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How to Tackle Poverty with Co-Produced Activism

Knowledge from Lived Experience

by Lynne Ball, Alimany Bangura, Ibrahim Bangura, Christopher Burns, Amanda Button, Eva Carillo Roas, Robert Chigangaidze, David Coffin, Aleks Collingwoood, Niall Cooper, Thomas Croft, Sam Crowe, Helen Davies, Corrina Eastwood, Dylan Eastwood, Beyene Rahwa Gebretatios, Andrew Grinnel, Lara Groves, Sarah Haydon, Justina Hefton, Martin Johnstone, Tracy Knight, Rachel Krengel, Melanie Lock, Amy Marsdon, Thomas Mayes, Maria McCauley, Helena McDonald, Valerie McKie, Gráinne McMahon, Ryan McMurdo, Carrie-Anne Mizen, Caroline Mockford, Rhetta Ann Moran, Kirsten Nott, Rebecca Nunes, Funmilayo Olaniyan, Philip Parkes, Annon Pedro, Steven Porter, Kartik Raj, Jill Salt, Brian Scott, Erin Simmons, Steven Tamblin, Kidi Teklemariam, Nadine Travers, Emma Wincup, Joanna Young ...

Can we truly address poverty without centring the voices of those who live it? Bringing together voices from academia, grassroots activism, NGOs and the UK voluntary sector, this timely and accessible book explores how participatory approaches to activism can drive genuine, inclusive change.Through short, focused chapters, the authors critically unpack the contested definitions of ‘co-production’, ... Read more

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Can we truly address poverty without centring the voices of those who live it? Bringing together voices from academia, grassroots activism, NGOs and the UK voluntary sector, this timely and accessible book explores how participatory approaches to activism can drive genuine, inclusive change.Through short, focused chapters, the authors critically unpack the contested definitions of ‘co-production’,
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The Responsible Investor Handbook

Mobilizing Workers' Capital for a Sustainable World

by Thomas Croft, Annie Malhotra ...

Series series The Responsible Investment Series
For decades, workers’ capital stewards have invested wisely to provide a secure retirement for millions of people around the world. This money – our money – represents an enormous share of economic and capital market wealth. It has seeded and grown innumerable innovative industries that have had far-reaching impacts. However, the 2008 financial crisis has seriously threatened these trusted assets ... Read more

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For decades, workers’ capital stewards have invested wisely to provide a secure retirement for millions of people around the world. This money – our money – represents an enormous share of economic and capital market wealth. It has seeded and grown innumerable innovative industries that have had far-reaching impacts. However, the 2008 financial crisis has seriously threatened these trusted assets
... Read more
Socially Distanced Activism

Voices of Lived Experience of Poverty During COVID-19

by Katy Goldstraw, Tracey Herrington, Thomas Croft, Darren Murrinas, Nicola Gratton, Diana Skelton ...

How would your experience of the COVID-19 pandemic have been different if you had no access to the internet?The APLE Collective - a group seeking to eradicate poverty – rooted their pandemic activism in expertise held by those with lived experience of poverty. This resulted in the decision to campaign against the exclusively digital response to the crisis and the alienation of people in poverty ... Read more

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How would your experience of the COVID-19 pandemic have been different if you had no access to the internet?The APLE Collective - a group seeking to eradicate poverty – rooted their pandemic activism in expertise held by those with lived experience of poverty. This resulted in the decision to campaign against the exclusively digital response to the crisis and the alienation of people in poverty
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House of Bells, A

A Thrilling Gothic Supernatural Mystery and Suspense Novel

by J. T. Croft ...

Narrated by Bridget Thomas ...

Unabridged

8 hours 31 min

A woman haunted by fate, a child silenced by fear, and a house full of secrets and bells.Stripped of her reputation and haunted by a spirit she failed to protect, the young governess Grace Meadows finds herself out of time and growing more and more desperate. But when she’s offered a strange job from an eccentric medium, she never could have imagined what she was signing up for.Tasked with caring ... Read more

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A woman haunted by fate, a child silenced by fear, and a house full of secrets and bells.Stripped of her reputation and haunted by a spirit she failed to protect, the young governess Grace Meadows finds herself out of time and growing more and more desperate. But when she’s offered a strange job from an eccentric medium, she never could have imagined what she was signing up for.Tasked with caring
... Read more
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The Other Sister

A gripping, twisty novel of psychological suspense with a killer ending that you won't see coming

by Elle Croft ...

Narrated by Nicky Diss, Thomas Judd ...

