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When sixteen-year-old Nathan Nathan was transported in one of the first convict ships to Australia, it was the best thing that could have happened, not only for him but, later, for all of his nine children and numerous members of his extended family who saw their future in the Antipodes. They all made good and some eventually returned to England - not to the impoverished East End, where it had all started, but to large houses in fashionable pa...

Productivity affects your daily life and how much happy you are. You can rapidly increase the quality of your life by boosting up your productivity. A productive person is no magician. He is exactly the same person as you are. He doesn't have any more time in their day than you do. The only difference between him and you is how he uses his time. Productivity isn't that much about efficiency but rather about effectiveness - what you do rather t...

The Mediterranean is an urban sea. Some of the world's most famous cities are clustered in this remarkably compact area. They have extraordinary stories to tell. From the earliest stirrings of civilization in the region to the Arab Spring these coastal cities have been on the frontline of change. Little has passed them by. Their histories are often measured in millennia, yet they remain highly topical in the modern world. The Mediterranean is ...

This text offers a detailed record of one of the world's oldest environmental pressure groups. It raises questions about the capacity of pressure groups to influence policy, and finally it assesses the campaing as a major factor in the emergence of modern town and planning, and as a backdrop against which to examine current issues.

This book charts the course of successive issues and campaigns - including the reconstruction of Britain's war-torn cities, to the introduction of green belts and new towns.

This book examines the contrasting ideologies and fortunes of utopian community experiments in the early twentieth century. The idea of creating a perfect society led to practical community experiments varying widely in ideology and form. The book starts by locating this episode of utopian ideas and community experiments within an existing tradition, drawing attention especially to nineteenth century precedents. Evidence of continuity is then ...