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Running IT like a Business shows you how your IT function can provide much more than products and services and add real value to your business. With clear strategies, helpful diagrams and real-life examples, this book will give you the keys to unlocking your IT function’s hidden potential. Your organization will grow as you save costs, improve productivity, increase revenues and gain competitive advantage.

This pocket guide provides you with an insider’s detailed description of Accenture’s IT governance policy and details its governance structure. It will show how effective IT governance links IT strategy and IT decisions to Accenture’s business strategy and business priorities.

Observer, by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress is a slick, modern, hard science fiction standalone medical thriller, combining classic Robin Cook with the hard edge of Black Mirror and Altered Carbon.After neurosurgeon Caro Soames-Watkins’s career has gone down in flames, she receives a strange job offer from Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sam Watkins, a great uncle she barely knows, and desperation overcomes any suspicions.Watkins’s my...

This is the first book to explicitly link healing and wellness practices with critical pedagogy. Bringing together scholars from Brazil, Canada, Malta and the USA, the chapters combine critical pedagogy and social justice education to reorient the conversation around wellness in teaching and learning. Working against white Eurocentric narratives of wellness in schools which focus on the symptoms, not the causes, of society's sickness, the authors argues for a "soul revival" of education wh...

bell hooks was one of the most influential voices in critical and culturally-responsive education. In recognition of the magnificence of bell’s contributions to the field of education, this book is the first of its kind to bring together scholars, educators, and young people to honor her broad and deep legacy. Written in letter form, each chapter reflects how bell hooks’ many influential books have shaped the lives and livelihoods of the people who have read them. Narrative in style and ac...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 39: July 2019Mike Resnick, EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherLou J Berger, Shawn Proctor, Joe Haldeman, Floris M. Kleijne, Christopher L. Bennett, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, R.D. Harris, Eleanor R. Wood, Rick Norwood, Nancy Kress, Auston Habershaw, Robert Jeschonek, Kevin J. AndersonSerialization: Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Charles SheffieldColumns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Greg...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 31: March 2018Mike Resnick, EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherStories: Michael Haynes, Robert Jeschonek, Nancy Kress, Matt Dovey, Brennan Harvey, Regina Kanyu Wang, Robert Silverberg, Larry Hodges, George Nikolopoulos, Robert J. Sawyer, Jon Lasser, Steven H Silver, Orson Scott CardSerialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan SlonczewskiColumns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregor...

This collection features critical pedagogy scholars from around the world who are reinventing Paulo Freire's philosophy of democratic education in schools, universities, communities, and other activist education spaces. In rich and engaging narrative style, authors explore the influence and potential of critical pedagogy in socio-political milieu such as immigration in Finland, youth resistance in Turkey, alternative education in rural United States, education for incarcerated populations,...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our June 2021 issue (#177) contains:Original fiction by Nancy Kress ("Little Animals"), Robert Reed ("Poubelle"), Suzanne Palmer ("Bots of the Lost Ark"), Jiang Bo ("Face Changing"), Yukimi Ogawa ("The Shroud for the Mourners"), K.W. Colyard ("Our Fate, Told in Photons"), and Cristina Jurado ("Embracing the Moveme...

Devoted to and inspired by the late Maxine Greene, a champion of education and advocator of the arts, this book recognizes the importance of Greene’s scholarship by revisiting her oeuvre in the context of the intellectual historicity that shaped its formation. As a scholar, Greene dialogued with philosophers, social theorists, writers, musicians, and artists. These conversations reveal the ways in which the arts, just like philosophy and science, allow for the facilitation of "wide-awakene...

Critical Linguistics, inaugurated in 1979 with the publication of Language as Ideology, has been widely influential and successful in documenting the connection of linguistic and social practices. Published as a second edition in 1993, the reissue of this classic text still provides a most detailed theoretical account of the operation of power and ideology in all aspects of text. The book presents the advances made in the field of critical language study. The authors’ views on the...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 33: July 2018Mike Resnick, EditorTaylor Morris, CopyeditorShahid Mahmud, PublisherR.K. Nickel, Gerri Leen, Orson Scott Card, George Nikolopoulos, Rebecca Birch, Deborah L. Davitt, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Larry Hodges, Floris M. Kleijne, Robert Silverberg, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Ralph Roberts, Nancy KressSerialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan SlonczewskiColumns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregor...