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This book was first published in 1986.
Contemporary urban studies engages a wide range of approaches in
the analysis of the processes at work in urban areas. These
approaches derive from anthropology, economics, geography, history,
politics and sociology as well as from the professional experience
of town planning and architecture. Social process and the city
reflects this growing cross-disciplinary engagement. This shows the
important, problematic, role which cities in particular, and urban
change in general have played in the growth of Australia. The
overriding concern of each essay in this collection is to develop
an understanding of the ways urban areas function and an awareness
of how differing interpretations of 'urban phenomena' might be
applied. This attention to the nature of the forces at work, and
the processes these forces manifest themselves in, is extended both
empirically and conceptually. This book was first published in
1983.
First published in 1975, Opening the Door is a survey of policies
and problems in services for the mentally handicapped. It describes
the improvements which have taken place since 1969, when the
inquiry into conditions of patients at Ely hospital in South Wales
stimulated public concern into the quality of life of many mentally
handicapped people in hospital. The authors discuss the continuing
gap between the idea – as laid down in the 1971 Government White
Paper, Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped, which set out
a blueprint for development in the 1980s that was to make the
antithesis of ‘hospital’ or ‘community’ obsolete – and
the reality. The study is based on detailed work in one Region by a
team of staff and postgraduate students in the Department of Social
Administration and Social Work at the University of York. The
survey covers hospital provisions, with special attention to
nursing attitudes and to problems of the ‘back wards,’ the
relationship between hospitals and their surrounding communities,
and the development of local authority social work and residential
care services. This book will be of interest to students of social
administration, social policy and health.
Sustainable Tourism is vital reading for anyone seeking to
understand the complexities associated with sustainable tourism
development, and how government and industry have responded to the
challenges the concept poses.
The major areas addressed in this edited volume are:
* perspectives and issues associated with the concept of
sustainable tourism development
* accreditation, education and interpretation, including specific
examples such as Green Globe 21, the European Blue Flag Campaign
and the WWF's PAN Parks Programme
* sustainable tourism case studies of tourist destination regions,
natural areas and tourism enterprises drawn from Africa, Australia,
the South Pacific, North America, South-east Asia and the Caribbean
An impressive international editorial team has combined to present
in this text not only a variety of perspectives on sustainable
tourism development, but also significant insights into barriers,
challenges and current industry and government responses to it in
various parts of the globe. 'Sustainable Tourism' will be a welcome
addition to the libraries of tourism industry professionals,
individuals involved in the management of natural areas; tourism
policy makers; tourism academics; and students with an interest in
the future sustainability of tourism and the industry that supports
it.
Covers both conceptual issues and case studies
Unique global perspective with multinational contributor team
Accessible yet rigorous treatment of a vital issue
Originally published in 1990 and drawing on extensive research,
this book provides an evaluation of the impact of the growth of
home ownership in the UK, and of the claims and counter-claims made
for its social significance. The book examines critically the
evidence for and against the proposition that mass home ownership
is contributing towards a more equal society. Wide-ranging in its
coverage, the book discusses the changing nature and role of home
ownership, wealth accumulation and housing, the relationship
between social class and housing tenure, and policy development.
Originally published in 1990 and drawing on extensive research,
this book provides an evaluation of the impact of the growth of
home ownership in the UK, and of the claims and counter-claims made
for its social significance. The book examines critically the
evidence for and against the proposition that mass home ownership
is contributing towards a more equal society. Wide-ranging in its
coverage, the book discusses the changing nature and role of home
ownership, wealth accumulation and housing, the relationship
between social class and housing tenure, and policy development.
