Vernon White

Claire Foster-Gilbert

Jane Sinclair

Good governance is a fundamental value in the United Kingdom, and its citizens are entitled to expect that public officials, both elected and non-elected, behave according to the highest standards of ethical behavior. Of course, these aspirations alone are not enough to root out corruption in government. In order for integrity in public life to be maintained, the core principles underlying these expectations must be constantly examined and strengthened. This new volume, published in collaboration with the Westminster Abbey Institute, explores ways in which public service institutions can maintain integrity on both the institutional and the individual level. While keeping the power of the individual in mind, the authors also illustrate the critical role institutions play in upholding values when the moral compass of individuals in power fails. Integrity in Public Life provides an essential guide to integrity, seeking to answer the fundamentals of what integrity means in public life and why it holds such a critical role in the constitution of Britain.

Integrity in Public Life

When I was five my mother followed her lover, Arthur Boyd, to London, taking me with her. My book covers the two years we lived there before returning to Australia in 1962, when my mother was three months pregnant to an Englishman. As an adult, Jane Sinclair discovered the exchange of letters from 1961 to 1962 between her parents Jean Langley, artist, and John Sinclair, music critic. Jane was five years old when Jean left her husband and took her to London to be close to her lover. Set in England and Australia, at a time when their friends John and Sunday Reed were high-profile arts patrons at their property Heide during a period of sexual liberation and a flowering of the arts, the complex relationship between Jane’s parents emerges through an exchange of long, often heartbreaking letters and journal entries. The powerful words are strengthened by photographs from that period. The distinctive cover design was painted by the author. Letter from Jean to John, 18 Oct 1961: There is no news except that a shocking little upstart called Brett Whiteley won an important art prize in Paris. There is a beautiful Nolan exhibition on (American Sketch Book). Also on show are some pages of his writings and I was most moved. Charles Blackman has his show in about two weeks.

Letters from a Difficult Marriage

Shy Love Smiles and Acid Drops

Lorna Uden

Dario Liberona

Yu-Hui Tao

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Learning Technology for Education in Cloud, LTEC 2014, held in Santiago, Chile, in September 2014. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on MOOC for learning; learning technologies; learning in higher education; case study in learning.

Third International Workshop, LTEC 2014, Santiago, Chile, September 2-5, 2014. Proceedings

Learning Technology for Education in Cloud - MOOC and Big Data

A clean Regency Romance short read.Sophia Harding was a well brought up young lady, a little bored and with no great expectations for herself. After the death of the old Marquess, she is suddenly faced with the prospect of marriage to his presumed heir, Cornelius Beaumont, a man detested by her father. Their family circumstances would not permit her to remain unmarried but her father has an idea.Jonathan Beaumont was a young city dweller in the United States who knew little of his family background. After he arrived in England to claim his estate, Sophia had to teach him the customs of a gentleman and unadmitted feelings began to develop between them.Jonathan found himself in conflict with his cousin who didn't want to lose Sophia as well as the estate. Sophia felt powerless to refuse Cornelius' proposal. Her father and Jonathan will need all their luck to turn this situation around. Can they succeed against Cornelius?

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