How long will you live? Will you live a healthy life? If you are well, why are you well when others are ill? Where is health best and worst in the world, in your country, in your neighborhood? Which groups of people suffer the worst ill health and why? What lies behind the inequalities in our chances of experiencing good or poor health? How do people find out about these things? What can they do about it? 
Which explanations for how health, place and society are connected are most valid? When will these issues be addressed? This book introduces students of geography, sociology and the health sciences to the key factors connecting health, place and society. It uses many of the latest research findings while providing an historical context for the sources of this knowledge. The book provides a brief and accessible introduction to the fields of medical sociology and geography, drawing on epidemiology, health care studies and history. It provides many examples and case studies and it suggests further reading, film watching and internet surfing to encourage the reader to explore this rapidly expanding research field further. 
In the Preface to the book Peter Haggett says- "One cannot read this book without sensing the authors' zest for their chosen field, and a refusal to be hidebound by disciplinary boundaries or conventions. It simply bubbles with their shared interest and enthusiasm for their subject." This book was written while all three authors were based in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. Mary Shaw is now Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol, Danny Dorling is a Professor in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds and Richard Mitchell is Research Fellow in the Research Unit in Health, Behavior and Change at the University of Edinburgh. The authors have jointly written over 50 journal papers, book chapters and books.

Health, Place, and Society

Medical Books

Shaw, Mary

Mitchell, Richard

Dorling, Daniel

Nursing

PRENTICE/HALL

The need for outstanding university supervisors who balance the needs and interests of the student teacher, the university, and the K-12 school has never been greater. Teacher supervisors are the link between institutions of higher learning and public and private schools. This work is a practical guide for university supervisors that examines the supervisory process, the preparation necessary for supervision, the responsibilities of the university supervisor, the historical assumption underlying the supervisory role, and what research tells us about effective supervision.
This work also provides background information on topics such as discipline in the schools and curricular concerns, and summarizes research about what the supervisor needs to know on the philosophical, psychological, and sociological foundations of education. Practical suggestions and sound advice are provided on major questions and issues such as: What should I tell the cooperating teacher about writing final evaluations? What should I tell the student teacher about presenting incorrect information? What do I look for while observing the student teacher? How do I conduct an effective conference? How should I plan a seminar? University supervisors will gain a better understanding of their own role and responsibilities in working with student and cooperating teachers as well as an appreciation of the work of the cooperating teacher. Likewise, student and cooperating teachers will gain similar understandings.

Teacher Supervision that Works: A Guide for University Supervisors

Education & Teaching

Anderson, Debra J.

Major, Robert

Higher & Continuing Education

Praeger

In many ways America is in worse shape than before the first Watts riots occurred over 25 years ago. Intolerance is still abundant; greed is very much alive; and hope held by many at the bottom has been dimmed, if not extinguished. For our country to become everything it is capable of becoming and everything our ancestors dreamed, education cannot continue as usual. Ours is a great country, but when even one of its citizens is made to feel less than human or is robbed of their dignity, something is wrong. Hope, Intolerance, and Greed: A Reality Check for Teachers encourages teachers to question the status quo and to reexamine their power to influence the direction our country takes into the 21st century. It also encourages teachers to acknowledge the realities that exist, teach the rejection of violence, and promote an awareness and understanding of people as individuals.

Hope, Intolerance, and Greed: A Reality Check for Teachers

Schools & Teaching

It is possible, Sagan says, to damage the brain in precisely such a way that the victim will lose the ability to understand the passive or to devise prepositional phrases or something like that. No cases are cited, unfortunately--it would be fun to chat with some victim--but the whole idea is attractive, because if it were true it would explain many things.

Less Than Words Can Say: The Underground Grammarian

Little,Brown

In a witty but sobering attack on the misuse of language, emphasizing the importance of correctly structured language as the only vehicle of logical thought, Mitchell traces the cause of our current linguistic malaise to the American educational system

Less Than Words Can Say

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Little,Brown & Co

The Graves of Academe

The illuminating spirit, or evil genius, of modern educationism was Wilhelm Max Wundt, a Hegelian psychologist who established the world's first laboratory for psychological experimentation at the University of Leipzig, where he worked and taught from 1875 to 1920. He dreamed of transforming psychology, a notably soft'' science dealing in vague generalizations and abstract pronouncements, into a hard'' science, like physics.

"Author probes the nature of contemporary language and levels his shaft at the illogical, the faddish, and the foolish"

The Leaning Tower of Babel and Other Affronts by the Underground Grammarian

Little. Brown and Company

A collection of satirical essays targets the shortcomings and fads that continue to plague our language

The Leaning Tower of Babel: And Other Affronts by the Underground Grammarian

Fireside

In an indictment of American public education, Mitchell points to the theory of education as behavior modification and to the decision, made by the education establishment, to emphasize good citizenship at the expense of the traditional curriculum

Essays discuss Socrates, reason, thinking, self-knowledge, intelligence, education, the imagination, morality, and fear.

The Gift of Fire: With Wit and Daring, the Underground Grammarian Examines Why We Can't Think

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Simon & Schuster/A Fireside Book

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Health, Place, and Society

Teacher Supervision that Works: A Guide for University Supervisors

Hope, Intolerance, and Greed: A Reality Check for Teachers

Less Than Words Can Say: The Underground Grammarian

Less Than Words Can Say

The Graves of Academe

The Leaning Tower of Babel and Other Affronts by the Underground Grammarian

The Leaning Tower of Babel: And Other Affronts by the Underground Grammarian

The Graves of Academe

The Gift of Fire: With Wit and Daring, the Underground Grammarian Examines Why We Can't Think