1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480388703321

Autore

Dalrymple William

Titolo

Nueve vidas [[electronic resource] ] : En Busca de Lo Sagrado En La India de Hoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : Editorial Kairos, 2011

ISBN

84-7245-797-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (443 p.)

Disciplina

954.05

Soggetti

India -- Religious life and customs

India -- Social conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cubierta; Portada; Créditos; Dedicatoria; Sumario; Mapa; Introducción; 1. La historia de la monja; 2. El bailarín de Kannur; 3. Las hijas de Yellamma; 4. El cantor de epopeyas; 5. El hada roja; 6. La historia del monje; 7. El hacedor de ídolos; 8. La dama del crepúsculo; 9. La canción del trovador ciego; Glosario; Bibliografía; Nota sobre el autor; Contracubierta

Sommario/riassunto

The product of a 25-year exploration of India's cultural and religious traditions, this collection of biographies introduces the reader to nine unforgettable characters, including a Buddhist monk who takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet and then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India; a Jain nun who tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve to death; and a devadasi, or temple prostitute, who initially resists her



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791811603321

Autore

Mandelstam Michael <1956->

Titolo

Quick guide to community care practice and the law [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Mandelstam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010

ISBN

1-283-90499-3

0-85700-373-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Collana

Quick Guides Social & Health Care Law & Practice

Disciplina

344.4103/16

344.410313

Soggetti

Community health services - Law and legislation - Great Britain

Public welfare - Law and legislation - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

FRONT COVER; Quick Guide to Community Care Practice and the Law; Contents; PREFACE; 1. Introduction; 2. How community care law and practice works; 3. When things go wrong; 4. Getting a community care assessment and getting services; 5. Community care services: care homes; 6. Community care services: help in people's own homes; 7. Informal carers; 8. Direct payments: giving people money; 9. Personalisation and safeguarding adults; 10. Asylum and immigration; 11. Ordinary residence; 12. Home adaptations; 13. The National Health Service; 14. NHS continuing health care

15. Mental capacity, human rights, and disability discrimination Chapter 16 Health and safety at work legislation, and the law of negligence; INDEX; back cover

Sommario/riassunto

This short guide cuts through the confusing mass of legislation to provide a concise and jargon-free explanation of current community care practice and the law. It is an essential resource for busy practitioners at all levels as well as managers in both the statutory and voluntary sectors, and policy-makers in local authorities and the NHS.