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Time and Chance

By: Peter Townsend

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THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF PETER TOWNSEND, THE MAN CONSIDERED TO BE THE GREAT LOVE OF PRINCESS MARGARET'S LIFE, EQUERRY TO KING GEORGE VI AND HERO OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN. 'A Royal fairy tale' Sunday Telegraph 'One of the saddest love stories of modern times' The Scotsman 'One afternoon, at Windsor Castle, when everyone had gone to London for some ceremony, we talked, in the red drawing-room, for hours - about ourselves. It was then that we made the mutual discovery of how much we meant to one another. She listened, without uttering a word, as I told her, very quietly, of my feelings. Then she simply said: "That is exactly how I feel, too." It was, to us both, an immensely gladdening disclosure, but one which sorely troubled us.' The romance between Princess Margaret and Group Captain Peter Townsend in the 1950s rocked the British Establishment, pulled at the heartstrings of a nation and brought sorrow to two intensely human individuals. In Time and Chance, Peter Townsend tells his side of the story in intensely personal terms, and places the episode within the whole context of his full and varied life, a story which includes great heroism in World War II as well as his part in one of the most publicised love stories of the twentieth century.

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1913727130

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The Evolution of Music Through Culture and Science

By: Peter Townsend,Peter David Townsend

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The Evolution of Music Through Culture and Science

By: Peter Townsend,Peter David Townsend

The Evolution of Music by Culture and Science aims to recognise the impact of science on music, why it occurs, how we respond, and even to tentatively see if we can predict future developments. Technology has played an immense role in the development of music as it has enabled the production of new sounds, introduced new instruments and continuously improved and modified existing ones. Printing, musical notation, and modern computer aids to composition, plus recordings and electronic transmission have equally enabled us to have access to music from across the world. Such changes, whether just more powerful pianos, or new sounds as from the saxophone, have inspired composers and audiences alike. Acoustics and architecture play similar roles as they changed the scale and performance of concert halls, and with the advent of electronics, they enabled vast pop music festivals. No aspect of modern music making has been untouched by the synergy with scientific innovation. This is not a one-way interaction as the early attempts to make recordings were a major motivating force to design the electronics for amplifiers and these in turn inspired and enabled the designs of semiconductor electronics and modern computer technology. To appreciate the impact of technology on music does not require any prior scientific background as the concepts are invariably extremely simple and are presented here without technical detail. Understanding music and why we like different genres is far more complex, as this involves our personal background and taste. Both aspects change with time, and there is no contradiction in enjoying items as diverse as baroque madrigals, symphonies, jazz or pop music, or music from totally different cultures.

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0198848404

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The Peter Townsend Reader

By: Peter Townsend

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The Peter Townsend Reader

By: Peter Townsend

This reader brings together for the first time a collection of Peter Townsend's most distinctive work, allowing readers to review the changes that have taken place over the past six decades, and reflect on issues that have returned to the fore today.

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Policy Press

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184742404X

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The Dark Side of Technology

By: Peter Townsend

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The Dark Side of Technology

By: Peter Townsend

The Dark Side of Technology is intended as a powerful wake-up call to the potential dangers that could, in the near future, destroy our current advanced civilizations. The author examines how fragile our dependence on electronic communications, information storage, and satellites is, as vulnerability increases in an age of raising security concerns. This weakness is evident from the exponential rise in cyber-crime and terrorism. Satellites are crucial to modern-day living, but they can be destroyed by energetic space debris or damaged by solar emissions. Destruction of data, communications, and electrical power grids would bring disaster to advanced nations. Such events could dramatically change our social and economic landscapes within the next 10-20 years. New technology equally impacts employment, agriculture, biology, medicine, transport, languages, and our social well-being. This book explores both the good and the bad aspects of technological advances, in order to raise awareness and promote caution. Technology may be impressive, but we need to be mindful of potential negative future effects. We ought to seriously consider the long term consequences of an increasing failure to pursue healthy life styles, use of ineffective antibiotics, genetic mutations, and the destruction of food supplies and natural resources. The diverse topics covered aims to show why we must act now to plan for both the predictable downsides of technology, and also develop contingency plans for potential major catastrophes, including natural events where we cannot define accurate time scales.

