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Interviews with senior managers in schools, academy chains and regions indicate that the developing regional organization of schools is a more consistent context for reducing longstanding disparities in pupil attainment than the declining local authority systems it replaces. Long-term school partnerships can deal better with inequity in schooling

An exciting factual romp through sexual desire, practises and deviance in the Victorian era. The Victorian Guide to Sex will reveal advice and ideas on sexuality from the Victorian period. Drawing on both satirical and real life events from the period, it explores every facet of sexuality that the Victorians encountered.Reproducing original advertisements and letters, with extracts taken from memoirs, legal cases, newspaper advice columns, and collections held in the Museum of London and the British Museum, this book lifts the veil from historical sexual attitudes.

In a lively and gripping essay on contemporary politics, Peter Riddell remakes the case for representative democracy but concludes that it desperately needs to be strengthened. The effect of the expenses scandal has been to turn off both existing and potential representatives and voters. Naive reformers believe the answer is wholesale constitutional reform, but the result of that is likely to be stalemate and rule by powerful and well-funded vested interests. Instead, Riddell calls for a balance between popular participation and clear-cut decision making, underlining that political parties are

Recognizing the role of population policies in security issues, Katrina Riddell's study takes the examples of Pakistan and Iran to examine population growth as an international security issue and to understand Muslim states' interaction with global debates on sustainability.

Intro -- Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance -- Contents -- List of Boxes -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Part I Principles -- 1 Sustainable and Ethical -- Development, Planning and Sustainability -- Property, Interests and Neomodernity -- Property -- Interests -- Neomodernity -- Conservancy and Development Ethics -- Practice ethics -- With Sustainable and Ethical Intent -- 2 Knowledge Power Outcomes: The Theory Fundamentals -- How Planning Works -- Traditional-Lineal Planning -- The Radical-Multiplex Approach -- Progressive Change -- Part II Practice -- 3 Charter for Conservation with Development -- Backgrounding -- Foregrounding -- Resource Exploitation and Discard Dynamics -- Socio-Environmentalism: The New Reality -- The political ecology of scale shifts -- Resource Guardianship: Principles into Practice -- The Soft Pathways Matrix -- The New Culture: Balanced Harmony -- 4 Growth Pattern Management -- Multiplier Principles -- Growth Pattern Information Needs -- Data assembly and raw data analysis -- Linkage and pattern analyses -- Rural-urban understandings -- Growth Management Basics -- Project propagation (generation) -- Risk assessment and risk management -- Project implementation -- Macro Practice Patterns -- 'Ownerships' and 'rights' -- Urban-rural growth patterning -- Coastal zone management -- Agriculture and forestry -- Tourism -- Unemployment alleviation -- Waste disposal management -- Growth Pattern Policy Directions -- 5 Urban Growth Management -- Yesterday's Solutions, Today's Problems -- Suburbia and Ex-urbia Costed -- Urban Reforms: Options and Actions -- Urban social arrangement and style -- Ex-urban sprawl control -- Small-town conservation with development -- Water's edge urbanization -- ECO-village ideals -- Raw land suburbanization -- Urban retrofit compaction and clustering.