Böcker av Allan Brown

Boston Bake: Adventures in TV News & Other exploits is a memoir recounting the adventures of a California lad dealing with the East Coast Zeitgeist while launching a television news career. Also recounted are side excursions to Europe and a voyage into the heart of darkness in the former Dutch colony of Suriname

To be Scottish is to have a lot to live down, and as Allan Brown shows, this lot do the job superbly. Whether it be Robert Burns, indecipherable bard of rustic gibberish or Sean Connery, die-hard advocate of a country he refuses to live in.Or, Alex Salmond, the chortling bullfrog of separatism or Tommy Sheridan, the sexy socialist hardliner. They re all here, and many others; a veritable embassy of bad ambassadors.50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland is a humorous and chronologically-sequential series of essays, histories and anecdotes that consider those episodes and occurrences in Scotland's political, cultural and social story where, against all odds, defeat was plucked from the jaws of victory.

This study deals with the ways that groupwork can be used to advantage in social work. It covers aspects such as planning a group, leadership in groups (including co-working), group programming and group process, working with groups in day and residential centres, and antidiscriminatory groupwork.