This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most important themes in German HIV/AIDS prevention and care from the beginning of the epidemic to the present. Multidisciplinary in approach, it highlights the unique contributions of Germany to AIDS work, making available for the first time knowledge which can be applied to other countries as well as to other fields of public health practice. Topics discussed include:
*structural prevention, a concept which unites political and behavioural change
*the synchronistic relationship between AIDS policy and gay politics
*the...

In early 2004, 38-year-old Michael Wright turned his back on Blighty and began a new life as the owner of a delapidated 15th century farmhouse called 'La Folie'. This title describes his search for a deeper, richer, simpler life.

An email from an old friend re-introduces the author to Alice. They first met when he was 12 and she was 8. Now Alice works on the other side of the Atlantic, in Baltimore. So begins an unlikely romance as Michael struggles to unlearn his lessons in living alone and contemplates the prospect of sharing his French life with someone else.

The jews-harp is a distinctive musical instrument of international importance, yet it remains one of those musical instruments, like the ocarina, kazoo or even the art of whistling, that travels beneath the established musical radar. The story of the jews-harp is also part of our musical culture, though it has attracted relatively little academic study. Britain and Ireland played a significant role in the instrument s manufacture and world distribution, particularly during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. Drawing upon previously unknown written sources and piecing...

The Wright Beat is a simple yet unique approach to achieving an advanced level of play on the double-bass drum kit. It is intended for instructors, journeyman and professionals alike, from the intermediate to the advanced drummer.