Sustainable Tourism is vital reading for anyone seeking to
understand the complexities associated with sustainable tourism
development, and how government and industry have responded to the
challenges the concept poses. The major areas addressed in this
edited volume are: * perspectives and issues associated with the
concept of sustainable tourism development * accreditation,
education and interpretation, including specific examples such as
Green Globe 21, the European Blue Flag Campaign and the WWF's PAN
Parks Programme * sustainable tourism case studies of tourist
destination regions, natural areas and tourism enterprises drawn
from Africa, Australia, the South Pacific, North America,
South-east Asia and the Caribbean An impressive international
editorial team has combined to present in this text not only a
variety of perspectives on sustainable tourism development, but
also significant insights into barriers, challenges and current
industry and government responses to it in various parts of the
globe. 'Sustainable Tourism' will be a welcome addition to the
libraries of tourism industry professionals, individuals involved
in the management of natural areas; tourism policy makers; tourism
academics; and students with an interest in the future
sustainability of tourism and the industry that supports it.
This book is abut the place of space in the study of class
formation. It consists of a set of papers that fix on different
aspects of the human geography of class formation at different
points in the history of Britain and the United States over the
course of the last 200 years. The book shows that the geography of
class formation is a valuable and cross-disciplinary tool in the
study of modern societies, integrating the work of human
geographers with that of social historians, sociologists, social
anthropologists and other social scientists in an enterprise which
emphasises the essential unity of social science.
This book is abut the place of space in the study of class
formation. It consists of a set of papers that fix on different
aspects of the human geography of class formation at different
points in the history of Britain and the United States over the
course of the last 200 years. The book shows that the geography of
class formation is a valuable and cross-disciplinary tool in the
study of modern societies, integrating the work of human
geographers with that of social historians, sociologists, social
anthropologists and other social scientists in an enterprise which
emphasises the essential unity of social science.
Pedro Almodovar's 1988 black comedy-melodrama Women on the Verge of
a Nervous Breakdown established its director as one of the most
exciting of European film-making talents. An often hilarious study
of sexual mores, Women on the Verge has a central character, Pepa
(Carmen Maura), as warm and richly drawn as any modern film
heroine. Made strong and self-reliant by suffering in a troubled
relationship, Pepa is the centre of a network of lovers, friends
and family who represent a vivid cross-section of Spanish society.
Peter William Evans provides a formidable analysis of Almodovar's
insights into gender, sexuality and identity. Evans sees Women on
the Verge as concerned with the often tyrannical spell of sexual
desire and the anxieties of relationships and families, but also
with the possibilities for personal liberation. He discusses the
film in the context of the history of Spain and the social
revolution that occurred after the death of Franco. In his foreword
to this new edition, Evans reflects upon Women on the Verge in the
light of Almodovar's subsequent films, and the impact of Carmen
Maura's performance as Pepa on the representation of women in
Spanish cinema.
This unique book draws on research that constituted the first major
nationwide evaluation of the use and impact of key digital health
information platforms which were provided to thousands of health
consumers in the UK. The authors offer the first comprehensive and
detailed comparison of usage and impact of the three major ICT
platforms delivering health information - the internet,
touch-screen kiosks and digital interactive television. It provides
an extensive reference source on how health consumers behave when
online, whether this differs according to digital platform or type
of user, how users perceive digital health services and what health
benefits these services deliver. The book will be invaluable
reading for all those interested in digital health information -
students, academics, health policy-makers and information managers.
This book outlines the foundations for understanding modern
policing. It is an essential introduction for all policing students
and trainee police officers to the underpinning aspects of the
profession, providing a clear understanding of how the police
service is currently organised and how it fits into the wider
criminal justice system. Students are encouraged to think
critically and reflect upon core concepts such as policing by
consent, police accountability, governance and professional
standards, and it examines the challenges of policing an
increasingly global, technical and diverse world. The Professional
Policing Curriculum in Practice is a new series of books that match
the requirements of the new pre-join policing qualifications. The
texts reflect modern policing, are up-to-date and relevant, and
grounded in practice. They reflect the challenges faced by new
students, linking theory to real-life operational practice, while
addressing critical thinking and other academic skills needed for
degree-level study.
Contemporary urban studies engages a wide range of approaches in
the analysis of the processes at work in urban areas. These
approaches derive from anthropology, economics, geography, history,
politics and sociology as well as from the professional experience
of town planning and architecture. Social process and the city
reflects this growing cross-disciplinary engagement. This shows the
important, problematic, role which cities in particular, and urban
change in general have played in the growth of Australia. The
overriding concern of each essay in this collection is to develop
an understanding of the ways urban areas function and an awareness
of how differing interpretations of 'urban phenomena' might be
applied. This attention to the nature of the forces at work, and
the processes these forces manifest themselves in, is extended both
empirically and conceptually. This book was first published in
1983.
