Colin Jones

The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced.

24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris

The Fall of Robespierre

From the Roman Emperor Julian, who waxed rhapsodic about Parisian wine and figs, to Henry Miller, who relished its seductive bohemia, Paris has been a perennial source of fascination for 2,000 years. In this definitive and illuminating history, Colin Jones walks us through the city that was a plague-infested charnel house during the Middle Ages, the bloody epicenter of the French Revolution, the muse of nineteenth-century Impressionist painters, and much more. Jones’s masterful narrative is enhanced by numerous photographs and feature boxes—on the Bastille or Josephine Baker, for instance—that complete a colorful and comprehensive portrait of a place that has endured Vikings, Black Death, and the Nazis to emerge as the heart of a resurgent Europe. This is a thrilling companion for history buffs and backpack, or armchair, travelers alike.

The Biography of a City

Paris

Smile Revolution

Dror Wahrman

"This superb collection of essays brings together the most exciting new work in cultural and literary history. Although the authors focus on the various cultural revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the significance of their investigations extends far beyond that moment. They show how the major categories of modern social life took root in this era, but they emphasize the surprising and often paradoxical ways those developments took place. Nothing about the experience of class, gender, race, nation, sentiment or even death was pre-ordained. These essays will enable readers to take a fresh new look at the origins of modernity."—Lynn Hunt, editor of The New Cultural History and coeditor of Beyond the Cultural Turn "This is a valuable and provocative set of essays. Differing markedly in subject matter, they are linked by their intelligence and concern to re-assess early modern English and French histories, and the differences conventionally drawn between them, in the light of current work on language, class, race and gender."—Linda Colley, author of Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

Britain and France, 1750-1820

The Age of Cultural Revolutions

Essays in Honour of Ivan Roots

Politics and People in Revolutionary England

'The Black House' is a record of black life and culture in 1970s London from one of the most celebrated photographers of his generation.

The Black House

Roy Porter

Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences. Focusing on the social history of medicine, successive chapters deal with his historiographical, methodological and philosophical writings, his ideas about prisons, hospitals, madness and disease, and his thinking about the body. The book also suggests ways in which Foucault's influence will continue to dominate cultural history and the social sciences.

Power, Medicine and the Body

Reassessing Foucault

Michael White

Neil Dunse

This timely book addresses key challenges faced by policy makersand the house-building industry in a post-credit crunch world. Itexamines the implications for households, the housing market, theeconomy, as well as for government's policy choices. Challenges of the Housing Economy: an internationalperspective brings together experts from around the world toexamine recent housing market trends. The contributions revealcommon long-term trends in housing markets worldwide. Despitedifferences in supply conditions and the role of planning, there isa trend toward rising house prices that has created significantbarriers to home ownership for young households while increasingthe wealth of older generations. The financial crisis had adifferential impact on housing markets but in many countries wheremortgage finance became severely constrained, house prices fell andthere was a dramatic fall in housing construction. The falls inhouse prices in these countries have ostensibly improvedaffordability but the housing markets have been dominated by thelowering of loan to values applicable to new mortgages which hasfurther raised the hurdles to potential first-time purchasers. At the same time as young households are increasingly rationedout of owner-occupation, public sector expenditure cut-backs inmany countries result in limited new social housing. Instead, valuefor money imperatives will mean new funding models for affordablehousing that require greater use of public-private partnerships.The private rented sector could potentially meet the demand for thenew generation of long-term renters. However, there are doubts - inthe UK at least - that this sector will be able to expandsignificantly or provide an appropriate type and standard ofhousing. This is an essential advanced text for students and researchersof land economy and land management; property and real estate;housing policy; and urban studies.

An International Perspective

Challenges of the Housing Economy

Rigid Inflatable Boats

This state-of-the-art treatment introduces the latest techniques and procedures for blackjack card counters on how to get away with the money today.

The Pros' Approach to Beating Blackjack

The 21st-Century Card Counter

In developing the first signature pedagogy for entrepreneurship education, Colin Jones unites the contexts of enterprise and education at the intersection of scholarship, transformational learning and student engagement. Good teaching for entrepreneurship is shown to emerge both from the educator and the students’ interest. For the educator, a process of scholarly leading is required to support student interest – from the alternate perspective, students require a willingness to welcome uncertainty and challenge the existing boundaries to effectively develop a capacity for self-negotiated action.

How to Teach Entrepreneurship

The vivid story of the creation, renovation, and enduring legacy of the most famous building in France: the palace of Versailles Nothing represents the glorious and fraught history of France quite like the Palace of Versailles. Made famous by the absolutist king Louis XIV, Versailles became legendary for the splendor of its revels-but then, after the Revolution of 1789, it fell into disrepute as a reminder of royal excess and abuse of power. Subsequent French governments struggled with how to handle the opulent palace and grounds-should the site be memorialized, trivialized, rehabilitated, or even destroyed outright? Drawing on a new wave of recent research, historian Colin Jones masterfully traces the evolution of Versailles as a space of royal politics and aristocratic pleasures, a building of mythic status, and one of the world's great tourist destinations. Accessible and compelling, this book is a must-read for all Francophiles.

Versailles

Chris Graham

I always had a problem when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up;I never knew what to say. I would have said astronaut, but I knew that the food was awful. I eventually started saying 'architect', which led to a university course and a good grounding in many design skills, but my heart was never really in it. What I didn't know then, and I didn't realise until recently, was that the very thing I wanted to do to make a living didn't even exist at the time. It might not even exist now. This is the story of the trainee wizard Slightly; how he came to be, how he almost disappeared forever, and how he returned after 25 years. Printed in full colour, and written by Slightly's original creator, the book also showcases the artwork of Chris Graham. Slightly Magic was a successful 90's computer game written by Colin Jones, author of Rock Star Ate My Hamster. Initially released on the ZX Spectrum, the game was published on a number of 8bit and 16bit formats. Colin has recently reprogrammed and remastered the game for a new generation, while keeping the original graphics and gameplay."

