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Notes on the Contributors - Preface P.Catterall - Introduction H.Jones - A Bloodless Counter-Revolution: the Conservative Party and the Defence of Inequality, 1945-51 H.Jones - Consensus here, Consensus there...but not Consensus everywhere: the Labour Party, Equality and Social Policy in the 1950s N.Ellison - 'Not Reformed Capitalism, but...Democratic Socialism': the Ideology of the Labour Leadership, 1945-51 M.Francis - Conservative Elites, Strategy - and 'Consensus'? M.D.Kandiah - Consensus and Consumption: Rationing, Austerity and Controls after the War I.Zweiniger-Bargielowska - Butskellism, the Postwar Consensus and the Managed Economy N.Rollings - The Politics of the 'Social' and the 'Industrial' Wage, 1945-60 N.Whiteside - Industrial Organisation and Ownership, and a New Definition of the Postwar 'Consensus' H.Mercer - Decolonisation and Postwar Consensus N.Owen - Index

The aims of this article are to establish the extent of Vitruvius's knowledge of Athens, the other sources of his information on the city, and his preference for Hellenistic rather than Classical monuments. The following passages are analyzed: i, 6, 4, on the Tower of the Winds; ii, 1, 5, on a hut on the Areopagus; ii, 8, 9, on a wall at Athens which looks to Mt. Hymettus and Pentelicus, to be identified perhaps with the Long Walls between Athens and the Piraeus; iii, 2, 8, on the Olympieion; iv, 8, 4, on the Erechtheion and the temple of Athena Sounias; v, 9, 1, on the Colonnades of Eumenes II, on the shrine of Dionysos Eleuthereus, and on the Odeion of Perikles; vii, praef., 12, on the Parthenon and on the harbour of the Piraeus; vii, praef., 15, on the architects of the Olympieion; vii, praef., 16–17, on the telesterion of Eleusis and on the Olympieion. The conclusions are that, after having followed Caesar through Asia Minor in 47 BC, Vitruvius came back to Italy via the coa...

The present textbook An Introduction to Life Skills is designed to meet the needs of undergraduate students of Skill Enhancement Course in English. It is intended to help students to develop their personal and social skills which include, critical and lateral thinking, self-awareness, mindfulness and self-esteem, management of stress and anger, decision making, goal setting and time management, civic skills and social responsibility, cultural awareness and respecting diversity and gender roles. It will also help them to be digitally literate through the acquisition of knowledge of computer security, network safety, online transactions and search skills, MOOC and their utility, P2P networking and so on. The acquisition of these skills will help students to develop their abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour so as to deal effectively with the demands and the challenges of everyday life.