Product Description: The sixth edition of this classic book remains a key text for occupational therapists, supporting their practice in working with people with physical impairments, stimulating reflection on the knowledge, skills and attitudes which inform practice, and encouraging the development of occupation-focused practice...read more

Product Description: In this provocative analysis of screen industries in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, Michael Curtin delineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that since the 1980s have dramatically transformed the terrain of Chinese film and television, including the end of the cold war, the rise of the World Trade Organization, the escalation of democracy movements, and the emergence of an East Asian youth culture...read more

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To what extent do moviemakers, television and radio producers, advertising executives, and marketers merely reflect trends, beliefs, and desires that already exist in our culture, and to what extent do they consciously shape our culture to their own ends? In-depth interviews with ten executives from the "culture industry" and five scholarly analyses examine that question, and address the issues of power and authority, meaning and identity, that arise when cultural producers define and react to audiences.In their own words, leaders from companies like Twentieth-Century Fox, National Public Radio, and Warner Bros. Television describe their perception of the sometimes paradoxical relationship between culture and what influences it. For example, while the former president of Coca-Cola North America claims the company has never tried to create a trend, he notes that "we market in more countries than belong to the United Nations [a product that] has insinuated itself into the lives of the people to a point where it has become-you know, it's there." These reflections by key players provide an unprecedented view, as editor Richard Ohmann writes, "into the ways cultural producers imagine or know markets and how such knowledge figures in their decisions about what events, experiences, and products to make."

Product Description: During the early 1960s, the “golden age” of network documentary, commercial television engaged in one of the most ambitious public education efforts in U.S. history as all three networks dramatically expanded their documentary programming...read more

Product Description: Stories of two very different men combine to make up a comedy of life over 30 years in an Irish town. The novel is narrated in turns by Tim Harding, an outsider of uncertain ancestry, and Mr Yendall, pompous manager of high-class outfitters, the House of Montague...read more

Product Description: From the author of THE PLASTIC TOMATO CUTTER, a lighthearted novel about a card school who form an anti-Christmas league. The eccentric members of the school decide to conduct a symbolic robbery, and inadvertantly attract the attention of two misguided police officers, who believe them to be terrorists, with farcical consequences...read more

Two local rival soccer teams reassemble after fifteen years to replay a soccer match and must cope with extremities of unfitness