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Immigrants from the Low Countries constituted the largest
population of resident aliens in early modern England. Possessing
superior technology in a number of fields and enjoying governmental
protection, the Flemish were charged by many native artisans with
unfair economic competition. With xenophobic sentiments running so
high that riots and disorders occurred throughout the sixteenth
century, Elizabeth I directed her dramatic censor to suppress
material that might incite further disorder, forcing playwrights to
develop strategies to address the alien problem indirectly.
Representations of Flemish Immigrants on the Early Modern Stage
describes the immigrant community during this period and explores
the consistently negative representations of Flemish immigrants in
Tudor interludes, the impact of censorship, the playwrighting
strategies that eluded it, and the continuation of these methods
until the closing of the theatres in 1642.
Decentring Urban Governance seeks to rethink governance not as a
particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging
associated with the impact of modernist social science on policy
making, considering the diverse meanings that inspire governing
practices across time, space, and policy sectors in urban context.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book goes beyond
neoliberalism, and is interested in other webs of meaning through
which actors encounter, interpret, and evaluate social science,
which have received less analytical attention. All these different
webs of meaning - elite narratives, social science, and local
traditions - influence patterns of action. The book creates an
analytical space by which to consider situated agency and localised
resistance to the discourses and policies of political elites,
including the myriad ways in which local actors have resisted
practices of governance on the ground. This text will be of key
interest to scholars, students and practitioners of urban
governance, governance and more broadly to the social sciences,
housing, social policy, law and welfare studies.
Immigrants from the Low Countries constituted the largest
population of resident aliens in early modern England. Possessing
superior technology in a number of fields and enjoying governmental
protection, the Flemish were charged by many native artisans with
unfair economic competition. With xenophobic sentiments running so
high that riots and disorders occurred throughout the sixteenth
century, Elizabeth I directed her dramatic censor to suppress
material that might incite further disorder, forcing playwrights to
develop strategies to address the alien problem indirectly.
Representations of Flemish Immigrants on the Early Modern Stage
describes the immigrant community during this period and explores
the consistently negative representations of Flemish immigrants in
Tudor interludes, the impact of censorship, the playwrighting
strategies that eluded it, and the continuation of these methods
until the closing of the theatres in 1642.
This useful guide will take you round the most important sights and
provide you with practical information to help you travel around
the capital. Look out for more Pitkin Guides on the very best of
British history, heritage and travel, including other titles in our
popular City Guides series.
Understand the current and future research into technologies that
underpin the increasing capabilities of automation technologies and
their impact on the working world of the future. Rapid advances in
automation and robotics technologies are often reported in the
trade and general media, often relying on scary headlines such as
"Jobs Lost to Robots." It is certainly true that work will change
with the advent of smarter and faster automated workers; however,
the scope and scale of the changes is still unknown. Automation may
seem to be here already, but we are only at the early stages.
Automation and Collaborative Robotics explores the output of
current research projects that are improving the building blocks of
an automated world. Research into collaborative robotics (cobotics)
is merging digital, audio, and visual data to generate a commonly
held view between cobots and their human collaborators. Low-power
machine learning at the edge of the network can deliver decision
making on cobots or to their manipulations. Topics covered in this
book include: Robotic process automation, chatbots, and their
impact in the near future The hype of automation and headlines
leading to concerns over the future of work Component technologies
that are still in the research labs Foundational technologies and
collaboration that will enable many tasks to be automated with
human workers being re-skilled and displaced rather than replaced
What You Will Learn Be aware of the technologies currently being
researched to improve or deliver automation Understand the impact
of robotics, other automation technologies, and the impact of AI on
automation Get an idea of how far we are from implementation of an
automated future Know what work will look like in the future with
the deployment of these technologies Who This Book Is For Technical
and business managers interested in the future of automation and
robotics, and the impact it will have on their organizations,
customers, and the business world in general
London's many cemeteries, churches and graveyards are the last
resting places of a multitude of important people from many
different walks of life. Politicians, writers and military heroes
rub shoulders with engineers, courtesans, artists and musicians,
along with quite a few eccentric characters. Arranged
geographically, this comprehensive guide describes famous graves in
all the major cemeteries and churches in Greater London, including
Highgate, Kensal Green, Westminster Abbey, and St Paul's Cathedral,
as well as the City churches and many suburban parish churches. The
book gives biographical details, information on the monuments, and
is richly illustrated. As well as being an historical guide, it
also serves as an indispensable reference guide for any budding
tombstone tourist.
