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Place, Policy and Politics: Do Localities Matter?
By John Urry, Michael Harloe, C. G. Pickvance. 1990
The past ten years have seen local government in the UK facing two major challenges: to survive in the face…
of Thatcher government hostility, and to adapt to enormously powerful forces of economic restructuring which have also been encouraged by government policies. The key aspects of these changing fortunes of British towns explored in this important new book is the ability of individual localities to exercise any control over their own growth and decline. Place, Policy and Politics examines local political initiatives seeking to influence economic and social development in seven sharply contrasting localities, ranging from the outer council estates of Merseyside to the boom towns of Cheltenham and Swindon. Throughout their analysis, the contributors, drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines, address the vital questions in the debate over local policy initiatives, including: * To what extent are localities able to harness trends in the national and international economy to provide jobs and a better standard of living for their inhabitants? * Why do local authorities vary in their capacity to initiate economic policy? * To what extent do national urban and other policies inhibit or encourage their efforts? * How might central government modify its policies to facilitate the prospering of localities?This book, first published in 1990, brings together descriptive, comparative, and theoretical materials on cults and sects in Western culture,…
focusing on literature published since 1970. A historical section links the rise of the new movements to similar past phenomena in Western culture. Other sections examine the methodology of studying religious movements and the various theories which have been brought to explain them, current studies on traditional sects that are sometimes compared to the new religions, and many studies of individual contemporary cults.Cultural Studies: Volume 3, Issue 2
By Ien Ang, Indira Mahalingam. 1989
Real Analysis and Probability
By R. M. Dudley. 1989
Written by one of the best-known probabilists in the world this text offers a clear and modern presentation of modern…
probability theory and an exposition of the interplay between the properties of metric spaces and those of probability measures. This text is the first at this level to include discussions of the subadditive ergodic theorems, metrics for convergence in laws and the Borel isomorphism theory. The proofs for the theorems are consistently brief and clear and each chapter concludes with a set of historical notes and references. This book should be of interest to students taking degree courses in real analysis and/or probability theory.Feminism and the Power of Law (Sociology of Law and Crime)
By Carol Smart. 1989
In this now established text the author presents her analysis of the power of law and argues for a feminist…
post-structuralist approach. She comments on pornography, as well as discussing recent research on rape trials and abortion legislation.First published in 1989. In the climate of long-term unemployment, early retirement, and technology that is seen to threaten jobs,…
'leisure’ has been presented as the solution to a multitude of social problems. The essays in this collection represent the most important arguments on the problems, myths, and misunderstandings of leisure. Arguing from a range of positions, some sceptical, others more idealistic, they look at the complexities of this field and the social and political problems that surround it. No single argument dominates. What emerges is a live-wire debate on class and gender, employment and economic status, age and education, which brings the discussion of leisure controversially up to date. The book, based on papers presented to conferences of the Leisure Studies Association, divides into sections on leisure and social change, the relationship between leisure and social structures, and the tension between leisure and employment. It takes a critical look at leisure in Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the USA, and at the paradoxes that will determine its future. Whilst refusing to see leisure as a synonym for social progress and liberalization, it argues that the quality of leisure reflects the quality of society itself.Israeli Visions and Divisions
By Myron J. Arnoff. 1989
This finely etched, on-site work examines the relationships between the changing political system and political culture in Israel, with particular…
focus on the decade of the 1980s. Written by a scholar equally at home in the United States and in Israel, and intellectually equally at home in political science and anthropology, Israeli Visions and Divisions is a fundamental contribution to a literature long on passion and short on reason, which perhaps is an academic reflection of social life in this deeply troubled land.Aronoff starts from the belief that the basic conflicting and even contradictory interpretations over what should be the exact character of Israel as a Jewish state continues to be the source of the most serious division among Jews within contemporary Israel. As a consequence, consensus politics yields to coalition politics; and prospects for a future consensus are dim. Conflict among Jewish political and religious groups, and between Jews and Arabs, is aggravated by the uses of Zionist symbolism in a fragmented political culture.This is a serious critique made from a sympathetic quarter. Aronoff suggests that the Israeli political system is undergoing a crisis of political legitimacy, exemplified by the rise of extraparliamentary movements. The parliamentary system accentuates' these divisions by making every minor tradition and vision part of the legislative and executive processes.Israeli Visions and Divisions is not a pessimistic reading. The author is convinced that the way is open for a move away from particularism and tribalism, and toward a new universalism and humanism. The old policies have proven bankrupt, and th,e old ideologies have lost their salience. The book is rich in detail and profound in outlook. It will be greeted by those interested in new policies as well as by students of the Middle East who hope to piece together what has gone awry in the land of milk and honey.The second edition of Empirical Bayes Methods details are provided of the derivation and the performance of empirical Bayes rules…
