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Administrative Vitality The Conflict with Bureaucracy

Administrative Vitality The Conflict with Bureaucracy

Originally published in 1960. This title presents a discussion of bureaucracy and enterprise and how they are related and might be combined. Case studies of various businesses including Marks and Spencer are used to illustrate this idea. Most of the companies examined are large and have all been at least partially successful in solving some of the difficulties of administration that businessmen and government officials constantly encounter. The present book was an attempt to break new ground to suggest some new syntheses to seek some practical explanations and to propose some practical solutions. This title will be of interest to students of Business Studies and Management. | Administrative Vitality The Conflict with Bureaucracy

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Four Most Baffling Challenges for Teachers and How to Solve Them The Classroom Discipline Unmotivated Students Underinvolved or Adversari

Four Most Baffling Challenges for Teachers and How to Solve Them The Classroom Discipline Unmotivated Students Underinvolved or Adversari

Award-winning teacher and best-selling author Sheryn Spencer Waterman shows teachers how to solve four of their most fundamental classroom challenges. The solutions provided in this book apply to elementary middle and high schools and are based on brain-based research ethical development the standards movement and other practical factors. The four most baffling challenges for teachers are classroom discipline unmotivated students underinvolved or adversarial parents and tough working conditions. | Four Most Baffling Challenges for Teachers and How to Solve Them The Classroom Discipline Unmotivated Students Underinvolved or Adversari

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Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

For the greater part of the twentieth century Ibbs and Tillett's concert agency was to the British music industry what Marks and Spencer is to the world of the department store. The roll-call of famous musicians on its books was unmatched and included such international stars as Clara Butt Fritz Kreisler Pablo Casals Sergei Rachmaninov Andr Segovia Kathleen Ferrier Myra Hess Jacqueline du Pr Clifford Curzon and Vladimir Ashkenazy to name but a handful. From 1906 the success of the company was due to the dedication of its founders Robert Leigh Ibbs and John Tillett. After their deaths the agency was run by the latter's wife Emmie who dubbed the 'Duchess of Wigmore Street' became one of the most formidable yet respected women in British music. The history of this unique institution and its owners is told here for the first time often through the fascinating letters that were exchanged between the artists themselves and the agency. It begins in the latter years of the 19th century with the concert and theatrical manager Narciso Vert for whom both Ibbs and Tillett worked until his death in 1905. The story then becomes a history of musical life in twentieth-century Britain illuminating aspects of the day-to-day management of concerts and festivals the lives and livelihoods of professional musicians as well as those who strove to join their ranks through audition or recommendation. The changing profile and particularly the onset and development of personal management of artists represented by Ibbs and Tillett and their reception in the press can be viewed as a barometer of musical taste. The demise of the agency in 1990 was indicative of just how much the world of British music had changed by the end of the century but despite its loss to the profession the legacy and influence of Ibbs and Tillett has remained a benchmark in today's highly competitive world of artist management and concert promotion many of whose principal operators began | Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

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Italy in Transition Conflict and Consensus

Italy in Transition Conflict and Consensus

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. that were either part of the original artifact or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important and despite the imperfections have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process and hope you enjoy this valuable book. | Italy in Transition Conflict and Consensus

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Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

Scholars have tended to portray T. H. Huxley John Tyndall and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British intellectual and social life. In this collection of essays Bernard Lightman argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. The essays deal with the evolutionary naturalists especially the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley the physicist John Tyndall and the philosopher of evolution Herbert Spencer. But they look also at those who criticized this influential group of elite intellectuals including aristocratic spokesman A. J Balfour the novelist Samuel Butler and the popularizer of science Frank Buckland. Focusing on the theme of the limitations of the cultural power of evolutionary naturalism the volume points to the enduring strength of religion in Britain in the latter half of the 19th century. | Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

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Polarisation Arrogance and Dogmatism Philosophical Perspectives

