Showing posts with label challenges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label challenges. Show all posts

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Coconut Unlimited by Nikesh Shukla

There`s been a lot of buzz around this word in the UK, especially since it was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. Sadly it just lost the award, but I view it was a great little book and very, very orange!

What first drew my concern was that Coconut Unlimited was set in Harrow and the principal character Amit and his two friends Nishant and Anand are the only three Asians in a public boys` school.

Coconut Unlimited by Nikesh Shukla

There`s been a lot of buzz around this word in the UK, especially since it was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. Sadly it just lost the award, but I view it was a great little book and very, very orange!

What first drew my concern was that Coconut Unlimited was set in Harrow and the principal character Amit and his two friends Nishant and Anand are the only three Asians in a public boys` school.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Whatever Happened to Community Mental Health?: A Retrospective Set .

Sometimes, the better way to design for the next is to hear from the past. For those in the mental health profession, that thought can be especially useful, believes clinical psychologist Roger Burt. By presenting a see at Baltimore`s community mental health campaign in the 1960s, he describes a groundbreaking initiative that still holds lessons for today, and even more importantly, for tomorrow.