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Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 520

Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-03-31
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Public housing estates are disappearing from London’s skyline in the name of regeneration, while new mixed-tenure developments are arising in their place. This richly illustrated book provides a vivid interdisciplinary account of the controversial urban policy of demolition and rebuilding amid London’s housing crisis and the polarisation between the city’s have-nots and have-lots. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with over 180 residents living in some of the capital’s most deprived areas, Watt shows the dramatic ways that estate regeneration is reshaping London, fuelling socio-spatial inequalities via state-led gentrification. Foregrounding resident experiences and perspectives both before and during regeneration, he examines class, place belonging, home and neighbourhood, and argues that the endless regeneration process results in degeneration, displacement and fragmented communities.

More Than a Psycho the Complete Films of Anthony Perkins
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

More Than a Psycho the Complete Films of Anthony Perkins

Anthony Perkins is best known for playing Norman Bates in Psycho. Its notoriety and success ensured he remained one of filmdom's most recognisable faces for the rest of his life... and beyond. Yet there were those (Perkins included) who felt he never truly shook the screen persona of the knife-wielding, mother-obsessed, cross-dressing psychopath, and he was often labelled on the strength of his most notorious role - thus giving a distorted view of a career which spanned four decades and almost sixty movies. In More Than A Psycho: The Complete Films Of Anthony Perkins, Dawn and Jonathon Dabell take a closer look at the actor's entire body of work. Their book provides cast and crew details, an extensive image gallery, background information and considered critical analysis for every title. Perkins was, they argue, more than just a prominent screen villain - his talent and versatility went much further, his wider oeuvre encompassing everything from romance to comedy, war to western, musical to sci-fi. With a foreword by highly regarded film and pop culture historian Paul Talbot, this is the essential guide to the career of Anthony Perkins.

Red Gloves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 75

Red Gloves

In this follow-up to her acclaimed debut The Met Office Advises Caution, Rebecca Watts observes and tests the limits of humanity's engagement with the non-human. By turns lyrical and narrative, the poems examine familiar subjects - environmental crisis, hawks, hospitals, the sea, barbecues, flowers, Emily Dickinson - only to find their subjects staring, sometimes fighting, back. Nature and nurture, equally red in tooth and claw, power a book-long sparring match between the overthinking poet and the ever-thoughtless universe, between the craft's isolation and the world's irrepressible variety. Gloves on and gloves off, the poet's hands destroy and build, gather and scatter, caress and strike.

Global Political Ecology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 464

Global Political Ecology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-12-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies. This critical volume draws together contributions from twenty-five leading intellectuals in the field. It begins with an introductory chapter that introduces the readers to political ecology and summarizes the books main findings. The following seven sections cover topics on the political ecology of war and the disaster state; fuelling capitalism: e...

Sailing to Jessica
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Sailing to Jessica

At 35-years old, Kelly and Paul Watts sold their home and quit their jobs to sail around the world, without any sailing experience. Two days after purchasing their forty-two-foot sloop, they got caught in a forty-knot gale off the coast of Cape Fear, NC. Their sails ripped; the engine overheated; the GPS broke; they suffered hypothermia and severe seasickness. And yet they persevered on their journey, discovering the playful sea lions of the Galapagos, the seductive dance of the Polynesian girls, and the primitive beat of Tuvaluan music, all while learning how to sail and repair their boat. They narrowly avoided a shark attack in Suwarrow, fled from suspected pirates off the coast of Ecuador...

Watts; the Aftermath
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Watts; the Aftermath

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Understanding Character Education: Approaches, Applications and Issues
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

Understanding Character Education: Approaches, Applications and Issues

Understanding Character Education introduces readers to the key ideas, practices and concepts that are shaping character education in schools today. The book explores the principles underpinning character education and the pedagogical practices which ensure it comes alive in schools. Each chapter includes a variety of features to help navigate through the ideas, themes and practices examined. These include: •Chapter objectives to help readers understand the core focus and intentions of each chapter •Reflective activities to help readers to think more deeply about particular ideas and issues, and to consider how practices described are, or could be, applied in their own contexts •Case s...

Doing Q Methodological Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

Doing Q Methodological Research

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-03-19
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  • Publisher: SAGE

This book is a simple yet thorough introduction to Q methodology, a research technique designed to capture the subjective or first-person viewpoints of its participants. Watts and Stenner outline the key theoretical concepts developed by William Stephenson, the founder of Q methodology, including subjectivity, concourse theory and abduction. They then turn to the practicalities of delivering high quality Q methodological research. Using worked examples throughout, the reader is guided through: • important design issues • the conduct of fieldwork • all the analytic processes of Q methodology, including factor extraction, factor rotation and factor interpretation. Drawing on helpful conceptual introductions to potentially difficult statistical concepts and a step-by-step guide to running Q methodological analyses using dedicated software, this book enables interested readers to design, manage, analyse, interpret and publish their own Q methodological research.

Micro Reaction Technology in Organic Synthesis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 453

Micro Reaction Technology in Organic Synthesis

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-19
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

While continuous processes have found widespread application within chemical production, members of the research and development communities have historically favored the centuries old technique of iterative batch reactions. With the exception of combinatorial and microwave chemistry, little had been done to change the way that synthetic chemists c

Seller Finance UK
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 54

Seller Finance UK

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-02-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Seller Finance UK is the short easy to read guide to making massive profits selling property and providing the finance to do it. Long before banking even existed assets changed hands and when people wanted to sell goods to somebody who could not make a full payment at the time of exchange. Agreements were made to take payment over time. Financing the purchase of goods you wish to sell is common practise around the world; here in the UK with easy access to mortgages, simplicity to obtain a mortgage and the regulations governing them has made the practise virtually die out. Now with the change in availability of mortgages and the discounts people are being expected to take on selling their property it is the perfect time to revive a oldie but goody way of doing business. Banks make vast profits lending people money to buy property and you can too. Even if you don't have the cash you can lend money using the equity in your property.