Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now--As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It

“Craig Taylor is the real deal: a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman.” —David Rakoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Fraud and Half Empty
“Londoners is a wonderful book—I wanted it to be twice as long.” —Diana Athill, New York Times bestselling author of Somewhere Towards the End
In Londoners, acclaimed journalist Craig Taylor paints readers an epic portrait of today’s London that is as rich and lively as the city itself. In the style of Studs Terkel (Working, Hard Times, The Good War) and Dave Isay (Listening Is an Act of Love), Londoners offers up the stories, the gripes, the memories, and the dreams of those in the great and vibrant British metropolis who “love it, hate it, live it, left it, and long for it,” from a West End rickshaw driver to a Soldier of the Guard at Buckingham Palace to a recovering heroin addict seeing Big Ben for the very first time. Published just in time for the 2012 London Olympic Games, Londoners is a glorious literary celebration of one of the world’s truly great cities.

History

Taylor, Craig

Europe

Ecco

In Londoners, acclaimed journalist Craig Taylor paints readers an epic portrait of today’s London that is as rich and lively as the city itself. In the style of Studs Terkel (Working, Hard Times, The Good War) and Dave Isay (Listening Is an Act of Love), Londoners offers up the stories, the gripes, the memories, and the dreams of those in the great and vibrant British metropolis who “love it, hate it, live it, left it, and long for it,” from a West End rickshaw driver to a Soldier of the Guard at Buckingham Palace to a recovering heroin addict seeing Big Ben for the very first time. Published just in time for the 2012 London Olympic Games, Londoners is a glorious literary celebration of one of the world’s truly great cities.

New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time

In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voices of some of the city's best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in our time--and a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people.Best-selling author Craig Taylor has been hailed as "a peerless journalist and a beautiful craftsman" (David Rakoff), acclaimed for the way he "fuses the mundane truth of conversation with the higher truth of art" (Michel Faber). In the wake of his celebrated book Londoners, Taylor moved to New York and spent years meeting regularly with hundreds of New Yorkers as diverse as the city itself. New Yorkers features 75 of the most remarkable of them, their fascinating true tales arranged in thematic sections that follow Taylor's growing engagement with the city.Here are the uncelebrated people who propel New York each day--bodega cashier, hospital nurse, elevator repairman, emergency dispatcher. Here are those who wire the lights at the top of the Empire State Building, clean the windows of Rockefeller Center, and keep the subway running. Here are people whose experiences reflect the city's fractured realities: the mother of a Latino teenager jailed at Rikers, a BLM activist in the wake of police shootings. And here are those who capture the ineffable feeling of New York, such as a balloon handler in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade or a security guard at the Statue of Liberty.Vibrant and bursting with life, New Yorkers explores the nonstop hustle to make it; the pressures on new immigrants, people of color, and the poor; the constant battle between loving the city and wanting to leave it; and the question of who gets to be considered a "New Yorker." It captures the strength of an irrepressible city that--no matter what it goes through--dares call itself the greatest in the world.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

W.W.Norton&Company

In Moralism: A Study of a Vice, Craig Taylor delves into one of the most overlooked ethical concerns of our time: the vice of moralism, or the distortion of moral thought, reflection, and judgment. This flawed tendency in human nature is pervasive on all levels of society, and affects people from all walks of life - from the philosopher to the pundits and politicians. Covering a wide variety of topics, Moralism takes on such salient issues as the nearly impossible demands of stringent morality, the conflict between morals and other values, and the contrast between the practice of moral philosophy and other modes of moral thought and reflection. In connecting his argument to the world at large, Taylor draws upon examples of moralism in the media, in literature, and in art. This highly original and provocative study will be of interest to students of philosophy, psychology, theology, and media, and to anyone who takes an interest in contemporary morality.

