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The growing demand for social housing is one of the most pressing
public issues in the UK today, and this book analyses its role and
impact. Anchored in a discussion of different approaches to the
meaning and measurement of wellbeing, the author explores how these
perspectives influence our views of the meaning, value and purpose
of social housing in today's welfare state. The closing arguments
of the book suggest a more universalist approach to social housing,
designed to meet the common needs of a wide range of households,
with diverse socioeconomic characteristics, but all sharing the
same equality of social status.
This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through
episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with
union, concord and bonds of sympathy, but also through moments of
secession, separation, discord and disjunction. Its lens extends
from the local and regional, through to national and international
settings in Britain, Europe and the United States. The contributors
come from the fields of cultural history, literary studies,
American studies and legal history.
The growing demand for social housing is one of the most pressing
public issues in the UK today, and this book analyses its role and
impact. Anchored in a discussion of different approaches to the
meaning and measurement of wellbeing, the author explores how these
perspectives influence our views of the meaning, value and purpose
of social housing in today's welfare state. The closing arguments
of the book suggest a more universalist approach to social housing,
designed to meet the common needs of a wide range of households,
with diverse socioeconomic characteristics, but all sharing the
same equality of social status.
This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through
episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with
union, concord and bonds of sympathy, but also through moments of
secession, separation, discord and disjunction. Its lens extends
from the local and regional, through to national and international
settings in Britain, Europe and the United States. The contributors
come from the fields of cultural history, literary studies,
American studies and legal history.
This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies
the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields,
including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature.
It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived
and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed.
This book presents the collectors' roles as prominently as the
collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors
explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental
and transcontinental European public and private collections during
the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras. They study the
impact of class, geographical location and specific cultural
contexts on the gathering and use of printed and handwritten texts
and other printed artefacts. The volume explores the social
dimension of book collecting, and considers how practices of
collecting developed during these periods of profound cultural,
social and political change.
This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies
the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields,
including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature.
It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived
and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed.
This book presents the collectors' roles as prominently as the
collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors
explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental
and transcontinental European public and private collections during
the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras. They study the
impact of class, geographical location and specific cultural
contexts on the gathering and use of printed and handwritten texts
and other printed artefacts. The volume explores the social
dimension of book collecting, and considers how practices of
collecting developed during these periods of profound cultural,
social and political change.
This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the
College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June
1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of
physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in
Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference in a
Session organized by Professor B.B. Vartepetian. This group and
others later conspired to contribute to a book entitled Plant Life
in Anaerobic Environments (eds. D. D. Hook and R. M. M. Crawford,
Ann Arbor Science, 1978). Several contributors to the book
suggested in 1983 that a broad-scoped symposium on wetlands would
be useful (a) in facilitating communication among the diverse
research groups involved in wetlands research (b) in bringing
researchers and managers together and (c) in presenting a com
prehensive and balanced coverage on the status of ecology ami
management of wetlands from a global perspective. With this
encouragement, the senior editor organized a Plan ning Committee
that encompassed expertise from many disciplines of wetland
scientists and managers. This Committee, with input from their
colleagues around the world, organized a symposium that addressed
almost every aspect of wetland ecology and management.
An insider's view-an invitation to imaginative private parties at
the elegant homes of New York's most celebrated hosts. Seasoned
experts share entertaining secrets. Join Jamee Gregory as a guest
at some of New York's most exclusive private parties. Visit the
homes of savvy tastemakers from the worlds of fashion, finance, and
design, including Michael Kors, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder, Tory
Burch, and Jamie Drake. Observe them behind-the-scenes, shopping at
farmer's markets, arranging flowers, decorating tables, choosing
menus, dressing up dining and living rooms, terraces and gardens,
and themselves, with great style, ready to receive friends. Follow
the Manhattan sociable set's gatherings throughout the year from
SoHo cocktails and Fifth Avenue splendor to a Bridgehampton tented
dinner and a Millbrook hunt breakfast, revealing how they entertain
with flair. From Porthault linens to plastic glasses, in jeans or
evening dress, at elegant holiday celebrations, imaginative
birthdays, or an intimate brunch, this book features innumerable
inspirational events. Sophisticated party givers discuss what makes
a celebration a success-from memorable invitations and cocktail
recipes to seating, and special welcoming touches. Dazzling
portraits of unique rooms full of glamorous guests show parties
unfold. Informative close-up photographs capture details of
carefully orchestrated get-togethers, offering the reader myriad
ideas.
This book recounts the life and achievements of Clarence King,
widely recognized as one of America's most gifted intellectuals of
the nineteenth century, and a legendary figure in the American
West. King's genius, singular accomplishments, and near-death
adventures unfold in a narrative centered on his personal
relationship with his lifelong friend and colleague, James Gardner.
The two, upon completing their studies at Yale, traveled by wagon
train across the continent and worked with the California
Geological Survey. King went on to establish the Geological
Exploration of the 40th Parallel, a government mapping program that
stretched across the western mountain chains from California to
Wyoming. This was the precursor to the U.S. Geological Survey
(USGS). Founded in 1879, with Clarence King as its architect and
first director, the USGS became the most important and influential
science agency in the nation. The adventurous aspects of conducting
geological fieldwork in the West, much of them documented by
letters written by King and Gardner, punctuate a book copiously
illustrated with historic maps and photographs showing localities
and people important to the story.
Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British
Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview
of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there
are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a
neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of
the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture,
1760-1960 looks first at mercy’s religious and philosophical
aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then
looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland,
during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare
from the American war of independence to the First World War. This
study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century
shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.
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