Universities are increasingly being asked to take an active role as
research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community
organisations, which, it is claimed, makes them more accountable,
creates better research outcomes, and enhances the knowledge base.
Yet many of these research collaborators, as well as their funders
and institutions, have not yet developed the methods to 'account
for' collaborative research, or to help collaborators in
challenging their assumptions about the quality of this work. This
book, part of the Connected Communities series, highlights the
benefits of universities collaborating with outside bodies on
research and addresses the key challenge of articulating the value
of collaborative research in the arts, humanities and social
sciences. Edited by two well respected academics, it includes
voices and perspectives from researchers and practitioners in a
wide range of disciplines. Together, they explore tensions in the
evaluation and assessment of research in general, and the debates
generated by collaborative research between universities and
communities to enable greater understanding of collaborative
research, and to provide a much-needed account of key theorists in
the field of interdisciplinary collaborative research.
After Urban Regeneration is a comprehensive study of contemporary
trends in urban policy and planning. Focusing on the history and
theory of community in urban policy, and including a unique set of
case studies, the book will appeal to scholars and students in
geography, urban studies, planning, sociology, law and art as well
as policy makers and community workers.
St Ermin's Hotel has been at the centre of British intelligence
since the 1930s, when it was known to MI6 as 'The Works Canteen'.
Intelligence officers such as Ian Fleming and Noel Coward were to
be found in the hotel's Caxton Bar, along with other less
well-known names. Winston Churchill allegedly conceived the idea of
the Special Operations Executive there over a glass (or two) of his
favourite champagne in the early days of the Second World War, and
the operation was started up in three gloomy rooms on the hotel's
second floor, with the traitorous Cambridge Spies among its
founders. When Stalin's Russia turned to a peacetime enemy in the
Cold War that followed, Kim Philby and Guy Burgess handed over
intelligence to their Russian counterparts in the dark corners of
the hotel, while MI6 man George Blake operated as a Soviet double
agent just across the road in Artillery Mansions. Meanwhile, St
Ermin's proximity to government offices ensured its continued use
by both domestic and foreign secret agents. In this first book on
St Ermin's, Peter Matthews, a witness to the intelligence battle
for supremacy between MI5, MI6 and the KGB, explores this
remarkable true history that is more riveting than any spy novel.
Signals Intelligence, or SIGINT, is the interception and evaluation
of coded enemy messages. From Enigma to Ultra, Purple to Lorenz,
Room 40 to Bletchley, SIGINT has been instrumental in both victory
and defeat during the First and Second World War. In the First
World War, a vast network of signals rapidly expanded across the
globe, spawning a new breed of spies and intelligence operatives to
code, de-code and analyse thousands of messages. As a result,
signallers and cryptographers in the Admiralty's famous Room 40
paved the way for the code breakers of Bletchley Park in the Second
World War. In the ensuing war years the world battled against a web
of signals intelligence that gave birth to Enigma and Ultra, and
saw agents from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, America and Japan
race to outwit each other through infinitely complex codes. For the
first time, Peter Matthews reveals the secret history of global
signals intelligence during the world wars through original
interviews with German interceptors, British code breakers, and US
and Russian cryptographers. "SIGINT is a fascinating account of
what Allied investigators learned postwar about the Nazi equivalent
of Bletchley Park. Turns out, 60,000 crptographers, analysts and
linguists achieved considerable success in solving intercepted
traffic, and even broke the Swiss Enigma! Based on recently
declassifed NSA document, this is a great contribution to the
literature." - The St Ermin's Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year
Award 2014
The Chief Information Officer's influence in the business
organization has been waning for years. The rest of the C-suite has
come to regard Information Technology as slow, costly, error-prone,
boring, and unresponsive to business needs. This perception blinds
company leaders to the critical value IT can deliver and threatens
the competitive health and long-term survival of their enterprise.
The modern CIO must reassert the operational and strategic
importance of technology to the enterprise and reintegrate it with
every department and level of the business from boardroom to
mailroom. IT leaders must design, sell, and implement a vigorous
culture of IT competence and innovation that pervades the
enterprise. The culture must be rooted in bidirectional exchange
across organizations and C-level policies that drive technology
innovation as the engine of business innovation. The authors,
international IT strategists and innovators, quantify the benefits
and risks of IT innovation, survey and rank the myriad innovation
opportunities from mature, new, and emerging technologies, and
identify the organizational structures and processes that have been
proven to deliver ongoing innovation.Buttressing their brief with
dozens of case studies and specific examples, The Innovative CIO
shows you how to: * Take advantage of the IT and business
innovation opportunities created by new and emerging technologies *
Shift IT innovation from afterthought to prime mover in strategic
business planning * Inject IT into the dynamic core of your
organization's culture, training, structure, practice, and policy
What you'll learn * Grasp the business basics of new information
technologies: * Virtualization * Cloud Computing * Consumer-Driven
IT * Bring-Your-Own-Device * Personalization * Process Automation *
Mobile Computing * E-Commerce * Big Data and Analytics * Social
Networking * E-Collaboration * Judge the business opportunities
presented by new and emerging technologies. * Deploy new
technologies to create and release new products. * Use new
technologies to penetrate and capture new markets. * Harness new
technologies to accelerate M&A time-to-value and add
shareholder value. * Apply new technologies to improve staff
retention and productivity.Who this book is for The Innovative CIO
targets all IT leaders--not only CIOs, but also VPs and directors
of IT and IT operations, datacenter managers, and all other IT
leaders who aspire to advance their careers as IT-providers to
business leaders. This book serves secondarily as a guide to non-IT
business leaders who are alert to the ways that IT can boost their
abilities to innovate, to turbocharge their products, services, and
processes, and to compete nimbly in fast-changing markets. Table of
Contents * Innovation Matters * Stories from the Trenches *
Innovation Is Not the Only I * Business Innovation vs. IT
Innovation * Pull and Push * Opportunities to Innovate Today *
Innovating with Consumer-Driven IT * Opportunities to Innovate
Tomorrow * Making Innovation Intentional * Connecting IT Innovation
with Business Value * The Dirty Little Secrets of IT Innovation *
What's Next for Me? * Summar
Decentring Urban Governance seeks to rethink governance not as a
particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging
associated with the impact of modernist social science on policy
making, considering the diverse meanings that inspire governing
practices across time, space, and policy sectors in urban context.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book goes beyond
neoliberalism, and is interested in other webs of meaning through
which actors encounter, interpret, and evaluate social science,
which have received less analytical attention. All these different
webs of meaning - elite narratives, social science, and local
traditions - influence patterns of action. The book creates an
analytical space by which to consider situated agency and localised
resistance to the discourses and policies of political elites,
including the myriad ways in which local actors have resisted
practices of governance on the ground. This text will be of key
interest to scholars, students and practitioners of urban
governance, governance and more broadly to the social sciences,
housing, social policy, law and welfare studies.
Universities are increasingly being asked to take an active role as
research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community
organisations, which, it is claimed, makes them more accountable,
creates better research outcomes, and enhances the knowledge base.
Yet many of these research collaborators, as well as their funders
and institutions, have not yet developed the methods to 'account
for' collaborative research, or to help collaborators in
challenging their assumptions about the quality of this work. This
book, part of the Connected Communities series, highlights the
benefits of universities collaborating with outside bodies on
research and addresses the key challenge of articulating the value
of collaborative research in the arts, humanities and social
sciences. Edited by two well respected academics, it includes
voices and perspectives from researchers and practitioners in a
wide range of disciplines. Together, they explore tensions in the
evaluation and assessment of research in general, and the debates
generated by collaborative research between universities and
communities to enable greater understanding of collaborative
research, and to provide a much-needed account of key theorists in
the field of interdisciplinary collaborative research.
After Urban Regeneration is a comprehensive study of contemporary
trends in urban policy and planning. Leading scholars come together
to create a key contribution to the literature on gentrification,
with a focus on the history and theory of community in urban
policy. Engaging with debates as to how urban policy has changed,
and continues to change, following the financial crash of 2008, the
book provides an essential antidote to those who claim that culture
and society can replicate the role of the state. Based on research
from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's Connected
Communities programme and with a unique set of case studies drawing
on artistic and cultural community work, the book will appeal to
scholars and students in geography, urban studies, planning,
sociology, law and art as well as policy makers and community
workers.
The streets and public spaces of London are rich with statues and
monuments commemorating the city's great figures and events - from
Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and Sir Christopher Wren's
Great Fire Monument to the charming Peter Pan statue in Kensington
Gardens. Executed in stone, bronze and a range of other materials,
London's statues and monuments include work by some of the world's
greatest sculptors, such as Edwin Lutyens and Sir Christopher Wren.
This newly revised book takes account of the many new statues
erected between 2012 and 2017, including those of Mary Seacole at
St Thomas' Hospital and Amy Winehouse in Camden, and is a fully
illustrated guide to the works and their stories: sometimes
surprising and occasionally controversial, but always fascinating.
This books is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book
summarizes work being undertaken within the collaborative
MODAClouds research project, which aims to facilitate
interoperability between heterogeneous Cloud platforms and remove
the constraints of deployment, portability, and reversibility for
end users of Cloud services. Experts involved in the project
provide a clear overview of the MODAClouds approach and explain how
it operates in a variety of applications. While the wide spectrum
of available Clouds constitutes a vibrant technical environment,
many early-stage issues pose specific challenges from a software
engineering perspective. MODAClouds will provide methods, a
decision support system, and an open source IDE and run-time
environment for the high-level design, early prototyping,
semiautomatic code generation, and automatic deployment of
applications on multiple Clouds. It will free developers from the
need to commit to a fixed Cloud technology stack during software
design and offer benefits in terms of cost savings, portability of
applications and data between Clouds, reversibility (moving
applications and data from Cloud to non-Cloud environments), risk
management, quality assurance, and flexibility in the development
process.
While the earliest evidence of organized running can be traced back
to Egypt in 3800 BCE, the modern sport of track and field evolved
from rural games and church and folk festivals, and rules were
drawn up in the final quarter of the 19th century in those advanced
societies where enough people had the leisure time to indulge their
fancies. Today, in addition to the running events, track and field
includes such events as the high jump, pole vault, long jump, shot,
discus, javelin, hammer, and decathlon. The Historical Dictionary
of Track and Field covers the history of this sport through a
chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive
bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced
entries on key figures, places, competitions, and governing bodies
within the sport. This book is an excellent access point for
researchers, students, and anyone wanting to know more about the
history of track and field.
Over six previous editions, Twelve Theories of Human Nature has
been a remarkably popular introduction to some of the most
influential developments in Western and Eastern thought. Now titled
Thirteen Theories of Human Nature, the seventh edition adds a
chapter on feminist theory to those on Confucianism, Hinduism,
Buddhism, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, Islam, Kant, Marx, Freud,
Sartre, and Darwinism. The authors juxtapose the ideas of these and
other thinkers and traditions in a way that helps students
understand how humanity has struggled to comprehend its nature. To
encourage students to think critically for themselves and to
underscore the similarities and differences between the many
theories, the book examines each one on four points-the nature of
the universe, the nature of humanity, the diagnosis of the ills of
humanity, and the proposed cure for these problems. Ideal for
introductory courses in human nature, introduction to philosophy,
and intellectual history, this unique volume will engage and
motivate students and other readers to consider how we can
understand and improve both ourselves and human society.
Amanda Daniels, was so very excited when her parents gave her a new
sister; in which she named Rebecca. Rebecca was a quiet baby when
born, and like many young babies; her mother was quite protective
of her with illness's, so they had her vaccinated as soon as it was
time. it was not until Rebecca was 2 years old, that they would
come to realize; just how special this little girl would come to
be. Rebecca was diagnosed with leukemia, which devastated the
Daniels' household. However, this would not stop Rebecca from doing
what she loved to do, as she never let her illness get in the way
of her dreams and goals. Rebecca began to help others like herself,
despite at times being too poorly to get out of bed; as she still
put others first. At the age of 5, Rebecca started a new venture;
which saw her bloom into an inspiring young lady, as she began to
raise money for the awareness of childhood cancer. This was the
first of many sponsored walks she held, as she also maintained a
special bond with her sister Amanda.
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