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Nature's Ideological Landscape A Literary and Geographic Perspective on its Development and Preservation on Denmark's Jutland Heath

Nature's Ideological Landscape A Literary and Geographic Perspective on its Development and Preservation on Denmark's Jutland Heath

Originally published in 1984 Nature’s Ideological Language examines the common ideological roots of environmental reclamation and nature preservation. In the general context of European British and American historical experience the Jutland heaths of Denmark are taken as a concrete example for a general critique of European and American policy concerning the use of landscape. Two sets of contradictions are highlighted: ideological and practical between development and preservation; and those between scientific historical aesthetic and recreational motivation for preservation. The book is based on a study of the Jutland heath from 1750 to the present focusing on the Danish perception of the area as expressed in literary art and in economic journals topographies and government reports. Against this background the development of the modern conception of nature is traced and its ideological implications and planning consequences discussed. As a study of humanistic geography this book will be of interest to geographers conservationists and planners. | Nature's Ideological Landscape A Literary and Geographic Perspective on its Development and Preservation on Denmark's Jutland Heath

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The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport

The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport

First published in 1994 this volume features an autobiography of Allen Davenport a key figure linking Chartism with the French Revolution along with some of his selected works. Davenport was an important propagandist for agrarian reform a critical follower of Robert Owen one of the first male supporters of the feminist causes and birth control and a leading member of the revolutionary underground movement in Regency London. He was a prolific author political journalist and poet. His autobiography published in 1845 has long been presumed lost - historians have had to make do with tantalising fragments from contemporary reviews. When a copy was found in Nashville in 1982 it was immediately recognised as a unique source of information about nineteenth-century popular politics. This volume reprints the complete text with editorial apparatus and supplemented by a careful selection of Davenport's other writing by Dr Malcolm Chase. The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport thus gives a unique insight into the cultural and political life of England in the crowded years between Peterloo and Chartism.

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The Development Dictionary 25 Post-Development and its consequences

The Development Dictionary 25 Post-Development and its consequences

Few books in the history of Development Studies have had an impact like The Development Dictionary – A Guide to Knowledge as Power which was edited by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books in 1992. The Development Dictionary was crucial in establishing what has become known as the Post-Development (PD) school. This volume is devoted to the legacy of The Development Dictionary and to discussing Post-Development. This book originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly. | The Development Dictionary 25 Post-Development and its consequences

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Preparation for Life? Vocationalism and the Equal Opportunities Challenge

Preparation for Life? Vocationalism and the Equal Opportunities Challenge

First published in 1997 this volume contributes to the debate on the ground-breaking Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI) introduced by Margaret Thatcher by exploring the implications of its equal opportunities policy. The scheme was announced in 1982 piloted in 1983 extended nationally in 1987 and ended in 1997. It responded to criticisms that the education system was failing to meet the needs of employers and committed to equal opportunities for boys and girls along with increasing access to technology at the genesis of the computing era. The TVEI represented the first major intervention by central Government in curriculum development in England and was organised on a local authority level. The author Sue Heath had experienced mixed messages for what students of each gender could expect to achieve and she remained fascinated by the implications of the TVEI for 1980s school curriculums. Based on research begun in 1989 the volume reassesses the significance of the TEVI as a landmark policy in education. Heath examines areas including vocationalism the issue of gender implementing the TVEI locally the curricular experiences of TVEI pupils and whether the TVEI succeeded in preparing students for the world of work and later life. | Preparation for Life? Vocationalism and the Equal Opportunities Challenge

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Monte Carlo Methods and Models in Finance and Insurance

Monte Carlo Methods and Models in Finance and Insurance

Offering a unique balance between applications and calculations Monte Carlo Methods and Models in Finance and Insurance incorporates the application background of finance and insurance with the theory and applications of Monte Carlo methods. It presents recent methods and algorithms including the multilevel Monte Carlo method the statistical Romberg method and the Heath–Platen estimator as well as recent financial and actuarial models such as the Cheyette and dynamic mortality models. The authors separately discuss Monte Carlo techniques stochastic process basics and the theoretical background and intuition behind financial and actuarial mathematics before bringing the topics together to apply the Monte Carlo methods to areas of finance and insurance. This allows for the easy identification of standard Monte Carlo tools and for a detailed focus on the main principles of financial and insurance mathematics. The book describes high-level Monte Carlo methods for standard simulation and the simulation of stochastic processes with continuous and discontinuous paths. It also covers a wide selection of popular models in finance and insurance from Black–Scholes to stochastic volatility to interest rate to dynamic mortality. Through its many numerical and graphical illustrations and simple insightful examples this book provides a deep understanding of the scope of Monte Carlo methods and their use in various financial situations. The intuitive presentation encourages readers to implement and further develop the simulation methods.

