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Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, Regeneration and the Politics of Community Participation

Planning, Regeneration and the Politics of Community Participation

By: Dr Denis Dillon,Professor Bryan Fanning

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Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, Regeneration and the Politics of Community Participation

Planning, Regeneration and the Politics of Community Participation

By: Dr Denis Dillon,Professor Bryan Fanning

This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific place over the past 30 years. It offers a critical analysis of the history, politics and social geography of the high profile London Borough of Haringey, in the decades prior to the 2011 Tottenham riots. The Haringey case study acts as a lens through which to explore the evolution of theoretical and policy debates about the relationship between local institutions and the communities they serve. Focusing on the policy areas of planning and regeneration, it considers the local implementation and outcome of central government strategies that have sought to achieve such accountability and responsiveness through community participation strategies. It examines how the local authority responded to central government aspirations for greater community involvement in planning, in the 1970s, and regeneration, from the late 1980s onwards, before looking in detail at the implementation of New Labour neighbourhood renewal and local governance policy in the borough. In doing so, the book provides a longitudinal case study on how various central government community empowerment agendas have played out at a local level. It offers important lessons and indicates how they might work more effectively in future.

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1409490289

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Between Eden and Armageddon : The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking

The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking

By: Diplomacy Marc Gopin James H. Laue Professor and Director of the Center on Religion, and Conflict Resolution George Mason University

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Between Eden and Armageddon : The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking

The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking

By: Diplomacy Marc Gopin James H. Laue Professor and Director of the Center on Religion, and Conflict Resolution George Mason University

Recent years have seen a meteoric rise in the power and importance of organized religion in many parts of the world. At the same time, there has been a significant increase in violence perpetrated in the name of religion. While much has been written on the relationship between violence and religious militancy, history shows that religious people have also played a critical role in peacemaking within numerous cultures. In the new century, will religion bring upon further catastrophes? Or will it provide human civilization with methods of care, healing, and the creation of peaceful and just societies? In this groundbreaking book, Marc Gopin integrates the study of religion with the study of conflict resolution. He argues that religion can play a critical role in constructing a global community of shared moral commitments and vision--a community that can limit conflict to its nonviolent, constructive variety. If we examine religious myths and moral traditions, Gopin argues, we can understand why and when religious people come to violence, and why and when they become staunch peacemakers. He shows that it is the conservative expression of most religious traditions that presents the largest challenge in terms of peace and conflict. Gopin considers ways to construct traditional paradigms that are committed to peacemaking on a deep level and offers such a paradigm for the case of Judaism. Throughout, Gopin emphasizes that developing the potential of the world's religions for coping with conflict demands a conscious process on the part of peacemakers and theologians. His innovative and carefully argued study also offers a broad set of recommendations for policy planners both inside and outside of government.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019803069X

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Northrop Frye's Student Essays, 1932-1938

By: Northrop Frye,Professor Robert D Denham

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Northrop Frye's Student Essays, 1932-1938

By: Northrop Frye,Professor Robert D Denham

This unique collection of twenty-two papers was written by Northrop Frye during his student years. Made public only after Frye's death in 1991, all but one of the essays are published here for the first time.

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University of Toronto Press

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080204235X

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The Roots of Southern Populism : Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890

Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890

By: San Diego Steven Hahn Associate Professor of History University of California

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The Roots of Southern Populism : Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890

Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890

By: San Diego Steven Hahn Associate Professor of History University of California

In this examination of the rise of agrarian radicalism in the late 19th-century South, Hahn focuses on social change and popular consciousness while exploring populism's kinship with other movements such as labour radicalism.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198020430

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Radical Comedy in Early Modern England

Contexts, Cultures, Performances

By: Professor Rick Bowers

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Radical Comedy in Early Modern England

Contexts, Cultures, Performances

By: Professor Rick Bowers

Drawing on the generic and mythic strength of comedy and the theories of Bakhtin, Bergson, and Hobbes, this book identifies the radical nature of early modern English comedy. The satirical comedic actions that shape the "Shepherds' Play," Thomas Dekker's pamphlets, and the comic dramas of Marston, Middleton, and Jonson are all driven, Bowers points out, by an ability to criticize authority, assert plebeian culture, and insist on the complexity and innovation of human discourse. The texts examined (including The Jew of Malta, Metamorphosis of Ajax, Antonio and Mellida, Bartholomew Fair, The Alchemist, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside) simultaneously create and employ standard comedic elements. Farce, absurdity, excess, over-the-top characters, unremitting irony, black humor, toilet humor, and tricksters of all types - such features and more combine to satirize medical, religious, and political authority and to implement necessary social change. Written with a narrative ease, Radical Comedy in Early Modern England shows how comic interventions both describe and reconfigure prevalent authority in its own time while arguing that, through early modern comedy, one can observe the changes in social behavior and understandings characteristic of the Renaissance.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409475018

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'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675

By: Elizabeth Sauer,Professor of English Elizabeth Sauer

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'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675

