The puropse of public and community health is to improve the health of populations or groups rather than concentrating on individuals. This book examines the ethical issues arising from this aim, including prioritisation and health screening. more »

Product Info Rethinking the Mathematics Curriculum explores maths curricula around the world, and the differences in expectation, culture and politics that form them. more »

Millions of Americans take personality tests each year: to get a job, to pursue an education, to settle a legal dispute, to better understand themselves and others. But where did these tests come from, and what are they saying about us? In The Cult of Personality, award-winning psychology writer Annie ... more »

A newly discovered set of notes written by Einstein on the last day of his life reveals the true origin and inspiration for his theories of relativity. [Paul Levinson's very first professionally pub... more » more »

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Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig--the new brand of empowered woman who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces raunch culture wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat ... more »

Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans' daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize--winning Times-Picayune , Jed Horne has had ... more »

Recent research in biology, chemistry, physics, and neuroscience contains clues about the ultimate nature of reality. Ponder the question of first causes -- where do the laws of nature come from? Consider the inseparability of mind and matter. Contemplate the philosophical problem of design. This book ... more »

The great general and conqueror of Europe, Napoleon may not have written any books, but he was a prolific writer. A century and a half after his death, Napoleon remains the greatest military genius of the modern world yet unlike Machiavelli or Sun Tzu, his name has not crowned any single literary work ... more »

The Associated Press calls them The Entitlement Generation, and they are storming into schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. They are today's young people, a new generation with sky-high expectations and a need for constant praise and fulfillment. In this provocative new book, headline ... more »

Women are the most powerful force reshaping the future of America. Stronger than political parties, mightier than religious differences, able to leap cultural schisms in a single bound, women are quietly exerting a unified power to make changes in our culture and in commerce, meeting in the middle to ... more »

For anyone who has ever wondered where our popular culture is taking us, Hating Women is at once an electrifying social commentary and a clarion call for change. In Hating Women , Shmuley Boteach, the passionate social critic and relationship guru, examines an alarming trend of misogyny in our popular ... more »