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'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary
life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The Times Long
before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen
to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire,
the glittering Constantinople: New Rome. In this magisterial work,
Professor Paul Stephenson charts the centuries surrounding this
epic shift of power. He traces the cultural, social and political
forces that led to the empire being ruled from a city straddling
Europe and Asia, placing all into a rich natural and environmental
context informed by the latest scientific research. Blending
narrative with analysis, he shows how the city and empire of New
Rome survived countless attacks and the rise of Islam. By the end,
the wide world of linked cities had changed into a world founded on
new ideas about government and God, art and war, and the very
future of a Christian empire: Byzantium.
This book offers comprehensive coverage of various aspects of
financial accountability around the EU budget – how it is spent
via policies, how institutions engage in checking policy
performance (what taxpayers’ money actually delivers), and
therein, the issues of monitoring, controlling, auditing,
scrutinising and communicating budgetary expenditure. Presenting
conceptual and theoretical approaches including financial
accountability, learning, multi-level governance, implementation
and throughput legitimacy, it looks at EU institutions (European
Parliament, European Court of Auditors, European Ombudsman,
European Public Prosecutor’s Office) and national bodies (supreme
audit institutions at the national level), examining their contact
with the EU budget. It details the historical development of
accountability mechanisms (the ‘statement of assurance’,
financial corrections, and parliamentary oversight by the Budgetary
Control Committee (CONT)), and examines policy areas such as those
of agriculture, social policy and cohesion (including Structural
Funds and the Common Agricultural Policy), exploring the challenges
of financial accountability in practice. Given the recent
introduction of non-budgetary financial instruments and tools only
partly financed by the EU budget, it sheds light on new burgeoning
areas such as the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the
European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) and the challenges
they bring for ensuring the accountability of public money. This
book will be of key interest to scholars and students of audit and
evaluation, budgetary spending and financial control and, more
broadly, public administration, public policy and EU institutions
and politics.
The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading
scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and
architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know
little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD
700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations, while those who
know much already will be afforded countless new vistas.
Each chapter offers an innovative approach to a well-known topic
or a diversion from a well-trodden path. Readers will be introduced
to Byzantine women and children, men and eunuchs, emperors,
patriarchs, aristocrats and slaves. They will explore churches and
fortifications, monasteries and palaces, from Constantinople to
Cyprus and Syria in the east, and to Apulia and Venice in the west.
Secular and sacred art, profane and spiritual literature will be
revealed to the reader, who will be encouraged to read, see, smell
and touch. The worlds of Byzantine ceremonial and sanctity, liturgy
and letters, Orthodoxy and heresy will be explored, by both leading
and innovative international scholars.
Ultimately, readers will find insights into the emergence of
modern Byzantine studies and of popular Byzantine history that are
informative, novel and unexpected, and that provide a thorough
understanding of both.
This book offers comprehensive coverage of various aspects of
financial accountability around the EU budget - how it is spent via
policies, how institutions engage in checking policy performance
(what taxpayers' money actually delivers), and therein, the issues
of monitoring, controlling, auditing, scrutinising and
communicating budgetary expenditure. Presenting conceptual and
theoretical approaches including financial accountability,
learning, multi-level governance, implementation and throughput
legitimacy, it looks at EU institutions (European Parliament,
European Court of Auditors, European Ombudsman, European Public
Prosecutor's Office) and national bodies (supreme audit
institutions at the national level), examining their contact with
the EU budget. It details the historical development of
accountability mechanisms (the 'statement of assurance', financial
corrections, and parliamentary oversight by the Budgetary Control
Committee (CONT)), and examines policy areas such as those of
agriculture, social policy and cohesion (including Structural Funds
and the Common Agricultural Policy), exploring the challenges of
financial accountability in practice. Given the recent introduction
of non-budgetary financial instruments and tools only partly
financed by the EU budget, it sheds light on new burgeoning areas
such as the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the European
Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) and the challenges they bring
for ensuring the accountability of public money. This book will be
of key interest to scholars and students of audit and evaluation,
budgetary spending and financial control and, more broadly, public
administration, public policy and EU institutions and politics.
