The book includes an initial chapter from Trevor Phillips, a major public figure and spokesperson for the Black community in Britain for many yearsThe volume includes an international team of contributors from Canada, the US, France and BritainThe volume engages intimately with questions of race, identity, Empire and politics

This volume looks at Britain since 1948 - the year when the Empire Windrush brought a group of 492 hopeful Caribbean immigrants to the United Kingdom. "Post-war Britain" may still be the most common label attached to studies in contemporary British history, but the contributors to this book believe that "post-Windrush Britain" has an explanatory power which is equally useful. The objective is to study the Windrush generation and Enoch Powell's now infamous speech not only in their original historical context but also as a key element in the political, social and cultural make-up of today's Britain. Contributions to the book use a diversity of approaches: from the lucid, forward-looking assessment by Trevor Phillips, which opens the volume; through Patrick Vernon's account of the legacy of Powell's speech in Birmingham and how it inspired him to launch a national campaign for Windrush Day; to the plea from novelist and playwright Chris Hannan for a fully inclusive, national conversation to help overturn deeply ingrained prejudice in all parts of our society.

Since the fixed exchange rate regime ended, the impact of fluctuating foreign exchange rates has plagued internal and external users of accounting information. Exchange rate volatility impacts real and reported measures of a firm's business in ways that are complicated and arguably little understood or appreciated by board members, senior executives, analysts, investors and empirical researchers. Foreign Currency: Accounting, Communication and Management of Risks furthers our collective understanding of the measurement and management of foreign currency exposure. To assess how current practice deals with exchange rate volatility, we conducted a detailed field study, consisting of 168 survey responses and 16 interviews with Chief Financial Officers, Treasurers and Controllers (collectively labeled CFOs), to provide systematic answers to four sets of questions related to: (i) reporting; (ii) communication; (iii) budgeting and performance evaluation; and (iv) risk management. This work is important to academe and practice for several reasons. First, the exhibits created to illustrate the conceptual foundation and the problems associated with foreign currency measurement and management are likely to be useful in learning about these issues both for students and practitioners. Second, the authors show that serious inconsistencies plague the application of foreign currency rates to each line item on financial statements such that most valuations that rely on cash flow data of companies with international operations will contain material measurement error. Third, foreign currency adjustments impact virtually every area of accounting research. Finally, the authors open the black box behind (i) how the translation adjustment number is actually compiled; and (ii) how currency exposure affects capital budgeting, hedging and performance evaluation decisions?

To play with language is to break its rules, disrupt its patterns, exploit its weak points. Thus, paradoxically, puns and spoonerisms, neologisms, and slogans reveal and highlight the patterns to which discourse conforms -- patterns which reflect the linguistic competence of language speakers. Only those who have linguistics competence can play with it: thus language games and the poetic use of language are underpinned by unconscious use of linguistic analysis.

Using Lewis Carroll's Alice as a starting point, Marina Yaguello takes the reader on an unconventional voyage around language, charting the major themes of linguistics on the way. She shows that we can come to an understanding of language in general and of particular languages through exploring the devices of humour, word-games, and poetry -- devices which reveal the unconscious linguist in all of us. The result is an entertaining but rigorous introduction to language and linguistics for non-specialists and students alike.

- This book is a comprehensive structure of the life, membership, leadership and mission of the local church.
- Written by one with experience in the work of mission and with a vision of the need to revitalize the church in its view of this often marginalized yet vital activity.
- Deals with the need for individual church to look at mission from both a global and local perspective.

The oldest word in politics is "new". The oldest word in the writing of history may well be "modern": it is, without doubt, one of the most overworked adjectives in the English language. But the indeterminacy is perhaps just another way of saying that the difficulties raised are of a kind which simply will not go away... This collection of eight essays on aspects of modernity and modernism takes up the challenge of examining the complex, but fascinating convergence of aesthetics, politics and a quasi-spiritual dimension which is perhaps typical of British modernist thinking about modernity. This may have produced figures whom we now dismiss as eccentrics or "aesthetes", it none the less produced figures whom many still think of as in some sense embodying the national identity: what, after all, could be more "English" than a William Morris wallpaper design? Rather than towards socialism in any of its "scientific" guises, what the British modernist approach to modernity may have been pushing at was yet another mutation of liberalism: a libertarian-humanitarian hybrid in which indigenous radical and Evangelical legacies keep scientific socialism in check, where fellowship and domesticity edge out a larger-scale, more abstract "fraternity", and where citoyennete or civisme give way to what George Orwell was later to define simply as "decency".