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The Cia's Secret Operations Espionage Counterespionage And Covert Action

The Cia's Secret Operations Espionage Counterespionage And Covert Action

I am grateful to those of my colleagues in this first generation of American spymasters who were willing to share their experiences with me even after I retired to my unclassified farm . I am indebted to Howard Roman who worked with Allen Dulles on his intelligence writings for his assistance in the preparation of the early chapters and to Nancy Kelly my editor at Reader's Digest Press for the sharp edge of her pruning shears . | The Cia's Secret Operations Espionage Counterespionage And Covert Action

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The Productive Graduate Student Writer How to Manage Your Time Process and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal Thesis and Dissertatio

The Productive Graduate Student Writer How to Manage Your Time Process and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal Thesis and Dissertatio

This book is for graduate students-and others-who want to become more productive writers. It's especially written for those who want to:• increase their motivation focus and persistence to move a project to completion• overcome procrastination and perfectionistic tendencies• reduce (or write in spite of) their anxiety and fear of writing• manage their time work energy (and advisor) for greater productivityThe process or craft of sustained writing is not a matter that’s taught to undergraduate or graduate students as part of their studies leaving most at sea about how to start a practice that is central to a career in academe and vital in many other professional occupations. This book grew out of conversations Jan Allen has held with her graduate students for over 30 years and reflects the fruit of the writing workshops and boot camps she has conducted at three universities her own and numerous colleagues’ experiences with writing and advising as well as the feedback she receives from her popular Productive Writer listserv. While Jan Allen recognizes that writing is not an innate talent for most of us she demonstrates that it is a process based on skills which we can identify learn practice and refine. She focuses both on the process and habits of writing as well as on helping you uncover what kind of writer are you and reflect on your challenges and successes. With a light touch and an engaging sense of humor she proposes strategies to overcome procrastination and distractions and build a writing practice to enable you to become a more productive and prolific writer. Jan Allen proposes that you read one of her succinct chapters – each devoted to a specific strategy or writing challenge – each day or once a week. When you find one that increases your concentration motivation or endurance make it a habit. Try it for two weeks charting the resulting increased productivity. It will become part of your repertoire of writing and productivity tools to which you can progressively add. | The Productive Graduate Student Writer How to Manage Your Time Process and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal Thesis and Dissertatio

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Beyond Liberalism

Beyond Liberalism

In Beyond Nihilism Michael Polanyi argued that a merely negative liberty of doing as one pleases so long as one does not impinge upon the equal liberty of others - must and has led to destructive nihilism and a fierce reaction to collectivism. R. T. Allen takes up this argument in Beyond Liberalism and shows how Polanyi's political philosophy evolved into a more positive and distinctly conservative concept of liberty converging upon the archetypal conservatism of Edmund Burke. Allen examines Polanyi's and F. A. Hayek's thinking with respect to the nature value and foundations of liberty. Negative and positive liberties are two sides of one liberty and Allen believes negative conceptions of liberty are as dangerous as positive ones. He distinguishes among general and abstract definitions of liberty and shows how all including that of Hayek ultimately dissolve. According to Allen only tacit conceptions of liberty such as those of Burke and Polanyi prove viable. This is because they rest on concrete tradition. Allen examines how the skeptical rationalist and utilitarian philosophies of Ludwig von Mises and Sir Karl Popper fail to support the value of liberty and even proved to be destructive of it. Allen argues that society cannot rely upon the classically liberal notion of contract but rather upon prescriptive and inherited obligations. In turn this means that citizens have positive as well as negative duties to each other and the body politic of which they are part and upon whose support liberty depends. A free society is held together by emotional bonds and the traditions and rituals that sustain them. A free society also presupposes that the individual has inherent value in and for himself. For R. T. Allen only Christianity and certainly no modern philosophy has a conception of the unique individual and his irreplaceable value and of a political order that transcends itself into the moral order. Even Polanyi's liberty is ultimately insufficient for it gives no inherent value to the person himself but instead to the ideals which he serves. Beyond Liberalism challenges deeply ingrained notions of liberty and its meaning in modern society. It is a call for traditions of self-restraint and justice for their own sakes. This noteworthy volume is an essential addition to the libraries of political scientists philosophers and theologians alike.

