Books

H.G Wells, Modernity and the Movies
Keith Williams
Liverpool University Press

H.G Wells' pioneering works of science fiction The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man are known to many readers but fewer realize how they helped to technically develop the cinematic narrative.

H.G.Wells, Modernity and the Movies is a new and accessible study which reconsiders Well's advancement of the cinematic narrative alongside the social and political impact of early media.

Including rare illustrations from the original magazines which published Well's early work, the book investigates his early interest in cinema and related media by placing it back into the contemporary cultural and scientific contexts giving rise to them.

Previous studies concentrate on adaptations: this book accounts for the specifically (proto)cinematic techniques and concerns of Wells's texts. It also focuses on contemporary film-making in dialogue with his ideas. Alongside Hollywood's later transactions, it gives equal weight to neglected British and continental European dimensions.

Aimed at the student of modernism and early cinema this groundbreaking study will be of interest to anyone concerned with Wells, his work and the technological parameters of modern culture.

Dr Keith Williams is a senior lecturer in English in the School of Humanities.

Programming Distributed Finite Element Analysis: An Object Oriented Approach
Dr Ian Mackie
Saxe-Coburg Publications

Tremendous computing power is now available for relatively low cost. Desktop and notebook computers commonly have multiple processors, and even homes have networks of computers. This offers great potential for taking advantage of distributed computing, but in order to realise the full potential suitable program design methodologies are needed.

The .NET framework makes it relatively easy to implement distributed computing along with multi-threading.

This book describes the implementation of a finite element program using .NET and object-oriented programming in C#. It describes overall program design approaches, along with program details.

The book is intended for researchers and postgraduate students working in the field of numerical software.

Dr Ian Mackie is a senior lecturer in civil engineering in the School of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics.

The Philosophy of Nurse Education
John S. Drummond and Paul Standish
Palgrave Macmillan

The Philosophy of Nurse Education covers a variety of philosophical perspectives and discusses key issues including the ethics and politics of nurse education and the nature of professional knowledge.

Edited by John S Drummond and Paul Standish the book brings together internationally renowned academics and enhances ideas of learning, teaching and curriculum design.

It provides an accessible, non-technical introduction to the field and challenges dominant aspects of professional educational policy and practice.

Dr John S Drummond is a senior lecturer in nursing at the School of Nursing and Midwifery. He is co-founder of the International Philosophy of Nursing Society.

Paul Standish is Professor of Philosophy of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Introducing Qualitative Research: A Student's Guide to the Craft of Doing Qualitative Research
Rosaline Barbour

Introducing Qualitative Research is an ideal starter text for those new to the field, providing thorough coverage of all the core areas of qualitative research practice.

Rose Barbour is a respected researcher and supervisor who has been designing and running methods workshops for many years. Here she draws on her extensive teaching experience to provide a clear, user-friendly introduction to the craft of doing qualitative research.

Each chapter comes with a range of exercises and with excerpts of genuine qualitative data that help the reader get a good feel for the process of generating and analyzing qualitative data.

The book's hands-on explanatory style makes this the ideal textbook for students of qualitative methods courses in any social science discipline, and for students, novice researchers or practitioners doing research projects using qualitative approaches.

Professor Rosaline Barbour is Professor of Public Health and Primary Care Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Patient-Centered Prescribing: seeking concordance in practice
Jon Dowell, Brian Williams and David Snadden

Half of all prescribed medicines are used in a sub-optimal manner and clinicians struggle to find ways of improving the situation. There is a move towards greater partnership with patients, but concordance (shared decision making between patients and healthcare professionals) is a growing challenge for the profession.

This practical book offers numerous real life case studies to demonstrate the way the patient-centered model, combined with other behavioural models, can result in a logical approach to prescribing for difficult clients, including 'non-compliant' and other challenging patients.

"Patient-Centered Prescribing" fully considers the very complex nature of the issues at hand, ethical questions, time restrictions and financial matters, to produce a realistic analysis of the difficulties to be overcome in achieving better practice.

This book is ideal for doctors, nurses and pharmacists, and postgraduate students of medicine, pharmacy and nursing. It is also of great interest to medical educators, particularly those teaching primary care and communication skills, and to everyone involved in developing doctor-patient partnerships.

Dr Jon Dowell is senior clinical lecturer in general practice within the Division of Community Health Sciences. Dr Brian Williams is senior lecturer in behavioural science and associate director of the Social Dimensions of Health Institute. David Snadden is Vice Provost Medicine at the University of Northern British Columbia.