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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.
This book deploys a long-term account of political corruption in
Britain to explain the phenomenon of corruption as it resides
within the state and the contemporary problem of corruption denial
among members of the political class. It aims to satisfy the
concern about corruption and identify potential causes and
significance. The book provides and account of definitions of
corruption and how those definitions have changed over time.
Throughout the succeeding chapters it discusses public life and how
ethical considerations for public office holders have evolved over
time. This book argues that corruption is not just a concern about
politics and understanding corruption requires a multi-disciplinary
approach: history; political science; sociology; anthropology and
urban ethnography.
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.
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.
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.
Reading Latin, first published in 1986, is a bestselling Latin
course designed to help mature beginners read classical Latin
fluently and intelligently. It does this in three ways: it
encourages the reading of continuous texts from the start; it
offers generous help with translation at every stage; and it
integrates the learning of classical Latin with an appreciation of
the influence of the Latin language upon English and European
culture from antiquity to the present. The Text and Vocabulary,
richly illustrated, consists at the start of carefully graded
adaptations from original classical Latin texts. The adaptations
are gradually phased out until unadulterated prose and verse can be
read. The accompanying Grammar and Exercises volume completes the
course, although the present volume could be used as a
self-standing beginner's reader if desired. This second edition has
been fully revised and updated, with a new chapter containing
stories from early Roman history.
"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 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.
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.
Track Two diplomacy consists of informal dialogues among actors
such as academics, religious leaders, retired senior officials, and
NGO officials that can bring new ideas and new relationships to the
official process of diplomacy. Sadly, those involved in official
diplomacy often have little understanding of and appreciation for
the complex and nuanced role that Track Two can play, or for its
limitations. And many Track Two practitioners are often unaware of
the realities and pressures of the policy and diplomatic worlds,
and not particularly adept at framing their efforts to make them
accessible to hard-pressed officials. At the same time, those
interested in the academic study of Track Two sometimes fail to
understand the realities faced by either set of practitioners. A
need therefore exists for a work to bridge the divides between
these constituencies and between the different types of Track Two
practice-and this book crosses disciplines and traditions in order
to do just that. It explores the various dimensions and guises of
Track Two, the theory and practice of how they work, and how both
practitioners and academics could more profitably assess Track Two.
Overall, it provides a comprehensive picture of the range of
activities pursued under this title, to provoke new thinking about
how these activities relate to each other, to official diplomacy,
and to academe.
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.
Track Two diplomacy consists of informal dialogues among actors
such as academics, religious leaders, retired senior officials, and
NGO officials that can bring new ideas and new relationships to the
official process of diplomacy. Sadly, those involved in official
diplomacy often have little understanding of and appreciation for
the complex and nuanced role that Track Two can play, or for its
limitations. And many Track Two practitioners are often unaware of
the realities and pressures of the policy and diplomatic worlds,
and not particularly adept at framing their efforts to make them
accessible to hard-pressed officials. At the same time, those
interested in the academic study of Track Two sometimes fail to
understand the realities faced by either set of practitioners. A
need therefore exists for a work to bridge the divides between
these constituencies and between the different types of Track Two
practice-and this book crosses disciplines and traditions in order
to do just that. It explores the various dimensions and guises of
Track Two, the theory and practice of how they work, and how both
practitioners and academics could more profitably assess Track Two.
Overall, it provides a comprehensive picture of the range of
activities pursued under this title, to provoke new thinking about
how these activities relate to each other, to official diplomacy,
and to academe.
This book recounts and analyzes the history of one of the best-kept
diplomatic and security secrets of the last half-century--the Open
Skies Treaty: a treaty that allows the U.S., the Russian
Federation, and over 30 other signatories to fly unarmed
reconnaissance aircraft over one another's territory. First
proposed by President Eisenhower in 1955, shelved by succeeding
administrations, re-launched by President George H. W. Bush in
1989, and finally ratified in 2002, the Treaty has been one of the
most important security instruments of the 21st century--with over
1,000 flights logged to date providing confidence for the
governments, intelligence communities, and militaries of former and
potential adversaries.
Written by a professor and former diplomat who was deeply involved
in the negotiations of the Open Skies Treaty from 1989 to 1995,
this book is a meticulous work of political history that explores
how Open Skies affected, and was affected by, the extraordinary
times of its negotiation--during which the Cold War ended and the
Soviet Union collapsed. But it is also a potential blueprint for
future applications of the Open Skies concept by providing insights
into the role that cooperative aerial monitoring can play in
helping to transform other difficult relationships around the
world. As such it will serve as a negotiation handbook for
diplomats, bureaucrats, and politicians and as a case-study
textbook for IR students and students of diplomacy.
If any man could be defined as the epitome of the modern jazz
singer, it would surely be Jon Hendricks. His contributions to jazz
as a whole were colossal: a hipster, a bopster, a comic and
raconteur, a wordsmith par excellence, and a fearless improviser
who took the arts of scatting and vocalese to new heights. As a
founder member of the groundbreaking vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks
and Ross, he changed forever the public perception of what a jazz
singer could be. Jon Hendricks started singing professionally at
the age of seven. Within five years he was supporting his entire
family - including three sisters, eleven brothers and a niece -
with his earnings from radio appearances. He was active in jazz
long before the birth of bebop, and didn't stop until he was in his
nineties. Taught by the pioneering bebop pianist Art Tatum,
Hendricks performed with everyone of any consequence in jazz, from
Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker. Before Lambert, Hendricks and
Ross astonished the world with their album Sing A Song Of Basie, he
was writing songs for Louis Jordan. Later he wrote for stage,
screen and the press, and influenced and worked with Manhattan
Transfer, Bobby McFerrin and Kurt Elling. Not content with writing
lyrics for jazz instrumentals, he turned his hand later in life to
classical works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninoff. When Jon
Hendricks died in 2017, he left behind a final masterwork - his
fully-lyricized adaptation of the Miles Davis album Miles Ahead.
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