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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
For years, businesses have complained about the costs of
regulatory compliance. On the other hand, society is becoming
increasingly aware of the environmental, safety, health, financial,
and other risks of business activity. Government oversight seems to
be one of the answers to safeguard against these risks. But how can
we deregulate and regulate without jeopardizing our public goals or
acting as a brake on economic growth? Many instruments are
available to assess the effects of laws regulating business,
including the regulatory impact assessment (RIA), which contains
cost/benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, risk analysis,
and cost assessments. This book argues that public goals will be
achieved more effectively if compliance costs of the enterprises
are as low as possible. Highlighting examples from a wide spectrum
of industries and countries, the authors propose a new kind of RIA,
the business impact assessment (BIA), designed to improve both
business and public policy decision making.
This book covers the wide spectrum of subjects relating to
obtaining and using building stones, starting with their geological
origin and then describing the nature of granites, volcanics,
limestones, sandstones, flint, metamorphic stones, breccias and
conglomerates, with emphasis being placed on how to recognise the
different stones via the many illustrated examples from Great
Britain and other countries. The life of a building stone is
explained from its origin in the quarry, through its exposure to
the elements when used for a building, to its eventual
deterioration. The structure of stone buildings is then discussed,
with explanations of the mechanics of pillars, lighthouses and
walls, arches, bridges, buttresses and roof vaults, plus castles
and cathedrals. The sequence of the historical architectural styles
of stone buildings is explained-from the early days through to
postmodern buildings. Special attention is paid to two famous
architects: the Roman Vitruvius and the English Sir Christopher
Wren who designed and supervised the construction of St. Paul's
Cathedral in London. To demonstrate many of the concepts presented,
two exemplary stone buildings are described in detail: the Albert
Memorial in London and Durham Cathedral in northern England. The
former building is interesting because it is comprised of a
cornucopia of different building stones and the latter building
because of its architecture and sandstone decay mechanisms. In the
final Chapter, ruined stone buildings are discussed-the many
reasons for their decay and the possibility of their 'rebirth' via
digital recording of their geometry. The book has over 350 pages
and is illustrated with more than 450 diagrams and colour
photographs of both the various stones and the associated stone
buildings. Readers' knowledge of the subject will be greatly
enhanced by these images and the related explanatory text. A
wide-ranging references and bibliography section is also included.
Originally published in 1982, this book begins with a wide-ranging
and critical review of both first and second generation theories of
inflation (and the related problem of unemployment), including the
classical approach to macroeconomics. The author systematically
integrates search, implicit contract, expectations and
wage-bargaining theeoriees to outline a new and original synthesis.
This synthesis and switching regimes model is then rigorously
examined to see how well it can explain inflation the US and the
UK.
Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal
historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves
comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own
'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive
introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by
comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve
essays derived from papers delivered at the 24th British Legal
History Conference. These essays explore patterns in legal norms,
processes, and practice across an exceptionally broad chronological
and geographical range. Carefully selected to provide a network of
inter-connections, they contribute to our better understanding of
legal history by combining depth of analysis with historical
contextualization. This title is also available as Open Access on
Cambridge Core.
Fruits of the most recent research on the worlds of the eleventh
and twelfth centuries. The contributions in this volume illuminate
critical aspects of the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Angevin
worlds - and more. Essays consider the complexities of the Norman
administration in North Africa, the Canterbury primacy controversy
through the lens of the relics of St Ouen, and the meanings of
natura and divinitas in the works of Bernardus Silvestris.
Additional chapters explore cross-cultural definitions of
masculinity articulated through the biblical figure of David, the
social networks and monastic patronage of the female lords of
Braine, and the links between legal classifications of adultery and
thirteenth-century fabliaux. The Journal continues its focuson
source criticism with explorations of two Italian sources -- a
Miscellany from the Piedmontese monastery of Novalesa and an
overlooked Venetian source for Byzantine imperial history. A
re-assessment of the legal and judicial activities of King Henry I
rounds out the volume. Contributors: JASON BAXTER, LUIGI ANDREA
BERTO, APRIL HARPER, JOHN HUDSON, RUTH MAZO KARRAS, MATT KING,
BRIDGET K. RILEY, EDWARD M. SCHOOLMAN, YVONNE SEALE.
The works of Sir James Holt are well known to all those working in medieval history and this important set of essays, written in his honor, reflect his interests in England and Normandy from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries. The essays have been contributed by those who have taught, worked alongside, or studied under the honorand. Particular concerns of the volume are warfare and military intelligence; rebellion and responses to revolt; the development of land law; legal learning and documents.
