Böcker av John Spiers

Late-Victorian England ushered in a new phenomenon, a 'mass' reading and book buying public. But it was a long time coming. How and when did this public ultimately emerge, and who reached it? Whose ambitions were achieved, and whose frustrated? What worked, and what didn't? How were the most popular publications created, marketed, and sold?

This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries.

This is a detective story about what happened next in the past. It prompts us to ask how we might know what we don't know we don't know. It is illustrated with 150 illustrations in colour. The work is focused on people and their inclinations, as book buyers and not only as book borrowers.

Care pathways are being developed throughout the health service to improve the quality and effectiveness of care

This book explores the controversial dilemmas which meet at the intersection of medicine philosphy and law - questions concerning killing and not killing which are faced daily in health care

What is the case for choice? How can the quest for choice include the large numbers of NHS and social care staff on whom success depends? This book urges individual financial empowerment, through a life-long health savings account for various NHS and social services.