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A Life-Changing Journey from Banking to Buddhism in Bhutan

by Emma Slade ...

The man with the gun pushed me down onto the carpet. I tried to cower to make my body curl smaller, instinctively covering my head.‘Oh God, please don’t kill me.’ My words clung to my teeth and now my whole body was so cold. All I had left were these words.‘Please. Please don’t kill me. Jesus. God. Please.’I wanted to live and I knew it with absolute certainty. I don’t want to die.Emma Slade was a ... Read more

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The man with the gun pushed me down onto the carpet. I tried to cower to make my body curl smaller, instinctively covering my head.‘Oh God, please don’t kill me.’ My words clung to my teeth and now my whole body was so cold. All I had left were these words.‘Please. Please don’t kill me. Jesus. God. Please.’I wanted to live and I knew it with absolute certainty. I don’t want to die.Emma Slade was a
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The Half of It

Exploring the Mixed-Race Experience

by Emma Slade Edmondson, Nicole Ocran ...

The world and its politics are becoming ever more polarised, leaving no room for the light and the shade. In The Half of It, Emma and Nicole explore race and identity through the lens of the mixed-race experience, creating a space for discussion and illuminating the true nuances of the mixed-race identity.In The Half of It, Emma and Nicole, hosts of the critically acclaimed podcast Mixed Up, ... Read more

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The world and its politics are becoming ever more polarised, leaving no room for the light and the shade. In The Half of It, Emma and Nicole explore race and identity through the lens of the mixed-race experience, creating a space for discussion and illuminating the true nuances of the mixed-race identity.In The Half of It, Emma and Nicole, hosts of the critically acclaimed podcast Mixed Up,
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Digital and Social Media Marketing

Emerging Applications and Theoretical Development

Edited by Nripendra P. Rana, Emma L. Slade, Ganesh P. Sahu, Hatice Kizgin, Nitish Singh, Bidit Dey, Anabel Gutierrez, Yogesh K. Dwivedi ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
This book examines issues and implications of digital and social media marketing for emerging markets. These markets necessitate substantial adaptations of developed theories and approaches employed in the Western world. The book investigates problems specific to emerging markets, while identifying new theoretical constructs and practical applications of digital marketing. It addresses topics such ... Read more

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This book examines issues and implications of digital and social media marketing for emerging markets. These markets necessitate substantial adaptations of developed theories and approaches employed in the Western world. The book investigates problems specific to emerging markets, while identifying new theoretical constructs and practical applications of digital marketing. It addresses topics such
... Read more
Emerging Markets from a Multidisciplinary Perspective

Challenges, Opportunities and Research Agenda

Edited by Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Nripendra P. Rana, Emma L. Slade, Mahmud A. Shareef, Marc Clement, Antonis C. Simintiras, Banita Lal ...

Series series Advances in Theory and Practice of Emerging Markets
This book examines prominent issues in the Emerging Markets (EM) from a variety of disciplines in order to make useful societal contributions through knowledge exchange. EMs offer enormous opportunities, but realizing them is both challenging and risky due to inherent uncertainties of such markets. EM’s also have unique characteristics that makes them different from developed countries. This ... Read more

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This book examines prominent issues in the Emerging Markets (EM) from a variety of disciplines in order to make useful societal contributions through knowledge exchange. EMs offer enormous opportunities, but realizing them is both challenging and risky due to inherent uncertainties of such markets. EM’s also have unique characteristics that makes them different from developed countries. This
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Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2016, Swansea, UK, September 13–15, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Matti Mäntymäki, Marijn Janssen, Marc Clement, Emma L. Slade, Nripendra P. Rana, Salah Al-Sharhan, Antonis C. Simintiras, M.N. Ravishankar ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, I3E 2016, held in Swansea, UK, in September 2016The 47 full and 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: social media strategy and digital business; digital marketing ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society, I3E 2016, held in Swansea, UK, in September 2016The 47 full and 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: social media strategy and digital business; digital marketing
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Electronic Word of Mouth (eWOM) in the Marketing Context

