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Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears take on seven myths that distort our ideas of England and where the country is heading. Challenging, forensic, compelling' Sathnam Sanghera Amusing and frequently enlightening' Telegraph This iconoclastic masterpiece is well argued and beautifully written. A thoroughly entertaining read' Alan JohnsonIn an election year when this country stands on the cusp of a change in government, there will once again be efforts to over-inflate myths about England that block out what's important in our politics.Some politicians will talk of restoring an English birthright of liberty or the swashbuckling self-confidence to rule the waves. Others will yearn for the old-fashioned morality with which, they claim, England once civilised a savage world. Still will more look inwards to a story of an enchanted island that can stand alone and isolated against the world.In England, Tom Baldwin, bestselling biographer of Keir Starmer, and Marc Stears, influential think tank head, unravel seven myths that have distorted ideas of this country and provided ammunition for charlatans or culture warriors from both left and right. Instead of vainly promising to solve everything all at once, Baldwin and Stears provide clues for how a humbler, less grandiose, set of ideas rooted in real lives can help fix some of the things that have gone so badly wrong in recent years. They travel from muddy fields in the Home Counties to the ports of Plymouth and Hull. They visit the old industrial heartland of Wolverhampton, spend weekends in the worn-down seaside resort of Blackpool, then gaze up the gleaming towers of modernity on the edge of London and the dreaming spires of Oxford. Along the way, they speak with many different people who tell stories of England, including politicians Nigel Farage and David Lammy, campaigner Chrisann Jarrett, playwright James Graham and scientist Sarah Gilbert. What emerges is a startlingly fresh and vivid picture of a country that belongs to everyone, or at least, to no one in particular

The two-volume set LNICST 570 and 571 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime, ICDF2C 2023, held in New York City, NY, USA, during November 30, 2023. The 41 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Volume I: Crime profile analysis and Fact checking, Information hiding and Machine learning. Volume II: Password, Authentication and Cryptography, Vulnerabilities and Cybersecurity and forensics

"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison--these writers used words to create a livable world--a "home"--for Black people destined to live out their lives in a bitterly racist society. It is a book grounded in the beautiful irony that a community formed legally and conceptually by its oppressors to justify brutal sub-human bondage, transformed itself through the word into a community whose foundational definition was based on overcoming one of history's most pernicious lies. This collective act of resistance and transcendence is at the heart of its self-definition as a "community." Out of that contested ground has flowered a resilient, creative, powerful, diverse culture formed by people who have often disagreed markedly about what it means to be "Black," and about how best to shape a usable past out of the materials at hand to call into being a more just and equitable future. This is the epic story of how, through essays and speeches, novels, plays, and poems, a long line of creative thinkers has unveiled the contours of--and resisted confinement in--the "black box" inside which this "nation within a nation" has been assigned, willy nilly, from the nation's founding through to today. This is a book that records the compelling saga of the creation of a people"--

How should a Christian engage with politics? Some encourage political activism while others advocate withdrawal, but the answer is far from clear. In Jesus and the Powers, N.T. Wright and Michael Bird argue that Christians should faithfully and earnestly contribute while vigorously opposing political schemes based on autocracy and nationalism.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: On the Dolphin's Back: Poetics -- Chapter 2: The Texture of Thought: The Evolution of Consciousness -- Chapter 3: The Antecedent Unity: Metaphysics -- Chapter 4: The Door to Eternity: Anthroposophy -- Chapter 5: A Coinherence of Selves: Ethics and Politics -- Chapter 6: Mysterious Potency: The Burgeon Trilogy -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary of medical terms -- Introduction: Bones of contention -- The history of medicine and medical museums in Australia -- 1 Dissecting the culture of anatomy -- Collecting the human body -- The Melbourne Medical School -- The anatomists -- Cadaver poems -- 2 From patient to specimen: Collectors and networks -- Nineteenth-century collecting activity -- Harry Brookes Allen and the collecting network -- Transforming patient into specimen -- 'The battle of the brains': Public views of a clandestine network -- Why did they collect? -- Amateur versus paid collecting -- 3 The anatomy of a museum -- From grotesque body parts to pedagogical tools -- The museum as an encyclopaedia of the body -- Specimens as pedagogical tools -- Private and public anatomy -- 4 Unrealized lives: A collection of foetal specimens -- Medical authority and the foetal specimen -- Specimen collecting and medical discourse -- Foetuses preserved in isolation -- Foetuses preserved in situ -- 5 War pathology specimens -- War specimens and the development of military medicine -- Displaying the collection -- 6 Moving parts: Repatriation and bioethics -- The persistent culture of anatomy -- Moving parts within the context of decolonization -- The Berry Collection -- Moving parts within a changing bioethical climate -- Conclusion: Afterlives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Conceivable Future is part self-help, part cultural criticism, part manifesto for the most consequential decade of our lives. It is both a portrait of family planning in the era of climate consequences and an instruction manual on how to take action.