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Lunar domes are structures of volcanic origin which are usually
difficult to observe due to their low heights. The Lunar Domes
Handbook is a reference work on these elusive features. It provides
a collection of images for a large number of lunar domes, including
telescopic images acquired with advanced but still moderately
intricate amateur equipment as well as recent orbital spacecraft
images. Different methods for determining the morphometric
properties of lunar domes (diameter, height, flank slope, edifice
volume) from image data or orbital topographic data are discussed.
Additionally, multispectral and hyperspectral image data are
examined, providing insights into the composition of the dome
material. Several classification schemes for lunar domes are
described, including an approach based on the determined
morphometric quantities and spectral analyses. Furthermore, the
book provides a description of geophysical models of lunar domes,
which yield information about the properties of the lava from which
they formed and the depth of the magma source regions below the
lunar surface.
This book, available at last in paperback, analyses the 1984-85
miners' strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions,
especially the role of workplace politics and community
mobilisation. The year-long strike began in Scotland, with workers
defending the moral economy of the coalfields, and resisting pit
closures and management attacks on trade unionism. The book relates
the strike to an analysis of changing coalfield community and
industrial structures from the 1960s to the 1980s. It challenges
the stereotyped view that the strike began in March 1984 as a
confrontation between Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader, and
Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government. Before this point, in
fact, fifty percent of Scottish miners were already on strike or
engaged in a significant pit-level dispute with their managers, who
were far more confrontational than their counterparts in England
and Wales. The book explores the key features of the strike that
followed in Scotland: the unusual industrial politics; the strong
initial pattern of general solidarity; and then the emergence of
varieties of pit-level commitment. -- .
This retrospective brings insight into hundreds of stunning rock
posters by Jim Phillips made over 40 years, from 1965 to 2005, and
counting. Phillips tells his life story and how the posters record
an evolution of Rock Age music. Containing iconic images that
advertise concerts featuring both emerging and established
musicians, this collection will delight and astound you. Jim's
original, ground-breaking computer painted posters, along with his
old-world style techniques are a real wonder sure to bring a smile.
A bonus section presents Phillips' son Jimbo's rock posters. Rock
musicians, fans, and hip audiences today all will pour over the
fabulous images and lettering that set this work apart.
Newly available in paperback, this book provides the first
comprehensive evaluation of Britain's food laws from the 1860s to
the 1930s and the first analysis of the Victorian anti-adulteration
legislation for over 25 years. The book brings important historical
perspectives to the pressing contemporary debate about food safety
and the most appropriate forms of regulation by indicating that
government policy has historically been shaped by competing
business and consumer-protectionist pressures. Through food
manufacturing groups and MPs like Jeremiah Colman, along with
agricultural organisations, the food business successfully
minimised the degree of state control. In a comparative analysis
the authors indicate that in this respect the UK legislation
resembled the American Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection laws.
These emerged as a compromise between business and the Federal
government after the fierce controversy generated by Upton
Sinclair's famous revelations about the Chicago meat industry. A
similar compromise emerged in the UK in the 1920s and 1930s, with
legislators responding to business pressure by effectively
abandoning one of the main original aims of the Victorian laws, the
protection of consumers against fraudulently adulterated goods. The
new Ministry of Health's decision to defend consumers' health, but
not their pockets, satisfied the interests of business. The book
will interest teachers, students and general readers concerned with
British history and economic and social history, and appeal to
specialists in the fields of business history, regulation and food,
medicine and nutrition.
Contents: 1. Food Policy and Regulation: a Multiplicity of Actors and Experts David F. Smith and Jim Phillips 2. Compositional Food Standards in the United Kingdom: the Case of the Willis Inquiry, 1929-1934 Michael French and Jim Phillips 3. The Pasteurisation of England: the Science, Culture and Health Implications of Milk Processing, 1900-1950 Peter J. Atkins 4. Veterinary Inspection and Food Hygiene in the Twentieth Century Peter A. Koolmees 5. The People's League of Health and the Campaign Against Bovine Tuberculosis in the 1930s L. Margaret Barnett 6. 'Axes to Grind': Popularising the Science of Vitamins, 1920s and 1930s Harmke Kamminga 7. The Rise and Fall of the Scientific Food Committee During the Second World War David F. Smith 8. The Food Supply in the Netherlands During the Second World War Gerard Trienekens 9. Vitamins Win the War: Nutrition, Commerce, and Patriotism in the United States During the Second World War Rima D. Apple 10. The United Nations Protein Advisory Group Josh Ruxin 11. Food Standards in the United States: the Case of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Suzanne White Junod 12. Departmental, Professional, and Political Agendas in the Implementation of the Recommendations of a Food Crisis Enquiry: the Milne Report and Inspection of Overseas Meat Plants Lesley Diack, T. Hugh Pennington, Elizabeth Russell and David Smith 13. Post-War Nutrition Science and Policy Making in Britain c.1945-1994: the Case of Diet and Heart Disease Mark W. Bufton and Virginia Berridge 14. Recent Experiences in Food Poisoning: Science and Policy, Science and the Media T. Hugh Pennington 15. Regulating GM Foods in the 1980s and 1990s David Barling
This highly topical book offers a comprehensive study of the
interaction of food, politics and science over the last hundred
years. A range of important case studies, from pasteurisation in
Britain to the E coli outbreak offers new material for those
interested in science policy and the role of expertise in modern
political culture.
