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Nursing staff throughout the world have endured an unprecedented
increase in distress, anxiety and depression. Physical and mental
health have come under attack from anxiety, depression, elevated
blood pressure and increased stress hormone production. More than
ever, the importance and urgency of initiatives which promote
nurses' and midwives' wellbeing should be emphasised. Pocket
Poetry: Poems for Nurses and Midwives is a companion of poems
intended to provide encouragement and consolation to those on the
frontline of our care sector. The poems themselves explore the
meaning of nursing, midwifery and compassion in order to promote
new nurses' and midwives' self-care and wellbeing. The poems in
this selection demonstrate the empathy and benevolence crucial to
the profession, and include works on the relationship between nurse
and patient, as well as the meaning and fulfilment of nursing for
those who have chosen that career.
Being a doctor is a privilege; it is also very demanding and can be
stressful, and to be able to look after others, we need to look
after ourselves. We offer you this little book of poetry, Tools of
the Trade, as a friend to provide inspiration, comfort and support
as you begin work. Tools of the Trade includes poems by
poet-doctors Iain Bamforth, Rafael Campo, Glenn Colquhoun, Martin
MacIntryre and Gael Turnbull.
Collecting these excerpts from Wallace Chambers' Vancouver diary
and World War I letters has been a labour of love for author John
Gillis. The result is an extraordinary record of one ordinary young
man's life just after the turn of the century. Wallace Chambers
kept a diary from 1907 to 1913 while he lived in Vancouver. He
filled each day with as much as he could, especially outdoors
activities. Wallace was also passionate about cultural and social
activities and enjoyed many of the events and venues Vancouver
offered. His diary gives a rare glimpse into the world of
middle-class young people in Vancouver of the early 1900s. Over the
years a tender love story unfolded in Wallace's diary as he
gradually fell in love with Cecie, the woman he hadn't seen since
1905. When Wallace went off to war in 1914, he and Cecie were
briefly reunited in England before he left for the front. His
letters home were graphic and poignant. Wallace was killed in 1915
at the age of 29.
Shakespeare has an astonishingly rich and varied performance
tradition in Japan, stretching from the Westernizing and
modernizing ferment of the nineteenth-century Meiji era to the
postmodern performance culture. How has the tradition evolved?
Where is it going? How is it to be accounted for in theatrical and
cultural terms? What does it mean to perform Shakespeare in Japan?
Such questions are raised in this 2001 book's introduction and
pursued in fourteen essays on key aspects, moments and
personalities in the performance tradition. These are followed by
provocative interviews with four leading directors (Deguchi Norio,
Ninagawa Yukio, Suzuki Tadashi and Noda Hideki) and with one
leading performer (Hira Mikijiro). Unlike the very few existing
books on Japanese Shakespeare, this book concentrates on modern and
postmodern theatre, from c.1970, and contains contributions from
both Japanese and Western scholars and theatre practitioners.
Kristine Lilly is a legendary athlete: she played midfielder for
the United States Women's National Soccer Team for over
twenty-three years. This included five FIFA World Cups and three
Olympic Games. She was inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame in
2012 and the US Soccer Hall of Fame in 2014. Before that, she won
four national championships at The University of North Carolina.
During this remarkable career, Lilly gained unprecedented insights
into how high-performing teams work together, on and off the field.
In Powerhouse: 13 Teamwork Tactics that Build Excellence and
Unrivaled Success, she teams up with Dr. John Gillis Jr. to help
readers and their businesses: - Transform - Empower - Achieve -
Motivate Using Lilly and Gillis's insights, readers can
revolutionize teams in their organizations so that they can achieve
sustainable excellence and peerless success. The tactics they
share, supported by Dr. Lynette Gillis's academic research, dig
deep into the dynamics of collaborative work and highlight the
actions readers can take to empower their teams.
Shakespeare's images of the exotic are shown to be firmly based on the margins of contemporary maps; and examination of the icons and emblems of maps raises questions about the mapmakers' overt intentions and instinctive assumptions, and reveals connections between the semiology of a map and that of the theater.
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