This book describes clearly how legislation can be used to advance the rights and entitlements of people with mental health problems. Straightforward and practical, it provides useful information on how to address disabilities so these people may enjoy full citizenship. It presents the key issues succinctly and illustrates these with legislative examples from around the world. This book documents the role that law can play, at all levels, in combating such discrimination and abuse.

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation written by Eoin McNamee, originally broadcast as the Afternoon Play on 23 March 2009. A truck driver in Ireland gives a lift to a female Asian hitchhiker but gets more than he bargained for, especially when his truck is stopped by immigration officers and he and his illegal occupant are taken in for questioning. Starring Stuart Graham as the truck driver, Coyle, Su-Lin Looi as the Road Wife, Alison McKenna as Michelle and Gerard McSorley as Sloan. Also...

Discover the Fascinating History and Divinatory Power of the 20th Century's Most Popular Tarot DeckOriginally published in 1909 to little fanfare, the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot went on to become the bestselling tarot deck of all time. This complete guide shares the compelling story of the deck's creation, a complete analysis of what each card means, and 78 spreads to help you integrate each card's unique spiritual energy.Discover how artist Pamela Colman Smit...

A BBC Radio 3 play by Gary Mitchell about music, friendship and politics. ‘Echoes of War’ moves between present day Belfast and the last 20 years, and explores the loose ends left by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Originally broadcast as part of the ‘Drama on 3’ series on 18 January 2009. Hugh, a music teacher, has had an accident and is visited in hospital by his talented pupil Charlie and his wife Sharon. He looks back on how their relationships evolved over the years as working-class P...

When World War II was over, a young bomber pilot with an itch for movement and action hung up his cap and learned another way to fly. Onstage with Martha Graham is the story of Stuart Hodes, a versatile and influential dancer who got his start with Martha Graham, an icon of modern dance. His memoir is a rare firsthand view of the dance world in the 1940s and through the end of the twentieth century. One of the few male dancers in Graham’s company—and in the New York dance scene at...

A delightful collection of short stories with the legendary Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solving every kind of heinous crime!

The Apostle employs the Scriptures more in Romans than in any of his other letters. Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Romans advances the interpretation of Romans by exploring how the Apostle Paul quoted, alluded to, or "echoed" the Jewish Scriptures. Identification of allusions is at the forefront, as are questions of methodology, the texture of Paul's theology, his understanding of Scripture, and implications for other areas of Pauline studies, such as empire-criticism.

A rich American heiress gets murdered, and her jewels get stolen, in this fast paced Agatha Christie mystery novel, set on the luxury "Blue Train" also known in the story as the the Millionaires Train. None other than famous French detective Hercules Poirot happens to be traveling on the train at the same time, and he quickly applies his immense crime-solving skills to the task of tracking down the perpetrators. This is no easy task however, and the story bobs and weaves to a fascinating c...

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work to reinforce one another. Understanding Inequality provides students and academics with the ba...

This classic Hercule Poirot detective story is one of Agatha Christie's best stories. A man is murdered, but why? Hercule must use all his powers of investigation to bring the truth to light!

This is no childrens' book! This books main character is a "lad" but the written story is an extremely vivid adult narrative, and is narrated as such by the narrator. Film versions of this book have watered this down, but the original book as narrated here, pulled no punches. This swashbuckling tale of pirates, fabulous buried treasure, and the adventures of the lad Jim Hawkins on land and the high seas, is one of the great stories in English literature. Set during the age of buccaneers an...

In the summer of 1642 the First Civil War between king and parliament had broken out in England.Initially both sides were confident of victory, but after the first campaigns ended in stalemate they began looking for allies. The meddling of the Stuart Kings with Scotland's religious traditions provoked the National Covenant, and later the Solemn League and Covenant. Yet many Scots continued to support the King, and after his execution, his exiled son.This co...