Deindustrialisation is the central feature of Scotland's economic,
social and political history since the 1950s, when employment
levels peaked in the established sectors of coal, shipbuilding,
metals and textiles, along with the railways and docks. This book
moves analysis beyond outmoded tropes of economic decline and
industrial catastrophe, and instead examines the political economy
of deindustrialisation with a sharp eye on cultural and social
dimensions that were not uniformly negative, as often assumed.
Viewing the long-term process of deindustrialisation through a
moral economy framework, the book carefully reconstructs the impact
of economic change on social class, gender relations and political
allegiances, including a reawakened sense of Scottish national
identity. In doing so, it reveals deindustrialisation as a more
complex process than the customary body count of closures and job
losses suggests, and demonstrates that socioeconomic change did not
just happen, but was influenced by political agency.
This retrospective of Jims skateboard art bombards the reader with
colorful decks, logos, ad art, ad layouts, photos, and stickers to
illustrate the history of skateboarding, from the urethane
revolution to the present. Take a ride with an inside view of
Phillips Studios, to observe the wacky world of his crazed studio
artists and examine their graphic assignments. The story traces the
roots of skateboarding with more than half a century of Phillips
involvement. It provides insight to the creative evolution of the
sport, and worldwide interest in and influence from this California
artist.
Deindustrialisation is the central feature of Scotland's economic,
social and political history since the 1950s, when employment
levels peaked in the established sectors of coal, shipbuilding,
metals and textiles, along with the railways and docks. This book
moves analysis beyond outmoded tropes of economic decline and
industrial catastrophe, and instead examines the political economy
of deindustrialisation with a sharp eye on cultural and social
dimensions that were not uniformly negative, as often assumed.
Viewing the long-term process of deindustrialisation through a
moral economy framework, the book carefully reconstructs the impact
of economic change on social class, gender relations and political
allegiances, including a reawakened sense of Scottish national
identity. In doing so, it reveals deindustrialisation as a more
complex process than the customary body count of closures and job
losses suggests, and demonstrates that socioeconomic change did not
just happen, but was influenced by political agency.
Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation
through the experiences of the Scottish coal miner Throughout the
twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation
through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home
Rule. This book argues that coal miners occupy a central position
in Scotland's economic, social and political history, and
highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement
demands for political-constitutional reforms that eventually
resulted in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
The book also uses the struggle of the mineworkers to explore
working class wellbeing more broadly during the prolonged and
politicised period of deindustrialisation that saw jobs, workplaces
and communities devastated. Key features Examines
deindustrialisation as long-running, phased and politicised process
Uses generational analysis to explain economic and political change
Relates Scottish Home Rule to long-running debates about economic
security and working class welfare Analyses the longer history of
Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership,
production techniques and workplace safety Relates this economic
and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender
relations
Lunar domes are structures of volcanic origin which are usually
difficult to observe due to their low heights. The Lunar Domes
Handbook is a reference work on these elusive features. It provides
a collection of images for a large number of lunar domes, including
telescopic images acquired with advanced but still moderately
intricate amateur equipment as well as recent orbital spacecraft
images. Different methods for determining the morphometric
properties of lunar domes (diameter, height, flank slope, edifice
volume) from image data or orbital topographic data are discussed.
Additionally, multispectral and hyperspectral image data are
examined, providing insights into the composition of the dome
material. Several classification schemes for lunar domes are
described, including an approach based on the determined
morphometric quantities and spectral analyses. Furthermore, the
book provides a description of geophysical models of lunar domes,
which yield information about the properties of the lava from which
they formed and the depth of the magma source regions below the
lunar surface.
