This monograph recasts the modernisation of the Labour Party and sheds new light on Labour's years in the wilderness between 1979 and 1997. The monograph uniquely traces the party's major organisational changes across its eighteen years of opposition. Labour's organisational modernisation in this period fundamentally altered the party's internal structures, policy-making pathways and constitution. The study begins with an investigation into the scene inherited by Labour's leadership in the early 1980s and examines Neil Kinnock's quest for a stable majority on the party's ruling National Executive Committee between 1983 and 1987. From this position the monograph surveys the major organisational changes of the Labour Party in their period of opposition: the Policy Review (1987-92), One Member, One Vote (1992-94), Clause IV (1995-96) and Partnership in Power (1996-97). Through a re-examination of Labour's modernisation, in the light of new source material and extensive primary interviews, this research significantly contributes to the understanding of the rise of New Labour.
This book presents new, cross-disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses to the disease, challenging earlier views that medieval sufferers were uniformly stigmatised. The social, religious and cultural impacts are explored, as are post-medieval perspectives.
Overview Part I. Algebraic Preliminaries: Gap Sheaves and Vogel Cycles: Introduction Gap sheaves Gap cycles and Vogel cycles The Le-Iomdine-Vogel formulas Summary of Part I Part II. Le Cycles and Hypersurface Singularities: Introduction Definitions and basic properties Elementary examples A handle decomposition of the Milnor fibre Generalized Le-Iomdine formulas Le numbers and hyperplane arrangements Thom's $a_f$ condition Aligned singularities Suspending singularities Constancy of the Milnor fibrations Another characterization of the Le cycles Part III. Isolated Critical Points of Functions on Singular Spaces: Introduction Critical avatars The relative polar curve The link between the algebraic and topological points of view The special case of perverse sheaves Thom's $a_f$ condition Continuous families of constructible complexes Part IV. Non-Isolated Critical Points of Functions on Singular Spaces: Introduction Le-Vogel cycles Le-Iomdine formulas and Thom's condition Le-Vogel cycles and the Euler characteristic Appendix A. Analytic cycles and intersections Appendix B. The derived category Appendix C. Privileged neighborhoods and lifting Milnor fibrations References Index.
Christopher Love's political leanings and involvements had him arrested by Oliver Cromwell’s forces for his “alleged” plan to raise money for the restoration of the monarchy, a charge Love denied. He was arrested along with six other prominent ministers in London (all Presbyterians, including Thomas Watson), for treason. The rest were released after six months, but Love was beheaded on Tower Hill, London on August 22, 1651. This work is a “vindication” of Love's position, while also housing a number of documents that have not been previously published, including the last sermon he ever preached which was on Job 30:23, and his final words immediately before being executed. The letters contained in this volume are eminently spiritual and practical. And the vindication itself demonstrates a thoroughly biblical pattern of being zealous for a good name. Throughout this work Love’s last words are a testimony to God’s grace and his convictions of standing before God and men without guile. This is not a scan or facsimile, and contains an active table of contents for electronic versions.
Proceedings of the 23rd annual conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, held in Melbourne in December 2012. The conference theme was 'the profession of engineering education: advancing teaching, research and careers' and the conference explored opportunities for improving teaching and scholarship, rigorous research in engineering education and career advancement as an engineering educator.
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