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This exciting new book brings together the experiences and
expertise of a range of practitioners who work within criminal
justice and provides a broad and informative account of a variety
of intervention techniques. From pharmacological approaches,
through the treatment of various specific conditions and on to the
use of poetry and art by prisoners, the book offers a series of
thought-provoking chapters that will help inform the practice of
anyone who works with this vulnerable population. The book is
edited by Peter Jones, a leading figure in the field of working
therapeutically with offenders. Vital information for: Probation
officers, social workers, counsellors, psychologists who work
within the criminal justice system.
Culture and religion are overlapping phenomena: cultures are
normally understood to subsume religions, and religions are very
often central to cultures. The two are particularly closely
associated when we focus on the kinds of difference that generate
issues for public policy. The world has always been culturally and
religiously diverse, but recent movements of population have
intensified the internal diversity of societies. That increased
diversity has presented societies with a number of pressing
questions. How much should cultural differences matter? Can they
and should they be treated impartially? Should they receive equal
recognition and what sort of recognition might that be? Are
cultural and religious differences at odds with human rights
thinking or do universal human rights demand respect for those
differences? When the demands of a religious faith clash with those
of a society's rules, which should take precedence? Should the
religious have to endure whatever burdens their beliefs bring their
way, or should they be accommodated so that their religious faith
does not become a source of social disadvantage? Should they have
to put up with unwelcome treatments of their beliefs or should they
be protected from the offensive and the disrespectful? These are
some of the many issues examined in Culture, Religion and Rights.
Over the last fifty years the life and work of Edmund Burke
(1729-1797) has received sustained scholarly attention and debate.
The publication of the complete correspondence in ten volumes and
the nine volume edition of Burke's Writings and Speeches have
provided material for the scholarly reassessment of his life and
works. Attention has focused in particular on locating his ideas in
the history of eighteenth-century theory and practice and the
contexts of late eighteenth-century conservative thought. This book
broadens the focus to examine the many sided interest in Burke's
ideas primarily in Europe, and most notably in politics and
aesthetics. It draws on the work of leading international scholars
to present new perspectives on the significance of Burke's ideas in
European politics and culture.
W.-H. Friedrich's "Verwundung und Tod in Der Ilias" was originally
published in 1956. Never before translated into English, its
importance has slowly come to be recognised: first, because it
discusses in detail the plausibility (or otherwise) of the wounds
received on the Homeric battlefield and is therefore of
considerable interest to historians of medicine; and second,
because it makes a serious and sustained effort to grapple with the
question of style, and thus confronts an issue which oral theory
has scarcely touched. Peter Jones adds a Preface briefly locating
the work within the terms of oral theory; Kenneth Saunders,
Emeritus Professor of Medicine at St George's Hospital Medical
School, London, updates Friedrich's medical analyses in a full
Appendix.
The world of healthcare is constantly evolving, ever increasing
in complexity, costs, and stakeholders, and presenting huge
challenges to policy making, decision making and system design. In
Design for Care, we'll show how service and information designers
can work with practice professionals and patients/advocates to make
a positive difference in healthcare.
This book explores the development of navigation in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. It examines the role of men of science,
seamen and practitioners across Europe, and the realities of
navigational practice, showing that old and new methods were
complementary not exclusive, their use dependent on many competing
factors.
The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers
cannot be assessed without reference to their European 'fortunes'.
These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars,
critics and translators, record the ways in which David Hume has
been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and
linguistic areas of Europe. This is the first collection of essays
to consider how and where Hume's works were initially understood
throughout Europe. They reflect on how early European responses to
Hume relied on available French translations, and concentrated on
his "Political Discourses" and his "History", and how later German
translations enabled professional philosophers to discuss his more
abstract ideas. Also explored is the idea that continental readers
were not able to judge the accuracy of the translations they read,
nor did many consider the contexts in which Hume was writing:
rather, they were intent on using what they read for their own
purposes. "The Reception of British Authors in Europe" series
includes literary and political figures, as well as philosophers,
historians and scientists. Each volume provides new research on the
ways in which selected authors have been translated, published,
distributed, read, reviewed and discussed in Europe.
This book presents emerging work in the co-evolving fields of
design-led systemics, referred to as systemic design to distinguish
it from the engineering and hard science epistemologies of system
design or systems engineering. There are significant societal
forces and organizational demands impelling the requirement for
"better means of change" through integrated design practices of
systems and services. Here we call on advanced design to lead
programs of strategic scale and higher complexity (e.g., social
policy, healthcare, education, urbanization) while adapting systems
thinking methods, creatively pushing the boundaries beyond the
popular modes of systems dynamics and soft systems. Systemic design
is distinguished by its scale, social complexity and integration -
it is concerned with higher-order systems that that entail multiple
subsystems. By integrating systems thinking and its methods,
systemic design brings human-centred design to complex,
multi-stakeholder service systems. As designers engage with ever
more complex problem areas, it is necessary to draw on a basis
other than individual creativity and contemporary "design thinking"
methods. Systems theories can co-evolve with a new school of design
theory to resolve informed action on today's highly resilient
complex problems and can deal effectively with demanding, contested
and high-stakes challenges.