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Solving Critical Design Problems Theory and Practice

Solving Critical Design Problems Theory and Practice

Solving Critical Design Problems demonstrates both how design is increasingly used to solve large complex modern-day problems and as a result how the role of the designer continues to develop in response. With 13 case studies from various fields including program and product design Tania Allen shows how types of design thinking such as systems thinking metaphorical thinking and empathy can be used together with methods such as brainstorming design fiction and prototyping. This book helps you find ways out of your design problems by giving you other ways to look at your ideas so that your designs make sense in their setting. Solving Critical Design Problems encourages a design approach that challenges assumptions and allows designers to take on a more critical and creative role. With over 100 images this book will appeal to students in design studios industrial and product design as well as landscape and urban design. | Solving Critical Design Problems Theory and Practice

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The Bohemian Ethos Questioning Work and Making a Scene on the Lower East Side

The Bohemian Ethos Questioning Work and Making a Scene on the Lower East Side

The iconoclastic ingenuity of bohemians from Gerard de Nerval to Allen Ginsberg continually captivates the popular imagination; the worlds of fashion advertising and even real estate all capitalize on the alternative appeal of bohemian style. Persistently overlooked however is bohemians' distinctive relationship to work. In this book sociologist Judith R. Halasz examines the fascinating junctures between bohemian labor and life. Weaving together historiography ethnography and personal experiences of having been raised amidst downtown New York's bohemian communities Halasz deciphers bohemians' unconventional behaviors and attitudes towards employment and the broader work world. From the nineteenth-century harbingers on Paris' Left Bank to the Beats Underground and more recent bohemian outcroppings on New York's Lower East Side The Bohemian Ethos traces the embodiment of a politically charged yet increasingly precarious form of cultural resistance to hegemonic social and economic imperatives. | The Bohemian Ethos Questioning Work and Making a Scene on the Lower East Side

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Deficits Debt and American Politics Paper Shackles

Deficits Debt and American Politics Paper Shackles

For most of the history of the United States periods of growing indebtedness—a product of wars and economic crises—were followed by reductions in the debt-to-GDP ratio. But why have the last several decades failed to follow this pattern leaving the national debt at its highest level since World War II? In this groundbreaking new book author Marc Allen Eisner who has devoted most of his scholarly career to studying the evolution of the US political economy explores the significant changes in the fiscal conditions of the United States during the postwar period embedding the discussion in a broader historical context. He demonstrates that the national debt is in part a product of reduced revenues and the growing costs of the largest entitlement programs but it also reflects a long series of shocks including two wars the financial crisis and Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. Deficits Debt and American Politics chronicles the history of the US debt in the postwar period placed in the context of broader changes in the political economy and partisan politics. But it grounds this exploration in reader-friendly chapter-length discussions of public finance taxation mandatory spending and the budgetary process from a policy perspective. The volume concludes with a discussion of the challenges of comprehensive tax and program reforms in the current political climate. Deficits Debt and American Politics assumes little prior knowledge on the part of the reader making it an ideal book for courses on public policy and political economy taught at both the upper-level undergraduate and graduate level. The material on public finance long-term trends in taxation and spending and the budgetary process often relegated to descriptive texts will be invaluable in courses engaging the deficit and debt. | Deficits Debt and American Politics Paper Shackles

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Bisexual and Pansexual Identities Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation

Bisexual and Pansexual Identities Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation

This book explores the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality from the past to the present and is unique in extending the discussion to focus on contemporary and emerging identities. Nikki Hayfield draws on research from psychology and the social sciences to offer a detailed and in-depth exploration of the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality pansexuality and asexuality. The book discusses how early sexologists’ understood gender and sexuality within a binary model and how this provided the underpinnings of bisexual invisibility. The existing research on biphobia and bisexual marginalisation is synthesised to explore how bisexuality has often been invisible or invalidated. Hayfield then evidences clear examples of the invisibility and invalidation of bisexuality pansexuality and asexuality within education employment mainstream mass media and the wider culture. Throughout the book there is consideration of the impact that this invisibility and invalidation has on people’s sense of identity and on their health and wellbeing. It concludes with a discussion of how bisexuality pansexuality and asexuality have become somewhat more visible than in the past and the potential that visibility holds for recognition and representation. This is fascinating reading for students and academics interested in in bisexuality pansexuality and asexual spectrum identities and for those who have a personal interest in bisexuality pansexuality and asexuality. | Bisexual and Pansexual Identities Exploring and Challenging Invisibility and Invalidation