A State of the Art Analysis and Future Directions

by Elvira Ismagilova, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Emma Slade, Michael D. Williams ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
This SpringerBrief offers a state of the art analysis of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communications and its role in marketing. The book begins with an overview of traditional word-of-mouth (WOM) and its evolution to eWOM. It discusses the differences between traditional and online WOM. The book examines why people engage in eWOM communications, but also how consumers evaluate its ... Read more

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This SpringerBrief offers a state of the art analysis of electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) communications and its role in marketing. The book begins with an overview of traditional word-of-mouth (WOM) and its evolution to eWOM. It discusses the differences between traditional and online WOM. The book examines why people engage in eWOM communications, but also how consumers evaluate its
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The Half of It

Exploring the Mixed-Race Experience

by Emma Slade Edmondson, Nicole Ocran ...

Narrated by Emma Slade Edmondson, Nicole Ocran ...

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10 hours 11 min

The world and its politics are becoming ever more polarised, leaving no room for the light and the shade. In The Half of It, Emma and Nicole explore race and identity through the lens of the mixed-race experience, creating a space for discussion and illuminating the true nuances of the mixed-race identity.In The Half of It, Emma and Nicole, hosts of the critically acclaimed podcast Mixed Up, ... Read more

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The world and its politics are becoming ever more polarised, leaving no room for the light and the shade. In The Half of It, Emma and Nicole explore race and identity through the lens of the mixed-race experience, creating a space for discussion and illuminating the true nuances of the mixed-race identity.In The Half of It, Emma and Nicole, hosts of the critically acclaimed podcast Mixed Up,
... Read more

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Social Media in the Marketing Context

A State of the Art Analysis and Future Directions

by Cherniece J. Plume, Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Emma L. Slade ...

Social media has provided endless opportunities for marketers, fuelling their desire to learn more about their consumers through this dynamic online environment. Yet many organisations are finding it difficult to create effective marketing strategies, making decisions that are based on research that is highly focused on the nature and boundaries of social media. The changing behaviour of consumers ... Read more

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Social media has provided endless opportunities for marketers, fuelling their desire to learn more about their consumers through this dynamic online environment. Yet many organisations are finding it difficult to create effective marketing strategies, making decisions that are based on research that is highly focused on the nature and boundaries of social media. The changing behaviour of consumers
... Read more
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James

by Emma Hooper ...

Narrated by Robert G. Slade ...

Unabridged

8 hours 2 min

**LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2025“Etta and Otto and Russell and James is incredibly moving, beautifully written and luminous with wisdom. It is a book that restores one's faith in life even as it deepens its mystery. Wonderful!” —Chris Cleave, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Little Bee**“I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come back.”Etta's ... Read more

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**LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2025“Etta and Otto and Russell and James is incredibly moving, beautifully written and luminous with wisdom. It is a book that restores one's faith in life even as it deepens its mystery. Wonderful!” —Chris Cleave, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Little Bee**“I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come back.”Etta's
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All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words

Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by The Beatles and Their Inner Circle

by Peter Brown, Steven Gaines ...

Narrated by Adam Stevens, Anthony Howell, Ben Jacobson, Emma Gregory, Philip Stewart, Robert G. Slade, ShinFei Chen, Mickey Knighton, Stefan Menaul, Todd Kramer ...

Unabridged

9 hours 44 min

"There are many incredible revelations about the relationships of John and Yoko and Paul and Linda and their impact on the band. This is one of those audiobooks you can't shut off and will never forget."—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews.All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical ... Read more

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"There are many incredible revelations about the relationships of John and Yoko and Paul and Linda and their impact on the band. This is one of those audiobooks you can't shut off and will never forget."—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews.All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical
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Jennie's Boy

A Newfoundland Childhood

by Wayne Johnston ...

Narrated by Wayne Johnston ...

Unabridged

8 hours 35 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBCWINNER OF THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOURSHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2025Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood.**For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBCWINNER OF THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOURSHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2025Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood.**For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a
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Dandelion

by Jamie Chai Yun Liew ...

Narrated by Jennifer Hui ...

Unabridged

9 hours 27 min

When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian families; Lily’s previously stateless father wanted to blend ... Read more

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When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian families; Lily’s previously stateless father wanted to blend
... Read more

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