As we enter a new century of dramatic changes in our ways of seeing and perceiving, the publication of To See offers an opportunity for readers to revisit the deeply poeticc and profound insights that Thoreau, nearly a century and a half ago, experienced and wrote about the natural world. The hauting and evocative black-and-white photographs of Helen Buttfield, who, with great artistry and sensitivity, brought together her own understanding and images of the natural world with those of Thoreau, are an inspiration for each of us to see what is always there-and somehow and always, beyond.

“This informative book has been put together with the support and input of many clinical renal experts, who have been willing to share their knowledge and years of experience and I’m sure it will be an excellent resource for those caring for kidney patients for the first time – as well as for those with some years of experience!”

- From the Foreword by Rosemary Macri, Chief Executive of the British Kidney Patient Association

Kidney Disease Management: A Practical Approach for Non-Specialists has been written to help optimise the care of people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) across the healthcare spectrum. It is aimed at a range of professionals, including nurses, junior doctors, general practitioners, pharmacists and dieticians. Specialists in training may also find it useful. It highlights the practical considerations necessary to care for people with kidney problems in situations where a specialist practitioner is not always required or immediately available.

This book explores: Policy context and CKD; overview of CKD and management; managing CKD in primary care; treatment modalities in CKD; psychosocial aspects of living with CKD, Acute kidney Injury in hospitalised patients; surgery and kidney injury; medication management in CKD; nutrition and CKD; support and palliative care for people with CKD.

Key features:

- Based on best practice and written in an accessible format aimed at busy practitioners

- Emphasises the centrality of the patient and family and the need to share information and expertise across traditional boundaries

- Written by professionals renowned in their field, both generalists and specialists, who have extensive experience of the practicalities of managing complex patients.

The packaging industry is under pressure from regulators, customers and other stakeholders to improve packaging's sustainability by reducing its environmental and societal impacts. This is a considerable challenge because of the complex interactions between products and their packaging, and the many roles that packaging plays in the supply chain. Packaging for Sustainability is a concise and readable handbook for practitioners who are trying to implement sustainability strategies for packaging. Industry case studies are used throughout the book to illustrate possible applications and scenarios. Packaging for Sustainability draws on the expertise of researchers and industry practitioners to provide information on business benefits, environmental issues and priorities, environmental evaluation tools, design for environment, marketing strategies, and challenges for the future.

Sanderson, who has worked as an occupational therapist and in social care in the UK and writes about person-centered thinking, planning, and community building, and Lewis, a strategic communications advisor in the UK, demonstrate how staff and students in health and social care can deliver personalized services in all areas to disabled and older people and people with complex needs or long-term health conditions. They describe the context and policy landscape in support of person-centered practice, the history of person-centered thinking and planning, and the underlying values and principles; how to learn and understand the balance between what is important to and for a person, the foundation of person-centered thinking and planning as a range of simple tools, and how to decide which tool to use; the review process and how it differs from traditional reviews, including the care program approach, and planning and support planning; and contributions of person-centered practice to prevention and well-being, helping people self-manage long-term health conditions, recovery, reablement, domiciliary and residential care, and end-of-life care. Discussion of use by managers or organizations is covered in another book, Creating Person-Centred Organisations. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

'Young and old alike will easily embrace Oxenbury's Alice, who seems
both old-fashioned and modern, and comfortable in worlds on both sides of the mirror.' — Booklist (starred review)

Helen Oxenbury's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland set a new standard for contemporary editions of Lewis Carroll's beloved classic, and this companion is illustrated with equal intimacy, warmth, and charm. Here again is Alice, dressed in her bright blue jumper and ready for adventure. All it takes is a bit of curiosity about the world reversed in the mirror, and suddenly Alice is interacting with all manner of comical and magical characters — Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the lion and the unicorn, and a game board of chess pieces come to life. Helen Oxenbury's incomparable line drawings, sepia illustrations, and full-color paintings give today's children an accessible view into Lewis Carroll's timeless nonsense.

The multi-award-winning classic and its timeless sequel — now in a beautiful boxed set that makes a gift to treasure.

