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 ...

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 ...

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...

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!...

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 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...

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...

With the growing interest and encounters of the supernatural, this book ("THE SPIRIT WORLD...and Pursuing the Paranormal") details the many categories from: crossing over into the spirit world, past lives, children / animals experiencing the paranormal, our spirit guides, spiritual attachments, benevolent and malevolent entities, divination tools, mediums / psychics...just to name a few chapters within this fully captured and captivating informative book.I have compilated the variou...

The Teachings of WICCA...This book I put together explains a VERY thorough and well-explained topic of WICCA.With seven chapters, there are so many topics within those seven chapters that will give you (the reader) a COMPLETE layout of what WICCA entails, just to name a few...-Wicca and Wiccan Spirituality-Coven(s)-Solitary Practitioners-Wiccan name information-Elements of the Earth and what each one represents-Witch tutorial-M...

So...What on Earth Is an Angel?They're beings of light who send information/loving thoughts through our higher self to inspire/guide us. These Angelic beings have all of the properties of light---speed, brightness, and of the power to heal as well as to obliterate darkness.These Angels are at the willing in order to help you connect your higher self with heaven so that you can be happier here on earth.Angels sense that the natural state of life is one of…joy, of...

'Her First Time' gives you hours of great bedtime reading.Makes an 'arousing' gift for that someone special too!