Unabridged

9 hours 11 min

First there was The Guilty Wife. Now read Elle Croft's next twisty psychological suspense novel, The Other Sister.How far would you go...Gina Mills is desperate to be a newsreader, but her boss - the director of the struggling Channel Eight, won't help.Walking home one night, Gina stumbles upon a dead body, and after calling the police, she makes the split-second decision to report the murder live ... Read more

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First there was The Guilty Wife. Now read Elle Croft's next twisty psychological suspense novel, The Other Sister.How far would you go...Gina Mills is desperate to be a newsreader, but her boss - the director of the struggling Channel Eight, won't help.Walking home one night, Gina stumbles upon a dead body, and after calling the police, she makes the split-second decision to report the murder live
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The Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis ...

Translated by Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton ...

Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Religion
This classic of Christian devotional literature has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Both Protestants and Catholics — as well as mystics and historians of religious thought — have studied these meditations on the life and teachings of Jesus, finding in them a path to prayer and spiritual guidance. Written in a candid and conversational style, The Imitation of Christ ... Read more

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This classic of Christian devotional literature has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Both Protestants and Catholics — as well as mystics and historians of religious thought — have studied these meditations on the life and teachings of Jesus, finding in them a path to prayer and spiritual guidance. Written in a candid and conversational style, The Imitation of Christ
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A New Companion to Malory

by Megan G. Leitch, Lisa G. Robeson, Masako Takagi, Meg Roland, Ralph Norris, Raluca Radulescu, Robert Gossedge, Sian Echard, Thomas Howard Crofts, Cory Rushton1, Amy S. Kaufman2, Andrew Lynch3, Catherine Nall4, Daniel Glynn Helbert5, Dorsey Armstrong6, Kevin S Whetter7 ...

Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieux:textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieux:textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the
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The Routledge International Handbook of Criminal Responsibility

Edited by Thomas Crofts, Louise Kennefick, Arlie Loughnan ...

Series series Routledge International Handbooks
Presenting cutting-edge research and scholarship, this extensive volume covers everything from abstract theorising about the meanings of responsibility and how we blame, to analysing criminal law and justice responses, and factors that impact individual responsibility.Inviting exchanges across a burgeoning critical scholarship on criminal responsibility, this Handbook showcases the diverse range ... Read more

$72.99 USD

Presenting cutting-edge research and scholarship, this extensive volume covers everything from abstract theorising about the meanings of responsibility and how we blame, to analysing criminal law and justice responses, and factors that impact individual responsibility.Inviting exchanges across a burgeoning critical scholarship on criminal responsibility, this Handbook showcases the diverse range
... Read more
Come Fly with Us

NASA's Payload Specialist Program

by Melvin Croft, John Youskauskas ...

Series series Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space HistoryCome Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as “payload specialists” came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were ... Read more

$21.99 USD

2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space HistoryCome Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as “payload specialists” came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were
... Read more
The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain

by Amanda Hopkins, Margaret Robson, Michael Cichon, Robert Rouse, Simon Meecham-Jones, Sue Niebrzydowski, Thomas Howard Crofts, Tony Grand, Cory Rushton0, Alexander Davis1, Anthony Bale2, Corinne Saunders3, Jane Bliss4, Kristina Hildebrand5 ...

This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the ... Read more

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This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the
... Read more
The Cavalier Poets

An Anthology

Edited by Thomas Crofts ...

Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
In the mid-seventeenth century, the poets associated with the court of Charles I of England, known as the Cavaliers, were strongly influenced by the classicism of Ben Jonson. Their verse, often concerned with the vagaries of love, is characteristically charming, witty, graceful, and elegant. This volume contains a rich sampling of more than 120 works by four Cavalier poets: Robert Herrick, Thomas ... Read more

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In the mid-seventeenth century, the poets associated with the court of Charles I of England, known as the Cavaliers, were strongly influenced by the classicism of Ben Jonson. Their verse, often concerned with the vagaries of love, is characteristically charming, witty, graceful, and elegant. This volume contains a rich sampling of more than 120 works by four Cavalier poets: Robert Herrick, Thomas
... Read more
Queering Criminology

Edited by Matthew Ball, Thomas Crofts, Angela Dwyer ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
Queer criminological work is at the forefront of critical academic criminology, responding to the exclusion of queer communities from criminology, and the injustices that they experience through the criminal justice system. This volume draws together both theoretical and empirical contributions that develop the growing scholarship being produced at the intersection of 'queer' and 'criminology' ... Read more

$107.99 USD

Queer criminological work is at the forefront of critical academic criminology, responding to the exclusion of queer communities from criminology, and the injustices that they experience through the criminal justice system. This volume draws together both theoretical and empirical contributions that develop the growing scholarship being produced at the intersection of 'queer' and 'criminology'
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