The Crown Glass Cutter and Glazier's Manual
The Crown Glass Cutter and Glazier's Manual

Author: William Cooper (Glazier)

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-11-26

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781729858646

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This special re-print edition of "The Crown Glass Cutter and Glazier's Manual" is a guide to glass cutting and window glazing. Written in 1835 by William Cooper, who was the official glazier to the King of Scotland, this classic text provides insight into everything a person would wish to know about the ancient art of window glazing and glass cutting. Included are details on the creation of painted and stained glass. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.

Ministerial Leadership
Ministerial Leadership

Author: Leighton Andrews

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024-01-16

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 3031500083

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Ministerial Leadership offers a practice-based account of how ministers in UK governments perform their roles and exercise leadership in their spaces of activity. Drawing on the unique Ministers Reflect archive of the Institute for Government, which is an open and growing resource of over 140 ministerial interviews at UK and devolved government levels, as well as other ministerial reflections, the book addresses the literature on ministerial life and political leadership, and develops new concepts for examining ministerial leadership in different spheres. It argues that the relationship between ministers and civil servants has changed significantly in recent decades, as ministers place greater emphasis on delivery and implementation. The book adopts a theoretically pluralist approach with the intention of offering a valuable teaching aid for existing and new courses. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy and governance.

The What Works Centres
The What Works Centres

Author: Michael Sanders

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1447365100

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The last decade has seen a growing focus on producing evidence-based policy and practice in governments around the world – with a specific focus on causal evidence of the impacts of a particular policy on outcomes for citizens. The UK is a key example of this, with the establishment of 14 What Works Centres which collate, create and translate evidence in different policy and practice domains. In this book, leaders, researchers and practitioners from these institutions share insights to help understand what has worked so far in the Centres, and what could be done better in future. It offers guidance to policy makers and funders looking to establish new centres, and for academics looking to create similar institutions that can have a practical impact on the improvement of the world around us.

Baudelaire's Prose Poems
Baudelaire's Prose Poems

Author: Sonya Stephens

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780198158776

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The aim of this book is to offer a new reading of Baudelaire's Petits Poemes en prose which demonstrates the significance of ironic otherness for the theory and functioning of the work and for the genre of the prose poem itself. The book considers Baudelaire's choice of this genre and the wayin which he seeks to define it, both paratextually and textually. It examines the ways in which the prose poem depends on dualities and deboublements as forms of lyrical and narrative difference which, in their turn, reveal ideological otherness and declare the oppositionality of the prose poem.Finally, the book demonstrates a relationship between these forms of otherness and Baudelaire's theory of the popular comic arts and, in doing so, proposes that the prose poems should be read as literary caricature.

Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts
Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts

Author: Robert Snell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0415543851

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What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other? 'This book is about what Freud called "freely" or "evenly suspended attention", a form of listening, a kind of receptive incomprehension, which is fundamental and mandatory for the practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. The author steps outside the usual parameters of psychoanalytic writing and explores how works of art and literature which elicit and require such listening began to appear in Europe, in abundance, from the late eighteenth-century onwards. Uncertainties, Mysteries, Doubts is a timely reminder, in the present era of audit and manualisation, of some of psychoanalysis's deep and living cultural roots. It hopes- by immersing the reader in the emotional, critical and contextual worlds of some artists and poets of Romanticism- to help psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and counsellors in the endless challenge of staying open to their clients and patients, faced as we all are, therapists and clients alike, by multiple pressures to knowledgeable closure.