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This article reports an important multi‐centre practice‐based review that identifies good practice and an ideal pathway for the healthcare of frail older people, which, if replicated nationally, could result in improved quality of care and better value for money for the NHS. Data on healthcare resource groups (HRGs) in England were examined as a marker for the management of elderly people through the healthcare system. Care pathways in several different NHS trusts were explored via staff interviews. A high variation in treatment outcomes across centres was found. Principles of best practice were identified and include: comprehensive geriatric assessment; the availability of specialist geriatric teams and wards; and shared assessment and co‐ordination between care agencies.

“We are really a family concern,” said Mr. John Carter, referring to Routledge & Kegan Paul of which he is chairman; and the same, in different degrees, could be said of the three other London publishing houses which I have been visiting. Longmans and Murrays are eminent examples.

This study examined how principals experienced professional learning that asked them to reflect on their own biases and beliefs, as well as to determine where there are systemic issues of inequity in their schools, and what they planned to do to address those challenges.

Through interviews, observations, and documents, the authors explored the building and sustaining of equity mindsets in education.

The authors analysis led to four overarching themes that collectively answered the research questions about how the principals learned individually and in concert with each other. The themes included the power of the personal journey and commitment, the importance of building a network of support, the benefit of practice-oriented activities that disrupt power structures and inequitable practices in schools, and sustainability.

The study focused on a single institute and as such, findings are not generalizable, but may be transferable.

Schools and school districts may use the findings when designing professional learning, especially as it relates to leading with and for equity and in cross-district collaborations.

This contributes to the literature around concrete ways principals learn and reflect on enacting equity in schools.

This article on the effective negotiator is based on a series of intensive training ventures in negotiation over the last three and a half years, which are the culmination of a process beginning in 1972 with Neil Rackham's experiences in Controlled Pace Negotiation exercises. We have now trained negotiators in a dozen countries, especially in the last three years. Most of this training has been in the area of contract negotiating, although we have also run some specific in‐company industrial relations programmes. Some evaluation of this training is now available and will be discussed briefly at the end of this article, after we have outlined our approach.

It is one thing to discuss the clauses of a prospective Bill; but to get that Bill through Parliament is a vastly different affair. It was at the Buxton L. A. Conference, in 1896, that the matter was considered, and now, after four years' working and waiting, we have advanced just so far as to have got through the House of Lords “a Bill intituled an Act to amend the Acts relating to Public Libraries, Museums, and Gymnasiums, and to regulate the liability of managers of Libraries to proceedings for libel.” At the present moment this Bill is awaiting an opportunity of coming before the Commons. With this position it must be perfectly familiar, for it was only on account of Lord Avebury's despair at finding no opening for it in the House of Commons that the Association induced Lord Windsor to pilot it through the House of Lords. If the present Parliament lives long enough there is just a chance of the measure being entered upon the statute book; but, with forecasts of an early dissolution confronting us, and with Mr. Balfour's recent announcement of the Government appropriation of private members’ days this session, the prospect is not particularly encouraging. If these slender hopes are not realised, the Bill will be none the forwarder for passing the Upper House; whilst, if it should be so fortunate as to pass the Commons without further amendment, it would at once pass into law. Lord Balcarres has been good enough to take charge of the Bill in the House of Commons, and as it is well “backed,” and has been pruned down by the Standing Committee, and has really nothing of a contentious nature in its provisions, we may reasonably hope that if it once gets a start in the House it will reach a successful finish.

The forty‐seventh annual report of the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration is included in the recently published Annual Report of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare for 1953. Modern food legislation in Great Britain may be said to have its origins in the series of Acts passed between the years 1860 and 1875, but in spite of the longer history of our legislation this report suggests that U.S. legislation has made greater fundamental progress.

Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover specific articles devoted to certain topics. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume III, in addition to the annotated list of articles as the two previous volumes, contains further features to help the reader. Each entry within has been indexed according to the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus and thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid information retrieval. Each article has its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. The first Volume of the Bibliography covered seven journals published by MCB University Press. This Volume now indexes 25 journals, indicating the greater depth, coverage and expansion of the subject areas concerned.

The imprint items and their order are suggested to be as follows : Volumes, Illustrations, Portraits, Diagrams, Facsimiles, Tables, Maps, Plans, Date, Series.

An earlier article in this journal outlined a model of the process of negotiation with particular reference to negotiation in the industrial relations context. The model suggests that negotiations go through five phases or patterns of negotiating activity as the negotiators move through to a settlement. On the basis of the model, it is possible to identify several implications for negotiators, and, in particular, to make the point that the two parties must jointly manage their progress through the negotiations. Within the negotiation process there are three potential deadlocks which could emerge to obstruct this progress if the negotiations were not properly and jointly managed. This article develops the concept of deadlocks in negotiation more fully, and attempts to identify the implications for negotiators by suggesting how deadlocks might be identified and overcome.

GLASGOW was later by about one hundred and thirty years than some of the Scotch towns in establishing a printing press. Three hundred years ago, though Glasgow contained a University with men of great literary activity, including amongst others Zachary Boyd, there does not appear to have been sufficient printing work to induce anyone to establish a printing press. St. Andrews and Aberdeen were both notable for the books they produced, before Glasgow even attempted any printing.