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Norfolk has a wealth of important archaeological sites, historic
buildings and landscapes. This guide is the first to use them to
tell the county's rich history. Starting with real footprints of
people who lived here nearly 1 million years ago, A History of
Norfolk in 100 Places will take you on a chronological journey
through prehistoric monuments, Roman forts, medieval churches and
Nelson's Monument, right up to twentieth-century defensive sites.
With detailed entries illustrated by aerial photographs and
ground-level shots, here you will find a reliable guide to historic
places that are either open to the public, or are visible from
public roads or footpaths for you to explore.
This volume provides a comprehensive assessment of the likely
effects of the Uruguay Round agreements on the dynamic economies of
East Asia. The rapid development of these countries owes much to
the strong export performance and unilateral deregulation of their
economies in recent years. Their major stake in maintaining the
integrity of the global trading system was demonstrated by their
active participation in the negotiations. The impact of the Uruguay
Round liberalisation on East Asian economic development and
policies is evaluated using sophisticated CGE models to estimate
the effects on trade and income. The strengthening of trade rules
and dispute settlement procedures are examined by a group of world
trade experts. They establish that some gaps in the system remain
to be tackled (anti-dumping, regional discrimination) and that some
new problems are pending (competition policy, investment).
The IMF, the World Bank and GATT/WTO have had to adapt to changing
circumstances in the past 60 years as they guided the world economy
to growing interdependence and prosperity. Now they face several
simultaneous challenges. In this book, David Robertson discusses
the rise of new economic players, including proliferating NGOs,
self-promoting UN agencies and 'emerging' economies (such as
Brazil, China and India), which call into question the management
of G7 governments. This volume assesses the future of international
economic relations as economic imbalances are exacerbated by these
developments and by changing international alliances. The author
also considers the interests of small developing countries, which
are acting collectively to seek 'a place at the table', as well as
more preferential treatment. International socialism has
re-invented itself as 'participatory democracy', which is employed
by 'civil society' to challenge inter-governmental agencies. The
future of international economic integration will depend on how
these developments affect trade, finance, aid and development
policies. Providing a review of international economic relations,
while taking account of political, environmental and social issues,
this analytical assessment of anti-globalisation forces will be of
interest to anyone concerned with international affairs.
During the late Hellenistic and early Imperial periods (B.C. 50 -
A.D. 300), important developments may be traced in the philosophy
of language and its relationship to mind. This book examines
theories of language in the work of theologians and philosophers
linked to Ancient Alexandria. The growth of Judaism and
Christianity in cultural centers of the Roman Empire, above all
Alexandria, provides valuable testimony to the philosophical
vitality of this period. The study of Later Greek philosophy should
be more closely integrated with the Church Fathers, particularly in
the theologically sensitive issue of the nature of language.
Robertson traces some related attempts to reconcile immaterial,
intelligible reality and the intelligibility of language, explain
the structure of language, and clarify the nature of meaning. These
shared problems are handled with greater philosophical
sophistication by Plotinus, although the comparison with Philo,
Clement, and Origen illustrates significant similarities as well as
differences between Neoplatonism and early Jewish and Christian
philosophy.
Providing explanations of the terminology, issues, organizations,
and laws, this thoroughly revised and updated reference work
reflects the growing international concern over human rights.
Including over 200 clear and concise alphabetically arranged
entries, A Dictionary of Human Rights is an essential resource for
anyone concerned with human rights. Key Features: * Entries
explaining terms connected with human rights such as Asylum, Equal
Opportunities, Freedom of Speech, Representation, and Civil
Liberties * Entries on organizations concerned with human rights
such as Amnesty International, The European Court of Human Rights,
and The American Civil Liberties Union * Outlines the significance
of eminent thinkers such as Locke, Cardozo, and Nozick * Places key
terms in their legal and constitutional context, with examples and
explanations of their implications * Legal terms such as
Injunction, Probable Cause, Clear and Present Danger, and Stop and
Search are explained clearly and succinctly * An appendix
containing texts and extracts of leading documents, such as The
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen and The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
There have been few studies of the Law Lords, and no study of them
by a political scientist for more than ten years. This book
concentrates on the arguments the Law Lords use in justifying their
decisions, and is concerned as much with the legal methodology as
with the substance of their decisions. Very close attention is paid
to the different approaches and styles of judicial argument, but
the book is not restricted to this traditional analytic approach.
