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The four sections of the book deal in succession with Marshall's
key ideas on the subject, the wider context of his thought in which
they are to be read, their later development by some of his pupils,
and their revival in contemporary economics. The first and last
sections work together to illustrate the evolutionary focus of
Marshall's research program and to identify its affinity with
modern industrial economics; the second explicates the social
assumptions within which the Marshallian paradigm was embedded, in
particular those relating to the various relationships that exist
between individuals and wider groups; while the third traces the
development of Marshall's views by some of his pupils.
Though well-known as the author of Trilby and the creator of
Svengali, the writer-artist George Du Maurier had many other
accomplishments that are less familiar to modern audiences. This
collection traces Du Maurier's role as a participant in the wider
cultural life of his time, restoring him to his proper status as a
major Victorian figure. Divided into sections, the volume considers
Du Maurier as an artist, illustrator and novelist who helped to
form some of the key ideas of his time. The contributors place his
life and work in the context of his treatment of Judaism and
Jewishness; his fascination with urbanization, Victorian science,
technology and clairvoyance; his friendships and influences; and
his impact on notions of consumerism and taste. As an illustrator,
Du Maurier collaborated with Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell and
sensational writers such as M. E. Braddon and the author of The
Notting Hill Mystery. These partnerships, along with his
reflections on the art of illustration, are considered in detail.
Impossible to categorize, Du Maurier was an Anglo-Frenchman with
cultural linkages in France, England, and America; a social
commentator with an interest in The New Woman; a Punch humourist;
and a friend of Henry James, with whom he shared a particular
interest in the writing of domesticity and domestic settings.
Closing with a consideration of Du Maurier's after-life, notably
the treatment of his work in film, this collection highlights his
diverse achievements and makes a case for his enduring
significance.
Though well-known as the author of Trilby and the creator of
Svengali, the writer-artist George Du Maurier had many other
accomplishments that are less familiar to modern audiences. This
collection traces Du Maurier's role as a participant in the wider
cultural life of his time, restoring him to his proper status as a
major Victorian figure. Divided into sections, the volume considers
Du Maurier as an artist, illustrator and novelist who helped to
form some of the key ideas of his time. The contributors place his
life and work in the context of his treatment of Judaism and
Jewishness; his fascination with urbanization, Victorian science,
technology and clairvoyance; his friendships and influences; and
his impact on notions of consumerism and taste. As an illustrator,
Du Maurier collaborated with Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell and
sensational writers such as M. E. Braddon and the author of The
Notting Hill Mystery. These partnerships, along with his
reflections on the art of illustration, are considered in detail.
Impossible to categorize, Du Maurier was an Anglo-Frenchman with
cultural linkages in France, England, and America; a social
commentator with an interest in The New Woman; a Punch humourist;
and a friend of Henry James, with whom he shared a particular
interest in the writing of domesticity and domestic settings.
Closing with a consideration of Du Maurier's after-life, notably
the treatment of his work in film, this collection highlights his
diverse achievements and makes a case for his enduring
significance.
In a reevaluation of that period in Victorian illustration known as
'The Sixties,' a distinguished group of international scholars
consider the impact of illustration on the act of reading; its
capacity to reflect, construct, critique and challenge its
audience's values; its response to older graphic traditions; and
its assimilation of foreign influences. While focused on the years
1855 to 1875, the essays take up issues related to the earlier part
of the nineteenth century and look forward to subsequent
developments in illustration. The contributors examine significant
figures such as Ford Madox Brown, Frederick Sandys, John Everett
Millais, George John Pinwell, and Hablot Knight Browne in
connection with the illustrated magazine, the mid-Victorian gift
book, and changing visual responses to the novels of Dickens.
Engaging with a number of theories and critical debates, the
collection offers a detailed and provocative analysis of the nature
of illustration: its production, consumption, and place within the
broader contexts of mid-Victorian culture.
The four sections of the book deal in succession with Marshall
's key ideas on the subject, the wider context of his thought in
which they are to be read, their later development by some of his
pupils, and their revival in contemporary economics. The first and
last sections work together to illustrate the evolutionary focus of
Marshall 's research program and to identify its affinity with
modern industrial economics; the second explicates the social
assumptions within which the Marshallian paradigm was embedded, in
particular those relating to the various relationships that exist
between individuals and wider groups; while the third traces the
development of Marshall 's views by some of his pupils.
