Ronald Stevenson is one of Britain's leading composers, and almost certainly its most prolific. He is best known for his massive 'Passacaglia on DSCH' - at 80 minutes long, the biggest single-movement work in the piano literature. But he has an enormous number of other fine works to his credit: a vast corpus of original and exciting works for the piano, the instrument of which he is an acknowledged master, a number of innovative and impressive scores for orchestra (including four concertos), many attractive pieces of chamber music, and over two hundred songs. Indeed, the sheer size of Stevenson's output is staggering: the worklist in this book fills some 75 pages - a body of music which both testifies to Stevenson's enduring belief in the value of melody and show him to be alert to the more important developments of the twentieth century. This collection of essays covers virtually all of Stevenson's enormous output. It features contributions from a number of leading authorities: Malcolm MacDonald on the orchestral music, Ates Orga on the piano works, Alistair Chisholm on the chamber music, Derek Watson on the songs, Harold Taylor on Stevenson's pianism, James Reid Baxter on Stevenson's position in Scottish culture. It also reproduces a selection of Stevenson's exquisite piano miniatures, in facsimiles of the composer's calligraphic script.

Are public sector institutions being exposed to ever-greater oversight, audit and inspection in the name of efficiency, accountability and risk management? Controlling Modern Government explores the long-term development of controls over government across five major state traditions in developed democracies - US, Japan, variants of continental-European models, a Scandinavian case and variants of the Westminster model. A central aspect of the study is an eight country comparison of variety in the use of controls based in oversight, competition, mutuality and contrived randomness in the selected domains of the high bureaucracy at the core of the state, the higher education sector and the prison sector. Countries covered include Australia, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, the UK and the USA. Providing a comparison of trends in the last quarter century in control over public sector activities in OECD countries, this book will be invaluable reading for academics and graduate students focussing on political science and public administration, as well as policymakers in OECD countries.

Based on two years of unprecedented access to the inner workings of Whitehall, this book by a leading team of scholars reveals the reality of regulation inside government. It examines the army of inspectors, auditors, grievance-chasers and other bodies devoted to oversight of public organizations. It documents the remarkable growth of such regulators over the two decades when public bureaucracies were being cut back substantially and explores the way they work in five different domains.

Using unprecedented access to the key actors inside the UK Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL) and supporting interviews, this book explores how telecommunications regulation works from the inside.

Legal scholarship is concerned with distinctive issues and problems of regulatory governance. This volume draws together writings on regulation which problematize law in regulatory settings and which introduce problems of regulatory law to legal theory. The main themes addressed are: the character of regulatory law; legal theories of state and market; regulatory rules; organizations and institutional variety; accounting for regulation.

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his death, this book presents new articles by leading authorities on John Ireland and his music, together with transcriptions of his broadcast talks and of interviews with the composer. John Ireland [1879-1962] was one of the most distinctive and distinguished of a generation of exceptional British composers that included Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Frank Bridge and Arnold Bax. They emerged in the decade before the First World War and, in the inter-war years, produced a remarkable body of music. In Ireland's case his was not only the most popular British Piano Concerto of its time, but he also composed a splendid repertoire of songs,piano music, chamber music and orchestral and choral scores. This richly illustrated Companion will be essential for all admirers of the composer. Not only for the performer - pianist, singer, conductor - but for thewider musical public, record collectors and music historians, academics and anyone interested in British music of the earlier twentieth century. Lewis Foreman has drawn on his extensive research into Ireland's life and letters over many years, and, in association with the John Ireland Charitable Trust, has not only commissioned a wide range of chapters from leading performers and writers of today, but has brought together in one convenient format Ireland's own writings on music, the memories of his friends and students (including Britten, Moeran and Arnell) and a selection of important earlier articles. The Companion also includes a complete list of works and themost comprehensive discography of Ireland ever compiled. The accompanying CD contains historical recordings featuring the voice of John Ireland, with two of his broadcast talks, as well as otherwise unobtainable performances of Ireland's music from the composer himself and from other well-known performers of the past. LEWIS FOREMAN is author of Bax: A Composer and His Time [Boydell, 2007] and London: a Musical Gazetteer [Yale 2005]. Contributors: FELIX APRAHAMIAN, RICHARD ARNELL, BENJAMIN BRITTEN, JOCELYN BROOKE, ALAN BUSH, GEOFFREY BUSH, GEORGE DANNATT, JULIE DELLER, JEREMY DIBBLE, EDWIN EVANS, LEWIS FOREMAN, NORAH KIRBY, FREDERICK LAMOND, PHILIP LANCASTER, STEPHEN LE PROVOST, STEPHEN LLOYD, CHARLES MARKES, ROBERT MATTHEW-WALKER, E.J. MOERAN, ANGUS MORRISON, ERIC PARKIN, BRUCE PHILLIPS, C. B. REES, FIONA RICHARDS, ALAN ROWLANDS, R. MURRAY SCHAFER, MARION SCOTT, COLIN SCOTT-SUTHERLAND, HUMPHREY SEARLE, FREDA SWAIN, KENNETH THOMPSON, RODERICK WILLIAMS, KENNETH A. WRIGHT

