What is the relation between social class and social justice? This is currently a matter of public as well as academic interest. In this compelling new study the authors bring together recent developments in normative thinking about social justice with new empirical findings about educational attainment and social mobility. The result is a path-breaking contribution to the study of class and justice, one that will be of interest to sociologists and political theorists for years to come.

Against the Odds?: Social Class and Social Justice in Industrial Societies

Politics & Social Sciences

Marshall, Gordon

Swift, Adam

Roberts, Stephen

Social Sciences

Clarendon Press

This authoritative register brings together a wealth of detailed historical and technical information about all the major combat ships in the U. S. Navy--from the sail frigates of the Revolution to today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines, from the ships of George Washington to the fleet that fought Operation Desert Storm. Conceived and developed by K. Jack Bauer before his death, and extended and brought up-to-date by Stephen S. Roberts, this reference guide is designed for the general student of American naval history, for military historians, for navy/ship buffs, and indeed for all who thirst for interesting information about American ships over the last 300 years. The volume contains tables, notes, sixty-eight photographs, a list of ship and engine builders, and indexes to the hull numbers and names of all ships included in the volume.
The register provides a brief introduction and then covers the Sail Navy (1775-1853), the Old Steam Navy (1814-1876), and the New Navy (1883 to present). Ships are arranged by type and then chronologically by date of authorization. The entry for each class begins with a listing of the key technical specifications, including important changes in armament. Next comes a table listing all the ships in the class with their builders and construction dates, and final disposition. The entry concludes with notes containing other essential information, including reconstructions, renamings, and reclassifications. In many cases these notes also indicate why the ships were built and point to the significance of their designs. Merchant ships acquired for service as major combatants are also described in an abbreviated format.

Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants

Bauer, K. J.

Reference

Greenwood

Until recently, in many parts of the world, all telephone wiring was the responsibility of the Public Telecommunications Operator, such as AT&T in the USA or British Telecom in the UK. Only PTOs or their agents were permitted to install, alter or remove telephone wiring within premises. Recent legislation means that anyone is permitted to do such work provided the appropriate regulations and codes of practice are followed. This book provides a practical guide to the installation of telephone wiring, from the simple, single extension socket to the Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PABX). First the functioning of the telephone system, with particular emphasis on the Local Loop connecting the subscriber and the local exchange, is described. Then the various sockets, connection devices and cables are shown. The chapter on installation techniques describes how to apply these components. Methods are suggested for implementing various schemes for single-line and multiple-line installations, from planning stage to commissioning. The next chapter deals with fault-finding and fault prevention, including fault-finding tables. Functional descriptions of all common types of apparatus designed to be connected to the telephone system are then given, including simple telephones, fax machines and modems. This chapter includes a wide range of accessories.Finally the necessary tools, test equipment and materials needed by installers are described. The text is supported by an extensive glossary of technical terms, abbreviations and acronyms, and in particular those peculiar to the telephone industry. Other appendices give supplier addresses and useful contacts, as well as providing circuit diagrams and descriptions of a number of telephone-related electronic devices.This book arms you with knowledge of regulations and techniques to help plan and implement telephone installations. Above all, this is a practical book for those intending to make a living from installing extensions and systems, for facilities managers responsible for workplace systems and who need to communicate effectively with installers and maintainers, and for those who prefer to do their own work around the house.Steve Roberts has a lifetime of experience in communications including time in space research with NASA, Cable and Wireless, and latterly in the manufacture of telecommunications equipment. He has written numerous articles and circuit ideas for magazines such as Electronics World and Wireless World. first practical guide to telephone installationdesigned for electricians and other installation engineersdetails and tips, not theory

Telephone Installation Handbook

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Newnes

The definitive guide to home and small business installation -- extensions, modems and telephone systems. Steve Roberts provides a practical guide to the installation of telephone wiring in Telephone Installation Handbook. The coverage of his book ranges from the simple, single extension socket to the Private Automative Branch Exchange (PABX), with the necessary tools, test equipment and materials needed by installers described throughout. The text is supported by an extensive glossary of technical terms, abbreviations and acronyms. Further appendices give supplier addresses and useful contacts, as well as providing circuit diagrams and descriptions of a number of telephone-related electronic devices. This book arms you with knowledge of regulations and techniques to help plan and implement telephone installations. Above all, this is a practical book for those intending to make a living from installing extensions and systems, for facilities managers responsible for workplace systems, for those who need to communicate effectively with telephone engineers, and for those who prefer to do their own work around the house. The new edition has been updated throughout, and now includes extended information on ISDN and also a new chapter covering CAT5 cabling -- its implementation and integration.