Drug development is risky business. It is against the backdrop of
huge financial, scientific, technical and medical risks that a
clinical trials manager is expected to function, effectively
identifying and managing all project risks, to deliver a successful
outcome. Focusing on the day-to-day needs of a clinical trials
manager, Clinical Trials Risk Management explains the key concepts
and principles of risk management, as well as showing how best to
how to apply them directly to 'real life' clinical trial
situations. After building a foundation of basic principles, the
authors lead you through specific methods for handling the risks
characteristically encountered in clinical trials. Their combined
years of experience in pharmaceutical research and development
shine through the narrative, making the prose both lively and
informative. They discuss concepts using worked examples and
include a summary of the main points at the end of each chapter. In
addition to diagrams and Risk and Precision Tree charts, the text
is sprinkled with humorous line drawings that reinforce the
concepts. After reading this book, you will know how to: -Prepare a
Risk Assessment -Design an Impact-Probability Matrix -Compile a
Risk Register -Run a Monte Carlo Simulation -Set up a Project
Decision Tree -Plan preventative and contingency actions The
stand-alone chapters provide easy access to topics, while anecdotal
and visual examples make them easy to remember. Martin Robinson and
Simon Cook deliver a clear interpretation of complex information,
thus saving you the time it would take to wade through a lengthier
text, adopting a straightforward approach to examining clinical
trials from a risk manager'sperspective. A practical, readable
guide, the book is filled with information that can be put to
immediate use to improve current or planned clinical trials.
In a reevaluation of that period in Victorian illustration known as
'The Sixties,' a distinguished group of international scholars
consider the impact of illustration on the act of reading; its
capacity to reflect, construct, critique and challenge its
audience's values; its response to older graphic traditions; and
its assimilation of foreign influences. While focused on the years
1855 to 1875, the essays take up issues related to the earlier part
of the nineteenth century and look forward to subsequent
developments in illustration. The contributors examine significant
figures such as Ford Madox Brown, Frederick Sandys, John Everett
Millais, George John Pinwell, and Hablot Knight Browne in
connection with the illustrated magazine, the mid-Victorian gift
book, and changing visual responses to the novels of Dickens.
Engaging with a number of theories and critical debates, the
collection offers a detailed and provocative analysis of the nature
of illustration: its production, consumption, and place within the
broader contexts of mid-Victorian culture.
Conventional wisdom says that the world is heading for a major
water crisis. By 2050, global population will increase from 7
billion to a staggering 9.5 billion and the demands this will place
on food and water systems will inevitably push river basins over
the edge. The findings from this book present a different picture.
While it is convenient to visualize an inevitable global water and
food crisis in which increasing demands result in increasing
poverty, food insecurity and conflict, the reality is far more
nuanced and revolves around the politics of equitable and
sustainable development of resources. The first part of this book
provides detailed insight into conditions of water flows within
nine river basins. In the second part, authors summarize and
re-analyze the outcome of the nine basins, providing a coherent
global picture of water, water productivity and development. They
assess the impacts of variations of these attributes on development
and approaches for poverty alleviation, and explore the
institutional factors that support or obstruct change. How people
will manage river systems while protecting vital ecosystem
functions will make the difference between catastrophe and
survival. As Prof Asit Biswas points out, "... the world is facing
a water crisis not because of physical scarcity of water but
because of poor management practices in nearly all countries of the
world." The book is based on the four years (2006-2010) of
extensive research into the state of ten of the world's major river
basins carried out under the CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and
Food's Basin Focal Project. This book was published as a special
issue of Water International.
Conventional wisdom says that the world is heading for a major
water crisis. By 2050, global population will increase from 7
billion to a staggering 9.5 billion and the demands this will place
on food and water systems will inevitably push river basins over
the edge. The findings from this book present a different picture.
While it is convenient to visualize an inevitable global water and
food crisis in which increasing demands result in increasing
poverty, food insecurity and conflict, the reality is far more
nuanced and revolves around the politics of equitable and
sustainable development of resources. The first part of this book
provides detailed insight into conditions of water flows within
nine river basins. In the second part, authors summarize and
re-analyze the outcome of the nine basins, providing a coherent
global picture of water, water productivity and development. They
assess the impacts of variations of these attributes on development
and approaches for poverty alleviation, and explore the
institutional factors that support or obstruct change. How people
will manage river systems while protecting vital ecosystem
functions will make the difference between catastrophe and
survival. As Prof Asit Biswas points out, "... the world is facing
a water crisis not because of physical scarcity of water but
because of poor management practices in nearly all countries of the
world." The book is based on the four years (2006-2010) of
extensive research into the state of ten of the world's major river
basins carried out under the CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and
Food's Basin Focal Project. This book was published as a special
issue of Water International.
