Practices of tracking and tracing have a long history, yet they are expanding in scale and scope in the digital age with important consequences for the accounts which shape our organizational and everyday lives. At a time when the benefits of traceability for assuring quality, maintaining security, and supporting knowledge-creation must be balanced with needs for privacy and accountability, Economy of Traces delivers an analysis of the implications of traceability for the many acc...

“[This new edition of] The Scramble for Africa uses tools of international political economy to clarify the challenges of development in today’s Africa from managing mounting demand for the region’s natural resources and land, to navigating the turbulence of global capital and trade flows. It critically analyses the sources and sustainability of the current African growth path and explains why they are crucial for South Africa’s foreign and economic policy debates.”As the title of ...

Is it possible to achieve a good work-life balance as a head of year while still being effective and offering the best pastoral care for your students that you can? This book shows you how.The Head of Year’s Handbook is the companion to one of the most rewarding yet challenging roles within a school. It looks in depth at what a head of year does on a day-to-day basis, the challenges you will face, and provides strategies and ideas to improve student outcomes and im...

A new social science framework for studying the unprecedented social and economic restructuring driven by digital data.Digital data have become the critical frontier where emerging economic practices and organizational forms confront the traditional economic order and its institutions. In Data Rules, Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos establish a social science framework for analyzing the unprecedented social and economic restructuring brought about by ...

In regards to this book..."The POWER of..."The chapters consist of:PURPOSEPOSITIVITYPOSSIBILITIESPERSERVERENCEPRESENCEPROFESSIONALISMPERSONALITYPERFORMANCEPASSIONPATIENCE PRAYER PEACEPOWERKnow that YOU are a multi-dimensional being. In reality, YOU exist in many different dimensions at once!You CAN perceive of that which you are the vibration of.YOU...are here to live your truth!...

From the sublime to the ridiculous, and every star-date in-between, nine authors follow in the footsteps of great speculative fiction humorists such as Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett in this collection of ten wild and weird tales sure to put a smile on your face.A beautiful multiverse criminal, a heartbroken pizza baron, and a dog named Pepperoni. All in a day's work in the life of government agent Marlon Phillips in "Farewell, My Lovely Slip-Slider" (Parker Francis).Whe...

The Alvarium Experiment authors are back with ten more amusing science fiction and fantasy tales. Or should we say "tails" as these stories feature some truly amazing pets created by some really wild imaginations.Parker Francis brings us a more than capable chimp in "Monkey Business". Bria Burton channels an out-of-control AI avatar who has lions and tigers and bears, oh my, in "Cricket the Wicked and Her Little Pets, Too". In "Versipellis Nemora", Scott Michael Powers's exasperate...

From characters that disappear to odd occurrences to open endings, the masters who penned today's literary classics left a lot of room for speculation. Have you ever wondered what inspired Kipling to pen The Jungle Book? Who else Macbeth's witches influenced? Why Mr. Rochester's first wife went mad in Jane Eyre? How the events of Treasure Island would unfold if the pirates flew spaceships instead? If Eveline were escaping Earth instead of Ireland? What an American free spirit like Holly Go...

Your PERSONAL Self...You know yourself better than anyone else.This book consists of our personal cycles of transformation, rebirth, and renewal. Our life force is the most important road to travel...in what we say, what we do, and what / how we think. With the centering and grounding in order to clear and cleanse our spiritual growth, it is about listening to your heart, learning the lessons in life, and moving through those challenges in order to unleash the power within YO...

This book that is entitled, "Your HEALING Journey" consists of a four part chapter section with the major topics of...-Part One..."THE JOURNEY"-Part Two..."EMPATHS"-Part Three..."NARCISSISTS"-Part Four..."THE HEALING"(And finally..."EPILOGUE")As these four parts are pretty much self-explanatory, this book assists in directing one's path to a bigger and better transition for a long-overdue improved life.Each one of us has our own HEALING jour...

This book entitled, "TRANSITION...Reaching Beyond Limitations" is all about each and every one of us to come as we are, to start anew. Hence the photo on the front cover, as to transform ourselves to unlimited powerful and positive blessings of abundance and prosperity.The step by step procedures listed in this book consist of the following topics as to assist us in our new beginning...* Come as You Are (intro)*You Have to be ODD to be Number One*Happiness = Gra...

This book, "FOLLOW YOUR PASSION...FIND YOUR PURPOSE" is a self-help book to whatever goal / vison / dream that YOU want to achieve. Whether it is personal or professional, this book offers the guidelines to a better YOU throughout any/all of YOUR endeavors.We ALL have a calling in this lifetime and it is up to YOU to decide on what YOUR calling is.People ask, "What is my purpose?" Well, What is it that you have been so passionate to achieve? What is it in YOUR heart that you ...