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First published in 1973, this well-established textbook offers medical students and junior doctors a readable introduction to the principles of public health with special reference to situations in the developing countries of the tropics. This fifth edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent advances in public health. It retains the popular approach of previous editions in stressing basic principles illustrated by selected examples pertinent to the regions in question. The book focuses on both communicable and non-communicable diseases and covers gender-specific issues as well as health systems, health promotion, and health economics.

Thirty years of thinking and theorizing about the field come together in Modeling Ethnomusicology, a collection of essays by one of its leading figures. Author Timothy Rice weaves together his most important work about music and the way ethnomusicologists study it, and from this work he proposes a new model for constructing how ethnomusicologists theorize as they conduct research.

A grand account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment, The Rule of Empires explores the historical reality of subjugation and exposes the true limits of imperial power.