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The Accidental Producer
Authors: Johanson Tim 
Published: September 2023

A practical guide to small-scale theatre producing, focusing on exactly what is required to make your show a success.
It recognises that smaller-scale fringe theatre works differently from the commercial or subsidized sectors, and offers advice on how to embrace that. It also recognises that not everyone producing has set out to be a producer - most begin in a different role entirely.
The problems it helps solve are simple: how do you make your first show a success? And, after that, how can you make your second and third a little bit better?
Written by an experienced theatre producer, who has worked on over 20 small-scale shows across London, Edinburgh, the UK and in New York, this book is aimed at people who are wanting to get their show on, but are coming to it for the first time.
Readers might be creatives with a singular interest in producing, or they might be directors, actors, designers or stage managers who haven't considered producing as a career, but aren’t getting the jobs they want and have the passion and drive to make the work happen themselves.
Mirroring in its structure the 3 stages of producing - producing itself, general management and selling the show, the book answers conundrums such as:
How do I find the perfect script?
How will I pay for the production?
Does it matter that I know nothing about company law, VAT and hiring?
How can I get people to come and see the show?
Alongside the author's own experience, it includes input from experts in their field including Jez Bond (Artistic Director of Park Theatre, London) and Chloe Nelkin (founder and director of Chloe Nelkin PR) and from first-time producers, including Kevin Shen (Special Relationship Productions), whose first show on the fringe transferred to the National Theatre.
Fundamentally, this much-needed book doesn’t just show how to make it happen: it shows why you should and how to make it the biggest success it can be.
The book's liberating message is that it is perfectly possible for absolutely anyone to produce a show.
The Nobel Family
Authors: Jangfeldt Bengt 
Published: September 2023

This absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels’ business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as the economic and entrepreneurial development of Europe in the long 19th century.
Now famous the world over for the prize which bears their name, the Nobels were the Swedish founders of the Russian oil industry who saw their huge wealth ultimately swept away by the arrival of the Russian Revolution in 1917. Using thousands of Nobel family letters shared here for the first time, Bengt Jangfeldt provides a fascinating and authoritative multi-generational chronicle which charts the family exploits. Jangfeldt reflects on how Immanuel Nobel, a polymath architect, inventor, engineer and designer, set the family on a path to financial success amidst a backdrop of imperial Russian industrial growth. He shines a light on the Nobels’ progressive efforts in the fields of welfare, charitable work, social change and cultural life, and tells how Immanuel’s sons, Alfred and Ludvig (and later grandson, Emanuel), continued the family dynasty until the communist revolution struck. What followed would be a terrifying escape from Russia so that the family could start over again in their native Scandinavia after suffering the terrible losses of their enforced Russian exile.
During a time of immense change in Russia and right across Europe, the Nobels’ story stands out as one of both brilliance and resilience, with family firmly at its heart.
By Faith Alone
Authors: Shestov Lev 
Published: September 2023

Lev Shestov’s By Faith Alone confronts Eastern and Western European conceptions of faith through Russian literature, ancient and medieval philosophy, and Christian theology. Written from 1910-1914, this first English-language translation brings together important early writings on the medieval church and Martin Luther.
Shestov reconciles the Greek notion of rational truth with Biblical revelation by drawing on a wide range of ancient, medieval, philosophical and theological sources from Plato to Hegel, Tertullian to Saint Augustine, and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to William of Ockam. He argues that rational truth has skewed Christian belief by determining knowledge and truth in ways that prize the mind over the world. This approach marks a turning point in the evolution of Shestov’s existential thought. It establishes a basic division that became central to Shestov’s later work, between Athens as reason and Jerusalem as faith. By Faith Alone provides a crucial piece of the puzzle in the genesis of Shestov’s later and better-known writings on medieval philosophy.
Peace, Decolonization, and the Practice of Solidarity
Authors: Skinner Rob 
Published: September 2023

This book shows that connected histories of decolonization and globalization are found in the everyday activities of individuals as much as they are histories of states, institutions and formal organisations. Viewing decolonization through non-state activist practices, and setting anti-colonial solidarity in the context of contemporary global peace movements, it argues that seemingly marginal histories can illuminate aspects of the end of empire that are not readily apparent in studies centered on state diplomacy and nationalist movements.
Taking the work of anti-apartheid pioneer and British churchman Michael Scott as a starting point, Skinner explores connected global histories of anti-nuclear peace campaigns, anti-colonialism and decolonization to illuminate new perspectives on the end of empire and the Cold War. Studying an ambitious scheme to irrigate the Kalahari Desert, a failed attempt to infiltrate the French atom bomb test site in southern Algeria, and a mass march across the border between Tanganyika and Northern Rhodesia that never took place, these examples provide valuable insights into the interactions between local and global scales of historical experience. In presenting these histories in this manner, this book demonstrates how global and transnational histories can challenge and disrupt, rather than reinforce hierarchies of power and privileges. In doing so, it also contributes to ongoing debates surrounding the nature of decolonization as a historical phenomenon by focusing on the practices of activism that shaped - and were shaped by – the political and intellectual structures of decolonization.
The Material Landscapes of Scotland’s Jewellery Craft, 1780–1914
Authors: Laurenson Sarah 
Published: September 2023

