New Releases by James Hill

General Surgical Emergencies is essential reading for surgical trainees, providing practical insight and helping to prevent errors and improve the standard of care given to patients. The clinical section deals with the common emergency clinical presentations encountered in a busy general hospital, including urology and vascular surgery as well as abdominal and colorectal problems. This section highlights the important elements of history, examination and investigation appropriate for the adequate assessment of the emergency patient. The pitfalls of management are illustrated by both examples of ''disaster scenarios'' and by pointing out common errors. The book is both practical and detailed in the essentials of diagnosis and perioperative management, leading to clear advice. Furthermore, the book emphasizes the requirement for continuity of care and lays down rational rules as to how this may be achieved. It touches on guidelines, the responsibility of doctors and how to deal with intepersonal difficulties. The issues of delegation and consent are addressed. The last section of the book is particularly valuable as it deals with the important topic of postoperative complications. This is a subject that the surgical trainee finds difficult and is a common source of delay and error.

Introduction to the policy process and the structure of power in society.

Provides an overview of social policy which deals with policy issues, rather than offering descriptions of specific policies.

Minutes of Proceedings on the Finance Bill (Except Clauses Nos. 36, 105, 112, and Schedule 15)

This unique book is a study of northern New England and its culture''s views of death. The author, James Hill Parker, pieces together conversations, funerals and other evidence of a latent Book of the Dead. He also makes comparisons with the Mayan and various books of the dead. The book discusses several methodological problems that were encountered in the author''s search for the New England and other books of the dead. Readers will benefit from the information that Parker has gathered due to his "insider/outside" status. His intriguing work will surely interest historians, sociologists and the literate public who want to learn more about New England''s cultural history.

Focuses on the political processes which influenced the key reforms of the late 1940s and the ways in which those reforms have subsequently been in some respects consolidated and in other respects undermined. Social policy is shown to have been subordinated to economic and foreign policy.

The author attempts to link the social and biological sciences in a new way. It appears that there are Social Logics which are cross-cultural and seem to have a biological substrate. This book shows how the biological baseline can be used for research into social, cultural and other forms of organization. It includes three case studies which use Logics Analysis to illustrate how this method can be successfully applied to group structure and process. Parker discusses evidence for Social Logics through principles of language, art, myth, literature and music. Contents: The Social Logics Paradigm; Issues about Interpretation and Method; Social Logics: Analysis of "Real Situations"; Conclusion.

This major textbook examines the current state of British social security policy and explores the options for the future. Using a policy analysis approach, Michael Hill emphasises the need to understand the political processes which have shaped policy. He stresses the need to situate any proposals for reform of these policies in a realistic political, social and economic context. As well being concerned to explore the forces which have shaped policy, the book also shows how it has been implemented and explains how social security policy interacts with other public policies.

The authors of this book bring together the different traditions of social policy study - social administration, welfare economics and Marxist political economy - to shed light on the complex relationships between the State, poverty and inequality, the current fiscal crisis, bure ... DATA TRUNCATED.

Screenwriter/producer James Hill was Rita Hayworth''s fifth and last husband. When love bloomed, and though marriage soon followed, the relationship was doomed. Hill wanted to revitalize Rita''s career--getting her a serious role in Separate Tables, pairing her with Gary Cooper in They Came to Cordura, and obsessively pushing her to reveal her comedienne talents to the world. Rita, on the other hand, preferred reading and painting and quiet--finally revealing her utter lack of interest in movies-of all varieties. Hill thought to rescue her from the "sharks" of the film business but found that he too was using her. There are a few intriguing movie making details and copious anecdotage in this often-gushy, likable-yet-murky view of the star herself. Not the usual star-bio by a long shot--with only intermittent appeal for the legion of Hayworth fans.