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International Organizations Perspectives on Global Governance

International Organizations Perspectives on Global Governance

Drawing on mainstream and critical theoretical approaches International Organizations offers a comprehensive examination of international organizations’ political and structural role in world politics. This text details the types and activities of international organizations and provides students with the conceptual tools needed to evaluate their effectiveness. Surveying key issue areas from international and human security to trade and the environment International Organizations looks at present and future possibilities for global governance from a broad range of perspectives. New to the Sixth Edition Focused on the seismic shifts caused by the rise of national populism and the effects on the more liberal institutions of global governance. Fully revised throughout with a feature on the EU in the face of Brexit the Greek financial crisis and global migration. Adds a new section on the Arab League expanded coverage of NGOs and updates on the Paris Climate Accords. Overhauls the chapter on International Security including expanded coverage of the UN’s present and historical role. Includes a new chapter on Regional Security covering NATO and ECOWAS. Provides new case studies on Syria Ukraine SDGs and the global migration crisis among several others. | International Organizations Perspectives on Global Governance

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Electricians' On-Site Companion

Electricians' On-Site Companion

This book contains everything electricians need to know about working on site covering not only the health and safety aspects of site work but also the techniques and testing knowledge required from the modern-day electrician. Regulations issues are included alongside step-by-step instructions for each task after which testing information checklists and example forms are given so that site workers can ensure they have done everything required of them. | Electricians' On-Site Companion

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Routledge Handbook on Deviance

Routledge Handbook on Deviance

The Routledge Handbook on Deviance brings together original contributions on deviance with a focus on new emerging and hidden forms of deviant behavior. The editors have curated a comprehensive collection highlighting the relativity of deviance with chapters exploring the deviant behaviors related to sport recreation body modification chronic health conditions substance use religion and cults political extremism sexuality online interaction mental and emotional disorders elite societal status workplace issues and lifestyle. The selections review competing definitions and orientations and a wide range of theoretical premises while addressing methodological issues involved in the study of deviance. Each section begins with an introduction by the editors anchoring the topics in relevant theoretical and methodological contexts and identifying common themes as well as divergence. Providing state-of-the-art scholarship on deviance in modern society this handbook is an invaluable resource for researchers and students engaged in the study of deviance across a range of disciplines including criminology criminal justice sociology anthropology and interdisciplinary departments including justice studies social transformation and socio-legal studies.

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New Perspectives on Sport Volunteerism

New Perspectives on Sport Volunteerism

The book highlights ‘new perspectives’ on volunteerism in sport covering frameworks methods context and variables on several levels from community sport clubs to international events. In analysing the processes of control within voluntary sport clubs a new theoretical framework – critical realism (CR) – challenges how we think about theory and how scientific inquiry should proceed. Further themes raised are: Should sports clubs be viewed as a crossing between a traditional volunteer culture dominated by collective solidarity and a modern volunteer culture focused on the individual benefits? Are former athletes a new group of possible volunteers? Can personal narratives of experiences of being a volunteer in a big international event provide us with new insight that has not previously been considered? Identity is suggested as a motive for understanding volunteers at sporting events. Two new theoretical models are presented one on the development of volunteer commitment and the other on a framework that incorporates both individual- and institutional-level variables. All chapters have recommendations for future research. The testing of these theories and influencing factors will provide new directions in the research of sport volunteerism. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Sport Management Quarterly. | New Perspectives on Sport Volunteerism

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Reflections on Inequality

Reflections on Inequality

Originally published in 1975 this anthology of essays focusses on the historical dimension of class inequality which has long concerned both sociologists and social philosophers but has often been neglected in literature. Although Marx is the first name to come to mind when social inequality and class struggles are mentioned most of the authors included here precede him. Each analyses and discusses the problems of class conflict as they understood them in the light of their own times. Taken together these writers treat stratification as essentially a pecking order where position is determined by relative power – a notion which subsumes rather than contradicts the economic interpretation of social inequality because wealth is a form of power. The relation between the views of these authors and the well-known theory of Marx is discussed in the Introduction. | Reflections on Inequality

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Essays on African Population

Essays on African Population

Originally published in 1961 this book comprises of 14 studies by scholars and officials with first-hand experience of Africa and deals with the nature and organization of population censuses and with the many uses to which their results may be put. Written at a time of political transition on the African continent it was vitally important that the collection and interpretation of statistics dealing with distribution density migration and occupation in Africa continued. This volume shows how demographers sociologists anthropologists and geographers were using the research to be followed in the interpretation of the numerous censuses being conducted in the early 1960s. | Essays on African Population