Jewellery is used to adorn the human body, to mark wealth and status, and to build and mark personal and emotional ties between individuals. The role of goldsmiths and jewellers in manipulating materials to fuse symbolic and monetary value in precious and deeply meaningful objects has seen their skill command a high level of respect across time and place. Yet the making of jewellery during the modern era has received very little scholarly attention.
The Material Landscapes of Scotland’s Jewellery Craft, 1780-1914 challenges the tired but persistent notion that industrialization, by replacing the human hand with the machine, destroyed skilled craftsmanship by exploring the neglected but rich area of Scotland’s jewellery craft during the long 19th century. It demonstrates that industrialization was, in fact, the driving force behind a deeper engagement with hand skill and nature that is more closely associated with goldsmiths of the early modern period.
The book explores the material, visual and symbolic dimensions to jewellery through a craft-based reading that considers these sources by fusing social and cultural history methods with approaches drawn from art, design and dress history. The making and wearing of jewellery are considered as embodied cultural practices throughout, forging a new methodological approach that can be applied more widely to the study of material things. By placing producers and their skill in cultural context, the book reveals how attending to the materiality of even the smallest of objects can offer new and multifaceted insights into the wider transformations that marked British history during the long 19th century. With its focus on the relationship between materials, making processes and the social and cultural meanings of things, the book offers a novel approach to the history of material culture.
k.d. lang’ s Ingénue
Authors: Stein Joanna McNaney 
Published: September 2023

Canadian performer k.d. lang broke new ground in the 1980s by blending the genres of punk and country, dubbed “cowpunk,” with her band, the Reclines. Despite Grammy-award-winning recordings and frequent North American TV spots, mainstream country radio excluded lang from airplay due to her unconventional gender presentation and perceived sexuality. Not until lang’s 1992 pop album Ingénue, the release of the single “Constant Craving,” and her subsequent coming out in The Advocate did lang earn critical acclaim worldwide.
The book addresses lang’s rise to fame after switching genres, the successful reinvention of her sound and persona, and how she found herself immersed in the whirlwind of MTV and the "lesbian chic" aesthetic of 1990s pop culture. As an LGBTQ author, Joanna McNaney Stein discusses her adolescence and sexual development by weaving in short narrative prose pieces and line drawings with her analysis of lang and Ingénue. Also included are interviews with lang's musical collaborators: Ingénue co-writer Ben Mink, drummer Fred Eltringham, pianist Daniel Clarke, and singer-songwriter Laura Veirs.
Not What The Bus Promised
Authors: Hervey Tamara K , Antova Ivanka , Flear Mark L , Wood Matthew 
Published: September 2023

What does the UK’s exit from the EU mean for health and the NHS?
This book explains the legal and practical implications of Brexit on the NHS: its staffing; cross-border healthcare especially in Ireland; medicines, medical devices and equipment; and biomedical research. It considers the UK’s post-Brexit trade agreements and what they mean for health, and discusses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on post-Brexit health law.
To put the legal analysis in context, the book draws on over 400 conversations the authors had with people in the north of England and Northern Ireland, interviews with over 40 health policy stakeholders, details of a film about their research made with ShoutOut UK, the authors’ work with parliaments and governments across the UK, and their collaborations with key actors such as the NHS Confederation, the British Medical Association, and Cancer Research UK. The book shows that the language people use to talk about hoped-for legitimate post-Brexit health governance suggests a great deal of faith in law and legal process among ‘ordinary people’, but the opposite from ‘insider elites’.
Not What The Bus Promised puts the authors’ knowledge and experiences centre frame, rather than claiming to express ‘objective reality’. It will be of interest to any reader who cares about the NHS and wants to understand its present and future.
Tax Implications on Family Breakdown
Authors: Thomas Sofia , Pirrie James 
Published: September 2023

