Why do people enter total institutions -- places that confine & control them around the clock -- & how does the experience change them? This book updates Goffman's classic model by introducing the Re-inventive Institution, where members voluntarily commit themselves to pursue regimes of self-improvement. ...

An audio-visual course that provides the guidance & information required to learn how to play the piano or any other keyboard instrument. This work also covers the associated technology, such as MIDI programming & sequencing, digital sampling & computer hard-disk recording. It

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Three films exporing the Lake District through the eyes of the famous Lakeland walker & writer Alfred Wainwright. In 1938 Wainwright devised a walking tour of the English Lake District. ' Wainwright's Memorial Walk' reconstructs the walk in his memory, & along the way meets many of his friends & admirers. In ' Wainwright's Remote Lakeland', Eric Robson, accompanied by his sheepdog, takes on the 190-mile walk devised by Alfred Wainwright through the outlying fells of Lakel&. ' Great Walks: The Howgill Fells' looks at the Howgill Fells, east of the Lune Gorge & the M6 motorway, which have been described as the forgotten quarter of Lakel&. Alfred Wainwright compared their gentle, rolling summits to a herd of sleeping elephants. But the Howgills also have thrilling ascents & spectacular mountain features, which Cameron Mc Neish & Eric Robson uncover in this two-day exploration. ...

45 dramatic first-hand accounts of yachts lost at sea.through collision, fire & explosion, exhaustion & crew failure, navigational blunders, dismastings & severe storms. A bestseller since first publiation, this is a compelling thought-provoking read. ...