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Author: Negley Harte Publisher: UCL Press ISBN: 1787352943 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 179
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From its foundation in 1826, UCL embraced a progressive and pioneering spirit. It was the first university in England to admit students regardless of religion and made higher education affordable and accessible to a much broader section of society. It was also effectively the first university to welcome women on equal terms with men. From the outset UCL showed a commitment to innovative ideas and new methods of teaching and research. This book charts the history of UCL from 1826 through to the present day, highlighting its many contributions to society in Britain and around the world. It covers the expansion of the university through the growth in student numbers and institutional mergers. It documents shifts in governance throughout the years and the changing social and economic context in which UCL operated, including challenging periods of reconstruction after two World Wars. Today UCL is one of the powerhouses of research and teaching, and a truly global university. It is currently seventh in the QS World University Rankings. This completely revised and updated edition features a new chapter based on interviews with key individuals at UCL. It comes at a time of ambitious development for UCL with the establishment of an entirely new campus in East London, UCL East, and Provost Michael Arthur’s ‘UCL 2034’ strategy which aims to secure the university’s long-term future and commits UCL to delivering global impact.
Author: Negley Harte Publisher: UCL Press ISBN: 1787352943 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 179
Book Description
From its foundation in 1826, UCL embraced a progressive and pioneering spirit. It was the first university in England to admit students regardless of religion and made higher education affordable and accessible to a much broader section of society. It was also effectively the first university to welcome women on equal terms with men. From the outset UCL showed a commitment to innovative ideas and new methods of teaching and research. This book charts the history of UCL from 1826 through to the present day, highlighting its many contributions to society in Britain and around the world. It covers the expansion of the university through the growth in student numbers and institutional mergers. It documents shifts in governance throughout the years and the changing social and economic context in which UCL operated, including challenging periods of reconstruction after two World Wars. Today UCL is one of the powerhouses of research and teaching, and a truly global university. It is currently seventh in the QS World University Rankings. This completely revised and updated edition features a new chapter based on interviews with key individuals at UCL. It comes at a time of ambitious development for UCL with the establishment of an entirely new campus in East London, UCL East, and Provost Michael Arthur’s ‘UCL 2034’ strategy which aims to secure the university’s long-term future and commits UCL to delivering global impact.
Author: Dr Joyce Davidson Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 1409488047 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 335
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Recent years have witnessed a rapid rise in engagement with emotion and affect across a broad range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with geographers among others making a significant contribution by examining the emotional intersections between people and places. Building on the achievements of Emotional Geographies (2005), the editors have brought together leading scholars such as Nigel Thrift, Alphonso Lingis and Frances Dyson as well as young, up and coming academics from a diverse range of disciplines to investigate feelings and affect in various spatial and social contexts, environments and landscapes. The book is divided into five sections covering the themes of remembering, understanding, mourning, belonging, and enchanting.
Author: Catriona McPherson Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1250015944 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 329
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"Guaranteed to appeal to those who never got over the death of Dorothy L. Sayers."--Financial Times (UK) Aristocratic and delightfully witty amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver was greeted with boisterous cheers from readers and reviewers alike in Catriona McPherson's previous outing, Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains, which The Boston Globe named one of the best crime novels of 2011. In this new book in this charming and funny series, Dandy is caught between two feuding families who run rival department stores. Dandy's services are needed when the heiress to one of the stores goes missing. As Dandy starts to unravel long-hidden family secrets, she begins to discover disturbing connections, and it's not long before danger abounds. "With witty dialogue and low-key humor, McPherson's series is a great choice for Jacqueline Winspear, Carola Dunn, and Amy Patricia Meade fans. A strong traditional offering with sly humor, a love of dogs, and not too much violence. A real contender for the Agathas!"(Library Journal, starred review), Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder is one mystery not to be missed.
Author: Barry Buzan Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139480766 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 401
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International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which approaches ranging from traditional Realist analysis to Feminism and Post-colonialism are in play. It sets out the driving forces that shaped debates in ISS, shows what makes ISS a single conversation across its diversity, and gives an authoritative account of debates on all the main topics within ISS. This is an unparalleled survey of the literature and institutions of ISS that will be an invaluable guide for all students and scholars of ISS, whether traditionalist, 'new agenda' or critical.
Author: Nikolas S. Rose Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books ISBN: Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 312
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Author: Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786455225 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 265
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The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.
Author: Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 570
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In this study, which is first of all a folk-lore study, we pursue principally an anthropo-psychological method of interpreting the Celtic belief in fairies, though we do not hesitate now and then to call in the aid of philology; and we make good use of the evidence offered by mythologies, religions, metaphysics, and physical sciences.
Author: Caroline Irby Publisher: Black Dog Pub Limited ISBN: 9781906155933 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 159
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Photographer Caroline Irby has interviewed and photographed children from 185 countries who have migrated to the UK. Of the hundreds of thousands of migrants to the UK each year, 26,000 of them are children. Irby set out to interview one child from each of the 192 countries in the world (according to the UN); 185 children agreed to take part in the project. The result is both a look at the countries represented and the multicultural layered image of the UK. The photographs of the children aged 0 to 16 years old are accompanied by interviews from the children themselves, where they are given the opportunity to give their side of the story. The children discuss their expectations of the UK, feelings upon arrival, cultural differences, ideas on community and thoughts on the future, along with details on their everyday life, school, family, friends, employment, food and lifestyle. Often the children have had difficult upbringings and have been forced out of their countries due to war, poverty or disease. For them the UK represents a new start and a wealth of opportunities. These interviews, though harrowing at times, are ultimately a positive commentary on the hope and optimism of children. The mix of international children reflects the world's wars, natural disasters and despots painting a vivid image of the world today. Irby interviewed and photographed a Mongolian girl from a nomadic tribe who grew up in a yurt, herding sheep and who now lives in a council house in Leicester; Johnette from Liberia, who fled the war with the father she had never met and now lives in a quiet cul-de-sac in Northampton, and who longs to return to the exuberance of her native country; and Emmanuel from Sudan, now living in Bolton, and still getting used to the sight of people kissing in the street. The result is a visually and emotionally engaging portrayal that allows the children to speak for themselves providing a unique insight into the effects of globalization.
Author: Negley Harte
Author: Negley Harte
Author: Dr Joyce Davidson
Author: Robert Fergusson
Author: Catriona McPherson
Author: Barry Buzan
Author: Nikolas S. Rose
Author: Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Author: Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
Author: Caroline Irby
Author: John Wilson