Polarisation Arrogance and Dogmatism Philosophical Perspectives

Polarisation intransigence and dogmatism in political and moral debate have in recent years threatened to overwhelm many Western-style democracies where for centuries reasoned argument has been a hallmark feature of tackling disagreement. For many people this marks a worrying deterioration in the moral and political climate threatening to create a divisive environment of us versus them. In this superb collection a team of international contributors examine these pressing issues from a philosophical perspective. Topics explored include: the problem of deep disagreements; martial conceptions of argumentation and the motivation to argue to win; epistemic egocentrism; intellectual trust; bullshit and dogmatism; intellectual humility and the internet; epistemic and tribal arrogance and authoritarianism; empathy and polarisation; and epistemic rights violations. Polarisation Arrogance and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives will be of great interest to researchers in political philosophy applied and social epistemology ethics and feminist philosophy as well as those working in politics and sociology. | Polarisation Arrogance and Dogmatism Philosophical Perspectives

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Mobilities and Complexities

Mobilities and Complexities

The new ‘mobilities turn’ has become a powerful perspective in social theory. John Urry’s oeuvre has been very influential in the emergence of this new field and has had lasting impacts on many scholars. This collection presents originally commissioned essays from leading scholars in the field who reflect on how Urry’s writing influenced the course of their research and theorizing. This volume gathers contributions in relation to John Urry’s path-breaking work. The new ‘mobilities turn’ made a strong imprint in European social theory and is beginning to make an impact in the Americas and Asia as well. It challenges mainstream theoretical and empirical approaches that were grounded in a sedentary and bounded view of states. It propels innovative thinking about social and media ecologies complex systems and social change. It bridges many disciplines and methodologies leading to new approaches to existing problems while also resonating with questions about both history and the future. Mobilities research marks the rise of academic and intellectual cooperation and collaboration ‘beyond societies’ as nations around the world face the ecological limits of contemporary mobility and energy systems. The contributors represent several national contexts including England Germany Denmark Finland Taiwan Brazil Canada Australia and the USA. This book collects personal essays and gives insight into a vivid network of scientists who have connections of various degrees to the late John Urry as an academic figure an author and a person. | Mobilities and Complexities

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Capitalism and Agrarian Change Class Production and Reproduction in Indonesia

Capitalism and Agrarian Change Class Production and Reproduction in Indonesia

Small-scale agricultural producers in the peripheral world are often condescendingly assumed to be a single social class (‘the peasantry’) to be pitted against the state or corporation. This book challenges this rather idealistic view by demonstrating that under current capitalist social relations (competition efficiency and productivity and profit maximisation) these agricultural producers have been differentiated into different agrarian classes by exploitation. By comparing two different contexts of local agrarian change in Indonesia—rice cultivation in Java and oil palm in Sumatra—this book exposes the different class locations of the agrarian classes among petty agricultural producers and the class relations between them. These are often inextricably linked to gender clanship and generational issues. The power of class dynamics crucially shapes how agricultural production in both rice and oil palm is organised. The share received by different agrarian classes from the production site then prominently shapes the different nature of class reproduction for each agrarian class. This analysis demonstrates that the different agrarian classes possess different capacities and responses in their relation to the state or corporations. Any real emancipation attempt in the Indonesian countryside (and beyond) must start from a proper understanding of these class dynamics. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on agrarian change the political economy of development rural development and Marxist political economy. | Capitalism and Agrarian Change Class Production and Reproduction in Indonesia

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English-Russian Russian-English Medical Dictionary and Phrasebook

English-Russian Russian-English Medical Dictionary and Phrasebook

The Routledge English-Russian Russian-English Medical Dictionary and Phrasebook is the first full-size English-Russian bilingual Medical Dictionary that covers a broad range of up-to-date medical terminology. Key features:Includes a phrasebook appendix consisting of 22 sections including areas such as Emergency Medical Terminology and Medical Insurance Terms. Expressions included in the phrasebook taken from authentic medical documents. English-Russian list of medical rootsSuffixes and prefixes that are predominately used in medical terminology formationBilingual list of the most used medical abbreviations Russian words provided with stress marks for proper pronunciation. This dictionary has been designed to cater to the needs of Russian-English English-Russian interpreters and translators bilingual medical professionals libraries universities educators and students both in English and in Russian-speaking countries. Yuliya Baldwin is a linguist and a specialist in English-Russian interpretation/translation and teaches Russian at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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Haunted Europe Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing Film and New Media

Haunted Europe Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing Film and New Media

Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel to the eve of Brexit and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland Europe. By focusing on the development of the relationship between Britain and Ireland and continental Europe over more than two-hundred years this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives which have tended to focus on a narrow time-period and have missed continuities and discontinuities in our ongoing relationship with the mainland. | Haunted Europe Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing Film and New Media

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Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing Feminist Interventions and Imaginings

Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing Feminist Interventions and Imaginings

Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing: Feminist Interventions and Imaginings analyzes and explores women’s writing of the post-Tiger period and reflects on the social cultural and economic conditions of this writing’s production. The Post-Celtic Tiger period (2008–) in Ireland marks an important moment in the history of women’s writing. It is a time of increased visibility and publication dynamic feminist activism and collective projects as well as a significant garnering of public recognition to a degree that has never been seen before. The collection is framed by interviews with Claire Kilroy and Melatu Uche Okorie—two leading figures in the field—and closes with Okorie’s landmark short story on Direct Provision “This Hostel Life. ” The book features the work of leading scholars in the field of contemporary literature with essays on Anu Productions Emma Donoghue Grace Dyas Anne Enright Rita Ann Higgins Marian Keyes Claire Kilroy Eimear McBride Rosaleen McDonagh Belinda McKeon Melatu Uche Okorie Louise O’Neill and Waking The Feminists. Reflecting on all the successes and achievements of women’s writing in the contemporary period this book also considers marginalization and exclusions in the field especially considering the politics of race class gender sexuality ethnicity nationality and ability. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. | Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women’s Writing Feminist Interventions and Imaginings

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Theatre-Rites Animating Puppets Objects and Sites

Theatre-Rites Animating Puppets Objects and Sites

Theatre-Rites are regarded as pioneers in the field of object-led and site-specific performance creating ground-breaking work for family audiences since 1995. This book marks the company’s 25th anniversary offering the first in-depth exploration of artistic director Sue Buckmaster’s visionary practice in which anything can be animated. This book draws on original research including five years of in-depth interviews between its authors images from Theatre-Rites’ archive and Buckmaster’s private collection detailed observations from the company’s professional training workshops and personal reflections on past productions. A timely and compelling advocacy for the importance of high-quality experimental arts provision for young audiences is made distilling learning from decades of the company’s professional activities to motivate and empower the next generation of object-led theatre-makers. Theatre-Rites: Animating Puppets Objects and Sites is an invaluable resource for any puppeteer actor dancer visual artist poet or student interested in expanding their understanding of how to incorporate puppetry and/or symbolic objects as metaphors in their work. | Theatre-Rites Animating Puppets Objects and Sites

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All In The Future of Business Leadership

All In The Future of Business Leadership

Written by three leading thinkers in the field of sustainability 'All In' defines the essential attributes of high-impact corporate sustainability leadership and describes how companies can combine and apply those characteristics for future success. All In draws on research involving thousands of experts globally as collected via the GlobeScan-SustainAbility Leaders Survey over two decades. The book also reveals insights from dozens of interviews with Chairs CEOs and Chief Sustainability Officers of pioneering companies including 3M BASF BP DuPont Google GE Huawei IKEA Interface Marks Spencer Natura Nestle acute; Nike Novo Nordisk Patagonia Shell Tata Toyota Unilever and Walmart explaining how they have gained recognition created value and boosted resiliency based on their sustainability leadership. All In also outlines what the private sector must do to lift sustainability performance protect business's license to operate and help deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This unique book rich with quantitative and qualitative insights offers current and aspiring business leaders a succinct overview of the most important developments and trends in corporate sustainability and responsible leadership. 'All In' will also appeal to others interested in why sustainability has become a critical mainstream business issue. With a foreword by Dan Hendrix Chairman Interface and afterword by Paul Polman CEO Unilever. | All In The Future of Business Leadership

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Gender and Educational Achievement

