Author: Stephen Heap File Type: pdf Increasing numbers of young adults go to university. This book explores contemporary understandings of what universities are for, what impact they might be having on their students, and what visions of life and society are driving them. It criticises a narrow view of higher education which focuses on serving the economy. It argues that, for the sake of the common and individual good, universities need to be about forming citizens and societies as well as being an economic resource. It does so in the light of theological perspectives mainly from the Christian but also from the Muslim faith, and has a global as well as a British perspective. It brings together key thinkers in theology and higher education policy - including Rowan Williams, David Ford, Mike Higton, and Peter Scott - to present a unique perspective on institutions which help shape the lives of millions. **About the Author Stephen Heap is a Baptist minister who spent most of his ministry in University Chaplaincy in London and Bedford, where he was also Director of a Christian education centre. From 2008 to 2014 he was the Church of Englands National Higher Education Adviser. He is now a Visiting Professor at the University of Winchester, engaged in theological reflection on what it means to be an Anglican University, and has a consultancy role at the Cardiff Centre for Chaplaincy Studies. He is the author of the Grove Booklet What are Universities Good For? (2012) and various articles on higher education.

Author: Kanta Murali File Type: pdf For millions of poor people in the developing world, economic growth offers prospects for improved well-being. But what are the political and social conditions conducive to growth-oriented policies in poor democracies? This book addresses this highly consequential question by focusing on a specific empirical puzzle - policy variation across Indian states in the competition for private industrial investment, a phenomenon that came to the fore after the country adopted market reforms in 1991. Through the analysis of investment policies, this book offers a novel explanation, which links social identity, class, and economic policy outcomes. Its main findings highlight a link between pro-business policies and exclusionary political trends in Indias high growth phase, and offer a sobering perspective on the current model of growth in the country. It adds to our understanding of Indian political economy as well as to the dynamics of economic development in poor democracies.**Book DescriptionThis book offers a novel explanation of the determinants of economic policy in India in its high growth phase. It is written to meet the highest standards of scholarship and also to be accessible to a variety of readers including scholars, students, journalists, policymakers and anyone interested in the politics of economic development. About the Author Kanta Murali is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include comparative political economy of development, Indian politics, politics of growth and economic policy, state-business relations, and labor policy. She holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University, New Jersey and an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Author: Will Self File Type: epub Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces once again in a further post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship of psyche and place in a globalised world Psycho Too brings together a second helping of their very best words and pictures from Psychogeography, the columns they contributed to the Independent for half a decade. The introduction, Journey Through Britain is a new extended essay by Self, accompanied by Steadmans inimitable images. It tells of how Self journeyed to Dubai, that Gotterdammerung of the contemporary built environment, in order to walk the length of the artificial Britain-shaped island, in the offshore luxury housing development known as The World. Ranging from Istanbul to Los Angeles and from the crumbling coastline of East Yorkshire to the adamantine heads of Easter Island, Will Selfs engaging and disturbing vision is once again perfectly counter-pointed by Ralph Steadmans edgy and dazzling artwork. **From Publishers WeeklyThe travel essays and fantasias in this raucous sequel to Psychogeography register the psychic impact of place while mapping out the authors idiosyncratic mental terrain. Novelist Self views his surroundings through the lens of his gripes, alternately dire and whimsical, with modernity, embodied by the avertical deserta of Dubais soulless skyscrapers. Hes not overly fond of antiquity, either during a visit to Jerusalem, the Wailing Wall and the Via Dolorosa strike him, respectively, as aa large pile of breeze blocks and a rather smelly alley.a (Sometimes his surroundings fight back, as when hes attacked by seagulls in Scotland.) His ramblings sometimes wander into fictional riffs, like an imaginary trip to Bill Gatess house to discuss space-time and an account of aThe Great Vomit Wave of 08,a during which the worlds insupportable debt is physically regurgitated. Selfs scabrous, amphetamine prose revels in odd details and twisted associations for him, every map is a Rorschach blot that brings national sexual perversions leaping to mind. (Steadmans evocative illustrations, which look as if Jackson Pollock had dripped on cartoons by Picasso, provide an appropriately demented visual commentary.) Self is far from a reliable tour guide, but his eye for seldom-trod byways and offbeat insights make him a diverting travel companion. (Jan.) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Booklist In this follow-up to Self and Steadmans earlier collaboration, Psychogeography (2007), Self offers up another collection of essays, accompanied by Steadmans unique illustrations. Self, the British novelist and essayist, is known for his unconventional and frequently surreal novels (very much in the mold of J. G. Ballard, one of Selfs literary heroes). Here, in his familiar engaging and idiosyncratic prose style, he writes about a replica Britain off the coast of Dubai the British fascination with miniatures his favorite places to walk in the winter and other subjects that range from the unusual to the downright bizarre. These essays and their illustrations were originally published in the British newspaper The Independent, and its amusing to wonder what readers made of Steadmans brilliant but often unsettling artwork (an illustration accompanying the Dubai essay, for example, renders a series of oceanfront high-rises as a collection of Giger-like skeletal monstrosities). An engaging and completely unusual book. --David Pitt

Author: Eric Sandweiss File Type: pdf Charles Cushman (1896-1972) photographed a disappearing world in living color. Cushmans midcentury America--a place normally seen only through a scrim of gray--reveals itself as a place as vivid and real as the view through our window. The Day in Its Color introduces readers to Cushmans extraordinary work, a recently unearthed archive of photographs that is the largest known body of early color photographs by a single photographer, 14,500 in all, most shot on vivid, color-saturated Kodachrome stock. From 1938-1969, Cushman--a sometime businessman and amateur photographer with an uncanny eye for everyday detail--travelled constantly, shooting everything he encountered as he ventured from New York to New Orleans, Chicago to San Francisco, and everywhere in between. His photos include portraits, ethnographic studies, agricultural and industrial landscapes, movie sets and media events, children playing, laborers working, and thousands of street scenes, all precisely documented in time and place. The result is a chronicle of an era almost never seen, or even envisioned, in color. This well-preserved collection is all the more remarkable for having gone undiscovered for decades. What makes the photos most valuable, however, is the wide range of subjects, landscapes, and moods it captures--snapshots of a lost America as yet untouched by a homogenizing overlay of interstate highways, urban renewal, chain stores, and suburban development--a world of hand-painted signs, state fairs, ramshackle shops, small town living and bustling urban scenes. The book also reveals the fascinating and startling life story of the man who stood, unseen, on the other side of the lens, surely one of Americas most impressive amateur photographers and outsider artists. With over 150 gorgeous color prints, The Day in Its Color gives us one of the most evocative visual histories of mid-20th century America that we have. **