Pay it forward, maar dan met kwade bedoelingenHet liefst zou de 15-jarige Quinn zijn kamer niet meer uit komen. Niet nu iemand zijn liefdesverklaring aan Amber op TikTok heeft gezet. Dan verschijnen er twee woorden op zijn mobiel die zijn leven nog meer op z'n kop zetten: Jij bent.De regels zijn eenvoudig, spelen is verplicht. Quinn krijgt vijf dagen om vijf mensen te kwellen. Weigeren zal drastische gevolgen hebben. De mysterieuze ...

Kippenvel gegarandeerd met de ijzingwekkende horrorserie De Huivering**…**Opeens waren ze er: de nieuwe buren op nummer 9. De elfjarige Zora voelt meteen dat er iets mis is met die vreemde meneer en mevrouw Constantin. Maar goed, wie gelooft Zora nou? Ze heeft een iets te levendige fantasie, die haar vaak in de problemen brengt. De enige die haar door dik en dun steunt is haar beste vriend Bink.Vanuit haar kamer bestudeert Zora de ...

Shows how anti-Semitism has been distorted to serve the Israeli stateGood Jew, Bad Jew is a critique by one of South Africa’s foremost political theorists of mainstream understandings of Jewishness. Steven Friedman offers a searing analysis of the weaponisation of anti-Semitism in service of political objectives that support the Israeli state and global white supremacy. Looking specifically at the way in which language is used to shape identities, Friedman...

Has South Africa ‘done well’ at limiting illness and deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic? Academic and political commentator, Steven Friedman, thinks not. While the country’s mainstream media believes it has, in his view the evidence tells another story. South Africa has experienced by far the most cases and deaths in Africa – at one point as many as the rest of the continent combined.One Virus, Two Countries: What Covid-19 tells us about South Africa offers a searing analysis of g...

After the Florida State Legislature passes a bill called the Good Guy with Gun Bill mandating that armed security guards be placed in every school, there is yet another school shooting by a lone student who guns down seven Black students in a classroom. The shooter is shot by the newly hired guard and hailed as a hero. On the surface, it appears to be a simple case of "Good guy shoots the bad guy" until a local reporter starts investigating more closely into the shooting and the security g...

Argues that South Africans, like everyone else, need democracy for a more equal societyWhat are democracies meant to do? And how does one know when one is a democratic state? These incisive questions and more by leading political scientist, Steven Friedman, underlie this robust enquiry into what democracy means for South Africa post 1994. Democracy is often viewed through a lens reflecting Western understanding. New democracies are compared to idealized notions by ...

Building on the work of economic historian Douglass North and Ugandan political scholar Mahmood Mamdani, Friedman argues that the difficulties besetting South African democracy are legacies of the past, not products of the post-1994 eraSouth Africa’s democracy is often seen as a story of bright beginnings gone astray, a pattern said to be common to Africa. The negotiated settlement of 1994, it is claimed, ended racial domination and created the foundation for a pro...

Within the already heavily polarised debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, parallels between Israel and apartheid South Africa remain highly contentious. A number of prominent academic and political commentators, including former US president Jimmy Carter and UN Special Rapporteur John Dugard, have argued that Israel's treatment of its Arab-Israeli citizens and the people of the occupied territories amounts to a system of oppression no less brutal or inhumane than that of South Afric...

Whether you are a newly minted MBA or a project manager at a Fortune 500 company, data science will play a major role in your career. Knowing how to communicate effectively with data scientists in order to obtain maximum value from their expertise is essential. This book is a compelling and comprehensive guide to data science, emphasizing its real-world business applications and focusing on how to collaborate productively with data science teams.Taking an engaging narrative approac...

How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence our economy, laws, behaviors, policies, health, and safety.These price tags are often unfair, infused as they are with gender, racial, national, and cultural biases that often result in valuing the lives of the young more than the old, the rich more than the...

If America were a corporation, how would an independent analyst judge its ability to compete against other corporate giants? According to the author, that hypothetical analyst would label America a corporate dinosaur and recommend that the nation either change or face extinction. This book focuses on how to improve America by first comparing its performance with thirteen competitive industrial nations, then identifying the best practices found throughout the world that can be adopted here ...

Offers a comparative analysis of the processes and aftermath of decolonisation from philosophical, historical, literary and legal perspectives.