An Introduction to Pastels

Arts & Photography

Wright, Michael

Drawing

Prentice-Hall Canada

800 million people live in Africa, a continent which covers 22% of the world's surface and encompasses some 50 countries. Conflict, poverty, endemic diseases, and lack of clean water pose serious challenges for the population, made worse by a rampaging A.I.D.S. pandemic. Huge loss of life has impacted dramatically on both health systems and social and family structures. As the attention of the world focused increasingly on Africa, the International Observatory on End of Life Care was commissioned to conduct a timely review of hospice and palliative care development across the continent. The Observatory undertook this review using an approach specially designed for resource poor settings. Information was collected against an agreed template to allow comparisons between countries and regions. As a result, an insight is given into the challenges, opportunities and successes faced by hospice and palliative care workers, country by country, throughout the 26 countries in Africa where a palliative care initiative is underway. Strategies and models of care are explored, and the development of palliative care is viewed from various standpoints including ethnographic, historical, ethnic, demographic and epidemiological perspectives. This is the first comprehensive reference focusing exclusively on palliative care and hospice development in Africa, and makes fascinating reading.

Hospice and Palliative Care in Africa: A Review of Developments and Challenges

Medical Books

Nursing

Oxford University Press

Since the turn of the century, there has been worldwide growth in the effort to improve the quality of end of life care. Alongside these initiatives, growing interest in the international development of hospice and palliative care has created the need for an informed, in depth overview of the state of development in different world regions. A follow-up to the successful Hospice and Palliative Care in Africa: a review of developments and challenges (Wright and Clark, OUP 2006), this book provides a detailed evidence-base of the palliative care provision in Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, identifies barriers to development and how these may be overcome. The book aims to stimulate a more informed debate around these issues, to improve policy-making among intergovernmental and governmental organisations on end of life care in these regions, and to encourage further research and improved practice. Hospice and Palliative Care in Southeast Asia: a review of developments and challenges in Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines includes in-depth country reports that analyse the current state of hospice and palliative care. The book is written using a template that allows effective comparison between countries and regions. Data has been gathered from multiple sources, field visits, and interviews with key activists made possible by close working relations with hospice-palliative care colleagues across the region and in particular through links with the Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN) and the national associations of each country. This book will be of relevance to anyone interested in international palliative care, including practitioners, researchers, policy-makers, social scientist, and medical historians.

Hospice and Palliative Care in Southeast Asia: A review of developments and challenges in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines

Reference

Hamzah, Ednin

Phungrassami, Temsak

Bausa-Claudio, Agnes

Words, Language & Grammar

A highly regarded impressionist-style artist, George Ames Aldrich drew on his years of experience living and studying in Europe to create beautiful landscape paintings. His life and work are explored in this gorgeous book. Many of the artist's finest creations, some representing French subjects and others depicting the midwestern steel industry and American landscapes, are included in this book. It features color reproductions, along with other archival and contextual images. Essays by Michael Wright and Wendy Greenhouse explore in detail Aldrich's life, influences, sources of inspiration, and art historical context. Exploiting a wide variety of sources, Wright and Greenhouse have discovered exciting new information about the artist and his times.

The Art of George Ames Aldrich

Greenhouse, Wendy

Hertzlieb, Gregg

History & Criticism

Indiana University Press

Many books covering the introduction of computers into the business environment are written by computer experts who have ignored the managerial issues involved in the changes that computers can bring. This book starts from the managerial viewpoint and shows what behavioral problems may arise and how to avoid them.

Manage IT: ! Exploiting Information Systems for Effective Management

Business & Money

RHODES, DAVID

Management & Leadership

Praeger

Jake can't sleep. He climbs into bed with his mom and dad. Now Jake's parents can't sleep. Even the dog is awake. This family needs a good night's rest. Where can they sleep? The answer will delight and reassure children and their (sleep-deprived) parents!

Jake Stays Awake

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Feiwel & Friends

Jake Starts School

It's Jake's first day of school.
He doesn't want his mom and dad to leave him there, alone.
Now, Jake and his parents have to spend the first day of school together. Finger painting. Sharing snacks. Playing on the seesaw.
Will Jake ever be able to stay at school on his own?
The answer will delight and reassure children and their (anxious) parents!

Growing Up & Facts of Life

He would not try tomatoes
or a single Brussels sprout.
And if he tasted something new,
he'd spit that thing right out. 
Jake is a picky eater.
Everything new makes Jake's list of foods he doesn't like. Everything except peanut butter. Jake loves peanut butter.
Does the whole family have to eat peanuts for every meal? Peanut butter pancakes? Even peanut butter pot roast?!
Will Jake ever try something new?
The answer will delight children and their (not-so-picky) parents!

Jake Goes Peanuts

Humor

It's Jake's first day of school. He doesn't want his mom and dad to leave him there, alone. So, Jake and his parents have to spend the first day of school together. Finger painting. Sharing snacks. Playing on the seesaw. Will Jake ever be able to stay at school on his own?
The answer will delight and reassure children and their (anxious) parents!

Square Fish

In this groundbreaking book, six playwrights take us through the process of revision--from the manuscript page to journal entries, to changes made in the crucible of production.

Playwriting Master Class: The Personality of Process and the Art of Rewriting

Humor & Entertainment

Heinemann Drama

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