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A source of perennial tension in states is the degree to which
decision making power and authority should be concentrated in
central institutions and individuals. At present the conventional
wisdom of central-local relations has swung in favour of
decentralisation. This book investigates whether such convergence
is taking place through detailed examination in Asia Pacific. The
results of the survey reveal a complex picture in which divergence
is still evident in the region's patterns of central-local
relations.
First book to examine the safe standing movement in football, an
important case study of fan activism and social change Draws on
historical and sociological perspectives Includes material on the
impact of the safe standing movement in Europe
This major introductory text written by three leading names in the
field provides an accessible overview of the challenges faced in
overcoming global poverty and inequality in the twenty-first
century. Through an in-depth assessment of development theory and
practice, the authors set out to advance two key arguments: the
first being the importance of historically contextualizing
contemporary developmental problems in order to assess policy
proposals; and the second that inequality matters, and how this
notion has continually remained a central feature of development
debates from colonial times to present day. Ideal for undergraduate
students taking development modules as part of Political Science
and International Relations degrees, this engaging text proves to
be essential reading when exploring the impacts of development on
today's international political economy. With each chapter covering
inequalities from all different angles, the authors clearly outline
the impact of models such as globalization and neoliberalism, as
well as offering alternative views on the challenges posed by the
UN's Millennium Development Goals.Also available is a companion
website with extra features to accompany the text, please take a
look by clicking below -
https://he.palgrave.com/companion/Greig-Challenging-Global-Inequality/
Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative
language is central to several important issues in cognitive
science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we
process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the
past fifteen years, traditional approaches to these issues have
been challenged by experimental psychologists, linguists, and other
cognitive scientists interested in the structures of the mind and
the processes that operate on them. In Figurative Language and
Thought, internationally recognized experts in the field of
figurative language, Albert Katz, Mark Turner, Raymond W. Gibbs
Jr., and Cristina Cacciari, provide a coherent and focused debate
on the subject. The book's authors discuss a variety of fundamental
questions, including: What can figures of speech tell us about the
structure of the conceptual system? If and how should we
distinguish the literal from the nonliteral in our theories of
language and thought? Are we primarily figurative thinkers and
consequently figurative language users or the other way around? Why
do we prefer to speak metaphorically in everyday conversation, when
literal options may be available for use? Is metaphor the only
vehicle through which we can understand abstract concepts? What
role do cultural and social factors play in our comprehension of
figurative language? These and related questions are raised and
argued in an integrative look at the role of nonliteral language in
cognition. This volume, a part of Counterpoints series, will be
thought-provoking reading for a wide range of cognitive
psychologists, linguists, and philosophers.
This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook
presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding
from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just
native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a
Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and
that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest
editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this
section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare'
throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide
variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the
inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a
European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International
Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues
and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors
to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and
South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece,
France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European
Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance,
issues of character, and other topics.
This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook
presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding
from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just
native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a
Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and
that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest
editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this
section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare'
throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide
variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the
inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a
European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International
Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues
and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors
to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and
South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece,
France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European
Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance,
issues of character, and other topics.
Far, far away, in deep, dark space, was a star. A tiny twinkle. But
it was Star Boy's home. Star Boy lived there all alone, with only
his robot, Ace, for company. And although Ace was fun to play with,
he was just a robot. For his birthday, all Star Boy wanted was a
surprise - but how could a robot think of a surprise? This
deceptively simple science fiction story explores ideas of
friendship and understanding. Text type - A fantasy story. Pictures
taken through the Space Girl's viewer are featured on pages 22 and
23, showing views from her rocket and snap shots of the birthday
party providing lots of speaking and listening opportunities.
Curriculum links - Citizenship: Taking part, Developing skills of
communication and participation. This story is paired with a
non-fiction book on a similar theme: Let's go to Mars by Janice
Marriott. This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery. This
book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
This book uncovers the principles behind optimal neonatal and
paediatric prescribing.
Essentials of Translational Pediatric Drug Development: From Past
Needs to Future Opportunities provides integrated and up-to-date
insights relevant for both translational researchers and clinicians
active in the field of pediatric drug development. The book covers
all key aspects from different stakeholder perspectives, providing
a literature overview and careful reflection on state-of-the-art
approaches. It will be an ideal guide for researchers in the field
who are designing and performing high quality, innovative
pediatric-adapted drug development by helping them define
needs/challenges and possible solutions that advance and harmonize
pediatric drug development.Despite the broad consensus that
children merit the same quality of drug treatment as any other age
group, children remain frequently neglected during drug research
and development. Even with the adoption of multiple legislations
addressing this problem, the lack of efficacy and safety data of
marketed as well as newly developed drugs still remain in the
pediatric population.
For more than a decade, "Clear and Simple as the Truth" has
guided readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of
effective prose but as its very heart. Francis-Noel Thomas and Mark
Turner present writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive
application of verbal skills. In classic style, the motive is
truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader and writer are
intellectual equals, and the occasion is informal. This general
style of presentation is at home everywhere, from business memos to
personal letters and from magazine articles to student essays.
Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of
this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider
style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its
very heart.
At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what
can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal
correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't good prose simply fall
into place? Thomas and Turner say no. Attending to rules of
grammar, sense, and sentence structure will no more lead to
effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a golf swing will
lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step programs to better
writing exacerbate the problem by failing to recognize, as Thomas
and Turner point out, that there are many styles with different
standards.
The book is divided into four parts. The first, "Principles of
Classic Style," defines the style and contrasts it with a number of
others. "The Museum" is a guided tour through examples of writing,
both exquisite and execrable. "The Studio," new to this edition,
presents a series of structured exercises. Finally, "Further
Readings in Classic Prose" offers a list of additional examples
drawn from a range of times, places, and subjects. A companion
website, classicprose.com, offers supplementary examples, exhibits,
and commentary, and features a selection of pieces written by
students in courses that used "Clear and Simple as the Truth" as a
textbook."
A comprehensive guide to the most common weeds of the Pacific
Northwest, with essential information on their management and
eradication Weeds are everywhere. They crowd out valuable
agricultural crops, compete with the tomatoes and beans in your
vegetable garden, spread rampantly along roadsides, and pop up from
the tiniest cracks in sidewalks. In order to manage them, we must
first learn how to identify them. Weeds of the Pacific Northwest is
a guide to identifying, controlling, and eradicating over 300
species of weeds that gardeners and homeowners are likely to
encounter in Northern California, Oregon, Washington, and British
Columbia. Though they can all cause trouble, each weed is
different. The hundreds of user-friendly photographs and detailed
descriptions of each species here ensure that you can spot and
treat any weed in your path. As the experts behind this book
demonstrate, some plants can be killed by eating them, some by
digging, some by smothering, and some only by the judicious
application of chemical herbicides-and it is very important for you
and your neighbors to know and understand the differences.
We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and
dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets,
lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the
basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's
Fables or The Thousand and One Nights, for example, as exotic tales
set in strange lands, with spectacular images, talking animals, and
fantastic plots--wonderful entertainments, often insightful, but
well removed from logic and science, and entirely foreign to the
world of everyday thought. But Mark Turner argues that this common
wisdom is wrong. The literary mind--the mind of stories and
parables--is not peripheral but basic to thought. Story is the
central principle of our experience and knowledge. Parable--the
projection of story to give meaning to new encounters--is the
indispensable tool of everyday reason. Literary thought makes
everyday thought possible. This book makes the revolutionary claim
that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of
literary thinking.
In The Literary Mind, Turner ranges from the tools of modern
linguistics, to the recent work of neuroscientists such as Antonio
Damasio and Gerald Edelman, to literary masterpieces by Homer,
Dante, Shakespeare, and Proust, as he explains how story and
projection--and their powerful combination in parable--are
fundamental to everyday thought. In simple and traditional English,
he reveals how we use parable to understand space and time, to
grasp what it means to be located in space and time, and to
conceive of ourselves, other selves, other lives, and other
viewpoints. He explains the role of parable in reasoning, in
categorizing, and in solving problems. He develops a powerful model
of conceptual construction and, in a far-reaching final chapter,
extends it to a new conception of the origin of language that
contradicts proposals by such thinkers as Noam Chomsky and Steven
Pinker. Turner argues that story, projection, and parable precede
grammar, that language follows from these mental capacities as a
consequence. Language, he concludes, is the child of the literary
mind.
Offering major revisions to our understanding of thought,
conceptual activity, and the origin and nature of language, The
Literary Mind presents a unified theory of central problems in
cognitive science, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and
philosophy. It gives new and unexpected answers to classic
questions about knowledge, creativity, understanding, reason, and
invention.
This fully revised edition of the same authors' Governance,
Administration and Development is the ideal introduction to public
management and the policy process in developing countries. With a
new chapter on issues of law and order, it also covers current
debates on civil society, aid and intervention, and the
relationship of states and markets.
Set in the heart of England, the undulating county of Warwickshire
is famous as the birthplace of William Shakespeare. He was born in
Stratford-upon-Avon and today the town has a thriving industry
based around its famous son. This part of Warwickshire is still
largely rural today, including the area north of Stratford which
was once the historic Forest of Arden. The county town of Warwick
has many interesting historic features, not least its impressive
castle, as do the major towns of Leamington Spa and Rugby. Coventry
is historically part of Warwickshire and has been a major centre in
the Midlands for centuries. This densely populated part of
Warwickshire extends to Nuneaton and Bedworth and into the
north-east of the county, where the last mine of the Warwickshire
Coalfield closed in 2013. 50 Gems of Warwickshire explores the many
places and their history that make this part of the country so
special, including natural features, towns and villages, buildings
and places of historical interest. Alongside justly famous
attractions, others will be relatively unknown but all have an
interesting story to tell.
The great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery
of the human mind, will fundamentally revise our concept of what it
means to be human. Drawing together the classical conception of the
language arts, the Renaissance sense of scientific discovery, and
the modern study of the mind, Mark Turner offers a vision of the
central role that language and the arts of language can play in
that adventure.
Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of
this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider
style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its
very heart. At a time when writing skills have virtually
disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the
principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't
good prose simply fall into place? Thomas and Turner say no.
Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will
no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a
golf swing will lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step
programs to better writing exacerbate the problem by failing to
recognize, as Thomas and Turner point out, that there are many
styles with different standards. In the first half of Clear and
Simple, the authors introduce a range of styles--reflexive,
practical, plain, contemplative, romantic, prophetic, and
others--contrasting them to classic style. Its principles are
simple: The writer adopts the pose that the motive is truth, the
purpose is presentation, the reader is an intellectual equal, and
the occasion is informal. Classic style is at home in everything
from business memos to personal letters, from magazine articles to
university writing. The second half of the book is a tour of
examples--the exquisite and the execrable--showing what has worked
and what hasn't. Classic prose is found everywhere: from Thomas
Jefferson to Junichir? Tanizaki, from Mark Twain to the
observations of an undergraduate. Here are many fine performances
in classic style, each clear and simple as the truth. Originally
published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
Gloucestershire is a county of great variety with three distinct
areas: the Cotswold Hills, the Forest of Dean and the Severn Vale.
The gently rolling hills of the Cotswolds are dotted with
picturesque towns and villages of honey-coloured limestone, while
the Forest of Dean, which overlooks the Wye Valley and Welsh
mountains beyond, has a dark and mysterious beauty quite distinct
from the rest of the county. These two areas are separated by the
mighty River Severn, which over countless centuries has carved a
course through the land to create the Severn Vale. Builders
commonly used timber frames in the construction of dwellings in
this low-lying land, notably in Tewkesbury, although some of
Gloucestershire's most impressive stone buildings - Gloucester
Cathedral, Tewkesbury Abbey and Berkeley Castle - are found in the
Vale area. At the heart of the county lie its two major
settlements: the historic city of Gloucester and the spa town of
Cheltenham, famous for its festivals and Regency architecture. In
50 Gems of Gloucestershire author Mark Turner explores the history
of these places and more, showing why this part of the west of
England is so special.
Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of
this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider
style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its
very heart. At a time when writing skills have virtually
disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the
principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't
good prose simply fall into place? Thomas and Turner say no.
Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will
no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a
golf swing will lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step
programs to better writing exacerbate the problem by failing to
recognize, as Thomas and Turner point out, that there are many
styles with different standards. In the first half of Clear and
Simple, the authors introduce a range of styles--reflexive,
practical, plain, contemplative, romantic, prophetic, and
others--contrasting them to classic style. Its principles are
simple: The writer adopts the pose that the motive is truth, the
purpose is presentation, the reader is an intellectual equal, and
the occasion is informal. Classic style is at home in everything
from business memos to personal letters, from magazine articles to
university writing. The second half of the book is a tour of
examples--the exquisite and the execrable--showing what has worked
and what hasn't. Classic prose is found everywhere: from Thomas
Jefferson to Junichir? Tanizaki, from Mark Twain to the
observations of an undergraduate. Here are many fine performances
in classic style, each clear and simple as the truth. Originally
published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
Gloucestershire's majestic Forest of Dean lies within a triangle
between the River Severn on its east side and the famous Wye Valley
on its west. Evidence of the first humans here is provided by the
presence of megalithic standing stones from the Bronze Age; several
hillforts survive from the Iron Age; and there are numerous signs
of Roman occupation as they set about exploiting the area's natural
reserves, iron-smelting and coal mining. In the medieval period,
the Forest was used mainly as a royal hunting ground. By the
seventeenth century, however, it was primarily used to provide
timber for the ships of the Royal Navy. It was in this century,
too, that the district became the setting for military activity and
conflict during Civil War. From the eighteenth century, coal mining
grew rapidly, providing employment for many. For most of the
district's inhabitants, however, the Forest was a place of toil,
danger and grinding poverty. A network of tramroads and railways
through the Forest was created in the nineteenth century. As the
twentieth century progressed, the economic mining of Forest coal
became less viable, and by the mid-1960s the last of the big pits
had closed. Most of the Forest's railway lines, too, have closed.
Today the district is a popular base for visitors seeking to
explore the ancient Forest and neighbouring Wye Valley. Secret
Forest of Dean picks out significant aspects of the area's history
and landscape and explores its lesser-known episodes and
characters.
Being an American soldier was always easy. You're brainwashed by
the red, white, and blue, and the hard on you get from being a hero
for the parades and cheap women. Those were the days. Now I run a
Private Military Company with my Godfather, Colonel. Pat Decker. To
make things worse my new first officer is a pain in my ass too.
Throw in a dirty Congressman and the promise of fast money, and
It's clear the glory days are long since over. Or are they?
He had it all. He was a big-time kickboxer with a bright future
ahead until he lost it all. Now he's a debt collecting crook trying
to score big enough to leave Wisconsin. Everything was going well
until he gets into a war with the worlds most powerful drug cartel,
that's slowly taking over Milwaukee. He must now save the woman he
loves and the city he hates, or end up in the obituaries trying.
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