Regulating Law explores how the goals and policies of the new regulatory state are fundamentally reshaping jurisprudence in the domains of public law, private law, and the regulation of work and business. Fourteen areas of the core legal curriculum are reassessed from the standpoint of the impact of regulation on mainstream legal doctrine. The volume examines the collision of regulation by law with regulation by other means and provides an innovative regulatory perspective for the whole of law. To date, regulatory scholarship has mainly been applied to specific legislative programs and/or agencies for the social and economic regulation of business. In this volume, a cast of internationally renowned legal scholars each apply a 'regulatory perspective' to their own area of law. Their contributions provide a rich analysis of the limits and potential of legal doctrine as an instrument of control both in regulatory settings, and in settings traditionally immune from regulatory analysis. The result is an examination of the regulation of the doctrines of law itself, and of the way in which law regulates other forms of regulation and social ordering- law as subject and object of regulation.

Regulation has become a key form of state activity and an area of burgeoning academic concern, both in Public Law and Economics. This collection makes available to the reader a number of indispensable readings. The text considers the central topics of regulation and looks to theory as well as practice, enforcement as well as rule-making, and supra-national as well as domestic concerns. Particular attention is paid to the ways that regulatory developments can be explained, the choices of technique that confront regulators and the varieties of regulatory style that are encountered within and between different regimes. The introductory essay considers the maturation of regulation both as a practice and as a discipline. it examines regulation as a topic for study, reviews major developments in regulation and outlines central themes. This book is intended as a resource for upper-level undergraduate students and teachers of regulation as part of degree courses in law, economics, business, public policy and politics, but also for those involved in or subject to regulation on a daily basis.

The third edition of Cranston's Consumers and the Law brings the reader fully up to date with developments in consumer law and includes important new material on utilities and financial services regulation. An internet home page has also been established for readers of this book. The home page has two main purposes. First, it provides links to websites containing primary sources such as codes, consultation documents and reports which are not always accessible in law libraries. Secondly it provides periodic updating information on key developments in law and policy.

The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed the emergence of globalized markets accompanied by an uneven process of national and international deregulation and re-regulation. The combined activities of transnational corporations in manufacturing industries (moving towards the global factory) and the newly privatized businesses in the energy, telecommunications and transportation sectors have fuelled an unprecedented growth in global markets and international business networks. The unexpected but now well established development of capitalism in eastern Europe and the boom in China's special economic zones have added still further to the opportunities and risks inherent in the rapidly developing global economy. For lawyers, economists, and political scientists one of the most significant aspects of the emergence of global markets is the question of regulation: how to regulate market access, product safety, consumer protection laws, financial services, probity and capital adequacy as well as anti-trust and competition laws and policies. Businesses complain that regulatory requirements frequently hinder the development of new markets. At the same time greater public awareness and concern, especially over other global issues such as environment protection, have raised the cost implications of regulatory requirements, sometimes astronmically. The essays in this volume attempt to address the success of efforts in the European Community, the US and elsewhere in the world to regulate in such a way as to accomodate both the interests of business and the wider interests of the public. The volume is divided into several sections, the first which deals with the globalization of regulatory processes. Other sections examine regulatory competition in the field of company law, self-regulation and competition in US corporate law; regulatory regimes in the European Union and the issue of regulatory coordination affecting economic and social insterests. This is an original and wide-ranging collection of essays which will attract a broad readership both in the US and Europe.

This volume brings together lawyers, accountants, sociologists and economists to explore some central themes of the legal and organizational accountability of the public corporation. The papers offer the first sustained attempt to transcend the institutionalist and contractarian visions which, during the 1980s, became the mainstream perspectives in corporate analysis.

