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Focusing on the policy approaches of Conservative governments since
2015, this book examines key social policy areas including
education, health, housing, employment, children and young people
and more. Respected social policy researchers explore the degree to
which the positions and policies of recent Conservative governments
have differed from the previous Coalition government (2010-2015).
They consider the extent to which austerity has continued and the
influence of other policy emphases, such as a ‘levelling up’
agenda. Reflecting the rapid changes of Prime Minister, they
compare the themes of the Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak
administrations, critically examine the impacts of the external
shocks of Brexit and COVID-19, as well as changing patterns of
public expenditure.
Focusing on the policy approaches of Conservative governments since
2015, this book examines key social policy areas including
education, health, housing, employment, children and young people
and more. Respected social policy researchers explore the degree to
which the positions and policies of recent Conservative governments
have differed from the previous Coalition government (2010-2015).
They consider the extent to which austerity has continued and the
influence of other policy emphases, such as a ‘levelling up’
agenda. Reflecting the rapid changes of Prime Minister, they
compare the themes of the Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak
administrations, critically examine the impacts of the external
shocks of Brexit and COVID-19, as well as changing patterns of
public expenditure.
The Routledge Companion to Accounting History presents a
single-volume synthesis of research in this expanding field,
exploring and analysing accounting from ancient civilisations to
the modern day. No longer perceived as the narrow study of how a
mysterious technique was used in past, the scope of accounting
history has widened substantially. This revised and updated volume
moves beyond the history of accounting technologies, accounting
theories and practices and the accountants who applied them. Expert
contributors from around the world explore the interfaces between
accounting and the economy, society, culture and the polity.
Accounting history is shown to offer important insights into such
disparate phenomena as the evolution of capitalism, control of
labour, gender and family relationships, racial exploitation, the
operation of religious organisations, and the functioning of the
state. Illuminating the foundation and development of accounting
systems, this updated, classic book opens the field to a new
generation of accounting scholars and historians around the world.
The Routledge Companion to Accounting History presents a
single-volume synthesis of research in this expanding field,
exploring and analysing accounting from ancient civilisations to
the modern day. No longer perceived as the narrow study of how a
mysterious technique was used in past, the scope of accounting
history has widened substantially. This revised and updated volume
moves beyond the history of accounting technologies, accounting
theories and practices and the accountants who applied them. Expert
contributors from around the world explore the interfaces between
accounting and the economy, society, culture and the polity.
Accounting history is shown to offer important insights into such
disparate phenomena as the evolution of capitalism, control of
labour, gender and family relationships, racial exploitation, the
operation of religious organisations, and the functioning of the
state. Illuminating the foundation and development of accounting
systems, this updated, classic book opens the field to a new
generation of accounting scholars and historians around the world.
This detailed book systematically investigates subsurface
geological fractures using rock mechanics, geology, and geophysics.
Based on geological fracture mechanisms and fracture boundary
conditions, it presents new finite-difference equations for the
simulation of seismic wave responses to geological fractures, and
proposes innovative AVO inversion equations for the accurate
estimation of the rock properties of the fractured medium. It
employs schematics, snapshots, color images and charts to
demonstrate the mechanical characteristics of the fractures, the
seismic wave-field response to the fractures, the seismic data
attributes of the fractures and the rock properties of the
fractures obtained via inversion. It provides a new methodology for
enhancing geological fracture detection technology and for the
accurate delineation of fractured reservoirs that ultimately
benefits reservoir and mining engineers, geologists and
geophysicists in terms of optimizing reservoir recovery, well
performance and mining safety.
This detailed book systematically investigates subsurface
geological fractures using rock mechanics, geology, and geophysics.
Based on geological fracture mechanisms and fracture boundary
conditions, it presents new finite-difference equations for the
simulation of seismic wave responses to geological fractures, and
proposes innovative AVO inversion equations for the accurate
estimation of the rock properties of the fractured medium. It
employs schematics, snapshots, color images and charts to
demonstrate the mechanical characteristics of the fractures, the
seismic wave-field response to the fractures, the seismic data
attributes of the fractures and the rock properties of the
fractures obtained via inversion. It provides a new methodology for
enhancing geological fracture detection technology and for the
accurate delineation of fractured reservoirs that ultimately
benefits reservoir and mining engineers, geologists and
geophysicists in terms of optimizing reservoir recovery, well
performance and mining safety.