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

This is a pictorial record of the Chartist Movement. Photography was in its infancy in those years and the only photographic record of a Chartist gathering is of the last of the great meetings in April 1848. Pictures of the Chartists themselves as they appeared in those years are all from wood or metal engravings mostly published by Chartist newspapers. An introduction provides a background to the pictures and their captions.

Images of Chartism

History

Thompson, Dorothy

Europe

Merlin Press

During the second half of the nineteenth century the country houses of leading statesmen became part of the political vocabulary. Gladstone's Hawarden, Disraeli's Hughenden, Salisbury's Hatfield House would all have been familiar place names to those who took an interest in politics. As a man with great ambitions for himself in the political world, and with a son who was being made ready to follow in his footsteps, Joseph Chamberlain wished to own a house that reflected his status and importance. The result was Highbury, situated several miles south of the town centre, which became the Birmingham home for Chamberlain and his family in 1880. But Highbury was more than a family home; it was also a public symbol, a physical reminder of Joe's national importance and local political control. Statesmen regularly arrived to be entertained and to formulate their political plans at Highbury, and were photographed on the terrace which overlooked the magnificent gardens, another feature designed to impress. The house and gardens were widely written about in the newspapers and magazines of the day. This essay, drawing on this material and personal recollections, offers a glimpse into life in a very public private house.

Joseph Chamberlain's Highbury: A Very Public Private House

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

‘Now, Mr Editor! I should very much like to know who is to blame …’ Birmingham Journal, 24 February 1838. This book was inspired by one letter to a newspaper. In January 1842 a correspondent to one of the Birmingham newspapers expressed his view that police constables, when they had nothing else to do, should be instructed to clear the foot paths of snow. From this unintentionally amusing letter grew this project, which collects together over sixty letters published in Aris’s Birmingham Gazette and the Birmingham Journal from 1820 to 1850. Correspondents wrote in to their newspapers to complain about prostitution, bull-baiting, the state of their streets, the shortcomings of their police constables, the cost and comfort of railway travel and that most dangerous preacher George Dawson. Taken together these letters provide a fascinating insight into life in Birmingham in the first half of the nineteenth century. The letters are accompanied Eliezer Edwards’ splendid essay describing Birmingham in the late 1830s. This essay has been edited, and extensive footnotes provide much detail about the people and places mentioned by Edwards.

Now Mr Editor!: Letters to the Newspapers of Nineteenth Century Birmingham

World

This book is made up of five biographical studies ranging across the trades of nineteenth century Birmingham. As well as the lead chapter about the pen maker Joseph Gillott, there are essays on the brass founder Robert Walter Winfield, the glass manufacturer Rice Harris, the button and electroplate manufacturer James Deykin and the rule manufacturer John Rabone. The antiquarian J.A. Langford – himself once a chair maker - was much impressed by a description of what was manufactured in Birmingham in one week in the 1870s: ‘A week’s work in Birmingham, in its aggregate results, is something wonderful. It comprises the fabrication of 14,000,000 of pens, 6,000 bedsteads, 7,000 guns, 300,000 of cut nails, 100,000,000 of buttons, 1,000 saddles, 5,000,000 of copper and bronze coins, 20,000 pairs of spectacles, 6 tons of papier mache ware, £30,000 worth of jewellery, 4,000 miles of iron and steel wire, 10 tons of pins, 5 tons of hair pins, hooks, eyes and eyelets, 130,000 gross of wood screws, 500 tons of nuts, screw bolts, spikes and rivets, 50 tons of wrought iron hinges, 350 miles length of wax for vestas, 40 tons of refined metal, 40 tons of German silver, 1,000 dozen of fenders, 3,500 bellows, 1,000 roasting jacks, 150 sewing machines, 800 tons of brass and copper wares, besides the almost endless multitude of miscellaneous articles of which no statistics can be given, but which, like those enumerated, find employment for hundreds and thousands of busy hands, and are destined to supply the manifold wants of humanity from China to Peru.’

Joseph Gillott: And Four Other Birmingham Manufacturers 1784-1892

Unresolved - A Journey

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Independently published

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