Boeken Purser

The Human Rights of Older Persons

This book provides a comprehensive human rights analysis of key areas of law affecting older persons, including legal capacity; elder abuse; accommodation and aged care; healthcare; employment; financial security, retirement, and estate planning; and social and cultural participation. The research identifies individual autonomy and participation in decision-making as fundamental to a human rights-based approach to …

Capacity Assessment and the Law

This book discusses theoretical issues, standards, and professional considerations arising when legal and health practitioners undertake legal capacity assessments in the context of wills, enduring powers of attorney and advance health directives. The potential loss of cognition can erode autonomy as individuals lose the ability to make their own legally recognised decisions. This is an …

Threats at Three

When the Long Farden village hall is in danger of being destroyed, the citizens form a committee to save it, with the usual grumps and curmudgeons included. But it seems someone opposes the preservation enough to set the historic building on fire. When a dead body turns up in the canal, Inspector Cowgill fears the …

Mindfulness in Behavioral Health - Handbook of Ethical Foundations of Mindfulness

This handbook explores the multifaceted ethical dimensions of mindfulness, from early Buddhist sources to present-day Western interpretations of mindfulness. It takes a modern ethical approach to the study of mindfulness, and traces contemporary mindfulness practice from solitary journey to the global whole. Noted practitioners, teachers, scholars, and other professionals lend diverse perspectives to the debate …

Quick & Easy Tadpole Care

With quick and easy instructions, Tadpole Care provides you with all the necessary information so that your tadpole grows into a strong, healthy, and happy frog.

The Purser's Story, Share and Share Alike, and Transformation (Dodo Press)

Robert Barr (1850-1912) was a British novelist, born at Glasgow, Scotland. He was educated at the Normal School of Toronto, Canada, was headmaster of the Central School, Windsor, Ontario, and in 1876 became a member of the staff of the Detroit Free Press, in which his contributions appeared under the signature "Luke Sharp. " In …

Palmerin of England; some remarks on this romance and of the controversy concerning its authorship

The Story of Cupid and Psyche as Related by Apuleius

Terror On Tuesday

Feisty Lois, part cleaner, part amateur sleuth, is once more involved in solving murder - and this time, not one but two murders most mysterious. Once more her job is tailor-made for snooping, taking her into the houses and secrets of possible suspects. Lois has now moved to the village of Long Farnden (familiar to …

Fulfilling Hope

Book 3 - Fulfilling Hope Decisions have been made. Now, all Aiden and Cam have to do is live with them. After all, the alternative is bleak… Unfortunately, this task proves to be quite daunting as old ghosts come back to life and intervene in unexpected ways. Cam ultimately realizes what her future has in …