designing and Operating an Integrated System of Care proposes a pathway to combat the current fragmentation of mental health services.

The 2024 Release of Cecchetti & Schoenholtz's Money, Banking, and Financial Markets boasts an innovative approach to enhancing coherence, relevance, and timeliness in the study of Money and Banking for economics students. In a world where money, banking, and financial markets are in constant flux, this release introduces cutting-edge features to keep pace with evolving dynamics. This release captures the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic (including implications for inflation and employment dyna...

This book examines the relationship between gender and sustainability in tourism. Whilst an extensive body of work exists in the areas of gender and sustainability, these two fields of knowledge are seldom combined to examine tourism phenomena.

This is an essential guide for all health and social work practitioners supporting an increasing number of learners, trainees, apprentices and pre-registration students engaging in practice-based and work-based learning. Applying educational learning, this accessible book presents strategies for practice learning and personal development.

This book focuses on arts-based approaches to psychosocial health among children, youth, and their caregivers living in conditions of adversity around the world.

The Dreaming Mind provides an insightful, interdisciplinary approach to the study of dreaming, exploring its nature and examining some of the implications of dream states for theories of consciousness, cognition and the self.

The Patient-Centered Clinical Method has been a core tenet of the practice and teaching of medicine since the first edition published in 1995. This fourth edition continues to define the principles underpinning the patient-centered clinical method using four major components, clarifying its evolution and consequent development.

This book offers a scholarly and lively introduction to comparative criminal justice. It considers the state of crime globally and examines and reflects on the ways different countries and jurisdictions deal with the main stages in the criminal justice process, from policing to systems of trial, to sentencing, and punishment.