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In nineteenth-century Britain few cities could rival Liverpool for recorded drunkenness. Civic pride at Liverpool's imperial influence was undercut by anxieties about social problems that could all be connected to alcohol, from sectarian unrest and prostitution in the city's streets to child neglect and excess mortality in its slums. These dangers, heightened in Liverpool by the apparent...
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Droving was once the lifeblood of Scotland's rural economy, and for centuries Scotland's glens and mountain passes were alive with thousands of cattle making their way to the market trysts of Crieff and Falkirk. With the Industrial Revolution, ships, railways and eventually lorries took over the drovers' trade. Except, however, in the Western Isles, where droving on foot continued until the...
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The time-dependent decay of naturally occurring radioactive isotopes or in-growth of their radioactive or stable daughter products form the basis of radiometric dating of several natural processes. Developed in the beginning of the last century mainly to determine the absolute ages of rocks and minerals, radiometric chronology now plays a central role in a broad range of Earth and planetary...
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From a modest beginning in the form of a little shrew-like, nocturnal, insect eating ancestor that lived 200 million years ago, mammals evolved into the huge variety of different kinds of animals we see today. Many species are still small, and follow the lifestyle of the ancestor, but others have adapted to become large grazers and browsers, like the antelopes, cattle, rhinos, and elephants, or...
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Studies the role of services in development as well as on sectoral issues, with policy considerations embedded in the analysis.
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Tine De Moor links the historical debate about the long-term evolution of commons to the present-day debates on common-pool resources.
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This 1785 work gives instructions on propagation, followed by a plant list and advice on using plants in the landscape.
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Studies the role of services in development as well as on sectoral issues, with policy considerations embedded in the analysis.
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An easy to understand guide covering key principles of ordinary differential equations and their applications.
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Australian Social Policy and the Human Services introduces readers to the complex field of social policy development, implementation and evaluation.
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Meetings are essential to collaboration and decision making, but they are often irrelevant, time consuming and badly run. People spend an average of 2 days per week in meetings and 50% of it is wasted. This book will help you win back that wasted day a week by cutting out the half of face to face and virtual meetings that do not need to happen and radically improving the ones that remain.... |
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The Guide's Guide is for teachers, therapists, and parents who will guide participants journeying through the Growing G.R.E.E.N. InterActions(TM) program. This guidebook is meant to help the Guide understand the program and how to best use its materials. Guides and participants will see improvements in social functioning--first in structured... |
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Bloomsbury lies at the heart of cultural and intellectual London, famed for its museums, universities and literary heritage. Matthew Ingleby's new history ranges across the neighbourhood to explore hidden corners and reveal unexpected connections between Bloomsbury's past and present.
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'When the respectable Londoner wants to feel devilish, he goes to Soho', wrote Thomas Burke in 1915 - but these words could have been uttered at any point in Soho's colourful history. Complete with illustrations evoking the life and times of Soho, this new history explores the people and places that brought the area to worldwide fame.
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Camden Town perfectly embodies the cultural mix for which London is famed. This book takes five landmarks as the starting point for a series of journeys into the layers of history and culture that make Camden Town.
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The New Woman and the Empire examines the intersections of gender, race, and colonial issues in the work of four culturally, socially, and nationally disparate New Women: Sarah Grand, George Egerton, Elizabeth Robins, and Amy Levy. Iveta JusovA underscores essential differences in these women's negotiations of the Victorian colonial narrative and ascertains how these authors located... |
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Jacana Media is proud to make this important book available again, now with a completely new introduction. First published by Oceanbooks, New York and Melbourne and University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg in 2001, the book was short-listed for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in 2002. In the public imagination the struggle that saw the end of apartheid and the inauguration of a democratic...
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In this remarkable book, Mark Muller tells the story of British intervention in Libya and the Arab Spring from a unique civil society standpoint: he was there in Benghazi two weeks after the UN No-Fly Zone Resolution was passed, meeting with Rebel leaders to discuss how Western civil society might help them stabilize the country and resolve difficult legacy issues such as victim claims over...
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