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Surviving and Thriving in the Age of AI: A Handbook for Digital Leaders

£18.99
ByAlan Brown

Surviving and Thriving in the Age of AI is specifically designed for busy professionals, leaders and decision makers. It is organized to allow you to gain valuable insights quickly and on demand. Above all, the content is grounded in real-world experience and practical applications within the context of digital transformation, ensuring its relevance to everyone who is embarking on a digital journey. Each topic concludes with thought-provoking questions and actionable steps to guide your personal exploration of AI and its implications.

Digital Bricks and Mortar: Transforming the Property Market

£24.95
ByJohn Reynolds

This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand and navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of digital property and mortgage transactions. It offers a nuanced understanding of the transformative forces that are shaping the digital property market, and it provides a stark warning to market incumbents on the need to evolve their business models, their technology and their cybersecurity capabilities.

Construction Law, 4th edition

£160.00
ByJulian Bailey

This is the definitive reference work for construction law practitioners internationally. In three volumes it provides the most comprehensive treatment of the major issues arising out of construction and engineering projects, with extensive references to case law, statutes and regulations, standard forms of contract and legal commentary.

A Heretic’s Manifesto: Essays on the Unsayable

£12.99
ByBrendan O'Neill

Throughout history, it has been those brave enough to puncture the prevailing groupthink who have propelled society forward. But they are in shockingly short supply today. In this collection of original essays, Brendan O’Neill remakes the case for heresy – and commits a few heresies of his own along the way.

How Woke Won: The Elitist Movement That Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason

£12.99
ByJoanna Williams

Where did woke come from? And whose interests does it serve? This is a book about how a once fringe set of ideas took our elites by storm, and why this is bad news. The book argues that we have much more in common than the woke would have us believe – and that it is time to come together to forge a freer, more democratic and truly egalitarian future.

A New Global Deal: Reforming World Governance

£19.99
ByMaria João Rodrigues (ed.)

This book contributes to dialogue across all continents concerning the priorities of reforming world governance – with policies to address global challenges. It makes proposals for reform of the world governance system in areas such as climate and environment, social issues, digital transformation, trade and supply chains and industrial policy.

Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business

£22.50
ByDavid Birch, Victoria Richardson

The book sets out the potential for financial services in metaverses and the ‘always-on’ immersive internet, beginning with a look at the technologies needed to make these metaverses useful for business. It describes the ways in which new markets will function and the digital assets that will be exchanged in transactions between online identities.

Top Dogs & Fat Cats: The Debate on High Pay

£15.00
ByJ. R Shackleton (ed.)

Top Dogs & Fat Cats provides fascinating insights into the nature of high pay and provides a compelling contribution to one of today’s most contentious issues.

Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies

£17.50
ByKristian Niemietz

There have been many attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in failure. But, according to socialism’s adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were “real socialism”. This book documents the history of this response.

Guide to the Criminal Prisons of Nineteenth-Century England

£95.00

Contains critical information about operational dates, locations, jurisdictions, population statistics, appearances in primary and secondary sources and lists of surviving archives for 844 English prisons used to confine those accused and convicted of crime in the period 1800-1899.

China, Trade and Power: Why the West’s Economic Engagement Has Failed

ByStewart Paterson

From a Western point of view, the policy of economic engagement with China has failed. How did Western, market-orientated, property-owning, liberal democracies go from being in a position of complete global hegemony in the early 1990s to the current crisis of confidence?

Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong

£24.50
ByNeil Monnery

This is a book about Sir John Cowperthwaite – the man Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman identified as being behind Hong Kong’s remarkable post-war economic transformation. Despite there being some articles about him and effusive obituaries there have, until now, been no published biographies of Cowperthwaite.

Bad Habits, Hard Choices: Using the Tax System to Make Us Healthier

£9.99
ByDavid Fell

The book proposes that negative VAT should be charged on healthy foods and high VAT should be charged on unhealthy foods.  It sets out a four-step process to actually implement this new regime, each step of which depends on mechanisms that have already been used by government.

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