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The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation is the
first book to gather into one comprehensive volume our fundamental
knowledge of the world-record holding, charismatic ocean behemoths
in the family Molidae. From evolution and phylogeny to biotoxins,
biomechanics, parasites, husbandry and popular culture, it outlines
recent and future research from leading sunfish experts worldwide
This synthesis includes diet, foraging behavior, migration and
fisheries bycatch and overhauls long-standing and outdated
perceptions. This book provides the essential go-to resource for
both lay and academic audiences alike and anyone interested in
exploring one of the ocean's most elusive and captivating group of
fishes.
This book provides a concise overview of the current context and
types of public sector audit and the varied structures within which
public sector audit is practised across the world. It summarises
the objectives of public sector audit as well as explores the role
of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions in
providing guidance to these. Drawing on public and private sector
audit as well as the views of academics and practitioners on public
sector audit, it provides a unique research-based guide to the
current issues and future challenges in the field.
As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect
of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not
what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as
citizens of a democratic society. In Civic Capitalism, Colin Hay
and Anthony Payne build on their influential analysis of the crisis
of the Anglo-liberal growth model to set out a coherent account of
the steps required to build an alternative that is more sustainable
socially, economically and environmentally. They argue that it is
time to move on from the Anglo-liberal model of capitalism whose
failings were so cruelly exposed by the crisis. They outline a new
model that will work better in advanced capitalist societies,
showing how this might be acheived in Britain today. They call this
civic capitalism the governance of the market, by the state, in the
name of the people, to deliver collective public goods, equity and
social justice. This reverses the long ascendant logic of
Anglo-liberalism in which citizens have been made to answer to the
perceived logics of the capitalism they have been made to serve.
The crisis shows us that we can no longer be driven by the
perceived imperatives of the old model and by those who have
claimed for far too long and, as it turns out, falsely to be able
to discern for us the imperatives of the market. It is now time to
ask what capitalism can do for us and not what we can do for
capitalism.
The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation is the
first book to gather into one comprehensive volume our fundamental
knowledge of the world-record holding, charismatic ocean behemoths
in the family Molidae. From evolution and phylogeny to biotoxins,
biomechanics, parasites, husbandry and popular culture, it outlines
recent and future research from leading sunfish experts worldwide
This synthesis includes diet, foraging behavior, migration and
fisheries bycatch and overhauls long-standing and outdated
perceptions. This book provides the essential go-to resource for
both lay and academic audiences alike and anyone interested in
exploring one of the ocean's most elusive and captivating group of
fishes.
The regenerative capacity of the liver has been recognized for
centuries, but when it is overwhelmed by insulting stimuli or is
chronically damaged, its regenerative capability is substantially
reduced or lost. Researchers have been working to find solutions to
cure failing human liver function. Given the ability of stem cells
to self- renew and differentiate into specialized cell liver types,
they represent an attractive strategy to replace lost liver
function. This book begins by outlining the complex nature of human
liver disease and proceeds to examine the potential that stem
cell-based approaches have to offer.
This book provides a concise overview of the current context and
types of public sector audit and the varied structures within which
public sector audit is practised across the world. It summarises
the objectives of public sector audit as well as explores the role
of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions in
providing guidance to these. Drawing on public and private sector
audit as well as the views of academics and practitioners on public
sector audit, it provides a unique research-based guide to the
current issues and future challenges in the field.
As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect
of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not
what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as
citizens of a democratic society. In Civic Capitalism, Colin Hay
and Anthony Payne build on their influential analysis of the crisis
of the Anglo-liberal growth model to set out a coherent account of
the steps required to build an alternative that is more sustainable
socially, economically and environmentally. They argue that it is
time to move on from the Anglo-liberal model of capitalism whose
failings were so cruelly exposed by the crisis. They outline a new
model that will work better in advanced capitalist societies,
showing how this might be acheived in Britain today. They call this
civic capitalism the governance of the market, by the state, in the
name of the people, to deliver collective public goods, equity and
social justice. This reverses the long ascendant logic of
Anglo-liberalism in which citizens have been made to answer to the
perceived logics of the capitalism they have been made to serve.
The crisis shows us that we can no longer be driven by the
perceived imperatives of the old model and by those who have
claimed for far too long and, as it turns out, falsely to be able
to discern for us the imperatives of the market. It is now time to
ask what capitalism can do for us and not what we can do for
capitalism.
Britain remains mired in the most severe and prolonged economic
crisis that it has faced since the 1930s. What would it take to
find a new, more stable and more sustainable growth model for
Britain in the years ahead? This important volume written by a
number of influential commentators seeks to provide some answers.
Britain remains mired in the most severe and prolonged economic
crisis that it has faced since the 1930s. What would it take to
find a new, more stable and more sustainable growth model for
Britain in the years ahead? This important volume written by a
number of influential commentators seeks to provide some answers.
In 21st century Britain, a 'perfect storm' seems to have engulfed
many of its institutions. This book is the first wholesale
consideration of the crisis of legitimacy that has taken root in
Britain's key institutions and explores the crisis across them to
determine if a set of shared underlying pathologies exist to create
this collective crisis.
In 21st century Britain, a 'perfect storm' seems to have engulfed
many of its institutions. This book is the first wholesale
consideration of the crisis of legitimacy that has taken root in
Britain's key institutions and explores the crisis across them to
determine if a set of shared underlying pathologies exist to create
this collective crisis.
What does the philosophy of a bunch of dead white men have to tell
us about oppression? Rather a lot, Hay argues.
