Why are some controversial issues covered in TV soaps and dramas and not others? How are decisions really made 'behind the scenes'? How do programme makers push boundaries without losing viewers? What do audiences take away from their viewing experience? Does TV fiction have a greater impact on public understandings than TV news? This exciting new book draws on unique empirical data to examine the relationship between popular television fiction and wider society. The book gives lively and engaging insights into how and why socially sensitive story lines were taken up by different TV programmes from the late 1980s to the 2000s. Drawing on a series of case studies of medicine, health, illness and social problems including breast cancer, mental distress, sexual abuse and violence it comprehensively traces the path of storylines from initial conception through to audience reception and uses contemporary examples to link practice to theory. For the first time, this book addresses production and reception processes across a range of programmes and clearly demonstrates the ways in which television fiction plays a vital and powerful role in reflecting and shaping socio-cultural attitudes.

Social Issues in Television Fiction

Humor & Entertainment

Henderson, Lesley

Television

Edinburgh University Press

This interactive health assessment CD-ROM reinforces assessment skills and concepts covered in textbooks, videos, and labs and serves as a great review for practicing nurses in the clinical setting. Each module corresponds to a body system with 5 modules for assessing special populations. Within each module, you'll find 5 different types of interactive learning exercises: structure and function exercises with labeling and animations, analysis of data exercises, communication exercises, performing physical assessment exercises, and NCLEX®-style quizzes. Feedback is provided including rationale for correct answers. Audio and video clips clarify concepts of assessment and anatomy and physiology. Windows Compatible

Weber & Kelley's Interactive Nursing Assessment for Blackboard

Weber, Janet R.

Kelley, Jane

Williard, Julie

Medical Books

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

Twentieth-Century romance and historical writers (Twentieth-century writers series)

Kirkpatrick, D. L.

Literature & Fiction

St.James Press

This concise but comprehensive guide is for first time - as well as established - landlords. It is divided into sections, each of which is jam-packed with detail and insider tips. Most sections will only take minutes to read (although a few earlier ones take a little more) and each section tells you exactly what you need to do - and why - to get best results. It provides advice on: viewings - how to arrange and conduct them; making a realistic rent assessment before spending any money; knowing what agents should charge and should do; advertising - how to write, where to place, and how to respond to callers - plus using the response to assess tenants; selecting tenants and closing the deal; and, deposits - why they work and how they can fail.It also offers advice on: agreeing inventories, schedules of condition, and property profiles; assured shorthold leases - what they are, the exceptions, and where to buy them for a song; ending tenancies - the easy, and the hard way; the legal responsibilities that no landlord can ignore; particular aspects about houses in multiple occupation; property maintenance - realistic costs and useful advice; and, dealing with the tax man. Each section has tips, skills, time management ideas, and problem solving advice, plus supportive guidance and helpful websites and phone numbers. If you're looking for a bit of straight talking about your investment, or you're sufficiently interested to discover how to increase your own bottom line rather than some agent's, then this is the guide for you.

The Landlord's Survival Guide: The truly practical insider handbook for all private landlords

Business & Money

Economics

How To Books

The Tenant's Survival Guide is the definitive guide to renting accommodation, containing clear and concise information unobtainable from any other single source. It includes: what to look for during viewings; how to protect your deposit; inventories - the practical essentials; what happens if you decide to leave or the landlord gives you notice to quit; checklist of essentials; useful standard letters; and, how to live within the legally defined terms of the contract. With rental payments consuming on average over one third of your disposable income - or closer to half for students - it's important to ensure your interests are safeguarded. If you are about to be a tenant, or are one already, you do need this book.

The Tenant's Survival Guide: Essential reading for prospective tenants and those already in rented accommodation

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