You have passed a boarded storefront or a cracked school sign and asked what happened here. Some streets emptied because the gold ran out. Others because a dam was built, a bomb fell, or a boardroom closed the only employer in town. This book follows that question to 100 places.100 Forgotten Towns With Strange Histories gathers true stories of ghost towns, vanished villages, and stranded communities from 6 continents and 6 centuries. Each entry stands alone, yet the pattern repeats...

Publishing is a long-established profession that constantly renews itself in order to remain relevant and profitable. But what characteristic does a publisher in the 21st century need to succeed? How does the industry work? What are the roles and the processes that sustain it day by day? Richard Charkin provides the answers to these questions in an essential text subtitled 'Lessons in publishing.'All Rights Reserved is Richard Charkin's follow-up to his internationally successful m...

'I am proud to say that I knew Jock Stein as a football manager, as a colleague and as a friend . . . he was the greatest manager in British football . . . men like Jock will live forever in the memory' - Sir Alex FergusonDuring his long reign at Celtic, Jock Stein was a legendary figure in the world of football. He led a youthful Celtic side to a memorable European Cup triumph in Lisbon in 1967 and was in charge of the home-grown Celtic teams which won nine Scottish league champio...

Charlie Tully was a legend. Coming to Glasgow in 1948 he transformed the fortunes, on and off the pitch, of Celtic. After the wartime years the famous Glasgow club had slumped to the edge of relegation but things were different with Charlies arrival: the crowds rolled up to see this brilliant inside forward whose display of extraordinary talent recalled memories of by-gone Celtic heroes. Tullys fame was assured when he took on Rangers famed and feared Iron Curtain defence and tore it to shred...

Helen is 47, newly divorced, and knee-deep in a ruthless clear-out. The plan is to ditch the clutter, the memories and the people who have made her life so difficult. At least, that's what everyone tells her to do. Then fate throws a curveball in the shape of Leo - an old university friend she barely remembers, but who knows all too well what it's like to choose the wrong life partner.Helen and Leo were never close, yet suddenly they have a surprising amount in common. Regret. Free...

This book examines how disability is shaped by the transformation of modern society, using Zygmunt Bauman’s concepts of solid modernity and liquid modernity to understand the changing forms of power, exclusion and moral indifference that disabled people face. Drawing on key debates in disability studies, it offers a new social theory of disablement that centres the lived consequences of order-making, surveillance, moral distancing and time. It positions disablement as essential to the stud...

Since I started this book with some famous quotes from people, documents, books, and cartoon characters, I thought a quote from a famous person would be a good way to end it on the back cover. Since I have written two books, the words of Winston Churchill at the beginning of World War II seemed appropriate: "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but perhaps, the end of the beginning."I know that I will continue to write my monthly poems to my beautiful bride...

Tom Campbell is well known for his distinctive contributions to legal and political philosophy over three decades. In emphasizing the moral and political importance of taking a positivist approach to law and rights, he has challenged current academic orthodoxies and made a powerful case for regaining and retaining democratic control over the content and development of human rights.This collection of his essays reaches back to his pioneering work on socialist rights in the 1980s and...

What do Libertarians believe that sets them apart from other political parties? How do Libertarian values, approaches, and principles result in more successful “pursuits of happiness” than the approaches of other political parties? And how does Judge Jim Gray dare to say that the Libertarians are the only political party in the mainstream of American political thought today? All Rise! The Libertarian Way with Judge Jim Gray will answer all of these questions and more - to your complete sat...

Richard Charkin's experience as a publisher is unique among his generation. Over the past half century he has been (at different times) a scientific and medical publisher, a journal publisher, a digital publisher and a general publisher. He has worked for family-owned, publicly-owned, university-owned companies and start-ups. In this memoir he uses his unrivalled experience to illustrate the profound changes that have affected the identity and practices but not the purpose of publishing.

I never thought of myself as a writer or ever a poet. I would read many articles about people and their sailing adventures and thought that I could do this also.I first starting writing to any extent when I was the commodore of a boating club, Texas Mariners Cruising Association. I wrote a letter each month telling the members of the adventures of the past cruises for the month and upcoming cruises and activities. I tried to give the letter a little zing that would at least make fo...

Sustainability is one of the key concepts underlying our thinking about corporate responsibilities, particularly with respect to the environment and inter-generational justice, but also in relation to corporate governance and the long-term economic viability. The advantages of the discourse of Sustainability are that it brings together contemporary economic and moral imperatives in the context of scientific knowledge. Its disadvantages relate to its open-ended content, its systematic ambig...