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How to build houses and save the countryside /
No full textEngland has a housing crisis. We need to build many more new homes to house our growing population, but house building is controversial, particularly when it involves the loss of countryside. Addressing both sides of this critical debate, Shaun Spiers argues that to drive house building on the scale needed, government must strike a contract with civil society: in return for public support and acceptance of the loss of some countryside, it must guarantee high quality, affordable developments, in the right locations. Simply imposing development, as recent governments of all political persuasions have attempted, will not work. Focusing on house building and conservation politics in England, Spiers uses his experience and extensive research to demonstrate why the current model doesn't work, and why there needs to be planning reform and a more active role for the state, including local government.Specialized.Previously issued in print: 2018.Includes bibliographical references and index.England has a housing crisis. We need to build many more new homes to house our growing population, but house building is controversial, particularly when it involves the loss of countryside. Addressing both sides of this critical debate, Shaun Spiers argues that to drive house building on the scale needed, government must strike a contract with civil society: in return for public support and acceptance of the loss of some countryside, it must guarantee high quality, affordable developments, in the right locations. Simply imposing development, as recent governments of all political persuasions have attempted, will not work. Focusing on house building and conservation politics in England, Spiers uses his experience and extensive research to demonstrate why the current model doesn't work, and why there needs to be planning reform and a more active role for the state, including local government.Specialized.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 3, 2023)
Introduction
No full textSpiers situates pop-feminism in relation to key debates in recent feminist history concerning postfeminism, third-wave feminism, transgressive sexuality, and feminist politics in a neoliberal climate. She then sets out the parameters for her comparative analysis of pop-feminist writing across North America, Britain, and Germany. The author outlines why and how a comparison of three culturally and linguistically variant contexts, which have nevertheless adopted similar political and ideological trajectories vis-à-vis neoliberalism, yields compelling insights into the interplay between the global and the local in political and economic paradigms, as well as illuminating the role played by neoliberal ideologies in the development of pop-feminism.</p
Conclusion Pop-Feminism and the Future
No full textThe volume’s primary question is whether the notions of subjectivity and agency proposed by the fiction, non-fiction, and life narratives differ, and how those differences impact upon the degree of political critique. Spiers concludes that multiple pop-feminist forms fixate on the private and the corporeal, endlessly emphasizing individual choice; both everything and nothing can be understood as feminist. Such texts also showcase the sanitized transgressive gesture as an intrinsic element of neoliberal rhetoric, even post-financial crisis. The author demonstrates how examples of literary pop writing by women explore a possible coherent sense of identity beyond the surfaces of the pop-cultural archive. She concludes that subjective incoherence in the novels co-exists in productive tension with a desire for coherence and unity that in no way resembles the model of pre-discursive sovereign subjectivity uncovered in the pop-feminist non-fiction and life narrative, as it fundamentally relates to an ethics of intersubjective relations.</p
Solving the detour problem in navigation: a model of prefrontal and hippocampal interactions.
No full textAdapting behavior to accommodate changes in the environment is an important function of the nervous system. A universal problem for motile animals is the discovery that a learned route is blocked and a detour is required. Given the substantial neuroscience research on spatial navigation and decision-making it is surprising that so little is known about how the brain solves the detour problem. Here we review the limited number of relevant functional neuroimaging, single unit recording and lesion studies. We find that while the prefrontal cortex (PFC) consistently responds to detours, the hippocampus does not. Recent evidence suggests the hippocampus tracks information about the future path distance to the goal. Based on this evidence we postulate a conceptual model in which: Lateral PFC provides a prediction error signal about the change in the path, frontopolar and superior PFC support the re-formulation of the route plan as a novel subgoal and the hippocampus simulates the new path. More data will be required to validate this model and understand (1) how the system processes the different options; and (2) deals with situations where a new path becomes available (i.e., shortcuts)
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Negotiating the list: launching Macmillan's Colonial Library and author contracts
Full text linkLaunched in 1886, Macmillan's Colonial Library list issued a modest 34 titles in its first twelve months. Despite the firm's claims that the venture was an experiment in publishing, Macmillan was clearly intent on capitalising on the expansion of both the domain and effectiveness of international copyright law following the passage and ratification of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (signed 9 September 1886; ratified 5 September 1887). In addition, as Graeme Johanson observes, they sought to benefit from the extraordinary appetite of the Australian market for imported British books. Macmillan's Colonial Library soon became one of the most successful ventures in the history of colonial publishing; some 624 titles were issued by 1913 at the rate of about one title every fortnight, and over 1,700 titles were published under the imprint of the Colonial Library and its successors, a feat which was unsurpassed.