Welcome back to a Wonderland that is as astonishingly new as it is joyously familiar! Lavishly illustrated by the incomparable Helen Oxenbury, these exuberant editions of Lewis Carroll's beloved classics brim with warmth and humor as they depict a spirited Alice who is truly a child of our times. Featuring a handsome slipcase holding hardcover editions of both ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND and ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS, this collectible set offers contemporary children their own utterly accessible view into the whimsical world of Lewis Carroll.

Discover who's who and what's what in the Star Wars universe with this beautifully illustrated guide–now in full color for the first time.

When it comes to extraterrestrial life-forms, there's more to science fiction's most famous galaxy than just Jawas, Wookiees, Ewoks, and Hutts. From the skylanes of Coruscant to the worlds of the Outer Rim, an untold number of species populate those planets far, far away. And if you confuse Gungans with Gamorreans, or don't know a bantha from a tauntaun, you definitely need the in-depth data that only this revised, expanded, and updated guide can deliver.
This comprehensive overview includes beings from all six of the classic movies–plus the novels, cartoon series, comics, and video games. It's an even bigger cross section of species than what you'll find in the Mos Eisley cantina. And each entry, from acklay to Zabrak, from amphibians to vacuum-breathers, features everything you need to know, including

• complete physical description and official designation, so you can tell your sentients from your non-sentients, and your humanoids from your insectoids
• homeworld: from dry and dusty Tatooine, stormy and waterlogged Kamino, to arctic Hoth, and countless other strange and varied worlds
• phonetic pronunciation: Askajian, H'nemthe, Iktotchi, Ssi-ruu, and Xexto/Quermian aren't as easy to say as they are to, er, spell
• notable appearance: a listing of one of the more significant appearances of each species in the teeming Star Wars storyline

Plus, this brand-new edition includes a glossary of crucial descriptive terms and a completely original, full color illustration for each of more than one hundred individual species. It's a big galaxy, and someone has to organize it. Count on Star Wars®: The New Essential Guide to Alien Species–and don't leave your homeworld without it.

The Kate Greenaway Medal winner--now in paperback!

Welcome back to a Wonderland that is as astonishingly new as it is joyously familiar. Helen Oxenbury, one of the world's most acclaimed illustrators, brings her special brand of magic to the Lewis Carroll classic in a handsome volume boasting more illustrations than any other edition - called a 'masterpiece' by Parents' Choice. Her Wonderland is exuberant, contemporary, and lovingly created, with all the warmth, depth of emotion, humor, and acute observations of people and animals for which the artist's work is so highly regarded. An elegant, textured cover with flaps makes this a beautiful gift book.

'Oxenbury applies her finely honed instinct for a child's perspective to create an Alice accessible to all ages. . . . An ideal first introduction to a lifelong favorite read.' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)

Una ragazza ebrea che sogna di diventare ballerina si ritrova improvvisamente prigioniera degli ingranaggi incomprensibili della macchina dello sterminio. La giovane Helen appartiene a una famiglia ebrea della ricca borghesia di una città della Cecoslovacchia. Vive in un ambiente colto e sereno, dove tutto sembra fissato e per sempre in una tranquilla armonia. Frequenta i corsi della scuola di danza di Praga e studia filosofia. Poi improvvisamente lo scenario cambia, gli ebrei diventano dei diversi, vengono allontanati dai locali pubblici, privati del loro lavoro, dei loro averi, dei loro diritti, spaventati da voci incredibili: deportazione per dove? per quanto tempo?

The closing of local mines and factories collapsed the economic and social structure of Ivanhoe, Virginia, a small, rural town once considered a dying community 'on the rough side of the mountain.' Documenting the creative survival techniques developed by Ivanhoe citizens in the aftermath, It Comes from the People tells how this community organized to revitalize the town and demand participation in its future.
Photos, interviews, stories, songs, poems, and scenes from a local theater production tell how this process of rebuilding gradually uncovered the community's own local theology and a growing consciousness of cultural and religious values. A significant aspect of this social transformation in Ivanhoe, as in many rural areas, was the emergence of women as leaders, educators, and organizers, developing new approaches to revive the economy and the people simultaneously.
This book is unusually open about the difficult process faced by outside researchers working with community members to describe community life. It discusses the inherent dilemmas frankly and presents a model for those who engage in community studies and ethnographic research.