Moralism: A Study of a Vice

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

McGill-Queen's University Press

Skip the double-decker bus and experience London like a native on foot! Whether you're a first-time visitor or just want to discover new terrain, City Walks: London will give you an intimate view of this historic city. Each card in this deck outlines a self-guided walking adventure, with a detailed map on one side, and insider information on the other. Pick any card and start exploring London!

City Walks: London: 50 Adventures on Foot

Sports & Outdoors

Chronicle Books+

Changing lifelong habits and adopting new behaviors is a difficult but necessary task for heart patients. As a health care professional, you must play an active role in assisting patients who face this challenge in order to reduce coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. Lifestyle Management for Patients With Coronary Heart Disease provides you with techniques for helping patients change their unhealthy behaviors and improve their quality of life following a CHD event.
Drawing upon more than 20 years of research and clinical experience in the Stanford Cardiac Rehabilitation Program, authors Nancy Houston Miller and Craig Barr Taylor present behavioral interventions and explain how to apply the interventions in a wide variety of health care settings. You will find separate chapters on specific risk factors, including 
- exercise, - smoking, - diet, - stress, and - medications. 
Each of these chapters provides methods for helping patients not only adopt but also maintain lifestyle changes in these areas. You'll find 19 assessment tools and patient resources such as questionnaires and logs to help facilitate lifestyle change. You'll also find information on
- elements of a successful behavioral program; - educational methods for behavior change, including printed materials, video, computers, telephone calls, and group interventions; and - psychological issues that may affect a patient's ability to change—depression, anxiety, alcohol and drug abuse, social support and marital status, and stress and anger.
Although the primary focus of this monograph is on patients with established CHD, many of the principles can also be applied to patients at high risk for developing cardiovascular disease. All health care professionals who work with cardiovascular patients, especially those involved in education and counseling, will want to own a copy of this comprehensive and practical guide.

Lifestyle Management for Patients With Coronary Heart Disease (Current Issues in Cardiac Rehabilitation, Monograph No. 2)

Medical Books

Houston Miller, Nancy

Medicine

Human Kinetics

Moral Thought Outside Moral Theory (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory)

Routledge

Craig Taylor's study examines the wide-ranging French debates on the martial ideals of chivalry and knighthood during the period of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453). Faced by stunning military disasters and the collapse of public order, writers and intellectuals carefully scrutinized the martial qualities expected of knights and soldiers. They questioned when knights and men-at-arms could legitimately resort to violence, the true nature of courage, the importance of mercy, and the role of books and scholarly learning in the very practical world of military men. Contributors to these discussions included some of the most famous French medieval writers, led by Jean Froissart, Geoffroi de Charny, Philippe de Mézières, Honorat Bovet, Christine de Pizan, Alain Chartier and Antoine de La Sale. This interdisciplinary study sets their discussions in context, challenging modern, romantic assumptions about chivalry and investigating the historical reality of debates about knighthood and warfare in late medieval France.

Chivalry and the Ideals of Knighthood in France during the Hundred Years War

Cambridge University Press

Achieve higher levels of workforce engagement and retain more employees A strong U.S. economy with record-low unemployment rates and the shift to Millennials―now the largest generation in the workforce―are driving specific challenges for organizations to engage and retain employees. Engaged employees don't just happen, they are nurtured by organizations with great cultures and strong leadership. Talent Keepers puts a new spin on a systematic approach to employee engagement and retention with precise tactics that have achieved proven results. This book includes research-based methods of engaging employees, beginning the moment they are hired. With six client case studies that focus on how the organization put an engagement plan into practice and achieved success, readers will come away with specific, actionable strategies they can begin implementing immediately in their organization. • Put an engagement plan into action • Find actionable strategies • Implement ways to retain your best employees • Achieve success starting today If you’re a top leader looking to engage and retain your best performers, Talent Keepers has you covered.

Talent Keepers: How Top Leaders Engage and Retain Their Best Performers

Business & Money

Mulligan, Christopher

Management & Leadership

wiley

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