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1. Global Health

   An Introduction to Current and Future Trends

   By Kevin McCracken, David R. Phillips

   The health of human populations around the world is constantly changing and the health profiles of most nations in the early twenty first century global health landscape are unrecognizable compared with those of just a century ago. This book examines and explains these health changes and considers...

   To Be Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919

   New Perspectives

   Edited by David Killingray, Howard Phillips

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the worst pandemic of modern times, claiming over 30 million lives in less than six months. In the hardest hit societies, everything else was put aside in a bid to cope with its ravages. It left millions orphaned and medical science desperate to find...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
3. Introduction to Emergency Management

   By Brenda D. Phillips, David M. Neal, Gary R. Webb

   The ultimate goal of every emergency management professional is to help citizens and communities prepare for natural, technological, or terrorist threats in order to mitigate damage and save lives. Providing an insider’s glimpse into this rewarding career, Introduction to Emergency Management...

   Published October 18th 2011 by CRC Press
4. Teacher Education, the University and the Schools

   Papers for Harry Judge

   Edited by David Phillips

   Using the highly successful Oxford model of teacher training and the widely respected work in teacher education of Harry Judge, a number of prominent educationists from around the world contribute chapters on a range of topics relating to the interface between the university and the schools in the...

   Published August 10th 2009 by Routledge
5. Comparative Inquiry and Educational Policy Making

   By David Phillips

   Building on an increasingly sophisticated body of research on policy ‘borrowing’ in education, this collection explores ways in which the foreign example in education has been and is being used by policy makers in a variety of settings, its principal aim being to assess the usefulness of ‘foreign’...

   Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
6. Tracing Education Policy

   Selections from the Oxford Review of Education

   Edited by David Phillips, Geoffrey Walford

   Series: Education Heritage

   This book brings together key articles that trace the development of British education policy since 1975 and provides a valuable route map to developments within education policy during this period. It includes twenty-six seminal articles from the Oxford Review of Education written by many of...

   Published June 7th 2006 by Routledge
7. Quality of Life

   Concept, Policy and Practice

   By David Phillips

   Quality of life is one of the most important issues facing the world today and is central to the development of social policy. This innovative book discusses this crucial topic, assessing the criteria for judging attempts to raise quality of life, including the satisfaction of basic and social...

   Published January 18th 2006 by Routledge
8. Ageing and Place

   Edited by Gavin J. Andrews, David R. Phillips

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   During recent years, an increasing amount of academic research has focused on older people with a particular emphasis on settings, places and spaces. This book provides a comprehensive review of research and the policy area of 'ageing and place'. An insightful book on an important topic, Andrews...

   Published November 9th 2004 by Routledge
9. Athenian Political Oratory

   Sixteen Key Speeches

   By David Phillips

   Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

   Focusing on the works of three of the greatest orators in history–Demosthenes, Lysias, and Hypereides-this collection of speeches is an indispensable source for anyone interested in classical civilization and literature, political science and rhetoric...

   Published June 27th 2004 by Routledge
10. Food, Science, Policy and Regulation in the Twentieth Century

    International and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Jim Phillips, David F. Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

    This highly topical book offers a comprehensive study of the interaction of food, politics and science over the last hundred years. A range of important case studies, from pasteurisation in Britain to the E coli outbreak offers new material for those interested in science policy and the role of...

    Published December 20th 2000 by Routledge