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On the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Mike
Makin-Waite surveys the history of the communist movement, tracking
its origins in the Enlightenment, and through nineteenth-century
socialism to the emergence of Marxism and beyond. As we emerge from
the long winter of neoliberalism, and the search is on for ideas
that can help shape a contemporary popular socialism, some of the
questions that have preoccupied socialist thinkers throughout left
history are once more being debated. Should the left press for
reform and work through the state or should it focus on protest and
a critique of the whole system? Is it possible to expand the
liberal idea of democracy to include economic democracy? Which
alliances require too great a compromise and which can help secure
future change? Arguments on questions such as these have been
raging since the mid-nineteenth century, and were the basis of the
split between Social Democrats and Communists in the aftermath of
the First World War. Mike Makin-Waite believes that revisiting
these debates can help us to avoid some of the mistakes made in the
past, and find new solutions to some of these age-old concerns. His
argument is that the democratic and liberal counter-currents that
have always existed within the communist movement have much to
offer the left project today. This unorthodox account therefore
tracks an alternative history that includes nineteenth-century
revisionists such as Karl Kautsky, Menshevik opponents of Bolshevik
oppression in 1917, Popular Front critiques of sectarianism in the
1930s, communist support for 1968's Prague Spring, and the turn to
Gramsci and Eurocommunism in the 1970s. The aim of Communism and
Democracy: history, debates and potentials is to recover some of
the hard-won insights of the critical communist tradition, in the
belief that they can still be of service to the
twenty-first-century left.
Fifty Shades of Pink will turn you another colour altogether. Pink
is most definitely the new grey. From frollicking in the orchard to
grinding in the sty, this book will leave you hungry for more pork
than you can handle...
In this volume, literary scholars and ancient historians from
across the globe investigate the creation, manipulation and
representation of ancient war landscapes in literature. Landscape
can spark armed conflict, dictate its progress and influence the
affective experience of its participants. At the same time, warfare
transforms landscapes, both physically and in the way in which they
are later perceived and experienced. Landscapes of War in Greek and
Roman Literature breaks new ground in exploring Greco-Roman
literary responses to this complex interrelationship. Drawing on
current ideas in cognitive theory, memory studies, ecocriticism and
other fields, its individual chapters engage with such questions
as: how did the Greeks and Romans represent the effects of war on
the natural world? What distinctions did they see between spaces of
war and other landscapes? How did they encode different experiences
of war in literary representations of landscape? How was memory
tied to landscape in wartime or its aftermath? And in what ways did
ancient war landscapes shape modern experiences and representations
of war? In four sections, contributors explore combatants'
perception and experience of war landscapes, the relationship
between war and the natural world, symbolic and actual forms of
territorial control in a military context, and war landscapes as
spaces of memory. Several contributions focus especially on modern
intersections of war, landscape and the classical past.
What was happening in Burnley Town Hall when the British National
Party was winning and holding seats there? What lay behind the far
right's advance, and what effect did it have on local government
and wider policy trends? How did mainstream parties respond? This
is the inside story of these developments, written by the council
worker responsible for promoting good race relations in Burnley
during the turbulent years following the 'northern town
disturbances' of 2001. The book connects the story of one
Lancashire town to contemporary social divisions and political
trends across the UK: - The rise of right-wing populism, widespread
antipathy to immigration, and a deep distrust of established
politicians - The success of Boris Johnson's Conservatives in
offering nationalism as an answer to some people's sense of
abandonment in deindustrialised areas - Labour's attempts to
'reconnect' and win back support in northern constituencies like
Burnley, which voted 67 per cent for Brexit and was one of the 'red
wall' seats that Labour lost at the 2019 general election. On
Burnley Road is both a remarkable example of granular social
history and an urgent contribution to current debates on issues
which affect us all. MakinWaite's perspectives on political
identities, multiculturalism, and the potential of 'civic
mediation' will interest anyone who is looking for effective ways
forward to overcome racism and inequality, and to rebuild our
democratic culture.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, existing methods of executive
leadership have experienced in-depth scrutiny beyond their control.
In reference to Patrick Lencioni, to understand teams is to
comprehend an "inattention to results, an avoidance of
accountability, and a lack of commitment." Executive leaders have
been operating through silent, lucrative and confidential team
dynamics that are difficult to access, and subsequently difficult
to challenge and understand. Dr Katsarou-Makin explores the
team-to-trust and trust-to-team relations between executives and
their associates - pertaining to the familial relations between
these members and their unconventional codes of conduct. Under this
umbrella of governance, directors, leaders and corporate
gatekeepers operate in teams that are selected and trusted through
unorthodox relations which must now come to light. Upon entry,
Maria seeks to explore how these teams operate through a collective
consensus of trust, the values this trust demands, the actions it
produces and the failures it can cause.
