A Sociological Approach to Acquired Brain Injury and Identity (Interdisciplinary Disability Studies)

Inspired by the author's personal experience of sustaining acquired brain injury (ABI), this path-breaking book explores the (re)construction of identity after ABI. It offers a way of understanding ABI through a social scientific lens, promoting an understanding that is generated through close engagement with the lives and experiences of ABI survivors. The author follows the everyday experiences of six male survivors and critically investigates their identity (re)construction after their ABI. As well as demonstrating identity (re)construction after ABI, the experiences of the participants allow the reader to investigate neurological rehabilitation from their perspective. This book suggests that rehabilitation after ABI is often a continual process that extends beyond the formal, medically prescribed period. It also shows that identity after ABI is often (re)constructed in an unpredictable way; a way that emphasises the importance of reciprocal support and the uncertainty of future life. A Sociological Approach to Acquired Brain Injury and Identity is essential reading for academics and students from a range of social scientific disciplines with an interest in biographical or ethnographic research methods. This book offers a social scientific view of rehabilitation and as such is also essential reading for academics, students and professionals with an interest in health and illness, particularly neurological rehabilitation and brain injury rehabilitation.

Politics & Social Sciences

Harvey, Jonathan

Social Sciences

Routledge

This play is set on the landing walkway in front of three flats in a low-rise block in Thamesmead. It concerns the lives of the three 16-year-olds who live in the flats. The play was first performed at the Bush Theatre in London in 1993.

BEAUTIFUL THING STAGEPLAY (Methuen Modern Plays)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Heinemann

Premiered at the Bush theatre in 1993 Beautiful Thing was released as a feature film by Channel Four films in 1996 directed by Hettie Macdonald and featuring Meera Syal
 Beautiful Thing explores pre-teenage homo-erotic sensuality and the frictions and intimacies of living cheek by jowl on a Thamesmead housing estate.

Beautiful Thing: Screenplay (Screen and Cinema)

Methuen Drama

Beautiful Thing explores pre-teenage homo-erotic sensuality and the frictions and intimacies of living cheek by jowl on a Thamesmead housing estate.

Beautiful Thing: Screenplay (Modern Classics)

Jonathan Harvey's most popular plays collected in one volume for the first time.Contains the smash hit plays Beautiful Thing  a bittersweet tale of the joys and trials of living cheekbyjowl in a Thamesmead housing estate; Babies based on the playwright's experiences as a teacher which was 'mercilessly robbed from a particular night when I arrived at a pupil's birthday party to be entertained by a drag queen dressed as the Queen'; The Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club set among the lowlife of Soho, centring on the Marti, a gay man of a certain age, who can't believe that anyone might fancy him; and Boom BangABang  a play about a gathering to view the Eurovision song contest.

Plays, Vol. 1: Beautiful Thing / Babies / Boom Bang-a-Bang / Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club

From the author of the hugely successful stage play/film Beautiful ThingHushabye Mountain reveals a world that has learned to live with AIDS. It is full of love, pain, laughs and friendship, where drugs in their various combinations are exhilarating, destructive, costly and even life restoring. Hushabye Mountain premièred at the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe, in February 1999, in a production with English Touring Theatre."You would have to have a heart hewn from granite not to respond warmly to Jonathan Harvey's latest play" (Guardian)

Hushabye Mountain (Modern Plays)

Humor & Entertainment

A major play from one of Britain's best young dramatistsOn 15 April 1989 Terry Fitzgibbon and his two sons survived the Hillsborough disaster. Nine years later, his struggle to come to terms with the tragedy that shook a city is tearing his family apart. Haunted by survivor's guilt, Terry is oblivious to the conflict in his own home, the pain he is inflicting on his wife and the very real tragedy that is unfolding for his neighbours.Guiding Star premièred at the Everyman Theatre Liverpool, in September 1998 and transferred to the Royal National Theatre in November of that year.

Guiding Star

The brilliant new play from the writer of Beautiful Thing
 "What you don't know, don't hurt you" Tony's ready to live-it-large and love again. But his efforts to step back on to the scene are hampered by a secret his friends, Monica and Kevin, should have told him a long time ago. Out in the Open is a funny and caustic exploration of love and the limits of friendship set over a long, hazily hot summer weekend in London.Directed by Kathy Burke, Out in the Open premiered at London's Hampstead Theatre in March 2001 and transferred to Birmingham Rep.

Out In The Open (Modern Plays)

The music of Stockhausen: An introduction

Arts & Photography

Music

University of California Press

The interests of the British composer Jonathan Harvey are wide and varied, embracing Christianity, Buddhism, eastern and western philosophy, aesthetics, science, and mysticism. All affect his musical thinking and are a part of this unusual and personal book, which is accompanied by a compact disc featuring works discussed by the author.Harvey explores aspects of music that he connects with spirituality: self-identity, ambiguity, unity, stasis, and silence. In the course of his explorations he offers corroborating statements about music and spirituality from sources ranging from Nietzsche to Oliver Sacks. The book and CD include samples of his own music as well as compositions by Mozart, Scriabin, Stockhausen, and others that help to illustrate the profoundness of what Harvey deems "the good listening experience."For Harvey, composing is his way of trying to live a life "skillfully" in the Buddhist sense. In Quest of Spirit is a window into his creative world and provides a sense of what music can mean at the moment of its inception.

In Quest of Spirit: Thoughts on Music (Ernest Bloch Lectures)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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