'I had no qualms fighting the Australians, just as I have killed
without remorse any of the Emperor's enemies: the British, the
Americans and the Dutch', so admits Takahiro Sato in this
ground-breaking oral history of Japan's Pacific War. Thanks to
years of research and over 100 interviews with veterans, the Author
has compiled a fascinating collection of personal accounts by
former Japanese soldiers, sailors and airmen. Their candid views
are often provocative and shocking. There are admissions of
brutality, the killing of prisoners and cannibalism. Stark
descriptions of appalling conditions and bitter fighting blend with
descriptions of family life. Their views on the prowess of the
enemy differ with some like air ace Kazuo Tsunoda who believed the
Australians 'worthy'. Some remain unrepentant while others such as
Hideo Abe are ashamed of his part in Japan's war of aggression. The
result is a revealing insight into the minds of a ruthless and
formidable enemy which provides the reader with a fresh perspective
on the Second World War.
This book was first published in 1986.
This unique book draws on research that constituted the first major
nationwide evaluation of the use and impact of key digital health
information platforms which were provided to thousands of health
consumers in the UK. The authors offer the first comprehensive and
detailed comparison of usage and impact of the three major ICT
platforms delivering health information - the internet,
touch-screen kiosks and digital interactive television. It provides
an extensive reference source on how health consumers behave when
online, whether this differs according to digital platform or type
of user, how users perceive digital health services and what health
benefits these services deliver. The book will be invaluable
reading for all those interested in digital health information -
students, academics, health policy-makers and information managers.
There is a powerful sense of place at the seaside. You know what to
expect. Fishing villages usually have a pier, boats, lobster pots,
and masses of seagulls while resort towns have esplanades, piers,
grand hotels and gardens. Certain seaside towns have just about
everything: Weymouth, for example, has a grand parade of hotels, a
wide esplanade and a small fishing village. Blackpool has more of
everything - three piers, miles of hotels, the Tower, Winter
Gardens, trams, illuminations - but no fishing and no castle There
is something about the seaside that brings out the beating heart of
John Bull in the English: doggedly erecting our wind-breaks to
capture every vestige of a watery sun; wrestling with deckchairs;
wrapping up against the determined wind on the verandas of our
beach huts; accepting that 'sand' in 'sandwich' means just that But
we still love it and nowhere else in the world can match its myriad
charms and eccentricities. For too long the English seaside has
suffered from bad press, accused of being tatty, cold grey and
windswept. Peter Williams' evocative photographs in this fully
revised edition of his acclaimed book will make you want to
rediscover what a fantastic place the seaside is - full of
character, charm and 'Englishness'.
This text provides an accessible and up-to-date introduction to
criminal justice for all those undertaking degrees and foundation
degrees in policing. It will also be relevant to degree courses in
criminology and criminal justice. The book provides a holistic
overview of the Criminal Justice System (CJS) and an exploration of
the roles of key players within the system and how the police
interact with these organisations. It examines some of the
principles that underpin the 'modernisation' of the police, in
particular how the police service collaborates with partner
agencies and the rationale associated with the Change Agenda.
Luis Bunuel (1900-83) was one of the world's great film-makers.
Always controversial, his first film, Un Chien andalou (1928),
which he referred to as a 'call to murder', was a savage Surrealist
experiment. L'Age d'or (1930), his second, was banned in Paris
after its initial screening, which had led to violent disturbances.
Thereafter, his films continued to challenge, provoke and subvert
social conventions in their searching analyses of human desire.
Luis Bunuel: New Readings ranges widely over key films and moments
from all stages of the director's career: the early years in Spain
and France, the middle period in Mexico and the USA, and the return
to Europe, where he made late masterpieces like Belle de Jour
(1966) and Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972).
