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Sir Robert Moray (1608-1673) was one of the most active of the
twelve founding members of the Royal Society, and as a close friend
of King Charles, was a key figure in obtaining the royal patronage
that was crucial to its status and growth. Whilst not an active or
original researcher, Moray's role as enthusiastic and widely read
participant in, and inspirer of, the Society's activities, place
him at the centre of the seventeenth-century British scientific
scene. As well as being an active member of the Royal Society,
Moray was a prolific letter writer, sending a steady stream of news
and correspondence to his friend Alexander Bruce, Earl of
Kincardine, whose ill-health often kept him away from events.
Providing a complete modern edition of the letters written between
1657 and 1673, this collection offers a unique insight into the
attitudes and aspirations of the early scientific community.
Ranging widely across a broad range of subjects, including
medicine, magnetism, horology, politics, current affairs, the coal
and salt industries, fishing, freemasonry, literature, heraldry and
symbolism, the letters display Moray's knowledge of a formidable
range of subjects and authors. As well as being a lively example of
the letter writers art, they are a rich source for anyone with an
interest in early modern medical and scientific history, as well as
those investigating the broader social and cultural milieu of
Restoration society.
The creative and cultural industries are a dynamic and rapidly
expanding field of enterprise. Yet all too often the dominant
narrative about arts organisations is one of crisis, collapse, and
closure. This edited collection seeks to challenge that narrative
through pursuing a focus on organisational success in the
management of creative and cultural organisations. This book offers
a robust and in-depth analysis of nine international case studies
exploring how different organisations have achieved their
objectives through effectively managing their resources. Spanning a
broad cross section of the cultural sector including Theatres;
Multi-Arts Venues; Performing Arts Companies; Museums and
Galleries; and Festivals and Events, these cases highlight the
importance of examining an individual organisation's success in
relation to its environmental context, revealing not only how arts
organisations work in practice, but also providing inspiration and
encouragement for those wishing to emulate such success. With an
explicit focus on examining theory in practice, this unique
collection will be of great interest to students, academics, and
practitioners alike. While traditional approaches have often been
overly theoretical, this pragmatic approach will help students to
gain a richer understanding of how to manage cultural and creative
organisations more effectively.
This edited collection calls for a greater understanding of ‘the
local’ within the ways the arts, culture and creative practices
are governed and promoted, regulated, resourced and valued.
Cultural policy studies tends to marginalise the ‘local’,
emphasising its value as a case study, rather than a topic of study
in its own right. There is also privileging of the national (and
international) as the primary site at which cultural policy is
enacted, and thus can be reformed. While this may make global
policy transfer manageable for national policy agencies, there are
contingent relationships between policy and ‘the local’ which
inform practice, and which reflect diverse geographies with
distinct identities. This volume interrogates our
conceptualisations of ‘the local’ in cultural policy studies.
The book is structured around three themes: disciplining the local,
through examination of particular understandings of the key
concepts from different academic fields of study; managing the
local, through examination of policy approaches that engage with
the idea of ‘the local’ in different ways; and practising the
local, through case studies of how ‘local’ cultural policies
are being enacted in places of differing scale and geography.This
is an open access book.
This open access book examines how and why the UK's approach
towards increasing cultural participation has largely failed to
address inequality and inequity in the subsidised cultural sector
despite long-standing international policy discourse on this issue.
It further examines why meaningful change in cultural policy has
not been more forthcoming in the face of this apparent failure.
This work examines how a culture of mistrust, blame, and fear
between policymakers, practitioners, and participants has resulted
in a policy environment that engenders overstated aims, accepts
mediocre quality evaluations, encourages narratives of success, and
lacks meaningful critical reflection. It shows through extensive
field work with cultural professionals and participants how the
absence of criticality, transparency, and honesty limits the
potential for policy learning, which the authors argue is a
precondition to any radical policy change and is necessary for
developing a greater understanding of the social construction of
policy problems. The book presents a new framework that encourages
more open and honest conversations about failure in the cultural
sector to support learning strategies that can help avoid these
failures in the future.
Sir Robert Moray (1608-1673) was one of the most active of the
twelve founding members of the Royal Society, and as a close friend
of King Charles, was a key figure in obtaining the royal patronage
that was crucial to its status and growth. Whilst not an active or
original researcher, Moray's role as enthusiastic and widely read
participant in, and inspirer of, the Society's activities, place
him at the centre of the seventeenth-century British scientific
scene. As well as being an active member of the Royal Society,
Moray was a prolific letter writer, sending a steady stream of news
and correspondence to his friend Alexander Bruce, Earl of
Kincardine, whose ill-health often kept him away from events.
Providing a complete modern edition of the letters written between
1657 and 1673, this collection offers a unique insight into the
attitudes and aspirations of the early scientific community.
