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This unique book draws on research that constituted the first major
nationwide evaluation of the use and impact of key digital health
information platforms which were provided to thousands of health
consumers in the UK. The authors offer the first comprehensive and
detailed comparison of usage and impact of the three major ICT
platforms delivering health information - the internet,
touch-screen kiosks and digital interactive television. It provides
an extensive reference source on how health consumers behave when
online, whether this differs according to digital platform or type
of user, how users perceive digital health services and what health
benefits these services deliver. The book will be invaluable
reading for all those interested in digital health information -
students, academics, health policy-makers and information managers.
The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500, the second part of David
Nicholas's ambitious two-volume study of cities and city life in
the Middle Ages, fully lives up to its splendid precursor, The
Growth of the Medieval City. (Like that volume it is fully
self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use the two as a
continuum.) This book covers a much shorter period than the first.
That traced the rise of the medieval European city system from late
Antiquity to the early fourteenth century; this offers a portrait
of the fully developed late medieval city in all its richness and
complexity. David Nicholas begins with the economic and demographic
realignments of the last two medieval centuries. These fostered
urban growth, raising living standards and increasing demand for a
growing range of urban manufactures. The hunger for imports and a
shortage of coin led to sophisticated credit mechanisms that could
only function through large cities. But, if these changes brought
new opportunities to the wealthy, they also created a growing
problem of urban poverty: violence became endemic in the later
medieval city. Moreover, although more rebellions were sparked by
taxes than by class conflict, class divisions were deepening. Most
cities came to be governed by councils chosen from guild-members,
and most guilds were dominated by merchants. The landowning elite
that had dominated the early medieval cities of the first volume
still retained its prestige, but its wealth was outstripped by the
richer merchants; while craftsmen, who had little political
influence, were further disadvantaged as access to the guilds
became more restricted. The later medieval cities developed
permanent bureaucracies providing a huge range of public services,
and they were paid for by sophisticated systems of taxation and
public borrowing. The survival of their fuller, richer records
allow us not only to apply a more statistical approach, but also to
get much closer, to the splendours and squalors of everyday
city-life than was possible in the earlier volume. The book
concludes with a set of vibrant chapters on women and children and
religious minorities in the city, on education and culture, and on
the tenor of ordinary urban existence. Like its predecessor, this
book is massively, and vividly, documented. Its approach is
interdisciplinary and comparative, and its examples and case
studies are drawn from across Europe: from France, England,
Germany, the Low Countries, Iberia and Italy, with briefer reviews
of the urban experience elsewhere from Baltic to Balkans. The
result is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date study of its
multifaceted subject. It is a formidable achievement.
Aiming at ensuring that everyone obtains the rich rewards available
in today's information-centred society, this book seeks to provide
a systematic method for the understanding, appreciation and
evaluation of information needs, which alone can guarantee the
value of information to the consumer. Based on the insights gained
from research projects involving hundreds of thousands of people,
it sets out to provide a framework, firmly grounded in theory but
nevertheless highly practical, for information needs analysis. The
book is written both for librarians, publishers, archivists,
records managers, journalists and other information professionals,
to help them in their efforts to design improved systems and
monitor the effectiveness of their services on an ongoing basis,
and for individual information consumers, to enable them better to
meet their own information needs in the expanding sphere of virtual
information.
Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book
investigates landscape architecture's inherent temporality. It
argues that the rich history of notating time in music provides a
critical model for this under-researched and under-theorised aspect
of landscape architecture, while also ennobling sound in the
sensory appreciation of landscape. A Musicology for Landscape makes
available to a wider landscape architecture and urban design
audience the works of three influential composers - Morton Feldman,
Gyoergy Ligeti and Michael Finnissy - presenting a critical
evaluation of their work within music, as well as a means in which
it might be used in design research. Each of the musical scores is
juxtaposed with design representations by Kevin Appleyard, Bernard
Tschumi and William Kent, before the author examines four landscape
spaces through the development of new landscape architectural
notations. In doing so, this work offers valuable insights into the
methods used by landscape architects for the benefit of musicians,
and by bringing together musical composition and landscape
architecture through notation, it affords a focused and sensitive
exploration of temporality and sound in both fields.
Drawing conceptually and directly on music notation, this book
investigates landscape architecture's inherent temporality. It
argues that the rich history of notating time in music provides a
critical model for this under-researched and under-theorised aspect
of landscape architecture, while also ennobling sound in the
sensory appreciation of landscape. A Musicology for Landscape makes
available to a wider landscape architecture and urban design
audience the works of three influential composers - Morton Feldman,
Gyoergy Ligeti and Michael Finnissy - presenting a critical
evaluation of their work within music, as well as a means in which
it might be used in design research. Each of the musical scores is
juxtaposed with design representations by Kevin Appleyard, Bernard
Tschumi and William Kent, before the author examines four landscape
spaces through the development of new landscape architectural
notations. In doing so, this work offers valuable insights into the
methods used by landscape architects for the benefit of musicians,
and by bringing together musical composition and landscape
architecture through notation, it affords a focused and sensitive
exploration of temporality and sound in both fields.
