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Spatial planning has a vital role to play in the move to a low
carbon energy future and in adapting to climate change. To do this,
spatial planning must develop and implement new approaches.
Elizabeth Wilson and Jake Piper explore a wide range of issues in
this comprehensive book on the relationship between our changing
climate and spatial planning, and suggest ways of addressing the
challenges by taking a longer-sighted approach to our preparation
for the future. This text includes: an overview of what we know
already about future climate change and its impacts, as we attempt
both to adapt to these changes and to reduce the emissions which
cause them the role of spatial planning in relation to climate
change, offering some theoretical and political explanations for
the challenges that planning faces in the coming decades a review
of policy and legislation at international, EU and UK levels in
regard to climate change, and the support this gives to the
planning system case studies detailing what responses the UK and
the Netherlands have made so far in light of the evidence ways to
help new and existing urban developments to reduce energy use and
to adapt to climate change, through strengthening the relationships
between urban and rural areas to avoid water shortage, floods or
loss of biodiversity. The authors take an evidence-based look at
this hugely important topic, providing a well-illustrated text for
spatial planning professionals, politicians and the interested
public, as well as a useful reference for postgraduate planning,
geography, urban studies, urban design and environmental studies
students.
Spatial planning has a vital role to play in the move to a low
carbon energy future and in adapting to climate change. To do this,
spatial planning must develop and implement new approaches.
Elizabeth Wilson and Jake Piper explore a wide range of issues in
this comprehensive book on the relationship between our changing
climate and spatial planning, and suggest ways of addressing the
challenges by taking a longer-sighted approach to our preparation
for the future. This text includes: an overview of what we know
already about future climate change and its impacts, as we attempt
both to adapt to these changes and to reduce the emissions which
cause them the role of spatial planning in relation to climate
change, offering some theoretical and political explanations for
the challenges that planning faces in the coming decades a review
of policy and legislation at international, EU and UK levels in
regard to climate change, and the support this gives to the
planning system case studies detailing what responses the UK and
the Netherlands have made so far in light of the evidence ways to
help new and existing urban developments to reduce energy use and
to adapt to climate change, through strengthening the relationships
between urban and rural areas to avoid water shortage, floods or
loss of biodiversity. The authors take an evidence-based look at
this hugely important topic, providing a well-illustrated text for
spatial planning professionals, politicians and the interested
public, as well as a useful reference for postgraduate planning,
geography, urban studies, urban design and environmental studies
students.
Study Skills for Foundation Degrees offers a step-by-step guide to
the skills needed to successfully complete a Foundation Degree.
Filled with activities and useful tips, it will help students to
move from nervous novice to confident expert and provide them with
the necessary tools to accomplish this. By reading this book,
students will be able to learn new skills and enhance existing
ones. This third edition has been fully updated and features new
chapters on e-learning and dissertations as well as expanded
sections on ethics, feedback and referencing. Each chapter includes
practical guidance as well as student perspectives that will help
students through their course of study. It includes advice on how
to support learning, boost motivation and enhance time management,
and covers all the essential skills required for successful study,
including: Effective reading and note-taking strategies Developing
oral skills in a wide range of presentation settings, including
what makes a good presentation and how each stage of the process
can be prepared for Carrying out well-planned, methodologically
sound and well-written research Preparing for examinations and
other forms of assessment Producing a professional development
portfolio or winning CV Highly accessible, this new edition is an
essential resource for all Foundation Degree students who want to
get the most out of their course, mature students or anyone with
limited or no experience of academic study.
Women and the Welfare State approaches the question of welfare
policy from an entirely fresh perspective. In it the author argues
that an appreciation of the way in which women are defined by
welfare policies, and have been since the beginnings of the
Industrial Revolution, is essential to a true understanding of the
nature of those policies and of the Welfare State. An important,
possible the most important, function of welfare policy has been to
promote and retain a particular form of the family; indeed, one can
define the Welfare State as the State organization of domestic
life. To illustrate her arguments the author looks at the
development of State welfare intervention from the early nineteenth
century to the present day and relates it to the changing position
of women, children, and of the family. The traditional Marxist view
is modified by a theory of the position of women and by relating
changing welfare policies and beliefs about welfare both to the
women s movements of the past century and to the ideas and theories
of the contemporary Women s Liberation Movement. In her approach
Elizabeth Wilson argues uniquely among writers on the Welfare State
for an emphasis on the ideology of welfare.
