Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book covers popular culture in Britain from the early 19h-century to the present. It brings together contributions dealing both with general cultural phenomena, such as literacy and class consciousness, and more specific popular cultural forms, such as the music hall and late 19th-century science fiction. The book also includes readings of contemporary cultural phenomena as diverse as motorcycle gangs, Jackie magazine and children's confectionery.

This book presents and explores a number of case studies seminal in the author's learning of therapy with seriously ill young people and their families. It spans a lifelong process of learning the art and science of child, adolescent and family therapy.It proposes that, through a lengthy career in child and family psychiatry, a therapist's patients contribute to, and influence, their body of knowledge and experience. In particular, there is a focus on suicidal young people and the therapeutic process that led to their successful recovery.

For many people, watching and studying birds is exclusively a day time activity. However, for many birds twilight and night time are not a barrier to useful activity. It is true that very few birds are exclusively nocturnal, but many birds which are active by day also conduct limited, and often crucial, activities after dusk. This book examines many examples of the nocturnal behaviour of birds; from the occasional night feeding of wildfowl and shorebirds to the night singing and night migration of certain passerines, and from the location of nest sites by sea birds to the nocturnal foraging...