Bøger af Peter King

This book consists of a single essay that speculates on the question what is housing?, and its opposite question, what is not housing?

Much of our experience of our immediate environment is quite ordinary and familiar, in particular, where we live. While policymakers and academics are constantly seeking transformations in housing, what we seek from our own housing is stability and lack of change. This book considers this experience of housing and how we depend upon it.

The antimodern condition is where we recognise that we dwell within traditions, which may evolve and change, but which keep us within the bounds of what is known and what works. This book takes a cross-disciplinary approach, integrating ideas from politics, philosophy.

A dwelling is quite clearly a physical entity. It prevents intrusion by unwanted others and allows us to pursue our own interests in relative peace and quiet. This books explores the relationship between the physicality of dwelling and the subjective meanings we attach to it, in particular, examining how we use the dwelling to ensure privacy.

With a Foreword by Benny Golson, Peter King's book ranks among the great jazz autobiographies. One of the world's leading alto saxophonists, he tells his story with searing honesty, revealing the obsessions and motivations that have driven him and the dilemmas of surviving as a top creative musician in an often inhospitable world. With unsparing selfanalysis he describes the traumas that accompanied his brilliant career for many years. Internationally recognised as a jazz star, Peter King has performed and recorded with a galaxy of musical legends, many of them his close friends. Among those vividly recalled in this book are Bud Powell, Milt Jackson, Ray Charles, Anita O'Day, Elvin Jones, Max Roach, Hampton Hawes, Al Haig, Philly Joe Jones, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Witherspoon, Dakota Staton, Red Rodney, Jon Hendricks, Tony Bennett and Marlene Dietrich. But while the story here centres on Peter King's life in jazz it shows other important sides of him too: his ambitions and achievements in classical composing, his interests outside music (he is a leading figure and writer in the aeromodelling world) and, above all, the treasured personal relationships that have sustained him through a turbulent life. Flying High tells of an exhilarating high altitude journey, in the jazz world and beyond.

God's Grace is a free gift to all Born Again Christians and accepting it and understanding it will make a huge difference in their lives. For Born Again Christian's it means a lot to them during their daily lives. Everything they do during their daily lives is being watched by God's Holy Spirit whilst guiding them throughout their lives. Their thoughts, words and actions mean a lot to God as it should to them. Every part of God's Grace is precious because it is a free gift and Born Again Christians treat it with great importance. God's Grace can provide the best a Born Again Christian can receive in their life because God promised everyone a perfect body and a perfect life. Born Again Christians will receive a new body and a new life when they enter Heaven and this is all because of their Saviour Jesus Christ who sacrificed his life on the cross because of their sins. For people who are not Born Again Christians, and not likely to be, God's Grace will mean nothing to them and even though they may think they understand and accept parts of it, Satan (The Devil) will be working on them to prevent them from receiving God's Grace. He will be creating as much bad and evil in their lives as possible and making their lives as hard as can be. That will include bad thoughts, words and deeds which most won't repent from. The author has a very strong faith and understands and accepts God's Grace all the time. The author knows he has sinned during his life and asks for forgiveness plus repents from his sins every day and wants God's Grace to be with him, through the guidance of God's Holy Spirit, for the rest of his earthly life. The author's friendship with God is very strong and will hopefully be a big help to others. God's Grace is not only a free gift but it does include a wide range of things that only Born Again Christians will know and be thinking of and feeling due to the fact they know God is with them all the time and is involved in their life continuously. God's Grace certainly does work.

This book considers the personal and subjective use of housing and the ways we use our housing, as well as discussion of a method for analysing these actions.

Outlining how the crisis in housing markets has arisen, this title presents an analysis that considers the causes of house price bubbles and the reason for the collapse in markets worldwide. It explains the ways in which future booms and busts can be mitigated and how the lessons of this housing bubble can be - finally - learnt.

One of the biggest challenges for students of housing is understanding the financial principles which underpin the place of housing in the wider economy. By taking a political economy approach, this book explains housing finance by exploring the way in which markets and governments react together.

The criminal law has often been seen as central to the role of the eighteenth-century landed elite. This volume explores issues such as who used the law, for what purposes and with what effects. It then challenges the view that the law was primarily the instrument of small elite, portraying it instead as an arena of struggle and compromise.

Examines the background to business practice in Europe of six major countries: Germany, France, Italy, the UK, Spain and the Netherlands. Each chapter in this book tracks the commercial development of that country in the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, focusing on the business environment, special features affecting business, and more.

Does the Coalition government represent a new politics in Britain, or is the new government just the same old Tories hiding behind an opportunist pact with the Liberal Democrats? Does Cameron differ from past Conservatives like Margaret Thatcher, and if so, how? This book looks at the Coalition government in the context of conservative ideas and seeks to assess what, if anything, is new about it. The book is aimed at undergraduates and those interested in the future direction of politics in the UK.

How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Through detailed studies of what the courts actually did, Peter King argues that parliament and the Westminster courts played a less important role in the process of law making than is usually assumed. Justice was often remade from the margins by magistrates, judges and others at the local level. His book also focuses on four specific themes - gender, youth, violent crime and the attack on customary rights. In doing so it highlights a variety of important changes - the relatively lenient treatment meted out to women by the late eighteenth century, the early development of the juvenile reformatory in England before 1825, i.e. before similar changes on the continent or in America, and the growing intolerance of the courts towards everyday violence. This study is invaluable reading to anyone interested in British political and legal history.

Much of what constitutes our experience of our immediate environment is quite ordinary and familiar, in particular, where we live

This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder.

A History of the Monastic Movement in the Latin Church

The book places the Papuan struggle in a context of failing reform within Indonesia and a politically reviving military: the feared and loathed TNI. King argues that international intervention to resolve Papua's plight is essential: Australia, the US and other countries must act in concert through the UN.

This book offers a distinctive approach to housing by combining a detailed critique of contemporary housing policy with a philosophical analysis of the role of the state and the capabilities of individuals

New Labour would like to portray 1997 as a new beginning for public policy, but Peter King argues that we now have, in housing and in other areas of public policy, a consensus based on Thatcherite reforms.