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a new approach to
environmental assessment, global in scope, which considers the
environmental impacts of policies, plans and programmes. It is
already in use in a number of countries and is rapidly being
adopted by those involved with environmental management and
regulation, including governments, official and voluntary sector
agencies, academic courses and consultancies. This text defines and
analyzes SEA within the overall context of environmental
assessment. It introduces and reviews the current state of SEA,
evaluates its application in a number of countries with a range of
detailed case studies, provides a critique of its techniques and an
analysis of its importance for the future.
Women and the Welfare State approaches the question of welfare
policy from an entirely fresh perspective. In it the author argues
that an appreciation of the way in which women are defined by
welfare policies, and have been since the beginnings of the
Industrial Revolution, is essential to a true understanding of the
nature of those policies and of the Welfare State. An important,
possible the most important, function of welfare policy has been to
promote and retain a particular form of the family; indeed, one can
define the Welfare State as the State organization of domestic
life. To illustrate her arguments the author looks at the
development of State welfare intervention from the early nineteenth
century to the present day and relates it to the changing position
of women, children, and of the family. The traditional Marxist view
is modified by a theory of the position of women and by relating
changing welfare policies and beliefs about welfare both to the
women's movements of the past century and to the ideas and theories
of the contemporary Women's Liberation Movement. In her approach
Elizabeth Wilson argues - uniquely among writers on the Welfare
State - for an emphasis on the ideology of welfare.
"Fascinating." Perspective "A fascinating, often funny, and
eminently stylish personal memoir ... I loved it." - Chris Breward,
author of The Suit "Wide-ranging, thought-provoking and important."
- Claire Wilcox, author of Patch Work Elizabeth Wilson is a pioneer
of fashion studies, yet she never intended to become an academic.
Starting her literary career as a feminist activist writing for the
underground press, she went on to explore tennis, 'bohemians' and
of course fashion - her obsession - along with forays into fiction.
Throughout, she has never seen her work as abstract or disengaged
from 'real life'. In her memoir, she traces this relationship
between personal experience and her writing, revisiting pivotal
moments from childhood, adolescence and adult life to explore her
belief that research, by its nature, is always a form of
autobiography. She unfolds the garment of her life in a
wide-ranging exploration of scenes from her past: her difficult
relationship with her mother, fashion in the 60s and gay
liberation. In this journey through time she shows how experiences
are inseparable from the way we seek to explain and understand
them, offering a unique and deeply personal account of her - and
our - cultural world.
Study Skills for Foundation Degrees offers a step-by-step guide to
the skills needed to successfully complete a Foundation Degree.
Filled with activities and useful tips, it will help students to
move from nervous novice to confident expert and provide them with
the necessary tools to accomplish this. By reading this book,
students will be able to learn new skills and enhance existing
ones. This third edition has been fully updated and features new
chapters on e-learning and dissertations as well as expanded
sections on ethics, feedback and referencing. Each chapter includes
practical guidance as well as student perspectives that will help
students through their course of study. It includes advice on how
to support learning, boost motivation and enhance time management,
and covers all the essential skills required for successful study,
including: Effective reading and note-taking strategies Developing
oral skills in a wide range of presentation settings, including
what makes a good presentation and how each stage of the process
can be prepared for Carrying out well-planned, methodologically
sound and well-written research Preparing for examinations and
other forms of assessment Producing a professional development
portfolio or winning CV Highly accessible, this new edition is an
essential resource for all Foundation Degree students who want to
get the most out of their course, mature students or anyone with
limited or no experience of academic study.
The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria
Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual
life "Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work-a phenomenal
biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting
relevance."-Norman Lebrecht, Wall Street Journal Maria Yudina was
no ordinary musician. An incredibly popular pianist, she lived on
the fringes of Soviet society and had close friendships with such
towering figures as Boris Pasternak, Pavel Florensky, and Mikhail
Bakhtin. Legend has it that she was Stalin's favorite pianist.
Yudina was at the height of her fame during WWII, broadcasting
almost daily on the radio, playing concerts for the wounded and
troops in hospitals and on submarines, and performing for the
inhabitants of besieged Leningrad. By the last years of her life,
she had been dismissed for ideological reasons from the three
institutions where she taught. And yet, according to Shostakovich,
Yudina remained "a special case. . . . The ocean was only knee-deep
for her." In this engaging biography, Elizabeth Wilson sets
Yudina's extraordinary life within the context of her times, where
her musical career is measured against the intense intellectual and
religious ferment of the postrevolutionary period and the ensuing
years of Soviet repression.