Alongside the recent cultural turn in the humanities, there has
been a noticeable return to ethical considerations. With regard to
literature as well as other media, this has rekindled awareness of
a tension, antagonism, or even disparity between ethics and
aesthetics. This volume of articles takes a more systematic and
cross-disciplinary approach to the widely mooted ethical turn in
literature and other media than has been pursued so far. It brings
together a wide range of critical perspectives from literary
studies, media and cultural memory studies, and philosophy, tracing
the complex and sometimes conflicting relationship between ethics
and aesthetics in theoretical contexts and individual case studies
as diverse as colonial architecture, nineteenth-century literary
histories, and postmodern writing and art.
Covers the principles of Good Clinical Practice Guidelines Contains
case histories that illustrate successes and discusses how to get a
project back on track Integrates R&D into the clinical study
sequence and models how to write a study protocol Offers anecdotal
and visual examples with easy-to-remember reference points Presents
a comprehensive overview of the drug development process and the
trends that are driving change Includes analysis of interactions
between sponsors and CROs and a profile of the ideal project
manager What if you were suddenly in charge? After the initial
excitement of a "battlefield promotion" wears off, you need to get
in the trenches and get the job done. And if you are already in the
trenches, you need quick access to information that will make your
job easier. A comprehensive desk reference and guide, Clinical
Studies Management: A Practical Guide to Success provides the
practical skills and methods required by project managers running
clinical studies. The author explains a framework for project
management based on seven core themes: goals, budgets, time,
resources, measurement, communication, and training. He solidly
reviews how modern management theory can be brought to bear on the
specialized demands of clinical trials. The book covers the
practical how-tos of writing and costing a study, organizing an
Investigator Meeting, and improving patient enrollment in your
study. Divided into stand-alone chapters that make the information
easy to find, the book presents a comprehensive overview of drug
development processes and the trends that are driving change. If
you are new to study management, the book rapidly brings you up to
speed. If you are an experienced study manager, it gives you a
convenient and authoritative reference you will use on a daily
basis. Whatever your level of experience, Clinical Studies
Management: A Practical Guide to Success supplies the tools you
need to manage your projects ef
Thomas Pynchon's fiction has been considered masculinist,
misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal
experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to
complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the
present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether
Pynchon's representations of women are sexist, feminist, or
reflective of a more general misanthropy, whether his writing of
sex is boorishly pornographic or effectually transgressive, whether
queer identities are celebrated or mocked, and whether his
departures from realist convention express masculinist elitism or
critique the gendering of genre. Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender
reframes these debates. As the first book-length investigation of
Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core,
it moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as
liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation
with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview. The
essays it contains, which cumulatively address all of Pynchon's
novels from V. (1963) to Bleeding Edge (2013), investigate such
topics as the imbrication of gender and power, sexual abuse and the
writing of sex, the gendering of violence, and the shifting
representation of the family. Providing a wealth of new approaches
to the centrality of sex and gender in Pynchon's work, the
collection opens up new avenues for Pynchon studies as a whole.
A new perspective on a book that transformed Victorian illustration
into a stand-alone art. Edward Moxon's 1857 edition of Alfred, Lord
Tennyson's Poems dramatically redefined the relationship between
images and words in print. Cooke's study, the first book to address
the subject in over 120 years, presents a sweeping analysis of the
illustrators and the complex and challenging ways in which they
interpreted Tennyson's poetry. This book considers the volume's
historical context, examining in detail the roles of publisher,
engravers, and binding designer, as well as the material
difficulties of printing its fine illustrations, which recreate the
effects of painting. Arranged thematically and reproducing all the
original images, the chapters present a detailed reappraisal of the
original volume and the distinctive culture that produced it.
Thomas Pynchon's fiction has been considered masculinist,
misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal
experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to
complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the
present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether
Pynchon's representations of women are sexist, feminist, or
reflective of a more general misanthropy, whether his writing of
sex is boorishly pornographic or effectually transgressive, whether
queer identities are celebrated or mocked, and whether his
departures from realist convention express masculinist elitism or
critique the gendering of genre. Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender
reframes these debates. As the first book-length investigation of
Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core,
it moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as
liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation
with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview. The
essays it contains, which cumulatively address all of Pynchon's
novels from V. (1963) to Bleeding Edge (2013), investigate such
topics as the imbrication of gender and power, sexual abuse and the
writing of sex, the gendering of violence, and the shifting
representation of the family. Providing a wealth of new approaches
to the centrality of sex and gender in Pynchon's work, the
collection opens up new avenues for Pynchon studies as a whole.
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