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Just published: The state as cultural practice
My third book with Mark Bevir was published by Oxford University Press in March. We foreswore trees for the cover. Instead, we have used Gustave Doré ’s ‘The destruction of Leviathan’.
Prize
The public announcement may be a year late but the Institute of Public Administration Australia has awarded John Wanna and me the Sam Richardson Award for the most influential article published in 2007. See:
‘The Limits to Public Value, or Rescuing Responsible Government from the Platonic Guardians’, Australian Journal of Public Administration 66 (4) 2007: 406-421.
For information on the prize go to: http://www.ipaa.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=222
Published in 2009
Last year I had two books published. I chose the pictures for the covers and for no conscious reason, just happenstance, the recurrent motif was trees. So, for Comparing Westminster, we have trees on the plains.
For the Australian Political Science Association’s The Australian Study of Politics, the Australian National University gave us permission to reproduce Basil Hadley’s ‘ Almost a lizard under every tree’
Taiwan again
I earned my keep with four lectures. The first photographs shows mine host - Fisher (left) Chih-Mei (right) - and my interpreter - Chia-yu. Between them they made sure I had a splendid time. 
The high point was my visit to Yangmingshang National Park, especially the tea ceremony in the traditional farm house.
175 Heroes
Bradford College, or as I knew it, the Tech, has been providing education and training in the city since 1832. In 2008-9, it celebrated a 175 years of providing education and training in Bradford and as part of its celebrations it has web site with 175 of its alumni and, of course, a birthday cake.
I am one of the so-called ‘heroes, see: http://www.175heroes.org.uk/rod_rhodes.html. As I attended for three hours a night after a day’s work for three nights a week, I prefer the description ’survivor’!
