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Hall, Michael A. "Philip Frank Wareing. 27 April 1914 — 29 March 1996." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 45 (January 1999): 507–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1999.0033.
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Philip Wareing was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, and after World War I moved to Benfleet and then to Watford, where he received his schooling. After leaving school he entered the Civil Service and took his BSc at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he studied part-time. After service during World War II in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, he took up a post as a demonstrator and then an assistant lecturer at Bedford College, University of London, obtaining his PhD in 1948. In 1950 he moved to the Department of Botany at Manchester and in 1958 he was appointed Professor of Botany in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in which post he remained until his retirement in 1981.
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Hodgetts, Michael. "Philip Harris (1926-2018)." British Catholic History 34, no. 03 (April 12, 2019): 371–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bch.2019.1.
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Philip Harris, who died on 21 July 2018 at the age of ninety-one, was born in Woodford, Essex, and educated at St Anthony’s School in Woodford (1932-7), St Ignatius College in London (1937-44), Birkbeck College, London, and the Institute of Historical Research. In 1953 he was awarded an M.A. for a thesis on ‘English Trade with the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late 16th Century’. From 1947 onwards he was on the staff of the British Museum (of which the Library was then part), becoming Assistant Secretary in 1959, Deputy Superintendent of the Reading Room in 1963 and Deputy Keeper in 1966. He was in charge in turn of the Acquisitions, the English and North European, and the West European Branches of the Department of Printed Books. In 1998 he published his History of the British Museum Library, the fruit of more than ten years’ research after his ‘retirement’ in 1986.1 His final project there, almost complete when he died, was on the Old Royal Library donated to the Museum by George II.2 At his funeral the first reading was read by a former head of the Chinese Department there.
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Moody, Christopher J. "Charles Wayne Rees CBE. 15 October 1927 — 21 September 2006." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 61 (January 2015): 351–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2015.0023.
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Charles Rees was an eminent organic chemist. He specialized in the area of heterocyclic chemistry—the study of rings made up of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur atoms—an important subject given that many medicines, agrochemicals, dyes and reprographic materials, as well as a very large number of naturally occurring compounds, including the DNA bases, the building blocks of life itself, are heterocyclic molecules. His scientific work was dominated by two overarching themes: reactive intermediates, in particular neutral, electron-deficient species such as carbenes, nitrenes and arynes, and unusual ring systems, particularly strained rings and novel aromatic systems, including those rich in sulphur and nitrogen atoms. Born in 1927, he was educated at Farnham Grammar School, then spent three years at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, before going to University College Southampton (later Southampton University) (BSc 1950, PhD 1953). After a postdoctoral period, he was appointed assistant lecturer at Birkbeck College, London, in 1955, before moving to a lectureship at King’s College, London, and subsequently to chairs at the University of Leicester (1965), the University of Liverpool (1969) and Imperial College, London (1978). He was elected to the Royal Society in 1974 and appointed CBE in 1995. He died in London in 2006.
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Ridley, Philip, and Aleks Sierz. "‘Putting a New Lens on the World’: the Art of Theatrical Alchemy." New Theatre Quarterly 25, no. 2 (May 2009): 109–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x09000207.
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Philip Ridley is one of the most imaginative and sensational playwrights working in Britain today. Born in 1964, he began by studying painting at St Martin's School of Art in London and wrote the highly acclaimed screenplay for The Krays (1990). He made his theatre debut at the Bush Theatre in 1991 with The Pitchfork Disney. Since then, other plays have included The Fastest Clock in the Universe (Hampstead, 1992), Ghost from a Perfect Place (Hampstead, 1994), Vincent River (Hampstead, 2000; Trafalgar Studios, 2007), and the highly controversial Mercury Fur (Paines Plough/Plymouth, 2005). This was followed by Leaves of Glass (Soho, 2007) and Piranah Heights (Soho, 2008). He's also written five plays for young people and many books for children, as well as directing two films from his own screenplays, The Reflecting Skin (1990) and The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995). Ridley continues to divide opinion: depending on your point of view, he's either Britain's sickest playwright or a singular, prolific, and amazingly visionary genius. What follows is an edited transcript of Aleks Sierz talking to Philip Ridley in one of the ‘Theatre Conversations’ series at Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, University of London, on 25 October 2007. Aleks Sierz, a Contributing Editor of NTQ, is theatre critic of Tribune and author of the seminal study In-Yer-Face Theatre (Faber, 2001).
