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How Britain's railways are organised is the book's running theme. It is an account that will interest anyone wanting to understand how things could be run better. Written by John Nelson who was centrally involved in all of the controversial changes that took place over the last half century, it draws on his own public and private sector experience to provide evidence based opinion of what needs to be done now.Along the way he describes what the post Beeching railway was like to work in; the internal battles that raged during the commercialisation of BR in the 1980s; the ideological privatisation process of the 1990s and how it nearly came unstuck; how the first franchises were awarded and the motivations of their owners; how some were saved from financial collapse; and how first Railtrack and then franchising ran into the sand. He describes how all attempts to put right the mistakes made when trains and infrastructure were separated have failed. In describing key events he explains the roles of many of the senior managers, civil servants and politicians who were centrally involved.This book shows that the country's railway was only organised effectively for a brief period during the early 1990s. Politically-motivated reforms then and since have created an industry that today is neither truly privatised nor fit for purpose.

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Theoretical spectroscopy. Spectroscopic techniques --- fysicochemie --- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

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Experimental Buddhism highlights the complex and often wrenching interactions between long-established religious traditions and rapid social, cultural, and economic change. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, it is one of the first studies to give readers a sense of what is happening on the front lines as progressive Buddhist priests try to reboot their roles and traditions to gain greater significance in Japanese society. The work's central theme of experimental Buddhism provides a fresh perspective to understand how priests and other individuals employ Buddhist traditions in selective and pragmatic ways, frequently risking criticism from their peers, constituents, and high-ranking religious authorities.

Buddhism --- Buddhism and social problems --- Customs and practices. --- Social aspects --- Buddhism - Japan - Customs and practices. --- Buddhism and social problems - Japan. --- Buddhism - Social aspects - Japan.

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J1918 --- J1910.90 --- J1915 --- J1917.80 --- Shinto --- Shinto shrines --- Shinto temples --- Shrines, Shinto --- Temples, Shinto --- Shinto pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Religions --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- shrines and pilgrimage --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- history -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- rituals and practices --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- relations -- society, sociology --- Shinto shrines. --- Shinto. --- Shrines

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In this volume, the author aims to apply rhetorical analysis first to political theory, and then to politics in practice. He offers an examination of political science and political theory as fields of study, and undertakes a series of creative examinations of political rhetoric.

Political science. --- Rhetoric --- Political aspects. --- Political Science --- Language Arts & Disciplines --- Political science --- Language arts & disciplines