Tahir Nisar presents a cogent, compelling account of recent developments and disruptions within the digital economy, and particularly within the industrial and service sectors. Through an original, overarching framework rooted in the concept of personalization and its antecedents, Nisar identifies radically new forms of relationships, both economic and social, among firms and customers. These new relationships are driving major changes in commercial and industrial firms' policies and practices, and in turn, in the entire market economy. E-commerce trading, user-generated content, virtual communities, co-creation, influencer movements, FinTech, and sharing economies have strengthened the hands of consumers and have encouraged developments in cognitive technologies such as AI automation, which in turn create new ways of working and disruptions to traditional capital-labour relations. Ultimately, what emerges from this study is a picture of how digital technologies unleash forces of change that are creating new forms of social and economic sharing arrangements and new forms of social organization.For its empirical depth and and theoretical rigor, this book is essential reading for researchers and students interested in emerging, alternative forms of economics, business, and management, and particularly those interested in the digital economy and the state and future of capitalist markets.
An unforgettable historical debut set in Second World War Brussels: exploring love, resistance and courage in all their forms - and the magical and myriad ways we are connected to each other
From the New York Times bestselling author of House on Fire, a breakneck thriller that marries the dynastic opulence of Succession with the tense and disorienting spy craft of The Americans.
A brilliant new account of one of the world's most remote, mysterious and misunderstood places: Easter Island.
From Catfish Rolling's Clara Kumagai, a second novel full of longing, love and heartbreak, inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly.
The epic, unmissable new romantic fantasy. 2025's most-anticipated debut romantasy is filled with hope after heartbreak, secrets, betrayal, dancing - and the touch of a goddess of death...My protector is gone, revealed to be a monster. But I remind myself that I am not a damsel. I'm no princess bound within a tower.I am a shadow.Twenty-two-year-old Vasalie Moran was once a gifted dancer in King Illian's court - until he framed her for murder without explanation. Barely surviving her two years in the dungeons at the cost of her mind and body, she's suddenly called to face her King. He offers her a deal: become his spy at the month-long royal Gathering and he'll grant her freedom. But dark forces are at work within the Gathering's halls. As Illian's orders grow bloody and dangerous, forcing her to harm and betray those around her, Vasalie discovers the monster she serves may be aligned with a bigger monster - one far closer to home. With her world and freedom threatened, Vasalie enlists the help of Illian's brother and greatest adversary, the King of the East, who despite his devil-may-care reputation proves himself to be both politically astute and surprisingly kind. As the rivalry between brothers escalates with Vasalie caught in the middle, the truth of her past, including her imprisonment and the real reason Illian chose her as his spy, comes to light. If she wants to survive, she must decide who to trust, who to fight for, and how much of her soul she's willing to damn in the process...
The end of the world has been and gone. There was no one great natural disaster, no all-consuming world war, no catastrophic pandemic. Rather scores of storms, droughts and floods; dozens of vicious, selfish regional conflicts that only destroyed what could no longer be rebuilt. No single finishing stroke for Earth's great global human society, but you can still bleed to death from a thousand cuts.The Red Planet fared better. Where Earth fell apart, Mars pulled together. Engineered men and beasts, aided by Bees, an outlawed distributed intelligence, survived through co-operation, because there was simply no alternative.Fast forward to the present day. A signal ? "For the sake of what once was. We beg you. Help." ? reaches Mars. How could they not help? A consortium of Martian work crews gather the resources for a mission: a triumphal return to the blue-green world of their ancestors.And now here they are ? three hundred million kilometres from home. And it has all already gone horribly wrong.
Beatrice has been lied to her whole life.Beatrice Barbary has been raised to believe that while education will set her mind free, there are some questions better left unanswered.Her life is in disarray. But when her father, one of the most powerful men in Bern, is brutally murdered in their own home, she is left reeling, unprotected and vulnerable.Her future uncertain.Plunging head first into the mysteries surrounding her father and her own upbringing, Beatrice discovers The Order of St. Eve and the violent secrets they have been hiding her entire life. It's time for her to take control.Will she be able to right the wrongs of her father, or will the Order silence her first?Set in a city at breaking point, Beatrice's story tows the dangerously thin line between retribution and revenge, and the choice we must make when confronted by evil.
