Fully updated edition of a seminal text in the field providing an in-depth guide to reflection and its real-life applicationThe Seventh Edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner offers an in-depth exploration of reflective practice, bringing the process of guided reflection to life. The book emphasises the importance of person-centred practice aligned with the latest developments in holistic healthcare and features a variety of case studies and real-li...

Leadership is liberating, and the development of leadership in health care organisations is vital.In this timely and exciting textbook, Christopher Johns addresses the most vital aspects of health care development and education, and reveals the tensions of becoming a leader within health care organizations. Being able to understand and work towards resolving these tensions is essential in becoming an effective leader. To be an effective leader, however, requires an awareness and ac...

Studies of Gottfried Leibniz's moral and political philosophy typically focus on metaphysical perfection, happiness, or love. In this new reading of Leibniz, Christopher Johns shows that it is based on a 'science of right'.Based on the deontic concepts of jus (right) and obligation, this science of right is established in Leibniz's early writings on jurisprudence and depended on throughout several of his major late writings. Johns shows that the moral rightness of an action is grou...

Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts describes a range of successful programmes pioneered by artists, writers, nurses, musicians, therapists, social workers, and chaplains in palliative care settings. These range from simple painting and writing activities to organized communal activities like writing and performing a play.The arts are shown to offer a means to reflect on memories, hopes, fears and anxieties, and gently explore the emotional, spiritual, and psychological issues ...

Patentees file applications in more and more countries every year, with nearly four million PCT applications filed since the Patent Cooperation Treaty came into force in 1978. Yet prosecuting patents in different countries can be challenging. Each country has its own laws for pursuing patent applications and achieving enforceable patents, and local patent law varies widely on the issue of patent eligibility. This title explores patent-eligible subject matter across major jurisdictions and ...

Reflexive Narrative: Self-Inquiry Toward Self-Realization and Its Performance is latest addition to the Qualitative Research Methods series. Author Christopher Johns describes this unique method and its developmental approach to research to enable researchers’ self-realization however that might be expressed. This method focuses on systematizing the reflective process and providing structure while still remaining flexible to the needs of individual researchers and projects. Resear...

This book is commentary on both good and bad examples of leadership in Washington D.C. The backdrop is politics, but the foreground is all about what can make better leaders.

God isn't dead, but He is evil! Earnest Fielder arrives in Heaven in time to witness God's #2, Lethe, bowling for planets, while His Eminence naps. In desperation, Earnest volunteers to save the Third Planet on the Left from Lethe's second ball. His mission is to return the populace to God's good graces. On Earth, he discovers from the Probe of Prophets, that he is the anticipated Voice of God's opposition. This group of seers includes a Spitter, a Wind-Catcher, an Origami Master,...

F****our speculative stories of disasters, dystopias and destroyed civilisationsJohn Christopher is probably best known for his seminal science ficion novel The Death of Grass and his ‘Tripods’ trilogy for young adults, which was adapted for BBC TV and became a cult classic. Alongside John Wyndham, he was one of the foremost exponents of ‘disaster fiction’, and these four fantastic productions all centre around post-apocalyptic themes – from deadly disease...

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Rob...

Read Christopher John Campion's posts on the Penguin Blog.Indie rock raconteur Chris Campion-one of the few patients ever to escape from Bellevue's locked ward-recalls his band's tumultuous ride, his plummet into addiction, and the strange road back to sobrietyChronicling more than twenty years in the life of a Long Island kid who became a hardcore fixture of Manhattan's indie rock scene, Escape from Bellevue is a coming-of-age tale like no other. ...

THERE ARE REASONS WE FEAR THE NIGHT. HE STILL ISN’T ONE OF THEM.My name’s Bill Ryder and six months ago I died. However, I didn’t stay dead. Instead, I woke up a vampire, freshly recruited into a coven of immortal assholes.I thought I’d earned a break after defeating our former master, with maybe a bit of help from my friends, but no such luck.Now things are getting surreal in the world of the strange. New and powerful forces are rearing th...