Best Selling Books by David Storey

Politics and political relationships underpin the world we live in. From the division of the earth’s surface into separate states to the placement of ‘keep out’ signs, territorial strategies to control geographic space can be used to assert, maintain or resist power and as a force for oppression or liberation. Forms of exclusion can be consolidated and reinforced through territorial practices, yet they can also be resisted through similar means. Territoriality can be seen as the spatial expression of power, with borders dividing those inside from those outside. The extensively revised and updated second edition continues to provide an introduction to theories of territoriality and the outcomes of territorial control and resistance. It explores the construction of territories and the conflicts which often result using a range of examples drawn from various spatial scales and from many different countries. It ranges in coverage from conflicts over national territory (such as Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, South Ossetia) to divisions of space based around class, gender and race. While retaining the key elements of the first edition, this new edition covers contemporary debates on nationalism, territorialization, globalization and borders. It updates the factual content to explore the territorial consequences of ‘9/11’, the ‘war on terror’ and the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It also examines migration, refugees, the territorial expansion of the European Union, and territorial divisions in the home and workplace. The book emphasizes the underlying processes associated with territorial strategies and raises important questions relating to place, culture and identity. Key questions emerge concerning geographic space, who is ‘allowed’ to be in particular spaces and who is barred, discouraged or excluded. Written from a geographical perspective, the book is inter-disciplinary, drawing on ideas and material from a range of academic disciplines including, history, political science, sociology, international relations, cultural studies. Each chapter contains boxed case studies, illustrations and guides to further reading.

The Restoration of Arnold Middleton is a domestic tragicomedy of a thirty-something married couple and their unusual living arrangements. Arnie, a history teacher, is a delusional attention seeker with a penchant for cluttering his home with historical artefacts, much to the dismay of his wife, Joan, but much to the pleasure of his giddy mother-in law. As they await the long-anticipated visit of Arnie''s parents in a flurry of cleaning and tidying, the trio are visited by Arnie''s school colleagues, one of whom is conducting a suspect liaison with a pupil. The play follows Arnie''s lies and fantasies, indulged by his fellow teaching staff, to his ultimate breakdown, and to the breakdown of the curious domestic set-up that Arnie, Joan and her mother have put up with for years.

Total Value Development provides a framework to help businesses innovate and derive greater value from the services they offer. The secret is to devise an innovative model built on total value creation, identified as the total value development (TVD) model.The TVD model has broad applicability for any large organization. Here, case studies are presented showing the effectiveness of the TVD model in its practical application within companies. Statistical evidence is used to recommend improvements to performance outcomes, such as time compression, cost reduction, quality and innovation. Studies of over 100 service enterprises in the United States and the United Kingdom provide compelling evidence for benefits from business model innovation. Additional material in the form of guidance forms give readers the tools needed for the implementation and recording of successful in-project value development.Providing both a practical framework and real-life examples of adding value to current business practices, this book is essential reading for executives, managers and researchers in the field of business and innovation.

The third son of a coalminer, David Storey takes us from his tough upbringing in Wakefield, to being ''sold'' to Leeds Rugby League Club, to his escape to the Slade School of Art and his life in post-war London. He describes shocking scenes in the seventeen deprived East End schools in which he taught. He documents the childhood death of his eldest brother, addressing much of the memoir to him and exploring how this relates to his own sometimes paralysing depression, which haunted most of his life. And yet, a prolific and celebrated writer, he recalls heady spells in New York, close relationships in the theatre with Joycelyn Herbert, Ralph Richardson and Lindsay Anderson, early success with This Sporting Life, and winning the Booker Prize for his novel Saville.

This book describes how public policy and the "enterprise industry" have effectively failed to generate an enterprise culture in disadvantaged areas, combining theoretical understandings with solidly derived empirical data.

Article on the danger of inferring that the results obtained from a study on small scale industry employment creation potential in the USA are applicable to UK industrial policy - reviews conclusions of "The Job Generation Process" by D.L. Birch, finding that 66 per cent of new jobs generated in the USA manufacturing sector are in a size of enterprise of less than 20 employees; makes comparisons using statistical tables on new and small enterprise in the UK county of Cleveland, Midlands, Glasgow and Birmingham.

Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey takes us to a crumbling English town where a childhood friendship blossoms into obsessive love Leonard Radcliffe is the last heir to a proud family name that has nearly been forgotten. All that remains of the Radcliffe legacy is the Place: a ramshackle manor that once loomed over the countryside, but is now hemmed in by public housing and all but shaken apart by the trains that pass beneath it. At age 9, Leonard is shy, lonely, and too smart for his own good. When he becomes the target of school bullies, he is saved by the charming brute Vic Tolson, which marks the start of a friendship that will both define and destroy the two boys’ lives. When Vic and Leonard meet again as adults, their dormant childhood friendship erupts into an irresistible physical passion. As the Place crumbles around them, Leonard and Vic pursue a love so powerful it can only end in death.

Information technology has revolutionized the way we work & has become an integral part of professional life. David Storey demystifies this often bewildering world & shows how to harness I.T. & make it work for you & your team. Learn how to improve your communication & information gathering skills across a whole range of mediums from the smallest networks to e-mail & the Internet. In addition to learning effective personal use of I.T. learn how to identify the benefits to your organization or department of expanding or modifying your current system. This book provides, without jargon, all the information you need to make the most of I.T. & succeed in the modern workplace.

Involuntary self-murder is a symptom of what Matthew Maddox, emeritus professor of the Drayburgh School of Fine Art, considers to be a cultural as well as a social malaise - his millennial summing-up of the century he has lived through.

The Phoenix Theatre is going dark-indeed, being demolished for more profitable purposes. Its artistic director is determined to stay for the bitter end, and as he holes up for the last twenty-four hours, all the ghosts of his murky career parade before him. Not only the theatre, but he too, is due for demolition. By one of our major writers, this play is about the survival of theatre: physically, emotionally and culturally.