One chapter applies the statistical techniques Americans call
'jurimetrics' and have successfully used on the US Supreme Court.
The main theme is that the Law Lords enjoy and fully utilise far
more discretion in their judgements than is normally admitted, and
that much depends on exactly which judges happen to hear a case.
the second part of the book shows the impact this extreme
discretion has had in shaping both public law and areas of civil
law.
This dictionary is the essential guide to politics, its
terminologies, ideologies and institutions. Providing authoritative
and up-to-date information that is invaluable to both students and
general readers, it includes: well over 500 extensive definitions
an understanding of the basics of political thought and theory
clear, no-nonsense coverage of complex ideologies and dogmas
succinct definitions of highly specialized and technical terms.
Previously published by Penguin, this third edition has been
extensively revised and updated with many new entries.
The relevance of this book to central concerns of political and
social science hardly needs emphasizing. Parties are the organizing
force of democratic governments, giving coherence and direction to
their policies and relating them to popular preferences. Election
programmes are crucial to this role, providing electors with some
insight into the policies they are voting for, and parties
themselves with a starting point for their activity in government.
Discussion begins with a comparative assessment of the impact of
election pledges on government action. The book goes on to describe
systematically the place of the programmes in the political process
of nineteen democracies. It subjects them to detailed qualitative,
quantitative and spatial analyses to answer such questions as: Who
prepares election programmes and how? What is the nature of modern
party divisions? Do they differ across countries? Is there indeed
an 'end of ideology' or an intensification? Does the need to
attract votes weaken old partisan attachments? Combining individual
studies of each country with comparative analyses on a scale never
previously undertaken, the book will interest country specialists
and comparativists and prove indispensable to research on voting
and party behaviour, coalition formation, ideology, and rational
choice.
The WTO has laid the foundations for a new era of trade relations,
and increased trade liberalization has improved global efficiency
in production and consumption. The strengthening of trade rules,
however, has increased the scope for disputes over interpretations
of more extensive and complicated agreements, and has spilt over
into environmental and scientific matters. One of the unforeseen
consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk.
This volume explores aspects of risk with special reference to the
WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with
international trade rules. The book is divided into sections
dealing with: * accounting for risk in trade agreements * risk and
the WTO * managing risk in policy making * negotiating experience
with risk * national risks and quarantine standards * managing
biotechnology. The chapters offer many perspectives on risk
assessment and benefit from a rich diversity of approaches as
befits contributions from authors with backgrounds in law,
economics, political science and environmental and natural science
as well as policy making. Globalization and the Environment is a
fascinating book that will draw its readership from these fields.
"Brick by Brick" takes you inside the LEGO you've never seen. By
following the teams that are inventing some of the world's
best-loved toys, it spotlights the company's disciplined approach
to harnessing creativity and recounts one of the most remarkable
business transformations in recent memory.
"Brick by Brick" reveals how LEGO failed to keep pace with the
revolutionary changes in kids' lives and began sliding into
irrelevance. When the company's leaders implemented some of the
business world's most widely espoused prescriptions for boosting
innovation, they ironically pushed the iconic toymaker to the brink
of bankruptcy. The company's near-collapse shows that what works in
theory can fail spectacularly in the brutally competitive global
economy.
It took a new LEGO management team - faced with the growing rage
for electronic toys, few barriers to entry, and ultra-demanding
consumers (ten-year old boys) - to reinvent the innovation rule
book and transform LEGO into one of the world's most profitable,
fastest-growing companies.
Along the way, "Brick by Brick" reveals how LEGO:
- Became truly customer-driven by co-creating with kids as well as
its passionate adult fans
- Looked beyond products and learned to leverage a full-spectrum
approach to innovation
- Opened its innovation process by using both the "wisdom of
crowds" and the expertise of elite cliques
- Discovered uncontested, "blue ocean" markets, even as it thrived
in brutally competitive red oceans
- Gave its world-class design teams enough space to create and
direction to deliver
built a culture where "profitable" innovation flourishes
Sometimes radical yet always applicable, "Brick by Brick" abounds
with real-world lessons for unleashing breakthrough innovation in
your organization, just like LEGO. Whether you're a senior
executive looking to make your company grow, an entrepreneur
building a startup from scratch, or a fan who wants to instill some
of that LEGO magic in your career, you'll learn how to build your
own innovation advantage, brick by brick.
