New books hit the shelves

 

Dorothy Hobson, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, has written Channel 4 - The Early Years and the Jeremy Isaacs Legacy. The book looks at the controversial beginnings of the channel, right through to the Celebrity Big Brother/Jade Goody affair, and asks has Channel 4 changed the nature of British television?

 

Published for Channel 4’s 25th anniversary, the book explores the channel’s most important foundation period, under its inspirational first Chief Executive, Jeremy Isaacs. Dorothy, from the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, is due to appear on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Aloud, which also recently featured Dr Mike Haynes, from the Business School. Mike is the co-author of History and Revolution: Refuting Revisionism, which brings together a team of international historians from France, the US and Canada to discuss the positive role played by revolution in the making of the modern world.

 

Meanwhile, Dr Shantha Perera, from the School of Applied Sciences, is a co-author of Integrated Medical Sciences: The Essentials, which uses case scenarios to help students taking their pre-clinical or basic sciences examinations. Using a family of characters in each case scenario, the text reflects the current changes in medical and biomedical science teaching. The characters, all members of an extended family, appear in several scenarios and the student becomes familiar with their personalities and their disease processes.

 

Professor Mike Fullen, also from the School of Applied Sciences, has written Shadows in Plato’s Cave, a compilation of pearls of wisdom to guide people through life. The quotes used in the book offer inspiration, enlightenment and erudition to provide personal development.