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Globalization and Politics Promises and Dangers

Globalization and Politics Promises and Dangers

Globalization and Politics brings together vision and imaginative insight to the analysis of the evolution of inter-state politics to produce a clear comprehensive and coherent sense of how globalization works and how it might work better. The study looks upon globalization as a distinct set of phenomena - energy economy environment and politics - all of which interact. Presenting opportunities for interdependency and governance globalization offers both dangers and promises which explains why it is equally feared and praised. Globalization is an economic trend with strong spillovers and as such has become a political trend with cultural implications. This volume is an invaluable highly readable new text for graduate and undergraduate courses. It sets out the key challenges for globalization in the 21st century and looks at the challenges responses and risks of globalization. It is required reading for analysts students and professionals who want to understand what's at stake in the globalization debate. | Globalization and Politics Promises and Dangers

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Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability Between past and future

Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability Between past and future

This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective. By examining the interactions between people and communities in the places where they live it exemplifies the diverse ways in which a people-centred heritage builds identities and supports individual and collective memories. It encourages a view of heritage as a process that contributes through cultural sustainability to human well-being and socially- and culturally-sensitive policy. With theoretically-informed case studies from leading researchers the book addresses both concepts and practice in a range of places and contexts including landscape townscape museums industrial sites every day heritage ‘ordinary’ places and the local scene and even UNESCO-designated sites. The contributors most of whom like the editors were members of the COST Action ‘Investigating Cultural Sustainability’ demonstrate in a cohesive way how the cultural values that people attach to place are enmeshed with issues of memory identity and aspiration and how they therefore stand at the centre of sustainability discourse and practice. The cases are drawn from many parts of Europe but notably from the Baltic and central and south-eastern Europe regions with distinctive recent histories and cultural approaches and heritage discourses that offer less well-known but transferable insights. They all illustrate the contribution that dealing with the inheritance of the past can make to a full cultural engagement with sustainable development. The book provides an introductory framework to guide readers and a concluding section that draws on the case studies to emphasise their transferability and specificity and to outline the potential contribution of the examples to future research practice and policy in cultural sustainability. This is a unique offering for postgraduate students researchers and professionals interested in heritage management governance and community participation and cultural sustainability. | Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability Between past and future

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Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances Issues Influences and Impacts

Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances Issues Influences and Impacts

In the pursuit of more muscle enhanced strength sustained endurance and idealised physiques an increasing number of elite athletes recreational sport enthusiasts and body-conscious gym-users are turning to performance and image enhancing drugs and substances (PIEDS). In many instances such use occurs with little regard for the health social and economic consequences. This book presents a nuanced evidence-based examination of PIEDS. It provides a classification of PIEDS types physical impacts rates of use user profiles legal and sporting status and remedial program interventions covering both elite and recreational use. It offers the perfect guide to assist students government policy makers and sport managers in understanding the complex issues surrounding PIEDS consumption. | Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances Issues Influences and Impacts

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Parks and Recreation and Economics

Parks and Recreation and Economics

This book provides an in-depth look at the primary foundations of economics explored through the lens of the Pawnee Department of Parks and Recreation. Each episode of the hit television series Parks and Recreation includes material to help an eager learner understand the basics of one of the most fascinating fields of study. Whether you’ve wondered how economists determine specialization or why fast-food restaurants continue to pop up around your neighborhood the same situations have occurred in Pawnee. Each chapter highlights key scenes or major episodes that demonstrate how the characters experience economics in exactly the same way the rest of us do. This text primarily builds on the debates that take place between Leslie Ron and their co-workers while also exploring key questions such as whether governments should try to help people through direct intervention or sell off all the swings to private corporations and let businesses handle day-to-day decisions. Learn how incentives can make Jerry appear to be a more productive employee short-term but end up causing chaos. Do you wonder what it would be like to live in the early 1800s? Thankfully Leslie has already done that for us. This book is a must-read for anyone looking for a fun way to learn the principles of economics including as a supplementary text and for all fans of Parks and Recreation. Take the advice of Tom and Donna and treat yo’ self to this key read. | Parks and Recreation and Economics

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Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe Challenges and prospects

Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe Challenges and prospects

The global financial crisis has provided an important opportunity to revisit debates about post-socialist transition and the relative success of different reform paths. Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) in particular show resilience in the wake of the international crisis with a diverse range of economic transformations. Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe offers an in depth analysis of a diverse range of countries including Poland Hungary Russia Ukraine Czech Republic and Slovakia. This volume assesses each country’s institutional transformations geopolitical policies and local adaptations that have led them down divergent post-communist paths. Chapters take the reader systematically through the evolution of former communist national economic systems before ending with lessons and conclusions for the future. Subsequent chapters demonstrate that economic performance crucially depends on achieving a sustainable balance between sound institutional design and policies on one hand and localization on the other. This new volume from a prestigious group of academics offers a fascinating and timely study which will be of interest to all scholars and policy makers with an interest in European Economics Russian and East European Studies Transition Economies Political Economy and the post-2008 world more generally. | Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe Challenges and prospects

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Cryptocurrencies and Cryptoassets Regulatory and Legal Issues

Cryptocurrencies and Cryptoassets Regulatory and Legal Issues

This book examines the legal and regulatory aspects of cryptocurrency and blockchain and the emerging practical issues that these issues involve. The analysis covers a range of advanced economies across the world in America Europe and Asia. The book describes explains and analyses the nature of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain systems they are constructed on in these major world economies and considers relevant law and regulation and their shortcomings. It will be of use and interest to academics lawyers regulators and anyone involved with cryptocurrencies and blockchain. | Cryptocurrencies and Cryptoassets Regulatory and Legal Issues

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Motivation and Emotion in Learning and Teaching across Educational Contexts Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives and Empirical Insights

Motivation and Emotion in Learning and Teaching across Educational Contexts Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives and Empirical Insights

Motivation and Emotion in Learning and Teaching across Educational Contexts brings together current theoretical and methodological perspectives as well as examples of empirical implementations from leading international researchers focusing on the context specificity and situatedness of their core theories in motivation and emotion. The book is compiled of two main sections. Section I covers theoretical reflections and perspectives on the main theories on emotion and motivation in learning and teaching and their transferability across different educational contexts illustrated with empirical examples. Section II addresses the methodological reflections and perspectives on the methodology that is needed to address the complexity and context specificity of motivation and emotion. In addition to general reflections and perspectives regarding methodology concrete empirical examples are provided. All cutting-edge chapters include current empirical studies on emotions and motivation in learning and teaching across different contexts (age groups domains countries etc. ) making them applicable and relevant to a wide range of contexts and settings. This high-quality volume with contributions from leading international experts will be an essential resource for researchers students and teacher trainers interested in the vital role that motivation and emotions can play in education. | Motivation and Emotion in Learning and Teaching across Educational Contexts Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives and Empirical Insights

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Editing and Montage in International Film and Video Theory and Technique

Editing and Montage in International Film and Video Theory and Technique

Editing and Montage in International Film and Video presents a theoretical and practical approach to the art of editing. In this book Luís Fernando Morales Morante explores the international history technology theory practical techniques psychology and cognitive effects of editing across a range of media from around the world featuring case studies from film dramatic television news media music videos commercials and mobile-delivered formats from the films of Sergei Eisenstein to Michael Jackson’s Thriller to coverage of the 2012 U. S. presidential elections. The book includes self-study exercises throughout to help readers put theory into practice. | Editing and Montage in International Film and Video Theory and Technique

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Africans and the Holocaust Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples

Africans and the Holocaust Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples

This book is an original and comparative study of reactions in West and East Africa to the persecution and attempted annihilation of Jews in Europe and in former German colonies in sub-Saharan Africa during the Second World War. An intellectual and diplomatic history of World War II and the Holocaust Africans and the Holocaust looks at the period from the perspectives of the colonized subjects of the Gold Coast Nigeria Sierra Leone Kenya Tanganyika and Uganda as well as the sovereign peoples of Liberia and Ethiopia who wrestled with the social and moral questions that the war and the Holocaust raised. The five main chapters of the book explore the pre-Holocaust history of relations between Jews and Africans in West and East Africa perceptions of Nazism in both regions opinions of World War II interpretations of the Holocaust and responses of the colonized and sovereign peoples of West and East Africa to efforts by Great Britain to resettle certain categories of Jewish refugees from Europe in the two regions before and during the Holocaust. This book will be of use to students and scholars of African history Holocaust and Jewish studies and international or global history. | Africans and the Holocaust Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples

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Secessionism and Terrorism Bombs Blood and Independence in Europe and Eurasia

