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Re-imagining Cultural Studies restores Williams to a central position in relation to the formation and development of cultural studies. The book is a much-needed reappraisal of the Williams approach, correcting misinterpretations and demonstrating its singular relevance to the problems and potentials facing cultural studies today

As developed by Immanuel Wallerstein and various co-thinkers, world-systems analysis is essentially an approach to economic history and historical sociology that has been largely indifferent to literary studies. This indifference is perhaps surprising given that the Annales school, which clearly influenced Wallerstein's work, produced a foundational account of the emergence of modern western literature in Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin's L'apparition du livre (1958). More recently, literary scholars have attempted to apply this kind of analysis directly to their own field. The best-known instances are probably Pascale Casanova's La republique mondiale des lettres (1999), Franco Moretti's Distant Reading (2013) and the Warwick Research Collective's Combined and Uneven Development (2015). More recently still, Andrew Milner in Australia and Jerry Määttä in Sweden have sought to apply "distant reading" more specifically to the genre of science fiction. Milner's model of the "global SF field" identifies an original Anglo-French core, supplemented by more recent American and Japanese cores, longstanding Russian, German, Polish and Czech semi-peripheries, an emergent Chinese semi-periphery, and a periphery comprising the rest of the world. This essay attempts to apply that model to what Adam Trexler has termed "Anthropocene fictions" and Daniel Bloom "cli-fi", which we treat here as a significant sub-genre of contemporary science fiction.

Using documentary evidence and interviews from leading policy actors from the period, 'Women and Employment in Public Policy' takes as its starting point the UK Women and Work Commission, which was convened in 2004 to examine causes of the gender pay gap.

First published in 1969, African Penal Systems is the first book to explore the problems of African criminology. Sixteen distinguished contributors- sociologists, lawyers, and psychiatrists- each an authority on some aspect of African penal problems, have collaborated to produce it.

Where do you find rainforests? -- How do plants and animals live? -- What does a rainforest look like? -- Why are rainforests important? -- Discover an amazing variety of rainforest plants -- The fight for light -- Plants and their pollinators -- Plants and their seed spreaders -- The cycle of life -- Meet the wonderful animals that live in tropical rainforests -- Animal hunters -- Camouflaging creatures and colorful warnings -- Safety in numbers -- finding a mate -- Growing up in the rainforest -- Why do rainforests need protection? -- Deforestation -- How does climate change affect rainforests? -- Rainforest recovery -- How can you help? -- Make your own mini rainforest -- Protecting the places that are precious.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Maps -- PART ONE. THE ORPHAN SERVICE -- PART TWO. FINDING A ROLE -- PART THREE. SECURING A PLACE -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index

An examination of how corporate managers and public policymakers addressed the consequences of market power in mid-twentieth-century America.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Where Did It All Go Right? -- Chapter 2: Roots -- Chapter 3: Lazing on a Sunny Afternoon -- Chapter 4: And So to Work -- Chapter 5: 1978 - Starting Up Alone -- Chapter 6: Billy Tobin Esquire -- Chapter 7: Verballed! -- Chapter 8: The Brink's-Mat Robbery -- Chapter 9: The Trials of Kenneth Noye -- Chapter 10: Twelve Good Men and True -- Chapter 11: Prison Visits -- Chapter 12: Freddie Foreman - The Last Legend of the Underworld -- Chapter 13: Freedom -- Chapter 14: Goldfinger -- Chapter 15: Vinnie Jones - Fame to the Rescue -- Chapter 16: Curb Your Tongue -- Chapter 17: The Dome Robbery - Genuine Fake -- Chapter 18: Squeaky Bum Time -- Chapter 19: Some of My Favourite Stories -- the disappearance of lord lucan -- cri de coeur -- sumptuous innuendo -- an unexpected helicopter -- a cool customer -- a backhanded compliment -- pink champagne -- Chapter 20: Don't Be So Humble - You're Not That Great! -- Chapter 21: The Man Who Loved KitKats -- Chapter 22: The Magnificent Seven -- victor durand qc -- john mathew qc -- robin simpson qc -- bruce laughland qc -- michael corkery qc -- ronald thwaites qc -- david whitehouse qc -- Chapter 23: One Man's Work Is Another Man's Play -- Plates -- Copyright -- * -- Chapter 1 -- †.

Among the political institutions inherited from Canada's British past is the system by which people are elected to office. This electoral system, used by only a small minority of stable democracies, is usually referred to by a metaphor whose origins lie in the British passion for horse racing: first-past-the-post (FPTP). Yet FPTP is on the defensive even in countries with British institutions - starting with Britain itself, which has made important changes and is debating others. Australia and Ireland from the start adopted systems that significantly differed from FPTP. Even in the US, proportional (PR) systems are being discussed and, at the local level, being tried out. And in 1996 New Zealand went all the way and adopted the German form of PF. If New Zealand, the most British of Britain's ex-colonies could turn its back on FPTP, it is not surprising that it has found favour in the new South Africa or among the democracies that emerged in the wake of the demise of Communism. Yet the debate over electoral system reform is largely absent in Canada despite the outcome of recent federal elections making Canada a textbook example of how FPTP can regionalize political party representation in Parliament. This sorely needed discussion will be fostered by this book, which brings the best up-to-date analyses and critiques from the best qualified observers to bear on the Canadian situation both from at home and abroad