This book sets out the urgent changes to practices and behaviours required to build a new building safety regime in the UK and prevent a similar tragedy to the fire at Grenfell Tower from reoccurring.The inquiry into the fire and the independent Hackitt Review revealed deep-rooted and unpalatable truths about the current state of the UK construction industry. Dame Judith Hackitt was scathing in her assessment of the construction industry denouncing it as "an industry that has not r...

Five years of dirt and grind, practical jokes and 60-hour weeks turned Steve Philips into the man he is today. Now retired to sunny Cyprus, Steve tells his story, warts and all. How he started as a 15-year-old apprentice in a Birmingham factory when a pint of mild cost one bob and engineering was still done the hard way.

The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller that sparked a national conversation about America's new progressive, multiracial majority, updated to include data from the 2016 electionWith a new preface and afterword by the authorWhen it first appeared in the lead-up to the 2016 election, Brown Is the New White helped spark a national discussion of race and electoral politics and the often-misdirected spending ...

The bestselling author pulls no punches on what America needs to defeat white supremacyNational political commentator Steve Phillips's "politically charged and thoughtfully reasoned" ( Kirkus Reviews) How We Win the Civil War helped chart the way forward for progressives and people of color, arguing that Democrats must recognize the nature of the fight we're in, which is a contest between democracy and white supremacy left unresolved after the Civ...

When Steve Phillips started as a 15-year-old apprentice with a Birmingham engineering company in 1961, the Beatles were still the Quarrymen and a pint of mild cost one shilling and three pence.Five years of dirt and grind, leg pulls, laughter and sheer hard graft later, Steve was a skilled turner and fitter, schooled the old fashioned way by senior craftsmen who knew how to turn a screw, mill a die or grind a component to half a thousandth of an inch using manually-controlled machi...

Just six years after the Racial Reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd, we are witnessing a full-scale assault on equality in America unparalleled since the overthrow of Reconstruction. Building on the urgency and clarity of his New York Times and Washington Post bestseller Brown Is the New White and his "spirited and persuasive" (Publishers Weekly) How We Win the Civil War, Steve Phillips now calls on the nation to go back on the of...

The bestselling author pulls no punches on what America needs to defeat white supremacyNational political commentator Steve Phillips’s “politically charged and thoughtfully reasoned” (Kirkus Reviews) How We Win the Civil War helped chart the way forward for progressives and people of color, arguing that Democrats must recognize the nature of the fight we’re in, which is a contest between democracy and white supremacy left unresolved after the Civi...

Steve Phillips's first book, Brown Is the New White, helped shift the national conversation around race and electoral politics, earning a spot on the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller lists and launching Phillips into the upper ranks of trusted observers of the nation's changing demographics and their implications for our political future.Now, in How We Win the Civil War, Phillips charts the way forward for progressives and people of ...

The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller that sparked a national conversation about America's new progressive, multiracial majority, updated to include data from the 2016 electionWith a new preface and afterword by the authorWhen it first appeared in the lead-up to the 2016 election, Brown Is the New White helped spark a national discussion of race and electoral politics and the often-misdirected spending...

Precision Agriculture is gaining traction in Africa with an active conference and society present on the continent. However, information relating to precision agriculture in Africa is still scarce and scattered, particularly its relevance and application to small-holder agriculture. This book brings together experts who are driving the precision agriculture evolution in Africa to address the technical, innovation, societal and educational opportunities and needs of precision agriculture in...

The vast majority of literary works and theories in the field of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering often lack practical evidence. Therefore, the main purpose of this work is to bridge the long-lost gap between Practical and Literary principles in the fields of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering. The book is designed to be suitable for both new and experienced lean practitioners or hobbyists and may be useful in academia and collegiate level manufacturing engineering and produc...

Make 'em laugh, make 'em laugh, make 'em laugh!!Bob Phillips hits the mark again with his Fabulous and Funny Clean Jokes for Kids.Phenomenal sales and happy kids are the results of Bob's incredibly popular humor. For added zip, internationally known youth communicator Steve Russo teams up with Bob in this latest collection of zany jokes, knock-knocks, riddles, and puns.Did you hear about the terrible accident?A red cruise ship collided with a purple cruise ship. What happened?All the passe...