Robin Richardson

Clinical Skills: an introduction for nursing and healthcare covers the essential clinical skills required by nurses. It offers an ideal introduction to clinical skills for adult nursing students, and it will also be useful for student nurses in other fields of practice, for trainee nursing associates and for other healthcare students who need to carry out clinical procedures when caring for people in a healthcare environment. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book will help students to: develop their proficiency in carrying out the nursing procedures required to qualify as a Registered Nurseunderstand when and how to provide nursing intervention and support to people in their carebroaden and deepen their knowledge through the use of realistic scenariosapply their knowledge in a person-centred and compassionate wayreflect on their own values and learning experiences to enhance their nursing practiceimprove their nursing skills by using the ‘hints for practice’ and ‘alerts’ The clear, reader-friendly presentation will help students develop the underpinning knowledge and understanding of the clinical skills they will need throughout their healthcare career. “The clinical skills book is a gem, easy to follow, eye catching, and relevant to all skills modules across all years of the nursing programme.” Lecturer in Adult Nursing, School of Health, Science and Wellbeing, Staffordshire University

Using line drawings, colour and text, Robin Richardson transposes the sensibility of poetry into illustrated works, creating bite-sized, artistic meditations on the terribly wonderful, malleable and absurd experience of being alive. Richardson's intuitive works—inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts—are drawn from fleeting, conscious contact with various notions and emotions; they feel their way around meaning and what it is to be human. It's here, amongst animal imagery and Jungian psychological concepts, that the viewer can, if not careful, become lost in a collection of unsettling yet playful art: themes of loss, fear and euphoria are materially manifested through felt pen and pencil crayon. Within these works of art are scraps of consciousness, demons brought into the light of day and shared as if to say, clearly: you are not alone. Praise for Try Not to Get Too Attached:"Try Not to Get Too Attached is an incredibly haunting self-portrait, the visual record of one artist's journey into the psyche's frayed and messy reaches, where "everything is so vivid," as she puts it. I keep originals of Robin Richardson's art on my walls to remind me of that vividness every day, whether it comes in the form of beauty or terror or something else altogether." —Alessandro Porco "Robin Richardson's beautiful, surreal drawings are both calming to the senses, yet haunting, almost transcendental. The text she employs adds to the sublime, perhaps as otherworldly ads, slogans, or even medieval logos on acid. This collection of her art is like discovering a lost treasure. I love them and can't stop looking at them!" —Gary Taxali

Nadia doesn't want to go to bed Who has time to sleep? She has too much to do Join her as she tries to convince Mama to let her stay awake. I Don't Want to Go to Bed is a cute bedtime tale written by Robin Richardson.

Lovesick Stormtroopers, dowsing Girl Guides, movie stars, pool hustlers, and the mad queen Ranavalona . . . With "Knife Throwing Through Self-Hypnosis," Robin Richardson charts a path through a surreal otherworld that is at once carnal and aerial, fine-grained and crude. Yearning, unapologetic women who delight in the monsters they've created make these poems "a shield made of braids, / bassinet of broadswords," and "a ghost-like choir where a love affair / becomes a pulp-book, plotted perfectly to end."

Ever since 9/11, Muslims and Islam have dominated the headlines in the UK. In this important book, several leading media commentators examine the phenomenon of ‘Islamophobia’ and ask how we can tackle it. Charting recent media controversies, from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s comments on Sharia law to the veil ‘debate’, the book argues that media hostility to Islam alienates Muslims and undermines efforts to combat extremism. With interviews from Muslim journalists and examples of press-fuelled myths about Islam in Britain, this is a captivating insight into how Muslims are depicted in the West.