In an era of fractured geopolitics and AI-driven acceleration, Digital Sovereignty: The Power to Decide addresses a critical question facing leaders: will you decide your organization's digital future, or will it be decided for you? Sovereignty in a digital world is something you build to your design or lose by default. However, it is a myth that one can achieve sovereignty through isolation. This book argues that, in an interconnected world, protecting your interests and staying connected...

What if paradise asked you to stay?When Andrew answers the call to Hawaii—the most remote populated island chain on Earth—he expects a summer of beaches and adventure. What he finds instead is the beginning of a journey that will change his life forever.From “extreme picnicking” on the fiery rim of an active lava lake to chance encounters with UFOs and mystics, his days unfold like a dream. Drawn into the wild community of Puna, he discovers black sand b...

This book examines the development of political leadership in Britain since the 1970s, in the context of changes within and between parties large and small and increasingly volatile voters.Contemporary media commentary on British politics is dominated by party leaders. Yet their visibility has been matched by unprecedented vulnerability to challenge, thanks not least to recent changes in the ways that they are chosen. This book focuses on the evidence and themes which are most rele...

This is the first international Companion volume to humane education with contributors from many countries, including South Africa, Israel, Singapore, Croatia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and the United States. It draws together multi-disciplinary perspectives on the history of humane thought, humane education practices, and offers appraisals of what is effective. Humane education is a broad field that aims to cultivate compassion, respect, and understanding for all living beings a...

A comprehensive synthesis of the thought of Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty.Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty sets out to answer a simple question: "What kind of phenomenologist is Merleau-Ponty?" While debates regarding the status of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology typically fall along transcendental or existential lines, author Andrew Kirkpatrick shows how Merleau-Ponty's thought fails to fit neatly within either category. Drawing on Whitehead's process metaphysics,...

My Neighbour Totoro (1988) is one of the best-loved films created by Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Nearly forty years after its first release, Totoro remains beloved in Japan and abroad, a child's-eye vision of the sublime and a celebration of the magical richness of the Japanese countryside. Everything feels placed at a child's level, from the implicit spiritual environmentalism to the characters' fears of death. Totoro has no fighting, no villains. The film's artist...

There’s something INCREDIBLE just behind the wall . . . but how do you get past it? Join this curious cast of characters and find out.The kid with the green hat tries to dig under the wall – but the shovel breaks.The kid with the yellow hat tries to climb over the wall – but the rope snaps.The kids with the red and purple hats try a ladder – but it falls apart.At last, the smallest kid steps forward. “If you can’t go under the wall,” she s...

Two friends bonded by Amateur Radio. Murder over the airwaves… It's August 2021. The last two years haven't gone well for Doug Anders. He lost his job, his girlfriend, and his apartment. Doug has only two good things in his life: Amateur radio aka Ham Radio and his friend, Carl from Florida whom he talks to or ragchews with weekly over the radio waves. When Carl was murdered live on the air during one of their ragchews, Doug makes it his mission to find Carl's killer. After flying from Mas...

When grief cracks your world wide open, what if it isn't the end of your story-but the beginning of your awakening?When Andrew Collymore's father dies, everything familiar begins to unravel. In the depths of loss, he starts noticing strange coincidences and quiet miracles-animals, songs, dreams, and moments of impossible timing that feel like messages from beyond. As he follows these "golden threads," an unexpected journey of healing, ancestral connection, and spiritual awakening u...

There’s something INCREDIBLE just behind the wall... but how do you get past it? Join this curious cast of characters and find out.The kid with the green hat tries to dig under the wall—but the spade breaks.The kid with the yellow hat tries to climb over the wall—but the rope snaps.The kids with the red and purple hats try a ladder—but it falls apart.At last, the smallest kid steps forward. “If you can’t go under the wall,” she says, “and ...

At long last, the Puritan most often reached for is finally gathered in full.For generations, Thomas Watson’s works have been beloved, quoted, and reprinted in fragments, yet never collected in a definitive edition. This seven-volume set rectifies that omission, bringing together Watson’s published writings in a uniform, carefully edited, and eminently usable form for the church today.Watson is that rare combination: simple enough for the newest reader, wei...

Cultural Geographies: The Basics offers an accessible introduction to one of the most exciting and eclectic fields of academic study available to students today. It unpacks key conceptual and methodological innovations in cultural geography and outlines the new perspectives these offer for making sense of our world.Showcasing the dynamic transformations that cultural geography brings to contemporary understandings of cultural life, this book guides its readers through an e...