Stephen Taylor

The dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter—which brings new insights into Britain's involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved people. In 1827 the Royal Navy purchased a Baltimore clipper and renamed her the Black Joke. Assigned to the Preventative Squadron, she patrolled the west coast of Africa and freed 3,692 captives from enslavement. Beloved by seafarers and...

The Grosvenor was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, a grand three-masted square-rigger of 741 tons bristling with 26 cannon. When she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa, an astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely. But the castaways were hundreds of miles from the nearest...

Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice is the definitive resource for HRM students and professionals, helping readers understand and implement HR to align with business needs. This book provides detailed coverage of all areas essential to the HR function, such as employment law, employee relations, learning and development, performance management, and reward management. It also covers the HR skills...

A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain’s trade, exploration, and warfare. “No other book resurrects the wooden world of Jack Tar in such captivating and voluminous detail.”—Roger Ekirch, Wall Street Journal “[A] rollicking narrative . . . Superb”—Ben Wilson, Times British maritime history in the age of...

Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice is the definitive resource for HRM students and professionals, to understand and implement all things HR. This book provides detailed coverage of all areas essential to the HR function such as employment law, employee relations, learning and development, performance management and reward management. It also covers the HR skills needed to ensure professional...

The first core module on both the CIPD Advanced Diploma in Strategic People Managemental and in Strategic Organisational Learning. This book provides students with an understanding of the ways in which major social, political and environmental developments affect employment, work and people management in organizations. These developments include globalisation, technology, the economy, labour markets, society, politics, public policy and employment...