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Not all health promotion programs are equally successful in achieving their aims and objectives. The use of theory significantly improves the chances of success.Theory in a Nutshell 4e provides practitioners and students of health promotion with an overview of the most influential theories and models used to guide health promotion practice. For each theory discussed, an explanation of the main elements of the theory is provided, followed by a commentary on its relative strengths and weaknesses, and somesuggestions as to how it can be applied to the real world.New to this edition:greater attention to the influence and application of digital communication and technologies on health promotion practiceexamples and reflections on lessons that have emerged since 2020 from the global COVID-19 pandemic.Written by internationally recognised leaders in the field, all sections have been thoroughly revised and updated, while maintaining the concise, accessible style of the previous editions. This book is highly recommended for public health practitioners, health promotion and health education specialists, and social policy makers, as well as students of public health and health promotion.

A SUNDAY TIMES HOTTEST READ OF 2025 A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 'Sparkles with wit and insight… A must-read' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Extraordinary' DAILY MAIL 'An irresistible comedy of manners' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Deliciously chaotic… feverishly funny – Harris has gleeful fun dissecting this timely tale' THE TIMES, Book of the Month –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- Shared bed. Different dreams… Meet Ethan and Gabe: a devoted couple with an adorable daughter and a house in the suburbs. They may have drifted to different ends of the political spectrum, but their marriage still has its spark. Then Ethan makes a shocking announcement: he wants to run for Congress as a Republican. And he will only do it with progressive Gabe’s blessing.Kate is a political reporter at a major newspaper, but the adrenaline rush of chasing a story has lost its thrill. When her ex-girlfriend Nicole – now married and feeling like an accessory in her husband’s life – slides into her DMs just as her brother Ethan starts his controversial congressional run, Kate’s life is thrown into a tailspin that threatens to derail the success she’s worked so hard to achieve.A sharply observed comedy of manners about public image versus private life, How to Sleep at Night is a witty and whip-smart novel that dissects family ties stretched thin by politics. 'Funny, charming… infused with warmth, depth and engrossing storylines' WASHINGTON POST 'Has the feel of whispered secrets exchanged over cocktails with your smartest friend' JENNY JACKSON 'Insightful, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny… a delight' J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- WHAT READERS ARE LOVING: 'A beautifully layered book about the complexities of love, ambition, and self-discovery' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I feel like I know every character in this book. A joy from start to finish, and I didn’t want to put it down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A perfect read for our times… I read it in one day' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A SUNDAY TIMES HOTTEST READ OF 2025 A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 'Sparkles with wit and insight… A must-read' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Extraordinary' DAILY MAIL 'An irresistible comedy of manners' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Deliciously chaotic… feverishly funny – Harris has gleeful fun dissecting this timely tale' THE TIMES, Book of the Month –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- Shared bed. Different dreams… Meet Ethan and Gabe: the picture-perfect devoted couple. They may have drifted to different ends of the political spectrum, but their marriage still has its spark.Then Ethan makes a shocking announcement: he wants to run for Congress as a Republican. And he will only do it with progressive Gabe’s blessing.Kate is a reporter – but the adrenaline rush of chasing a story has lost its thrill. When she reconnects with her ex-girlfriend Nicole, a frustrated stay-at-home mom, it upends both their lives.Each of them is forced to ask themselves: how do we bridge the gap between who we are and who we aspire to be? A sharply observed comedy of manners about public image versus private life, How to Sleep at Night dissects family ties stretched thin by ambition. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- ‘Witty and well-paced’ OBSERVER 'Funny, charming… infused with warmth, depth and engrossing storylines' WASHINGTON POST 'Has the feel of whispered secrets exchanged over cocktails with your smartest friend' JENNY JACKSON 'Insightful, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny… a delight' J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN WHAT READERS ARE LOVING: 'A beautifully layered book about the complexities of love, ambition, and self-discovery' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I feel like I know every character in this book. A joy from start to finish, and I didn’t want to put it down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A perfect read for our times… I read it in one day' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A SUNDAY TIMES HOTTEST READ OF 2025 A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 'Sparkles with wit and insight… A must-read' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Extraordinary' DAILY MAIL 'An irresistible comedy of manners' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Deliciously chaotic… feverishly funny – Harris has gleeful fun dissecting this timely tale' THE TIMES, Book of the Month –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- Shared bed. Different dreams… Meet Ethan and Gabe: the picture-perfect devoted couple. They may have drifted to different ends of the political spectrum, but their marriage still has its spark.Then Ethan makes a shocking announcement: he wants to run for Congress as a Republican. And he will only do it with progressive Gabe’s blessing.Kate is a reporter – but the adrenaline rush of chasing a story has lost its thrill. When she reconnects with her ex-girlfriend Nicole, a frustrated stay-at-home mom, it upends both their lives.Each of them is forced to ask themselves: how do we bridge the gap between who we are and who we aspire to be? A sharply observed comedy of manners about public image versus private life, How to Sleep at Night dissects family ties stretched thin by ambition. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––- ‘Witty and well-paced’ OBSERVER 'Funny, charming… infused with warmth, depth and engrossing storylines' WASHINGTON POST 'Has the feel of whispered secrets exchanged over cocktails with your smartest friend' JENNY JACKSON 'Insightful, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny… a delight' J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN WHAT READERS ARE LOVING: 'A beautifully layered book about the complexities of love, ambition, and self-discovery' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'I feel like I know every character in this book. A joy from start to finish, and I didn’t want to put it down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A perfect read for our times… I read it in one day' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A new masterpiece of modern queer fiction, Wife & Wife is a sharply observed and deeply moving story of love, discovery, and defiance told through the eyes of two women who meet as housewives in the 1950s and triumphantly marry in 2011.It is 1955 in the sedate, affluent suburb of Pearl’s Cove, New York. Twenty-five-year-old housewife and mother of two Ruth Wolf is a glamorous platinum blonde who secretly devours lesbian pulp fiction shoplifted from the local drugstore. But nothing about her clandestine reading has prepared her for what will happen when she meets Sylvie Fein, a socialite who pours her energy into making art while her children are at school. Their connection is electric and instantly threatens to upend their dutiful, traditional lives.Dazzled and in love, Ruth and Sylvie struggle to find a way to be together for more than half a century, wrestling with the expectations of their families and neighbors and the undeniable force of their desire for one another. From the stifling suburban kitchens of the 50s to the triumphant coming of gay marriage in 2011, this is a sharpy observed, wryly funny and deeply moving journey through time and the human heart.Wife & Wife transforms a single love affair between two ordinary women into a sweeping narrative of discovery and reinvention, mirroring the profound cultural upheavals that redefined marriage and family in America.

