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The Governor
by John LonerganIn his talks to communities throughout the length and breath of Ireland, John Lonergan finds himself coming back to one theme: the importance of kindness. It is an unexpected theme for the former boss of Ireland's biggest and toughest prison, Mountjoy, but then John Lonergan is an unusual man. John entered the prison service in 1968 and in the years that followed, as he saw human nature at its worst - and often, unexpectedly, at its best - he developed a deep understanding both of human nature and of Irish society.Now, after 42 years in the service, 26 of them as the most senior prison officer in the country, John tells his fascinating life story - from his idyllic childhood in rural Tipperary, to coming face to face with the ugliest face of Irish life, to grappling with the politics of working in a service that was the plaything of officials and politicians. His description of life in the prison service is not only a gripping account of humanity at its rawest, but also an invaluable primer for anyone in top level management.Revealing, surprising and inspiring The Governor gives a unique insight into modern Ireland.
Armed Madhouse: Undercover Dispatches from a Dying Regime
by Greg Palast‘Razor sharp research … shows why every US citizen should be quaking in their boots’ Metro, Books of the Year ‘Bill Hicks with a press pass’ The ListAward-winning guerrilla journalist Greg Palast has gone where most have been too scared to unearth the ugly truth about the haves and have-mores who rule our world … America. Here he reports from behind enemy lines to reveal just how bad it’s got in a dangerous regime: how elections are bought and free speech comes at a price. How citizens are ruled by fear. And how our brave new globalized world means the poor get hammered, while corporations silently buy up the planet. It’s not pretty – but it’s all true … ‘Palast is one of the few journalists writing who has both the anger and the wit to offer himself up as a persuasive – and more importantly, readable – voice of the left’ Observer‘A rollercoaster ride from Baghdad to New Orleans and Osama bin Laden’s cave to the back rooms of the Pentagon’ Big Issue ‘Very funny … For anyone who thinks that no-one from the US knows what’s going on, Palast is the perfect riposte’ Guardian
The Law Machine
by Clare Dyer Marcel BerlinsThe authors explain and discuss how the justice system evolved, the way it operates - including vivid descriptions of the trial process - and how lawyers work. Revised and updated throughout for this fifth edition, THE LAW MACHINE surveys recent developments in the workings of justice and the outlook for the future. 'Refreshingly free of the patronizing attitude and the humbug with which other books about the legal system are riddled' - THES
Wasters
by Nick Webb Shane RossDuring the years when all seemed well with the Irish economy, a scandal bloomed in front of our faces but went mostly unnoticed: the scandal of public waste. Vast overspending on infrastructure (including a number of white elephants), extravagant use of overpriced consultants, the creation of dozens of quangos whose primary purpose seemed to be jobs for the boys, the culture of junketry that took hold in the semi-state sector and the Oireachtas - these and other dubious practices flourished during the years when the state's coffers were overflowing. The insiders benefited; the rest of us got ripped off. Now, as the state scrambles to bail out the banks and to bring order to the shattered public finances by taking money out of the pockets of ordinary working people, Shane Ross and Nick Webb tell the story of the wasters: the people who perfected and benefited from the culture of cronyism and waste. Thanks in large part to Ross and Webb's journalism in the Sunday Independent exposing scandals in FAS and CIE, we already know part of this story. In Wasters, the authors show how wide and how deep the rot runs, and they show that every scandal has one thing in common: insiders profiting at the expense of ordinary people.
The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence
by Baltasar GraciánWritten over 350 years ago, The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence is a charming collection of 300 witty and thought-provoking aphorisms. From the art of being lucky to the healthy use of caution, these elegant maxims were created as a guide to life, with further suggestions given on cultivating good taste, knowing how to refuse, the foolishness of complaining and the wisdom of controlling one's passions. Baltasar Gracian intended that these ingenious aphorisms would encourage each reader to challenge themselves both in understanding and applying each axiom.
Medicine, Patients and the Law: Revised and Updated Fifth Edition (Pelican Ser.)
by Margaret BrazierMedicine, Patients and the Law is a leading book in its field, aimed at practitioners and students of both law and medicine, as well as the general reader. It examines the regulation of medical practice, the rights and duties of patients and their medical advisers, the provision of compensation for medical mishaps and the framework of rules governing those delicate issues of life and death where medicine, morals and the law overlap. The fifth edition of this highly acclaimed book is fully updated to cover recent changes in law and medical practice. Clear explanations of legal issues make this book accessible and absorbing.
The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse
by Geoffrey Robertson QcTHE CASE OF THE POPE delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world.Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should he and his seat of power, the Holy See, continue to enjoy an immunity that places them above the law?Geoffrey Robertson QC, a distinguished human rights lawyer and judge, evinces a deep respect for the good works of Catholics and their church. But, he argues, unless Pope Benedict XVI can divest himself of the beguilements of statehood and devotion to obsolescent canon law, the Vatican will remain a serious enemy to the advance of human rights.