London in the aftermath of WW2 is a beaten down, hungry place, so
it's no wonder that Regine Milner's Sunday house parties in her
Hampstead home are so popular. Everyone comes to Reggie's on a
Sunday: ballet dancers and cabinet ministers, left-over Mosleyites
alongside flamboyant homosexuals like Freddie Buckingham. And when
Freddie turns up dead on the Heath one Sunday night there is no
shortage of suspects. War Damage is both a high-class thriller and
a wonderful evocation of Britain staggering back to its feet after
the privations of the War. And in Regine Milner it possesses a
truly memorable heroine. She's full of secrets - just what did
happen in Shanghai before the war? - and surprises - Reggie's
living proof that sexual experimentation was alive and well long
before the sixties.
Elizabeth Wilson is one of our most radical cultural critics. In
"Cultural Passions" she transcends the division between 'high' and
'low' culture, exploring the emotional commitment people bring to
the books, performances, objects and rituals in which they find
meaning and challenging an enduring suspicion of the pleasure of
the aesthetic. Ranging from Marcel Proust to tarot readings, from
urban planning to interiors, Elizabeth Wilson investigates an
underlying Puritanism in critical commentary on matters as wide
ranging as Roger Federer and C S Lewis, Surrealism and fashion and
the relationship of religion to fan culture. She questions why
pleasure appears suspect, even as consumer society incites it and
turns life into entertainment. She questions why there is such fear
of elitism when at the same time the fans of mass culture are held
in contempt. Subverting conventional views, her oblique point of
view provides startling insights on both familiar and marginal
cultural experiences.
Shostakovich: A Life Remembered is a unique study of the great
composer Dmitri Shostakovich, based on reminiscences from his
contemporaries: family members, friends, fellow musicians and other
prominent figures of the time. Elizabeth Wilson covers the
composer's life from his early successes to his struggles under the
Stalinist regime, and his international recognition as one of the
leading composers of the 20th century. She builds up a detailed
picture of Shostakovich's creative processes, how he was perceived
by contemporaries and of the increased contrast between his private
life and public image as his fame increased. This revised edition,
produced to coincide with the centenary of Shostakovich's birth,
draws on many new writings on the composer. This provides both a
more detailed and focused image of Shostakovich's life, and a wider
view of his cultural background. A particular aspect of
Shostakovich which is revealed in this new edition is his sardonic
and witty sense of humour, displayed in many of his letters to
close friends. Shostakovich: A Life Remembered provides fascinating
insight into the complex personality and the musical life of this
great composer, and examines his position as one of the major
figures of cultural life in 20th century Russia.
When "Adorned in Dreams" was first published in 1985, Angela Carter
described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar
none'. Elizabeth Wilson traces the social and cultural history of
fashion and its complex relationship to modernity. Wilson delights
in the power of fashion to mark out identity or to subvert it and
this brand new edition of her book follows recent developments to
bring the story of fashionable dress up to date, exploring the
grunge look inspired by bands like Nirvana, the 'boho chic' of the
mid 90's, retro-dressing and the meanings of dress from the veil to
Beck's pink-varnished toenails.
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Gluck - Art and Identity (Hardcover)
Amy De La Haye, Martin Pel; Contributions by Gill Clarke, Jeffrey Horsley, Andrew Macintosh Patrick, …
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Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895-1976) was a
distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in
Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of
Gluck's life and work, examining, among other things, the artist's
numerous personal relationships and contemporary notions of gender
and social history. Gluck's paintings comprise a full range of
artistic genres-still life, landscape, portraiture-as well as
images of popular entertainers. Financially independent and
somewhat freed from social convention, Gluck highlighted her sexual
identity, cutting her hair short and dressing as a man, and the
artist is known for a powerful series of self-portraits that played
with conventions of masculinity and femininity. Richly illustrated,
this volume is a timely and significant contribution to gender
studies and to the understanding of a complex and important modern
painter. Published in association with the Brighton Museum &
Art Gallery and London College of Fashion Exhibition Schedule:
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, England (11/18/17-03/11/18)
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