PRP is one of the most successful housing practices in the world. Peter Phippen, Peter Randall and David Parkes founded the practice in 1963, and since then have moved forward from their Modernist beginnings, evidenced in the post-Second World War housing boom to the diverse concerns of the twenty-first century - creating hospice care and sheltered housing for the elderly and infirm, as well as accommodating the need for sustainable, low-energy, zero-carbon developments. "Place & Home: The Search for Better Housing" comprises essays by Phippen, Randall and Parkes, Barry Munday and Chris Rudolph on PRP's past and current work, as well as texts by commissioned writers on the topics of 'place', 'building technology' and 'home' in architecture. These are interspersed with illustrated case studies of PRP's work with housing associations, local authorities and private developers, in diverse locations including Moscow, La Grande Motte, Milton Keynes, Manchester, and Brixton - the latter of which Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, considers "sets the standard for what we should be achieving in every social housing development in London".

Do you have Parents or Guardians who do not have the necessary reasoning skills, to Guide you to Success based on strong Principles? If so, this does not mean that you have an excuse to fail in Life; what it does mean is that you have to look for Guidance involving Life Success elsewhere. This book is designed for that purpose Do you truly believe that you have the Self-Determination to Succeed in Life? To be Self-Determined means that you alone will have to make decisions with regards to how you will conduct yourself now and in the Future. And this will determine whether you are Successful in Life or not. Within this book are tried and tested Principles which are placed before you in such a way that makes you think seriously about your Future. This book is written in a way that Guides you along the path to your Future Success. However it will test your resolve to change your Life style and help you to learn the skill of Self-Determination. Are you a Parent or a Guardian who recognizes they need help in acquiring the necessary Skills to teach their Children to be Successful in Life? If so then look no further; this book has all the tools necessary to make you a Successful Parent or Guardian. All that is required of you is the ability to Reason and the Determination to help others or yourself to Succeed This book is useful for the single user, or in a classroom setting. Stephen Mullins Artist Historian Poet

A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia. For most of its history, Australian pearling was a shore-based activity. But from the mid-1880s until the World War I era, the industry was dominated by highly mobile, heavily capitalized, schooner-based fleets of pearling luggers, known as floating stations, that exploited Australia's northern continental shelf and the nearby waters of the Netherlands Indies. Octopus Crowd:Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age is the first book-length study of schooner-based pearling and explores the floating station system and the men who developed and employed it. Steve Mullins focuses on the Clark Combination, a syndicate led by James Clark, Australia's most influential pearler. The combination honed the floating station system to the point where it was accused of exhausting pearling grounds, elbowing out small-time operators, strangling the economies of pearling ports, and bringing the industry to the brink of disaster. Combination partners were vilified as monopolists-they were referred to as an ""octopus crowd""-and their schooners were stigmatized as hell ships and floating sweatshops. Schooner-based floating stations crossed maritime frontiers with impunity, testing colonial and national territorial jurisdictions. The Clark Combination passed through four fisheries management regimes, triggering significant change and causing governments to alter laws and extend maritime boundaries. It drew labor from ports across the Asia-Pacific, and its product competed in a volatile world market. Octopus Crowd takes all these factors into account to explain Australian pearling during its schooner age. It argues that the demise of the floating station system was not caused by resource depletion, as was often predicted, but by ideology and Australia's shifting sociopolitical landscape.