The Idea of Justice
by Amartya SenIs justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice which, despite their many specific achievements have taken us, he argues, in the wrong direction in general.At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust. But it is in the nature of reasoning about justice, argues Sen, that it does not allow all questions to be settled even in theory; there are choices to be faced between alternative assessments of what is reasonable. Sen also shows how concern about the principles of justice in the modern world must avoid parochialism, and further, address questions of global injustice. The breadth of vision, intellectual acuity and striking humanity of one of the world's leading public intellectuals have never been more clearly shown than in this remarkable book.
Anglo Republic: Inside the bank that broke Ireland
by Simon CarswellAs late as 2007, Anglo Irish Bank was a darling of the markets, internationally recognized as one of the fastest growing financial institutions in the world. By 2008, it was bust. The Irish government's hopeless attempts to save Anglo have led the state to ruin - culminating in a punitive IMF bailout in late 2010 and threatening the future of the euro.Now, for the first time, the full story of the Anglo disaster is being told - by the journalist who has led the way in coverage of the bank and its many secrets. Drawing on his unmatched sources in and around Anglo, Simon Carswell of the Irish Times shows how the business model that brought Anglo twenty years of spectacular growth was also at the heart of its - and Ireland's - downfall. He paints a vivid and disturbing picture of life inside Anglo - the credit committee meetings, the lightning-quick negotiations with property developers, the culture of lavish entertainment for politicians and regulators - and of the men who presided over its dizzying rise and fall: Sean FitzPatrick, David Drumm, Willie McAteer and many others. This is not only the first full account of the Anglo disaster; it will also be the definitive one.
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Platinum Nonfiction Ser.)
by Michael SandelShould we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life-medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In What Money Can't Buy, Sandel examines one of the biggest ethical questions of our time and provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honour and money cannot buy?
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) Handbook
by Steven Richards Aasya F. MughalThe Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) are a legal procedure to authorise care situations where a person, who is not able to consent to being resident for care because they lack capacity, is subject to a number of restrictions which mean they are considered to be deprived of their liberty. The number of people subject to DoLS in hospitals and care homes has grown enormously in recent times and over 137,000 applications for DoLS were made in England for the year 2014-15. The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Handbook is designed to provide a clear and detailed explanation of the legislation. It is written in an accessible and practical format to be of maximum use to health and social care sta so they can be con dent using the Act in daily practice. The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Handbook covers key aspects of the Act including: • What is restraint and when does it become a deprivation of liberty? • Rights and protection for people under DoLS • Key information for staff on urgent and standard DoLS authorisations • Duties for care providers when applying DoLS • A summary of the Supreme Court ruling on deprivation of liberty and its application in care settings • Advocacy for those affected by DoLS • The procedure for authorising a deprivation of liberty • The representative • Best interests assessors • Mental health assessors • Supervisory bodies • Managing authorities • Care Quality Commission • DoLS and its relationship to the Mental Health Act • The essential case law that applies to different parts of the deprivation of liberty safeguards The book includes a series of useful tools and charts to help explain key parts of the legislation including: • A deprivation of liberty screening tool for care providers • Guidance for care homes and hospitals on CQC expectations in relation to DoLS • Information for DoLS best interests assessors on how to complete Form 3 • A simple DoLS procedure chart for care providers • The different legal routes for admission to mental health wards • Timeline explaining the case law leading to the deprivation of liberty safeguards and Supreme Court ruling in Cheshire West
Working with the Mental Capacity Act (3rd edition)
by Steven Richards Aasya F MughalFrom the authors of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Handbook, Steven Richards and Aasya F Mughal, comes a new edition of the best selling book Working with the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Published in May 2018, it provides a comprehensive and practical guide to the Act for health and social care professionals in all settings. There are detailed chapters on key parts of the Act including: The principles, mental capacity assessments, best interests decisions, restraint, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), advocacy (IMCA), Court of Protection, lasting powers of attorney (LPA), deputies and advance decisions to refuse treatment (ADRT). Each chapter contains references and quotes from the most recent and relevant case law and the codes of practice to the Act. The book has special dedicated chapters on: • Consent to care and treatment and the link to the Act • Safeguarding adults and the Act • The Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act interface • The use of the Act by different care providers including the police, ambulance staff, dentists, GPs, prison healthcare and CCGs Detailed information and case law guidance on specific decisions including: • Admission for care • Contact with other people • Contraception • Marriage • Sexual relations • Tenancy agreements • Testamentary capacity (wills) • Do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) • End of life decisions Diagrams and charts A series of summary tables, charts and diagrams throughout the book are designed to provide at a glance information and explanations. In addition, every chapter addresses frequently asked practice-based questions asked by health and social care staff.