Yoga remains an enjoyable activity to become involved with since it can improve health, breathing, flexibility, and mental focus. The best gains in yoga are achieved when someone has targeted and focused goals. Goals may have to be tweaked and modified at time. Keeping a yoga journal helps ensure you stay on target with all your sought after goals. You can track all improvements, the amount of sessions you have taken part in, what areas of mental and physical benefits are yielding results, what changes to make, and more. Reflecting on your yoga journal allows you to get more out of the exercise sessions and this can improve your enjoyment of yoga immensely.

The "Fitness Journal" is a great book for the person that has specific goals in mind when they go to the gym or exercise at home. It may be a weight loss goal or a bid to get the body toned and back in shape. Whatever the reason, the book can help the individual to keep a track of their progress. With this written record they can see if it any changes are necessary as they are in the process of achieving their milestone.

The "Speedy Kids Coloring Book" is a great way to get the interest of your child and get them to learn their colors without them even realizing that they are doing so. It is also a fantastic method that can be used to nurture their imagination. The process of coloring gets the child to work on their fine motor skills and work on gripping the crayon or marker. It also gets them to work on their visual perception as they have to look at the picture that is fully colored and copy what they see.

Every writer gets a flood of ideas from time to time and it is best to have some way to make a note of all those ideas for use later on when the actual writing starts. The "Writing Journal for the Speedy Writer" is perfect. It allows the budding author to keep a track of all the great ideas that come out of a brainstorming session or those thoughts that come up throughout the day. There is an adequate amount of space to get the writing done in addition to the fact that the pages can be dated for reference by the user.

Are you an individual that believes in keeping a track of your dreams? Do you believe that each dream has a meaning? "Dream Journal: I Dreamed A Dream" is a book that will help you to keep a track of the dreams that you have. The really great thing about this book is that it also gives you the opportunity to make a note of the interpretation of the dream on the same page that you noted the dream on.

If you are on a path to better health and wellness ten you need to get a copy of "Gratitude Journal: Positive Thoughts & Vibration By You Daily Gratitude Journal." It is something that is an emerging trend but more and more persons are finding it beneficial to log what they are grateful for each day as a form of positive affirmation. The unique thing about this particular journal is that it has great quotes at the end of each page.

Have you ever wanted to write down what you would like to say or what you have said to God? If you are one of those persons then the "Prayer Journal- Writing a Letter to God" is the perfect book or you. It not only allows you to make the jottings of messages/prayers that you say to God but it also has some great quotations of inspirational scripture on the pages.

Just like adults children do have thought, feelings and secrets that they want to make a note of. This journal affords them that opportunity. It is a nice colorful diary that the child can use to make notes about their day or to make a note of how they feel about particular situations. The child if free to date the pages as they wish and pretty much have a blank slate that they can use any way they like.

The Academic Planner for Teachers and Lecturers is a great book that can be used to make notations on what to do in various class sessions. It really is the best way to keep a track of all events, holidays and appointments that fall during the academic year. Lecturers and teachers also have a need to keep a track of their appointments and other information in the same way that business persons do.

Cooking Genius allows you to create your very own cookbook Write down all your family recipes and secret recipes in one place using our blank cookbook. We have chapters from breakfasts, chicken and poultry to Vegan dishes with a quick finder to find recipes by page so you can lend your blank cookbook to friends and family. You can also get published by Cooking Genius by sending in your blank cookbooks to us and we will create your own version that you can sell online for yourself. This is the best way to make your own cookbook that everyone will absolutely love.

With a copy of the "Workout Journal: Getting Healthy and Recording It" you will be able to keep an accurate track of your weight loss or fitness journey. With this journal you will be able to keep track of the types of workouts and strength training that you do on a daily basis and also make a notation of the workout goals for the week. It is a great companion for the exercise hound.

Nothing is more precious than family and keeping the memories of those special moments make for great conversations. There is no better way to keep a log of those precious memories than to have a Family Photo Album. With an album like this you can keep track of those precious memories with ease and the great thing is that you can make the necessary notations with each picture and even add the date the pictures were taken and the location.

A wedding is a precious event and something that makes great memories. Apart from having those professionally done photos couples love to have other photos that they hold near and dear to their heart.

With a Wedding Scrapbook Photo Album all of those memories can be safely stored away.

The pictures can be added and the cute annotations added as well.