A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them.How has a writer known principally for his contained domestic novels come to represent the most dynamic elements of world literature? In Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature, Chris Holmes expands our understanding of how world literature engages with the most pressing crises of the ...

Effective risk management in law firms has never been more important. Lawyers must contend with the long-standing risks associated with the practice of law, such as anti-money laundering and issues of client confidentiality, as well as new risk areas such as data protection and cybersecurity, and increased regulatory burdens. Poor handling of these risks can lead to reputational damage, diminished client relationships, and even regulatory action, and so it is critical for law firms to rema...

'Spiritually Green' includes a selection of articles and interviews from 'GreenSpirit Magazine', spanning a period of twelve years. This book presents a diversity of green wisdom and Earth-centred practices, such as the importance of stories, eco-therapeutic work in green relationships, herbal medicine, rewilding, problems of consumerism, and much more. All chapters are by people who know their subject well and have been included because of the quality of the content....

This book has everything: Ghosts, goldfish, pirates, a cat with criminal tendencies, UFOs, a burglar, an awful lot of stuff about avoiding death and the police, bats, badgers... and it’s all very, very silly. What more could you ask for in a book? But... who said YOU could read it? Eh? Hm?

This major critical work from one of the preeminent voices in science fiction scholarship reframes the genre as a way of understanding today's world.As the application of technoscience increasingly transforms every aspect of life, science fiction has become an essential mode of imagining the horizons of possibility. Though the broad scope of science fiction may vary in artistic quality and sophistication, it shares a desire to imagine a collective future for the hum...

The Definitive Guide to Owning and Running a Successful Small BusinessThe Complete Canadian Small Business Guide has been the go-to book for thousands of Canadian entrepreneurs ever since it was first published in 1988. Now in its fourth edition, this essential guide updates you on everything you need to know to understand, manage, and take advantage of the latest changes in technology, law, resources, and best practices of today’s small businesses.Renowned experts in their...

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What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations, while criticall...

“Numbers for successful business” writing was originated by Grabovoi Grigori Petrovich in the Russian language in 2004, was completed by Grabovoi G.P. The work includes number series presented that can be used in accordance with terms, definitions and notions in business for successful development of one’s own business on the basis of technologies of eternal development. Economy is considered as any possible types of people’s and the entire human society’s activities that m...

The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, war, political polarization, economic upheaval, and the dying back of nature together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. This revised, tenth anniversary edition of Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face these crises so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That ...

Meet Detective William Lorimer, the star of author Alex Gray's bestselling Glasgow-set crime series.The Bank Job is a gripping 3,000 word short story that reveals the dramatic event that inspired the young William Lorimer to become a policeman. Alex Gray's acclaimed series brings Glasgow to vivid life in all its grit and glory and this story is the perfect introduction to her winsome detective, as well as a treat for all fans of the series....

The Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem, whose works include Return from the Stars, The Cyberiad, A Perfect Vacuum, and Solaris, has been hailed as a "literary Einstein" and a science-fiction Bach. The Art and Science of Stanislaw Lem provides an inter-disciplinary analysis of his influence on Western culture and the creative partnering of art and science in his fiction and futorology by American and European scholars who have defined Lem scholarship. Rather than analyzing Lem sole...