Rachel Clarke Knihy

Specialistka paliativní péče Rachel Clarke denně pomáhá nevyléčitelně nemocným smířit se s osudem a snaží se jim umírání co nejvíce ulehčit. Když však Rachelinu otci diagnostikují poslední stadium rakoviny a ona musí čelit odchodu milovaného člověka, otřese to nejen jejím vnímáním celé dosavadní praxe, ale na povrch se dostanou nejrůznější otázky o smyslu života. Rachel si postupně uvědomuje, že většina z nás žije tak, jako bychom byli nesmrtelní. Když nás ale okolnosti přimějí se zastavit, můžeme zodpovědně říct, že jsme prožili život naplno?

A brilliant combination of lyrical memoir and guide to living and dying, comparable to Kathryn Mannix's With the End in Mind and Julia Samuel's Grief Works, from the author of Your Life in My Hands.

When the once-in-a-century pandemic struck, it didn’t matter that it was predicted; we ambled into disaster. In early 2020, mild concern rapidly escalated into panic. Economies plummeted, schools and workplaces closed, and societies shut down. The scale and pace of the upheaval were unprecedented. As a palliative care doctor, Rachel Clarke found herself spending more time in hospitals than hospices. Unable to share the intensity of her experiences with friends and family, she began writing at night about her and her colleagues' struggles. Her narrative reveals how the health service responded to the crisis. Upon reflecting on her writing, she discovered that amidst the overwhelming darkness, there were moments of light. The reduction of human contact highlighted its preciousness and the impact of even small connections. This account captures life, death, hope, and fear, showcasing medicine at its most vulnerable and its most heroic. It portrays the courage of patients facing immense adversity, the stress of balancing patient care with family safety, and the anxiety over the adequacy of PPE. This is a powerful depiction of medicine during the coronavirus pandemic, characterized by resilience and determination.

This extraordinary memoir offers a glimpse into a life spent between the operating room and the bedside, the mortuary and the doctors' mess, telling powerful truths about today's NHS UK frontline.'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life threatening bleeding, held the hand of a young woman dying of cancer, scuttled down miles of dim corridors wanting to sob with sheer exhaustion, forgotten to eat, forgotten to drink, drawn on every fibre of strength that I possess to keep my patients safe from harm.'How does it feel to be spat out of medical school into a world of pain, loss and trauma that you feel wholly ill-equipped to handle? To be a medical novice who makes decisions which - if you get them wrong - might forever alter, or end, a person's life?In Your Life in My Hands, television journalist turned junior doctor Rachel Clarke captures the extraordinary realities of life on the NHS frontline. During 2016's historic junior doctor strikes, Rachel was at the forefront of the campaign against the government's imposed contract upon young doctors. Her heartfelt, deeply personal account of life as a junior doctor in today's NHS is both a powerful polemic on the degradation of Britain's most vital public institution and a love letter of optimism and hope to that same health service.

This resource provides educators with tools to assess reading fluency efficiently for students from Reception to Year 6. It emphasizes quick assessment methods that can be implemented throughout the school, enabling teachers to identify reading levels and support student progress effectively. The book focuses on practical strategies and frameworks that enhance the assessment process, ensuring that educators can track and improve reading fluency in a timely manner.

Investigative journalism meets poetic narrative in this profound exploration of life and death. Rachel Clarke tells the remarkable story of one family's extraordinary gift of a miracle to another, delving into themes of compassion and resilience. This narrative non-fiction not only reveals the emotional depths of human experience but also highlights the interconnectedness of lives through tragedy and hope.

Happy Handwriting is a whole-school handwriting course that supports children in becoming confident, fluent writers. It consists of teacher guides, practice books and whiteboard slides with letter formation animations, providing a clear plan for frequent and discrete direct teaching. A Collins handwriting font licence is also supplied.

This book examines artists' relationship with the seasonal cycle. It focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary painters and printmakers to celebrate and explore the unique character of each season. Themes include the changing face of the landscape, plants that leaf, flower and fruit at particular times, wildlife that is prominent in different seasons, the farming calendar, customs and the weather. The authors explore how changes in farming practices, urban development and climate change have affected how we experience seasonality over the last century. Artists represented include John Nash, Eric Ravilious, Clare Leighton, Gertrude Hermes, Graham Sutherland, Monica Poole, Alan Reynolds, Laura Knight, Sven Berlin, Charles Tunnicliffe, James Bateman, Kurt Jackson, Carry Akroyd, Annie Ovenden and James Lynch. Exhibition: St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington, UK (11.09.2020 - 10.01.2021)

Catalogue to accompany gallery exhibition of paintings of rural Britain, looking at the unsettling, strange, gothic and eerie in British landscape art and examine how these ideas have influenced generations of British artists, Surrealism, Neo-Romanticism and on to current pre-occupations with conservation, belonging and hauntology

A unique study of nine significant women artists working during the 20th century