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On Shell Structure

On Shell Structure

This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the VP Shell or Split VP analysis of sentential structure. The volume includes five previously published papers together with two major unpublished works from the same period: Light Predicate Raising (1989) which explores the interesting consequences of a leftward raising analysis of NP Shift phenomena and The Projection of DP (and DegP) (1991) which extends the shell approach to the projection of nominal and adjectival structure showing how projection can be handled in a uniform way. In addition to published unpublished and limited distribution work the volume includes extensive new introductory material. The general introduction traces the conceptual roots of VP Shells and its problems in the face of subsequent developments in theory and offers an updated form compatible with modern Minimalist syntactic analysis. The section introductions to the material on datives complex predicates and nominals show how the updated form of shell theory applies in the empirical domains where it was originally developed. | On Shell Structure

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Critics on George Eliot

Critics on George Eliot

First published in 1973 Critics on George Eliot brings together a selection of the best critical essays and discussions on the novels of George Eliot including many that are not easily available outside well established and comprehensive libraries. The selection covers the whole range of George Eliot’s work and by setting different critical points of view side by side helps the student to find a position of her own. The intention is not to limit the student’s critical reading to one small volume but to stimulate to explore the critics more widely for herself and to read the novels again with greater understanding and pleasure. This is a must read for students of English literature.

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Draw on Your Emotions

Draw on Your Emotions

Draw on Your Emotions is a bestselling resource to help people of all ages express communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions through drawing. Built around five key themes each section contains a simple picture exercise with clear objectives instructions and suggestions for development. The picture activities have been carefully designed to help ease the process of both talking about feelings and exploring life choices by trying out alternatives safely on paper. This will help to create clarity and new perspectives as a step towards positive action. Offering a broad range of exercises which can be adapted for any ability or age from middle childhood onwards this unique book explores a range of emotions surrounding a person¹s important life experiences key memories relationships best times worst times and who they are as a person. This is an essential resource for therapists educators counsellors and anyone who engages other people in conversations that matter about their relationship to self others and life in general. This revised and updated second edition also contains a new section on how to use the superbly emotive The Emotion Cards (9781138070981) to facilitate deeper therapeutic conversations.

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Lectures on Perception An Ecological Perspective

Lectures on Perception An Ecological Perspective

Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective addresses the generic principles by which each and every kind of life form—from single celled organisms (e. g. difflugia) to multi-celled organisms (e. g. primates)—perceives the circumstances of their living so that they can behave adaptively. It focuses on the fundamental ability that relates each and every organism to its surroundings namely the ability to perceive things in the sense of how to get about among them and what to do or not to do with them. The book’s core thesis breaks from the conventional interpretation of perception as a form of abduction based on innate hypotheses and acquired knowledge and from the historical scientific focus on the perceptual abilities of animals most especially those abilities ascribed to humankind. Specifically it advances the thesis of perception as a matter of laws and principles at nature’s ecological scale and gives equal theoretical consideration to the perceptual achievements of all of the classically defined ‘kingdoms’ of organisms—Archaea Bacteria Protoctista Fungi Plantae and Animalia. | Lectures on Perception An Ecological Perspective

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Governing Cities on the Move Functional and Management Perspectives on Transformations of European Urban Infrastructures

Governing Cities on the Move Functional and Management Perspectives on Transformations of European Urban Infrastructures

This title was first published in 2002: The success of any investment strategy in urban infrastructures is dependent on how people as members of households companies or institutions will use these infrastructures in their daily lives and how actors take decisions on their investment strategies. Insights into these behaviours can help public and private actors to cope with diversity complexity and uncertainty in a dynamic urban environment. This book elaborates both theoretically and empirically the functional and governance/management perspective of urban infrastructures. It comprises theoretical contributions related to accessibility land-use modelling and urban governance while case studies from Antwerp Geneva Milan Oslo Turin and Zurich effectively analyze the problems associated with mobility infrastructure finance planning transformation and governance. It will be of considerable value to anyone with an interest in urban performance. | Governing Cities on the Move Functional and Management Perspectives on Transformations of European Urban Infrastructures

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The Sixth International Congress on Accounting 1952

The Sixth International Congress on Accounting 1952

This book first published in 1954 collects together the papers presented to the Sixth International Congress on Accounting. They focus on the problems of the post-war changes in the value of money and how to deal with this in accounting statements; taxation and the role of accountants in Government; raising and retaining capital for development; and the role of the professional accountant in the commercial field. | The Sixth International Congress on Accounting 1952

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Policy Makers on Policy The Mais Lectures