Shortly before his unexpected coronation, King Richard passed a law letting all of England's prisoners go free. Shortly afterwards a young nun is found, gruesomely murdered. Richard swiftly employs an old military colleague of his, Josse d'Acquin, to unravel this hideous mystery. Who could have wanted to kill this innocent young novice, and, more worryingly, why?Josse goes to Hawkenlye Abbey to find out the answers to these questions. He is having little success until meets the Abbess Helewise, a woman who quickly proves herself to be his equal, both as an amateur sleuth, and as a figure the community can rely on during this turbulent time for England.This duo have to find the murderer, and find him quickly, or they'll have the King of England to answer to...

It is February 1194. A desperately ill man is making for Hawkenlye Abbey in the hope of a miracle cure. In his delirium he sees the Virgin Mary and, sinking to his knees, he begins to pray. She is the last person he will ever see. The winter cold intensifies and the Vale lake freezes over. It is only when the thaw sets in that a corpse is discovered in the icy waters, its skull crushed by a lethal blow. With no clues on the body but an apothecary's remedy, Abbess Helewise asks her trusted friend Sir Josse d'Acquin to find out the man's identity. As Josse sets out on his mission, a party of sick people arrive seeking help, and their sickness looks terrifyingly like plague . . .

This major new work explores the British encounter with Buddhism in nineteenth century Sri Lanka, examining the way Buddhism was represented and constructed in the eyes of the British scholars, officials, travellers and religious seekers who first encountered it. Tracing the three main historical phases of the encounter from 1796 to 1900, the book provides a sensitive and nuanced exegesis of the cultural and political influences that shaped the early British understanding of Buddhism and that would condition its subsequent transmission to the West. Expanding our understanding of inter-religious relations between Christians and Buddhists, the book fills a significant gap in the scholarship on Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka by concentrating on missionary writings and presenting a thorough exploration of original materials of several important pioneers in Buddhist studies and mission studies.