Clinical and Translational Science: Principles of Human Research,
Second Edition, is the most authoritative and timely resource for
the broad range of investigators taking on the challenge of
clinical and translational science, a field that is devoted to
investigating human health and disease, interventions, and outcomes
for the purposes of developing new treatment approaches, devices,
and modalities to improve health. This updated second edition has
been prepared with an international perspective, beginning with
fundamental principles, experimental design, epidemiology,
traditional and new biostatistical approaches, and investigative
tools. It presents complete instruction and guidance from
fundamental principles, approaches, and infrastructure, especially
for human genetics and genomics, human pharmacology, research in
special populations, the societal context of human research, and
the future of human research. The book moves on to discuss legal,
social, and ethical issues, and concludes with a discussion of
future prospects, providing readers with a comprehensive view of
this rapidly developing area of science.
The IMF, the World Bank and GATT/WTO have had to adapt to changing
circumstances in the past 60 years as they guided the world economy
to growing interdependence and prosperity. Now they face several
simultaneous challenges. In this book, David Robertson discusses
the rise of new economic players, including proliferating NGOs,
self-promoting UN agencies and 'emerging' economies (such as
Brazil, China and India), which call into question the management
of G7 governments. This volume assesses the future of international
economic relations as economic imbalances are exacerbated by these
developments and by changing international alliances. The author
also considers the interests of small developing countries, which
are acting collectively to seek 'a place at the table', as well as
more preferential treatment. International socialism has
re-invented itself as 'participatory democracy', which is employed
by 'civil society' to challenge inter-governmental agencies. The
future of international economic integration will depend on how
these developments affect trade, finance, aid and development
policies. Providing a review of international economic relations,
while taking account of political, environmental and social issues,
this analytical assessment of anti-globalisation forces will be of
interest to anyone concerned with international affairs.
The relevance of this book to central concerns of political and
social science hardly needs emphasizing. Parties are the organizing
force of democratic governments, giving coherence and direction to
their policies and relating them to popular preferences. Election
programmes are crucial to this role, providing electors with some
insight into the policies they are voting for, and parties
themselves with a starting point for their activity in government.
Discussion begins with a comparative assessment of the impact of
election pledges on government action. The book goes on to describe
systematically the place of the programmes in the political process
of nineteen democracies. It subjects them to detailed qualitative,
quantitative and spatial analyses to answer such questions as: Who
prepares election programmes and how? What is the nature of modern
party divisions? Do they differ across countries? Is there indeed
an 'end of ideology' or an intensification? Does the need to
attract votes weaken old partisan attachments? Combining individual
studies of each country with comparative analyses on a scale never
previously undertaken, the book will interest country specialists
and comparativists and prove indispensable to research on voting
and party behaviour, coalition formation, ideology, and rational
choice.
After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural
society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The
contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality
rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy
and practice, and ask which charter value should trump which and
under what circumstances? The opening essay deliberately sharpens
the conflict among religion, culture, and equality rights and
proposes to shift some of the existing boundaries. Other
contributors disagree strongly, arguing that this position might
seek to limit freedoms in the name of justice, that the problem is
badly framed, or that silence is a virtue in rebalancing norms. The
contributors not only debate the analytic arguments but infuse
their discussion with their personal experiences, which have shaped
their perspectives on multiculturalism in Canada. This volume is a
highly personal as well as strongly analytic discussion of
multiculturalism in Canada today.
Although the authors believe that the level of conventional and
nuclear forces in Europe should and will be reduced, they do not
consider that the military instrument will have lost all of its
value in European political affairs. They still see a need to be
prepared for tension and conflict.
The Quiet Man Roars is the enthralling story of David Robertson,
one of the finest attacking full-backs Scotland has produced in the
last 30 years. Spotted as a schoolboy, Robertson signed as an
apprentice with Aberdeen in the early 1980s. Initially a winger, a
series of unfortunate events saw David selected at left-back for a
youth game and he never looked back. He made his debut for Aberdeen
at 17 and was snapped up by Rangers for just shy of GBP1m at age
22. David was an integral part of the Rangers side that won nine
successive league championships and came within an ace of reaching
the first Champions League final. Later, he played in the English
Premiership for Leeds United before injury cut short his playing
career, prompting a move into management. As a player, he was the
epitome of the modern day marauding full-back. As a coach, he has
already made his mark across the globe and been the subject of a
BAFTA-winning BBC documentary. The Quiet Man Roars is the inside
story of one of football's most respected characters.
