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1. Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse

   Fat Fabrications

   By John Evans, Emma Rich, Brian Davies, Rachel Allwood

   Eating less, exercising more and losing weight seem the obvious solution for the oncoming 'obesity epidemic'. Rarely, however, is thought given to how these messages are interpreted and whether they are in fact inherently healthy. Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse investigates how...

   Published June 5th 2008 by Routledge
2. Education Policy and Social Reproduction

   Class Inscription & Symbolic Control

   By John Fitz, Brian Davies, John Evans

   This book takes a theoretically informed look at British education policy over the last sixty years when secondary schooling for all children became an established fact for the first time. Comprehensive schools largely replaced a system based on academic selection. Now, under choice and competition...

   Published October 2nd 2005 by Routledge
3. The Nuclear Envelope

   Vol 56

   Edited by David Evans, Chris Hutchison, John Bryant

   Series: Society for Experimental Biology

   The Nuclear Envelope brings together the major current topics in nuclear envelope structure, transport, transcriptional regulation and cell signaling. The volume is divided into four sections:1. Proteins of the nuclear envelope, including nuclear envelope proteomics, structure and function.2....

   Published July 21st 2004 by Taylor & Francis
4. Body Knowledge and Control

   Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health

   Edited by John Evans, Brian Davies, Jan Wright

   Today's society is obsessed with the body, its size, shape and healthiness. Governments, business and the popular media, spend and earn fortunes encouraging populations to get healthy, eat properly, exercise daily and get thin. But how are current social trends and attitudes...

   Published October 22nd 2003 by Routledge
5. Environmental Archaeology and the Social Order

   By John G. Evans

   Presenting a wide variety of case studies, ranging from the early Palaeolithic to Post-modernity, and from Europe to the Andes, West and East Africa, and the USA, Environmental Archaeology and the Social Order deals with both the theory and method of environmental archaeology. Including significant...

   Published August 20th 2003 by Routledge
6. Politics, Policy and Practice in Physical Education

   By John Evans, Dawn Penney

   Using the example and context of Physical Education, a particularly vivid and comprehensive illustration is provided of the processes involved in the development of the National Curriculum for Physical Education in England and Wales between 1988-1995.The authors draw upon the extensive research to...

   Published February 3rd 1999 by Routledge
7. Potassium Channels And Their Modulators

   From Synthesis To Clinical Experience

   By John M Evans

   Potassium ions K+ ions are vital in physiological processes, particularly with regard to the cardiovascular system. Modulators influence the channels through which these ions flow and the research into modulator drugs of these channels is the subject of rapidly-advancing research. This work is...

   Published March 31st 1996 by CRC Press