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Starting out in practice can be difficult and confusing. This guide
for newly qualified occupational therapists provides an
authoritative overview of what to expect in your role and work
settings, and is full of practical guidance on how to make a good
start to a successful practice. With chapters by experienced
practitioners in the field, it offers insights into work in
paediatrics, mental health, learning disability and the acute
hospital setting. Vital information is also included on difficult
aspects of practice such as legislation and data protection. It
signposts sources for support and resources for furthering
techniques in individual areas of work. Most importantly, the book
offers tips for managing a busy workload, while building the
positive relationships and resilience needed for a successful
career in the occupational therapy.
Do you play GAA? Do you feel there's something missing from your
game? Do you want to improve as a player and athlete? The Players'
Advice is a compilation of guidance aimed at you, the player, to
give you the tools and disciplines to improve and excel in your
code. With advice from over 100 of the top footballers, hurlers and
camogie players in a range of areas such as gym, nutrition,
routine, lifestyle, skill development, mindset and preparation.
Features players from goalkeeper to full forward from every code,
and from nearly every county in Ireland. Advice and tips cover a
broad range of areas - from nutrition to rest days to a player's
mental attitude to training and match days. Selected images
throughout.
Few countries can boast such a plentitude of traditional folktales
as Ireland. In 1935, the creation of The Irish Folklore Commission
set in motion the first organized efforts of collecting and
studying a multitude of folktales, both written as well as those of
the Irish oral tradition. The Commission has collected well over a
million pages of manuscripts. "Folktales of Ireland" offers chief
archivist Sean O'Sullivan's representation of this awe-inspiring
collection. These tales represent the first English language
collection of Gaelic folktales.
"Without doubt the finest group of Irish tales that has yet been
published in English."--"The Guardian"
"O'Sullivan writes out of an intimacy with his subject and an
instinctive grasp of the language of the originals. He tells us
that his archives contain more than a million and a half pages of
manuscript. If Mr. O'Sullivan translates them, I'll read
them."--Seamus Heaney, "New Statesman"
"The stories have an authentic folktale flavor and will satisfy
both the student of folklore and the general reader."--"Booklist"
Images of Incarceration focuses on fictional portrayals of prison
and prisoners to demonstrate how they are depicted in the cinema
and on TV, featuring films such as The Shawshank Redemption, The
Birdman of Alcatraz, Scum, McVicar, Brubaker, Cool Hand Luke, Made
in Britain and Greenfingers as well as TV dramas like Porridge ,
Bad Girls , Buried and Oz. The book is part of the Prison Film
Project sponsored by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation under its
Rethinking Crime and Punishment initiative. It compares fictional
representations with 'actual existing reality' to provide insights
into how screen images affect understanding of complex social and
penal issues: 'Is prison really as represented on screen, harsher,
softer or different?'; 'Do viewers separate fact from fiction?';
and 'What might films tell us about the experiences of prisoners
and whether prison reduces crime and protects victims?' As authors
David Wilson and Sean O'Sullivan explain, prison may be violent and
de-humanising but it makes for gripping drama and human interest.
Most people know little about what really happens inside prison, so
that as prison numbers in the UK and USA escalate as never before,
the 'prison film' and 'TV prison drama' can have a significant
influence on popular culture and attitudes towards penal reform.
Informative, educational and illuminating, Images of Incarceration
will be of value to anyone interested in the effect of screen
representations on the democratic process, and in particular to
people concerned with criminal justice, penal affairs, penal
reform, sociology and the media. Reviews 'Fascinating for anyone
who has even a passing interest in penal matters or film': Howard
Journal of Criminal Justice Author David Wilson is professor of
criminology at the Centre for Criminal Justice Policy and Research
at the University of Central England in Birmingham. A former prison
governor, he is editor of the Howard Journal and a well-known
author, broadcaster and presenter for TV and radio, including for
the BBC, C4 and Sky Television. He has written three other books
for Waterside Press: The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of
Alex Alexandrowicz (with the latter), Prison(er) Education :
Stories of Change and Transformation (with Ann Reuss) (2000), and
Serial Killers: Hunting Britons and Their Victims 1960-2006 (2007).
In this much needed examination of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan
reclaims the British director as a practicing theorist--a filmmaker
deeply invested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative
dimensions. In contrast with Leigh's prevailing reputation as a
straightforward crafter of social realist movies, O'Sullivan
illuminates the visual tropes and storytelling investigations that
position Leigh as an experimental filmmaker who uses the art and
artifice of cinema to frame tales of the everyday and the
extraordinary alike. O'Sullivan challenges the prevailing
characterizations of Leigh's cinema by detailing the complicated
constructions of his realism, positing his films not as transparent
records of life but as aesthetic transformations of it.
Concentrating on the most recent two decades of Leigh's career, the
study examines how Naked, Secrets and Lies, Topsy-Turvy, Vera
Drake, and other films engage narrative convergence and narrative
diffusion, the tension between character and plot, the interplay of
coincidence and design, cinema's relationship to other systems of
representation, and the filmic rendering of the human figure. The
book also spotlights such earlier, less-discussed works as Four
Days in July and The Short and Curlies, illustrating the recurring
visual and storytelling concerns of Leigh's cinema. With a detailed
filmography, this volume also includes key selections from
O'Sullivan's several interviews with Leigh.
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