Water Crises and Governance critically examines the relationship between water crises and governance in the face of challenges to provide water for growing human demand and environmental needs. Water crises threaten the assumptions and accepted management practices of water users, managers and policymakers. In developed and developing world contexts from North America and Australasia, to Latin America, Africa and China, existing institutions and governance arrangements have unintentionally provoked water crises while shaping diverse, often innovative responses to management dilemmas. This volume brings together original field-based studies by social scientists investigating water crises and their implications for governance. Contributors to this collection find that water crises degrade environments, place untenable burdens on stakeholders, and produce or exacerbate social conflict, undermining ecological and social conditions that sustain effective collaboration. At the same time, water crises can promote institutional change that "resets" governance, promoting unusual and creative responses appropriate for local contexts. The studies in this volume provide evidence that, while water crises pose serious threats to environments and societies, they also provide opportunities to learn from experience and recraft water governance with coherent visions of more ecologically and socially sustainable futures. This volume was originally published as a special issue of Society & Natural Resources.

In this eagerly-awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative and irreverent romp through the history of more than forty pieces of personal tech, charting the successes, failures and oddities from over five decades of our obsession with gadgetry. From the Teasmade to the TomTom, mankind has been on a constant hunt for gimmicks that make life easier, faster and more entertaining, and as yesterday's 'must-haves' become today's museum pieces, there's no better time to take a nostalgic trip through tech's back catalogue.

Water Crises and Governance critically examines the relationship between water crises and governance in the face of challenges to provide water for growing human demand and environmental needs. Water crises threaten the assumptions and accepted management practices of water users, managers and policymakers. In developed and developing world contexts from North America and Australasia, to Latin America, Africa and China, existing institutions and governance arrangements have unintentionally provoked water crises while shaping diverse, often innovative responses to management dilemmas. This volume brings together original field-based studies by social scientists investigating water crises and their implications for governance. Contributors to this collection find that water crises degrade environments, place untenable burdens on stakeholders, and produce or exacerbate social conflict, undermining ecological and social conditions that sustain effective collaboration. At the same time, water crises can promote institutional change that "resets" governance, promoting unusual and creative responses appropriate for local contexts. The studies in this volume provide evidence that, while water crises pose serious threats to environments and societies, they also provide opportunities to learn from experience and recraft water governance with coherent visions of more ecologically and socially sustainable futures. This volume was originally published as a special issue of Society & Natural Resources.

YouTube's most successful purveyor of computer nostalgia brings those stories to print. This book celebrates the most exciting period in the history of technology - the arrival of the home computer and home gaming console. For a time, an exciting and ever-changing array of different companies fought for supremacy, leaving a lasting legacy of great gameplay and surreal design we'll never experience again. Features screenshots of nostalgic games that will bring joy to the heart of anyone who grew up in the 80s or early 90s, alongside stunning studio photography of the computers that imprinted themselves on a generation's minds

Angel's Downfall Angela Jones' mother Rita is dancer who is tragically widowed in the closing stages of the war and left almost destitute. Angela's wealthy grandparents at first reject Angela. Eventually they begin to build a strong relationship with her, but then are killed in a plane crash when she is nine years old. Angela's life is forced into further turmoil when her mother remarries. Deeply unhappy she pursues her dream of emulating both her father and her grandparents by becoming a doctor. With her life on an even keel and with university medical school beckoning, her Step father and half brother are killed in a car crash. Her mother is left unable to walk after the accident and turns against her and she is forced to give up her dream of going to medical school to look after her crippled mother. Lonely and devoid of love and friendship, Angela has an adulterous affair. Shunned by her mother and many of those she loves, she is finally able to begin her studies, but with no financial support. To make ends meet she leads a double life as a medical student and as 'Angel' an exotic dancer. Yet her past haunts her. Her mother is murdered and for a while Angela is a suspect. A mysterious tin box is discovered in her mother's effects that reveal secrets about her mother past life and Angela finds out that she could have enemies who seek to do her harm. Finally Angela becomes a doctor and marries into a wealthy family. Then over twenty years later a chance encounter leads to her downfall, as her mother's past life and her own past as a dancer begins to catch up with her, she is blackmailed and kidnapped. Will her life descend into a living nightmare from which there is no waking? Or will her true friends come to her rescue in time?