In recent years drag performance has moved from the fringes to
emerge as a mainstream phenomenon, showcased on TV shows in the US
and the UK. This collection offers a diverse range of critical
engagements by drag performers, makers, scholars and writers
reflecting on work from the UK, USA, Israel, Germany and Australia.
Moving beyond discussions of gender theory, the essays consider
contemporary drag performance practices, connecting them to the
histories, communities and politics that produced them. Chapters
range across discussions of drag kings in the US, UK and drag and
activism; the influence of RuPaul on the generation of new forms of
work in New York; transfeminist critiques of drag; 'bio'/faux
queens; engagements with race and ethnicity through drag
performance; drag andragogy; audience concerns; drag intersections
with animal personas, and how drag performance relates to personal
narratives of history and identity. Collectively the contributions
focus on drag as a mode of performance that is diverse and that
uncorsets the easy thought that drag is simply a cross dressing man
in a dress or a woman in a suit.
Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the
emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this
book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural
practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of
performance. This volume maps the multi-threaded contexts of
contemporary practices while rooting them in their fabulous
historical past and memory. The book examines drag histories and
what drag does with history, how it enacts or tells stories about
remembering and the past. Featuring work about the USA, UK and
Ireland, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Barbados, this book allows
the reader to engage with a range of archival research including
camp and history; ethnicity and drag; queering ballet through drag;
the connections between drag king and queen history; queering
pantomime performance; drag and military veterans; Puerto Rican
drag performers and historical film.
A lavishly illustrated collector's edition containing all the
supernatural tales ever written by M.R. James, the undisputed
father of the modern ghost story. 'James is clearly the best that's
ever been' MARK GATISS M.R. James is one of the finest authors of
supernatural fiction in the English language and revered as the
father of the modern English ghost story. Many of his stories were
originally written as Christmas entertainments and were read aloud
by the author to selected gatherings of friends. 'There are all
sorts of writers of all sorts of nightmares, but M.R. James wrote
the best ghost stories. He may well have created the ghost story in
its current form. Nobody can do what he did as well as he could'
NEIL GAIMAN Authorised by the writer's estate, Curious Warnings:
The Complete Ghost Stories is the only volume that collects
together all of James' much-loved supernatural tales - including
the classics, 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad', 'A
Warning to the Curious' and 'Canon Alberic's Scrapbook' - together
with his novel The Five Jars, story fragments, essays and poetry.
Illustrated by award-winning artist Les Edwards and featuring an
extensive historical Afterword by editor Stephen Jones, this is the
ultimate collection for fans of M.R. James and the classic British
ghost story.
This edition presents the first text of Jonathan Edwards' private
commentary on the book of Revelation. Written over a period of
thirty-five years, Edwards' notebook reveals his lifelong
fascination with apocalyptic speculation (including its bizarre
aspects) and his persistent conviction concerning the usefulness of
the visions in the life of the Christian church. In this volume is
also published the first complete edition (since the eighteenth
century) of the Humble Attempt (1748)-the call for united prayer
that was Edwards' response to the decline in religious fervor after
the Great Awakening. In his Introduction and commentary, Stephen J.
Stein examines the development of Edwards' apocalyptic interests in
the light of the situation in the eighteenth century, showing also
how Edwards' private judgments on the book of Revelation affected
his personal and theological activity. Together the texts and the
Introduction illuminate a hitherto inadequately explored facet of
Edwards' religious thought. With this volume, the Yale edition of
the Works of Jonathan Edwards inaugurates the publication of
Edwards' major manuscripts. Here, and in subsequent volumes, the
massive body of Edwards' manuscripts materials (including letter,
sermons, and Miscellanies) will be made available for the first
time. Stephen J. Stein is associate professor of religious studies
at Indiana University.
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