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A Question of Good Health
What if most of what we assume about health is no longer fit for the world we now live in?Health has quietly changed. Responsibility has shifted from systems to individuals. Information has exploded. Technology promises insight and control. Yet outcomes continue to disappoint, and many people, including patients and professionals alike, feel increasingly disoriented rather than empowered.In A Question of Good Health, Andrew Vincent argues that the problem is not a lack of effort, knowledge, or care. It is the absence of a coherent model of what health actually is.Drawing on decades of experience across healthcare systems, economics, and clinical leadership, and grounded in lived personal experience, this book reframes health as a dynamic and directional system. Health is shaped continuously by behaviour, biology, environment, and belief. It is not something we simply possess until it is lost, nor something delivered episodically by healthcare. It is a trajectory that forms quietly long before illness appears.The book unfolds in three parts.Part I challenges inherited assumptions. It explains why health cannot be defined as the absence of disease, why knowing more does not reliably produce better outcomes, and why longevity, technology, and choice can distort rather than strengthen health when pursued without orientation.Part II examines how health behaves across time. It explores why behavior sits at the centre of outcomes, why evidence and intuition increasingly fail under acceleration and overload, and why modern systems drift toward illness even while pursuing progress.Part III turns to stewardship and navigation. It introduces a coherent health model designed to hold complexity without flattening it, support proportionate judgement, and restore primary care as navigator, advocate, and safety net in an era of expanding individual agency.Rather than prescribing lifestyles or offering optimisation tactics, this book restores something more fundamental. It restores clarity. It equips readers to judge what matters, what does not, when to act, when to wait, and how to engage with healthcare intelligently rather than reactively.Written for thoughtful individuals, healthcare professionals, and leaders alike, A Question of Good Health is a call to rethink health not as an event managed late, but as something stewarded deliberately, before options narrow and consequences harden.Health is already being shaped. The real question is whether we are navigating it or drifting.
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Recollections of Ferry Point, Richmond, California
"Recollections of Ferry Point, Richmond, California" is an oral history transcript from 1985 offering a unique glimpse into the past. Through the voices of Judith Dunning, James Quay, and John Andrew Vincent, the book documents the history and social fabric of Ferry Point. This firsthand account captures the essence of a specific time and place, preserving memories and experiences that might otherwise be lost. This transcript provides valuable insights into the community's development and the lives of its residents. A vital resource for local historians and anyone interested in the rich tapestry of California's past, this volume ensures that the stories of Ferry Point endure. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Recollections of Ferry Point, Richmond, California
"Recollections of Ferry Point, Richmond, California" is an oral history transcript from 1985 offering a unique glimpse into the past. Through the voices of Judith Dunning, James Quay, and John Andrew Vincent, the book documents the history and social fabric of Ferry Point. This firsthand account captures the essence of a specific time and place, preserving memories and experiences that might otherwise be lost. This transcript provides valuable insights into the community's development and the lives of its residents. A vital resource for local historians and anyone interested in the rich tapestry of California's past, this volume ensures that the stories of Ferry Point endure. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Modern Political Ideologies
MODERN POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES Modern Political Ideologies provides a broad overview of the origins, development, and core principles of the major political ideologies of the past two centuries. With an accessible, student-friendly format, this bestselling textbook helps students understand the values, beliefs, and social forces that shape today's political messaging, public discourse, and legislative agendas. Concise and approachable chapters describe ideologies such as liberalism, conservatism, socialism, fascism, fundamentalism, and nationalism. Retaining the student-friendly format of previous editions, the fourth edition of Modern Political Ideologies is fully revised to reflect the social changes that inform today's political views. An entirely new chapter offers insights into the growth of populism and its effects on contemporary political dialogue, while expanded material addresses anarchism, feminism, neoliberalism, environmentalism and "green" ideologies, identity politics, and other topics of current relevance. Containing a useful glossary of key terms and extensive end notes for each chapter, Modern Political Ideologies, Fourth Edition is the ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate courses in political science, political ideology, political theory, comparative politics, and international relations. It is also an excellent supplement for courses in the social sciences and humanities that investigate the history of political ideas.
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Eminence of Evil
Devin Demas was born over three hundred years ago of noble lineage as a prince of a kingdom between old France and Germany. He has no desire to rule after his father King Bosren and despised him after meeting Barabis and learning his secrets of the underworld, hell. Soon after, Devin was banished from the kingdom for learning the black magic of Mephistopheles. In secrecy, he was taken to the new lands of America. After killing the ship's captain through spells that sent him into contortions as his body was crushed into a human cube of carnage, Devin then turned the ship's sailors into his servile slaves. After reaching the southern shores of America, they disbanded the ship as Devin, only sixteen years old, marched with his new sailor slaves inland in search of his new home. After what seemed months, they finally came to a place Devin was satisfied in and built his new home. Devin studied the parchment scrolls Barabis left him for seventeen years. He learned how to become immortal after he would have to lose his mortality under the alignment of stars and planets in the conjecture of pure evil. After being judged and sent to hell, Devin yoked with Satan then walked once more upon the earth as a heartless and soulless being in the gathering of followers for the final war of man's soul and the occupation of Mother Earth and control of her flesh. After over three hundred years of roaming the earth, Devin came back to his old home his sailor slaves made with their bare hands. It was located outside the small town Langtownship. David Lang is the sheriff of Langtownship. His family had been in this reign since 1652. David and Devin soon became nemeses as they came to realize that they were related in lineage. Devin tried to recruit David to his satanic cult in which David wanted no part of. After Devin destroyed David's perfect life, family, and peace on earth, David found himself empowered by armies of unlikely sources to fight against hell and darkness upon earth forever.
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Nationalism and Particularity
Nationalism and Particularity, first published in 2002, is a work of political theory that examines nationalism in two ways. Firstly it draws out the ideological connections and associations of nationalism by analysing its relation to a series of key political concepts, theories and practices: namely, sovereignty, the nation state, citizenship, liberal theory, patriotism, communitarianism, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism. Second, it looks at the drift to particularity in political debates by assessing nationalism as a key example of particularity. The central argument is that the notion of the particular in contemporary thought derives its moral and generative force from association with the idea of the personality and individuality. The book concludes that we should treat all forms of particularity with caution and scepticism. It is an original contribution to political theory accessible to students in philosophy, politics and law.
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British Idealism and Political Theory
British Idealism - influenced by the character of German Idealist thought at the end of the eighteenth century, developed by Kant, Fichte and Hegel - began to establish its roots during the middle of the nineteenth century and rapidly became the dominant British philosophy. It began to be challenged at the turn of the century by philosophers including Bertrand Russell and by the end of the First World War it was on the retreat, although its philosophical reverberations are still evident. Testimony to this fact is the considerable renaissance in all aspects of Idealist studies, and particularly in the works of its most recent twentieth-century exponents Michael Oakeshott and R.G. Collingwood.This book offers an introduction to British Idealism through a study of each of the seven key thinkers - T. H. Green, Bernard Bosanquet, F. H. Bradley, Henry Jones, David Ritchie, R. G. Collingwood and Michael Oakeshott. It explores the background religious, political, moral, ideological and economic themes which underpin the work of the thinkers and shows the relevance of their philosophy - with the emphasis on social cohesiveness and the relationship between individual and collective responsibility - to current politics.Written by two of the leading experts in the field, this is a valuable text that will introduce the theory of British Idealism to a broad range of readers.
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Political Theory
This important text covers the key debates in contemporary political theory.
€ 44,30