Care In Everyday Life (PDF): An Ethic Of Care In Practice
by Marian BarnesCare has been struggled for, resisted and celebrated. The failure to care in 'care services' has been seen as a human rights problem and evidence of malaise in contemporary society. But care has also been implicated in the oppression of disabled people and demoted in favour of choice in health and social care services. In this wide-ranging book Marian Barnes argues for care as an essential value in private lives and public policies. She considers the importance of care to well-being and social justice and applies insights from feminist care ethics to care work, and care within personal relationships. She also looks at 'stranger relationships', how we relate to the places in which we live, and the way in which public deliberation about social policy takes place. This book will be vital reading for all those wanting to apply relational understandings of humanity to social policy and practice.
Feminist And Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters Uncomfortable Conversations
by Martha Albertson Fineman Jack E. Jackson Adam P. RomeroThis anthology focuses on the vigorous and sometimes contentious debates between and among feminist and queer legal theorists, bringing into direct dialogue many of the key players in this ongoing set of “uncomfortable conversations.” Many of the chapters speak directly to one another, debating not only important issues such as intimacy, privacy, sex harassment, and political strategy, but also the very conceptualization of feminism and queer theory. Cumulatively, the chapters pursue the shifting complexities and difficult questions feminist and queer legal theories consider as well as produce. This anthology also maps the different approaches to the concepts of sex and gender that have been articulated over the past decades by feminist and queer theorists. In particular, it explores evolving and contested assertions about the centrality of a positive theory of sexuality to the formulation of critical perspectives on legal, social, political, and cultural institutions.
Feminist And Queer Legal Theory (PDF): Intimate Encounters Uncomfortable Conversations
by Martha Albertson Fineman Jack E. Jackson Adam P. RomeroThis anthology focuses on the vigorous and sometimes contentious debates between and among feminist and queer legal theorists, bringing into direct dialogue many of the key players in this ongoing set of “uncomfortable conversations.” Many of the chapters speak directly to one another, debating not only important issues such as intimacy, privacy, sex harassment, and political strategy, but also the very conceptualization of feminism and queer theory. Cumulatively, the chapters pursue the shifting complexities and difficult questions feminist and queer legal theories consider as well as produce. This anthology also maps the different approaches to the concepts of sex and gender that have been articulated over the past decades by feminist and queer theorists. In particular, it explores evolving and contested assertions about the centrality of a positive theory of sexuality to the formulation of critical perspectives on legal, social, political, and cultural institutions.
Law's Desire (PDF): Sexuality And The Limits Of Justice
by Carl StychinThis book is about the relationship between law and desire. More specifically, it is about how sexual desires are constituted and regulated by the law, with particular reference to gay male and, to a lesser extent, lesbian and bisexual sexualities. I attempt to uncover what the law desires- which, I will argue, is the 'homosexual', against whom a coherent heterosexuality can be promoted through law. Throughout the book, I seek to demonstrate that the relationship of law and sexuality is complex and dynamic. While law may be (and has been) a repressive force, it also is a regulatory one which plays a role in constituting and maintaining coherent sexualities. At the same time, regulation is never entirely successful, for gaps and inconsistencies are left within legal discourse. This creates spaces for resistance against, and opposition to, the legal and sexual hegemony. I hope that this book provides one such intervention.
Law's Desire: Sexuality And The Limits Of Justice
by Carl StychinThis book is about the relationship between law and desire. More specifically, it is about how sexual desires are constituted and regulated by the law, with particular reference to gay male and, to a lesser extent, lesbian and bisexual sexualities. I attempt to uncover what the law desires- which, I will argue, is the 'homosexual', against whom a coherent heterosexuality can be promoted through law. Throughout the book, I seek to demonstrate that the relationship of law and sexuality is complex and dynamic. While law may be (and has been) a repressive force, it also is a regulatory one which plays a role in constituting and maintaining coherent sexualities. At the same time, regulation is never entirely successful, for gaps and inconsistencies are left within legal discourse. This creates spaces for resistance against, and opposition to, the legal and sexual hegemony. I hope that this book provides one such intervention.
Transgender Jurisprudence (PDF): Dysphoric Bodies Of Law
by Andrew N. Sharpe Alex SharpeThis book moves beyond liberal law reform and is the first to interrogate the transgender/law relation in a sustained and critical manner. Its concern is to map contemporary legal regulation of transgender bodies within a common law tradition. The specific focus is upon ideas of transgender that define the terms of this regime. The book deals with the structure, history and institutions of production of this lexicon. In doing so, the book makes the reader more aware of the legal enterprise and its relationship with medical science. This book, through an analysis and critique of the transgender/law relation, also considers the excessive work law requires the transgender body to do in furtherance of much wider regulatory strategies around sexual practice and gender performance. That is to say, it demonstrates the ways in which transgender jurisprudence is an important site for wider sexual and gender politics. In this regard, the book compliments/challenges feminist and gay and lesbian legal theory and practice. Finally, the book informs those who engage with the law, within the academy or beyond, of the parameters of the terms of that intervention and of its limitations and possibilities.
