New Releases by David Clark

By drawing on a wide range of sources Clark and Seymour offer a set of reflections on the development of palliative care and its place within a wider social context. This work considers ethical questions and palliative care''s history too.

Compassionate wisdom for those facing a variety of end-of-life situations-from newborns to the elderly. Brief, practical, step-by-step advice.

Palliative care is moving through an important period of expansion and development, spreading beyond its original hospice base to encompass care in the community, in hospitals, health centres, clinics and nursing homes. It can now be found in over 70 countries of the world. What challenges does this multidisciplinary speciality face as it seeks to combine high grade pain and symptom control with sensitive psychological, spiritual and social care? What are the implications of current constraints on health policy and planning? How do ethical issues about resource allocation and end of life care impinge? Can palliative care be further extended to include conditions other than cancer? New Themes in Palliative Care addresses these and many related issues in ways which will be readily accessible to students of health and social care as well as to those involved in purchasing or providing palliative care services, and to social scientists interested in chronic illness, death and dying. Its editors are respected experts in the field with backgrounds in the social sciences, nursing and medicine and the book''s contributors include leading international figures from a wide range of palliative care and academic disciplines.

This book has four aspects which together make it unique. Firstly, it takes the reader through all the stages of research from design, through conduct, analysis and interpretation to reporting the research, including advice on presenting a paper or a poster at a conference. Secondly, it describes a wide range of methods and although it concentrates on quantitative approaches, it also briefly describes a number of qualitative methods. Thirdly, the coverage of statistical techniques is thorough but the way in which they are described is designed for the reader who will do the analysis by computer. Accordingly, the techniques are presented in as non-mathematical a way as possible, with the emphasis on choosing the appropriate test and interpreting and reporting the results. Nonetheless, formulae, worked examples and more complex material are contained in extensive appendixes. Fourthly, the importance of statistical power and effect size is stressed, with guidelines on how to choose an appropriate sample size for most of the statistical tests covered in the book. These include a wide range of both parametric and non-parametric tests. The book concentrates on univariate statistics - such as t-tests, ANOVA and Multiple Regression - and bi-variate statistics - such as correlation - but also includes a chapter which describes multivariate techniques to give the reader an idea of when they can be used.

Uses wit, humour and a lively writing style to introduce the subject to anyone interested in the nitty-gritty of the genetic revolution.

Turn to this companion for ideas, strategies, and ready-to-use activities in planning, personalizing, and implementing the whole language approach in your classroom. Includes special planning tips on everything from scheduling to self-evaluation.

An investigation into a broad selection of people who have disappeared, unaccounted for. Some cases are famous, such as Lord Lucan and Glenn Miller, and some are less well-known. It includes accounts of mass disappearances, including 100 English colonists who disappeared without trace in 1590.

Short selections by various science fiction writers, followed by learning activities to stimulate reading and language skills.

David Burnite I (1755/1760-ca.1830) married twice, and moved from New Jersey to Cecil County, Maryland. Descendants lived in New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio, Florida, Arizona and elsewhere.