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The gripping debut techno thriller from cybercrime specialist Daniel Scanlan. FBI Special Agent Ericka Blackwood chases a deadly online predator in a high-stakes hunt for the truth. Perfect for fans of Thomas Harris and Stieg Larsson.\n\nHe's online. He's anonymous. He's deadly.\n \nWhen a video surfaces on the Dark Web showing a murder no one else could have witnessed, FBI Special Agent Ericka Blackwood starts tracking down the killer. But the case is even darker than Ericka thought. Hidden behind an avatar named Dantalion, a criminal mastermind is feeding his sadistic appetites by directing the crimes of others - and he may have been orchestrating his twisted schemes for years.\n\nAs Ericka homes in on her target, the tables are suddenly turned. Dantalion has information that will help Ericka fulfil a deeply personal quest for revenge... but only if she risks her career, her life, and the fate of Dantalion's future victims. Does vengeance come at too high a price?\n\nReviewers on The Hacker\n\n'Frighteningly plausible and deftly written, Daniel Scanlan's debut is a thrilling roller coaster of twists and turns.' Boyd Morrison \n'A thoroughly disturbing lightning-paced thriller. Dark, twisted and horribly captivating.' Ian Green \n'Tense, gripping, brutal, scary - The Hacker has everything you'd want from a thriller.' P.R. Black \n'Dark, brutal, scary - yet absolutely riveting.' Samantha Brick \n'The author creates an atmosphere of high-tech terror... A modern, thrilling novel.' Promoting Crime Fiction

'The Exploit packs a serious punch. Brimming with authentic technologies that power our modern world – as well as the vulnerabilities that threaten it. A dark and gripping tale that we all hope remains fiction!' Daniel Suarez\n\nWhen a deadly enemy reappears with a lethal new plan, it’s up to FBI Special Agent Ericka Blackwood to stop him – but not before she overcomes the failures of her past.\n\nFollowing her harrowing encounter with predatory cybercriminal Dantalion, and her decision to pursue vengeance over duty, Ericka Blackwood hit rock bottom. Her only path to redemption is through the relentless pursuit of her elusive old enemy.\n\nBut Ericka is not the only one seeking Dantalion, whose tastes for chaos and carnage have drawn him into the world of international terrorism. When an attempt to destroy a Pakistani jail alerts intelligence services that Dantalion has emerged from hiding, Ericka and her old FBI team are hot on the criminal mastermind’s trail.\n\nWhich is exactly what he wants...\n\nPerfect for fans of Daniel Suarez, Stieg Larsson and Thomas Harris, The Exploit is the thrilling new novel in the Ericka Blackwood series by acclaimed Canadian author Daniel Scanlan.\n\n'An awe-striking heat-seeking missile of a thriller with a compelling narrative... Daniel Scanlan is playing in the big leagues!' Kashif Hussain, Best Thriller Books\n'A brilliant cross-genre concoction of thriller, techno-thriller, hacker lore, and realistic possibilities.' Stuart Ashenbrunner, Best Thriller Books\n'A cat-and-mouse technothriller that spans the globe... Reminiscent of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. A high-octane narrative, a spell-binding, tense story.' Damyanti Biswas, The Big Thrill

Cornwall has a long and fascinating history of ghost stories, from ghostly ships seen traversing the coastline, phantom smugglers and pirates to grisly murders and lonely suicides. Those who live in Cornwall or visit the county are never far from a place associated with the paranormal. In this book author David Scanlan investigates the myriad ghost stories that are to be found in Cornwall. These tales of phantoms, spooks and spectres include the multiply haunted Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor and its Smugglers Museum, made famous by Daphne du Maurier; the mermaid who spirited a man away at Zennor and took him for her husband; and the lonely and eccentric vicar of St Bartholomew's Church in Warleggan whose ghost haunts the pathway leading to the vicarage.\n\nParanormal Cornwall contains these and many other narratives which will delight the ghost hunters and the spiritualists, make the sceptical think again, and send chills up and down every spine.

Questo libro aiuta a guardare meglio dentro i cumuli di rifiuti per coglierne il senso metaforico: si scopre così, che dietro ogni scoria prodotta c'è un rifiuto, un rigetto, una volontà di separazione e soprattutto un'idea di ciò che val la pena di tenere e ciò che merita di essere scartato. L'evoluzione di questo concetto nella storia occidentale è l'oggetto di questo libro che in qualche modo è una sorta di storia ombra della cultura occidentale, nel senso che ne ricostruisce le fila attraverso tutto ciò che nel tempo essa si è lasciata alle spalle. I rifiuti sono dunque sinonimo di ciò che epoca dopo epoca si è ritenuto indegno, sconveniente, contagioso, oppure inutile, superfluo, senza valore.