"Party, Parliament and Personality" is a collection of essays on
political psychology from some of the best known names in political
science in England (Ivor Crewe, Vincent Wright, Rod Hague, David
Hine, Iain McLean). The central focus of the volume is British
politics, but the book also contains a number of comparative
chapters, indlucing Hague's theories of presidential personality,
which explores psychodynamic theories of personality in the context
of the US presidency and David Hines' on the political psychology
of corruption, which focusses on Italy. The book also presents a
number of chapters on political theory, including Albert Weale's on
the central nature of disagreement in democratic politics. "Party,
Parliament and Personality" emphasizes the psychology of individual
political actors as well as the personalities of political
philosophers such as Hobbes and Rousseau.
This book represents the first attempt to identify and describe a
workhouse reform 'movement' in mid- to late-nineteenth-century
England, beyond the obvious candidates of the Workhouse Visiting
Society and the voices of popular critics such as Charles Dickens
and Florence Nightingale. It is a subject on which the existing
workhouse literature is largely silent, and this book therefore
fills a considerable gap in our understanding of contemporary
attitudes towards institutional welfare. Although many scholars
have touched on the more obvious strands of workhouse criticism
noted above, few have gone beyond these to explore the possibility
that a concerted 'movement' existed that sought to place pressure
on those with responsibility for workhouse administration, and to
influence the trajectory of workhouse policy.
This "comparative micro-historical" study for the transitional period between the old and the new France, (1760-1820) analyzes six small localities. It explains how country dwellers disengaged themselves from the congeries of local societies that made up the ancien régime, and attached themselves to the wider polity of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic state. The result is a strikingly new perspective on the rural history of France during an epoch of momentous change.
The diverse make-up of modern societies has long been a major
preoccupation of political philosophy. It has also been a prominent
focus for public policy. How should a society provide for the
differences exhibited by its population? Should it view them with
indifference, or seek to diminish them in the interest of social
cohesion, or view them as positive goods that it should facilitate
or promote? The answer cannot be simple, partly because the
differences captured by the terms 'difference' or 'diversity' are
themselves so diverse. The essays brought together in this volume
focus on one sort of response to difference: toleration. They were
written at different times and deal with different aspects of
toleration, but they are characterised by a number of common
themes.
Serge Lang was an iconic figure in mathematics, both for his own
important work and for the indelible impact he left on the field of
mathematics, on his students, and on his colleagues. Over the
course of his career, Lang traversed a tremendous amount of
mathematical ground. As he moved from subject to subject, he found
analogies that led to important questions in such areas as number
theory, arithmetic geometry, and the theory of negatively curved
spaces. Lang's conjectures will keep many mathematicians occupied
far into the future. In the spirit of Lang's vast contribution to
mathematics, this memorial volume contains articles by prominent
mathematicians in a variety of areas of the field, namely Number
Theory, Analysis, and Geometry, representing Lang's own breadth of
interest and impact. A special introduction by John Tate includes a
brief and fascinating account of the Serge Lang's life. This
volume's group of 6 editors are also highly prominent
mathematicians and were close to Serge Lang, both academically and
personally. The volume is suitable to research mathematicians in
the areas of Number Theory, Analysis, and Geometry.
Fraud, corruption and bribery in and around public services have
become an increasing concern in recent years. The reported level of
fraud and corruption affecting the public sector has remained
unacceptably high despite numerous national and international
initiatives intended to tackle these crimes and their consequences.
Fraud and Corruption in Public Services is a definitive, practical
guide to the diverse risks that arise in central and local
government. There is guidance on civil and criminal law around
fraud, bribery and corruption as well as the national and
international governmental measures and initiatives for countering
this form of criminality. Most importantly of all, the book offers
advice, practical examples and strategies for preventing and
combating fraud, bribery and corruption. The text is readable,
well-informed and intensely practical; illustrated throughout with
real-life examples from the author's 40 year career.
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‘I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish’ The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats – shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon – Odysseus must test his bravery and native cunning to the full if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him. E. V. Rieu’s translation of the Odyssey was the very first Penguin Classic to be published, and has itself achieved classic status. For this edition, his text has been sensitively revised and a new introduction added to complement E. V. Rieu’s original introduction.
In this innovative volume, the author addresses some important
challenges related to the effective and equitable governance of
marine protected areas (MPAs). These challenges are explored
through a study of 20 MPA case studies from around the world. A
novel governance analysis framework is employed to address some key
questions: How can top-down and bottom-up approaches to MPA
governance be combined? What does this mean, in reality, in
different contexts? How can we develop and implement governance
approaches that are both effective in achieving conservation
objectives and equitable in fairly sharing associated costs and
benefits? The author explores the many issues that these questions
raise, as well as exploring options for addressing them. A key
theme is that MPA governance needs to combine people, state and
market approaches, rather than being based on one approach and its
related ideals. Building on a critique of the governance analysis
framework developed for common-pool resources, the author puts
forward a more holistic and less prescriptive framework for
deconstructing and analyzing the governance of MPAs. This
inter-disciplinary analysis is aimed at supporting the development
of MPA governance approaches that build social-ecological
resilience through both institutional and biological diversity. It
will also make a significant contribution to wider debates on
natural resource governance, as it poses some critical questions
for contemporary approaches to related research and offers an
alternative theoretical and empirical approach.
The airline industry is a vast international business that is
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