The re-organization of the education system within Britain has vastly increased the managerial responsibilities of those working in schools, although the staff have generally received little management training. In this book, the various issues related to management and a selection of ideas and pragmatic solutions are examined.

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Your Psychology Project: The Essential Guide for Success clearly maps out all the requirements of a project in psychology. Acting as a definitive...

The perceived value of transition support programs for registered nurses was reported. Two groups of registered nurses, new graduates and experienced nurses formed the participants. Data were collected from sources including printed materials made available by employing hospitals. Questionnaires, interviews and observations were used to determine the purposes, outcomes and strengths and weaknesses of the programs. There was widespread belief that some aspects of nurse education at university were inadequate. The programs were used to provide staff for the less popular areas of the hospital as...

It was common knowledge in early modern England that sexual desire was malleable, and could be increased or decreased by a range of foods - including artichokes, oysters and parsnips. This book argues that these aphrodisiacs were used not simply for sexual pleasure, but, more importantly, to enhance fertility and reproductive success; and that at that time sexual desire and pleasure were felt to be far more intimately connected to conception and fertility than is the case today. It draws on a range of sources to show how, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, aphrodisiacs were...

This multi-disciplinary collection brings together work by scholars from Britain, America and Canada on the popular, personal and institutional histories of pregnancy. The contributors explore several key themes: narratives of pregnancy and birth, the patient-consumer, and literary representations of childbearing.