Policy Makers on Policy The Mais Lectures

Monetary policy is still one of the most contested areas of modern economics and since the original publication of Policy Makers on Policy much has changed. This new edition collects contributions from leading policy makers and practitioners to reflect on the aims and objectives of monetary policy and on what it can achieve combining the old chapters from Gordon Brown Tony Blair Kenneth Clarke Geoffrey Howe Nigel Lawson and others with new perspectives from Mervyn King Jean-Claude Trichet Ernst Welteke Otmar Issing and Alastair Darling. A new far-reaching introduction from the editors Forrest Capie and Geoffrey Wood puts these important contributions to the discussion of economic policy in the new context. They look at what lessons can be learnt from the earlier discussions what anticipations of present difficulties can be found in them and what in other words the comparatively recent past teaches us about how to deal with the turbulent present. The second edition of Policy Makers on Policy brings together otherwise inaccessible commentaries and reflections on policy by those involved in making it along with a commentary on and context for their remarks. Thus the book will be of great interest and use to students of economics and politics and indeed anyone with an interest in current economic developments and their roots in the past. | Policy Makers on Policy The Mais Lectures

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Perspectives on Anton Bruckner

Perspectives on Anton Bruckner

A century after his death Anton Bruckner still remains one of the most complex and enigmatic creative personalities of the nineteenth century. A leading avant-garde figure of his generation he was an accomplished performer and teacher in addition to being a great composer; few people in the history of western music can boast his level of achievement in all these areas combined. This book a collection of essays written by an international group of scholars offers diverse theoretical and musicological perspectives on Bruckner the composer-teacher-performer. Facets of his formidable theoretical training and his application of it as part of the compositional process are explored. A variety of analytical methodologies is used to examine the Second through to the Ninth Symphonies the heart of the composer’s mature repertoire. Finally aspects of Bruckner’s career as a teacher and performer his complex personality his influence and dissemination of his music are considered. | Perspectives on Anton Bruckner

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Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication

Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication

What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person’s definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core questions explored by this accessible global introduction to intercultural communication. Each chapter explores the topic from a different geographic religious theoretical and/or methodological perspective with an emphasis on non-Western approaches including Buddhist South American Muslim and Chinese perspectives. Featuring the voices of a range of international contributors this new textbook presents the full breadth of diverse approaches to intercultural communication and showcases the economic political and cultural/societal needs for and benefits of communicative competence. | Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication

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Perspectives on Civil Religion Volume 3

Perspectives on Civil Religion Volume 3

This title was first published in 2002: Perspectives on Civil Religion introduces the concept of civil religion examines the use of the concept in recent scholarship and investigates examples of civil religion in the contemporary world. The book sets out to explore tensions and complexities in the relationship between the 'sacred' and the 'secular' and draws on two major case studies for in-depth illustration of key issues. It looks first at the development of rituals of remembrance from the American civil war British and American responses to the two world wars and the controversial Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. It then considers civil religion in the Italian city of Siena especially in relation to the Palio of Siena and Sienese devotion to the Virgin. The five textbooks and Reader that make up the Religion Today Open University/Ashgate series are: From Sacred Text to Internet; Religion and Social Transformations; Perspectives on Civil Religion; Global Religious Movements in Regional Context; Belief Beyond Boundaries; Religion Today: A Reader | Perspectives on Civil Religion Volume 3

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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Conflict

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Conflict

Since its inception and throughout its history psychoanalysis has been defined as a psychology of conflict. Freud’s tripartite structure of id ego and superego and then modern conflict theory placed conflict at the center of mental life and its understanding at the heart of therapeutic action. As psychoanalysis has developed into the various schools of thought the understanding of the importance of mental conflict has broadened and changed. ​ In Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Conflict a highly distinguished group of authors outline the main contemporary theoretical understandings of the role of conflict in psychoanalysis and what this can teach us for everyday psychoanalytic practice. The book fills a gap in psychoanalytic thinking as to the essence of conflict and therapeutic action at a time when many theorists are re-conceptualizing conflict in relation to aspects of mental life as an essential component across theories. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Conflict will be of interest to psychologists psychoanalysts social workers and other students and professionals involved in the study and practice of psychoanalysis psychotherapy cognitive science and neuroscience.

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War Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World

War Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World

War: Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World presents a broad variety of interdisciplinary and social scientific perspectives on the causes processes cultural representations and social consequences of the armed conflicts between and within nations and other politically organized communities. This book provides theoretical views of armed conflict and its impact on people and institutions around the world. | War Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World

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An Actor Survives Remarks on Stanislavsky

An Actor Survives Remarks on Stanislavsky

This book focuses on the analysis and interpretation of the first volume of the book An Actor’s Work by Konstantin Stanislavsky. This volume is the only part of his planned major work on theatre art that he was able to finish and authorise before his death. Its highly edited variant has long been known as ‘An Actor Prepares’ in the English-speaking world. Tomasz Kubikowski explores Stanislavsky’s material not only as a handbook of acting but also as a philosophical testament of Stanislavsky in which he attempts to contain his most essential experiences and reflections. This book explores the underlying theme of ‘survival’ in its various meanings from professional to existential; and the mechanisms and actions we attempt to survive. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies. | An Actor Survives Remarks on Stanislavsky