Co-written by a leading tax expert and a family lawyer, this book provides answers to the common problems encountered in financial remedy cases in a way that assists professionals from each discipline. Family law practitioners will find a grounding in tax to help them to spot issues that arise upon family breakdown or financial remedies proceedings, whilst tax practitioners have guidance on what to expect from the process working as Single Joint Experts. It enables these practitioners to engage successfully to ensure that all necessary information is available to the court, or within alternative dispute resolution processes.
The Second Edition covers a number of significant developments including:
- Up-to-date allowances and bands
- Changes to the rules regarding capital gains tax for divorcing couples
- Updated Stamp Duty Land Tax for couples
- Changes to corporation tax and its impact on how couples structure their finances
- Cryptoassets
- The tightening of the rules, heightened judicial expectations of the selection process and the ways in which experts deliver their assistance to the court
- All precedents are available as electronic downloads
Combining concise and authoritative guidance to a complex and technically challenging area of law, supported by flowcharts and checklists, this work provides an expert inter-disciplinary approach for family and tax practitioners of all levels.
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Family Law online service.
How to Master Workplace and Employment Mediation
Authors: Lewis Clive 
Published: September 2023

Mediation in the workplace is growing in popularity as a dispute resolution option for UK organisations. The management of conflict at work is not easy and this is partly due to there being few practical tools to help. How to Master Workplace and Employment Mediation provides these tools.
Key topics covered in How to Master Workplace and Employment Mediation, include: The business case for mediation in the workplace; Setting up an in-house mediation scheme; Making mediation work; Mediation advocacy and representatives in mediation; Mediator skills; The future of workplace mediation; Mediation documentation.
How to Master Workplace and Employment Mediation will prove essential reading for anyone involved in workplace and employment mediation, including HR professionals, mediators, lawyers, company secretaries and trade union representatives.
International Commercial Disputes
Authors: Hill Jonathan , Chong Adeline 
Published: September 2023

This is the fourth edition of this highly regarded work on the law of international commercial litigation as practised in the English courts. As such it is primarily concerned with how commercial disputes which have connections with more than one country are dealt with by the English courts. Much of the law which provides the framework for the resolution of such disputes is derived from international instruments, including recent Conventions and Regulations which have significantly re-shaped the law in the European Union. The scope and impact of these European instruments is fully explained and assessed in this new edition.
The work is organised in four parts. The first part considers the jurisdiction of the English courts and the recognition and enforcement in England of judgments granted by the courts of other countries. This part of the work, which involves analysis of both the Brussels I Regulation and the so-called traditional rules, includes chapters dealing with jurisdiction in personam and in rem, anti-suit injunctions and provisional measures. The work's second part focuses on the rules which determine whether English law or the law of another country is applicable to a given situation. The part includes a discussion of choice of law in contract and tort, with particular attention being devoted to the recent Rome I and Rome II Regulations. The third part of the work includes three new chapters on international aspects of insolvency (in particular, under the EC Insolvency Regulation) and the final part focuses on an analysis of legal aspects of international commercial arbitration. In particular, this part examines: the powers of the English courts to support or supervise an arbitration; the effect of an arbitration agreement on the jurisdiction of the English courts; the law which governs an arbitration agreement and the parties' dispute; and the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration awards.
The Praeger Handbook for College Parents
Authors: Akinc Helen W 
Published: September 2023

A veteran college dean gives parents of college students all the practical guidance they'll need to navigate the labyrinth of bureaucracies and policies in order to support their student's academic career and extracurricular life.
Most books for college parents dwell on the emotional and psychological challenges when their son or daughter "cuts loose" into the quasi-dependent, quasi-adult limbo of college. Here at last is an expert nuts-and-bolts guide showing parents how to work collaboratively with their children to navigate the college bureaucracy—a labyrinth that at times seems perversely designed to frustrate parents at every turn, even on such basic matters as tuition and fees, grades, and disciplinary, legal, and medical problems.
Drawing on her 20 years of experience as a student affairs dean at a top-ranked national university, Helen Akinc teaches college parents everything they need to know about policies and practices today in college administration, instruction, and student services. The practical advice gathered in this handbook will empower college parents to extract enough information from the system to support, guide, and monitor the academic career and general well-being of their college student—both on campus and off, in both routine and special situations.
Preventing Violence and Crime in America’s Schools
Authors: Lassiter William L. , Perry Danya C. 
Published: September 2023

