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Down East Bookshelf piece on three Maine mystery writers--Gerry Boyle, author
No full textDown East Bookshelf piece on three Maine mystery writers--Gerry Boyle, author of Pretty Dead; William Landay, author of Mission Flats; and Lee Child, author of Persuader. With author profiles and book reviews
What is Local Government for? Refocusing local governance to meet the challenges of the 21st Century
No full textSince the North East voted ‘No’ to an elected regional assembly, devolution in England has gone back to the drawing board.New Localism has not gone away. Yet for people in England to be convinced of the value of power being devolved to their communities, they need a local governance system that delivers something other than the ‘same again’ style politics that often passes them by. They need to feel confident that the local institutions they elect really do control what truly matters locally – transport and mobility, employability, crime and safety, management of the environment, healthy lifestyles, and community cohesion.What is local government for? offers a model of local governance in England that meets the challenges of the 21st Century. The author, local government expert Professor Gerry Stoker does so by reconsidering the purposes, functions and powers of local government, complete with new structures of governance at the strategic and neighbourhood levels. In doing so, he provides a way forward to a more accountable and engaging system of local politic
Preview of a reading by Maine author Gerry Boyle, which is being presented at No
No full textPreview of a reading by Maine author Gerry Boyle, which is being presented at Nonesuch Books in South Portland April 25
Novel Dialogue 1.6: Military Sci-Fi Minus the Misogyny: Kameron Hurley with Gerry Canavan (AV)
No full textGerry Canavan talks to geek feminist author Kameron Hurley about her Hugo-nominated novel The Light Brigade. A love-hate letter to military science fiction, The Light Brigade turns the form on its head. It is built around women fighters, queerness, and defying authority while being at the bottom of the chain of command. The novel also has surprising roots in the history of anti-apartheid resistance in South Africa where Kameron lived for a time to research women's roles in armed revolt. We discuss delayed reveals of characters' race and gender in sci-fi in light of the genre's history of White supremacy and male-dominated narratives. Kameron and Gerry also revisit some of the juiciest, pulpiest fiction around the stuff we loved as kids but don't talk about or teach in the classroom (shh!)
A review of the morphology, biology, distribution and conservation status of the New Caledonian scincid lizard Simiscincus aurantiacus (Reptilia: Scincidae)
No full textSadlier, Ross A., Swan, Gerry, Astrongatt, Stéphane, McCoy, Stephane, Bauer, Aaron M. (2018): A Review of the Morphology, Biology, Distribution and Conservation Status of the New Caledonian Scincid Lizard Simiscincus aurantiacus (Reptilia: Scincidae). Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 70 (5): 435-446, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1709, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.170
Figure 2 in A Review of the Morphology, Biology, Distribution and Conservation Status of the New Caledonian Scincid Lizard Simiscincus aurantiacus (Reptilia: Scincidae)
No full textFigure 2. Colouration of a typically boldly marked adult (sex unknown) Simiscincus aurantiacus from the Kwé River west.Published as part of Sadlier, Ross A., Swan, Gerry, Astrongatt, Stéphane, McCoy, Stephane & Bauer, Aaron M., 2018, A Review of the Morphology, Biology, Distribution and Conservation Status of the New Caledonian Scincid Lizard Simiscincus aurantiacus (Reptilia: Scincidae), pp. 435-446 in Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 70 (5) on page 438, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1709, http://zenodo.org/record/467716
Flood story: Gerry Davis [curator and exhibition catalogue author]
No full textExhibition organiser of Flood Story, an exhibition by Gerry Davies, accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with a foreword by Taylor, at Drawing Projects UK. Gerry Davies' exhibition, Flood Story, takes speculative thinking about global warming and rising sea levels to extremes. His drawings imagine environments so submerged, tangled and lost to us that they can only be visited by scuba divers. The drawings made in a silvery mix of graphite and varnish depict interiors, villages, towns and cities smashed and flooded. Banal 21st Century objects - clothes iron, bicycle – are silted down to become future fossils and archaeology. For us, today, inundation events on this scale are in the far future, yet when viewing these drawings the feeling is of looking back into history and a record of the past. Through this sense of a shift in time they suggest we, and the divers, have been transported forward in time to look back at the remains of our environmental folly. The first showing of this series of drawings, the exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue supported by Lancaster University, where Gerry Davies is a Senior Lecturer
Transforming local governance: from Thatcherism to New Labour
No full textDrawing on the author's unrivalled experience and expertise in both research and policy-making, this important new book provides a systematic assessment of the changing nature of local governance in Britain and a conceptual framework for understanding the new governance of localities. The author analyzes in detail what New Labour has been trying to do to local governance and management and assesses how and why it has achieved only a mixed record of change. The book concludes by providing a vision of good local governance and an assessment of future challenges for research and refor
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