Learn to play the ukulele with this beginner’s guide that features information about basic techniques, tools, and music knowledge.\n\nWhat do George Clooney, Zooey Deschanel, Ryan Gosling, and James Franco all have in common? Answer: they all play the ukulele and now, with this easy step-by-step guide, you can too! With just this book and your ukulele in hand, you’ll learn basic music skills, how to care for your instrument, and how to play some simple tunes. Whether you’re looking to impress your friends with spontaneous sing-alongs, or just want to strum solo, How to Play Ukulele is the perfect entryway to the wonderful world of ukulele.

Esther Pressoir: A Modern Woman’s Painter situates Esther Estelle Pressoir’s body of work within the effervescent art scene of the early 20th century, both in America and abroad. The first book to present the wide-ranging oeuvre of this American modernist, it covers the span of Pressoir’s long life (1902-86) with a particular focus on the interwar decades (1920-40). Coming of age in the 1920s, Stella, as she was known to her friends, cast off societal expectations of a working-class immigrant family in New England and moved through the studios, galleries, and nightclubs of New York. Following an unprecedented 18,000 km bicycle trip across Europe in 1927, where she kept a daily journal and made hundreds of sketches, Pressoir developed an expressionistic style that straddled figuration and abstraction. She made provocative renderings of the female nude that challenged historical models, including unabashed self-portraits and intimate depictions of her longtime model, muse, and lover, a black dancer from Harlem named Florita. Pressoir’s work is illuminated here in an examination of her private travel journal, letters, and numerous paintings, prints and drawings, some of which were recovered from the veritable time capsule of her art studio after she died.\n\n Placing Pressoir’s work in relation to trailblazing contemporaries such as Alice Neel, Florine Stettheimer and Suzanne Valadon, this book establishes Pressoir as a force to be reckoned with in the decades of emergent feminism and modern art in America and restores her to her rightful place in the expanding canon of art and women’s histories.

'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'\nFara Dabhoiwala, Guardian\n\n'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'\nMihir Bose, Irish Times\n\n'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'\nThe Economist\n\n'A sweeping and devastating history of how slavery made modern Britain, and destroyed so much else . . . a shattering rebuke to the amnesia and myopia which still structure British history'\nNicholas Guyatt, author of Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation \n\n'Scanlan shows that the liberal empire of the nineteenth century was the outcome of the long encounter of antislavery and economic expansion founded on enslaved or unfree labour. Antislavery was itself the excuse for empire'\nEmma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History, Harvard University\n\n'Fresh and fascinating, a stunning narrative that shows how an empire built on slavery became an empire sustained and expanded by antislavery. . . deftly combines rich storytelling with vivid details and deep scholarship'\nBronwen Everill, author of Not Made By Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition\n\n'Lively and informative . . . there is a clear, almost textbook-like, account of the sugar plantation system . . . particularly good on the ill-fated \"apprenticeship\" scheme that was linked to abolition after 1834'\n\nKrishan Kumar, University Professor and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, author of Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology, Times Literary Supplement\n\n'This accessible synthesis of recent scholarship comes at the right time to help shape current debates about Britain and slavery'\nNicholas Draper, author of The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery\n\n'Powerful, often devastating, always compelling' \nAll About History\n\n\nThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery.\n\n\nSlave Empire puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, the chapters show how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slavery. With vivid original research and careful synthesis of innovative historical scholarship, Slave Empire shows that British freedom and British slavery were made together.\n\nIn the nineteenth century, Britain abolished its slave trade, and then slavery in its colonial empire. Because Britain was the first European power to abolish slavery, many Victorian Britons believed theirs was a liberal empire, promoting universal freedom and civilisation. And yet, the shape of British liberty itself was...

'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'\nFara Dabhoiwala, Guardian\n\n'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'\nMihir Bose, Irish Times\n\n'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.'\nThe Economist\n\nThe British empire, in sentimental myth, was more free, more just and more fair than its rivals. But this claim that the British empire was 'free' and that, for all its flaws, it promised liberty to all its subjects was never true. The British empire was built on slavery.\n\nSlave Empire puts enslaved people at the centre the British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In intimate, human detail, Padraic Scanlon shows how British imperial power and industrial capitalism were inextricable from plantation slavery. With vivid original research and careful synthesis of innovative historical scholarship, Slave Empire shows that British freedom and British slavery were made together.

This essential handbook helps midwifery students to make the most from their time studying. It clearly explains the core learning skills you will need right from the start of the course, such as academic writing, placement learning and understanding theoretical concepts. It also introduces more advanced skills, such as reflection, research, evidence-based practice, writing a dissertation and complex decision making. It shows why these important skills are essential for you both to succeed at university and when you are a registered midwife. \n\n\nKey features\n\n\n\n\n\n\n- An accessible student-friendly guide specifically written for midwifery students\n\n- Three midwifery students are followed throughout the book to show real issues that you may face during your studies \n\n- Activities throughout help you test and develop your own learning skills\n\n- Each chapter is linked to relevant NMC and QAA standards, so that you can see what you are expected to know in order to pass your programme.\n\n\n\nSeries Editor\n\n\n\nThe Transforming Midwifery Practice series editor is Judith Jackson, Canterbury College.

