In recent years, considerable advances have been made in the understanding of fluvial processes at both the catchment/slope scale and the river/floodplain scale. There has also been an increase in interest in environmental change. Focusing on the links between fluvial processes and environmental change, this book brings together a wide range of temporal environmental change and describes how rivers have responded to them. In terms of spatial scales (small catchments to large river basins) it has a broad scope, and includes modelling studies, monitoring and palaeo-environmental studies.

In the follow-up to his very successful Black Lies, White Lies, controversial talk-show host and radio commentator Tony Brown presents a practical plan to reclaim our resources and institutions from a selfish and exclusive power elite.

At the start of the twentieth century, argues Tony Brown, the world's economy was hijacked. In capitalist and communist countries alike, elitist groups took control of international trade and national banks, with dire results for the ordinary citizen. Ever since, capital has moved toward a single inner circle -- the Ruling Class Conspiracy -- who...

Contemporary thinking on philosophy and the social sciences has primarily focused on the centrality of language in understanding societies and individuals; important developments which have been under-utilised by researchers in mathematics education. In this revised and extended edition this book reaches out to contemporary work in these broader fields, adding new material on how progression in mathematical learning might be variously understood.
A new concluding chapter considers how teachers experience the new demands they face.