This is the story of a love triangle... of sorts.April is a smart, lonely tech worker. She has just left an anonymous note inside a book for the hot guy at her local bookshop. She immediately regrets it. Laura is a busy single mum without the time or the inclination to date. She finds a note in a book she bought from the guy at the bookshop. He's cute, sure. But, really?Meanwhile Westley, handsome but not so perceptive, is too distracted by a movie being filmed at the shop to notice either woman's furtive glances as they visit more often than usual. April and Laura's continued anonymous correspondence will shake all three of these characters out of their mundane routines, nudging them towards something they're all looking for: a storybook ending of their own.Storybook Ending is a celebration of community and a playful, funny tribute to romance, friendship and bookshops.
A city is always a cemetery.When a professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark warning on the brick wall beside the body, scrawled in coral nail polish: 'Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.'After reporting the crime to the police, the professor becomes the lead informant of the case, led by a detective with a newfound obsession with poetry and a long list of failures on her back. But what has the professor really seen? While more bodies of men are found across the city, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems, and the darker stream of violence spreading throughout the city.From one of Mexico's greatest living writers, Death Takes Me is a dark and dazzling literary thriller that flips the traditional crime narrative on its head, in a world where death is rampant and violence is gendered. Unfolding with the charged logic of a dream in sentences as sharp as the cuts on the bodies of the victims - a word which, in Spanish, is always feminine - it explores with masterful imagination the unstable terrains of desire and sexuality.PRAISE FOR CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA'Warning: Cristina Rivera Garza is an explosive writer. A dexterous creator of atmospheres, with a powerful style, an evocative and indomitable language' Lina Merwane'A masterful storyteller' Jennifer Clement
Everyone has heard the rumours. But who knows the real story of Coram House?True crime writer Alex Kelly is struggling after her last book tanked her career. Her reputation in tatters, she accepts a commission to ghost write a book about Coram House, a former orphanage by a lake in Vermont that is now being turned into luxury condos. Could this be the fresh start she needs?Years before, it was revealed that children at the orphanage were being abused; the church settled the case, but rumours persist about one of the other allegations made, that a small boy was deliberately drowned in the lake by someone in charge. Those in charge insist there was no such murder, but when Alex makes a shocking discovery only days after her arrival she realises that what began in the past is not going to stay there...An outstanding new atmospheric and character rich mystery debut, perfect for fans of Tana French, Erin Kelly and Gillian Flynn.
The third novel from Eleni Kyriacou, author of BBC Between the Covers pick The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou. Hollywood, 1954. At night, the nurses let us watch a film. Before we're strapped to our beds and our screams turn to sleepy moans, movie stars fill the screen, and we're allowed a moment of make believe.Tonight, I see his name projected above the title on the opening credits. I know the actor on screen. Everyone knows him.But I know him. I know that he likes his martinis strong and his women weak. I know that he owns the world yet is terrified of losing it. I know what happened at the party that night, after the Oscars.And now it's time to tell everyone what he did. But first, I need to get out. A Beautiful Way to Die delves into the decadence and depravity of the early film industry from Hollywood to London. Perfect for fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and films like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Babylon.Praise for Eleni Kyriacou:'Impressive... worthy of Sarah Waters' THE TIMES'Enthralling and wholly original' CLARE MACKINTOSH'Immersive, gripping, authentic' ERIN KELLY'Hugely powerful' EMMA CHRISTIE'An absolute page-turner' LOUISE HARE'Chilling, gripping' NIKKI SMITH'Compelling' GUARDIAN
When we picture the ancient world, we tend to envision the soaring pyramids of Giza, the Coliseum conquests in Rome and the bustling agora of Athens. Indeed, the classical authors who shape our understanding of the world considered the edges of these ancient civilisations the domain of monstrous humanity. For these writers, from Ovid to Herodotus, the outer reaches of the world was where civilisation, or their conception of civilisation, ceased to exist. But at the borders of the empires we now consider the ?heart' of civilisation were thriving, vibrant cultures - just ones we might not expect.In The Far Edges of the Known World, Owen Rees brings us into the world of these ancient borderlands where the impossible became the norm, where the boundaries of ?civilised' and ?barbarian' began to run together and where normally juxtaposed cultures intermixed, showing us that the story of the ancient world isn't nearly as straightforward as we've been taught. Taking us along the sandy caravan routes of Morocco to the freezing winters of the northern Black Sea, from Co-Loa in the Red River valley of Vietnam to the southern reaches of Kenya, Rees explores the powerful empires and diverse peoples in Europe, Asia and Africa beyond the reaches of Greece and Rome. In doing so, he offers us a new, brilliantly rich lens with which to understand the ancient world.