Gender and Educational Achievement

Gender inequalities in education – in terms of systematic variations in access to educational institutions in competencies school marks and educational certificates along the axis of gender – have tremendously changed over the course of the 20th century. Although this does not apply to all stages and areas of the educational career it is particularly obvious looking at upper secondary education. Before the major boost of educational expansion in the 1960s women’s participation in upper secondary general education and their chances to successfully finish this educational pathway have been lower than men’s. However towards the end of the 20th century women were outperforming men in many European countries and beyond. The international contributions to this book attempt to shed light on the mechanisms behind gender inequalities and the changes made to reduce this inequality. Topics explored by the contributors include gender in science education in the UK; women’s education in Luxembourg in the 19th and 20th century; the ‘gender gap’ debates and their rhetoric in the UK and Finland; sociological perspectives on the gender-equality discourse in Finland; changing gender differences in West Germany in the 20th century; the interplay of subjective well-being and educational attainment in Switzerland; and a psychological perspective on gender identities gender-related perceptions students’ motivation intelligence personality and the interaction between student and teacher gender. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Research. | Gender and Educational Achievement

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Economic Growth and Inequality The Economists' Dilemma

Economic Growth and Inequality The Economists' Dilemma

In an era of increasing inequalities and also of deep anxieties about the consequences of two major economic crises economists are faced with a major question: can economic growth be achieved without inequalities? Economic Growth and Inequality critically evaluates the economic literature on this question from a pragmatic perspective seeking to reconcile those who regard economic liberties as a paramount value and critics who object that prioritizing these liberties leads to inequitable outcomes. The book presents an overview of the models used by economists to define and measure inequalities and the ongoing dialogues between political philosophers and economists in an effort to find solutions to the problems. It explores Rawlsian justice Sen’s capability theory and the theory of rent and compares and contrasts the most often discussed institutions and policies designed for remedying poverty and reducing inequalities. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on some of the most pressing problems of our time and will be of great interest to readers of political economy public policy moral philosophy and history of economic and political thought. | Economic Growth and Inequality The Economists' Dilemma

GBP 120.00
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Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks Volume 1: Actors and Sectors in Russia Between Accommodation and Resistance to Globalization

Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks Volume 1: Actors and Sectors in Russia Between Accommodation and Resistance to Globalization

This title was first published in 2001: Based on extensive research this trilogy provides new insights into Post-Soviet transformations without taking refuge in the traditional assumption that Russia is unique. Using powerful analytical tools this trilogy marks the re-integration of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) into the main current of political science. An invaluable resource for all those interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states. This first volume focuses on state sectoral and transnational actors from a predominantly rational choice perspective. The book includes an extensive introduction by the editor which uses additional material gathered by the project team on two polls 1999 and 2000 which in addition to the individual studies provide sufficient data to obtain unprecedented insights into the basic preferences and the logic of action of the main players in Russia. The outcomes of this research will be particularly relevant for students researchers journalists and decision-makers interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states’ politics international relations economics social policy and sociology. | Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks Volume 1: Actors and Sectors in Russia Between Accommodation and Resistance to Globalization

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Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks Volume 1: Actors and Sectors in Russia Between Accommodation and Resistance to Globalization

Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks Volume 1: Actors and Sectors in Russia Between Accommodation and Resistance to Globalization

This title was first published in 2001: Based on extensive research this trilogy provides new insights into Post-Soviet transformations without taking refuge in the traditional assumption that Russia is unique. Using powerful analytical tools this trilogy marks the re-integration of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) into the main current of political science. An invaluable resource for all those interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states. This first volume focuses on state sectoral and transnational actors from a predominantly rational choice perspective. The book includes an extensive introduction by the editor which uses additional material gathered by the project team on two polls 1999 and 2000 which in addition to the individual studies provide sufficient data to obtain unprecedented insights into the basic preferences and the logic of action of the main players in Russia. The outcomes of this research will be particularly relevant for students researchers journalists and decision-makers interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states’ politics international relations economics social policy and sociology. | Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks Volume 1: Actors and Sectors in Russia Between Accommodation and Resistance to Globalization

