Patrick Brown

This new book shows middle and high school science teachers how to use evidence-based inquiry to help students achieve deeper conceptual understanding. Drawing on a wealth of research, authors Pat Brown and Jim Concannon demonstrate how direct, hands-on experience in the science classroom can enable your students to become more self-reliant learners. They also provide a plethora of model lessons aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and offer advice on how to create your own lesson plans and activities to satisfy the demands of your curriculum. With the resources in this book, you and your students will be able to ditch the textbook and embark upon an exciting and rewarding journey to scientific discovery.

The book explores the sad truths behind this multi billion-dollar industry and is one of the most comprehensive photographic documents on the wildlife trade, spanning more than 10 years and offering a rare view into this illicit business. This is an industry which is fuelled by money, and whose tentacles encircle the world.

Trust is fundamental to everyday interactions and the functioning of society. How trust develops, or fails to develop, within contexts of severe mental illness is a pertinent topic for social scientists and healthcare professionals, not simply because it is an under-researched area but because heightened uncertainty and amplified vulnerability amidst psychosis represent a crucible of the conditions where trust becomes relevant. Grounded in research within this crucible, this book explores a number of questions which are central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust. The authors link these abstract concerns to empirical analysis, involving interviews with service-users, practitioners and managers. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the concept of trust, including social science researchers and students, as well as practitioners, managers and policy makers working with vulnerable people.

This new textbook opens up the policy-making process for students, uncovering how government decisions around health are really made. Starting from more traditional insights into how ministers and civil servants develop policy with limited knowledge and money, the book goes on to challenge the conception of policy as a rational process, revealing it to be something quite different. Knee-jerk reactions to disasters, keeping voters satisfied, the powerful leverage of interest groups, and the skewing of debate through ideology and the media are each considered in turn. These processes render policy far from rational or at least require a much broader approach for considering policy ‘logic’, one that is open to different rationalities of values, norms and pragmatism. The book draws on historical and contemporary examples to highlight that though challenges to policy-makers may seem in some ways novel, in many senses key processes endure and indeed are rooted in historical contexts. Although the examples are drawn from UK health and social care, the book’s theory-driven approach is applicable across national contexts Ð especially for countries where uncertainty, risk and resource pressures create significant dilemmas for policy-makers. The book’s multi-perspective, thematic approach will be especially relevant to students, as will the broad range of case study examples used. Making Health Policy will be essential reading for students of health policy, social policy, social work, and the sociology of medicine, health and illness.

This new textbook opens up the policy-making process for students, uncovering how government decisions around health are really made. Starting from more traditional insights into how ministers and civil servants develop policy with limited knowledge and money, the book goes on to challenge the conception of policy as a rational process, revealing it to be something quite different. Knee-jerk reactions to disasters, keeping voters satisfied, the powerful leverage of interest groups, and the skewing of debate through ideology and the media are each considered in turn. These processes render policy far from rational or at least require a much broader approach for considering policy ‘logic’, one that is open to different rationalities of values, norms and pragmatism. The book draws on historical and contemporary examples to highlight that though challenges to policy-makers may seem in some ways novel, in many senses key processes endure and indeed are rooted in historical contexts. Although the examples are drawn from UK health and social care, the book’s theory-driven approach is applicable across national contexts Ð especially for countries where uncertainty, risk and resource pressures create significant dilemmas for policy-makers. The book’s multi-perspective, thematic approach will be especially relevant to students, as will the broad range of case study examples used. Making Health Policy will be essential reading for students of health policy, social policy, social work, and the sociology of medicine, health and illness.

Within the pages of Moral Ambiguity, author Patrick Brown weaves a tale of international scandal. Kevin Gregory has decided that it's time to tell the world his story whether or not it costs him his reputation as one of the most beloved singers of his generation. In vivid-and often humorous detail, he recounts his connection to the Rev. James "Jimmy" Standridge, the most powerful televangelist in America. If you've ever turned on Sunday morning television, you've seen Standridge shouting about the decline of morality and telling his listeners to renounce their sinfulness while he begs a "love gift" from every viewer. If you've seen the news recently, you know that Jimmy has been accused of being less than he claims to be. His PR team has been working overtime to gloss over any perceived moral failings because he doesn't want his followers rising up against him-or worse-withholding their tithes and offerings There's just one catch: there's no truth in what they've been saying. Inside Moral Ambiguity, Kevin's story provides readers with the dirt that reporters have never imagined. For over two decades, as Kevin built his career as an international singing sensation, he desperately tried to free himself from the religious leader's sinister grip. Breaking away wasn't easy. How could it be when he received all those extravagant gifts? Shame kept him silent, but the time has come for Kevin to come out with the truth whether he loses his fans or topples Standridge's omni-media empire. Behind Standridge's overblown fa ade is a self-loathing man driven by greed and sex. He'll stop at nothing, including bribery, intimidation and kidnapping to control every facet of society and remain, as world leaders have dubbed him, "God's moral authority on Earth."

Doug Carlson is over-privileged, mean spirited, self centered, egotistical and evil. He will stop at nothing to get what he wants. He approaches every aspect of his life with the same level of insatiable greed. Business, friends, women are all the same to Doug; just there to satisfy his current need or desire. Doug hopes to buy "The Oaks", an upscale restaurant and bar located on the banks of the Tred Avon, but the current owner Harry is unsure about selling and retiring. Doug, of course, tries to help Harry make up his mind and in the process of doing this Doug experiences a life changing event that now has him reconsidering his view of life. For the first time since he was very young he has found the heart of a woman and wants nothing more than to become a new and better man. Will Doug be able to grow and become the man he truly wants to be, or is his past too close behind to let him get away?