Imagination isn't the exception in our daily lives; it's our default setting
An immersive and epic journey by a masterly historian of science through the history of the fight against bacteria, from pioneering medical breakthroughs to the vital race to stay ahead of their rapid evolution.
Hotter than the rest of your TBR' CosmoFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Lightlark series, this is Alex Aster's debut romance novel.Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter, Elle, has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She's had writer's block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer. In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford (floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views, and a new coffee shop to haunt included). It's the perfect place to write her screenplay . . . until she realizes her new neighbor is tech 'Billionaire Bachelor' Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It's been a lovers-to-enemies situation ever since. When seeing him again turns into a full night of hate-fueled writing, Elle realizes her enemy/twisted muse might just be the key to finishing her screenplay . . . if she can stand being around her polar opposite. She writes anonymously, and he's on the cover of every business magazine. He frequents fancy red-carpeted events, and she doesn't like leaving her emotional support five block radius. One summer. One wall apart. He needs to fake a buzzy relationship during his company's precarious acquisition. She needs to write a movie around a list of NYC locations. Both need a break from their unrelenting schedules, and a chance to rediscover the skyscraper-glimmering, pizza-crusted, sunlit charms of the city. Summers always end, and so will this agreement. It's all pretend. Promise.Until it isn't.?Pure, steamy fun, and the perfect summer read! I adored every word, and I hope Alex Aster never stops writing romance!!' Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis
A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery
How did America end up trapped in a nightmare of conspiracy theories, in which millions see the government as an evil ?deep state'? It didn't begin with Donald Trump, and it won't end with him.In Ghosts of Iron Mountain, Phil Tinline traces the roots of today's fears back to the years after the Second World War, when America was the most powerful nation the world had ever known. He tells, in vivid, entertaining and brilliant detail, the story of a literary hoax that shocked a nation. Its impact - and its astonishing afterlife - reveal America's fears as you've never seen them before.In 1967, at the height of the war in Vietnam, a group of New York writers cooked up a satirical response to the Dr Strangelove-like thinking prevalent in Washington. They concocted what appeared to be a top-secret government report into what would happen to the USA if permanent global peace broke out. Report from Iron Mountain claimed that winding down America's vast war-making machinery would wreck the economy and tear society apart, necessitating draconian controls over the population. It was published as non-fiction - and was frighteningly convincing. Journalists tried to find out who had written it. Worried memos reached right up to the president. It became a bestselling cause celebre.Even when the hoax was revealed, many refused to believe it wasn't real. Denial became proof of truth. The Report was seized on by eager figures on the far right and in the militia movement, who insisted that it revealed terrifying government conspiracies to pollute the environment, enslave Americans and even instigate eugenics. It helped to shape the movie that has done more than any other to revive conspiracy theory: Oliver Stone's JFK. And it spawned a second hoax, which has helped sustain its bizarre relevance right up to today.Ghosts of Iron Mountain traces this story through a gallery of vivid characters, from the radical academic C. Wright Mills and the writers EL Doctorow, Victor Navasky and Leonard Lewin in 1960s New York, to the Hitler-loving far-right impresario Willis Carto, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the conspiracy theorist William Cooper, L. Fletcher Prouty (the ?Mr X' of JFK), and the ranting broadcaster Alex Jones. This is one of the great stories of our time, and an entertaining, compulsively readable narrative that reveals how nightmares about its own government drove America crazy.
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