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This innovative book proceeds from the premise that self-care is a powerful philosophical, biological and psychological basis for nursing practice in a variety of settings. Cultural issues are stressed throughout the volume, especially in the section on cross-cultural communication and cultural influences on learning styles.

Considered a masterpiece of travel literature for nearly a century, The Sea and the Jungle is a wise and witty book of firsts: ostensibly a light-hearted story of a Londoner's first ocean voyage, it is also a carefully crafted journalistic account of the first successful ascent of the Amazon River and its tributary, the Madeira, by an English steamer. One rainy morning in November 1909, Henry Major Tomlinson bid farewell to his family and set ...

A personal memoir of war in Cambodia from the reporter whose story was immortalised in "The Killing Fields". The book is an attempt by Swain to make peace with this past and to come to terms with his memories of fear, pain and death. He saw the beauty of Indo-China wrecked by the violence of war, and was ultimately sickened by it. "Brief, wrenching, it is surely the freshest and most sensitive account of these times." "The Times".