Ranging widely across a broad range of subjects, including
medicine, magnetism, horology, politics, current affairs, the coal
and salt industries, fishing, freemasonry, literature, heraldry and
symbolism, the letters display Moray's knowledge of a formidable
range of subjects and authors. As well as being a lively example of
the letter writers art, they are a rich source for anyone with an
interest in early modern medical and scientific history, as well as
those investigating the broader social and cultural milieu of
Restoration society.
The Miscellany of the Scottish History Society brings together
critical editions of important and previously unpublished
manuscripts of relevance to Scottish History. As well as providing
transcriptions, the editors introduce and explain the context of
documents which have been neglected or even unknown to historians,
providing a valuable resource for researchers, students, and all
those interested in exploring Scottish history through the original
sources. Volume XV focuses on the turbulent middle decades of the
seventeenth century, offering editions of three vital but
previously unpublished manuscript sources for this period: the
Letter-Book of John Clerk of Penicuik, 1644-1645; the Minute Book
of The Board Of The Green Cloth, July 1650 - July 1651; and the
Records of the Anglo-Scottish Union Negotiations, 1652-1653. With a
particular emphasis on the economic and political history of the
period, the records offer valuable insights on trade networks and
commodities, and on the upheavals following in the wake of the
execution of Charles I. They also help to place Scottish history in
a wider British and European context, by highlighting mercantile
networks and the negotiations for Anglo-Scottish Union under Oliver
Cromwell. Together, they comprise an essential resource for those
interested in seventeenth-century history.
The creative and cultural industries are a dynamic and rapidly
expanding field of enterprise. Yet all too often the dominant
narrative about arts organisations is one of crisis, collapse, and
closure. This edited collection seeks to challenge that narrative
through pursuing a focus on organisational success in the
management of creative and cultural organisations. This book offers
a robust and in-depth analysis of nine international case studies
exploring how different organisations have achieved their
objectives through effectively managing their resources. Spanning a
broad cross section of the cultural sector including Theatres;
Multi-Arts Venues; Performing Arts Companies; Museums and
Galleries; and Festivals and Events, these cases highlight the
importance of examining an individual organisation's success in
relation to its environmental context, revealing not only how arts
organisations work in practice, but also providing inspiration and
encouragement for those wishing to emulate such success. With an
explicit focus on examining theory in practice, this unique
collection will be of great interest to students, academics, and
practitioners alike. While traditional approaches have often been
overly theoretical, this pragmatic approach will help students to
gain a richer understanding of how to manage cultural and creative
organisations more effectively.
Exchange Traded Funds have revolutionised investing. Thanks to
ETFs, investors now have the world at their fingertips and can
invest in everything, from commodities to countries to currencies.
But are investors using these funds effectively? And where do ETFs
go from here? This books starts with an overview of the current
wonderful world of ETFs, including an analysis of how the industry
is changing for both providers and investors. Then, in a series of
essays, it covers recent key developments, including: smart beta
ETFs, which are preaching the gospel of factor investing, fixed
income ETFs, which are making bond markets available to everyone,
environmental and social governance funds, which try to humanise
investing, and robo-advisors, which use ETFs to automate portfolio
construction. These developments are put into context, showing why
ETF sponsors are changing the rules of the game and how the many
and varied investors that use ETFs are taking to them. In the final
section, the book offers a series of model ETF portfolios, showing
how investors can use ETFs to build effective portfolios. The book
concludes with the Top101 - a subjective selection of the top ETFs
across all asset classes that investors should consider when
building an ETF portfolio.
1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance
in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and
Revolution, leading historian of World War One, David Stevenson,
examines this crucial year in context and illuminates the century
that followed. He shows how in this one year the war was
transformed, but also what drove the conflict onwards and how it
continued to escalate. Two developments in particular-the Russian
Revolution and American intervention-had worldwide repercussions.
Offering a close examination of the key decisions, Stevenson
considers Germany's campaign of 'unrestricted' submarine warfare,
America's declaration of war in response, and Britain's frustration
of German strategy by adopting the convoy system, as well as why
(paradoxically) the military and political stalemate in Europe
persisted. Focusing on the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, on the
disastrous spring offensive that plunged the French army into
mutiny, on the summer attacks that undermined the moderate
Provisional Government in Russia and exposed Italy to national
humiliation at Caporetto, and on the British decision for the
ill-fated Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), 1917 offers a
truly international understanding of events. The failed attempts to
end the war by negotiation further clarify the underlying forces
that kept it going. David Stevenson also analyses the global
consequences of the year's developments, showing how countries such
as Brazil and China joined the belligerents, Britain offered
'responsible government' to India, and the Allies promised a Jewish
national home in Palestine. Blending political and military
history, and moving from capital to capital and between the cabinet
chamber and the battle front, the book highlights the often
tumultuous debates through which leaders entered and escalated the
war, and the paradox that continued fighting could be justified as
the shortest road towards regaining peace.