The logical and enduring way to innovate. Conventional wisdom today
says that to survive, companies must move beyond incremental,
sustaining innovation and invest in some form of radical
innovation. "Disrupt yourself or be disrupted!" is the relentless
message company leaders hear. The Power of Little Ideas argues
there's a "third way" that is neither sustaining nor disruptive.
This low-risk, high-reward strategy is an approach to innovation
that all company leaders should understand so that they recognize
it when their competitors practice it, and apply it when it will
give them a competitive advantage. This distinctive approach has
three key elements: It consists of creating a family of
complementary innovations around a product or service, all of which
work together to make that product more appealing and competitive.
The complementary innovations work together as a system to carry
out a single strategy or purpose. Crucially, unlike disruptive or
radical innovation, innovating around a key product does not change
the central product in any fundamental way. In this powerful,
practical book, Wharton professor David Robertson illustrates how
many well-known companies, including CarMax, GoPro, LEGO, Gatorade,
Disney, USAA, Novo Nordisk, and many others, used this approach to
stave off competitive threats and achieve great success. He
outlines the organizational practices that unintentionally torpedo
this approach to innovation in many companies and shows how
organizations can overcome those challenges. Aimed at leaders
seeking strategies for sustained innovation, and at the quickly
growing numbers of managers involved with creating new products,
The Power of Little Ideas provides a logical, organic, and enduring
third way to innovate.
Series Information: Routledge Dictionaries
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The Worlds of Blake's 7 - Avalon Volume 2 (CD)
Steve Lyons, Niel Bushnell, Christopher Cooper; Performed by Olivia Poulet; Cover design or artwork by Tom Newsom; Directed by …
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The third century of the second calendar. Roj Blake is about to
discover a powerful spaceship and spearhead a rebellion against the
despotic Federation. But he can't be everywhere at once...
Throughout the galaxy, brave people fight for freedom, without the
benefit of miraculous alien technology. Avalon has only her wits
and her contacts to reply on - but her name will become legend, all
the same. Ep 2.1 - Bayban's Bounty by Niel Bushnell. A sacred stone
might inspire revolution on a recently subjugated planet - if
Avalon can only retrieve it from a high-security prison. She
enlists the help of the Vankberg Vault's only escapee, the madman
at the top of the Federation's Most Wanted list... Ep. 2.2
Mercenary by Christopher Cooper. Funding a crusade isn't easy, and
one of Avalon's debts has just come due. She and Madison undertake
a dubious mission, in the company of an even more dubious
gunfor-hire, a man who has betrayed them once before... Ep 2.3
Heart of Ice by Steve Lyons. What is the Federation President doing
on a frozen backwater world? Avalon is determined to uncover the
secret buried in Cryonax's mines. By the time she realises that
Travis is setting a trap, it might just be too late... CAST: Olivia
Poulet (Avalon), Colin Baker (Bayban the Butcher), Hugh Fraser (The
President), Stephen Greif (Travis), Luke Barton (Charron), Rachel
Atkins (Corelano), Cliff Chapman (Madison), Nicholas Day (Jorah),
Rosie Day (Alixa/Senna), Malcolm James (Dev Tarrant), Caroline
Lawrie (Bonanne/Mutoid), John Rayment (Control/Pilot), David
Sargent (Commander/Garson), Graham Seed (Noral), Charlotte Strevens
(Winter). Other parts played by members of the cast.
Lots of people are seeking something. Some are seeking things that
don’t exist (like the Loch Ness monster), others are simply
seeking happiness. Jesus promises that those who seek God will find
him. And this book will help you on the way to seeking him. Ask
questions. Engage with the answers. Think through these issues for
yourself.  This engaging follow–up to the
popular A.S.K. takes 52 new questions from real teenagers.
Covering issues from society, education, the Bible, theology, God,
each short chapter contains a question, a Bible passage, a verse, a
discussion, something to consider, further reading and a
prayer.Â
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