By: Elizabeth Sauer,Professor of English Elizabeth Sauer

Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England challenges traditional readings of literary history and proposes a fresh approach to the politics of consensus and contestation that distinguishes current scholarly debates about this period.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802038840

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France and Women, 1789-1914

Gender, Society and Politics

By: James McMillan,Professor James F Mcmillan

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France and Women, 1789-1914

Gender, Society and Politics

By: James McMillan,Professor James F Mcmillan

France and Women, 1789-1914 is the first book to offer an authoritative account of women's history throughout the nineteenth century. James McMillan, author of the seminal work Housewife or Harlot, offers a major reinterpretation of the French past in relation to gender throughout these tumultuous decades of revolution and war. This book provides a challenging discussion of the factors which made French political culture so profoundly sexist and in particular, it shows that many of the myths about progress and emancipation associated with modernisation and the coming of mass politics do not stand up to close scrutiny. It also reveals the conservative nature of the republican left and of the ingrained belief throughout french society that women should remain within the domestic sphere. James McMillan considers the role played by French men and women in the politics, culture and society of their country throughout the 1800s.

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Routledge

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1134589573

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Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918

Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918

By: Ellen Ross Professor of Women's Studies Ramapo College

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Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918

Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918

By: Ellen Ross Professor of Women's Studies Ramapo College

The history of the British working class has until recently been written with a focus on the workplace or on such male organizations as clubs, unions or national political parties. This study of mothers in London before World War I stresses the distinctiveness of their experiences from those of other classes, and of the post World War I period, and demonstrates the ways in which mothers and their domestic choices were essential to the survival and cultural perpetuation of the working classes.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195365003

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9780195365009

Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920

Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920

By: Elizabeth Hayes Turner Associate Professor of History University of Houston

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Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920

Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920

By: Elizabeth Hayes Turner Associate Professor of History University of Houston

In this work, Elizabeth Turner addresses a central question in post-Reconstruction social history: why did middle-class women expand their activities from the private to the public sphere and begin, in the years just before World War I, an unprecedented activism? Using Galveston as a case study, Turner examines how a generally conservative, traditional environment could produce important women's organizations for Progressive reform. She concludes that the women of Galveston, though slow to respond to national movements, were stirred to action on behalf of their local community. Local organizations, particularly Episcopal and Presbyterian churches, and traditional everyday social activities provided a nurturing environment for budding reformers, and a foundation for activist organizations and programs such as poor relief and progressive reform. Ultimately, women became politicized even as they continued their roles as guardians of traditional domestic values. Women, Culture, and Community will appeal to scholars and students of the post-Reconstruction South, women's history, activist history, and religious history.

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0195358678

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The Oxford Handbook of Deification

By: Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy Paul L Gavrilyuk,Ordinary Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages Andrew Hofer O P,James N Jr and Mary D Perry Chair of Theology Matthew Levering

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The Oxford Handbook of Deification

By: Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy Paul L Gavrilyuk,Ordinary Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages Andrew Hofer O P,James N Jr and Mary D Perry Chair of Theology Matthew Levering

This handbook offers a comprehensive and varied study of deification within Christian theology. Forty-six leading experts in the field examine points of convergence and difference on the constitutive elements of deification across different writers, thinkers, and traditions.

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0198865171

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Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism

By: Professor Bryan S Turner

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Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism

By: Professor Bryan S Turner

It is often thought that the development of capitalism and the modernization of culture have brought about a profound decline of religious belief and commitment. The history of Christianity in the last two decades appears to be a good illustration of this general process of secularization with the undermining of belief and commitment as Western cultures became industrial and urban. However, in the twentieth century we have seen that Islam continues to be a dominant force in politics and culture not only in the Orient but in Western society. In this challenging study of contemporary social theory, Bryan Turner examines the recent debate about orientalism in relation to postmodernism and the process of globalization. He provides a profound critique of many of the leading fissures in classical orientalism. His book also considers the impact of the notion of the world in sociological theory. These cultural changes and social debates also reflect important change in the status and position of intellecuals in modern culture who are threatened, not only by the levelling of mass culture, but also by the new opportunities posed by postmodernism. He takes a critical view of the role of sociology in these developments and raises important questions about the global role of English intellectuals as a social stratum. Bryan Turner's ability to combine these discussions about religion, politics, culture and intellectuals represents a remarkable integration of cultural analysis in cultural studies.

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1134839405

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Milton among the Puritans

The Case for Historical Revisionism

By: Professor Catherine Gimelli Martin

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Milton among the Puritans

The Case for Historical Revisionism

By: Professor Catherine Gimelli Martin

Solidly grounded in Milton's prose works and the long history of Milton scholarship, Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism challenges many received ideas about Milton's brand of Christianity, philosophy, and poetry. It does so chiefly by retracing his history as a great "Puritan poet" and reexamining the surprisingly tenuous Whig paradigm upon which this history has been built. Catherine Martin not only questions the current habit of "lumping" Milton with the religious Puritans but agrees with a long line of literary scholars who find his values and lifestyle markedly inconsistent with their beliefs and practices. Pursuing this argument, Martin carefully reexamines the whole spectrum of seventeenth-century English Puritanism from the standpoint of the most recent and respected scholarship on the subject. Martin also explores other, more secular sources of Milton's thought, including his Baconianism, his Christian Stoic ethics, and his classical republicanism; she establishes the importance of these influences through numerous direct references, silent but clear citations, and typical tropes. All in all, Milton among the Puritans presents a radical reassessment of Milton's religious identity; it shows that many received ideas about the "Puritan Milton" are neither as long-established as most scholars believe nor as historically defensible as most literary critics still assume, and resituates Milton's great poems in the period when they were written, the Restoration.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409476189