This major new work explores the British encounter with Buddhism in nineteenth century Sri Lanka, examining the way Buddhism was represented and constructed in the eyes of the British scholars, officials, travellers and religious seekers who first encountered it. Tracing the three main historical phases of the encounter from 1796 to 1900, the book provides a sensitive and nuanced exegesis of the cultural and political influences that shaped the early British understanding of Buddhism and that would condition its subsequent transmission to the West. Expanding our understanding of inter-religious relations between Christians and Buddhists, the book fills a significant gap in the scholarship on Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka by concentrating on missionary writings and presenting a thorough exploration of original materials of several important pioneers in Buddhist studies and mission studies.

The structure and content of the Johannine prologue determine the structure and content of the whole Gospel. Elizabeth Harris demonstrates that a type of prologue found in ancient Greek literature could be the literary convention behind John 1.1-18.

What’s Wrong with My Child? reveals a mother’s quest for answers about her son’s psych symptoms that leads to shocking discoveries that could impact struggling families in the United States and possibly globally.Elizabeth Harris’ son Cody was eleven when, out of the blue, he started exhibiting signs of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The OCD turned into something far more sinister when Cody started having episodes where he seemed to lose total control over his actions, leading to Cody being committed to a county youth detention center. There, he was placed in solitary confinement for weeks. For five years, Elizabeth fought a hard battle to find out what was going on with her son and their family while simultaneously battling an unsympathetic judicial system. Driven to find a cure, Elizabeth visited countless doctors across the USA. She quickly became frustrated by the fact that there was no agreement in the medical community regarding PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Strep), the disease behind Cody’s transformation. In her quest for answers, this science-minded spa owner found proof of weaponized bacteria not only impacting their extended family, but that could be making families around the USA and possibly globally sick as well.

This book demonstrates that a type of prologue found in ancient Greek literature could be the literary convention behind John 1.1-18. The structure and content of the Johannine prologue determine the structure and content of the whole Gospel. It provides the reader with seminal statements about the cosmic situation and God's plan for mankind, statements which are explicated thereafter. This function of the prologue is explored through the three historical personages mentioned in that largely metaphysical construction about the Logos: John, Moses and Jesus Christ. The person and mission of Jesus Christ, cryptically stated in the prologue, are explicated through three christological expressions: 'the Son of Man', 'I am', and 'the Son (of God)'. These require the Logos-creator conception in the background to give them theological coherence.

Based on interviews with Buddhists living in both the West and the East, this is an accessible overview of the Buddhist tradition, which draws on personal insights, scholarly and non-scholarly, to cover both the doctrines and practices of the faith.

A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she's building in Romania. Lorenzo, just a young boy when his mother leaves, recalls the incisive fragments of their life - when they would playfully wrestle each other, watch the sunrise, or test out his mother's newest scientific creation. Now a young man, Lorenzo travels to Romania for his mother's funeral and reflects on the strangeness of today's Europe, which masks itself as a beacon of Western civilization while iniquity and exploitation run rampant. With elliptical, piercing prose, Bajani tells a story of abandonment and initiation, of sentimental education and shattered illusions, of unconditional love.

Within Christian theology, debates on the theology of religions have intensified over the last thirty or so years. This volume surveys the field and maps future directions in this expanding and important area of research. Both established experts and new voices address typological debates, comparative theology, multiple religious belonging or identity, and how dialogue between different religious traditions affects our understanding of these issues. Different perspectives and traditions are represented, and, while focusing upon debates in Christian theology, voices and perspectives from a range of religious traditions are also included. This volume is an essential tool for research students and established scholars working within the theology of religions and interreligious studies.Contributors are: Graham Adams, Tony Bayfield, Abraham Velez de Cea, Gavin D’Costa, Reuven Firestone, Ray Gaston, Elizabeth Harris, Paul Hedges, Shanthikumar Hettiarachchi, Haifaa Jawad, Kristin Beise Kiblinger, Paul F. Knitter, Oddbjørn Leirvik, Marianne Moyaert, Mark Owen, Alan Race, Sigrid Rettenbacher, Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Leonard Swidler, Philip Whitehead, Janet Williams, Ulrich Winkler.