Controversies about risks to public health regularly hit the news, whether about food safety, environmental issues, medical interventions, or "lifestyle" risks, such as drinking. To those trying to manage or regulate risks, public reactions sometimes seem bizarre. To the public, the behavior of those supposedly "in charge" can seem no less odd. Trust is currently at a premium. This new edition of Risk Communication and Public Health covers the theoretical and research background, and presents a wide range of contemporary case studies and the learning experiences from these, and the political, institutional, and organizational issues they raise. It concludes with an analysis of the lessons learned and gives pointers for the future. The book offers international perspectives, and contributors include representatives from consumer organizations as well as public health practitioners and academics. This edition is substantially updated with new material and case studies, but retains the same focus-the improvement of communication and promotion of "good practice" in risk communication, in government, the health service, and elsewhere. This second edition presents a broad view of the issues around risk communication and public health in a way that will be of interest to a range of public health practitioners, managers and policy makers, postgraduate students and academics in a number of disciplines, and those interested in environmental health.

Risk Communication and Public Health

Reference

Smith, Denis

Bennett, Peter

Curtis, Sarah

Calman, Kenneth

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

416 pages of excellent text, with some great photos. First Edition.

Gentle patriot;: A political biography of Walter Gordon

Hurtig Publishers

Freesias (Grower Guide)

Danks, P.N.

Nexus Media Ltd

Rogue Tory: The Life and Legend of John G. Diefenbaker

Winner of the Dafoe Book Prize Winner of the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography 1995 marked the 100th anniversary of that most charismatic and enigmatic public figure, the thirteenth prime minister of Canada, John George Diefenbaker. Beloved and reviled with equal passion, he was a politician possessed of a flamboyant, self-fabulizing nature that is the essential ingredient of spellbinding biography. After several runs at political office, Diefenbaker finally reached the Commons in 1940; sixteen years later he was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 1958, after a campaign that dazzled the voters, the Tories won the largest majority in the nation’s history: the Liberal party was shattered, its leader, Lester Pearson, humiliated by an electorate that had chosen to “follow John.” Diefenbaker’s victory promised a long and sunny Conservative era. It was not to be: instead Dief gave the country a decade of continuous convulsion, marked by his government’s defeat in 1963 and his own forced departure from the leadership in 1967, a very public drama that divided his party and riveted the nation. When Diefenbaker died in 1979, he was given a state funeral modeled - at his own direction - on those of Churchill and Kennedy. It culminated in a transcontinental train journey and burial on the bluffs overlooking Saskatoon, alongside the archive that houses his papers - the only presidential-style library built for a Canadian prime minister. Canadians embraced the image of Dief as a morally triumphant underdog, even as they were repelled by his outrageous excesses. He revived a moribund party and gave the country a fresh sense of purpose but he was no match for the dilemmas of the Cold War of Quebec nationalism, or the subtleties of the country’s relations with the United States. This compelling biography, illuminating both legend and man and the nation he helped shape, was among the most highly praised books of the year.

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

MacFarlane, Walter & Ross

The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Robinson

As a journalist, author and public intellectual, Michael Ignatieff has become a major figure in Britain, the U.S. and Canada. He is a recognized world authority on human rights and nationalism - and a leading candidate for the Liberal party leadership. With no experience in Canadian politics, Ignatieff comes with no political baggage. Much like Pierre Elliott Trudeau, he would put a completely fresh face on the country's 'natural governing party.' But Michael Ignatieff does have a track record, as a thinker and public intellectual. That record is the focus of this book. Here Denis Smith, the distinguished Canadian biographer of Liberal Walter Gordon and Conservative John Diefenbaker, examines Ignatieff's extensive writings to capture the essence of his values and his approach to the world. In the past ten years, Michael Ignatieff has written about the Balkans, the role of the U.S. in the world, and Iraq. He has taken positions on missile defence, pre-emptive war, the rights of accused terrorists, the use by governments of torture. He has been at the centre of many debates - such as a recent British controversy about whether he has helped the Bush administration legitimize the use of torture. In this book, Denis Smith presents Ignatieff's intellectual journey from liberal internationalism to support for the American invasion of Iraq, Canadian military intervention in Afghanistan, and the selective use of assassination by governments.

Ignatieff's World: A Liberal leader for the 21st century?

