This book examines the development of political leadership in Britain since the 1970s, in the context of changes within and between parties large and small and increasingly volatile voters.Contemporary media commentary on British politics is dominated by party leaders. Yet their visibility has been matched by unprecedented vulnerability to challenge, thanks not least to recent changes in the ways that they are chosen. This book focuses on the evidence and themes which are most rele...

This is the first international Companion volume to humane education with contributors from many countries, including South Africa, Israel, Singapore, Croatia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and the United States. It draws together multi-disciplinary perspectives on the history of humane thought, humane education practices, and offers appraisals of what is effective. Humane education is a broad field that aims to cultivate compassion, respect, and understanding for all living beings a...

My Neighbour Totoro (1988) is one of the best-loved films created by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Nearly forty years after its first release, Totoro remains beloved in Japan and abroad, a child's-eye vision of the sublime and a celebration of the magical richness of the Japanese countryside. Everything feels placed at a child's level, from the implicit spiritual environmentalism to the characters' fears of death. Totoro has no fighting, no villains. The film's artist...

There’s something INCREDIBLE just behind the wall . . . but how do you get past it? Join this curious cast of characters and find out.The kid with the green hat tries to dig under the wall – but the shovel breaks.The kid with the yellow hat tries to climb over the wall – but the rope snaps.The kids with the red and purple hats try a ladder – but it falls apart.At last, the smallest kid steps forward. “If you can’t go under the wall,” she s...

A comprehensive synthesis of the thought of Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty.Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty sets out to answer a simple question: "What kind of phenomenologist is Merleau-Ponty?" While debates regarding the status of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology typically fall along transcendental or existential lines, author Andrew Kirkpatrick shows how Merleau-Ponty's thought fails to fit neatly within either category. Drawing on Whitehead's process metaphysics,...

-'Gripping and revealing ... A must read.' Ryan Gingeras, author of Mafia: A Global HistoryThe definitive, utterly engrossing history of Japanese organized crime, from the samurai era to the presentJapan's gangster groups, known collectively as the yakuza, are among the oldest underworld societies in the world. With military-style organization and a code of absolute obedience, they have run Japan...

Two friends bonded by Amateur Radio. Murder over the airwaves… It's August 2021. The last two years haven't gone well for Doug Anders. He lost his job, his girlfriend, and his apartment. Doug has only two good things in his life: Amateur radio aka Ham Radio and his friend, Carl from Florida whom he talks to or ragchews with weekly over the radio waves. When Carl was murdered live on the air during one of their ragchews, Doug makes it his mission to find Carl's killer. After flying from Mas...

When grief cracks your world wide open, what if it isn't the end of your story-but the beginning of your awakening?When Andrew Collymore's father dies, everything familiar begins to unravel. In the depths of loss, he starts noticing strange coincidences and quiet miracles-animals, songs, dreams, and moments of impossible timing that feel like messages from beyond. As he follows these "golden threads," an unexpected journey of healing, ancestral connection, and spiritual awakening u...

From the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon the Great, the dramatic story of the team of rivals who propelled the rise and fall of history's greatest warrior.In 1804, immediately after he appointed himself Emperor, Napoleon created the Marshalate, the supreme military honour of the empire. Over the next decade, he elevated to it some of his most outstanding generals who played leading roles in his ext...

A powerful roadmap to master every communication skill and turn your message into measurable impact.Have you ever felt overlooked even when you had the right answer or strongest idea? Have you struggled to get your point across or be understood the way you intended? Those moments don’t reflect your ability. They reveal the strength of your signal—the bridge between what you know and how you share it.In a world filled with noise, Signal Strength sho...

At long last, the Puritan most often reached for is finally gathered in full.For generations, Thomas Watson’s works have been beloved, quoted, and reprinted in fragments, yet never collected in a definitive edition. This seven-volume set rectifies that omission, bringing together Watson’s published writings in a uniform, carefully edited, and eminently usable form for the church today.Watson is that rare combination: simple enough for the newest reader, wei...

Today we think of Theodore Roosevelt as a larger-than-life figure, but before he became a legendary outdoorsman, Badlands rancher, Rough Rider, trust buster, and political maverick, he was “a thin pale youngster with bad eyes and a weak heart,” in the words of William Wingate Sewall, the upcountry Maine woodsman who became Roosevelt’s mentor and lifelong friend. The two met at a crucial time in Roosevelt’s life, and Sewall exerted a quiet but profound influence on the man who would become ...