1914-1918, David Stevenson's history of the First World War, has
been acclaimed as the definitive one-volume account of the conflict
In the summer of 1914 Europe exploded into a frenzy of mass
violence. The war that followed had global repercussions,
destroying four empires and costing millions of lives. Even the
victorious countries were scarred for a generation, and we still
today remain within the conflict's shadow. In this major analysis
David Stevenson re-examines the causes, course and impact of this
'war to end war', placing it in the context of its era and exposing
its underlying dynamics. His book provides a wide-ranging
international history, drawing on insights from the latest
research. It offers compelling answers to the key questions about
how this terrible struggle unfolded: questions that remain
disturbingly relevant for our own time. 'It's harder to imagine a
better single-volume comprehensive history of the conflict than
this superb study' Ian Kershaw 'Perhaps the best comprehensive
one-volume history of the war yet written' New Yorker 'David
Stevenson is the real deal ... His defining characteristic is his
outstanding rigour as an historian ... tremendously clever' Niall
Ferguson 'This history of the 1914-1918 conflict surpasses all
others. It is tough, erudite and comprehensive' Independent
As with the author's recent books Extreme Explosions and Under a
Crimson Sun, the complex topic of star clusters is broken down and
made accessible with clear links to other areas of astronomy in a
language which the non-specialist can easily read and enjoy. The
full range of topics are addressed regarding how star clusters are
formed. Why is it some are dense conglomerates of stars while
others are looser associations? Are the young, brilliant clusters
seen in neighboring galaxies such as the Large Magellanic Cloud,
M33 or M82 analogous to the ancient globulars seen in the Milky
Way? How will these clusters change as their stars wane and die?
More interestingly, how does living in a dense star cluster affect
the fates of the stars and any attendant planets that accompany
them? Star clusters form many of the most dazzling objects in the
astronomers' catalogs. Many amateur astronomers are interested in
exploring how these objects are created and what it would be like
to live among these objects. From the historical views of how star
clusters came about to the most recent assumptions about how stars
within these clusters evolve, different strands of science, from
observation to theory, are woven together into a compelling
investigation specifically targeted at amateur astronomers.
The First World War has been described as the "primordial
catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism,
German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would
not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World
War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore
preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not
on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the Great
War and the long 19th century, the short- and long-term causes of
World War I. This approach results in the questioning of many
received ideas about the war's causes, especially the notion of
"inevitability."
The First World War has been described as the "primordial
catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism,
German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would
not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World
War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore
preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not
on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the Great
War and the long 19th century, the short- and long-term causes of
World War I. This approach results in the questioning of many
received ideas about the war's causes, especially the notion of
"inevitability."
Since the first edition of The Financial Times Guide to ETFs was
published in 2009, the number of ETFs in issue has doubled and ETFs
are now common both on investor platforms and increasingly amongst
financial advisors. This massive increase in demand has highlighted
an urgent debate - just how dangerous are ETFs and how much do
investors and advisers understand about the structure of the index
tracker? The second edition of this book attempts to answer this
debate and is the indispensable bible on trackers for professional
advisers and serious private investors. This new edition also
features a chapter based around the theme of Due Diligence and a
new chapter on How to use ETFs and Index Funds for theLong-term, as
well as a new Jargon busting section and a-new appendix looking at
new ideas beginning to emerge.
From his youthful second ascent of the north ridge of Mount Kennedy
in the Yukon’s Saint Elias Range, an in-and-out on skis for which
he had not entirely learned how to ski, to a recent excursion
across the Harding Icefield conceived under the influence of rain
and whiskey, David Stevenson chronicles several decades of a life
unified by a preoccupation with climbing. Reflective and literary,
and also entertaining and funny, his accounts move across the great
climbing locations of the western United States, with forays into
the spires of the Alps, and slip freely in time from the author’s
childhood, when he could not wait to head west, to his adulthood,
with a wife and two sons, in which he still feels compelled by a
longing to be on the heights.
Evolution of the Earth focuses on the formation of Earth. Topics
include the differention of the core, mantle and crust; the
formation of the ocean basins and continents; outgassing and
volcanism; the initiation of plate tectonics, the origin and
persistence of Earth's magnetic field; the growth of the inner
core; changes in mantle convection through time; and the impact of
life on the planet. The volume takes an interdisciplinary viewpoint
that emphasizes the interplay of geophysics, other aspects of earth
science and biological evolution. Some outstanding questions are
identified and debated.
Self-contained volume starts with an overview of the subject then
explores each topic with in depth detail
Extensive reference lists and cross references with other volumes
to facilitate further research
Full-color figures and tables support the text and aid in
understanding
Content suited for both the expert and non-expert
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