New Releases by Peter Townsend

It is based on papers from an international workshop held in Swansea, UK, from 3-4 July 1995, which was the first workshop to bring together academic and industrial researchers and engineers involved in applying high performance computing technology to problems in computer graphics and visualisation.

In this pamphlet, Tony Blair asks: what does ethical socialism, the new buzz-phrase of the Left, mean? Why has Labour been out of power for so long? How can it win again?

This essay examines the effects of the internationalization of the market and the transferral of powers regulating social policy from domestic parliaments to EC bodies will have on a variety of social issues: labour laws; the rights of ethnic minorities; Third World aid; and income inequality.

Following its appointment the working group sought to assemble natio- nal and international evidence and draw some of the implications for policy from the evidence about inequalities in health. The group found that the poorer health experience of the lower occupational groups applied at all stages of life. The group's main findings is that despite more than thirty years of a national health servide ex- pressly committed to offering equal care for all, there remains a marked class gradient in standards of health. What has gone wrong? The working group argues that much of the problem lies outside the scope of the national health service.

"Memoirs of aerial combat at night during the Battle of Britain"--Jacket.

Story of a 13-year-old's escape from Vietnam in an unseaworthy boat, her shipwreck and battle for survival against all odds.

Après plusieurs séances d'entretiens avec une famille de Boat-People, Vietnamiens d'origine chinoise émigrés en Australie, Peter Townsend a pu reconstituer leur éprouvante odyssée. C'est leur fille de 13 ans, Hué Hué, qui est l'héroïne centrale du récit. Laissée seule sur un récif au milieu de ses compagnons morts de faim ou d'épuisement, elle a réussi à se faire rescaper et à retrouver ses parents. Une leçon de force et de courage.

Monograph on the relationships between sociology and social policy in the UK - discusses ways of eliminating poverty, and of improving income distribution, social planning, social security, social services, etc., and comments on the policies of the socialist political party during the period from 1950 to 1974. References and statistical tables.