You understand systems are broken. You've tried to expose them. You've documented the corruption. You've shown others the machinery. And nothing changes.In fact, it gets worse.Because what if the system's inability to be stopped isn't a flaw—it's the design? What if every attempt to expose it only makes it smarter? What if consciousness itself—your very ability to understand how trapped you are—is the mechanism that keeps you trapped?DISAPPE...

This book critically analyses historical and contemporary discourses around worklessness, economic inactivity and the factors that contribute to people withdrawing from the conventional labour market.In analysing popular portrayals of 'the workless', the book draws heavily on the sociological theories of stigma and symbolic annihilation, and conceives of the contemporary narrative about the UK's 'crisis' in economic inactivity as the latest in a continuum of periodic moral panics a...

Hunting & Virtue recovers one of the oldest themes in civilization: hunting is an exercise of virtue. It instills self-command, practical judgment, and reverence. For the ancients, hunting was a divine gift that elevated man above the animals and prepared him for military life and statesmanship. It formed the virtues necessary for men who must defend themselves and live rightly within the created order. Over time, hunting’s connection to piety and political life diminished, while ...

During his 65-year career in professional baseball, Birdie Tebbetts was a player, coach, manager, scout, and executive and nobody knew the game the way Birdie did. From Hank Greenberg to Reggie Jackson, Birdie worked with all the brightest stars in baseball's constellation and this biography is a behind-the-scenes memoir to one of the more unique and engaging people to haave ever played the game.

Scroungers, spongers, parasites …These are just are some of the terms that are typically used, with increasing frequency, to describe the most vulnerable in our society, whether they be the sick, the disabled, or the unemployed. Long a popular scapegoat for all manner of social ills, under austerity we've seen hostility towards benefit claimants reach new levels of hysteria, with the 'undeserving poor' blamed for everything from crime to even rising levels of child abuse.Wh...

The newest volume in the Film Theory in Practice Series, Auteur Theory and My Son John offers a concise introduction to authorship and auteur theory in jargon-free language. The book goes on to show this theory can be deployed to interpret Leo McCarey's notorious but undervalued film My Son John, which critics deemed a clear-cut failure, and the auteurists declared a masterpiece.James Morrison traces the development of auteur theory through its emergence in the pa...

Capture pupils' interest in the dynamic world of business. Blending topics from Business Management, Accounting and Administration & IT with up-to-date and relevant examples for S1 to S3, this is the perfect springboard for future learning.Covering all applicable CfE Third and Fourth Level Benchmarks from Technologies and Social Studies, this ready-made and differentiated course puts progression for every pupil at the heart of your curriculum.> Over...

On the 29 June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo triggering events leading to the outbreak of the First World War. Less well known is that the car he was in was a borrowed Graf + Stift Double Phaeton, that the route was published in advance, and the decision to lower the hood was only taken at the last minute. As with the other events in this book, the car played a central role, yet its history is largely unknown. These cars not only had their own stories in terms ...

A show and tell-all about the erotic and sometimes tender world of kinky sex, swinging, and polyamory. With a distinctly female perspective, the authors weave psychology, fiction and personal insights bringing this little-known world alive. You'll leave a little hot, a little bothered and a little smarter about why your sexual imagination is not monogamous even if you are.This fantasy companion, meant for couples to share and read together, will answer your questions about how and ...

Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: Business ManagementFirst teaching: August 2018First exam: Summer 2019Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA Higher Business Management exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions for every question type and topic, plus two full practice papers - all written by experienced examiners.> Choose to revise by question type or topic: A sim...

As well as being one of Australia's best-known and best-loved musicians, jazz virtuoso James Morrison is a great storyteller, as this rollicking memoir shows. His adventures will delight, surprise and amuse you. They include getting feedback on his haircut from Ray Charles (think about it...), living on a derelict sailboat in freezing New York in justified hopes of making it big there, sneaking over the wall of Government House with his girlfriend, who turns out to be the Governor's daught...

The third edition of this incisive practitioner resource and course text--updated for the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR)--takes the reader step by step through diagnostic decision making in mental health. Guidelines are presented for evaluating information from multiple sources, constructing a wide-ranging differential diagnosis, creating a safety hierarchy, and using decision trees to derive a valid working diagnosis. The book addresses specific issues in diagnosing the c...