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Henry Romilly Fedden, Alexander William Kinglake
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This 1948 edition of this popular work, first published in 1844
presents an entertaining account of the author's Eastern travels.
Ostensibly with a view to providing a suggested outline of a tour
to the interested reader, the book's portrayal of the internal
journey one takes when travelling is as important an aspect of the
book's value as is the historical interest it provides.
1948 edition of this popular work, first published in 1844. It
presents an entertaining account of the author's Eastern travels.
Ostensibly with a view to providing a suggested outline of a tour
to the interested reader, the book's portrayal of the internal
journey one takes when travelling is as important an aspect of the
book's value as is the historical interest it provides.
This book interweaves an authoritative authorial commentary -
significantly expanded from the last edition - with extracts from a
diverse and contemporary collection of cases and materials from
three leading academics in the field. It provides an
all-encompassing student guide to constitutional, administrative
and UK human rights law. This fourth edition provides comprehensive
coverage of all recent developments, including the Fixed Term
Parliaments Act 2011, restrictions on judicial review (Criminal
Justice and Courts Act 2015), changes to judicial appointments
(Crime and Courts Act 2013), the 2014 Scottish Independence
Referendum, Scotland Act 2016 and draft Wales Bill 2016. Recent
devolution cases in the Supreme Court, including Imperial Tobacco
(2012) and Asbestos Diseases (2015) are fully analysed, as is the
2015 introduction of English Votes for English Laws. The remarkable
Evans (2015) 'Black Spider memos' case is considered in a number of
chapters. The common law rights resurgence seen in Osborn (2013),
BBC (2014) and Kennedy (2014) is analysed in several places, along
with other key developments in judicial review such as Keyu (2015)
and Pham (2015). Ongoing parliamentary reform in both Lords and
Commons, including major advances in controlling prerogative
powers, are fully explained, as is the adaptation of the core
Executive to Coalition Government (2010-2015). There is
comprehensive coverage of key Strasbourg and HRA cases (Horncastle
(2010), Nicklinson (2014), Moohan (2014), Carlile (2014)), and
those in core areas of freedom of expression, police powers and
public order (Animal Defenders (2013), Beghal (2015), Roberts
(2015), Miranda (2016)) and the prisoners' voting rights saga, up
to Chester (2015).
It took Kinglake seven years before he had finished crafting this
`lively, brilliant and rather insolent tale. The physical details
of the journey, undertaken in 1834 across the Balkan frontiers of
the Ottoman Empire, through Constantinople, Smyrna, Cyprus into the
Near eastern cities of Jerusalem, Cairo and Damascus, are never as
significant as the conversations, chance encounters and attitudes
of the author. Packed full of an infectious charm and a youthful
delight at the world, it is above all things funny as it lampoons
the pomposity of earnest, middle?aged travellers seeking to
establish themselves as professional authorities.
In recent years, prominent scholars, public intellectuals, and
politicians have advocated reforming America's economic model to
embrace "common-good capitalism." Catholic social teaching is a
major influence on this movement. Is common-good capitalism
compatible with the historical American commitments to private
property rights and ordered liberty? What resources from Catholic
social teaching can help orient free enterprise towards the common
good? This book is the first scholarly inquiry into these exciting
new questions. We can better understand common-good capitalism by
exploring the political economy of distributism. Formulated in the
early 20th century by prominent Catholic intellectuals such as
Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton, distributism emphasizes the
importance of widely dispersed property ownership for human
flourishing. Distributist thinkers, opposed both to capitalism and
socialism, sought a humane approach to politics and economics that
reflected the truths of Catholic social teaching. Some of the
distributists' claims about markets and government must be revised
in light of contemporary social science. Nevertheless, their
political-economic vision contains profound truths about the human
condition, which social scientists would be unwise to ignore.
Distributism's insights about the nature of liberty and the social
foundations of human dignity can improve ongoing conversations
among economists, political scientists, and philosophers. The
Political Economy of Distributism explores distributism both as a
research program and a blueprint for political-economic reform. As
many are reconsidering the relationship between markets and
government, this timely book demonstrates the perennial relevance
of the Catholic intellectual tradition to public affairs.
Academics, public servants, policy experts, and concerned citizens
can all benefit from this timely study of common-good capitalism's
prospects.
In this age of specialization most patients with diseases of the
hind gut and anus are still managed by general physicians or
surgeons. The speciality of coloproctology has grown from the art
of 'anology', a study of conditions limited to that distance from
the anal verge that could be inspected easily by torch- or
candlelight or with the aid of a simple speculum. Two centuries ago
many proctological ills were often treated by itinerant quacks,
partly because the physician considered himself rather too grand to
meddle around the anus and the medical profession in general tended
to look down on those who studied anal disease. Today, in certain
countries, coloproctology has become a speciality every bit as
exclusive as urology or orthopaedic surgery, with its own training
programme and examinations, usually undertaken after the end of
general surgical training. Such super-specialization has undeniable
advantages with rapidly advancing technology and therapeutic
possibilities. There is no doubt that for the patient suffering
from a low rectal carcinoma or severe inflammatory bowel disease
there are advantages in being treated by surgeons who are dealing
with several cases in a year rather than by a general surgeon who
sees such problems relatively rarely. Such specialized colorectal
surgery units makes good sense medically and economically in large
centres of population with good communications.
