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After my last book, "Grandad Boats", I have been asked by a lot of
fishermen to write another. But you only have one life, so you only
have one story. But I have noticed that of all the books on the
subject of fishing that I have read, the type of fishing that was
done with the ropes was almost never mentioned. So with the help of
the men that have been there and done that, I hope that I have now
laid that to rest.
Connected Empires, Connected Worlds: Essays in Honour of John
Darwin contains diverse essays on the expansion, experience, and
decline of empires. The volume is offered in honour of John
Darwin's contribution to the study of empire and its endings.
Written by his former students and colleagues, the book's chapters
discuss topics from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first
centuries. While each author has contributed according to their
expertise, they also reflect on how John's ideas and approaches
continue to stimulate new work in disparate fields. Touching on the
experience of empire in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia, the
authors have engaged with concepts from across Darwin's writings,
including his earlier work on decolonisation, 'decline', and 'the
dynamics of territorial expansion'. As such, the work in this
volume operates across a number of different scales of analysis:
from case studies of transnational communities, state formation and
military intervention, to imperial politics, inter-imperial
comparison, and global historical frameworks. The chapters in this
book were originally published as a special issue of The Journal of
Imperial and Commonwealth History.
The book's main purposes are to determine what statistical and
other information is needed to formulate both the objects and the
means of government economic policy and then to ask what
theoretical tools should be used in order to clarify the issues of
economic policy. Inflationary gap analysis, national budgeting
techniques and the theory of economic fluctuations are examined
against the experience of a country in which they have been
intelligently applied. The book gives a lively account of Swedish
economic thinking and of the economic policy debates in Sweden
since 1920, discusses the scope and limitations of national
forecasting and budgeting and assesses the relative merits of
general and detailed measures of economic policy.
This book provides information on a statistical account and
theoretical interpretation of Swedish business cycles since 1918 as
well as a survey of the problems of economic policy, as revealed
both in practice and in theoretical discussion, during the
inter-war and post-war periods.
Many studies of digital education focus on technology rather than
on the learners or on what they make and do with the devices they
use every day. This book takes a different path, putting the
learners and their lives at the heart of the narrative. Through an
in-depth account of media production activities by younger learners
it shows their motivations and dispositions in storying their
identity in short video pieces. It suggests that their authoring
and editing practices are examples of the new curatorship: the
representation through life of identity and affiliation in digital
media. It considers the implications of this for teaching and
learning in the years to come and concludes with a manifesto for a
future media education.
This book explores how we make sense of ourselves when work is
precarious and intrinsically alienating. We know little about how
this experience of work impacts the lives of men and women, and
less about the way individuals understand themselves in the face of
institutions and organizations from which they feel marginalized.
Based on the narratives of men and women who underwent
extraordinary work life changes, Crisis at Work examines how we
negotiate greater meaning and fulfilment when our productive lives
fail to sustain and satisfy. Reflecting a growing fracture between
what we value, believe in, and are committed to and the degree to
which work and career have become incapable of assuaging those
desires, Potter examines how individuals attempt to assemble
working-lives they find rich and rewarding and how that work is
negotiated within the constraints and possibilities of the
contemporary moment.
Fifteen years ago NATO organised a conference entitled 'Ocean
Acoustic Modelling'. Many of its participants were again present at
this variability workshop. One such participant. in concluding his
1975 paper, quoted the following from a 1972 literature survey: '
... history presents a sad lack of communications between
acousticians and oceanographers' Have we done any better in the
last 15 years? We believe so, but only moderately. There is still a
massive underdeveloped potential for acousticians and
oceanographers to make significant progress together. Currently,
the two camps talk together insufficiently even to avoid simple
misun derstandings. such as those in Table 1. Table 1 Ocsanographic
and acoustic jargon (from an idea by Pol/ardi Jargon Oceanographic
use Acoustic use dbordB decibar (depth in m) decibel (energy level)
PE primitive equations parabolic equations convergence zone
converging currents converging rays (downwelling water) (high
energy density) front thermohaline front wave, ray or time front
speed water current speed sound propagation speed 1 The list goes
on.
The four volumes of Game Equilibrium Models present applications of
non-cooperative game theory. Problems of strategic interaction
arising in biology, economics, political science and the social
sciences in general are treated in 42 papers on a wide variety of
subjects. Internationally known authors with backgrounds in various
disciplines have contributed original research. The reader finds
innovative modelling combined with advanced methods of analysis.
The four volumes are the outcome of a research year at the Center
for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Bielefeld. The
close interaction of an international interdisciplinary group of
researchers has produced an unusual collection of remarkable
results of great interest for everybody who wants to be informed on
the scope, potential, and future direction of work in applied game
theory. Volume IV Social and Political Interaction contains game
equilibrium models focussing on social and political interaction
within communities or states or between states, i.e. national and
international social and political interaction. Specific aspects of
those interactions are modelled as non-cooperative games and their
equilibria are analysed.
The four volumes of Game Equilibrium Models present applications of
non-cooperative game theory. Problems of strategic interaction
arising in biology, economics, political science and the social
sciences in general are treated in 42 papers on a wide variety of
subjects. Internationally known authors with backgrounds in various
disciplines have contributed original research. The reader finds
innovative modelling combined with advanced methods of analysis.
The four volumes are the outcome of a research year at the Center
for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Bielefeld. The
close interaction of an international interdisciplinary group of
researchers has produced an unusual collection of remarkable
results of great interest for everybody who wants to be informed on
the scope, potential, and future direction of work in applied game
theory. Volume IV Social and Political Interaction contains game
equilibrium models focussing on social and political interaction
within communities or states or between states, i.e. national and
international social and political interaction. Specific aspects of
those interactions are modelled as non-cooperative games and their
equilibria are analysed.
Drawing on research into autobiographical video production by young
learners to present a theory of curatorship and new media, this
work explores facets of literacy and identity theory which provided
the initial frames for examining the work and shows how
'curatorship' works as a metaphor for new cultural and literacy
practices.
In the hundredth year of the British Broadcasting Corporation,
historian Simon J. Potter looks back over the hundred year history,
asking if the BBC is really the 'voice of Britain', and what comes
next for British public broadcasting. 2022 marks the centenary year
of the British Broadcasting Corporation. As Britain's most famous
and influential broadcaster, the BBC faces a range of significant
challenges to the way it operates, and perhaps to its existence,
from the government but also from a rapidly changing media
environment. Historian Simon J. Potter explores the hundred year
history of this corporation, drawing out the roots of these
challenges and understanding how similar threats - hostile
politicians and prime ministers, the advent of television - were
met and overcome in the past. Potter poses the question 'Is the BBC
the voice of Britain?', exploring its role in changing wider
culture and society, promoting particular versions of British
national identity, both at home and overseas. The BBC has long
claimed to speak for the British people, to the British people, and
with a British accent, and Potter explores how far these claims
have been justified with this exciting new study which covers the
establishment of the BBC Empire Service and the World Service, and
focuses on people, programmes, and politics to understand the
Corporation's engagement with changing ideas about culture and
society in Britain, including issues of class, gender, and race.
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