105 research outputs found
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No full textAuthor Marjane Cloke at Life Underwriters meeting / Skyline Country Clu
My Book of Favourite Fables Adapted from Aesop's Fables
No full textThis is a smaller presentation of My Big Book of Favourite Tales by the same publisher in 1983. The plates are exactly the same but reduced proportionally. In fact, these illustrations are sharper. The colorful illustrated endpapers there are not reproduced here. The place of publication has changed from Hungary to Belgium. Of course, my first impression on receiving the book was that I had mistakenly bought another copy of a work I already had. Wrong again! My $.18 went for a new book. What good luck!This is a hardbound book (hard cover
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (USA copy)
No full textA cute big-format book with charmingly dressed mice. The expansions of the story do not all work well: the country mouse really is a boy scout, and do cars fit in a fable? The cover pictures may be the best of all in this charming kids' book. This U.S. copy has fascinating differences from the British copy: wheat vs. corn, wall vs. skirting board, and, best of all, a different date for when first published in USA.This is a hardbound book (hard cover
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (British copy)
No full textA cute big-format book with charmingly dressed mice. The expansions of the story do not all work well: the country mouse really is a boy scout, and do cars fit in a fable? The cover pictures may be the best of all in this charming kids' book. This British copy has fascinating differences from the U.S. copy: corn vs. wheat, skirting board vs. wall, and, best of all, a different date for when first published in USA.This is a hardbound book (hard cover
Polish identity in rural England
No full textWith Polish accession to the European Union in 2004 came an unprecedented wave of Polish migration to England. Marking it apart from previous waves of migration which settled in urban areas, this wave settled across the settlement hierarchy, resultantly described as geographically “ubiquitous” by Bauere et al (2007). This thesis takes as its inspiration a triad of influences; this migration wave; what the author deems seminal texts in rural geography (Philo 1992, Askins 2009, Panelli et al 2009); and personal circumstance (living in a rural area receiving Polish migrants for the first time) to chart that postulated as a lacuna (Burrell 2009); a study of the ways in which post-accession Polish identity is played out in rural areas. Wanting to focus on life in rural England as a whole rather than one specific strand, this thesis is by necessity broad, incorporating a number of strands of enquiry; the media migrant worker moral panic, community relations, Polish focussed service responses to Polish migration, and schemes delivered to the rural host population which aim to improve their encounters with migrant populations. What binds these themes together is the notion of hospitality, considering whether it is being extended or withheld, the reasons upon which such acts are predicated and the outcome upon those involved.
The thesis concludes that this grand wave of migration has rendered rural areas a thirdspace of possibility in both a physical (via service imprinting on the landscape) and social (via the forging of transnational friendships and in some instances, both Polish and migrant, hybridised identities) sense. It is postulated that the psychogeographies upon which relations are predicated – of which there are many, subtly nuanced and dependent upon the experiences of the individual - are in a state of flux and subject to revision with the passing of time, as are processes of hospitality extension (or indeed withholding). It is my belief that in detailing moments of hopeful engagement alongside moments of deep despair and reflecting upon their impacts upon identity, this thesis has heeded Askins (2005:53) call to embrace transrurality – a conceptualisation “that both encapsulates the specificities of place and is open to mobility and desire in order to displace rural England as only an exclusionary white space” and reposition it within transitional social imaginaries
The dialogic turn : how communication and collaborative modeling can enhance the educational turn
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Organometallic pentalene complexes*
No full textAbstract: There has been a recent renaissance in the organometallic chemistry of pentalene, following the discovery of the first complexes incorporating pentalene η 8 -ligated to a single metal center. This short review outlines recent work in the author's laboratory on the preparation of silylated pentalene ligands and the subsequent synthesis of novel, monometallic, and bimetallic pentalene sandwich and half-sandwich complexes of the f-and d-block elements
Repositioning the graphic designer as researcher
No full textIn academic terms, the discipline of graphic design is relatively young. Consequently the position of the discipline within academic territory, and the role of the designer, continue to be debated. In part, these debates have been a product of attempts to define and defend the discipline’s borders from within, in order to establish a sense of the role of graphic design and the graphic designer as commensurate with other disciplines both within and beyond art and design. In recent years graphic designers have variously been defined as ‘authors’, ‘producers’ and ‘readers’, yet none of these definitions seem to have provided any kind of productive or lasting impact within the academy. This paper suggests that rather than continue to seek territorial definitions and positions from within, it could be more productive to look beyond the confines of the discipline. Gaining a broader, interdisciplinary perspective on, and understanding of, qualitative research methods from other disciplines may enable the graphic designer to more fully position his or her practice within the wider academy. Such a perspective could help facilitate the repositioning and redefinition of the graphic designer as ‘researcher’ - a move that would be productive in relation to the future development of postgraduate research within the discipline
Re-phasing neoliberalism: New Labour and Britain's crisis of street homelessness
No full textIn this paper we continue the task of fleshing out understandings of ‘‘actually existing neoliberalism’’. More specifically, drawing on the work of Tom Ling, we suggest that Peck and Tickell’s recent distinction between periods of roll-back/roll-out neoliberalisation can usefully be supplemented by the identification of a second, more powerful moment of roll-out neoliberalism— described by Ling in terms of the shift from a system of governance to one of ‘‘governmentality’’. Illustrating our argument with an analysis of changing central government responses to a crisis of street homelessness in 1990s Britain, however, we draw attention to the uneven and often contrary effects of recent government policy in this field. The paper therefore concludes with a warning of the need to temper a reading of the juggernaut of roll-out neoliberalism with an awareness of the incomplete and plain ‘‘messy’’ character of actually existing neoliberalisation
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