Foregrounding the work professional communicators do to support public health and social missions, this book examines how the principles and practices of public relations can be applied by nonprofit, government, and corporate entities working to understand and improve public health and social conditions.

Foundations of Sensation and Perception offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the science of sensation and perception. It covers all the human senses and answers many questions, such as why movies are so convincing, how ventriloquism works, why things sound different as you get older and why you may feel ill in an aircraft or sea vessel. Full of illustrations and graphs that bring concepts to life, the textbook covers vision, hearing, balance, touch, pain, smell and taste.

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Death, Dying and Palliative Care in Children and Young People examines the issues relevant to children and young people living with serious illness and their families by taking a closer look at the literature and knowledge around the processes of care, health, well-being and development through a health psychology lens.

The book provides deep insight into the processes of digital transformation of banking according to economic, institutional, and social dimensions. The principal audience of the book will be scholars in the fields of banking and finance, but also other related disciplines in the social sciences.

The complexity facing today’s organizations calls for a rethinking of leadership. The world is facing grand challenges for people and planet. How do leaders create organizations where values are embedded at every level? This book answers this question and provides a method for leaders to develop a values-based organizational culture.

This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result.

This book serves to expand the research around the illness in order to enable health care researchers and practitioners to address the questions that are imperative to individuals suffering from this condition. It puts forth a maturation of research and interventions that are theoretically sound and creative in the Long COVID area.

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur.

This fascinating textbook explores public health and individual healthcare through the prism of global human rights and ethical decision-making.

Governance Networks in the Public Sector presents a comprehensive study of governance networks and the management of complexities in network settings.