What is the connection between crawling through a jungle and your ‘to do’ list? What can ejecting out of a stealth bomber teach you about the importance of thinking the worst? What can surviving in extreme situations teach us about surviving everyday life?
John Hudson, Chief Survival Instructor to the British Military, knows what it takes to survive. Combining first-hand experience with twenty years of studying the choices people have made under the most extreme pressure, How to Survive is a lifetime’s worth of wisdom about how to apply the principles of survival to everyday life.
The cornerstone of military survival (surviving anything) is understanding the relationship between effort, hope and goals – a mindset that can be transposed anytime, anywhere. In How to Survive you will learn how this template for survival can be applied to any situation in your everyday life. Through gripping first-hand accounts of near disaster and survival stories from across the extreme world you will learn that by following these principles you can develop the mindset that will allow you to make better decisions under pressure, which are as equally applicable to first dates and presentations as to climbing Everest and getting lost at sea.
Originally published in 1982, this book begins with a wide-ranging
and critical review of both first and second generation theories of
inflation (and the related problem of unemployment), including the
classical approach to macroeconomics. The author systematically
integrates search, implicit contract, expectations and
wage-bargaining theeoriees to outline a new and original synthesis.
This synthesis and switching regimes model is then rigorously
examined to see how well it can explain inflation the US and the
UK.
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John Hudson’s Earth is a beautiful exploration of our dependence
on our planet. Through a variety of different poetic techniques,
Hudson skilfully blends form and content in order to create a work
of poetic genius. In Earth, Hudson asks the perennial question:
What does it mean to be human?
A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History This
volume demonstrates the vitality and range of studies in the area.
It begins with an appropriately timely chapter on the Magna Carta,
the Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, given by John Hudson. Further
topics include seals; English towns and urban society after the
Norman Conquest; the records of Barking Abbey; the Bayeux Tapestry;
monastic writing; and medical practitioners in Normandy.
Contributors: Anna Sapir Abulafia, Casey Beaumont, Elma Brenner,
Giles Gasper, Kate Hammond, John Hudson, Alan Murray, Jean-Francois
Nieus, Jonathan Paletta, Susan Raich, Luigi Rosso, Miri Rubin, Hugh
Thomas.
In the coming decades robots and artificial intelligence will
fundamentally change our world. In doing so they offer the hope of
a golden future, one where the elderly are looked after by
companion robots, where the disabled can walk, robot security
protects us all, remote rural areas have access to the best urban
facilities and there is almost limitless prosperity. But there are
dangers. There are fears in the labour market that robots will
replace jobs, leaving many unemployed, and increase inequality. In
relying too much on robots, people may reduce their human contact
and see their cognitive abilities decline. There are even concerns,
reflected in many science fiction films, that robots may eventually
become competitors with humans for survival. This book looks at
both the history of robots, in science and in fiction, as well as
the science behind robots. Specific chapters analyse the impact of
robots on the labour market, people's attitudes to robots, the
impact of robots on society, and the appropriate policies to pursue
to prepare our world for the robot revolution. Overall the book
strikes a cautionary tone. Robots will change our world
dramatically and they will also change human beings. These
important issues are examined from the perspective of an economist,
but the book is intended to appeal to a wider audience in the
social sciences and beyond.
A revised edition of J. C. Holt's classic study of Magna Carta, the
Great Charter, offering the most authoritative analysis of
England's most famous constitutional text. The book sets the events
of 1215 and the Charter itself in the context of the law, politics
and administration of England and Europe in the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries. Additionally, a lengthy new introduction by
two of Holt's former pupils, George Garnett and John Hudson,
examines a range of issues raised by scholarship since publication
of the second edition in 1992. These include the possible role of
Archbishop Stephen Langton; the degree of influence of Roman and
Canon Law upon those who drafted the Charter; other aspects of the
intellectual setting of the Charter, in particular political
thinking in London; the Continental context of the events of
1212-15; and the legal and jurisdictional issues that affected the
Charter's clauses on justice.
Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal
historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves
comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own
'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive
introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by
comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve
essays derived from papers delivered at the 24th British Legal
History Conference. These essays explore patterns in legal norms,
processes, and practice across an exceptionally broad chronological
and geographical range. Carefully selected to provide a network of
inter-connections, they contribute to our better understanding of
legal history by combining depth of analysis with historical
contextualization. This title is also available as Open Access on
Cambridge Core.
