A look at various volunteering men & women who devote their time to saving lives & teaching others. The volunteers, who include a lifeboat crew, a sailing instructor, a flying instructor & a race marshal, describe what is involved in each position as well as the benefits of such activity. ...

Expectations about the contribution that volunteering can make are at a new high. This book aims to meet this interest by bringing together in one volume what is known about the phenomenon of volunteering; the principles & practice of involving volunteers, & the enduring challenges for volunteering in today's world. ...

Expectations about the contribution that volunteering can make to society are at a new high. This book, now in paperback & with a major new foreword exploring the impact of the UK government's ' Big Society' agenda on volunteering, brings together in one volume what is known about the volunteering phenomenon. ...

Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks) is a snide, rich, playboy, who runs up a series of gambling debts & has to make a quick exit. His only means of escape is through enlisting in the Peace Corps in Thail&. There, he meets a variety of American volunteers, whose gung-ho enthusiasm ensures a clash of personalities with the laid back aristocrat. Also starring John Candy & Rita Wilson. ...

Director Pedro Almodovar's acclaimed supernatural-themed comedy starring Penelope Cruz. Cruz plays a Madrid mother & housewife of a drunk husb&. She & her hairdressing sister are orphans by dint of a house fire back home in rural La Mancha. When their sole surviving relative there
- their mum's sister
- passes on, her past habit of talking to the girls' mother as if she were still on the mortal plane takes on a new & chilling significance.

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