GBP 24.99
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Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet is one of the seminal albums in rock history. Arguably it not only marks the advent of the ‘mature’ sound of the Rolling Stones but lays out a new blueprint for an approach to blues-based rock music that would endure for several decades. From its title to the dark themes that pervade some of its songs Beggars Banquet reflected and helped define a moment marked by violence decay and upheaval. It marked a move away from the artistic sonic flourishes of psychedelic rock towards an embrace of foundational streams of American music – blues country – that had always underpinned the music of the Stones but assumed new primacy in their music after 1968. This move coincided with and anticipated the ‘roots’ moves that many leading popular music artists made as the 1960s turned toward a new decade; but unlike many of their peers whose music grew more ‘soft’ and subdued as they embraced traditional styles the music and attitude of the Stones only grew harder and more menacing and their status as representatives of the dark underside of the 60s rock counterculture assumed new solidity. For the Rolling Stones the 1960s ended and the 1970s began with the release of this album in 1968. | Beggars Banquet and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Revolution ‘They Call My Name Disturbance'

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Bitter Waters Life And Work In Stalin's Russia

Bitter Waters Life And Work In Stalin's Russia

One dusty summer day in 1935 a young writer named Gennady Andreev-Khomiakov was released from the Siberian labor camp where he had spent the last eight years of his life. His total assets amounted to 25 rubles a loaf of bread five dried herrings and the papers identifying him as a convicted ?enemy of the people. ? From this hard-pressed beginning Andreev-Khomiakov would eventually work his way into a series of jobs that would allow him to travel and see more of ordinary life and work in the Soviet Union of the 1930s than most of his fellow Soviet citizens would ever have dreamed possible. Capitalizing on this rare opportunity Bitter Waters is Andreev-Khomiakov's eyewitness account of those tumultuous years a time when titanic forces were shaping the course of Russian history. Later to become a successful writer and editor in the Russiangr ommunity in the 1950s and 1960s Andreev-Khomiakov brilliantly uses this memoir to explore many aspects of Stalinist society. Forced collectivization Five Year Plans purges and the questionable achievements of ?shock worker brigades? are only part of this story. Andreev-Khomiakov exposes the Soviet economy as little more than a web of corruption a system that largely functioned through bribery barter and brute force?and that fell into temporary chaos when the German army suddenly invaded in 1941. Bitter Waters may be most valuable for what it reveals about Russian society during the tumultuous 1930s. From remote provincial centers and rural areas to the best and worst of Moscow and Leningrad Andreev-Khomiakov's series of deftly drawn sketches of people places and events provide a unique window on the hard daily lives of the people who built Stalin's Soviet Union. | Bitter Waters Life And Work In Stalin's Russia

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Learning is a Verb The Psychology of Teaching and Learning

Learning is a Verb The Psychology of Teaching and Learning

This book explores a new way of thinking about teaching and learning. Its central goal is to help us understand how we think and learn; it will also help teachers understand children and offers a new and helpful perspective on the role of teaching. The book provides an orientation or way of thinking about the psychological dimensions of teaching and learning. This orientation is discussed in relation to cultural shifts that have influenced all fields of study; in education and psychology the shift is reflected in the works of such scholars as Piaget Vygotsky Bruner and others. Their work marks a change from a mechanical view of learning to a view of learning as dynamic transformation. In Learning Is a Verb Sherrie Reynolds discusses how thinking about teaching and learning must change so that we can create conditions that help children think and interact with one another in helpful healthy ways. Her engaging conversational style together with many examples and observations will lead readers from reflection on their experiences to a deeper understanding of the changes needed in our educational system. | Learning is a Verb The Psychology of Teaching and Learning

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The Data of Ethics

The Data of Ethics

In this amazingly prophetic work done late in his career Herbert Spencer offers an approach to ethics that anticipates developments throughout the twentieth century. He moves away from the twin evils of ethical doctrines bequeathed to us by an ancient past that are simply no longer feasible but also avoids modern standards of ethical conduct that are simply impossible to attain. By association with rules that cannot be obeyed Spencer writes rules that can be obeyed lose their authority. The volume opens with three chapters on conduct: its evolution good and bad and ways of judgment. This is followed by a series of chapters that examine ethics from a variety of scientific perspectives: physics biology psychology and sociology. The work then moves on to specific issues of deep human concern: the relativity of pleasures and pain egoism versus altruism in explaining actions and trial and compromise in decision-making about ethical concerns. Spencer's work anticipates the movement toward pragmatic naturalistic and even positivist approaches to ethics. He emphasizes that a relativist approach while in keeping with the spirit of the industrial age also poses a variety of problems that admit only of empirical solutions. He understands that his critical stance on absolutism should not blind researchers to the ideals assumed by the ancients that assist people in their everyday living. In short this is a remarkable work entirely modern and yet containing a sharp evaluation of how ethical data serve to enhance ethical conduct. | The Data of Ethics

