Last Call for HMS Edinburgh: A Story of the Russian Convoys

History

Pearce, Frank

Military

Collins

The Barents Sea is a stretch of water, lying south of Spitzbergen and the ice edge north of Finland and Sweden. During World War II British and American convoys had to transport supplies to Murmansk for the beleaguered Russians and this book describes the ferocious battles in these icy waters.

Running the Gauntlet: The Battles for the Barents Sea

Lewin, Admiral of the Fleet Lord

HarperCollins, Publishers

The radical Durkheim

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Unwin Hyman

This appraisal of Durkheim's sociological theory shows how his arguments can be developed to extend our understanding of social and political change. Since a major concern of the book is to develop a more adequate picture of the parameters within which a feasible socialist society could operate, there is a continual reference to the manifest and latent socialist elements of Durkheim's thought. The author produced this synthesis of ideas after examining the works of Marx, Weber and Durkheim and coming to the conclusion that while Marx was scathing about utopian socialism he was by no means immune to its dangers and this was particularly true of his image of communism and of its relationship to socialism. He reveals how Durkheim helps provide a critique of Marx's concept of communism and forces socialists to be somewhat less sanguine about the presence and role of the state and law in socialist societies. Later it is shown that whilst there are significant discontinuities between capitalist and socialist societies that there are also continuities in relationship to their forms of order and their likely sources of disorder. The author implies that this could help socialists produce less moralistic critiques of capitalism and develop more realistic and realizeable political programmes.

The Radical Durkheim

Routledge

Toxic Capitalism: Corporate Crime and the Chemical Industry (Routledge Revivals)

Originally published in 1998. While there is a growing academic literature on corporate crime, much of this focuses upon variants of economic or financial crimes; there is a relative absence of studies of safety, health and/or environmental crimes. This is curious given that recent years have witnessed a resurgence in popular, academic and indeed state attention to questions related to environmental degradation and human safety. Certainly in the latter context there is some recognition that environmental degradation must be understood partly in terms of environmental crimes by corporations. Moreover, recent experience in both the US and the UK attests to the fact that there is no ineluctable trend towards safer and healthier workplaces, as deregulatory movements have resulted in increased risks for most workers and, this text argues, an increased opportunity for, and incidence of, safety crimes. At the centre of environmental, safety and health isses lie the chemicals industries. These industries are of strategic importance to national economies, while also having almost unique hazard and risk potential and it is for these reasons that these are the focus of this text. Any understanding of the nature of these types of corporate crimes, and thus any recognition of the potential for their more effective regulation, requires an analysis that is grounded in more general sociological concerns and in political economy. For this reason, this text emphasises the need for understandings of the nature of contemporary and emergent forms of corporate organisation, of their place in contemporary economies, and of the relationships between these forms and state formations.

Business & Money

Tombs, Steve

Economics

Last Call for H.M.S. Edinburgh: A Story of the Russian Convoys

Atheneum Books

Sea War: Great Naval Battles of World War II

Robert Hale, Ltd.

This is a gripping account of some of the ex periences of men of the Merchant Service in World War Two, c overing two oceans - the Atlantic and the Arctic and the Med iterranean sea. '

Heroes of the Fourth Service

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Crimes of the Powerful: Marxism, Crime and Deviance

Pluto Press

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