The Story of the Trainee Wizard Slightly; How He Came to Be, How He Almost Disappeared Forever, and How He Returned to Computer Games After 25 Years

The Making of Slightly Magic

Paul Weindling

Charles Rosenberg

A series of original studies on inter-war international health and welfare organisations.

International Health Organisations and Movements, 1918-1939

This is the first book that looks at how offices and officemarkets in cities have changed over the last 30 years. Itanalyses the long-term trends and processes within office markets,and the interaction with the spatial economy and the planning ofcities. It draws on examples around the world, and lookingforward at the future consequences of information communicationtechnologies and the sustainability agenda, it sets out thechallenges that now face investors. The traditional business centres of cities are losing theirdominance to the brash new centres of the 1980s and 1990s, as theconcept of the central business district becomes morediffuse. Edge cities, business space and office parks haveentered the vocabulary as offices have also decentralised. The nature and pace of changes to office markets set withinevolving spatial structures of cities has had implications fortenants and led to a demand for shorter leases. Theconsequence is a rethink of the traditional perception of propertyinvestment as a secure long term investment, and this is reflectedin reduced investment holding periods by financialinstitutions. Office Markets & Public Policy analyses theseprocesses and policy issues from an international perspective andcovers: A descriptive and theoretical base encompassing an historicalcontext, a review of the fundamentals of the demand for and supplyof the office market and offices as an investment. Embeddedwithin this section is a perspective on underlying forcesparticularly the influence of technological change. A synthesis of our understanding of the spatial structure anddynamics of local office markets at the city level. An assessment of the goals and influence of planning policies,and the evaluation of policies designed toward the long termsustainability of cities as services centres. This goes beyond standard real estate and urban economics booksby assessing the changing shape of urban office markets within aspatial theoretical and policy context. It will be a usefuladvanced text for honours and postgraduate students of landeconomy; land management; property and real estate; urban planning;and urban studies. It will also be of interest to researchers,property professionals, policy-makers and planningpractitioners.

Office Markets and Public Policy

Satwant Singh

Margaret Hooper

Hoarding is a condition where a person has a tendency to collect and save things excessively and has difficulty in getting rid of items. This results in a cluttered living space and often causes distress and impairs the person from being able to fully function in their home. It's a common condition that affects 2-5% of the population and has far-reaching consequences for sufferers, family, friends and the wider community, together with potential health and safety implications, with increased risk of injury or vermin. There has been increasing interest in the media which has raised public awareness of this problem, but there has been very little literature aimed at helping hoarders until now. There is no one reason why individuals hoard. For some, the hoarding behaviours are a way of coping with an emotional trauma. For others, there may be a strong attachment to certain objects, or a belief that certain materials have value - such as books, magazines and newspapers. Hoarding behaviour can also be a learnt behaviour from growing up in a cluttered environment. Sometimes unusual items or objects are hoarded including faeces and urine. Hoarding is a common condition but little is known about it. Almost everyone has some hoarding traits but these may not manifest themselves to the extent that it causes disruption to a person's life and space. The true prevalence of hoarding is not clear however it appears to be a growing problem. With the increased attention that hoarding is getting more people are beginning to recognize that they may have a problem. This book fills an important gap for a dedicated book on hoarding disorder, and uses CBT tools to help people recover, and reclaim their space and their life.

A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques

Overcoming Hoarding

The new complete version of the popular Welsh course. 'you may find that you can pick up Welsh more quickly than you thought.' Meic Stephens in the Western Mail. Cadw Swn is a complete Welsh course for adults which teaches Welsh as it is spoken in South Wales. It's suitable for complete beginners or as a revision aid. The course uses music and stories to ease and speed the learning process, and covers all the major tenses in an entertaining and pleasurable way. Some grammar is explained along the way, but only for those with an interest. Each lesson contains an episode of a story, printed side-by-side in both Welsh and English, so that the vocabulary is always to hand. The stories follow the lives of the inhabitants of Aberarthur, a sleepy Welsh village in the South. New! The 10 companion albums of audio are currently available for instant download to your PC or Mac at no extra cost, or you can pay a small fee to allow streaming to your iOs or Android phones or tablets, full details inside. There's never been a better time to learn Welsh!

The Speedy Way to Learn Welsh

Cadw Swn

the speedy way to learn Welsh using the revolutionary power of classical music

Cadw sŵn

Jonathan Barry

Queen Mary University of London Colin Jones

What have been the roles of charities and the state in supporting medical provision? These are issues of major relevance, as the assumptions and practices of the welfare state are increasingly thrown into doubt. This title offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe, up to the advent of welfare states in the 20th century. Through detailed case studies, the authors highlight significant differences between Britain, France, Italy and Germany, and offer a critical vocabulary for grasping the issues raised. This volume reflects recent developments relating to the role of charity in medicine, particularly the revival of interest in the place of voluntary provision in contemporary social policy. It emphasizes the changing balance of "care" and "cure" as the aim of medical charity, and shows how economic and political factors influenced the various forms of charity.

Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State

There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by Revolution in1789. The further story of the bloody unravelling of the Revolution until its seizure by Napoleon is equally astounding. Colin Jones' brilliant new book is the first in 40 years to describe the whole period. Jones' key point in this gripping narrative is that France was NOT doomed to Revolution and that the 'ancien regime' DID remain dynamic and innovatory, twisting and turning until finally stoven in by the intolerable costs and humiliation of its wars with Britain.

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