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Reanimating Regions Culture Politics and Performance

Reanimating Regions Culture Politics and Performance

Writing regions undertaking a regional study was once a standard form of geographic communication and critique. This was until the quantitative revolution in the middle of the previous century and more definitively the critical turn in human geography towards the end of the twentieth century. From then on writing regions as they were experienced phenomenologically or arguing culturally historically and politically with regions was deemed to be old-fashioned. Yet the region is and always will be a central geographical concept and thinking about regions can tell us a lot about the history of the discipline called geography. Despite taking up an identifiable place within the geographical imagination in scholarship and beyond region remains a relatively forgotten under-used and in part under-theorised term. Reanimating Regions marks the continued reinvigoration of a set of disciplinary debates surrounding regions the regional and regional geography. Across 18 chapters from international interdisciplinary scholars this book writes and performs region as a temporary permanence something held stable not fixed and absolute at different points in time for different purposes. There is as this expansive volume outlines no single reading of a region. Reanimating Regions collectively rebalances the region within geography and geographical thought. In renewing the geography of regions as not only a site of investigation but also as an analytical framework through which to write the world what emerges is a powerful reworking of the geographic imagination. Read against one another the chapters weave together timely commentaries on region and regions across the globe with a particular emphasis upon the regional as played out in the United Kingdom and regional worlds both within and beyond Europe offering chapters from Africa and South America. Addressing both the political and the cultural this volume | Reanimating Regions Culture Politics and Performance

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The Informal Sector and the Environment

The Informal Sector and the Environment

The informal economy – broadly defined as economic activity that is not subject to government regulation or taxation – sustains a large part of the world's workforce. It is a diverse complex and growing area of activity. However being largely unregulated its impact on the environment has not been closely scrutinised or analysed. This edited volume demonstrates that the informal sector is a major source of environmental pollution and a major reason behind the environmental degradation accompanying the expansion of economic activity in developing countries. Environmental regulation and economic incentive policies are difficult to implement in this sector because economic units are unregistered geographically dispersed and difficult to identify. Moreover given their limited capital base they cannot afford to pay pollution fees or install pollution abating equipment. Informal manufacturing units often operate under unscientific and unhealthy conditions further contributing to polluting the environment. The book emphasizes and examines these challenges and their solutions encountered in various sectors of the informal economy including urban waste pickers small-scale farmers informal workers home-based workers street vendors and more. If the informal sector is to Leave no one behind (as the Sustainable Development Goals promise) and contribute to inclusive growth (an objective of the green economy) then its impact on the economy as well as the environment has to be carefully considered. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on both the informal economy and sustainable development and will be of great interest to readers in economics geography politics environment studies and public policy more broadly. Chapter 4 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license | The Informal Sector and the Environment

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Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations in Spain A History of Reception Dissemination Adaptation and Application 1777–1840

Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations in Spain A History of Reception Dissemination Adaptation and Application 1777–1840

Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was the product of the rich tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment but the book’s fame immediately spread across the whole of Europe. This book looks at the long journey of Smith’s ideas from Scotland to peninsular Spain reconstructing in detail the reception adaptation interpretation and application of Smith's central concepts from 1777 up to 1840. In light of methodological advances during the last two decades in the history of economic thought and the studies on the late Spanish Enlightenment and early Liberalism the book tackles a series of significant issues and gaps in the historiography. In particular: this book sheds new light on the role of France as an intermediate step as the ideas spread from Britain southwards; the analysis draws not just on translations but also handwritten materials book reviews syntheses summaries plagiarism and rebuttals; a wide range of methods of dissemination are considered including the printing press and periodicals parliamentary debates academic chairs and societies; the role of individual translators and agents is given due prominence; the political interpretations of the Wealth of Nations and the ways in which the book was incorporated into the work of Spanish economists in the decades following publication are also considered. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the reception of Smith’s Wealth of Nations studies of the Spanish Enlightenment and history of economic thought more broadly. | Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations in Spain A History of Reception Dissemination Adaptation and Application 1777–1840

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