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...

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...

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...

Forty years ago, in his landmark work A Theory of Justice, the American philosopher John Rawls depicted a just society as a fair system of cooperation between citizens, regarded as free and equal persons. Justice, Rawls famously claimed, is 'the first virtue of social institutions'. Ever since then, moral and political philosophers have expanded, expounded and criticized Rawls's main tenets, from perspectives as diverse as egalitarianism, left and right libertarianism and the ethics of car...

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...

This collection explores and illustrates issues arising from ‘political’ approaches to human rights in contrast to the more traditional ‘moral’ approaches. Moral approaches conceptualize and justify human rights in terms of priority rights which are both universal and moral. In contrast, political approaches focus on those human rights practices involved in the development and operation of human rights institutions, laws and political process, all in relative independence from their allege...

This critical exposition of Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, first published in 1971, gives an appreciation of Smith’s conception of scientific method as applied to the study of social phenomena. The work is placed in the context of Smith’s other writings including of course The Wealth of Nations, but making special use of the theory of scientific development contained in his posthumous work, Essays on Philosophical Subjects.By concentrating on Sm...