This is a book about the harms of oppression, and about addressing
these harms using the resources of liberalism and Kantianism. Its
central thesis is that people who are oppressed are bound by the
duty of self-respect to resist their own oppression.
Hay defends certain core ideals of the liberal tradition -
specifically, the fundamental importance of autonomy and
rationality, the intrinsic and inalienable dignity of the
individual, and the duty of self-respect - making the case that
these ideals are pivotal in both understanding and counteracting
oppression. She argues that if we take these ideals seriously then
it follows that people who are oppressed have an obligation to
themselves to resist their own oppression.
Does a connection exist between environmental degradation, resource
scarcity and violent conflicts? Global environmental changes, such
as climate change and sea level rise, shortage of fresh water and
rapid soil degradation increasingly highlight the dimensions of
environmental change in foreign and security policy. To reverse
these negative environmental consequences over the long term,
comprehensive and preventive policy approaches are urgently
required.
This state-of-the-art book contains numerous articles by renown
German-speaking experts from different scientific disciplines as
well as international and European political advisors and
diplomats. Together they discuss the complex causes of
environmentally induced conflicts and the political and societal
mechanisms for conflict prevention.
The global financial crisis has generated an intense debate in
academic, business, journalistic and political circles alike about
what went wrong and how to put it right. In this provocative
reassessment of the crisis and its implications, Colin Hay argues
that it is only by acknowledging the complicity and culpability of
an Anglo-liberal model of capitalism in the inflation and then
bursting of the bubble that we can begin to see the full extent of
what is broken and what now must be fixed. He argues that the
crisis is best seen as a crisis of and indeed for growth and not as
a crisis of debt. It is, moreover, a crisis of and for an
excessively liberalised Anglo-American form of capitalism and the
Anglo-liberal growth model to which it gave rise. This is a form of
capitalism and a growth model that was inherently unstable and
threatened the entire world economy - its excesses cannot be
tolerated again.
In this book Hay argues that the moral and political frameworks of
Kantianism and liberalism are indispensable for addressing the
concerns of contemporary feminism. After defending the use of these
frameworks for feminist purposes, Hay uses them to argue that
people who are oppressed have an obligation to themselves to resist
their own oppression.
My attention was first drawn to Chuquet' s mathematical manuscript
whilst undertaking the necessary research for the preparation of
the Open University's History of Mathematics course, presented
initially in 1974. It was whilst editing the English edition of
Math~matiques et Math~maticiens (P. Dedron and J. Itard, trans. J.
Field) that I noted that it was stated that "the whole manuscript
*** comprises 324 folios, i. e. 648 pages", and that, in addition
to the Triparty (by which the work is generally known) the
manuscript includes sections on problems, on the application of
algebraic methods to geometry, and on conunercial
My attention was first drawn to Chuquet' s mathematical manuscript
whilst undertaking the necessary research for the preparation of
the Open University's History of Mathematics course, presented
initially in 1974. It was whilst editing the English edition of
Math~matiques et Math~maticiens (P. Dedron and J. Itard, trans. J.
Field) that I noted that it was stated that "the whole manuscript
*** comprises 324 folios, i. e. 648 pages", and that, in addition
to the Triparty (by which the work is generally known) the
manuscript includes sections on problems, on the application of
algebraic methods to geometry, and on conunercial
Politics was once a term with an array of broadly positive
connotations, associated with public scrutiny, deliberation and
accountability. Yet today it is an increasingly dirty word,
typically synonymous with duplicity, corruption, inefficiency and
undue interference in matters both public and private. How has this
come to pass? Why do we hate politics and politicians so much? How
pervasive is the contemporary condition of political disaffection?
And what is politics anyway?
In this lively and original work, Colin Hay provides a series of
innovative and provocative answers to these questions. He begins by
tracing the origins and development of the current climate of
political disenchantment across a broad range of established
democracies. Far from revealing a rising tide of apathy, however,
he shows that a significant proportion of those who have withdrawn
from formal politics are engaged in other modes of political
activity.
He goes on to develop and defend a broad and inclusive
conception of politics and the political that is far less formal,
less state-centric and less narrowly governmental than in most
conventional accounts. By demonstrating how our expectations of
politics and the political realities we witness are shaped
decisively by the assumptions about human nature that we project
onto political actors, Hay provides a powerful and highly
distinctive account of contemporary political disenchantment. "Why
We Hate Politics" will be essential reading for all those troubled
by the contemporary political condition of the established
democracies.
In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to
realize that the data they use represent a significant corporate
resource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as
the management of human resources, money, and capital equipment.
With this realization has come recognition of the importance to
integrate the data that has traditionally only been available from
disparate sources.
An important component of this integration is the management of the
"metadata" that describe, catalogue, and provide access to the
various forms of underlying business data. The "metadata
repository" is essential keeping track both of the various physical
components of these systems, but also their semantics. What do we
mean by "customer?" Where can we find information about our
customers?
After years of building enterprise models for the oil,
pharmaceutical, banking, and other industries, Dave Hay has here
not only developed a conceptual model of such a metadata
repository, he has in fact created a true enterprise data model of
the information technology industry itself.
* A comprehensive work based on the Zachman Framework for
information architecture-encompassing the Business Owner's,
Architect's, and Designer's views, for all columns (data,
activities, locations, people, timing, and motivation)
* Provides a step-by-step description of model and is organized so
that different readers can benefit from different parts
* Provides a view of the world being addressed by all the
techniques, methods and tools of the information processing
industry (for example, object-oriented design, CASE, business
process re-engineering, etc.)
* Presents many concepts that are notcurrently being addressed by
such tools - and should be
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