WINNER OF THE BEST PUBLISHED ATLANTIC BOOK AWARD FOR 2006 PRESENTED BY THE ATLANTIC PUBLISHERS MARKETING ASSOCIATION. This volume celebrates the life and work of Helen and Reginald Shepherd and at the same time assesses their contribution to the visual arts in Newfoundland. It begins with an introduction by Ronald Rompkey to situate the Shepherds in the post-Confederation cultural milieu, followed by a general biographical and historical essay by Peter Gard, who wrote the catalogue for the AGNL exhibition "Helen Parsons Shepherd and Reginald Shepherd: Four Decades" in 1989. Next, jou alist and playwright Joan Sullivan explores through interviews with former students the environment created at the Newfoundland Academy of Art at 51 Cochrane Street. Lisa Moore, a fiction writer who also possesses a degree in visual art from NSCAD, follows with an investigation of the portrait as an art form and Helen Parsons Shepherd's career as a portraitist. The volume concludes with an essay on early printmaking in Newfoundland and Reginald Shepherd's work in this medium by Anne Pratt, who has had considerable experience as an art jou alist and critic. These essays constitute approximately half the volume, the remainder consisting of illustrations from the work of both artists.
An earthquake brings a family's secrets to the surface. Within a battered suitcase Marietta has hidden evidence of a painful past. Now her niece Maria, who knew and loved her, is forced to re-evaluate her story. She learns of a family ripped apart through ideological differences during the Second World War; and her aunt's personal tragedy as she loves and loses three men. The fate of two is revealed in the memoirs, but the third, whose life is intertwined with Maria's own, remains a mystery. Maria seeks the truth and on her journey discovers much about the frailties of life and relationships but ultimately receives a gift she longs for.
“This is a must-read for a range of professionals, offering a balanced yet critically aware appraisal of the significance of evidence-based/informed practice in a complex professional world.” Dr Steve J Hothersall, [Formerly, now retired] Head of Social Work, Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing Education and Practice, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK. “I would highly recommend this book to any clinicians or students looking to improve the way that they integrate evidence into their professional practice.” Professor Liz Halcomb, Professor of Primary Health Care Nursing, University of Wollongong, Australia. “Aveyard, Greenway and Parsons have provided an excellent guide to evidence-based practice in this updated edition which is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students and for practitioners.” Dr Hazel Partington University of Central Lancashire, UK Are you struggling with relating evidence to your practice? Do you want a straightforward, clearly written and practical guide to evidence-based practice? A Beginner's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice in Health and Social Care, 4th edition is the book for anyone who has ever wondered what evidence-based practice is, or how to relate it to practice or use it in academic work. Thoroughly revised with two new co-authors this brand new edition uses simple and jargon-free language to help those new to the topic. It provides an accessible step-by-step guide to what we mean by evidence in practice and how to apply this concept to learning and practice. This new edition features: • New explanations with examples from both health and social care practice, using a wide range of research that is also relevant outside of the UK • Coverage of new discourse on the use of evidence generated by COVID-19 • Coverage on the role, need and quality of rapid reviews • New end-of-chapter questions to help assess how much you have learned This book provides an inter-professional approach and is key reading for both students and professionals who need to search for, appraise and apply evidence across nursing, allied health care or social care. Helen Aveyard is Principal Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK with a background in nursing. Helen is author of Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care and co-author of A Postgraduates Guide to Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care and A Beginner’s Guide to Critical Thinking and Writing in Health and Social Care. Kathleen Greenway is Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at Oxford Brookes University, UK with a background in gastrointestinal and gerontological nursing. She completed her MA in Education at the Open University and her EdD at Oxford Brookes. She now teaches pre-registration, post graduate and Doctoral programme nursing. Lucy Parsons is Divisional Director of Nursing at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. She is also a student on the Professional Doctorate In Nursing programme at Oxford Brookes University, UK and her research interest is the implementation of Evidence-Based Practice.
A Historical, fictional novel set during the Second World War. It centres on a man, Thomas Bartlett, who seeks adventure as a soldier after being kept confined to his house by his mother for most of his life. He soon finds himself as a prisoner of war in Italy, where he questions his reluctance to escape. Once the Italians surrender he is forced to hide in the mountains to await the arrival of the Allied forces and avoid the German ones. Thus starts another journey for Bartlett. It is one of love, of loss, endurance and infidelity. He is forced to make several decisions along the way, some of which have fatal consequences. But ultimately he has to choose whether to face his demons or forever try to escape them.
In Wild Unrest, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz offers a vivid portrait of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the 1880s, drawing new connections between the author's life and work and illuminating the predicament of women then and now. Horowitz draws on a treasure trove of primary sources to explore the nature of 19th-century nervous illness and to illuminate the making of Gilman's famous short story, "The Yellow Wall-Paper": Gilman's journals and letters, which closely track her daily life and the reading that most influenced her; the voluminous diaries of her husband, Walter Stetson; and the writings, published and unpublished of S. Weir Mitchell, whose rest cure dominated the treatment of female "hysteria" in late 19th-century America. Horowitz argues that these sources ultimately reveal that Gilman's great story emerged more from emotions rooted in the confinement and tensions of her unhappy marriage than from distress following Mitchell's rest cure. Hailed by The Boston Globe as "an engaging portrait of the woman and her times," Wild Unrest adds immeasurably to our understanding of Charlotte Perkins Gilman as well as the literary and personal sources behind "The Yellow Wall-Paper.
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