All workers deserve access to a safe and secure retirement. But neoliberal governments set up a dynamic where the retirement of some is predicated upon the exploitation of many. In the late-1980s, Ontario’s government, financial sector, and labour movement collaborated on a major restructuring of the province’s public sector pensions. The result? The unlocking of a vault containing billions of dollars, suddenly open to be privately invested in capital markets. All this occurred as Ontario’...

Felix is taken up to the Ifu Lokuduma Four and heads north while Hanna plots her escape from the armagedonnists. Will they ever see each other again?This is the sixth book of Forgotness, as story of just how bad things could get quite quickly here in Scotland, the UK and World.As the polar ice caps melt, dormant volcanoes beneath the frozen poles became active speeding up the melting process. Waters rise, not one metre in a hundred years, but a hundred meters in one year. T...

A murder mystery short story about a gruesome and distinctly messy murder in a retirement home.

Felix heads back down south to try to save the Wetlanders from the onslaught of the Scientologists, Evangelicals and Trumps' Mugs.Others try to make amends for their decisions, to stop trying to forget.This is the third book of Forgotness, as story of just how bad things could get quite quickly here in Scotland, the UK and World.YA climate action adventure. Sea levels have risen 200 metres and England is underwater. What remains of the UK is divided: Scotland is rule...

Their world, the island, is sinking, being eaten by the sea, surrounded and attacked by monsters that stalk the night, and increasingly the day. Felix and Hana have promised each other to do whatever it takes to stay alive and stay together. But which, stay together or stay alive, is more important as the last days come upon them?This is the fourth book of Forgotness, as story of just how bad things could get quite quickly here in Scotland, the UK and World.As the polar ice...

A family hide out in the woods during a time of civil war. They are discovered and a young girl has to fight to survive the next twelve hours.

The first job is always soul destroying. Do you survive it? Do you succumb to the greed?Do you drown, lost in the city, alone, knowing somewhere that wonderful things are happening?

Set a few years in the future, soldiers from an ancient and somewhat idiosyncratic regiment are sent on a mission. The fight soon turns dirty as they fight to survive.

Tomdispatch.com has established itself as the go-to blog for contemporary US politics, and the favored website for leading commentators; its powerful, no-holds-barred essays resonate throughout the global online media. This comprehensive volume offers readers a chance to catch up on some of the finest political analysis of our age, from Afghanistan and Iraq through Guant�namo and extraordinary rendition, Hurricane Katrina, global warming, black gold, and the misbegotten 'clash of civilizat...

Indigenous Knowledge (IK) reviews cutting-edge research and links theory with practice to further our understanding of this important approach's contribution to natural resource management. It addresses IK's potential in solving issues such as coping with change, ensuring global food supply for a growing population, reversing environmental degradation and promoting sustainable practices. It is increasingly recognised that IK, which has featured centrally in resource management for millenni...

Farm worker family life of on a farm trying to modernise mechanically and socially.It was the first chapter of a book but I got half way through and lost the plot went I stopped for Christmas.

Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant.Performed at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1954, the first successful kidney transplant was the culmination of years of grit, compassion, and the pursuit of excellence by a remarkable medical team—No...