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  • August 5, 2009
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  • northernireland-aboutus-events-livesentwined-3
    ‘Britain & Ireland: Lives Entwined III’ is a book of essays exploring the complex web of relations that exist between Britain and Ireland. Commissioned and published by the British Council, it follows two successful volumes of the same name published in 2005 and 2006, and the 2004 report Through Irish Eyes exploring changing attitudes towards the UK among young Irish people.
    (tags: Britain ireland cultural_diplomacy books)
  • Business Cards. itevenhasawatermark.com
    Great businesscards…in case the need ever arises…
    (tags: design graphic_design businesscards)
  • New Statesman – China's power to dominate
    Late Ernest Gellner, a social anthropologist, made a telling point when he observed that a key feature of most modern economies is that work is "semantic and communicative rather than physical". In other words, mastery of language and other cultural idioms – signs, symbols and metaphors – becomes progressively more important while working in fields and factories ends up having a marginal significance.
    (tags: brands China business economics)
  • Ageing and well-being in an international context: What can the UK learn from overseas?
    ippr event that I'm talking at in early September
    (tags: ageing social_care uk policy ippr)
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