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Gordon, Avery F., Katherine Hite, and Daniela Jara. "Haunting and thinking from the Utopian margins: Conversation with Avery Gordon." Memory Studies 13, no. 3 (June 2020): 337–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698020914017.
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Avery Gordon’s work exceeds the limits of disciplinary boundaries and so does her practice. She uses the term ‘itinerant’ to describe her strategies of inhabiting multidisciplinary spaces and of critiquing the worlds, peripheries and fractures produced by racial capitalism. Gordon moves as an intellectual itinerant, creating multidirectional and interdisciplinary dialogues as a sociology scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, while also collaborating with artist. Since 1997, Gordon speaks as a public intellectual on her KCSB FM radio programme, ‘No Alibis’, co-hosted with Elizabeth Robinson. She is also a visiting professor at the Birkbeck School of Law, University of London. In the tradition of critical thinkers, Gordon’s work starts from a sense of urgency, exposed and developed in different ways in her major works, including her path-breaking book Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (University of Minnesota Press), her teaching and writing on prisons and the carceral system, and her most recent book The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins (Fordham University Press). In January 2018, we invited Gordon to Santiago, Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights, to deliver the talk, ‘Pensar desde los Márgenes Utópicos/Haunted Futures: The Utopian Margins’. Gordon also took a guided visit through Chile’s Estadio Nacional Memoria Nacional/National Stadium National Memory site. Here is an extended conversation on the topics that frame her work, like ghosts, haunting and utopia, and on questions that emerge from the memory studies field and that are of concern to our special issue.
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Falconer, Kenneth, Peter M. Gruber, Adam Ostaszewski, and Trevor Stuart. "Claude Ambrose Rogers. 1 November 1920 — 5 December 2005." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 61 (January 2015): 403–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2015.0007.
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Claude Ambrose Rogers and his identical twin brother, Stephen Clifford, were born in Cambridge in 1920 and came from a long scientific heritage. Their great-great-grandfather, Davies Gilbert, was President of the Royal Society from 1827 to 1830; their father was a Fellow of the Society and distinguished for his work in tropical medicine. After attending boarding school at Berkhamsted with his twin brother from the age of 8 years, Ambrose, who had developed very different scientific interests from those of his father, entered University College London in 1938 to study mathematics. He completed the course in 1940 and graduated in 1941 with first-class honours, by which time the UK had been at war with Germany for two years. He joined the Applied Ballistics Branch of the Ministry of Supply in 1940, where he worked until 1945, apparently on calculations using radar data to direct anti-aircraft fire. However, this did not lead to research interests in applied mathematics, but rather to several areas of pure mathematics. Ambrose's PhD research was at Birkbeck College, London, under the supervision of L. S. Bosanquet and R. G. Cooke. Although his first paper was a short note on linear transformations of convergent series, his substantive early work was on the geometry of numbers. Later, Rogers became known for his very wide interests in mathematics, including not only geometry of numbers but also Hausdorff measures, convexity and analytic sets, as described in this memoir. Ambrose was married in 1952 to Joan North, and they had two daughters, Jane and Petra, to form a happy family.
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Hunter, Michael. "Report. Robert Boyle for the twenty-ndash;first century." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 59, no. 1 (January 22, 2005): 87–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2004.0072.