Space policy is at the cutting edge of current EU policy
developments and is a fascinating object of study, involving
multiple and diverse actors. It is also an original and
contemporary lens for studying European policy-making. This book
explores advances in European space policy and their significance
for European integration. Using a 'framing' methodology, it
addresses central questions in European studies in order to form an
interdisciplinary bridge between current research in space policy
and contemporary European political studies. It assesses the
interests of EU institutions in space and how these institutions
perceive space policy. Furthermore, it demonstrates that space is a
cross-cutting policy domain affecting a diverse range of EU policy
fields, such as security, transport and migration, and underpinning
the 21st century European and global economy. In doing so, this
volume firmly locates space policy in the field of European
Studies. This innovative volume will be of key interest to students
and scholars of a range of policy areas including common foreign
and security policy, technology policy, transport policy, internal
market policies, environmental policy, development aid and
disaster-risk management, as well as the EU institutions.
The book provides a concise focussed guide to the main management
areas that are essential to the success of modern construction
projects. The concepts, principles and applications in the seven
main management areas that are essential to the success of
construction projects are presented. It links in with The CIOB's
Education Framework is recommended reading for The CIOB.
The book provides a concise focussed guide to the main management
areas that are essential to the success of modern construction
projects. The concepts, principles and applications in the seven
main management areas that are essential to the success of
construction projects are presented. It links in with The CIOB's
Education Framework is recommended reading for The CIOB.
A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Conventional histories of the
last days of the Roman Empire will no longer suffice after you read
this book.' Averil Cameron, author of Byzantine Matters
'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary
life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' The Times 'Brings
the world of New Rome alive with exceptional learning and a
magnificent openness to modern scientific methods that breathe life
into conventional narratives of political and social history.' The
New York Review of Books Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in
AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart
of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome.
In this magisterial work, Professor Paul Stephenson charts the
centuries surrounding this epic shift of power. He traces the
cultural, social and political forces that led to the empire being
ruled from a city straddling Europe and Asia, placing all into a
rich natural and environmental context informed by the latest
scientific research. Blending narrative with analysis, he shows how
the city and empire of New Rome survived countless attacks and the
rise of Islam. By the end, the wide world of linked cities had
changed into a world founded on new ideas about government and God,
art and war, and the very future of a Christian empire: Byzantium.
Space policy is at the cutting edge of current EU policy
developments and is a fascinating object of study, involving
multiple and diverse actors. It is also an original and
contemporary lens for studying European policy-making. This book
explores advances in European space policy and their significance
for European integration. Using a 'framing' methodology, it
addresses central questions in European studies in order to form an
interdisciplinary bridge between current research in space policy
and contemporary European political studies. It assesses the
interests of EU institutions in space and how these institutions
perceive space policy. Furthermore, it demonstrates that space is a
cross-cutting policy domain affecting a diverse range of EU policy
fields, such as security, transport and migration, and underpinning
the 21st century European and global economy. In doing so, this
volume firmly locates space policy in the field of European
Studies. This innovative volume will be of key interest to students
and scholars of a range of policy areas including common foreign
and security policy, technology policy, transport policy, internal
market policies, environmental policy, development aid and
disaster-risk management, as well as the EU institutions.
The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading
scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and
architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know
little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD
700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations, while those who
know much already will be afforded countless new vistas. Each
chapter offers an innovative approach to a well-known topic or a
diversion from a well-trodden path. Readers will be introduced to
Byzantine women and children, men and eunuchs, emperors,
patriarchs, aristocrats and slaves. They will explore churches and
fortifications, monasteries and palaces, from Constantinople to
Cyprus and Syria in the east, and to Apulia and Venice in the west.
Secular and sacred art, profane and spiritual literature will be
revealed to the reader, who will be encouraged to read, see, smell
and touch. The worlds of Byzantine ceremonial and sanctity, liturgy
and letters, Orthodoxy and heresy will be explored, by both leading
and innovative international scholars. Ultimately, readers will
find insights into the emergence of modern Byzantine studies and of
popular Byzantine history that are informative, novel and
unexpected, and that provide a thorough understanding of both.
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Paul Stephenson
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When his partner suddenly died, life changed utterly for Paul
Stephenson. Hard Drive is the outcome of his revisiting a world he
thought he knew, but which had been upended. In poems that are
affectionate, self-examining, sometimes funny and often surprised
by grief in the oddest corners, the poet takes us through rooms,
routines, and rituals of bereavement, the memory of love, a shared
life and separation. A noted formalist, with a flair for
experiment, pattern and the use of constraints, Stephenson has
written a remarkable first book, moving and, despite everything, a
hopeful record of a gay relationship. It is also a landmark elegy
collection.
This book provides a concise introduction to the theory and
practice of construction planning for practitioners and students,
providing knowledge, understanding and the appropriate tools and
techniques in order to successfully manage and deliver construction
projects in-line with clients' and stakeholders' requirements.
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