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The problem of corruption is of central significance for the
developmental prospects of poor countries. Corruption undermines
development by siphoning off resources for infrastructures and
public services and by weakening the legitimacy of the state. The
volume will appeal to academics and policy-makers concerned with
problems of governance and public management in developing
countries, as well as specialists working on corruption and
designing anti-corruption strategies.
The articles assembled in this volume offer a fresh approach to
analysing the problem of corruption in developing countries and the
k means to tackle the phenomenon. They draw on a wide variety of
theoretical traditions and are interdisciplinary in their approach,
reflecting the fact that corruption cannot be understood through
the lens of economic or political analysis alone. A wealth of
empirical material is assembled from a range of developing
countries, both in the form of case studies and detailed
cross-national analysis, to examine these questions. The message
conveyed by this book is that corruption is a complex,
multi-faceted phenomenon which pervades all societies to varying
degrees. It is not amenable to quick-fix solutions but requires a
complementary response at a variety of levels through governments,
aid agencies and NGOs working together to tackle the root causes of
the problem and mitigate its corrosive developmental consequences.
This book will appeal to acedemic and policy-makers concerned with
problems of goverance and public management in developing
countries, as well as specialists working on corruption and
designing anti-corruption strategies.
Here is the remarkable journey of faith, grit, clear-thinking, and
powerful expression that propelled Mark Robinson from the depths of
poverty to a political awakening as a conservative who would
ultimately become the first black lieutenant governor of North
Carolina. It's a story filled with lessons and inspiration, as well
as a loving evocation of Robinson's childhood, and his blue-collar,
working man's path through the economic ravages wrought by NAFTA
and unthinking globalism. Most of all it is the story of a man
speaking for us, for the majority of Americans who have built a
country on common sense and sacred individual rights. Robinson
entered the once-thriving, blue-collar workplace in North
Carolina's Piedmont--only to run up against the ravages of NAFTA as
it decimated American manufacturing. These hard times served as a
wake-up call for Robinson who realized that he was a Republican and
a conservative at heart--and had always been so. It was a
conviction that led to a successful run against all odds for the
lieutenant governorship and launched a powerful voice for a return
to faith, decency, common sense, and liberty across America. Here
is Mark Robinson's story.
This popular and bestselling book provides an important practical
resource for all professionals engaged with planning, implementing
and evaluating multi-professional teamwork and practice in
children's services. This new third edition builds on the success
of earlier editions, retaining its classic chapters of enduring
value while incorporating some fresh new content. Four new chapters
- chosen to highlight and consider contemporary new developments in
the field - explore safeguarding children; the challenges of
information sharing; new integrated approaches to SEN; and
multi-agency responses to child sexual exploitation. Combining
theoretical perspectives, research evidence from the 'real world'
of children's services, and reflections on policy and practice,
this new edition retains its popular approach and is fully updated
to reflect the numerous changes to policy, practice, and research.
The book:*Exemplifies what multi-professional work looks like in
practice*Examines real dilemmas faced by professionals trying to
make it work, and shows how these dilemmas can be
resolved*Considers lessons to be learnt, implications for practice
and recommendations for making multi-professional practice more
effective Featuring helpful guidance, theoretical frameworks and
evidence-based insights into practice, this book is a key resource
for students studying on a wide range of courses related to
children and families, as well as qualified social workers,
teachers, support workers in children's centres, family support
workers, health workers, and managers of a range of children and
youth services.
Communication and cultural diversity have become key focus areas as
the health service engages with goals of health improvement and
equity. This timely and unique book provides a rigorous and
challenging review of recent research, with a particular focus on
health communication interventions concerning service users who may
lack fluency in English. The book shows that meeting the needs of
all health service users, including disadvantaged groups, depends
on both structures and processes of communication. This book will
prove invaluable to healthcare professionals and medical students,
academics, practitioners, service managers and policy makers
concerned with improving health services for minority ethnic
groups.
In common with other volumes in the Thames Through Time series,
this account of the Thames Valley in the millennium and a half
before the Roman conquest seeks to examine change in human society
from a thematic point of view. The geographical and chronological
framework for this volume is established in Chapters 1 and 2, but
thereafter we have tried to get away from the traditional, somewhat
artificial pigeon-holes of 'periods' 'ages' 'eras' and 'phases' to
look much harder at how change in human society actually works. In
a period when the 20th century has come to dominate secondary
school history and much popular TV, the notion that the first
foundations of modern society can be traced back more than 3000
years may seem a rather surprising proposition. But some
fundamental patterns of settlement and landuse, political
boundaries, human impact on the environment, and even the specific
use and form of a few places can be traced back to late prehistoric
times despite millennia of subsequent change - even though
otherwise we may now have very little in common with those remote
ancestors. Exploring these issues on a thematic basis should help
us to gain a better understanding of how human society evolves and
also of how people have altered their natural environment,
providing a better long term perspective on what we are doing to
the planet. (Oxford Archaeology 2008)
The gravel terraces of the river Thames have revealed a wealth of
archaeological information about the evolution of the landscape of
the region, the development of the settlement pattern, and past
human occupation. Much of this has come to light in the course of
gravel quarrying, which has been so extensive that the Thames
Valley now provides one of the richest resources of archaeological
data in the country. This volume provides an up to date overview of
the archaeological evidence from the valley for the late Iron Age,
Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods, broadly speaking the first
millennium AD. The area studied in detail comprises the Upper
Thames Valley, from the source of the river to the Goring Gap, and
the Middle Thames Valley, from the Goring Gap to the start of the
tidal zone at Teddington Lock. A summary of evidence for the
character of the river and the vegetation and environment of its
floodplain is followed by a detailed account of the evolving
settlement pattern as currently understood from archaeological
evidence. The authors then consider what archaeology can reveal
about the late Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon populations of the
valley, and their changing lifestyles, culture, identities and
beliefs. This is followed by a review of the evidence for
production, trade, transport and communication, and the archaeology
of power and politics. The volume concludes with a discussion of
the state of knowledge today and its limitations, and emerging
themes and problem areas for future research.