Secessionism and Terrorism Bombs Blood and Independence in Europe and Eurasia

This book examines secessionist terrorism in a comparative context across Europe and Eurasia. The volume seeks to uncover comparative linkages between terrorism and secessionism; specifically examining terrorist organizations that also have a political goal of independence. It examines a wide range of case studies including the IRA in Northern Ireland ETA in the Basque Country FLNC in Corsica and ARD in Brittany KLA in Kosovo PKK and TAK in Turkish Kurdistan and IK in Chechnya. In doing so the book shows the linkages in terrorist tactics and demands as well as when and how ceasefires come into place. Ultimately none of the terrorist organizations studied here has obtained their maximalist goal of gaining independence but each has caused significant bloodshed and has contributed to the debate on the future of governance in Europe and Eurasia. The major strength of this format is to glean wider lessons on ethno-nationalism as well as the causes and outcomes of terrorist actions. Each case study also updates the literature on the individual cases to provide the most recent account of events in these countries. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and political violence ethnic conflict nationalism European politics and International Relations in general. | Secessionism and Terrorism Bombs Blood and Independence in Europe and Eurasia

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Gender Generations and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond

Gender Generations and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond

Communism in twentieth-century Europe is predominantly narrated as a totalitarian movement and/or regime. This book aims to go beyond this narrative and provide an alternative framework to describe the communist past. This reframing is possible thanks to the concepts of generation and gender which are used in the book as analytical categories in an intersectional overlap. The publication covers twentieth-century Poland Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic the Soviet Union/Russia former Yugoslavia Turkish communities in West Germany Italy and Cuba (as a comparative point of reference). It provides a theoretical frame and overview chapters on several important gender and generation narratives about communism anticommunism and postcommunism. Its starting point is the belief that although methodological reflection on communism as well as on generations and gender is conducted extensively in contemporary research the overlapping of these three terms is still rare. The main focus in the first part is on methodological issues. The second part features studies which depict the possibility of generational-gender interpretations of history. The third part is informed by biographical perspectives. The last part shows how the problem of generations and gender is staged via the medium of literature and how it can be narrated. | Gender Generations and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond

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Bird's Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology

Bird's Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology

Now in its seventh edition Bird’s Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology introduces and covers theory through detailed examples and laboratory experiments enabling students to gain knowledge required by technicians in fields such as engineering electronics and telecommunications. This edition includes several new sections including glass batteries climate change the future of electricity production and discussions concerning everyday aspects of electricity such as watts and lumens electrical safety AC vs DC and trending technologies. The extensive and thorough topic coverage makes this a great text for a range of level 2 and 3 engineering courses which has helped thousands of students succeed in their exams. It is also suitable for BTEC First National and Diploma syllabuses City & Guilds Technician Certificate and Diploma syllabuses and Foundation Degrees in engineering. Its companion website at www. routledge. com/cw/bird provides resources for both students and lecturers including full solutions for all 900 further questions lists of essential formulae multiple-choice tests and illustrations as well as full solutions to revision tests and lab experiments for course instructors. | Bird's Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology

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Photography and the Law Rights and Restrictions

Photography and the Law Rights and Restrictions

Photographers and publishers of photographs enjoy a wide range of legal rights including freedom of expression and of publication. They have a right to create and publish photographs. They may invoke their intellectual moral and property rights to protect and enforce their rights in their created and/or published works. These rights are not absolute. This book analyses the various legal restrictions and prohibitions which may affect these rights. Photography and the Law investigates the legal limitations faced by professional and amateur photographers and photograph publishers under Irish UK and EU Law. Through an in-depth discussion of the personal rights of the public including the right not to be harassed the book gives a clear analysis of the current legal standpoint on the relationship between privacy and freedom of expression. Additionally the book looks at the reconciliation of photographers’ rights with the state’s interest in public security and defence alongside the enforcement of ethical and moral codes. Comparative legal standing in the European Union is used as a springboard to further analyse Irish and UK statutes and case law including recent reforms and current proposals for future change. The book ends with pertinent suggestions of the necessary reforms and enactments required to rebalance the relationship between the personal rights of individuals the state’s duties and the protection of photographers’ and photograph publishers’ rights. By clearly explaining the theoretical and conceptual reasoning behind the current law alongside proposed reforms the book will be a useful tool for any student or academic interested in photography law privacy and media law alongside professional and amateur photographers and photograph publishers. | Photography and the Law Rights and Restrictions

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