The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, working with the charity Human Scale Education, has funded 39 secondary schools in England to develop along human scale lines. This book gives an account of the aspirations and process in some of those schools.

This review looks at the progress towards developing a children's perspective in government up to 2001 and makes further detailed recommendations.

This work is one of the first books to examine the relationship between science and contemporary art and to chart the new work beginning to emerge from artist/scientist collaborations. Contributors include distinguished art historian Martin Kemp and artist Andrea Duncan.

An anthology inspired by the fortieth anniversary of Rachel Carson's controversial and prophetic book 'Silent Spring'. The anthology features poems commissioned from leading poets - including Seamus Heaney, Andrew Motion and Mark Doty - which are the fruit of discussions with scientists such as Richard Fortey and John Sulston.

Nine artists were asked to keep diaries over several months in order to discover how new art is made. These accounts reveal personalities that are simultaneously vulnerable and tough, and show how art develops from a synthesis of ideas from many sources, shaped by personal decisions and choices.

This inquiry looks into the working lives of puppeteers in the UK and Ireland, assesses the attitudes to puppetry, and examines the potential for it to develop, both organizationally and as an artform.

This book argues the case for the arts in schools and considers the consequent implications and conclusions. It maintains that schools must develop broader nor narrower curricula and that the arts have an important place within this approach.

This report looks at the historical context of Foyers, at the situation in Germany and France where they also operate, then describes the growth and experience of the Foyer movement in Britain.

Describes the work of the Hospice at Home in West Cumbria, a community-based hospice service which has chosen to focus its work on a nursing and medical service available to patients in their own homes. Bibby describes the work of the organisation from the point of view of the nurses, doctors and patients.

New Towns are no longer new: their pioneer settlers are grandparents, and New Towns have becmoe home towns for two generations. This book traces the origins of the New Towns in the Garden City movement, judges their performance, and asks if we need a new generation of New Towns.

In this volume a young generation of first-class scientists - most of them Royal Society Young Fellows - kept diaries over several months which reveal, with an unusual honesty, the frustrations, comic ironies and occasional breakthroughs in the charged and highly competitive world of science.

This inquiry into dancers' health and injuries, concludes that the creation of a nationwide health and injury service is urgently needed and will only progress through the combined efforts of the dance profession, teachers, funding bodies and healthcare professionals.

Rethinking Families is a contribution to debates about changes in family lives and relationships from the Economic and Social Research Council's CAVA Research Group at the University of Leeds. It provides a considered, authoritative and politically relevant perspective on these issues, for policy-makers and practitioners alike.

An estimated 50,000 young people in Britain today take on the responsibility of caring for a relative who is ill or disabled. These young carers were, until recently, a neglected group in society. In this book, they speak of their experiences and their relationships with adult professionals.

When is a museum not a museum? When it's a Children's Discovery Centre, Imaginarium, Wonder Workshop, Exploratory, or a Discovery Factory. This report describes the growth of these US centres and looks at what is happening in Europe, and at the work and approaches of institutions in Britain.