New Releases by David Storey

Information technology has revolutionized the way we work & has become an integral part of professional life. David Storey demystifies this often bewildering world & shows how to harness I.T. & make it work for you & your team. Learn how to improve your communication & information gathering skills across a whole range of mediums from the smallest networks to e-mail & the Internet. In addition to learning effective personal use of I.T. learn how to identify the benefits to your organization or department of expanding or modifying your current system. This book provides, without jargon, all the information you need to make the most of I.T. & succeed in the modern workplace.

This third volume of David Storey''s plays includes the newly revised and revived The Changing Room. The book comes with an introduction from Storey, explaining the meanings behind the plays.

The Phoenix Theatre is going dark-indeed, being demolished for more profitable purposes. Its artistic director is determined to stay for the bitter end, and as he holes up for the last twenty-four hours, all the ghosts of his murky career parade before him. Not only the theatre, but he too, is due for demolition. By one of our major writers, this play is about the survival of theatre: physically, emotionally and culturally.

A spiritual autobiography in the form of 40 years of collected verse. David Storey was born to a Wakefield mining family, and his poetry begins with a portrait of buried men and their industrial community. It explores the forces of regeneration and of faith tempered by doubt.

It is the 60th wedding anniversary of Tommy Pasmore and his wife. Their three children, Colin, the friendless academic who has bought the house in which his parents now live, childless Wendy, forsaking marriage for politics, and pragmatic Eileen, have returned home to celebrate, if that is the right expression. The senior Pasmores live together despite each other and as the layers of formal affection and bickering banter are peeled back we discover deep wells of disappointment and despair, not only for themselves but also for a society that appears to have exchanged one kind of poverty for another. But only by incanting memories can the elderly couple come to terms with their barren present and terrifying future.

Article on the danger of inferring that the results obtained from a study on small scale industry employment creation potential in the USA are applicable to UK industrial policy - reviews conclusions of "The Job Generation Process" by D.L. Birch, finding that 66 per cent of new jobs generated in the USA manufacturing sector are in a size of enterprise of less than 20 employees; makes comparisons using statistical tables on new and small enterprise in the UK county of Cleveland, Midlands, Glasgow and Birmingham.