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Urban expert John Rossant and business journalist Stephen Baker
look beyond the false promises of the past to examine the real
future of transportation and the repercussions for the world's
cities, the global economy, the environment, and our individual
lives. Human mobility, dominated for a century by cars and trucks,
is facing a dramatic transformation. Over the next decade, new
networked devices, from electric bikes to fleets of autonomous
cars, will change the way we move. They will also disrupt major
industries, from energy to cars, give birth to new mobility giants,
and lead to a redesign of our cities. For Rossant and Baker, this
represents the advance of the Information Revolution into the
physical world. This will raise troubling questions about
surveillance, privacy, the dangers from hackers and the loss of
jobs. But it also promises startling efficiencies, which could turn
our cities green and, perhaps, save our planet. In an engaging,
deeply reported book, the authors travel to mobility hotspots, from
Helsinki to Shanghai, to scout out this future. And they visit the
companies putting it together. One, Divergent3d, is devising a
system to manufacture cars with robots and 3D printers. PonyAI, a
Chinese-Silicon Valley startup, builds autonomous software that
perceives potholes, oncoming trucks, and wayward pedestrians, and
guides the vehicle around them. Voom, an Airbus subsidiary, is
racing with dozens of others to operate fleets of air taxis that
fly by themselves. Hop, Skip, Go is about us: billions of people on
the move. Underlying each stage of mobility, from foot to horse to
cars and jets, are the mathematics of three fundamental variables:
time, space and money. We measure each trip we take, whether to
Kuala Lumpur or the corner drugstore. As the authors make clear,
the coming mobility revolution will be no different. As they unveil
the future, the authors explore how these changes might revamp our
conception of global geography, the hours in our days, and where in
the world we might be able to go.
'I believe this book will change the conversation in schools on
children's behaviour.' - Dr Luna Centifanti A School Without
Sanctions offers an innovative approach to behaviour management in
schools, prioritising compassion and behaviour modification over
punishment. Drawing on their award-winning methods, Steven Baker
and Mick Simpson explain why challenging behaviour occurs and
provide a toolbox of non-confrontational approaches that will
benefit the whole school community. When Steven and Mick set out to
transform their school's approach to behaviour, it changed
everything. With the help of Dr Alice Jones Bartoli at Goldsmiths,
they developed a sanction-free approach in their special school for
boys with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) difficulties.
Far from descending into anarchy, lessons began to improve and
student-staff relationships flourished. The school is now rated
outstanding in all areas, and more importantly, student outcomes
have been remarkable. Steven and Mick apply this experience, as
well as their work in pupil referral units and young offender
institutions, to explore their strategies for managing behaviour
without the need for zero tolerance, discussing exclusions, trauma,
motivation and engagement along the way. Rooted in neuroscience and
evolutionary psychology, this book will revolutionise the way you
think about behaviour management, help boost student mental health
and academic achievement, and protect teacher wellbeing.
On Bloody Sunday, January 30, 1972, British paratroopers killed
thirteen innocent men in Derry. It was one of the most
controversial events in the history of the Northern Ireland
conflict and also one of the most mediated. The horror was recorded
in newspapers and photographs, on TV news and current affairs, and
in film and TV drama. In a cross media analysis that spans a period
of almost forty years up to the publication of the Saville Report
in 2010, "The British Media and Bloody Sunday" identifies two
countervailing impulses in media coverage of Bloody Sunday and its
legacy: an urge in the press to rescue the image and reputation of
the British Army versus a troubled conscience in TV current affairs
and drama about what was done in Britain's name. In so doing, it
suggests a much more complex set of representations than a
straightforward propaganda analysis might allow for, one that says
less about the conflict in Ireland than it does about Britain, with
its loss of empire and its crisis of national identity.
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