Reyner Banham Revisited
Reyner Banham Revisited

Author: Richard J. Williams

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1789144175

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Reyner Banham (1922–88) was a prolific, iconoclastic critic of modern architecture, cities, and mass culture in Britain and the United States, and his provocative writings are inescapable in these areas. His 1971 book on Los Angeles was groundbreaking in what it told Californians about their own metropolis, and architects about what cities might be if freed from tradition. Banham’s obsession with technology, and his talent for thinking the unthinkable, mean his work still resonates now, more than thirty years after his death. This book explores the full breadth of his career and his legacy, dealing not only with his major books, but a wide range of his journalism and media outputs, as well as the singular character of Banham himself.

The Changing Face of Christianity
The Changing Face of Christianity

Author: Lamin O. Sanneh

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0195177282

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The questions and answers about Christianity and its contemporary mission now being formed in the African churches will have enormous influence in the years to come. This volume offers nine new essays addressing this sea-change and its importance for the future of Christianity.

The Society of Accountants in Edinburgh, 1854-1914
The Society of Accountants in Edinburgh, 1854-1914

Author: Stephen P. Walker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-04

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 100016781X

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This book, first published in 1988, provides an analysis of recruitment to the new profession of nineteenth-century accountancy, and in doing so, gives an insight into the complex origins and behaviour of the emergent professional classes. Unlike most studies, this is a study of all recruits, not only of those who succeeded in becoming qualified. This permits an analysis of the whole process of recruitment, including the choice of accountancy as a career option and as a vehicle of social mobility.

Opening Schools and Closing Prisons
Opening Schools and Closing Prisons

Author: Andrew G. Ralston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-11-10

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1315409712

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The book covers the period from 1812, when the Tron Riot in Edinburgh dramatically drew attention to the ‘lamentable extent of juvenile depravity’, up to 1872, when the Education Act (Scotland) inaugurated a system of universal schooling. During the 1840s and 1850s in particular there was a move away from a punitive approach to young offenders to one based on reformation and prevention. Scotland played a key role in developing reformatory institutions – notably the Glasgow House of Refuge, the largest of its type in the UK – and industrial schools which provided meals and education for children in danger of falling into crime. These schools were pioneered in Aberdeen by Sheriff William Watson and in Edinburgh by the Reverend Thomas Guthrie and exerted considerable influence throughout the United Kingdom. The experience of the Scottish schools was crucial in the development of legislation for a national, UK-wide system between 1854 and 1866.