23 research outputs found
Review of The Heaven I Swallowed by Rachel Hennessy
No full textReview of The Heaven I Swallowed by Rachel Henness
Review of The Young Desire It by Kenneth Mackenzie, introduced by David Malouf.
No full textReview of The Young Desire It by Kenneth Mackenzie, introduced by David Malouf
Piping shrike : evolution : a collection of new creative writing
No full textPiping Shrike began as an idea in the mid-nineties as a means of publishing and promoting student's work. Evolution is the sixth in the series. ; The book presents 16 emerging writers including Cameron Fuller, Paul Burger, Lora Shepherd, Cheryl Brook, Fleur Lewis, Karin Holzknecht, Russell Talbot, Rob Parry, Karen Cruse, Margaret Klopper, Elise Kuchel, Ian Bourne, El Benn, Alex Cothren, Sam Kellett and Nicole Hagoort
Geographic profiling in Nazi Berlin: fact and fiction
No full textGeographic profiling uses the locations of connected crime sites to make inferences about the probable location of the offender’s ‘anchor point’ (usually a home, but sometimes a workplace). We show how the basic ideas of the method were used in a Gestapo investigation that formed the basis of a classic German novel about domestic resistance to the Nazis during the Second World War. We use modern techniques to re-analyse this case, and show that these successfully locate the Berlin home address of Otto and Elise Hampel, who had distributed hundreds of anti-Nazi postcards, after analysing just 34 of the 214 incidents that took place before their arrest. Our study provides the first empirical evidence to support the suggestion that analysis of minor terrorism-related acts such as graffiti and theft could be used to help locate terrorist bases before more serious incidents occur
Review Of Romanesque And Gothic: Essays For George Zarnecki Edited by N. Stratford
No full textThese 26 learned and--for the most part--stimulating studies, collected in honor of George Zarnecki on his 70th birthday, were written by an international host of his colleagues and students. The range of subjects addressed (usually in English but occasionally in the author\u27s native tongue) is truly impressive. Although the emphasis is clearly on Romanesque sculpture and sculptors, there are also essays devoted to manuscript illustration, stained glass, wall painting, and architecture. A complete list of publications by the honoree is included. Considering the price of the two-volume set, the black-and-white pictures that document these art historical studies--unlike the studies themselves--are disappointing in quality, but the decision to confine the plates to the second volume (the first contains the written texts) facilitates greatly the mandatory process of reading word and image in tandem. Highly recommended for specialists and specialized libraries
Efficiency, Depth and Growth: Quantitative Implications of Finance and Growth Theory
No full textWe develop a parsimonious finance and endogenous growth model with microeconomic frictions in entrepreneurship and a role for credit constraints. We demonstrate that though an efficiency-growth relation will always exist, the efficiency-depth-growth relation may not. This has implications for the connection between the theory and empirics of finance and growth. We go on to ask whether the model can account for some historical trends in growth, financial depth and financial efficiency for the UK over the period 1850--1913. The best model of finance and growth is one that departs from the standard depth-growth link.finance and growth, endogenous growth, economic history.
A history of arts and health in South Australia: Policy and practice
No full textThis article traces the history of arts and health in South Australia, using an interview-based methodology to detail how grassroots practice developed into formal arts and health policy. The project interviewed 47 arts and health stakehold-ers, including former state government ministers, artists and health professionals. South Australia has a long history of arts and health work. However, interview-ees describe a lack of momentum for the field since the endorsement of the 2013 National Arts and Health Framework, largely because it did not contain binding commitments which left the field vulnerable to changes associated with political leadership. South Australia thus represents both a case study of how grassroots support can maximize political interest in arts and health to create formal policy as well as a warning on the challenges that occur when this interest wanes
Appointing the median voter of a policy board
No full textA description of a model which demonstrates that delegating monetary policy to an independent policy board with discretionary powers substantially reduces policy uncertainty while maintaining political accountability.Business cycles ; Economic policy
Banking and industrialization
No full textWe exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and structural transformation motivates the empirical approach. Since initial banking access in 1817 may have been endogenously determined, we use instrumental variables to predict the location of country banks founded before the industrial take-off could possibly be expected. Distance and subsectoral analysis suggest that the effect of finance is highly localized and particularly strong for intermediate secondary sectors