The Later Medieval City, 1300-1500, the second part of David
Nicholas's ambitious two-volume study of cities and city life in
the Middle Ages, fully lives up to its splendid precursor, The
Growth of the Medieval City. (Like that volume it is fully
self-sufficient, though many readers will want to use the two as a
continuum.) This book covers a much shorter period than the first.
That traced the rise of the medieval European city system from late
Antiquity to the early fourteenth century; this offers a portrait
of the fully developed late medieval city in all its richness and
complexity. David Nicholas begins with the economic and demographic
realignments of the last two medieval centuries. These fostered
urban growth, raising living standards and increasing demand for a
growing range of urban manufactures. The hunger for imports and a
shortage of coin led to sophisticated credit mechanisms that could
only function through large cities. But, if these changes brought
new opportunities to the wealthy, they also created a growing
problem of urban poverty: violence became endemic in the later
medieval city. Moreover, although more rebellions were sparked by
taxes than by class conflict, class divisions were deepening. Most
cities came to be governed by councils chosen from guild-members,
and most guilds were dominated by merchants. The landowning elite
that had dominated the early medieval cities of the first volume
still retained its prestige, but its wealth was outstripped by the
richer merchants; while craftsmen, who had little political
influence, were further disadvantaged as access to the guilds
became more restricted. The later medieval cities developed
permanent bureaucracies providing a huge range of public services,
and they were paid for by sophisticated systems of taxation and
public borrowing. The survival of their fuller, richer records
allow us not only to apply a more statistical approach, but also to
get much closer, to the splendours and squalors of everyday
city-life than was possible in the earlier volume. The book
concludes with a set of vibrant chapters on women and children and
religious minorities in the city, on education and culture, and on
the tenor of ordinary urban existence. Like its predecessor, this
book is massively, and vividly, documented. Its approach is
interdisciplinary and comparative, and its examples and case
studies are drawn from across Europe: from France, England,
Germany, the Low Countries, Iberia and Italy, with briefer reviews
of the urban experience elsewhere from Baltic to Balkans. The
result is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date study of its
multifaceted subject. It is a formidable achievement.
Cradle of northern Europe's later urban and industrial
pre-eminence, medieval Flanders was a region of immense political
and economic importance -- and already, as so often later, the
battleground of foreign powers. Yet this book is, remarkably, the
first comprehensive modern history of the region. Within the
framework of a clear political narrative, it presents a vivid
portrait of medieval Flemish life that will be essential reading
for the medievalist -- and a boon for the many visitors to Bruges
and Ghent eager for a better understanding of what they see.
This unique book draws on research that constituted the first major
nationwide evaluation of the use and impact of key digital health
information platforms which were provided to thousands of health
consumers in the UK. The authors offer the first comprehensive and
detailed comparison of usage and impact of the three major ICT
platforms delivering health information - the internet,
touch-screen kiosks and digital interactive television. It provides
an extensive reference source on how health consumers behave when
online, whether this differs according to digital platform or type
of user, how users perceive digital health services and what health
benefits these services deliver. The book will be invaluable
reading for all those interested in digital health information -
students, academics, health policy-makers and information managers.
Flanders, best known for its large cities and export-grade woollen
cloth, is the setting for these articles. Professor Nicholas here
emphasises the region's broader importance in the economy of
medieval Europe as a focus of demand for grain and industrial raw
materials. Imports to supply the bloated internal markets were more
important in establishing the Flemish cities and creating the
capital base of their elites than were cloth exports, which by the
14th century were being undercut by competitors from England and
Brabant. The second part of the book looks at the turbulent
domestic politics of the Flemish cities, conditioned by a network
of nuclear and extended families whose personal antagonisms and
heightened consciousness of honour led to decimating vendettas of a
severity once associated mainly with Italy. It also examines the
mix of urban and rural interests that characterised the elite,
showing for instance that the famous van Arteveldes were as
noteworthy in the swamps of northeastern Flanders as in the streets
of Ghent.
Aiming at ensuring that everyone obtains the rich rewards
available in today's information-centred society, this book seeks
to provide a systematic method for the understanding, appreciation
and evaluation of information needs, which alone can guarantee the
value of information to the consumer. Based on the insights gained
from research projects involving hundreds of thousands of people,
it sets out to provide a framework, firmly grounded in theory but
nevertheless highly practical, for information needs analysis. The
book is written both for librarians, publishers, archivists,
records managers, journalists and other information professionals,
to help them in their efforts to design improved systems and
monitor the effectiveness of their services on an ongoing basis,
and for individual information consumers, to enable them better to
meet their own information needs in the expanding sphere of virtual
information.
