Empire of Dirt is a true story, more thrilling than fiction. Andrew Pritchard came of age on the fractured streets of post-Windrush London, navigating life as a mixed-race young man amid racial tension, police hostility, and Thatcherism. Armed with wit, charm, and a razor-sharp business instinct inherited from his oracle-like Jamaican mother, he rose fast. From sound-system culture to orchestrating the infamous Genesis acid-house raves, Andrew climbed from street hustle to illicit wealth, ...

In "The Dragon's Echo," Mike and Ceres are guardians of humanity's collective wisdom, charged with protecting it from a malevolent force known as The Shade. This isn't just a physical threat; The Shade seeks to erase and corrupt key moments in history, undermining the very connections between ideas and cultures. The narrative propels Mike and Ceres through time, sending them to pivotal moments in the past where knowledge itself is under attack.Imag...

It is common for teachers and students of education to feel disheartened about the profession and their own aims and purposes once they become conscious of the dehumanizing tendencies of the schooling institution. As teacher educators, we have also known many students who, after studying critical perspectives aimed at exposing the power and privilege flowing through the public schools, then look to us with the question, “Where’s the hope?” Our attempt to answer our students’ questions has ...

Collective Unravelings of the Hegemonic Web represents the culmination of work that emerged from 2013 Curriculum & Pedagogy annual conference. The notion of the hegemonic web is the defining theme of the volume. In this collection, authors struggle to unravel and take apart pieces of the complex web that are so deeply embedded into normative ways of thinking, being and making meaning. They also grapple with understanding the role that hegemony plays and the influence that it has on identit...

Time and timelessness are fundamental principles of psychoanalysis yet Freud does not present a consolidated theory of temporality. In this book Kelly Noel-Smith pieces together Freud's scattered 'hints' and 'suspicions' about time and its negative, timelessness. She traces a careful temporal trail through Freud’s published works and his daunting Nachlass, and provides a compelling reason as to why Freud kept his remarkable thoughts about time to himself.

This book sets out the lives of seventeen 'young gentlemen' who were midshipmen under the famous Captain Sir Edward Pellew. Together, aboard the frigate HMS Indefatigable, they fought a celebrated action in 1797 against theFrench ship of the line Les Droits de l'Homme. C. S. Forester, the historical novelist, placed his famous hero, Horatio Hornblower, aboard Pellew's ship as a midshipman, so this book tells, as it were, the actual stories of Hornblower's real-life shipma...

Managing Bids, Tenders and Proposals shows suppliers and vendors how they can gain competitive advantage by being more effective and productive when pursuing sales opportunities and competing to win new contracts. Suppliers and vendors can also learn how to identify and reduce delivery risk and commercial risk.°Responding to requests-for-tenders (RFTs) and requests-for-proposals (RFPs) is frequently a challenging time for the supplier and vendor bid teams. Within tight timeframes, they mus...

When the veil between worlds tears, only a Bridge-Walker can mend it.Mike Harrison is a university lecturer living a quiet life in Devon — until a dragon named Ceres appears during meditation and turns his world upside down. Bonded to a malachite scale that pulses with ancient magic, Mike discovers he carries a rare gift: the ability to perceive and repair the fractures between realms.But Mike's gift arrives at a dangerous moment. An ancient prophecy spoke of a Severing — a...

Do you like to be creative at home? Is your house constantly messy? Do you find yourself worrying about the chemicals in your cleaning products and the kind of substances in your makeup remover?Then “DIY Projects: 44 Do-it-Yourself Household Hacks You Wish You Knew!” by Mariah Beddingfield is all you need.It’s your complete guide to all-natural DIY household hacks which are fun, quick and easy to realize. Best of all: these DIY Projects will save you a lot of money!...

The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals or Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, 1785), Immanuel Kant's first contribution to moral philosophy, argues for an a priori basis for morality. Where the Critique of Pure Reason laid out Kant's metaphysical and epistemological ideas, this relatively short, primarily meta-ethical, work was intended to outline and define the concepts and arguments shaping his future work The Metaphysics of Moral...

"Nobody describes a naval battle better than Taylor…a flawless demonstration of the biographer’s craft." —Jan Morris, The GuardianEdward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest British frigate captain in the age of sail. Left fatherless at age eight, with a penniless mother and five siblings, Pellew fought his way from the very bottom of the navy to fleet command. Victories and eye-catching feats won him a pub...

Prolegomenon (plural "prolegomena") refers to any critical introduction or essay at the start of a book.Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is one of the shorter works by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. It was published in 1783, two years after the first edition of his Critique of Pure Reason.Prolegomena contains an overview and defense of the Critique's main conclusions, sometimes by arguments Kant had not used in the Critique. Kant characterizes his more accessible approach here ...