Twenty years after his death, the time is ripe for a re-evaluation
of Bunuel's legacy. Through theoretically informed discussions of
individual films and dominant tendencies, as well as through more
biographically orientated perspectives (including newly discovered
correspondence), this book locates and re-appraises Bunuel's films
with particular emphasis on the national cinemas and varied
cultures with which he was identified. These new readings show that
Bunuel's significance and impact remain undiminished by the passage
of time.
Experts of fluid dynamics agree that turbulence is nonlinear and
nonlocal. Because of a direct correspondence, nonlocality also
implies fractionality. Fractional dynamics is the physics related
to fractal (geometrical) systems and is described by fractional
calculus. Up-to-present, numerous criticisms of linear and local
theories of turbulence have been published. Nonlinearity has
established itself quite well, but so far only a very small number
of general nonlocal concepts and no concrete nonlocal turbulent
flow solutions were available. This book presents the first
analytical and numerical solutions of elementary turbulent flow
problems, mainly based on a nonlocal closure. Considerations
involve anomalous diffusion (Levy flights), fractal geometry
(fractal- , bi-fractal and multi-fractal model) and fractional
dynamics. Examples include a new 'law of the wall' and a
generalization of Kraichnan's energy-enstrophy spectrum that is in
harmony with non-extensive and non-equilibrium thermodynamics
(Tsallis thermodynamics) and experiments. Furthermore, the
presented theories of turbulence reveal critical and cooperative
phenomena in analogy with phase transitions in other physical
systems, e.g., binary fluids, para-ferromagnetic materials, etc.;
the two phases of turbulence identifying the laminar streaks and
coherent vorticity-rich structures. This book is intended, apart
from fluids specialists, for researchers in physics, as well as
applied and numerical mathematics, who would like to acquire
knowledge about alternative approaches involved in the analytical
and numerical treatment of turbulence.
This edited collection critically engages with a range of
contemporary issues in the aftermath of the North Atlantic
financial crisis that began in 2007. From challenging the erosion
of academic authority to the myth that parliamentary democracy is
not worth engaging with, it addresses three interrelated questions
facing young people today: how to reclaim our universities, how to
revitalise our democracy and how to recast politics in the 21st
century. This book emphasises the crucial importance of
generational experience as a wellspring for progressive social
change. For it is the young generations who have come of age in a
world marred by crises that are at the forefront of challenging the
status quo. With insight into new social movements and protests in
the UK, Canada, Greece and Ukraine, this stimulating collection of
works will be invaluable for those teaching, studying and
campaigning for alternatives. It will also be of relevance to
scholars in social movement studies, the sociology and anthropology
of economic life, the sociology of education, social and political
theory, and political sociology.
This edited collection critically engages with a range of
contemporary issues in the aftermath of the North Atlantic
financial crisis that began in 2007. From challenging the erosion
of academic authority to the myth that parliamentary democracy is
not worth engaging with, it addresses three interrelated questions
facing young people today: how to reclaim our universities, how to
revitalise our democracy and how to recast politics in the 21st
century. This book emphasises the crucial importance of
generational experience as a wellspring for progressive social
change. For it is the young generations who have come of age in a
world marred by crises that are at the forefront of challenging the
status quo. With insight into new social movements and protests in
the UK, Canada, Greece and Ukraine, this stimulating collection of
works will be invaluable for those teaching, studying and
campaigning for alternatives. It will also be of relevance to
scholars in social movement studies, the sociology and anthropology
of economic life, the sociology of education, social and political
theory, and political sociology.
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Policing Terrorism (Paperback)
Christopher Blake, Barrie Sheldon, Rachael Strzelecki, Peter Williams
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This is an accessible and up to date text for students on
police-related degree courses covering a highly topical area of
policing. Terrorism has become a major issue for policing during
the 21st century, exacerbated by world events, the emerging new
terrorism with its global implications, and a growing need to
develop effective counter-terrorism strategies. The book provides
students with a historical perspective, introduces a number of well
established theories relating to terrorism, and considers how the
UK has responded by developing a counter terrorism strategy. In a
fast-moving area, it captures the latest changes in legislation and
government strategy.
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