Policy evaluation is an important and well-established part of the policy process, facilitating and feeding back to promote the ongoing effectiveness of policies that have been implemented or anticipating policies in the making. Environmental policy is a special case, presenting new complexities uncommon to other areas, which standard evaluation tools are ill-equipped to grapple with. It is also an area that is experiencing rapid growth throughout the world and knowledge is now needed at a...

Although the fourteenth-century Italian merchant Francesco Datini has received attention from business historians, there has previously been no full study of his wife, Margherita Datini. Drawing on a sizable trove of Margherita’s correspondence held in the Archivio di Stato di Prato, including hundreds of letters she exchanged with Francesco, Ann Crabb investigates the social and economic importance of women’s roles as wives and mothers, early modern European views on honor, and the practi...

Are you waiting for the Fat Fairy? Desperate for that magical moment when your wobbly bits disappear in the blink of an eye?Julie Crabbe was. Julie had struggled with her weight since childhood, and when the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes struck, she found comfort in food and her weight ballooned. Finally she took back control of her life and eating, and lost 80kg – with no help from the Fat Fairy.Julie has helped hundreds of people achieve their own weight-loss goals, and i...

A little cute dog that is namee STRIPE. Everyone loves little STRIPE - he is so playful and fluffy. STRIPE is a sweet dog that loves to walk with you and licks your face. STRIPE belongs to these two little boys. Their names are Dezmond, and Marcos. Actually, this is their story that they are telling. This is their first dog, so they are trying their best to make STRIPE more happy. They love him so much. Read how they are going make him happy. STRIPE is having a birthday party by these two ...

In response to a growing interest, among historians as well as literary critics, in women's use of the epistolary genre, Women's Letters Across Europe, 1400-1700: Form and Persuasion analyzes persuasive techniques in the personal correspondence of late medieval and early modern women. It includes studies of well-known women (Isabella d'Este, Teresa of Avila, Marguerite de Navarre, Catherine de Medicis), of those less-known (Alessandra Macigni Strozzi, Louise de Coligny, Glikl of Hameln, Ar...

English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe was an English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form and his descriptions of middle and working-class life and people. Lord Byron, an avowed admirer of Crabbe's poetry, described him as "nature's sternest painter, yet the best." Crabbe's poetry was predominantly in the form of heroic couplets, an...