New Releases by Elizabeth Fuller

The Health Survey for England 2000 presents a number of reports which consider the health of older people, aged 65 years and over, both in private households and, for the first time, in residential and nursing homes. This report focuses the psychosocial well-being of older people. Four types of indicator are used to assess this: cognitive impairment indicative of dementia; psychological morbidity rates, including depression; the individual''s own perceptions of the level of social support received from family and friends; and for residents in care homes, participation in social activities.

Will the engine driver find his train? Will the people ride the submarine bus again? Will the race be wrecked by rain? Jump on board for a wild ride!

In this book, flowers grow tall and grass grows high. House-plants grow into places where tigers can hide! Do you have plants at home? How do you help them grow?

When all the children take their teddy bears to school for a best-loved bear contest, Tim is embarrassed because his teddy is so worn out. Suggested level: junior.

Trying to escape from grief over the death of her husband, Elizabeth Fuller embarks with her 12-year-old son on a journey to the Australian Outback. Seeking answers she has no questions for, she finds herself a participant in "the most meaningful and exciting adventure on earth". In this other world, when her heart seems most wrenched and she feels most out of place, Fuller enters through a gateway to comfort and love.

An analysis of the Thaipusam festival of the Hindu Tamils of Malaysia and the vows they make to the god Murugan. It explores the meaning of vow fulfilment as reflected in social, economic and political divisions in the Tamil community, and the practice of ritual as a form of symbolic action.

A story for children. Cameron lives in the mountains and his grandfather is too busy to take him to see the sea. In spring the local creek laughs to him as it flows to the sea, joining other creeks to become a stream, and then a river. Cameron follows all the way to the sea, and returns home with a better understanding of the creek. Each page has full colour illustrations.

Explains the role of meditation in developing one''s psychic powers, and discusses remote viewing, telepathy, channeling, reincarnation, and past lives

THE STORY: The play is set in Omaha in 1980. Ric, in his late twenties, delivers pizza, writes mangled poetry, drinks too much and loves his wife. His obsessive jealousy drives Beth to temporary refuge in her mother''s home, where he follows for a c

The readers from this reading scheme feature a gradual developmental sequence.