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This provocative and timely book identifies and disrupts the
conventional regulation and governance discourses concerning AI and
big data. It suggests that, instead of being used as tools for
exclusionist commercial markets, AI and big data can be employed in
governing digital transformation for social good. Analysing the
ways in which global technology companies have colonised data
access, the book reveals how trust, ethics, and digital
self-determination can be reconsidered and engaged to promote the
interests of marginalised stakeholders in data arrangement.
Chapters examine the regulation of labour engagement in digital
economies, the landscape of AI ethics, and a multitude of questions
regarding participation, costs, and sustainability. Presenting
several informative case studies, the book challenges some of the
accepted qualifiers of frontier tech and data use and proposes
innovative ways of actioning the more conventional regulatory
components of big data. Scholars and students in information and
media law, regulation and governance, and law and politics will
find this book to be critical reading. It will also be of interest
to policymakers and the AI and data science community.
Taking off the wraps once more, but this time the action moves to
China for round three of the Mummy adventure. For 2,000 years the
ruthless Chinese Dragon Emperor (Jet Li) and his vast army of
warriors have been frozen in time, cast in clay, waiting for their
moment to rise again. When young archaeologist Alex O'Connell (Luke
Ford) is duped into bringing the ancient warlord back to life, he
soon realises he has to call in the only people he knows with
experience and knowledge of how to battle the undead - his parents,
father Rick (Brendan Fraser) and mother Evelyn (Maria Bello). As
the emperor attempts to re-unite with his massed warriors and
finally fulfil his dream of world domination, Alex and his family,
along with mystical, high-kicking sorceress Zi Juan (Michelle Yeoh)
and a rival cast of undead, have to pull out all the stops to keep
the evil tyrant from achieving his ends.
This textbook provides a compelling and structured introduction to
international environmental law in the Text, Cases and Materials
genre. The book uses extracts from a judiciously selected range of
legal instruments and case law relevant to the protection and
regulation of the environment in international law, alongside
commentary from the author team and questions for class discussion,
to facilitate student understanding and encourage engagement in the
topic. Divided into four main parts, it examines the main
principles of international environmental law, the key areas of
substantive environmental regulation, the implementation of
environmental law and the relations between environmental law and
other areas of international law. Key Features: Provides concise
introductions to each topic of environmental law Discussion
questions and further reading sections guide students in applying
their understanding Familiarises students with the key legal
materials, treaties and case law relating to international
environmental law Covers a wide variety of topics, including
sustainable development, protection of the marine environment,
atmospheric protection and responsibility and liability for
environmental damage By introducing and highlighting the most
important instruments and cases of international environmental law,
this textbook seeks to provide environmental law students and
non-specialists with a rich and full understanding of the topic.
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All That Grows
Jack Wong
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Spooks (Paperback)
Stella Yin-Yin Wong
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Comedy featuring five feisty kids from Dartmoor Academy. Nicknamed
the 'Stinkers', the gang skip opera appreciation classes to cause
chaos. Having smuggled Slappy the sea lion onto the school bus and
into principal Brinway's hot tub, the Stinkers find themselves on a
rescue mission to save Slappy before he is sold to the circus.
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Spirit World
Alyssa Wong; Illustrated by Haining
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Travel between the lands of the living and the dead alongside a
brand-new Chinese hero in a thrilling entry in DC’s We Are
Legends initiative, introducing legendary Asian-American
characters! We Are Legends expands the DC Universe with authentic
stories starring characters of Asian descent, as told by Asian
talent! Spirit World stars Xanthe, a non-binary Chinese hero with
the ability to travel in and out of the Spirit World—the realm of
the dead, and that of the living. Xanthe possesses the ability to
burn items folded from ceremonial joss paper and turn them into
real objects that can be used in the physical world. Their
super power is based on the East Asian custom of burning joss paper
at gravesites to send resources to ancestors in the spirit world.
Their weapon of choice is a large broadsword (because who doesn’t
love a big sword when you can choose to use a big
sword?!). The adventure begins as Xanthe forms a
reluctant alliance with DC’s bad boy of the mystic arts, John
Constantine, to rescue Batgirl Cassandra Cain from a horde of
jiangshi (Chinese hopping vampires).Who knows what other spirits
they’ll find in the Spirit World—like that skateboarding boy
wearing hanfu with some headphones and a gaping hole in his chest?!
Spirit World is written by beloved comics and sci-fi author Alyssa
Wong, and beautifully illustrated by Haining! Get on board an
unforgettable journey with one of comics’ most compelling new
characters! This volume collects Spirit World #1-6.