A thorough overview of violence and crime in America’s schools explores which solutions work and which don’t, providing a framework for prevention at every level.
Although it is major incidents like Columbine or Virginia Tech that grab the headlines, everyday occurrences of bullying, harassment, and physical intimidation in schools impact entire communities, driving kids out of public schools and destroying faith in public education. Preventing Violence and Crime in America’s Schools: From Put-Downs to Lock-Downs provides educators, parents, law enforcement officials, and other youth-serving professionals with a unique perspective on the topic of school violence. More important, it offers solutions to the problems facing all schools when it comes to violence and safety.
Two expert authors examine specifics relating to school violence, opportunities to prevent and intervene, and the importance of planning for a crisis. Most other books about school violence either highlight the research or highlight practitioner viewpoints. This revealing book presents both, balancing insights gained through real-world experiences with research on best practices. The result is a fuller understanding of the problem—understanding that will enable solutions.
Pseudoscience
Authors: Regal Brian 
Published: September 2023

More than just a collection of factual entries, this rich resource explores the difference between scientific and pseudoscientific pursuits in a way that spurs readers to ask questions and formulate answers.
What makes science science? How do we tell which assertions, beliefs, and methods are scientifically sound, and which are not? Brian Regal's authoritative, entertaining new reference, Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia gets at the heart of these questions by helping readers understand how the scientific method works, how to critically analyze all kinds of "evidence," and how to sort through long-running myths and current pseudoscience controversies.
Ranging from the dawn of history to the present and across world cultures, Pseudoscience uses a field of endless fascination as a means of driving home the importance of solid scientific reasoning. The encyclopedia spans the full spectrum of scientific and nonscientific pursuits, from chemistry, biology, psychology, and medicine to eugenics, religion, cryptozoology, the occult, and paranormal activities. Specific entries focus on general concepts of science, the lives of individuals, and claims of abilities. Throughout, these entries go beyond simply stating facts by constantly engaging readers in a discussion about the very nature of true scientific discovery.
Psychopathy, Perversion, and Lust Homicide
Authors: Dobbert Duane L. 
Published: September 2023

In this pointed study of serial killers, internationally known Forensic Psychologist Duane Dobbert shows us how - even years before the crimes were commmitted- the perpetrators of lust homicides exhibited behaviors showing certain mental and sexual disorders which grew to fuel the horiffic murders. Dobbert's analysis, covering 13 killers from Herman Mudgett, who confessed to 27 murders in the late 1800s, to Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991 - looks at their early lives and development of Antisocial Personality Disorder, as well as sexual disorders including sexual sadism and necrophilia. Special attention is paid to early signs of these disorders that were missed, mishandled, minimized or ignored by professionals in law enforcement, education, health care and criminal justice. The author demonstrates how and why most serial murders are sexually motivated, and fueled by this combination of psychopathy and sexual disorder. Having a clear understanding of the precursor behaviors could benefit us by enabling prediction and prevention of such crimes, says Dobbert. He also addresses signs of psychopathy and sexual disorders that should send red flags up to any adult or parent looking to protect their loved ones from harm.
Dobbert offers psychological and social history of each killer, from early life on, which molded each into an ultimate monster. Lucas, for example, was born to a prostitute and an alcoholic father who lost his legs in a train accident. He was forced to watch his mother perform sexual acts with clients, regularly beaten and one head injury from a beating put him into a coma. His mother curled his hair into ringlets and dressed him as a girl, sending him to school like that. Lucas showed all the signs of Conduct Disorder by the time he was 10 and already an alcoholic. He was obsessed with sex by the time he was 13, and had sex with his half-brother, as well as animals he would trap, torture and kill in sexual rituals. Lucas was convicted as a teenager of a burglary, and sent to a training school, where he was disruptive and attempted several escapes, but released a year later. He confessed later to raping his 12-year-old niece the next day. Each of these killers have a unique psychological development, but all demonstrated early the patterned behavior of psychopathy and sexual disorder, explains Dobbert.
Sowing the Seeds of Character
Authors: Levingston Judd Kruger 
Published: September 2023

A rabbi and educator shows how moral education can be crafted to address each of the three main branches of the moral life: philosophy, civics, and ethics.
Sowing the Seeds of Character: The Moral Education of Adolescents in Public and Private Schools is a book for all teachers and parents. It rests on the premise that the moral education of students falls within the purview of schools, whether they assume responsibility for it or not. Regardless of the place of moral education in the formal curriculum, all teachers serve as moral exemplars to their students, for good or for ill. Teachers of science, social studies, history, and literature courses cannot help but inculcate moral sensibility and attitudes in their students by the ways in which they lead them to grapple with-or glide over-the moral implications of what they teach.
Judd Kruger Levingston draws many lessons and examples from his extensive research and teaching experience in Muslim, Jewish, Roman Catholic, public, Quaker, and Chinese schools. He argues that teachers should become proficient in directing role-playing simulations of moral decision-making as morally complex topics arise within the standard curriculum.