The first book to tell the story of the Advanced Placement program, the gold standard for academic rigor in American high schools\n\nThe Advanced Placement program stands as the foremost source of college-level academics for millions of high school students in the United States and beyond. More than 22,000 schools now participate in it, across nearly forty subjects, from Latin and art to calculus and computer science. Yet remarkably little has been known about how this nongovernmental program became one of the greatest success stories in K-12 education-until now. In Learning in the Fast Lane, Chester Finn and Andrew Scanlan, two of the country's most respected education analysts, offer a groundbreaking account of one of the most important educational initiatives of our time.\n\nLearning in the Fast Lane traces the story of AP from its mid-twentieth-century origins as a niche benefit for privileged students to its emergence as a springboard to college for high schoolers nationwide, including hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged youth. Today, AP not only opens new intellectual horizons for smart teenagers, but also strengthens school ratings, attracts topflight teachers, and draws support from philanthropists, reformers, and policymakers. At the same time, it faces numerous challenges, including rival programs, curriculum wars, charges of elitism, the misgivings of influential universities, and the difficulty of infusing rigor into schools that lack it. In today's polarized climate, can AP maintain its lofty standards and surmount the problems that have sunk so many other bold education ventures?\n\nRichly documented and thoroughly accessible, Learning in the Fast Lane is a must-read for anyone with a stake in the American school system.

A highly accessible and easily adaptable conceptual framework that helps educational leaders plan, leverage, and sustain change as they create more equitable schools.\n\nIn Navigating Social Justice, Martin Scanlan introduces a comprehensive social justice schema that melds organizational learning with leading for equity. Scanlan distills wisdom gleaned from the experiences of a variety of educational professionals as well as from his own more than three decades of work in equity-focused partnership with elementary schools.\n\nScanlan’s schema brings together five dimensions—inclusivity, communities of practice, critical formation, social ecosystems, and practical wisdom—that work together holistically to eradicate inequitable practices and policies and promote robust teaching and inclusive learning. For each dimension, the book features real-life vignettes that focus the conversation, exercises that encourage reflection, and suggested opportunities for the application of its central ideas. Each chapter also gives access to online tools, extending its utility. The practical guidance offered in this book not only will enable educational institutions to best meet the needs of families and community members but will also help leaders cultivate the moral and intellectual judgment needed to address social justice issues in schools.\n\nThis clarifying equity framework will be invaluable to established and aspiring school leaders, building administrators, district leaders, system administrators, and others in both the public and private education sectors as they engage in ongoing social justice work.

“This magnificent book…opens up a novel, arresting position on matters that have been debated for thousands of years.” —Times Literary Supplement \n\n How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? In this book, T. M. Scanlon offers new answers to these questions, as they apply to the central part of morality that concerns what we owe to each other. According to his contractualist view, thinking about right and wrong is thinking about what we do in terms that could be justified to others and that they could not reasonably reject. He shows how the special authority of conclusions about right and wrong arises from the value of being related to others in this way, and he shows how familiar moral ideas such as fairness and responsibility can be understood through their role in this process of mutual justification and criticism. \n\n Scanlon bases his contractualism on a broader account of reasons, value, and individual well-being that challenges standard views about these crucial notions. He argues that desires do not provide us with reasons, that states of affairs are not the primary bearers of value, and that well-being is not as important for rational decision-making as it is commonly held to be. Scanlon is a pluralist about both moral and non-moral values. He argues that, taking this plurality of values into account, contractualism allows for most of the variability in moral requirements that relativists have claimed, while still accounting for the full force of our judgments of right and wrong.

A blueprint for creating sustainable businesses, emphasizing the power and potential of cooperative models\n \n\"[An] important take on achieving a cleaner and safer world. . . . [Scanlan] envisions a future where green policies go hand-in-hand with worker empowerment, and provides a detailed blueprint for how to get there. . . . Her book offers essential hope that we can yet save ourselves . . . from ourselves.\"-Bill Lueders, The Progressive, \"Favorite Books of 2021\"\n\n Drawing on both her extensive experience founding and directing social enterprises and her interviews with sustainability leaders, Melissa Scanlan provides a legal blueprint for creating alternate corporate business models that mitigate climate change, pay living wages, and act as responsible community members, including Certified B Corps and benefit corporations. With an emphasis on cooperatives, this book reveals the power and potential of cooperating as a unifying concept around which to design social enterprise achieving triple bottom-line results: for society, the environment, and finance.