This book interweaves an authoritative authorial commentary -
significantly expanded from the last edition - with extracts from a
diverse and contemporary collection of cases and materials from
three leading academics in the field. It provides an
all-encompassing student guide to constitutional, administrative
and UK human rights law. This fourth edition provides comprehensive
coverage of all recent developments, including the Fixed Term
Parliaments Act 2011, restrictions on judicial review (Criminal
Justice and Courts Act 2015), changes to judicial appointments
(Crime and Courts Act 2013), the 2014 Scottish Independence
Referendum, Scotland Act 2016 and draft Wales Bill 2016. Recent
devolution cases in the Supreme Court, including Imperial Tobacco
(2012) and Asbestos Diseases (2015) are fully analysed, as is the
2015 introduction of English Votes for English Laws. The remarkable
Evans (2015) 'Black Spider memos' case is considered in a number of
chapters. The common law rights resurgence seen in Osborn (2013),
BBC (2014) and Kennedy (2014) is analysed in several places, along
with other key developments in judicial review such as Keyu (2015)
and Pham (2015). Ongoing parliamentary reform in both Lords and
Commons, including major advances in controlling prerogative
powers, are fully explained, as is the adaptation of the core
Executive to Coalition Government (2010-2015). There is
comprehensive coverage of key Strasbourg and HRA cases (Horncastle
(2010), Nicklinson (2014), Moohan (2014), Carlile (2014)), and
those in core areas of freedom of expression, police powers and
public order (Animal Defenders (2013), Beghal (2015), Roberts
(2015), Miranda (2016)) and the prisoners' voting rights saga, up
to Chester (2015).
Collects the Latest Research Involving the Application of Process
Algebra to Computing Exploring state-of-the-art applications,
Process Algebra for Parallel and Distributed Processing shows how
one formal method of reasoning-process algebra-has become a
powerful tool for solving design and implementation challenges of
concurrent systems. Parallel ProgrammingDivided into three parts,
the book begins by parallelizing an algorithm for the Cell
Broadband Engine processor of IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. It also
develops a runtime environment that can be ported to different
parallel platforms and describes the formal model of action
systems. Distributed SystemsThe next part presents a process
algebra (mCRL2) that targets distributed applications, looks at how
to turn prose descriptions into unambiguous specifications, extends
pi-calculus to create a service-oriented mobility abstract machine,
and introduces the Channel Ambient Machine for mobile applications.
Embedded SystemsThe final section combines state-based Z with the
event-based process algebra CSP in a formal methodology called
Circus. It also develops a pair of process algebras (PARS) to
address the problem of scheduling in real-time embedded systems and
emphasizes the reuse of concurrent artifacts across different
hardware platforms. Highlighting recent research work, this volume
addresses multicore programming problems and the evolution of the
growing body of concurrency-enabled languages. It proposes
solutions to the problems of designing and implementing today's
concurrency-constrained multicore processor and cloud
architectures.
Why did enduring traditions of economic and political liberty
emerge in Western Europe and not elsewhere? Representative
democracy, constitutionalism, and the rule of law are crucial for
establishing a just and prosperous society, which we usually treat
as the fruits of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, as Western
European societies put the Dark Ages behind them.In The Medieval
Constitution of Liberty, Salter and Young point instead to the
constitutional order that characterized the High Middle Ages. They
provide a historical account of how this constitutional order
evolved following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. This
account runs from the settlements of militarized Germanic elites
within the imperial frontiers, to the host of successor kingdoms in
the sixth and seventh centuries, and  through the short-lived
Carolingian empire of the late eighth and ninth centuries and the
so-called “feudal anarchy†that followed its demise. Given this
unique historical backdrop, Salter and Young consider the resulting
structures of political property rights. They argue that the
historical reality approximated a constitutional ideal type, which
they term polycentric sovereignty. Salter and Young provide a
theoretical analysis of polycentric sovereignty, arguing that
bargains between political property rights holders within that sort
of constitutional order will lead to improvements in governance.
Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and
popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half
centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores
Appalachia's long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often
contradictory images that have shaped perceptions of the region as
both the essence of America and a place apart.
Williams begins his story in the colonial era and describes the
half-century of bloody warfare as migrants from Europe and their
American-born offspring fought and eventually displaced
Appalachia's Native American inhabitants. He depicts the evolution
of a backwoods farm-and-forest society, its divided and unhappy
fate during the Civil War, and the emergence of a new industrial
order as railroads, towns, and extractive industries penetrated
deeper and deeper into the mountains. Finally, he considers
Appalachia's fate in the twentieth century, when it became the
first American region to suffer widespread deindustrialization, and
examines the partial renewal created by federal intervention and a
small but significant wave of in-migration.
Throughout the book, a wide range of Appalachian voices enlivens
the analysis and reminds us of the importance of storytelling in
the ways the people of Appalachia define themselves and their
region.
"Turning to Nature in Germany" is a study of mass movements that
aimed to bring the German people into closer contact with nature.
In the early twentieth century organized hikers, nudists, and
conservationists all looked to nature for solutions to the nation's
political crises. Following these movements over three political
eras--the Second Empire, the Weimar Republic, and the Third
Reich--the book shows how manifestations of popular culture
reflected the concerns and hopes of their time. Williams breaks
with historians who have long seen nature movements as anti-modern
and irrational by arguing that naturists were calling not for
Germany to turn back the clock, but for the nation to find a way to
navigate the treacherous waters of contemporary life and strive
toward a brighter future.
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Juno's Journey
Alexander William Marshall
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R283
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If You Only Knew
Brandon Alexander Williams; Cyde Effect
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R738
Discovery Miles 7 380
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Eothen
Alexander William Kinglake
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R985
Discovery Miles 9 850
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