Providing a new cross-national and international narrative on how
global competition has reshaped welfare states this book addresses
major theoretical debates about the direction of welfare state
reform processes across the OECD and beyond, offering empirically
rooted analyses of change and new perspectives on the impact of
global competition on social policy.
Drawing together a mix of internationally renown contributors,
Social Policy Review 28 provides an up-to-date and diverse review
of the best in social policy scholarship. With specially
commissioned reviews of pensions, health care, conditionality and
housing this book examines important debates in the field. A themed
section on personalised budgets examines the introduction and
consequences of personalisation of funding from the perspectives of
the UK, Australia and Norway and considers the impact of such
funding on vulnerable groups such as the elderly and the homeless.
Published in association with the SPA this comprehensive discussion
and analysis of the current state of social policy will be of keen
interest to academics and students.
Published in association with the SPA, Social Policy Review 27
draws together international scholarship at the forefront of
addressing concerns that emphasise both the breadth of social
policy analysis, and the expanse of issues with which it is
engaged. Contributions to this edition focus on the effects of
financialisation on services and care provision, policies to
address deficiencies in housing and labour markets, and ways in
which the study of social policy may need to develop to respond to
its changing material concerns. A themed section explores the place
of comparative welfare modelling in the context of change over the
last quarter of a century to consider where scholarship has been
and where it might be going.
This book draws on the latest social science to explain how and why
social policy change occurs. Built on core concepts of policy
analysis, it offers a robust framework for understanding policy
change that can be applied to any aspect of welfare or social
policy. Unlike most work in this field, the book deftly mixes
theory and practice even including discussions of key theorists.
This third edition brings the book fully up to date and will ensure
that it remains the standard textbook in the field for years to
come.
A revised edition of J. C. Holt's classic study of Magna Carta, the
Great Charter, offering the most authoritative analysis of
England's most famous constitutional text. The book sets the events
of 1215 and the Charter itself in the context of the law, politics
and administration of England and Europe in the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries. Additionally, a lengthy new introduction by
two of Holt's former pupils, George Garnett and John Hudson,
examines a range of issues raised by scholarship since publication
of the second edition in 1992. These include the possible role of
Archbishop Stephen Langton; the degree of influence of Roman and
Canon Law upon those who drafted the Charter; other aspects of the
intellectual setting of the Charter, in particular political
thinking in London; the Continental context of the events of
1212-15; and the legal and jurisdictional issues that affected the
Charter's clauses on justice.
First published in 1853, this is a comprehensive guide to the
British Lake District. It features contributions from William
Wordsworth and the geologist Adam Sedgwick, as well as a number of
shorter sections by local experts on subjects such as botany and
toponymy. The first part comprises detailed descriptions of the
major towns and villages of the area, providing recommended routes
and excursions for tourists. This is followed by Wordsworth's
description of the scenery of the Lake District, offering
fascinating observations on the natural formation of the landscape
and the influence of human settlement. The latter part consists of
a series of five letters on the geological structure of the area,
written by Sedgwick between 1842 and 1853. Illustrated with
detailed maps of the area, this is a key text for those interested
in the history of tourism in the Lake District and its development
in the Victorian period.
This book is written as a result of a personal conviction of the
value of incorporating historical material into the teaching of
chemistry, both at school and undergraduate level. Indeed, it is
highly desirable that an undergraduate course in chemistry
incorporates a separate module on the history of chemistry. This
book is therefore aimed at teachers and students of chemistry, and
it will also appeal to practising chemists. While the last 25 years
has seen the appearance of a large number of specialist scholarly
publications on the history of chemistry, there has been little
written in the way of an introductory overview of the subject. This
book fills that gap. It incorporates some of the results of recent
research, and the text is illustrated throughout. Clearly, a book
of this length has to be highly selective in its coverage, but it
describes the themes and personalities which in the author's
opinion have been of greatest importance in the development of the
subject. The famous American historian of science, Henry Guerlac,
wrote: 'It is the central business of the historian of science to
reconstruct the story of the acquisition of this knowledge and the
refinement of its method or methods, and-perhaps above all-to study
science as a human activity and learn how it arose, how it
developed and expanded, and how it has influenced or been
influenced by man's material, intellectual, and even spiritual
aspirations' (Guerlac, 1977). This book attempts to describe the
development of chemistry in these terms.
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