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The educational reformer of a hundred years ago could not turn readily to the educational journal which hardly existed in a serious form until well into the twentieth century. However, through the first half of the nine‐teenth century there were a number of important publications. From the 1860s onwards familiar names begin to appear as publishers turned to the ready market provided by the expansion of educational opportunity. From just before the Education Act of 1870 we find that some of the most consistent publishers of books on education are houses that have retained their interest to the present day. Macmillan, Murray, Chapman, Kegan Paul, Cambridge University Press and Longman are quite familiar imprints on many of the most significant works published between 1870 and the turn of the century. Changes in the curriculum and reform within the system itself also added an impetus to the demand for printed sources of information and debate.

The purpose of this chapter is to serve as a basic guide to introduce the reader to different types of valuation techniques utilized when valuing new technologies. The goal is to familiarize the reader with the differing techniques along with some of the issues in utilizing them. The chapter begins with the foundation of corporate finance – the time value of money – and moves through brief discussions on discounted cash flow, decision tree analysis, Monte-Carlo analysis, and real option analysis. The chapter ends with a discussion emphasizing the need to place valuation into a larger context of firm control rights and ownership.

Across much of the developed and developing world the last few years have been marked by protest against institutions and corporations. Much has been said about the significance of these protests, indeed books broadly supportive of anti‐corporate protest compete for ratings against management gurus in the best selling business book charts. In this paper we explore how the technology of marketing is implicated within the organisation and representation of anti‐corporate protests. We argue that the cynical and unreflexive manner in which cultural critics engage with marketing, and their attempts to distance marketing from activities that they privilege, may have consequences for the anti‐corporate movement. This paper concludes with a sense of pessimism about the current tactics employed by anti‐corporate protestors but hope in the potentiality of marketing to develop a sense of individual responsibility.

This paper considers the experience of developing and implementing a community‐based multidisciplinary rehabilitation service in the City of Wolverhampton. It outlines the process of defining and agreeing the service parameters, objectives and methods of service delivery and includes the main points from an initial evaluation of the team. The article concludes with key messages for consideration by others setting up a similar service.