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Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic

Sincere Mannerisms

By: Professor Jason Camlot

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Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic

Sincere Mannerisms

By: Professor Jason Camlot

In analyzing the nonfiction works of writers such as John Wilson, J. S. Mill, De Quincy, Ruskin, Arnold, Pater, and Wilde, Jason Camlot provides an important context for the nineteenth-century critic's changing ideas about style, rhetoric, and technologies of communication. In particular, Camlot contributes to our understanding of how new print media affected the Romantic and Victorian critic's sense of self, as he elaborates the ways nineteenth-century critics used their own essays on rhetoric and stylistics to speculate about the changing conditions for the production and reception of ideas and the formulation of authorial character. Camlot argues that the early 1830s mark the moment when a previously coherent tradition of pragmatic rhetoric was fragmented and redistributed into the diverse, localized sites of an emerging periodicals market. Publishing venues for writers multiplied at midcentury, establishing a new stylistic norm for criticism-one that affirmed style as the manifestation of English discipline and objectivity. The figure of the professional critic soon subsumed the authority of the polyglot intellectual, and the later decades of the nineteenth century brought about a debate on aesthetics and criticism that set ideals of Saxon-rooted 'virile' style against more culturally inclusive theories of expression.

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1409474992

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9781409474999

Securities Regulation

Selected Statutes, Rules, and Forms 2008

By: James D. Cox,Robert W Hillman,Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law Donald C Langevoort

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Securities Regulation

Selected Statutes, Rules, and Forms 2008

By: James D. Cox,Robert W Hillman,Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law Donald C Langevoort

Designed specifically For The Securities Regulation course, this statutory supplement contains all of the relevant statutes, rules, and forms needed — in a remarkably concise and uncluttered format. A highly effective teaching tool, it is the ideal complement to any casebook for Securities Regulation, including but not exclusive To The authors' own Securities Regulation: Cases and Materials, Fifth Edition . the 2008 Edition features: Securities Exchange Act Rules: Rules and Forms Rule 12h-6, deregistration of foreign issuers Rule 14a-16, Internet Availability of Proxy Materials Rule 14a-17, Internet shareholder forums Section 15A(14), The military sales clause Section 15E, regarding credit rating agencies Rule 17g-1 through 17g-6, new credit rating agency regulations SEC amendment to Rule 146(b)(2), adding new subsection (v) referencing "The Nasdaq Capital Market" The Investment Advisers Act Section 206(4)-8, hedge fund antifraud rule The Investment Advisers Act Regulation S-K: Item 308T. Internal Control over Financial Reporting and Item 407. Corporate Governance Regulation S-X: Rule 2-02T. Accountants' Reports and Attestation Reports on Management's Assessment of Internal Control over Financial Reporting Securities Act of 1933: Rules and Forms Rules of Practice and Investigations (Standards of Professional Conduct for Attorneys) Staff Accounting Bulletins Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Investment Advisers Act of 1940 Advisers Act Rules Investment Company Act of 1940 Investment Company Act Rules

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0735572062

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Securities Regulation, 2006 Statutory Supplement

By: James D. Cox,Robert W Hillman,Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law Donald C Langevoort

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Securities Regulation, 2006 Statutory Supplement

By: James D. Cox,Robert W Hillman,Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law Donald C Langevoort

This statutory supplement, designed to accompany the best-selling casebook by Cox, Hillman, and Langevoort, will bring your teaching materials up to date. This highly effective teaching tool contains judicious coverage of only the statutes, rules, and forms that are the subject of the typical course. The elimination of superfluous material keeps the text to a manageable length.

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0735559627

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Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, Regeneration and the Politics of Community Participation

Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, Regeneration and the Politics of Community Participation

Between Eden and Armageddon : The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking

Between Eden and Armageddon : The Future of World Religions, Violence, and Peacemaking

Northrop Frye's Student Essays, 1932-1938

Northrop Frye's Student Essays, 1932-1938

The Roots of Southern Populism : Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890

The Roots of Southern Populism : Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890

Radical Comedy in Early Modern England

Radical Comedy in Early Modern England

'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675

'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675

France and Women, 1789-1914

France and Women, 1789-1914

Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918

Love and Toil : Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918

Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920

Women, Culture, and Community : Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920

The Oxford Handbook of Deification

The Oxford Handbook of Deification

Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism

Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism

Milton among the Puritans

Milton among the Puritans

Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic

Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic

Securities Regulation

Securities Regulation

Securities Regulation, 2006 Statutory Supplement

Securities Regulation, 2006 Statutory Supplement

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