This book analyses the 1984-5 miners' strike by focusing on its
vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of workplace
politics and community mobilisation. The year-long strike began in
Scotland, with workers defending the moral economy of the
coalfields, and resisting pit closures and management attacks on
trade unionism. The book relates the strike to an analysis of
changing coalfield community and industrial structures from the
1960s to the 1980s. It challenges the stereotyped view that the
strike began in March 1984 as a confrontation between Arthur
Scargill, the miners' leader, and Margaret Thatcher's Conservative
government. Before this point, in fact, 50 per cent of Scottish
miners were already on strike or engaged in a significant pit-level
dispute with their managers, who were far more confrontational than
their counterparts in England and Wales. The book explores the key
features of the strike that followed in Scotland: the unusual
industrial politics; the strong initial pattern of general
solidarity; and then the emergence of varieties of pit-level
commitment. These were shaped by differential access to
community-level moral and material resources, including the
economic and cultural role of women, and pre-strike pit-level
economic performance. Against the trend elsewhere, notably in the
English Midlands, relatively good performance prior to 1984 was a
positive factor in building strike endurance in Scotland. The book
shows that the outcome of the strike was also distinctive in
Scotland, with an unusually high level of victimisation of
activists, and the acceleration of deindustrialisation
consolidating support for devolution, contributing to the
establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. -- .
This is the second of three volumes in an important collection that
recounts the sweeping history of law in Canada. The period covered
in this volume witnessed both continuity and change in the
relationships among law, society, Indigenous peoples, and white
settlers. The authors explore how law was as important to the
building of a new urban industrial nation as it had been to the
establishment of colonies of agricultural settlement and resource
exploitation. The book addresses the most important developments in
the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, including
legal pluralism and the co-existence of European and Indigenous
law. It pays particular attention to the Metis and the Red River
Resistance, the Indian Act, and the origins and expansion of
residential schools in Canada. The book is divided into four parts:
the law and legal institutions; Indigenous peoples and Dominion
law; capital, labour, and criminal justice; and those less favoured
by the law. A History of Law in Canada examines law as a dynamic
process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long
term.
Thousands of artistic graphic illustrations, from motorcycles to
health food and including rock posters, surf, and skateboard art,
jump off these pages. Bold and dynamic "bad boy" and "hippie"
themes in bright and startling colors command your attention to the
incredible detail included. Jim Phillips delights in original
imagery to convey his unique reflections of the popular world.
Since 1962, he has published award-winning graphic designs for
cartoons, skateboards, t-shirts, stickers, rock posters, and ad
art. The works assembled for this book, from collections
world-wide, represent over fifty years of creativity and document
the powerful youth movement in America.
Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation
through the experiences of the Scottish coal miner Throughout the
twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation
through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home
Rule. This book argues that coal miners occupy a central position
in Scotland's economic, social and political history, and
highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement
demands for political-constitutional reforms that eventually
resulted in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
The book also uses the struggle of the mineworkers to explore
working class wellbeing more broadly during the prolonged and
politicised period of deindustrialisation that saw jobs, workplaces
and communities devastated. Key features Examines
deindustrialisation as long-running, phased and politicised process
Uses generational analysis to explain economic and political change
Relates Scottish Home Rule to long-running debates about economic
security and working class welfare Analyses the longer history of
Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership,
production techniques and workplace safety Relates this economic
and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender
relations
A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project.
Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and
continues to the 1860s, Volume Two covers the half century after
Confederation, and Volume Three covers the period from the
beginning of the First World War to 1982, with a postscript taking
the account to approximately 2000. The history of law includes
substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal
culture. The authors assume that since 1500 there have been three
legal systems in Canada - the Indigenous, the French, and the
English. At all times, these systems have co-existed and
interacted, with the relative power and influence of each being
more or less dominant in different periods. The history of law
cannot be treated in isolation, and this book examines law as a
dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the
long term. The law guided and was guided by economic developments,
was influenced and moulded by the nature and trajectory of
political ideas and institutions, and variously exacerbated or
mediated intercultural exchange and conflict. These themes are
apparent in this examination, and through most areas of law
including land settlement and tenure, and family, commercial,
constitutional, and criminal law.
Prepared to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the
establishment of Nova Scotia's Supreme Court, this important new
volume provides a comprehensive history of the institution,
Canada's oldest common law court. The thirteen essays include an
account of the first meeting in 1754 of the court in Michaelmas
Term, surveys of jurisprudence (the court's early federalism cases;
its use of American law; attitudes to the administrative state),
and chapters on the courts of Westminster Hall, on which the
Supreme Court was modelled, and the various courthouses it has
occupied. Anchoring the volume are two longer chapters, one on the
pre-confederation period and one on the modern period.
Editors Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill have put
together the first complete history of any Canadian provincial
superior court. All of the essays are original, and many offer new
interpretations of familiar themes in Canadian legal history. They
take the reader through the establishment of the one-judge court to
the present day ? a unique contribution to our understanding of
superior courts.
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