Books

High Blood Pressure
Class Publishing
ISBN 185959090X

Professors Deirdre Murphy and Tom Fahey offer positive, practical ways of managing high blood pressure cutting out the confusing medical jargon and explaining the facts in plain English.

The chapters in the book look at a variety of topics on blood pressure including treatment with drugs, pregnancy, contraception and the menopause and living with high blood pressure. It contains clear explanation of the causes and symptoms of high blood pressure and gives positive advice on ways to bring down your blood pressure and keep it down.

Europe, Globalization and Sustainable Development
Edited by John Barry, Brian Baxter and Richard Dunphy
Routledge
ISBN 0-415-30276-5

Published in Routledge's prestigious Research in Environrnental Politics series, this volume results from an important recent international conference organised by the Department of Politics. Papers by leading British and European researchers and an extensive editorial introduction make it invaluable for students and researchers in the fields of environmental and European politics and policy.

Brian Baxter is Lecturer and Richard Dunphy is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics.

Poverty, Pregnancy and the Healthcare Professional
Sheila C Hunt
Elsevier Science
ISBN 0-7506-8798-3

The aim of Poverty, Pregnancy and the Healthcare Professional is to attempt to provide an understanding of what it is like to be both pregnant and poor and to try to show how midwives and other health professionals can use this understanding and insight to offer more appropriate and sensitive care. It is hoped that the book will provide some insights and lead to a greater understanding of maternity care for women.

Professor Sheila Hunt is Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

The Juvenile Skeleton
Louise Scheuer and Sue Black
Elsevier Academic Press
ISBN 0-12-102821-6

This book is an abridged version of the award winning Developmental Juvenile Osteology, which immediately upon publication, was acknowledged as an indispensable reference resource. This new text brings together information from the widely dispersed anthropological and medical literature. Students of physical anthropology, archaeology and forensic science will find this text invaluable to their studies. It should also prove relevant to any scientist involved in the study of human skeletal biology as well as appealing to a much wider clinical readership.

Sue Black is Professor of Forensic Anthropology.