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.Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Vintage classics)
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by: Roland Barthes

July 15, 1993
To get a feeling for this book read the most negative coments from reviews of his "Mythologies" and you'll be on the right track. Incorrect assertions are presented as fact. Incorrect conclusions are built on those assertions. Language is used to obfuscate rather than elucidate meaning (if you don't know those words don't even try to read Barthes). Actually, language appears to be used more to say "I am clever." Clever people communicate clearly, monsieur!

Unbearable, and you won't learn a thing about photography, which he more or less rejects in his opening chapters in favour of contemplating his own navel


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.In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Penguin Modern Classics)
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by: Truman Capote

February 03, 2000
Recently re-read this disturbing factional story of unspeakable horror after some thirty odd years, re-visiting the pain of Holcomb, the scene of the tragic, senseless snuffing out of the Clutters. Contoversial on its publication due to its blending of fact and fiction, a hybrid composite that had not been done before, Capote's "In Cold Blood" reconstucts, in all their brutal detail, the 1959 grisly, cold-blooded murder of the Clutter family on their farm in the plains of western Kansas when four shotgun blasts changed the town of Holcomb forever. This fictionalising of real events, coupled with imagined dialogue between real-life characters, broke new ground and established Capote as the inventor of True Crime 'non-fiction' novels.

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.Understanding Social Work: Preparing for Practice
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by: Neil Thompson

April 01, 2005
Mr Thompson will effortlessly guide you from the point of first considering social work as a career right through your first year of the degree. I would strongly recommend this book to any potential social workers out there. I read this book before my interview at Uni and I am not sure I would have performed so well on the day without its invaluable knowledge. It is extremely reader friendly as well as interesting and informative. It will most likley be on the 1st year reading list for most Universities and probably quoted in lectures and assignments too.
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.Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife 49'
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from: Profile Books Ltd

November 16, 2006
I can only add to the unalloyed praise of others and wish that Nella Last could know what pleasure and enlightenment her "scribbling" would bring to others over 60 years later.

She writes beautifully and naturally, but what's most interesting is the way she changes as the war progresses. At the beginning she is sickly and weak, plagued with arthritis, and refers to a "breakdown" she had a few years before. But she determines to "do something" for the war effort and joins the WVS. From there she goes from strength to strength, and the evolution of her ideas is fascinating; she comes to see her conventional marriage to an old stick of a husband as "slavery". She's also very observant and perceptive of the people around her.
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.An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
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by: Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle

June 10, 2004
This book achieves the impossible. It makes the difficult and obtuse polemical and theoretical debates of recent history easy to read. Yes, believe it or not! I cannot find enough congratulations to give for this excellent and learned book. The achievement of the age. Thank you for making clear sense of it all.My newly found bible for Literary Critical research.
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.Primary English: Teaching Theory and Practice (Achieving QTS)
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by: Jane Medwell; David Wray; Hilary Minns;, Elizabeth Coates, Vivienne Griffiths

April 24, 2007
This book is core reading for my course and has been an invaluable guide. It covers everything you need to know from how children learn language to how to be successful at assessment. It includes useful research summaries, interesting practical tasks all of which help develop understanding. There are lots of 'classroom stories' where real examples are used to illuminate theory. I found these to be particuarly useful as they demonstrate how to apply abstract theory to practice. As I am training to be a teacher not at educational theorist this connection is vital. This is a easy-to-understand, practical text which, along with it's sister book 'Primary English - Knowledge and Understanding', will fully prepare you for QTS. My advice is: buy it now!
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.The SAGE Dictionary of Criminology
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from: Sage Publications Ltd

November 15, 2005
Enjoyable to read and a fantastic book for anyone learning Criminology. I am doing it at A-Level, in order to get to University so found some parts challenging to understand (as the book is based at Degree level) but you really get the jist of meanings and terms. A real must have.
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.Understanding Organizations (Penguin Business) (3rd Edition)
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by: Charles B. Handy

January 01, 1987
Charles Handy is arguably the UK's top business "guru", but in my opinion this title somewhat diminishes his life's work, which has gone beyond matters of simple business administration into a philosophy of life and work, and is imbued with a spirituality that I find infectious (even though I am not a very spiritual person). This, however, is his seminal management text, and there is but a hint of the philosophical musings of "The Empty Raincoat" and "The Hungry Spirit".

Understanding Organisations was first published in 1976, and my fourth edition (I don't know why Amazon describes this as the third edition - that must be an error) was published in 1993, with a revised introduction in 1999. It cannot claim to be entirely up to date, therefore, but it remains valid both ... Read More:
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.Social Work and Human Development (Transforming Social Work Practice) (Transforming Social Work Practice)
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by: Karin Crawford, Janet Walker

August 21, 2007
This book was on my recommended reading list and I'm pleased I bought it. It can be a bit bewildering starting a social work degree and this book is an invaluable help. It is written in plain English and concentrates on the important issues of the module. I was worried that I wasn't really getting to grips with my course, but reading this gave me confidence.

There are lots of case studies which bring theories into the context of 'real life'. It also has handy research summaries and further reading suggestions should you want to learn more about a particular aspect of the subject.

This is a must-have buy!
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.BTEC National Health and Social Care: Book 1: Core Student Book Bk. 1
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by: Beryl Stretch

June 28, 2007
This book was on my recommended reading list and I'm pleased I bought it. It can be a bit bewildering starting a social work degree and this book is an invaluable help. It is written in plain English and concentrates on the important issues of the module. I was worried that I wasn't really getting to grips with my course, but reading this gave me confidence.

There are lots of case studies which bring theories into the context of 'real life'. It also has handy research summaries and further reading suggestions should you want to learn more about a particular aspect of the subject.

This is a must-have buy!
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