Comparative Perspectives on History and Historians: Essays in
Memory of Bryce Lyon (1920-2007) features a section of
appreciations of Bryce Lyon from the three editors, R. C. Van
Caenegem, and Walter Prevenier, followed by three sections on the
major areas on which Lyon's research concentrated: the legacy of
Henri Pirenne, constitutional and legal history of England and the
Continent, and the economic history of the Low Countries. Original
essays by Bernard S. Bachrach, David S. Bachrach, Jan Dumolyn,
Caroline Dunn, Jelle Haemers, John H. A. Munro, James M. Murray,
Anthony Musson, David Nicholas, W. Mark Ormrod, Walter Prevenier,
Jeff Rider, Don C. Skemer, and Marci Sortor deepen our
understanding of Lyon's career and significance and further our
knowledge of the areas in which he worked.
The breadth of articles contained in this volume reflects the
breadth of Bryce Lyon's scholarly interests. Topics include
marriage rules as they relate to women and incest, Bernard of
Clairvaux, Henry I, and executions in late medieval Paris. This
collection honors Bryce Lyon and his considerable impact on
medieval studies as a whole.
Cross-border investigations are on the increase; are you confident
that you can effectively challenge a Red Notice? The last thirty
years have seen a huge increase in co-operation between
international law enforcement agencies in relation to the
investigation of cross-border and transnational crime. A
significant contributor to this increased co-operation is INTERPOL,
which has a significant role in the sharing of intelligence and the
circulation of Red Notices. This comprehensive text examines how
INTERPOL processes Red Notices and how they can be identified and
challenged. A Practical Guide to INTERPOL and Red Notices is
written by leading practitioners with significant experience of
cross-border investigations. Expert guidance is provided through a
series of worked case studies, practical tactics and tips,
supported by inclusion of all relevant INTERPOL resolutions,
statutes and operating rules. This new title covers: INTERPOL -
origins and historical development INTERPOL today Red Notices and
Diffusions Criticisms of Red Notices and Diffusions and efforts
towards reform Finding out whether a Red Notice exists Challenging
Red Notices and Diffusions Extradition and INTERPOL Red Notices -
practical guidance
Except for a thin slice of territory south of the Yser River,
Belgium was entirely occupied by the Germans from October 15, 1914
until the end of the First World War. The suffering of the Belgian
people, which made such a vivid impression on Americans, British,
Canadians, and Australians at the time, has been largely forgotten.
The invasion was accompanied by mass executions and wholesale
arson; nearly 6,000 civilians were killed. Over 2 million Belgians
escaped to the Netherlands, France, and Britain. When order was
restored, the nation faced a grave economic crisis. A major
exporter and among the most prosperous countries in Europe, Belgium
was now cut off from its supplies of raw material and its markets,
and subject to heavy war taxes, fines, and requisitions. As Germany
began increasingly to feel the effects of the Allied blockade, the
temptation grew to exploit to the hilt all Belgian resources,
including labor. With eloquence and passion, the eminent
medievalist Henri Pirenne (1862-1935) describes the hunger, the
deprivations, the unemployment, the arbitrary arrests and
deportations, the indignities of home invasions and confiscations,
the censorship, the conscription of workers, the dismantling and
destruction of Belgian factories, and the administrative division
of the country. Belgium and the First World War comprehensively
surveys the catastrophe and chronicles the stoicism and the
resiliency with which Belgians responded.
Reflecting the vigor of both urban and medieval history, this timely textbook from an established scholar in urban studies is a broadly interdisciplinary work that breaks new ground by emphasizing the links between the late medieval and early modern cities. Adopting an organic, environmental approach, David Nicholas examines the common social, governmental, economic and intellectual roles played by most pre-modern cities.
A survey of the history of Europe during the three centuries
traditionally seen as bridging the "late mediaeval" or
"Renaissance" periods and the early modern age. It shows the
important changes in the political configuration and governing
institutions of Europe, economic developments and social problems,
Europe's relations with the broader world, creative activity and
religious attitudes that begin at the end of the 14th century and
culminate in the early 17th. Themes include the development of
state institutions at both the national and local levels; the
growth of an integrated European economy in the course of a cycle
of depression to recovery; the transition of a Europe under siege
by eastern powers to an expansionist and colonial Europe; the
changing attitudes toward the classical and Christian heritages of
Europe as reflected in educational institutions, curricula and
attitudes and in secular and religious expression. Although the
importance of seeing the entire period as a unit is emphasized
throughout, the book is structured in two parts, dividing around
1450, so that those who prefer the more traditional periodization
can still readily use it.
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