for a variety of special models. Attention is given to the problem of assessing the goodness of an empirical Bayes estimator for a given set of prior data. A chapter is devoted to a discussion of alternatives to the empirical Bayes approach and there is also a chapter giving details of several actual applications of empirical Bayes method.Since 1949 and the founding of the People's Republic, China has been involved in more than one territorial dispute with…
its neighbours. Currently the most unstable and dangerous dispute is the one over the Paracel and Spratly islands in the South China Sea. With their potentially rich and accessible petroleum resources, these islands have become the new arena of conflict for the 1970s and 1980s, China having already fought a war with South Vietnam over the Paracel Islands. This book, based on a wealth of primary materials in the Chinese language, is the first to make a thorough and overall investigation of China's policy towards these islands. It deals with the battle for the Paracels, the dispute with Vietnam, the disputes with the Philippines and Malaysia, and the relationship between the territorial disputes and China's maritime claims in the South China Sea.Insights Into Teachers' Thinking And Practice
By Pam Denicolo, Christopher Day, Maureen Pope. 1990
A collection of original research conducted by scholars from Europe and North America. The papers consider the evolution of research…
on teachers' thinking, the nature of professional knowledge, and philosophical and moral dimensions of teachers' thinking.Foreign language teaching in America today falls into three distinct fields of influence and interest: public and private schools, college…
and other post-secondary programs, and courses for adult learners. At a time when academics and instructors in each of these fields seek to answer similar questions, too few published resources recognize and address the parallels among them.Burbujas de paz: Pequeño libro de Mindfulness para niños (y no tan niños)
By Sylvia Comas. 2016
Un libro de Mindfulness para niños y familias. Vivimos en un mundo en el que la distracción es continua y…
el bombardeo no cesa. Pensamos que el estrés y la ansiedad son cosas de adultos, pero lo cierto es que también afecta a los más pequeños. Burbujas de paz es un manual con el que, mediante prácticas, juegos y actividades en familia, todos sus miembros podrán acercarse en tan solo ocho semanas a la práctica del Mindfulness y disfrutar a la vez de sus beneficios en el día a día. Este libro incluye:* Sencillas explicaciones y ejemplos reales de la práctica y los beneficios del Mindfulness.* Un plan de introducción familiar semana a semana.* Acceso a través de URL a meditaciones guiadas en formato audio, para niños y adultos.* Prácticas informales, juegos y actividades para hacer en familia.* Recomendaciones de películas para pensar en el tema de la semana.* Capítulos específicos dedicados al déficit de atención y a las nuevas «adicciones» como el móvil o Internet.A Formula for Eradicating Racism: Debunking White Supremacy
By Earl Smith, Timothy McGettigan. 2016
Food, Media and Contemporary Culture: The Edible Image
By Peri Bradley. 2016
Food, Media and Contemporary Culture is designed to interrogate the cultural fascination with food as the focus of a growing…
number of visual texts that reveal the deep, psychological relationship that each of us has with rituals of preparing, presenting and consuming food and images of food.Quality In Teaching: Arguments For A Reflective Profession
By Wilfred Carr. 1989
offering a critique of the current educational rhetoric and by providing arguments for reviving the moral and social dimensions of…
teaching, this book aims to offer teachers and teacher educators the means to advance The Notion Of "Teaching Quality".Child Sexual Abuse: The Search for Healing
By Christopher Bagley, Kathleen King. 1989
Sharing Maths Cultures: Inventing Maths For Parents And Children And Teachers
By Ruth Merttens, Jeff Vass. 1990
A European Youth Revolt: European Perspectives on Youth Protest and Social Movements in the 1980s (Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements)
By Knud Andresen, Bart van der Steen. 2016
Pidgins and Creoles
By Loreto Todd, Professor Loreto Todd. 1990
The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English based and which have arisen since…
the fifteenth century. The book examines the widespread nature of the pidgin/creole phenomenon and evaluates the current definitions of the terms and the theories which have been advanced to account for their existence. The author considers the potential of pidgins and creoles as literary media and as vehicles for education. She looks at the sociological and psychological implications of using pidgins and creoles in the classroom and examines the position of American `Black English' and `London Jamaican' in the pidgin/creole continuum.European Glocalization in Global Context (Europe In A Global Context)
By Roland Robertson. 2014
This book consists of a collection of essays that deal with glocalization in Europe, including the idea of Europeanization as…
glocalization. The contributors deal with a range of topics including migration, media, football, beauty, Christianity, democracy and the European Union.