Books by John Wade

How photography and cameras began; the difficulties of using early cameras in wartime.

Essex is a place where you learn to expect the unexpected. If you know where to look, thereE s history and mystery at every turn, and this book is here to help you find it all. It brings you stories of strange places with weird names, mystery buildings that make no sense until you know their history, bizarre legends, forgotten facts, lost villages, unknown islands, spirits and ghosts, witches and smugglers. Who knows, for example, the part played by Essex in the colonisation of America? Or that a town in Essex was once the capital of England? Did you know that Captain Cook was married in Essex prior to setting out on his voyages of discovery? Or that legend has it that the story of Saint George slaying a dragon might have begun on Essex soil?All this and more is described by writer and photographer John Wade in Illustrated Tales of Essex. In it he reveals that EssexE s people and places of the past are a million miles away from the modern-day reality-TV view of the county.

* Reveals, through the eyes of a conscripted soldier, the day-to-day lives of British soldiers in British West Africa during World War II * Looks at the strange cultures, the landscape and wildlife, the unusual situations that were encountered in an alien and often frightening location known as 'The White Man's Grave'

"As evidenced by the recent proliferation of books about positive psychology, there is a growing realization about the importance of focusing on an individual's strengths. Yet there has been little written about positive psychology that applies this approach to training and supervision. To fill this void, " Strengths-Based Clinical Supervision "combines the principles of positive psychology with research on effective supervision and training from various disciplines along with the characteristics of effective clinical supervisors. The text is designed for use with masters and doctoral level trainees and is formatted to accommodate a 16-week semester framework. It emphasizes practical applications and provides examples of questions and prompts to be used in supervision sessions. Each chapter features case studies and discussion questions to encourage retention of the material. Key Features: Integrates the basic principles of positive psychology with those of effective supervision and training Emphasizes practical applications of positive psychology to clinical supervision across multiple disciplines Includes examples of questions and prompts to be used in actual supervision sessions Formatted for a 16-week semester framework for masters and doctoral level students "