This book is the first work that comprehensively presents the
accounts of Lia Eden, a former flower arranger who claims to have
received divine messages from the Archangel Gabriel and founded the
divine Eden Kingdom in her house in Jakarta. This book places Lia
Eden's prophetic trajectory in the context of diverse Indonesian
spiritual and religious traditions, by which hundreds of others
also claimed to have been commanded by God to lead people and to
establish religious groups. This book offers a fresh approach
towards the rich Indonesian religious and spiritual traditions with
particular attention to the accounts of the emergence of indigenous
prophets who founded some popular religions. It presents the
history of prophetic tradition which remains alive in Indonesian
society from the colonial to reform period. It also explores the
ways in which these prophets rebelled against two hegemonies:
colonial power in the past and Islamic orthodoxy in the present.
The discussion of this book focuses on Lia Eden including her
biography, claims to prophethood and divinity, the development of
her group Eden Kingdom, her challenge to Islamic orthodoxy under
the banner of the MUI (Indonesian Ulama Council), her persecution
by radical groups, her experiences in court trials and
imprisonment, and public responses to her emergence. The discussion
also covers other themes currently drawing public attention in
Indonesia, such as pluralism, religious freedom, tolerance,
discrimination against minorities, and secularisation.
This book presents alternative macroeconomic perspectives,
primarily open economy, on the limitations of discretionary fiscal
policy, with a focus on government spending. Following an overview
on the post-crisis Keynesian revival and of the macro-foundations
needed for subsequent analysis, different perspectives are
expounded that highlight the failings of fiscal activism. These
perspectives include extended loanable funds analysis, an
expenditure-output related model incorporating money and exchange
rates, and a dependent economy framework. The approaches are used
to examine investment and net export crowding out effects and their
implications for national income, and are then adapted to show the
macroeconomic impact of different fiscal consolidation measures,
revealing that the nature of fiscal repair is critical. A
concluding chapter evaluates the nexus between budgetary policy and
confidence, summarises the key failings of fiscal activism, and
suggests fiscal policy goals. The book will appeal to university
lecturers and researchers in macroeconomics and economists working
in government and the private sector.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
The ultimate guide to truly knockout plant-based cooking with
recipes, tips and techniques from @schoolnightvegan Imagine a world
with limitless vegan options; a place where anything and everything
can be made vegan. Mac 'n cheese? Proper English fry up? Decadent
ice cream sundae? Imagine no more – you can find them all here!
Anything You Can Cook, I Can Cook Vegan is a guide to truly
creative plant-based cooking with zero sacrifices. With over 100
innovative recipes, along with tips, techniques and ingredient
guides, this book will teach you how to feel more confident than
ever in a plant-based kitchen. With cleverly marked difficulty
levels, recipes range from quick, school-night classics to fun
weekend baking projects. You’ll learn to make delicious meat
alternatives and proper, grateable vegan cheeses, and find out just
how versatile tofu can be. Incredible veganised recipes include: -
Vegan Fried Eggs - Mushroom Brisket Sandwiches - Tempeh Nuggies -
Beefless Bourguignon - Chocolate Pretzel Pie Richard Makin packs
each recipe with genius vegan “hacks” to help everyone from
novice cooks to plant-based pros. This book shows just how exciting
vegan cooking can be, and you'll soon wonder how you ever coped
without it.
This book analyzes key international monetary issues from a
macro-foundations perspective. It proposes novel frameworks to
interpret macroeconomic and financial linkages for globally
integrated economies, examining global imbalances, exchange rates,
interest rates, international capital flows, inflation, foreign and
public debt.
This book provides new ways of analyzing the key issues in
international finance and open economy macroeconomics. The topics
covered include: financial globalization and the evolution of the
international financial system; international macroeconomic
accounting and measurement; early balance of payments approaches;
the intertemporal model of international borrowing and lending; the
significance of external deficits; the determinants of interest
rate differentials and exchange rates; the effectiveness of
monetary and fiscal policies; capital mobility and economic growth;
and the causes of financial crisis in emerging economies.
This book examines the causes, consequences and policy significance
of international capital movements and nations' external account
imbalances. Traditional theoretical approaches to balance of
payments analysis, such as the classical, elasticities, absorption,
monetary and Mundell-Fleming models are critically evaluated
against an extended international macroeconomic accounting
framework. More meaningful capital theoretic models then link
saving, investment and foreign capital movements to highlight the
macroeconomic gains from international capital mobility and
international trade in saving.
Where would you go if you had a magic carpet? Take the journey of a
lifetime and explore 19 real-life, off-limits locations... Whether
you'd prefer to visit a volcano, do some supernatural sightseeing
in Area 51, take a tour of the remotest island on Earth, or plunder
the Secret Archives of the Vatican, the magic carpet will cover the
four corners of the globe - and reveal hundreds of hidden secrets
in between!
This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 2022
edition of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance
(APEF), which is held annually in Singapore. With a great number of
submissions, it presents the latest research findings in economics
and finance and discusses relevant issues in today's world. The
book is a useful resource for readers who want access to economics,
finance and business research focusing on the Asia-Pacific region.