Tabula Ra$a is hosting its massive annual music festival in the
desert, which every year precedes the massive annual drunken riot
in the desert. This is all organized by Zoey's people, including
the riot - as Will explains, the citizens need a little chaos now
and then, their job is just to keep a lid on it. That will be a
problem this year, with history's most ridiculous mayoral election
playing out in the background. The city has divided into roughly
two camps, supporting each of the major candidates: One is a stern,
calculating activist out to restore traditional morality to the
city at all costs, the other is Megaboss Alonzo, whose platform is
that he will pay you ten dollars if you vote for him. When a
horrific crime is broadcast live on the all-seeing social network
Blink, the former seems poised to reap the benefits in the polls.
The Suits suspect the nature and timing of the crime are a little
too convenient and may be a carefully-staged hoax. But in a city in
which lies are always served in layers, even that explanation will
prove to be far too simple. As tensions ratchet tighter, Zoey comes
to realize that this is really a battle of narratives: Every
culture needs a collective story to believe in, so it's just a
matter of coming up with one and then carefully sculpting reality
to make it fit. How hard can that be? They have the whole weekend.
Bringing together scholars and educators based in Myanmar, the USA,
the UK, Denmark, and Thailand, this book presents new perspectives
and research on the struggle for social justice and peace in
Myanmar at this critical juncture. It shows how actors from diverse
backgrounds and regions of Myanmar are drawing from their
identities, evoking their agency, and using critical pedagogy to
advance social justice and peace. The chapters provide the
compelling life stories of the authors, specific examples of what
they are doing, and insights of how their work might be applied to
other contexts. The topics discussed include addressing structural
violence, peace curriculum development, identity-based conflict,
teaching the history of the country, promoting inclusion, civic
education, critical pedagogy, teacher agency, and agendas of
research funding for peacebuilding. The foreword and afterword,
written by well-known scholars of Myanmar, address the relevance
and importance of the book vis-a-vis the current social and
political crisis following the February 2021 military coup.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Digital disruptions are occurring every day in an increasingly
volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous business environment.
Organisations need to respond to these disruptive changes and
proactively develop their own disruptions for organisational
transformation and growth. This book presents the market-driven
forces of digital disruptions propelled by the Fourth Industrial
Revolution, which has dramatically improved the efficiency of
business decision-making and organisational processes.Leading in a
Digitally Disruptive World discusses the accelerators of digital
disruptions; the soft skills, knowledge, and competencies for
digital success; the business revenue generators for digital
impact; and the typology and practices of sustainability and ethics
for business growth. In addition, the book covers the digital
leadership challenges associated with operating in a digitally
disruptive environment and provides innovative solutions on how
organisations and knowledge workers can prepare themselves to reap
the benefits of the digital evolution by designing, managing, and
leading organisations in a future-forward manner.
This book provides a timely review on what has been accomplished,
and what remains amiss, following the World Health Organization’s
1978 ‘Health for All’ campaign, by identifying enduring gaps in
health care within a global context. The WHO declaration of "Health
for All by the Year 2000" mapped out a road towards primary health
care for all people and demarcated it as essential for human
progress in terms of economic development and social justice.
However, 45 years have gone by, and most societies and
countries have yet achieved 'health for all’, despite so much
having changed in technology, disease patterns, and population
demographics. In promoting community health and improving service
delivery, the book advocates the development and implementation of
“All For Health” strategies to steer stakeholders in the right
direction towards universal health care. The book covers the gaps
and actions in health improvements, the ‘All For Health’
strategies, and the Health in All Policies (HiAP), reviewing and
discussing issues through both Asian and international examples.
Contributors include both academics and practitioners from diverse
professional backgrounds including medicine, nursing, pharmacy,
allied health, dietetics, social sciences, life sciences,
education, business, administration, law, and public policy.
Essential to scholars in public health and related disciplines,
this book is also useful to policymakers, community and public
health practitioners, and health care executives and interns.
Providing context-specific regional and national perspectives, this
novel Handbook sets out to disentangle the considerable
intellectual ambiguities that surround Asian public administration
and Asia's diverse applications of Western administrative models.
Building a holistic understanding of public administration systems
across East, Southeast and South Asia, chapters explore the various
historical formations, contemporary changes, and impacts of local
contexts. It also covers social accountability, performance and
human resource management, and the role of local governments. An
international range of leading scholars track the gradual embrace
of market-driven reforms in Asian public policy and administration,
including privatisation, agencification, outcome-based performance,
and customer choice. With its cross-regional and cross-national
comparisons finding divergences in these reforms, the Handbook's
most significant revelation highlights the impacts of national
political contexts and actors on bureaucracy. Illustrating a clear
overarching picture of the divergences in Asian public
administration, the comparative focus of this Handbook will prove
invaluable to students and scholars of Asian politics, public
policy and administration. It will also be a useful point of
reference to Asian policy makers and bureaucrats dealing with
national administrative reforms who are looking to innovate the
public sector.
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