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157. Guide to the Lakes, 5th ed

Author

Leask, Nigel

Subjects
Guide to the Lakes, 5th Ed. (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
1993

158. A Literary Guide to the Lake District

Author

Leask, Nigel

Subjects
A Literary Guide to the Lake District (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
1993

159. Walking North with Keats

Author

Leask, Nigel

Subjects
Walking North with Keats (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Literature/writing
Published
1992

162. Reviews.

Author

Blurton, Heather, Turner, Marion, Parvini, Neema, Leask, Nigel, Liggins, Emma, Snaith, Anna, Baxter, Katherine Isobel, Goodman, Sam, Courage, Richard A., and Rau, Petra

Subjects
NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews several books including "Reading Literature Historically: Drama and Poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation," by Greg Walker, "Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768–1840," by Paul Smethurst, and "Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf," by Susan Bernstein.

Published
2013
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166. Shelley (Book Review).

Author

Leask, Nigel

Subjects
SHELLEY (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book 'Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World,' edited by Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran.

Published
1999
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167. Book reviews.

Author

Leask, Nigel

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COLERIDGE'S Visionary Languages (Book)
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Reviews the book `Coleridge's Visionary Languages: Essays in Honour of J.B. Beer,' by Tim Fulford and Morton D. Paley.

Published
1996

168. The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing.

Author

Leask, Nigel

Subjects
TRAVEL writing, NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing," edited by Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs.

Published
2003

169. Reviews.

Author

Leask, Nigel

Subjects
SIR William Jones (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the books `Sir William Jones: Selected Poetical and Prose Works,' edited by Michael J. Franklin and `Sir William Jones,' by Michael J. Franklin.

Published
1998

170. Beyond Frankenstein.

Author

Leask, Nigel

Subjects
*ROMANTICISM in literature, *BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abstract

Reviews books on the age of Romanticism in British literature. `Romantic Discourse & Political Modernity: Worsworth, the intellectual and cultural critique,' by Richard Bourke; `Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader,' by Lucy Newlyn; `The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism,' by William Galperin; `Radical Sensibility: Literature and ideas in the 1790s,' by Chris Jones; More.

Published
1993

171. Literary lakes.

Author

Leask, Nigel

Subjects
*BOOKS
Abstract

Rviews the book `A Literary Guide to the Lake District,' by Grevel Lindop and `Guide to the Lakes: Fifth edition,' by William Wordsworth and edited by Ernest de Selincourt.

Published
1993

172. Arduous sublimity.

Author

Leask, Nigel

Subjects
WALKING North With Keats (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Walking North with Keats,' by Carol Cyros Walker, a photographic interpretation of Keats' walking tour of the Lake District and Scotland in the summer of 1818 which avoids both circumstantial chit-chat and the genre of coffee-table gloss.

Published
1992

183. Governing the Brain: New narratives of human capital in Australian early childhood education

Author

Zsuzsa Millei, Lightfoot-Rueda, Theodora, Peach, Ruth Lynn, Leask, Nigel, Johtamiskorkeakoulu - School of Management, and University of Tampere

Subjects
Early childhood education, Sosiologia - Sociology, media_common.quotation_subject, Media studies, Human capital theory, Genetic endowment, Social issues, Human capital, Profit (economics), Sosiaali- ja yhteiskuntapolitiikka - Social policy, Unemployment, Narrative, Sociology, Positive economics, Kasvatustieteet - Educational sciences, media_common
Abstract

Becker (1964) at the University of Chicago originated the idea of human capital theory. In Becker’s understanding of the theory the individual is repositioned—as an actor in the social world—in the market of behaviors. According to his theory, as a rational actor, the individual optimizes his or her own “profit” by accumulating those behaviors and skills that make him or her more desirable on the market. At the heart of the theory lies the possibility of perfecting the human (Luke, 1997). By translating behavior into economic terms, human capital theory enabled the systematic application of economic theory to social issues, such as unemployment or the issue of minorities who dominated in lesser-skilled occupations. While this theory construes the individual in terms of two components, first, genetic endowment and second, acquired set of aptitudes (Besley & Peters, 2007), more emphasis in policy making has been placed on how best to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and aptitudes. Education, training, and parenting under the influence of policies using human capital reasoning became aligned with market goals and applied market terms, such as investment, return, competition, and so on.

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