The APEF 2021 conference was conducted virtually due to the
Covid-19 pandemic.
Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte
Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the
vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other
children of the village with wondrous tales--watching Proust play
tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas II's visit to Paris, French
president Felix Faure dying in the arms of his mistress. But from
his mysterious grandmother, Andrei also learns of a Russia he has
never known: a country of famine and misery, brutal injustice, and
the hopeless chaos of war.
Enthralled, he weaves her stories into his own secret universe of
memory and dream. She creates for him a vivid portrait of the
France of her childhood, a distant Atlantis far more elegant,
carefree, and stimulating than Russia in the 1970s and '80s. Her
warm, artful memories of her homeland and of books captivate
Andrei. Absorbed in this vision, he becomes an outsider in his own
country, and eventually a restless traveler around Europe. "Dreams
of My Russian Summers" is an epic full of passion and tenderness,
pain and heartbreak, mesmerizing in every way.
Traditionally, forensic investigation has not been fully utilized
in the investigation of property crime. This ground-breaking book
examines the experiences of patrol officers, command staff,
detectives, and chiefs as they navigate the expectations of
forensic evidence in criminal cases, specifically property crimes
cases. DNA and Property Crime Scene Investigation looks at the
current state of forensic technology and, using interviews with
police officers, command staff, forensic technicians, and
prosecutors, elucidates who is doing the work of forensic
investigation. It explores how better training can decrease
backlogs in forensic evidence processing and prevent mishandling of
crucial evidence. Concluding with a police chief's perspective on
the approach, DNA and Property Crime Scene Investigation provides
insight into an emerging and important approach to property crime
scene investigation. Key Features Provides practical information on
implementing forensic investigation for property crimes Examines
the current state of forensic technology and points to future
trends Includes a police chief's perspective on the forensic
approach to investigating property crimes Utilizes interviews with
professionals in the field to demonstrate the benefits of the
approach
Identifies and investigates international medievalism through three
distinct strands: "Internationally Nationalist", "Someone Else's
Past?", and "Activist Medievalism". Medievalism - the reception of
the Middle Ages - often invokes a set of tropes generally
considered 'medieval', rather than consciously engaging with
medieval cultures and societies. International medievalism offers
an additional interpretative layer by juxtaposing two or more
national cultures, at least one of which is medieval. 'National'
can be aspirational: it might refer to the area within agreed
borders, or to the people who live there, but it might also
describe the people who understand, or imagine, themselves to
constitute a nation. And once 'medieval' becomes simply a
collection of ideas, it can be re-formed as desired, cast as more
geographically than historically specific, or function as a gateway
to an even more nebulous past. This collection identifies and
investigates international medievalism through three distinct
strands, 'Internationally Nationalist', 'Someone Else's Past?', and
'Activist Medievalism', exploring medievalist media from the
textual to the architectural. Subjects range from The Green
Children of Woolpit to Refugee Tales, and from Viking metal to Joan
of Arc. As the contributors to each section make clear, for
centuries the medieval has provided material for countless
competing causes and cannot be contained within historical,
political, or national borders. The essays show how the medieval is
repeatedly co-opted and recreated, formed as much as formative:
inviting us to ask why, and in service of what.
When organizations face problems with costs, quality, productivity
and attendance, these problems primarily stem from bad behaviour
patterns being encouraged within the organization. To prevent and
stop these problems, a behavioural approach to managing people is
often the most effective. Changing Behaviour at Work is a lively
textbook that illustrates how behaviour analysis theory can be used
to alter how people behave at work. Showing how managers can
identify, measure and analyse undesirable behaviour, the book takes
a highly practical look at management strategies. The authors use
real life case study examples to show how managers can implement
effective strategies of change, with examples ranging from
behavioural self-management, to changing the behaviour of large
groups. Topics covered include: history of behavioural theory and
psychology traditional approaches to management self-management
managing groups organizational level management. Offering both a
theoretically grounded and highly practical perspective, this is an
essential purchase for all those seeking to understand how to
manage people and organizations more effectively.
Russell's "On Denoting" and Frege's "On Sense and Reference" are
now widely held to be two of the founding papers of 20th-century
philosophy and form the heart of the famous "linguistic turn". They
have generated a wealth of secondary literature and remain at the
forefront of contemporary discussion in philosophy of language,
thought and logic. This book challenges the accepted understanding
of these two seminal papers. It forces us to reconsider
contemporary approaches to the semantics of proper names and
definite descriptions through a historically sensitive
interpretation of Russell's and Frege's work on meaning. Gideon
Makin compares the work Russell did shortly before his famous essay
"On Denoting" with the essay itself and argues that this comparison
shows that the traditional view of the problem Russell was trying
to solve is untenable. Makin then examines Frege's classic essay
and argues that some of the less well-known views that Frege held
have radical implications for our understanding of this essay.
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