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Oxford University Press

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0192507796

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International Analysis Poverty

By: Peter Townsend

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International Analysis Poverty

By: Peter Townsend

First published in 1993. The scientific and political debate about poverty has been changing fast -with dramatic implications for intellectual interpretation and action by governments- and the intention in publishing this volume is to contribute to that debate. Scientists concerned to analyse poverty have been thrust by events into greater international service. But there are sinister forces at work which are seeking to divert them into petty issues, to blame the victims of poverty, or to cut them off from the resources or opportunities to investigate and report freely. This book is born of that frustration - and represents the changing debate during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Routledge

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1317866843

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The Power of Imperfections

A Key to Technology, Love, Life and Survival

By: PETER. TOWNSEND

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The Power of Imperfections

A Key to Technology, Love, Life and Survival

By: PETER. TOWNSEND

It may be surprising to focus on and praise imperfection, but, in reality, perfection is a fiction. Every aspect of our technologies is based on understanding and exploiting imperfections in the materials we use. Imperfections are key to our use of metals, glass, electronics, computers, optical fibres, and building materials. Catalysis, as used throughout chemical industries, is dependent on imperfections, as are a wide range of modern advances in biology and medicine. This book provides examples in each area that are readily understandable to non-scientists but also aim to offer a far deeper insight into how the technologies and disciplines advance and operate. However, once we change our focus from idealised perfection to reality, the implications can extend far beyond the realm of the sciences. The second part of the book examines the importance of our ability to recognise and adapt to imperfections in such wide-ranging areas as cookery, successful career development, love, life, and the survival of humanity. Using a broad range of accessible examples, this book aims to give readers the tools to recognize technological imperfections and apply those lessons to improving several key aspects of our lives, crucially enabling them to define a world that will survive current excesses and environmental destruction.

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Oxford University Press

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0192857479

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Mysterious Ocean

Physical Processes and Geological Evolution

By: Peter Townsend Harris

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Mysterious Ocean

Physical Processes and Geological Evolution

By: Peter Townsend Harris

This book provides an introduction to ocean sciences that is engaging, evocative and accessible to non-experts interested in marine geoscience, while sparking readers' interest in important unsolved mysteries in marine science. The scope of the book is quite broad, but focuses on the physical ocean and its geological evolution, including the author's experiences working as an oceanographer over the last thirty years. Across ten chapters, the book traces the origins of the ocean from its formation 4 billion years ago, reviews the discoveries of the theory of plate tectonics, the ice ages and the great ocean conveyor, and discusses seafloor features (canyons, seamounts, trenches, abyssal plains, etc.), how they formed and their current environmental issues. The book concludes with a prognosis for the future ocean we might expect with global climate change and other human impacts.

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Springer

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303015632X

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Old People in Three Industrial Societies

By: Ethel Shanas,Peter Townsend,Dorothy Wedderburn,Henning Kristian Friis,Poul Milhoj,Jan Stehouwer

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Old People in Three Industrial Societies

By: Ethel Shanas,Peter Townsend,Dorothy Wedderburn,Henning Kristian Friis,Poul Milhoj,Jan Stehouwer

Robert and Helen Lynd's Middletown set the format in sociological theory and practice for hundreds of studies in the decades following its publication in 1929. Old People in Three Industrial Societies may well set similar standards for studies in its fi eld for many years to come. In addition to achieving a signifi cant breakthrough in the progress of socio logical research techniques, the book offers a monumental cross-cultural exposition of the health, family relationships, and social and economic status of the aged in three countries-the United States, Britain, and Denmark.

