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  • Afterlives of Data

    Life and Debt under Capitalist Surveillance

    by Mary F.E. Ebeling ...
    What our health data tell American capitalism about our value—and how that controls our lives.Afterlives of Data follows the curious and multiple lives that our data live once they escape our control. Mary F. E. Ebeling's ethnographic investigation shows how information about our health and the debt that we carry becomes biopolitical assets owned by healthcare providers, insurers, commercial data ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Healthcare and Big Data

    Digital Specters and Phantom Objects

    by Mary F.E. Ebeling ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This highly original book is an ethnographic noir of how Big Data profits from patient private health information. The book follows personal health data as it is collected from inside healthcare and beyond to create patient consumer profiles that are sold to marketers. Primarily told through a first-person noir narrative, Ebeling as a sociologist-hard-boiled-detective, investigates Big Data and ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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  • Treating Health Care

    How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better

    by Raisa Deber ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international context.An accessible guide, Treating Health Care unpacks key concepts to provide informed discussions ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance

    Edited by Benjamin van Rooij, D. Daniel Sokol ...
    Series series Cambridge Law Handbooks
    Compliance has become key to our contemporary markets, societies, and modes of governance across a variety of public and private domains. While this has stimulated a rich body of empirical and practical expertise on compliance, thus far, there has been no comprehensive understanding of what compliance is or how it influences various fields and sectors. The academic knowledge of compliance has ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good

    Frameworks for Engagement

    Edited by Julia Lane, Victoria Stodden, Stefan Bender, Helen Nissenbaum ...
    Massive amounts of data on human beings can now be analyzed. Pragmatic purposes abound, including selling goods and services, winning political campaigns, and identifying possible terrorists. Yet 'big data' can also be harnessed to serve the public good: scientists can use big data to do research that improves the lives of human beings, improves government services, and reduces taxpayer costs. In ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Global Shell Games

    Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism

    by Michael G. Findley, Daniel L. Nielson, J. C. Sharman ...
    Series Book 128 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Every year a staggering number of unidentified shell corporations succeed in hiding perpetrators of terrorist financing, corruption and illegal arms trades, but the degree to which firms flout global identification standards remains unknown. Adopting a unique, experimental methodology, Global Shell Games attempts to unveil the sordid world of anonymous shell corporations. Posing as twenty-one ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Metrics

    What Counts in Global Health

    by Vincanne Adams ...
    Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    This volume's contributors evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health. Whether analyzing maternal mortality rates, the relationships between political goals and metrics data, or the links between health outcomes and a program's fiscal support, the contributors question the ability of metrics to solve global health problems. They capture a ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Too Critical to Fail

    How Canada Manages Threats to Critical Infrastructure

    by Ben Bisset, Bryan Mills, Kevin Quigley ...
    In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency. Whereas a SWAT team surrounded train conductor Thomas Harding and brought him to court where he was charged with the deaths of forty-seven in Quebec, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi emerged from the Alberta crisis as a folk ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Reputation Society

    How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World

    Edited by Hassan Masum, Mark Tovey ...
    Series series The Information Society Series
    Experts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems.In making decisions, we often seek advice. Online, we check Amazon recommendations, eBay vendors' histories, TripAdvisor ratings, and even our elected representatives' voting records. These online reputation systems serve as filters for information overload. In this book, experts discuss the benefits and risks of such online tools ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Innovation and Trends in Economics and Business (ICOBIS 2022)

    Edited by Sanchita Saha, Dien Noviany Rahmatika, Ying Li, Khin Sandar Kyaw, Dewi Indriasih, Arif Zainudin, Achmad Nurmandi, Yanti Puji Astutie, Joko Mariyono, Purwo Susongko, Yuni Arfiani ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This is an open access book.The conferences aims to support research and development in the field of Global Innovation and Trends in Economics and Business. Another purpose is to improve scientific information exchange among researchers, developers, students, and practitioners. Every year, the conference will be organised to provide an excellent platform for individuals to discuss their ... Read more

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  • Multinational Corporations and Emerging Markets

    by Andrew Compton ...
    Identifying emerging markets is critical to the long-term success of multinational corporations. Recently there has been an interesting development in a distant city outside of the main artery of India. According to Bloomberg Magazine, a Mercedes-Benz salesman in Pune, India was contacted for an order of 100 sedans by a distant city (Srivastava, 2010). This outside city indicated a potential for a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dying and Living in the Neighborhood

    A Street-Level View of America’s Healthcare Promise

    by Prabhjot Singh ...
    Have neighborhoods been left out of the seismic healthcare reform efforts to connect struggling Americans with the help they need?Even as US spending on healthcare skyrockets, impoverished Americans continue to fall ill and die of preventable conditions. Although the majority of health outcomes are shaped by non-medical factors, public and private healthcare reform efforts have largely ignored the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD