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Infrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for
our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh
empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation
engages with city governance and infrastructure provision,
identifying its wider and longer-term implications for urban and
regional development, politics and policy. Proposing a more
people-oriented approach to answering the question of 'What kind of
urban infrastructure, and for whom?', this book addresses the
struggles of national and local governments to fund, finance and
govern urban infrastructure. It develops new insights to explain
the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial,
entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and
limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure
fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national
'rebalancing' efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the
country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and
prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.
This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the
fields of business and management, economics, geography, planning,
and political science. Its conclusions will be valuable to
policymakers and practitioners in both the public and private
sectors seeking insights into the intersections of
financialisation, decentralisation and austerity in the UK, Europe
and globally.
Infrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for
our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh
empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation
engages with city governance and infrastructure provision,
identifying its wider and longer-term implications for urban and
regional development, politics and policy. Proposing a more
people-oriented approach to answering the question of 'What kind of
urban infrastructure, and for whom?', this book addresses the
struggles of national and local governments to fund, finance and
govern urban infrastructure. It develops new insights to explain
the socially and spatially uneven mixing of managerial,
entrepreneurial and financialised city governance in austerity and
limited decentralisation across England. As urban infrastructure
fixes for the London global city-region risk undermining national
'rebalancing' efforts in the UK, city statecraft in the rest of the
country is having uneasily to combine speculation, risk-taking and
prospective venturing with co-ordination, planning and regulation.
This book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the
fields of business and management, economics, geography, planning,
and political science. Its conclusions will be valuable to
policymakers and practitioners in both the public and private
sectors seeking insights into the intersections of
financialisation, decentralisation and austerity in the UK, Europe
and globally.
Since unification, fears of resurgent German nationalism have
mounted. In particular, many believe united Germany is reverting to
a xenophobic nationalist stance to deal with the increased
pressures of migration unleashed by the raising of the Iron
curtain. The author argues that these fears are exaggerated. He
documents a longstanding, steadily increasing, committment to the
liberal principles of the Basic Law in the Federal Republic's
policies, which protect foreigners against hostile German
nationalism. O'Brien goes on to criticize the very entrenched
liberalism which holds German nationalism in check. He traces among
German political elites the appeal and uses of "technocratic
liberalism" - an overzealous protection of Germany's liberal
democracy which, paradoxically, prevents minority groups from
achieving full rights of political participation.
An estimated twenty million Muslims now reside in Europe, mostly as
a result of large-scale postwar immigration. In The Muslim Question
in Europe, Peter O'Brien challenges the popular notion that the
hostilities concerning immigration-which continues to provoke
debates about citizenship, headscarves, secularism, and
terrorism-are a clash between "Islam and the West." Rather, he
explains, the vehement controversies surrounding European Muslims
are better understood as persistent, unresolved intra-European
tensions. O'Brien contends that the best way to understand the
politics of state accommodation of European Muslims is through the
lens of three competing political ideologies: liberalism,
nationalism, and postmodernism. These three broadly understood
philosophical traditions represent the most influential normative
forces in the politics of immigration in Europe today. He concludes
that Muslim Europeans do not represent a monolithic anti-Western
bloc within Europe. Although they vehemently disagree among
themselves, it is along the same basic liberal, nationalist, and
postmodern contours as non-Muslim Europeans.
What are the right words to use when someone we love leaves home
for school, a new job, or for extended travel? How to compress so
many memories, feelings, and emotions? When do words of advice,
counsel, or wisdom work best? Love & Let Go sets out to achieve
this impossible task—and succeeds! The author’s daughter is
about to leave home to continue her education. In thirty-five brief
chapters, he offers reflections, encouragements, words of love and
support, and more. This book is a totally honest, intimate, and
wonderfully literary reflection of the author’s own experiences
and responses. It can be read privately, read aloud between parent
and child, or shared with friends...or just to appreciate lifelong
familial bonds.
A Fresh Approach to the Art of Biblical Interpretation This book
offers a fresh approach to the art of biblical interpretation,
focusing on the ways Scripture itself forms its readers as wise and
faithful interpreters. David Starling shows that apprenticing
ourselves to the interpretive practices of the biblical writers and
engaging closely with texts from all parts of the Bible help us to
develop the habits and practices required to be good readers of
Scripture. After introducing the principles, Starling works through
the canon, providing inductive case studies in interpretive method
and drawing out implications for contemporary readers. Offering a
fresh contribution to hermeneutical discussions, this book will be
an ideal supplement to traditional hermeneutics textbooks for
seminarians. It includes a foreword by Peter O'Brien.
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An exploration of fashion designer Gaby Aghion’s life, career,
and legacy at the French fashion house Chloé  As imagined
by the company’s founder, Gaby Aghion (1921–2014), the
sophisticated, romantic, and glamorous designs of Chloé have
captured the energy and aspirations of generations of women since
Aghion designed her first collection in 1952. This sumptuously
illustrated book centers Chloé and Aghion within the cultural
arena and crystallizes a major transition in the postwar Parisian
fashion industry, from haute couture to prêt-à -porter.
Aghion defined Chloé as a brand of luxury ready-to-wear clothing
combining high-end materials and savoir faire with light shapes for
active women. Aghion, an Egyptian Jew in Paris, brought a fresh,
outsider perspective to French fashion. Â Seventy years of
archival clothing from Chloé designers are reproduced here, many
for the first time, along with sketches, advertisements, and
photographs. Essays shed light on Aghion’s life, the company’s
approach to fashion, and the ways in which it fostered young
talents. The book celebrates Aghion’s daring entrepreneurship and
her legacy through the acclaimed designers who embodied and
reinterpreted her original inspiration. Paulo Melim Andersson,
Gabriela Hearst, Clare Waight Keller, Karl Lagerfeld, Hanna
MacGibbon, Stella McCartney, Peter O’Brien, Phoebe Philo, Natacha
Ramsay-Levi, and Martine Sitbon offer recollections of their
experiences working at the fashion house. Â Published in
association with the Jewish Museum, New York  Exhibition
Schedule: Â Jewish Museum, New York (October 13,
2023–February 18, 2024)
Making Sense of Mass Education provides a contemporary
analysis of the ideas and issues that have traditionally dominated
education research, challenging outdated preconceptions with
fundamental theory and discussion. It takes a demythologising
approach in assessing these issues and their relevance to schooling
and education in Australia. This text examines the cultural context
of education and the influence of external media and new
technologies, and highlights the many forms of discrimination in
education, including social class, race and gender. It looks at
alternative approaches to education, including the repercussions of
gathering data to measure school performance, and considers the
intersection of ethics and philosophy in classroom teaching. The
fourth edition expands on these issues with three new chapters: on
sexuality, children's rights, and neoliberalism and the
marketisation of education. Each chapter challenges and breaks down
common myths surrounding these topics, encouraging pre-service
teachers to think critically and reflect on their own beliefs.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
An estimated twenty million Muslims now reside in Europe, mostly as
a result of large-scale postwar immigration. In The Muslim Question
in Europe, Peter O'Brien challenges the popular notion that the
hostilities concerning immigration-which continues to provoke
debates about citizenship, headscarves, secularism, and
terrorism-are a clash between "Islam and the West." Rather, he
explains, the vehement controversies surrounding European Muslims
are better understood as persistent, unresolved intra-European
tensions. O'Brien contends that the best way to understand the
politics of state accommodation of European Muslims is through the
lens of three competing political ideologies: liberalism,
nationalism, and postmodernism. These three broadly understood
philosophical traditions represent the most influential normative
forces in the politics of immigration in Europe today. He concludes
that Muslim Europeans do not represent a monolithic anti-Western
bloc within Europe. Although they vehemently disagree among
themselves, it is along the same basic liberal, nationalist, and
postmodern contours as non-Muslim Europeans.
A Perfect Offering illuminates the dark recesses of trauma—the
sudden loss of a child, surviving sexual assault, the legacy of
residential schools, enduring war and imprisonment, living with
chronic illness—and shines with the imperfect grace and
resilience of the human heart. Some of the 31 stories will shock
and disorient. Others will inspire and comfort. All are
illustrative and compelling. The contributors include Jennifer
Finney Boylan, trans activist and a regular contributor to The New
York Times; Captain Trevor Greene, who was attacked by an
axe-wielding teenager near Kandahar; author of Prisoner of Tehran,
Marina Nemat; Jules Arita Koostachin, band member of Attawapiskat
First Nation; and Paul Watson, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Spot News
Photography. For others, this will be their first publication.
"This emotionally honest book is simultaneously brutal, beautiful
and deeply inspiring." —Jennifer Meeropol, granddaughter of
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg "This book will break your heart
right open." —Mike Downie, Co-Founder of The Gord Downie
& Chanie Wenjack Fund "These shared stories resonate with deep
feeling, wisdom and courage." —Award-wining novelist
Camilla Gibb
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