Establishing playfulness as an essential component of dementia care, this positive and uplifting book will be key in changing attitudes and providing ideas for new and valuable ways of interacting and being with individuals with the condition. John Killick explores the nature of playfulness and the many ways in which it can enrich the lives of people with dementia, including as a means of maintaining relationships and communication, supporting communication and generally lifting the spirits. Specific approaches already in existence are described, including improvised drama, clowning and...

In this work, the author introduces the reader to a key aspect of economic history: the impact of American intervention in Europe after World War II. Would Europe have revived spontaneously after 1945? Did American dollars save the world in 1947? Was US influence the underlying reason for the general drift away from socialism and the move towards European federalism in the late 1940s and early 1950s? If the Marshall Plan - in conjunction with NATO - created a coherent and prosperous western bloc, was this critical for the outcome of the Cold War? Did American policy in some way cause the...

John Killick's autobiography of childhood suffering, petty crime and gambling led to bank robberies, unrequited love, prison brutality and prison escapes (including the plucking of Killick from the exercise yard of a Sydney prison by a helicopter hijacked by his girlfriend). This is a love story by a bank robber. -- Emeritus Professor Ian Plimer... I could not put down this book. In this love story, John Killick has shown man's inhumanity to man yet, despite the brutality prison life, he shows great Aussie humour. -- Bobby Mackay (reader)... The best account of how a bank robber is made since...