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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

1 Paradigm shift: The lived experience of a researcher with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome -- 2 Who punched me in the back? Becoming a CKD researcher -- 3 Zebras have spots -- 4 To be, or not to be, that is the question: Stuttering into Academia -- 5 Living with Family Violence and The Great Escape -- 6 My journey: from patient to researcher with lived experience -- 7 A Duty of Care To Improve Processes.—8 Better Health through Integrative Medicine: A Pursuit of Lived Experience -- 9 My Personal, Professional, and Academic Journey and Lived Experience with Domestic Violence -- Endometriosis -- 11 A peek into the life of an Asthmatic -- 12 You have to be courageous -- 13 Living with Anxiety and Severe Depression -- 14 Its in your head! -- 15 How Lived Experience Mediated My Gold, Ribbons, Puzzles and Morals Research Motivations: a Reflective Introspection.

"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"--