Aims to provide an understanding of youth offending & policy & practice responses, particularly the risk-focused approaches that have underpinned much recent academic research, youth justice policy & interventions, designed to reduce & prevent problem behaviour. Aims to meet the need for an exploration of youth justice & youth offending. ...

Helps readers identify what is important about their project, how their research relates to previous work & how it may be used to bring about change at individual, community, national or even international levels. This work presents a strategy that focuses on the notion of the 'project' as an organising framework. ...

Osteoporosis affects Approx. three million people in the UK, but the orthodox medical view is that there is no single cause. This guide suggests new scientific evidence proves that the Western diet & lifestyle are to blame
- & that it is possible to reduce the risk of developing the disease.
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Understudies brings together new poems of optimism & isolation, of assumed & confused identities, with some of the poems from the poet's previous three collections that first brought readers into a world of lives at once chaotic & oddly consolatory that lie below placid surfaces. ...

Enlisting at the age of twenty in 1916, Edmund Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres & Passchendaele, describing the latter as 'murder, not only to the troops, but to their singing faiths & hopes'. This autobiography records poet Blunden's experiences as an infantry subaltern in France & Flanders. ...

Jamie Bell plays Chris, a troubled teenager with a bizarre eating disorder, in this dark & lyrical thriller. Chris has moved with his little brother to his father John's (Dermot Mulroney) cabin in backwoods Georgia following their mother's death. Looking after his brother, Chris struggles with his own propensity to eat paint & dirt until he's sick. But then his violent uncle Deel (Josh Lucas) arrives, fresh from prison, & Chris finds himself on the run with his brother, trying to stay one step ahead of his deranged uncle. ...

A Peruvian fisherman is forced to make a choice between his traditional life & a secret love in this debut film from director Javier Fuentes-Leon. Living the life of a respected fisherman in a Peruvian village, newly married Miguel (Cristian Mercado) is awaiting the arrival of his first child with Mariela (Tatiana Astengo). Although all seems well, Miguel harbours a secret; he has been having an affair with Santiago (Manolo Cardona), a male artist who is visiting the area. When Santiago unexpectedly drowns at sea, his ghost returns to enlist Miguel's help in allowing him to pass over. Now, in order to free his former lover, Miguel must find the courage to tell his deeply religious community about his relationship, even if that means sacrificing all that he holds precious. ...