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An action guide to improving healthMany of the health problems in the developing world can be tackled or prevented        through various public health measures. Public Health is an action guide to        improving public/community health, with a particular focus on low-middle income        countries....

A detailed examination of the academic formation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology, arguing that the young Bonhoeffer reinterpreted for a modern intellectual context the Lutheran understanding of the 'person' of Jesus Christ and distinguishing Bonhoeffer's theology from that of contemporaries Karl Barth and Karl Holl....

How the study of animal and plant distributions revolutionized our views of        life and EarthDenis McCarthy's highly engaging account of biogeography shows how two great        theories - evolution and plate tectonics - explained the pattern of life on Earth.          It is a story of elephant birds and pygmy mammoths, and the gradual...

An even-handed characterization of the differences between modern liberalism and classical liberalism about the proper scope of government....

Ryan Nichols offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid's theory of perception - by far the most important feature of his philosophical system. Nichols's consummate knowledge of Reid's texts, lively examples, and plainspoken style make this book especially readable. It will be the...