Highly adaptive societies will determine whether civilization survives the challenges of the 21st century. Choosing Survival presents this startling new concept, defining such societies and showing how they have evolved, spread around the world, created a complex interactive network, and become the principal drivers of social change. The extraordinary events associated with the global evolution of highly adaptive societies are presented continent by continent and nation by nation. This uni...

Create a true culture of inclusionAlthough progress has been made around equality for many marginalized groups, people with disabilities are still massively underrepresented in organizations’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts. People with disabilities make up at least 15% of the population, yet they are still too often overlooked. Many people with disabilities are highly motivated, create fantastic work, and add tremendous value to organizations....

The mafia are closer than you think...For most of us in Britain, the Mafia seems as distant as the characters in "Goodfellas," "Gomorrah," or "The Godfather" trilogy. However, the truth is far more sinister.Drawing from his groundbreaking Sky series, renowned journalist and fearless investigator Ross Kemp delves into the depths of the Mafia's influence within the UK - unveiling the Mafia bosses, capos, and hitmen who work next door, from caravan parks to sh...

At a time when the United States debates how deeply to involve itself in Iraq and Syria, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Zacchea, USMC (Ret.), holds a unique vantage point on our still-ongoing war. Deployed to Iraq in March 2004, his team's mission was to build, train, and lead in combat the first Iraqi army battalion trained by the US military. Zacchea tells a deeply personal and powerful story while shedding light on the dangerous pitfalls of training foreign troops to fight murderous insurge...

In The Human Tradition in the New South, historian James C. Klotter brings together twelve biographical essays that explore the region's political, economic, and social development since the Civil War. Like all books in this series, these essays chronicle the lives of ordinary Americans whose lives and contributions help to highlight the great transformations that occurred in the South.With profiles ranging from Winnie Davis to Dizzy Dean, from Ralph David Abernathy to Harland Sand...

A Soldier. A Lost Memory. A Love That Won't Let Go.What happens when everything you knew about yourself disappears—leaving only the echoes of a life you can't remember? In Flashbulb Memories, John Kemp invites you into the mind of a soldier who awakens from a coma, only to find his past obliterated by psychogenic amnesia. His memories are gone, replaced by fragments—haunting images of war and a love so elusive, it may only exist in his mind.

Originally published in 1964, this book critically examines some philosophical theories of the relation between reason and morality, with particular reference to the writings of Cudworth, Locke, Clarke, Hume and Kant. It also discusses the ways in which conduct may be assessed or criticised, and of the extent to which these ways of assessment may amount to, or be connected with, moral assessment. The conclusion shows how far and in what ways rational moral judgment is possible and what are...

Four dark cases. One London private investigator who knows every secret has a price.In the rain-soaked streets of modern London, corruption wears an expensive suit and danger waits behind every neon-lit doorway. From missing women and crooked businessmen to violent gangsters and fatal betrayals, a cynical private investigator navigates the city's underworld one case at a time.Inspired by the hard-boiled classics of 1940s film noir, this collection delivers sharp dialogue, m...

A young man must solve the murder he has been accused of, and piece together the clues, all the while a predatory detective, D.I. Baxter Morgan is on his tail... James Lithgow has been accused of murder, his DNA found all over a crime scene in a previously crime-ridden London. London's inhabitants have had to choose between an over-zealous police state or exist in the safety of their own home. Outside, deserted high streets, empty stores and bankrupt retailers remain. The puzzle: with no c...

People with disabilities make up at least 15% of the population, yet they are still too often overlooked. Many people with disabilities are highly motivated, create fantastic work, and add tremendous value to organizations.Disability Friendly is a clarion call to businesses around the world to realize the opportunities presented by employing people with disabilities. It explains the potential of disabled employees, how to create a culture of inclusion, and, in the process,...

Expressions of Place embarks on a journey across the rural and urban landscapes of Louisiana via the talents of thirty-seven artists located all around the state. Many are acclaimed professionals whose paintings are included in major private and public collections regionally and nationally. Others have found their followings closer to home. All, however, strive to express impressions of the land with artistic styles that range from traditional to the symbolic and almost totally ab...

This classic book in the Kemp and Young series has been fully revised and updated by David J Eyres, author of the well-known Butterworth-Heinemann title "Ship Construction," and will prove indispensable to the student reader. The contents cover, in numerous fully illustrated items, shipyard practices, principles of construction methods, the design and construction of the various component parts of the ship, and the overall arrangement of different types of merchant and passenger vessels.