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International Perspectives on Psychology in the Schools

International Perspectives on Psychology in the Schools

To promote a broader understanding of the increasingly important role of school psychology in educational systems throughout the world the editors of this volume collected the works of leading international educators and authorities. Using research from 24 countries the book provides current information on educational systems and training facilities psychology services educational contributions to society and directions for shaping children's futures through education. | International Perspectives on Psychology in the Schools

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Routledge Handbook on American Prisons

Routledge Handbook on American Prisons

The Routledge Handbook on American Prisons is an authoritative volume that provides an overview of the state of U. S. prisons and synthesizes the research on the many facets of the prison system. The United States is exceptional in its use of incarceration as punishment. It not only has the largest prison population in the world but also the highest per-capita incarceration rate. Research and debate about mass incarceration continues to grow with mounting bipartisan agreement on the need for criminal justice reform. Divided into four sections (Prisons: Security Operations and Administration; Types of Offenders and Populations; Living and Dying in Prison; and Release Reentry and Reform) the volume explores the key issues fundamental to understanding the U. S. prison system including the characteristics of facilities; inmate risk assessment and classification prison administration and employment for-profit prisons special populations overcrowding prison health care prison violence the special circumstances of death row prisoners collateral consequences of incarceration prison programming and parole. The final section examines reform efforts and ideas and offers suggestions for future research and attention. With contributions from leading correctional scholars this book is a valuable resource for scholars with an interest in U. S. prisons and the issues surrounding them. It is structured to serve scholars and graduate students studying corrections penology institutional corrections and other related topics.

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Routledge Handbook on Immigration and Crime

Routledge Handbook on Immigration and Crime

The perception of the immigrant as criminal or deviant has a long history in the United States with many groups (e. g. Irish Italians Latinos) having been associated with perceived increases in crime and other social problems although data suggest this is not necessarily the case. This Handbook examines the relationship between immigration and crime by presenting chapters reflecting key issues from both historical and current perspectives. The volume includes a range of topics related to immigration and crime such as the links between immigration rates and crime rates nativity and crime and the social construction of the criminal immigrant as well as historical and current immigration policy vis-à-vis perceptions of the criminal immigrant. Other topics covered in this volume include theoretical perspectives on immigration and assimilation sanctuary cities and immigration in the context of the war on terror. The Routledge Handbook on Immigration and Crime fills the gap in the literature by offering a volume that includes original empirical work as well as review essays that deliver a complete overview of immigration and crime relying on both historical and contemporary perspectives. It is a key collection for students in immigration courses; scholars and researchers in diverse disciplines including criminal justice criminology sociology demography law psychology and urban studies; and policy makers dealing with immigration and border security concerns.

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Routledge Handbook on Consumption

Routledge Handbook on Consumption

Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines. The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from around the world to provide a nuanced overview of the latest scholarship in this expanding field. At once ambitious and timely the volume provides an ideal map for those looking to position their work find new analytic insights and identify research gaps. With an intuitive thematic structure and resolutely international outlook it engages with theory and methodology; markets and businesses; policies politics and the state; and culture and everyday life. It will be essential reading for students and scholars across the social and economic sciences.

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Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development

Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development

International commissions academics practitioners and the media have long been critical of the UN’s development efforts as disjointed and not fit for purpose; yet the organization has been an essential contributor to progress and peacebuilding. This handbook explores the activities of the UN development system (UNDS) the largest operational pillar of the organization and arguably the arena in which its ideational endeavors have made the biggest contribution to thinking and standards. Contributions focus on the role of the UNDS in sustainable social economic and environmental development describing how the UNDS interacts with the other major functions of the UN system and how it performs operationally in the context of the new 2030 development agenda focused on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The volume is divided into three sections: Realizing the SDGs: opportunities and challenges; Resources partnerships and management; and Imagining the future of the UN in development. Comprised of chapters by knowledgeable and authoritative UN experts this book provides cutting-edge and up-to-date research on the strengths and weaknesses of the UNDS with each chapter focusing on different operational and ideational aspects. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Routledge Handbook on the UN and Development

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Forrester on Christian Ethics and Practical Theology Collected Writings on Christianity India and the Social Order

Forrester on Christian Ethics and Practical Theology Collected Writings on Christianity India and the Social Order

Bringing together articles and chapters from his considerable work in theological ethics India and the social order Duncan Forrester incorporates new writing and introductions to each thematic section to guide readers through this invaluable resource. This book offers stimulating studies in three related areas - Indian Christianity with particular attention to the caste system contemporary Christian theological ethics and the distinctive and challenging theological approach that Duncan Forrester has developed in relation to public issues such as prisons and punishment welfare provision social justice and poverty. | Forrester on Christian Ethics and Practical Theology Collected Writings on Christianity India and the Social Order

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