Individuals with renal disease require continuing support and care throughout their lives from renal nurses and other members of the inter-professional renal team.

Advanced Renal Care is for all those who work in nephrology, dialysis and transplantation as it addresses current challenges in caring for those with renal failure, and examines recent trends and likely future developments. The book also explores key issues in staff recruitment and development. It goes beyond the basic texts on renal care by discussing topical issues such as anaemia management, care of older people on...

Die Beitrage dieses Bandes thematisieren Auswirkungen neuer Steuerungs- und Verwertungslogiken, die sich unter dem Begriff der "unternehmerischen Stadt" zusammenfassen lassen. Soziale Arbeit, die vorwiegend quartierbezogen agiert, sieht sich dabei einer zunehmenden Fragmentierung der Stadt gegenuber und ist mit der Verdrangung sozial schwacherer Gruppen konfrontiert. Stadtentwicklungspolitik agiert dabei stutzend und steuernd zugleich: Standortmarketing starkt die internationale Wettbewerbsfahigkeit und Programme der Quartiersentwicklung wirken dem Auseinanderfallen der Stadt entgegen. Die...

Craft Economies provides a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary craft production, situating practices of amateur and professional making within a wider creative economy. Contributors address a diverse range of practices, sites and forms of making in a wide range of regional and national contexts, from floristry to ceramics and from crochet to coding. The volume considers the role of digital practices of making and the impact of the maker's movement as part of larger trends around customisation, on-demand production, and the possibilities of 3D printing and digital manufacturing.

Craft Communities addresses the social groups 'in real life' and online which have developed around craft production and consumption, exploring the social and cultural impact of contemporary practices of making. Addressing a wide range of crafting practice, from yarnbombs to Shetlands shawls, in a variety of regional and national contexts, the contributors consider how social media has emerged as a key driver of the 'Third Wave' of craft. From Etsy to Instagram, Twitter to Pinterest, these online communities of the handmade are changing the way people buy and sell, make and meet.

Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960-1975 examines the work of Paul Celan, J.