This richly varied collection gathers West Cornish tales, legends, ghost stories, customs, and local lore into a vivid portrait of a region where superstition, humor, and communal memory shape everyday life. Reverent in tone, it treats folklore not as idle entertainment but as a serious record of ordinary people's beliefs, speech, and habits. Across haunted places, village feasts, old games, dialect, fairies, witches, and the changing world of Penzance and its parishes, the book offers a l...

The delivery of good medical care often involves professionals from various disciplines working together. Interdisciplinary health care teams can be especially valuable in managing patients with complex medical and social needs, such as older persons in hospital, community, or home settings. Such teams, however, can also complicate or even create problems because of their diverse views and responsibilities. Ethical Patient Care: A Casebook for Geriatric Health Care Teams is design...

This book outlines the creative responses academics are using to subvert powerful market forces that restrict university work to a neoliberal, economic focus. The second volume in a diptych of critical academic work on the changing landscape of neoliberal universities, the editors and contributors examine how academics ‘prise open the cracks’ in neoliberal logic to find space for resistance, collegiality, democracy and hope. Adopting a distinctly postcolonial positioning, the volume interr...

In light of the overwhelming presence of neoliberalism within academia, this book examines how academics resist and manage these changes. The first of two volumes, this diptych of critical academic work investigates generative spaces, or ‘cracks’ in neoliberal managerialism that can be exposed, negotiated, exploited and energised with renewed collegiality, subversion and creativity. The editors and contributors explore how academics continue to find space to work in collegial ways; defying...

How can change be promoted and sustained in disadvantaged communities and for children in communities? How can professionals be supported to bring about positive change in communities? How can collaborative research and evaluation make a difference? The chapters in this book, emanating from the Communities and Change Conference at the University of Sydney in 2007, explore these questions, demonstrating the challenging and constructive connections between education and social work, between ...

This book explores young people's 'nested' and 'political' ecological relationships with crime through an empirical investigation of the important 'places' and 'spaces' in young people's lives; in their social relationships with peers and family members; and within formal institutional systems such as education, youth justice and social care.

"Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second Series" by William Bottrell is a captivating collection that delves into the rich folklore and cultural heritage of Cornwall. Bottrell, a local historian and storyteller, presents a tapestry of tales that reflect the lives, beliefs, and customs of the Cornish people. The stories are steeped in the region's history, featuring mythical creatures, local legends, and the everyday experiences of its inhabitants. This work serves as a v...

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the stage production of David Dean Bottrell Makes Love: A One-Man Show, starring actor-Writer-Monologist, David Dean Bottrell.In the newly revised 2019 version of the show, David Dean Bottrell performed his highly-acclaimed comic storytelling show that the Los Angeles Times called "hysterical" and SoCal Public Radio deemed "profane, hilarious, and moving."Bottrell revisits how love and sex (or the lack thereof...

Veteran character actor David Dean Bottrell draws on his 35+ tumultuous years of work in the entertainment industry to offer a guide to breaking in, making a living, and making a life in the fabulous trenches of show business. Covers every facet of the business, including:- Capturing the perfect headshot- Starting (and maintaining) your network- Picking an agent- Audition do’s and don’ts- Joining the union(s): SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity Association (AEA...

This primitive race of the hills knew next to nothing of any occurrences beyond their immediate neighbourhood, and being, like all the Celtic race, of a loquacious turn and sociable disposition, their chief resource for passing the eventide, and other times of rest, was the relation of traditional stories or, as they say "drolling away the time" in public-house or chimney-corner; many old legends have thus been handed down and kept alive. No doubt the adventures in these wild tales are oft...

Veteran character actor David Dean Bottrell draws on his 35+ tumultuous years of work in the entertainment industry to offer a guide to breaking in, making a living, and making a life in the fabulous trenches of show business. Covers every facet of the business, including:- Capturing the perfect headshot- Starting (and maintaining) your network- Picking an agent- Audition do’s and don’ts- Joining the union(s): SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity Association (AEA...

"Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall, Second Series" continues William Bottrell's exploration of the rich folklore and oral traditions of Cornwall, England. Through a collection of captivating stories, Bottrell employs a narrative style steeped in authenticity, reflecting the vernacular speech and local dialects of the region. This work not only serves as a repository of tales that reflect the customs and beliefs of Cornish culture but also invites readers to consider the in...