This unique evaluation of the outcomes of residential and nursing home care for older people identifies the factors determining the quality of life of older people who have moved into care homes. It examines the relationship between older people's psychological well-being and the kinds of care received in residential homes. The volume draws on a study of UK care homes, interviewing new entrants soon after admission and then on two further occasions, to ascertain their experience of care an...

This book is about the lives of patients, about the health and social care services provided to help them, and about ways of examining the impact these services make on them. Based on the authors' experience of using and developing a particular operational measure, the Lancashire Quality of Life Profile, which has been used successfully in many different studies and countries, it provides managers and practitioners in mental health with valuable normative data, insights and ideas about the...

On November 22, 1963, three great men died within a few hours of each other: C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley. All three believed, in different ways, that death is not the end of human life. Suppose they were right,and suppose they met after death. How might the conversation go?Peter Kreeft imagines their discussion as part of the great conversation that has been going on for centuries about life's biggest questions. Does human life have meaning? Is i...

John Peter Maximilian Huxley ist der geistreich aphoristische Abzug von Querdenken, Standesdünkel und weiteren Attitüden. Er ist ein junger Engländer, welcher erwartungsvoll neue Welten entdeckt. Wider der Moral und Karriereplanung seiner Tante Helen, bricht er alte Verbindungen ab und reist von England nach St. Moritz. Zumindest wähnt er sich in dessen Nähe, wenn er sich durch die borstige Schweizer Alpenlandschaft durchringt. Nach dem Schlagen und der Erkenntnis einer geheimnisvollen Bre...

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles are reproduced in their entirety to pres...

Pubblicazione di successo negli USA, dove viene ristampata ininterrottamente dal 1982, "Tra cielo e inferno" mette in scena l’incontro tra tre grandi uomini della storia. Il 22 novembre 1963, a distanza di poche ore l’uno dall’altro morirono C.S. Lewis (autore de Le Cronache di Narnia), John F. Kennedy e Aldous Huxley (autore de Il Mondo Nuovo). Tutti e tre credevano, seppure in modo diverso, che la morte...

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together...

The Doors of Perception is a philosophical essay, released as a book, by Aldous Huxley. First published in 1954, it details his experiences when taking mescaline. The book takes the form of Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon in May 1953. The book takes its title from a phrase in William Blake's 1793 poem 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, which range from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramenta...

Brave New World is Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel. Borrowing from The Tempest, Huxley imagines a genetically-engineered future where life is pain-free but meaningless. The book heavily influenced George Orwell's 1984 and science-fiction in general. The novel examines a futuristic society, called the World State, that revolves around science and efficiency. In this society, emotions and individuality are conditioned out of children at a young age, and there are no lasting relationships bec...

Contents:• Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle• Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders In The Rue Morgue• Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes From The Underground• Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis• Charles Dickens: The Chimes• Ivan Turgenev: Mumu• Francis Scott Fitzgerald: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button• Joseph Conrad: Heart Of Darkness• Ambrose Bierce: Chickamauga• Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study In Scarlet• H. P. Lovecraft: ...

This carefully compiled collection includes: John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men Ernest Hemingway The Snows of Kilimanjaro The Old Man and the Sea Clive Staples Lewis The Chronicles Of Narnia (7 Books) George Orwell 1984 Animal Farm Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Osamu Dazai No Longer Human Aldous Huxley Brave New World

On November 22, 1963, three great men died within a few hours of each other: C. S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley. All three believed, in different ways, that death is not the end of human life. Suppose they were right, and suppose they met after death. How might the conversation go? Peter Kreeft imagines their discussion as a part of The Great Conversation that has been going on for centuries. Does human life have meaning? Is it possible to know about life after death? What if o...