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Creating the AHRC
An Arts and Humanities Research Council for the United Kingdom in the Twenty-first Century
Häftad, 2008
241 kr
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This is the first complete account of the establishment of the Arts and Humanities Research Council among the Research Councils of the United Kingdom in 2005. It focuses on the campaign carried forward from the 1997 Dearing Report to the 2004 Higher Education Act to establish a public agency …
John Milton
Life, Writing, Reputation
Häftad, 2010
443 kr
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This volume offers a series of fresh explorations of the life, writing, and reputation of John Milton. The ten papers take us inside Milton's verse and prose, into the context of the events and the intellectual debates within which they were written, and into the later worlds within which his …
The Ages of Voluntarism
How we got to the Big Society
Av Hilton, Matthew Hilton m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
287 kr
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In May 2010, Britain's new Coalition government embarked on its journey to the Big Society. But how did we reach this point? Politicians and commentators have long bemoaned the supposed decline of civic life, fretting about its health and its future. In fact, the real story of voluntarism over the …
Free Will and Modern Science
Av Swinburne, Richard Swinburne
Häftad, 2011
309 kr
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Do humans have a free choice of which actions to perform? Three recent developments of modern science can help us to answer this question. First, new investigative tools have enabled us to study the processes in our brains which accompanying our decisions. The pioneer work of Benjamin Libet has led …
The Role of Labour Standards in Development
From theory to sustainable practice
Häftad, 2011
353 kr
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This edited collection examines the multi-faceted ways in which labour standards can play a role in the achievement of development. A variety of critical perspectives are presented here, with contributions from a number of different disciplines, including law, politics, and economics. The book …
Writing the History of the Global
Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
Av Berg, Maxine Berg
Häftad, 2013
365 kr
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The early part of the twenty-first century has witnessed a profound turn in history writing and museum culture towards global and world history. Historians and curators are rapidly changing what they do: no longer satisfied with traditional national histories and area studies, they are pursuing …
Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious Future
Av Timothy O'Riordan, Timothy Lenton
Häftad, 2013
460 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at British Academy Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Tipping points are zones or thresholds of profound changes in …
The Legacy of Thatcherism
Assessing and Exploring Thatcherite Social and Economic Policies
Häftad, 2014
443 kr
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Three decades after the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, it is perhaps time to take stock of the concept of 'Thatcherism' and the prominent role it has played in the history of post-war Britain. Of course, there is much debate about what Thatcherism actually was or is. Some …
