A common metaphor for modern life is 'keep the plates spinning', but it is becoming increasingly hard to balance professional & private lives, & this takes its toll. The authors examine the working relationship between the organisation & employee, & establish new ways that managers can broker a better deal for all concerned. ...

* The only guide to doing talk-&-play therapy with children & adolescents with Asperger Syndrome * Provides clinicians, who frequently have little training with this population, a guide to working effectively to improve the emotional lives of their patients & their families. ...

Upbeat Australian comedy about a country boy's quest for Nashville stardom. Sheep farmer's son Ralph (Matt Day) has always dreamed of making it as a country & western star, so when his parents hand him a plane ticket to Nashville, he grabs his guitar & sets out hitching on the road to Sydney. Like a lamb to the slaughter, Ralph is quickly picked up by jaded, done-it-all-before, drugs crook, Boyd (Richard Roxburgh), & his gorgeous redhead girlfriend, Patsy (Miranda Otto), who just happens to be a fine singer to boot. Ralph's luck runs out when the group is pulled over by the police. Even though Boyd is driving a stolen car & carrying drugs, he implicates his young passenger, causing them both to be arrested & thrown into the local jail. Now with the perfect opportunity to hone his country songwriting skills, Ralph sets about trying to get back on the road to Nashville. ...

The Great Western Railway's Swindon Works was the largest employer in the area, even during the early British Railway years. For well over a hundred years thousands of apprentices & 'trainees' passed through its doors to learn the trades of the railways. ...