Historical

Lorimer

Winner of the Dafoe Book Prize Winner of the University of British Columbia Medal for Canadian Biography 1995 marked the 100th anniversary of that most charismatic and enigmatic public figure, the thirteenth prime minister of Canada, John George Diefenbaker. Beloved and reviled with equal passion, he was a politician possessed of a flamboyant, self-fabulizing nature that is the essential ingredient of spellbinding biography. After several runs at political office, Diefenbaker finally reached the Commons in 1940; sixteen years later he was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 1958, after a campaign that dazzled the voters, the Tories won the largest majority in the nation’s history: the Liberal party was shattered, its leader, Lester Pearson, humiliated by an electorate that had chosen to “follow John.” Diefenbaker’s victory promised a long and sunny Conservative era. It was not to be: instead Dief gave the country a decade of continuous convulsion, marked by his government’s defeat in 1963 and his own forced departure from the leadership in 1967, a very public drama that divided his party and riveted the nation. When Diefenbaker died in 1979, he was given a state funeral modeled - at his own direction - on those of Churchill and Kennedy. It culminated in a transcontinental train journey and burial on the bluffs overlooking Saskatoon, alongside the archive that houses his papers - the only presidential-style library built for a Canadian prime minister. Canadians embraced the image of Dief as a morally triumphant underdog, even as they were repelled by his outrageous excesses. He revived a moribund party and gave the country a fresh sense of purpose but he was no match for the dilemmas of the Cold War of Quebec nationalism, or the subtleties of the country’s relations with the United States. This compelling biography, illuminating both legend and man and the nation he helped shape, was among the most highly praised books of the year. From the Hardcover edition.

A Napoleonic-era version of “Survivor” – played for keeps\nBetween 1809 and 1814, the tiny Mediterranean island of Cabrera was an unwalled prison, a bleak prisoner-of-war camp for thousands of Napoleon’s conscripts and elite guards captured by Spanish armies during the Peninsular War. Defeated in battle, they were a humiliation to Napoleon; betrayed by their captors, they were denied immediate return to France.\nInstead the Spanish, with Britain’s collusion, consigned them to the barren confines of Cabrera, where they were thrust into a virtual state of nature. Exiled with only the clothes on their backs, an unreliable supply of fresh water, no shelters, and starvation rations dropped off by supply ships, they were left to fend for themselves. Twelve thousand soldiers were sent to Cabrera, along with a remnant of camp followers, including women. A few hundred were allowed to leave in prisoner exchanges with the French, a handful managed to escape; thousands perished of disease, exposure, or malnutrition. When Napoleon was defeated in 1814, some 3,700 survivors were returned to France; their accounts became the only records of a community built on desperation, a social order created out of nothing.\nHistorian Denis Smith draws on original documents and the memoirs of half a dozen survivors and escapees to enliven this first English-language account of Cabrera, one of the first POW prisons, and of its inhabitants’ extraordinary adventures.

The Prisoners of Cabrera: Napoleon's Forgotten Soldiers, 1809-1814

History

Europe

After their surrender at the Battle of Bailen, 12,000 French prisoners of war were exiled to the bleak island of Cabrera in the Mediterranean, eight miles from Majorca, with only the clothes on their backs, no shelter, insufficient fresh water, and no food supply other than the meager rations dropped off intermittently by the Spanish. By the time they were repatriated to France after Napoleon’s defeat five years later, their number had dwindled to 2,500. Never before told in English, the story of Cabrera is not only a riveting account of survival and the community formed by these men, but also an intriguing look at the politics of divided Spain during this period.

The Prisoners of Cabrera: Napoleon's Forgotten Soldiers 1809-1814

Literary

Four Walls, Eight Windows

<div> <div>Denis Smith was football's real hardman in an era in which brutal defenders such as Ron "Chopper" Harris, Norman Hunter, and Tommy Smith introduced themselves to opposing center-forwards with a friendly whack on the upper thigh. A man who knew no fear, Smith's fierce tackling once earned him the accolade in the Guinness Book of Records of the most injured man in football. Despite his reputation as a hatchet man, earned partly because of his tough upbringing on the unforgiving streets of Stoke-on-Trent, Smith was an integral part of the Stoke City team which won the first major trophy in the club's history in 1972. Coveted by Leeds, Manchester United, and Brian Clough, alongside greats such as Gordon Banks, Alan Hudson, George Eastham, and Jimmy Greenhoff, the unfashionable Potters established themselves amongst the elite in the English game. Then, as his career developed into management, Smith was responsible for the birth of the careers of the likes of Andy Cole, Garth Crooks, Steve Bould, Lee Chapman, and Marco Gabbiadini. As manager, Smith helped York tot up the first ever hundred point total in Football League history, defeated Arsenal in the FA Cup and took on mighty Liverpool before moving on to Sunderland, a club who had fallen to the lowest position in their history. Dragging them up by their bootstraps, Smith led his rebuilt team back into the top flight within three years before being sacked in a season in which his side eventually reached the FA Cup final. A career managing clubs such as West Bromwich Albion, Oxford United, Bristol City, and Wrexham has provided him with an incredible breadth of experience of how to deal with footballers with problems as diverse as egos, jealousy, and a death amongst his playing squad and seen him become one of the few managers to preside over 1,000 matches in charge. Tough-talking, candid, and in places brutally honest, Smith's autobiography reveals his tough upbringing amidst the gangs of Stoke-on-Trent, how he helped save Sir Alex Ferguson's job, the stories behind encounters with the likes of Ian Botham, Eddie Jordan, Clive Lloyd, Geoff Hurst, Frank Williams, and how he nearly changed the course of former England coach Steve MacLaren's career.</div> </div>

Just One of Seven: The Autobiography of Denis Smith

Pitch Publishing

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