But how was this Colonial Library list constructed? This chapter offers a brief overview of the nature of the contracts offered by Macmillan to its authors for the Colonial Library list in the first few years after its launch, and in doing so, will attempt to answer some of the following questions. What were the terms offered to established and new authors on the Colonial Library list? How did putative authors respond to Macmillan's enthusiasm (or otherwise) for their inclusion on the list? Were the majority of authors during the first few years of the list bought in, or did Macmillan use the list as a vehicle for further promoting their more established (and perhaps, more literary) authors? Did any of Macmillan's house authors record their resistance or scepticism to this new venture in transnational publishing? How did royalties differ between 'Home' and 'Colonial Library' editions? And finally, did authors view their presence on the Colonial Library list as an officially sanctioned marker of esteem within the firm, or simply as a commercial expediency to be tolerated? I draw upon correspondence in individual author files in the Macmillan archive in the British Library in order to shed light on some of these questions
Spark up a Conversation with Us: How Wildfire Season Impacts Mental and Physical Health
Full text linkComparative studies of host specificity and symptoms exhibited by poplars infected with Marssonina brunnea, Marssonina castagnei and Marssonina populi
No full textChronologically organized structure in autobiographical memory search.
No full textEach of us has a rich set of autobiographical memories that provides us with a coherent story of our lives. These memories are known to be highly structured both thematically and temporally. However, it is not known how we naturally tend to explore the mental timeline of our memories. Here we developed a novel cued retrieval paradigm in order to investigate the temporal element of memory search. We found that, when asked to search for memories in the days immediately surrounding a salient cued event, participants displayed a marked set of temporal biases in their search patterns. Specifically, participants first tended to jump back in time and retrieve memories from the day prior to the cued event. Following this they then transitioned forward in time, and retrieved memories from the day after the cued event. This pattern of results replicated in a second experiment with a much larger group of participants, and a different method of cueing the memories. We argue that this set of temporal biases is consistent with memory search conforming to a temporally ordered narrative structure
ANDRE DASSARY CHANTE / André DASSARY accompagné par Pierre SPIERS et son orchestre
No full textTitre uniforme : [True love]Titre uniforme : [Anastasia]Titre uniforme : [True love]Comprend : ANASTASIA / A. NEWMAN - P. DELANOE - LA ROUTE QUI CHANTE / H. BETTI - R. VINCY - LE SECRET DU BONHEUR / A.M. TROCHET - C. MONTFORT - LE PREMIER MATIN : du film "HIGH SOCIETY" / Cole PORTER - P. DELANOE - L'HOMME A LA GUITARE / J. LEDRU - J. MAREUIL - TOI QUI VEUX SAVOIR / J. LEDRU - H. CONTET - LA FETE A MAMAN / J. LEDRU - G. COULONGES - C'EST LE DESTIN QUI COMMANDE : du film "OEIL POUR OEIL" / A.G. TABET - LOUIGUY - O MON DIEU / F. POURCEL - F. BONIFAY - C'EST L'AMOUR QUI VOUS SOURIT / J. LE SEYEUX - LOUIGUYBnF-Partenariats, Collection sonore - BelieveContient une table des matière
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