How deleted or destroyed paperwork impacts organizational capacity and memory—and allows power to evade accountability.Administrative documents mediate bureaucracies and trust in them, making organizational life possible. In Destruction of Documents, Andrew Whelan argues that the politics of paperwork are most explicit when the paper trail is deleted, burned, shredded, or otherwise done away with.Exploring how irreconcilable administrative ideals h...

Zombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and communications studies, sociology, film studies and education, to give a critical account of the political, cultural and pedagogical state of the university through the metaphor of zombiedom. The contributions to this volume argue that the increasing corporatization of the academy – an environment emphasizing publication, narrow ...

The third Wright and Tran Novel.Kara Wright is a former Royal Air Force Intelligence Analyst. Her best mate, Tien Tran, is a veteran of the British Army's Intelligence Corps. Both served in Afghanistan and both were lucky to make it home. Now they are private investigators in the service of an off-the-books agency.When reports of British weapons in the hands of ISIS are ignored by those in government, Kara is tasked with finding out how it could have happen...

Wright & Tran are back!Kara Wright is a former Royal Air Force Intelligence Analyst. Her best mate, Tien Tran, is a veteran of the British Army's Intelligence Corps. Both served in Afghanistan and both were lucky to make it home. Now they are private investigators with an intriguing new taskmaster.When a local celebrity DJ goes missing, presumed dead, the enigmatic Franklyn tasks Kara and Tien to investigate. Within days the women are embarked on a...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Wonderful: boldly imagined and beautifully written—the best future-shock thriller for years.”—LEE CHILDA visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future—with clear parallels to today's headlines—in which the future of humanity lies in the hands of one woman, a scientist who has stumbled upon a secret that the government will go to any lengths to keep hidden.

**NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The first of a two-volume masterpiece, The Passenger series, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • The story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"Blends the rowdy humor of some of McCarthy’s early novels with the parched tone of his mo...

**A Good Morning America Buzz PickOne of Amazon's Best Romances of November!Two exes wake up together with wedding bands on their fingers—and no idea how they got there. They have just one New Year’s Eve at the end of 1999 to figure it out in this big-hearted and nostalgic rom-com from New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch.**When college sweethearts Frankie and Ezra broke up before graduation**,** they vowed to never speak to each ot...

**A SYDNEY TAYLOR NOTABLE BOOKInspired by a real-life incident, this riveting novel explores discrimination and antisemitism and reveals their dangerous impact.**Would you defend the indefensible?That's what seniors Logan March and Cade Crawford are asked to do when a favorite teacher instructs a group of students to argue for the Final Solution--the Nazi plan for the genocide of the Jewish people.Logan and Cade decide they must take a stand, and so...

A finely observed, wry social satire set in Philadelphia over the course of a single day, this soaring debut novel paints a moving portrait of a family at a turning point.Leopold Portman, a young IT manager a few years out of college, dreams of settling down in Philly’s bucolic suburbs and starting a family with his fiancée, Nora. A talented singer in mourning for her mother, Nora has abandoned a promising opera career and wonders what her destiny holds. Her best friend, Stephen, L...

Your favorite Dwellers and Country Saga characters come together in this epic seventh book!As President Borg Lecter threatens to annihilate the Country tribes in order to expand his glass-domed empire, Adele ventures into the belly of the beast. Her only hope of survival is the consolidation of Dwellers and Country power before it's too late.Former demagogue President Nailin is eliminated, yet civil unrest infects every alliance. To save Adele, President Tr...

This collection presents a range of essays on contemporary music distribution and consumption patterns and practices. The contributors to the collection use a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, discussing the consequences and effects of the digital distribution of music as it is manifested in specific cultural contexts.The widespread circulation of music in digital form has far-reaching consequences: not least for how we understand the practices of sourcing and c...

The international booklife prize for fiction winner - Face Value is the gripping first book in the Wright & Tran crime thriller series. If you like electrifying action, breathless pacing, and three-dimensional characters, then you'll love Ian Andrew's award-winning special ops detective novel.Kara Wright is a former Royal Air Force Intelligence Analyst. Her best mate, Tien Tran, is a veteran of the British Army's Intelligence Corps. Both served in Afghanistan and b...