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Building a Railway: Bourne to Saxby (Publications of the Lincoln Record Society) - 090150386X
Nineteenth-century photographs, juxtaposed with the same scenes taken in today's world, bring the building of a Lincolnshire railway vividly to...... more
Nineteenth- century photographs, juxtaposed with the same scenes taken in today's world, bring the building of a Lincolnshire railway vividly to life. ... less
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Community Building in the Twenty-first Century - 193061862X
Pages: 290, Edition: illustrated edition, Paperback, School of American Research Press,U.S.
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Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England - Linda Levy Peck
A fascinating study of the ways in which the consumption of luxury goods transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in...... more
A fascinating study of the ways in which the consumption of luxury goods transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth- century England. Linda Levy Peck charts the development of new ways of shopping; new aspirations and identities shaped by print, continental travel, and trade to Asia, Africa, the East and West Indies; new building, furnishing, and collecting; and the new relationship of technology, luxury and science. As contemporaries eagerly appropriated and copied foreign material culture, the expansion of luxury consumption continued across the usual divide of the Civil War and the Interregnum and helped to propel England from the margins to the center of European growth and innovation. Her findings show for the first time the seventeenth- century origins of consumer society and she offers the reader an entirely new framework for the history of seventeenth- century England. ... less
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State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century: Governance and World Order in the Twenty-first Century - Francis Fukuyama
Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to...... more
Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. This book explains the concept of state- building and discusses the problems and causes of state weakness and its national and international effects. ... less
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Why Society is a Complex Matter: Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science - Philip Ball
Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to...... more
Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents - people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks - society can be regarded as a complex system. In recent years, scientists have made great progress in understanding how such complex systems operate, ranging from animal populations to earthquakes and weather. These systems show behaviours that cannot be predicted or intuited by focusing on the individual components, but which emerge spontaneously as a consequence of their interactions: they are said to be 'self-organized'. Attempts to direct or manage such emergent properties generally reveal that 'top-down' approaches, which try to dictate a particular outcome, are ineffectual, and that what is needed instead is a 'bottom-up' approach that aims to guide self-organization towards desirable states. This book shows how some of these ideas from the science of complexity can be applied to the study and management of social phenomena, including traffic flow, economic markets, opinion formation and the growth and structure of cities. Building on these successes, the book argues that the complex-systems view of the social sciences has now matured sufficiently for it to be possible, desirable and perhaps essential to attempt a grander objective: to integrate these efforts into a unified scheme for studying, understanding and ultimately predicting what happens in the world we have made. Such a scheme would require the mobilization and collaboration of many different research communities, and would allow society and its interactions with the physical environment to be explored through realistic models and large-scale data collection and analysis. It should enable us to find new and effective solutions to major global problems ... less
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Battle for the North: The Tay and Forth Bridges and the 19th-Century Railway Wars: The Building of the Tay and Forth Bridges and the 19th
The first Tay Bridge collapsed into the sea in 1879. Its fall shook society's confidence in Victorian engineering. This book follows the career of...... more
The first Tay Bridge collapsed into the sea in 1879. Its fall shook society's confidence in Victorian engineering. This book follows the career of engineer Thomas Bouch, ostracised from the engineering community when his bridge crashed into the Tay estuary. It also offers conclusions about why the first Tay Bridge collapsed. ... less
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Building a Railway: Bourne to Saxby (Publications of the Lincoln Record Society) - 090150386X
Nineteenth-century photographs, juxtaposed with the same scenes taken in today's world, bring the building of a Lincolnshire railway vividly to...... more
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Community Building in the Twenty-first Century - 193061862X
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Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England - Linda Levy Peck
A fascinating study of the ways in which the consumption of luxury goods transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in...... more
A fascinating study of the ways in which the consumption of luxury goods transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth- century England. Linda Levy Peck charts the development of new ways of shopping; new aspirations and identities shaped by print, continental travel, and trade to Asia, Africa, the East and West Indies; new building, furnishing, and collecting; and the new relationship of technology, luxury and science. As contemporaries eagerly appropriated and copied foreign material culture, the expansion of luxury consumption continued across the usual divide of the Civil War and the Interregnum and helped to propel England from the margins to the center of European growth and innovation. Her findings show for the first time the seventeenth- century origins of consumer society and she offers the reader an entirely new framework for the history of seventeenth- century England. ... less
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Knowing Capitalism (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) - Nigel Thrift
'This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profoundly...... more
'This is an ambitious, original, and complex treatment of key aspects of contemporary capitalism. It makes a major contribution because it profoundly destabilizes the scholarship on globalization, the so-called new economy, information technology, distinct contemporary business cultures and practices' - Saskia Sassen, author of Globalization and its Discontents 'Nigel Thrift offers us the sort of cultural analysis of global capitalism that has long been needed - one that emphasizes the innovative energy of global capitalism. The book avoids stale denouncements and offers instead a view of capitalism as a form of practice' - Karin Knorr Cetina, Professor of Sociology, University of Konstanz, Germany Capitalism is well known for producing a form of existence where 'everything solid melts into air'. But what happens when capitalism develops theories about itself? Are we moving into a condition in which capitalism can be said to possess a brain? These questions are pursued in this sparkling and thought-provoking book. Thrift looks at what he calls 'the cultural circuit of capitalism', the mechanism for generating new theories of capitalism.The book traces the rise of this circuit back to the 1960s when a series of institutions locked together to interrogate capitalism, to the present day, when these institutions are moving out to the Pacific basin and beyond. What have these theories produced? How have they been implicated in the speculative bubbles that characterized the late twentieth century? What part have they played in developing our understanding of human relations? Building on an inter-disciplinary approach which embraces the core social sciences, Thrift outlines an exciting new theory for understanding capitalism. His book is of interest to readers in Geography, Social Theory, Antrhopology and Cultural Economics. ... less
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Leek Building Society
Advantages: Small and efficient building society
Disadvantages: Rarely table topping rates
...The Leek Building Society's motto is "The friendlier face of finance". It was established in 1863 as The Leek United Permanent Benefit Building Society. Like a true building society, it is owned by its members (it's a mutual society) and so has no share-holders. While this might seem quite a minor difference, it means that there are no big investors baying for huge profits at the expense...
bobbieal
19.10.2012 22:47 ·
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Nationwide Building Society - Excellent Service!
Advantages: Good Customer Service, User Friendly Internet Banking Website
Disadvantages: None
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I opened a Current Account (Flex Account) with Nationwide Building Society in January 2007 when I started my previous job. In this review, I will report about the good service that I have received from them in the last 5 years.
Comprehensive Range of Products
Nationwide offer a wide of financial products to offer. Currently I have a Current account, Instant Access ISA...
Angela150
13.04.2011 19:51 (20.04.2011 19:18) ·
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Review of Nationwide Building Society
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Small building society with reasonable rates
Advantages: Occasional stunning rates
Disadvantages: Not on comparison sites, so easy to miss the good deals
...The Monmouth Building Society (MBS) was established in 1869 with the aim of providing ?a friendly, personal and efficient service, coupled with a range of highly competitive products and total financial security?. It is a true building society, it is owned by its members (it?s a mutual society) and so has no share-holders. While this might seem quite a minor difference, it means that there are no...
bobbieal
23.10.2012 21:28 (25.10.2012 22:51) ·
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Review of Monmouthshire Building Society
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