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In recent years, major steps have been taken in terms of understanding and exploiting the vast archive of Robert Boyle (1627–91), which was presented to The Royal Society in 1769. The collection was first catalogued in the 1980s; since then, it has been extensively used in preparing the definitive editions of Boyle's Works (14 vols, 1999–2000) and Correspondence (6 vols, 2001), both published by Pickering & Chatto, and the edition of his ‘workdiaries’, which has been available online since 2001. Now, thanks to a generous grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, various steps have been taken to enhance access to the archive—particularly by electronic means, and especially through the provision of high–quality digitized images of its key components—and thus to increase understanding of Boyle and his significance for the origins of modern science. The project, entitled ‘Robert Boyle for the twenty–first century’, is a joint initiative between Birkbeck (University of London), The Royal Society and Access to Archives. It has three main components: first, the revision of the catalogue of the Boyle archive and its presentation in online, searchable form; second, the creation of digitized images of the entire content of the core volumes of the Boyle Papers and the publication of these on the World Wide Web, some as illustrations to an updated edition of the workdiaries; and third, the provision of introductory material on Boyle aimed at schools on the Boyle website at Birkbeck.
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Panosso Netto, Alexandre. "Resenha de livro: O negócio da administração do Turismo." Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo 2, no. 4 (November 1, 2008): 130–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.7784/rbtur.v2i4.122.
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BEECH, John; CHADWICK, Simon. (Eds). The business of Tourism Management. Londres: Prentice Hall, 2006. 577 p. (19,5cm x 26,5 cm). The business of Tourism Management foi editado por John Beech (Coventry Business School, Coventry University) e Simon Chadwick (Birkbech College, University of London).O livro em questão contou com a participação de outros 26 renomados autores de turismo que escrevem em língua inglesa. São 24 capítulos divididos em três partes, a saber: Parte 1 – The context of tourism; Parte 2 – Business functions applied to tourism; Parte 3 – Management issues specific to tourism businesses. The business of tourism management, é uma preciosa ferramenta para professores e estudantes de turismo que dominam o idioma inglês. O papel utilizado para fazer o livro é originário de florestas sustentáveis, de qualidade e com diagramação que evita que a leitura torne-se cansativa. Pela qualidade do texto e pela qualidade geral do material a editora fez um alto investimento, o que leva a crer que este livro foi escrito para concorrer com os principais manuais de turismo existentes do mercado. Por ter uma abordagem generalista, o texto perde um pouco em profundidade, mas mesmo assim alcança o objetivo ao qual se propõe.
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"Book Reviews." Journal of Economic Literature 53, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 129–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jel.53.1.115.r9.
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John W. Budd of the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies, University of Minnesota reviews “Trade Unions in Western Europe: Hard Times, Hard Choices”, by Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick and Richard Hyman. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the challenges facing trade unions and their responses in ten west European countries—Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy. Discusses varieties of industrial relations and trade unionism; challenges and responses; renewing power resources—recruitment, representation, and mobilization; restructuring trade unionism—mergers and organizational redesign; bargaining in adversity—decentralization, social partnership, and the crisis; unions and politics—parties, alliances, and the battle of ideas; beyond national boundaries—unions, Europe, and the world; and reconciling strategy and democracy. Gumbrell-McCormick is Senior Lecturer in Management at Birkbeck College, University of London. Hyman is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.”
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"Cell scientist to watch – Anthony Roberts." Journal of Cell Science 134, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): jcs256172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jcs.256172.
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ABSTRACTAnthony Roberts studied biochemistry at Imperial College London, UK. He then pursued a PhD in molecular and cellular biology with Peter Knight and Stan Burgess at the University of Leeds, UK, where he studied the mechanism of the dynein motor protein. After this, Anthony moved to Boston, USA, for his postdoctoral work with Samara Reck-Peterson, at the Harvard Medical School, focussing on cytoplasmic dynein regulation. In late 2014, he returned to London, UK to start his own lab at the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology at Birkbeck, University of London, and University College London (UCL), where he is now a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Proleptic Senior Lecturer. Anthony received the Biochemical Society Early Career Research Award in 2016, a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council New Investigator Award in 2017, and was elected to the EMBO Young Investigator Programme in 2018. His lab is focussing on the mechanisms of microtubule-based transport within cilia and flagella.