The Untouchables: The people who helped wreck Ireland - and are still running the show
by Nick Webb Shane RossA devastating new exposé from the bestselling authors of The Bankers and Wasters.In March 2011, the Irish people elected a new government. But how much had really changed? In The Untouchables, Shane Ross and Nick Webb shine a light into dark corners of official Ireland to show that the blame for running the country into the ground goes well beyond Fianna Fáil, and that a dismaying number of the people who should share the blame are still in situ: in the civil service, on the boards of the leading companies, and in the banks, law firms, and consultancies that carry so much influence in deciding who wins and who loses. They name names, trace connections, and show how the untouchables managed to do so much damage, how they got away with it, and how so many of them are still in positions of power and influence in Ireland.'Fascinating ... required reading for anyone interested in how crony capitalism and power work in practice in Ireland' Irish Times'The Untouchables is hard to put down. Read it and seethe.' Irish IndependentShane Ross is an independent TD for Dublin South, and columnist in the Sunday Independent. Nick Webb is business editor of the Sunday Independent. They are the authors of Wasters, 2010's top-selling Irish current affairs title.
All That Is Solid: How the Great Housing Disaster Defines Our Times, and What We Can Do About It
by Danny DorlingHousing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market. In this groundbreaking new book, Danny Dorling argues that housing is the defining issue of our times. Tracing how we got to our current crisis and how housing has come to reflect class and wealth in Britain, All That Is Solid radically shows that the solution to our problems - rising homelessness, a generation priced out of home ownership - is not, as is widely assumed, building more homes. Inequality, he argues, is what we really need to overcome.
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps (Annals Of Communism Ser.)
by Anne ApplebaumThis landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions.Gulag is the only major history in any language to draw together the mass of memoirs and writings on the Soviet camps that have been published in Russia and the West. Using these, as well as her own original research in NKVD archives and interviews with survivors, Anne Applebaum has written a fully documented history of the camp system: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror, its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost. It is a gigantic feat of investigation, synthesis and moral reckoning.
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923
by Robert Gerwarth'This war is not the end but the beginning of violence. It is the forge in which the world will be hammered into new borders and new communities. New molds want to be filled with blood, and power will be wielded with a hard fist.' Ernst Jünger (1918)For the Western allies 11 November 1918 has always been a solemn date - the end of fighting which had destroyed a generation, and also a vindication of a terrible sacrifice with the total collapse of their principal enemies: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. But for much of the rest of Europe this was a day with no meaning, as a continuing, nightmarish series of conflicts engulfed country after country. In this highly original, gripping book Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western front which proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were wrecked by revolution, pogroms, mass expulsions and further major military clashes. If the War itself had in most places been a struggle purely between state-backed soldiers, these new conflicts were mainly about civilians and paramilitaries, and millions of people died across central, eastern, and south-eastern Europe before the USSR and a series of rickety and exhausted small new states came into being. Everywhere there were vengeful people, their lives racked by a murderous sense of injustice, and looking for the opportunity to take retribution against enemies real and imaginary. Only a decade later, the rise of the Third Reich and other totalitarian states provided them with the opportunity they had been looking for.
A Confession (Hesperus Classics Ser.)
by Leo TolstoyDescribing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'. Although the Confession led to his excommunication, it also resulted in a large following of Tolstoyan Christians springing up throughout Russia and Europe. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
My Fellow Prisoners
by Mikhail KhodorkovskyThere is the guard who delivers blows with no visible traces. The fraudster stitched up by the police for murder. The man who refuses to lie for a packet of cigarettes. The abandoned teenager, the down-and-out, the grass... He describes a hidden world of brutality and corruption, yet one where moments of humanity still manage to shine through.One in ten Russian men pass through prison at some point in their lives. This book is a denunciation of an entire system of bureaucratic criminality, and a passionate call to recognise a human tragedy.
Nothing but a Circus: Misadventures among the Powerful
by Daniel Levin'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel KahnemanIn this eye-opening exploration of the human weaknesses for power, Daniel Levin takes us on a hilarious journey through the absurd world of our global elites, drawing unforgettable sketches of some of the puppets who stand guard, and the jugglers and conjurers employed within. Most spectacular of all, however, are the astonishing contortions performed by those closest to the top in order to maintain the illusion of integrity, decency, and public service. Based on the author's first hand experiences of dealing with governments and political institutions around the world, Nothing but a Circus offers a rare glimpse of the conversations that happen behind closed doors, observing the appalling lengths that people go to in order to justify their unscrupulous choices, from Dubai to Luanda, Moscow to Beijing, and at the heart of the UN and the US government.