The site at Whitecross Farm, including timber structures located on
the edge of the eyot, and a substantial midden and occupation
deposit has been securely radiocarbon-dated to the late Bronze Age.
The late Bronze Age artefact assemblages are suggestive of a
high-status site, with a range of domestic and ritual activities
represented. The bank of the Grim's Ditch earthwork was found to
have preserved evidence of earlier settlement, dating to the
Neolithic and Bronze Age, and a sequence of cultivation, including
ard marks and 'cord-rig' cultivation ridges. Pottery and
radiocarbon analysis dated the earthwork to the end of the late
Iron Age or the early Roman period. A multi-period settlement,
consisting of pits, a waterhole, postholes, gullies and field
systems, was identified at Bradford's Brook, Cholsey. The main
periods represented are late Bronze Age and Romano-British, while a
small quantity of Saxon pottery indicates limited Saxon activity. A
large pit containing late Bronze Age pottery, a cattle skull,
waterlogged wood and plant remains, a complete loomweight and flint
flakes has been interpreted as a waterhole. A series of radiocarbon
dates were obtained for deposits within this feature. All three
sites are discussed individually as well as within their local,
regional and national contexts. Chapter 7 provides an overall
discussion of later Bronze Age themes that have arisen through the
excavation and analysis of these sites.
This book takes a non mathematical looks at the principles and
processes of hydrology. Now in its fourth edition, this well
established book preserves the essential structure, clarity and
style which have ensured its continued international popularity
over more than three decades. However the book has been revised and
fully updated to take into account new research and developments in
the subject and the changing role of hydrology in the modern world.
The thematic treatment of the main phases of the hydrological cycle
i.e. precipitation, interception, evaporation, subsurface water and
stream flow, has been retained, together with the chapter on water
quality. A final, synthesising chapter has been reinstated by
popular demand, together with a broader spectrum of case studies
and examples. A selection of problems and exercises has also been
included at the end of each chapter.
This is the first major critical study of the art of Cornish
painter Kurt Jackson. Jackson's landscapes have been exhibited
widely, and are becoming more popular.
THE SACRED CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY
A major new study of Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky
(1932-1986), director of seven feature films, including Mirror,
Andrei Roublyov, Solaris and The Sacrifice. ?This book explores
every aspect of Andrei Tarkovsky's output in the most detailed
fashion - including scripts, budget, production, shooting, editing,
camera, sound, music, acting, themes, symbols, motifs, and
spirituality. Tarkovsky's films are analyzed in depth, with
scene-by-scene discussions.
This is an important addition to film studies, the most
painstaking study of Andrei Tarkovsky's work available.
Contains 150 illustrations, of Tarkovsky's films, Tarkovsky at
work, his contemporaries, and his favourite painters.
Andrei Tarkovsky is one of the most fascinating of filmmakers.
He is supremely romantic, an old-fashioned, traditional artist - at
home in the company Leonardo da Vinci, Pieter Brueghel, Aleksandr
Pushkin, Fyodor Dostoievsky and Byzantine icon painters. Tarkovsky
is a magician, no question, but argues for demystification (even
while films celebrate mystery). His films are full of magical
events, dreams, memory sequences, multiple viewpoints, multiple
time zones and bizarre occurrences.
As genre films, Andrei Tarkovsky's movies are some of the most
accomplished in cinema. As science fiction films, Stalker and
Solaris have no superiors, and very few peers. Only the greatest
sci-fi films can match them: Metropolis, King Kong, Close
Encounters of the Third Kind and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Tarkovsky
happily and methodically rewrote the rules of the sci-fi genre:
Stalker and Solaris are definitely not routine genre outings. They
don't have the monsters, the aliens, the visual effects, the
battles, the laser guns, the stunts and action set-pieces of
regular science fiction movies.
No one could deny that Andrei Roublyov is one of the greatest
historical films to explore the Middle Ages, up there with The
Seventh Seal, El Cid, The Navigator and Pier Paolo Pasolini's
'Life' trilogy. If you judge Andrei Roublyov in terms of historical
accuracy, epic spectacle, serious themes, or cinematic poetry, it
comes out at the top. Finally, in the religious film genre, The
Sacrifice and Nostalghia are among the finest in cinema, the equals
of the best of Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Robert Bresson and
Carl-Theodor Dreyer.
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