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1351502441

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The Family Life of Old People

An Inquiry in East London

By: Peter Townsend

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The Family Life of Old People

An Inquiry in East London

By: Peter Townsend

First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families? Thereafter, the author describes the results of intensive interviews with people of pensionable age in Bethnal Green in East London. Part one shows that most people are members of closely-knit extended families of three generations, often living in separate households in adjoining streets. The life of these families is of absorbing interest and the social structure of the home, the system of family care and the domestic, economic and social relationships between husbands and their wives, and between old people and their children and brothers and sisters, are carefully analysed. Part two discusses the social problems of old age against this background. This book will be of interest to students of sociology and gerontology.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000936589

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Health and Deprivation

Inequality and the North

By: Peter Townsend,Peter Phillimore,Alastair Beattie

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Health and Deprivation

Inequality and the North

By: Peter Townsend,Peter Phillimore,Alastair Beattie

When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in different areas of the North of England. It relates this evidence to long-term trends taking place in patterns of health in Britain as a whole and explores how far health inequalities can be explained by variations in material deprivation. The book provides a detailed examination of the correlation between health and wealth, or ill-health and deprivation in Britain in the 20th century but the book has an enduring relevance as the Covid Pandemic has once again shown that regional disparities in wealth have profound outcomes for health. The book is of significance for health professionals, social services and those planner and politicians concerned with levelling up.

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1000839249

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Pearl Harbor Jazz

Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s

By: Peter Townsend

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Pearl Harbor Jazz

Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s

By: Peter Townsend

This book is a study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz analyses the changes in the world of the professional musician brought about both by the outbreak of World War II and by long-term changes in the music business, in popular taste and in American society itself. It describes how the infrastructure of American music, the interdependent fields of recording, touring, live engagements, radio and the movies, was experiencing change in the conditions of wartime, and how this impacted upon musical styles, and hence upon the later history of popular music. Successive chapters of the book examine the impact of these changed conditions upon the songwriting and music publishing industries, upon the world of the touring big bands, and upon changing conceptions of the role of jazz and popular music. Not only the economic conditions but also ideas were changing; the book traces a movement among writers and critics which created new definitions of 'jazz' and other terms that had a permanent influence on the way musical styles were thought of for the rest of the century. The book deals in some depth with the work of a number of important artists in these various fields, including, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Johnny Mercer and Frank Sinatra, looks at the growing presence of bebop, the rise of country music, and the contemporary musical scenes in such locations as New York and Los Angeles. The book combines detail of the day-to-day working lives of musicians with challenging views of the long-term development of musical style in jazz and popular music.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604731478

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Small Business and the Law

By: Peter Townsend

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Small Business and the Law

By: Peter Townsend

Basic guide to small business law. Looks at a range of issues such as structuring your business, buying a business, business contracts, franchising, licensing, leasing premises, employing and dismissing staff, contractor agreements, sales contracts, distribution agreements, extending credit to customers, debt recovery, protecting intellectual property, software agreements, the internet, business divorce, and selling or closing your business. Includes colour design and index. Author is a business lawyer.

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Pascal Press

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1877085251

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Poverty in the United Kingdom

A Survey of Househould Resources and Standards of Living

By: Peter Townsend

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Poverty in the United Kingdom

A Survey of Househould Resources and Standards of Living

By: Peter Townsend

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

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0520325761

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The Ancient World

A Reading and Writing Approach

By: Ralph D. Sawyer

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The Ancient World

A Reading and Writing Approach

By: Ralph D. Sawyer

An introduction to history from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages discusses the history of ancient Egypt, Israel, Greece, Rome, China, and medieval Europe, and includes activities designed to enhance critical thinking skills.

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0844256250

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Questioning Islam

Tough Questions and Honest Answers about the Muslim Religion

By: Peter Townsend

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Questioning Islam

Tough Questions and Honest Answers about the Muslim Religion

By: Peter Townsend

An critical examination of the truth claims of the Muslim religion

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Time and Chance

Time and Chance

The Evolution of Music Through Culture and Science

The Evolution of Music Through Culture and Science

The Peter Townsend Reader

The Peter Townsend Reader

The Dark Side of Technology

The Dark Side of Technology

International Analysis Poverty

International Analysis Poverty

The Power of Imperfections

The Power of Imperfections

Mysterious Ocean

Mysterious Ocean

Old People in Three Industrial Societies

Old People in Three Industrial Societies

The Family Life of Old People

The Family Life of Old People

Health and Deprivation

Health and Deprivation

Pearl Harbor Jazz

Pearl Harbor Jazz

Small Business and the Law

Small Business and the Law

Poverty in the United Kingdom

Poverty in the United Kingdom

The Ancient World

The Ancient World

Questioning Islam

Questioning Islam

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