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The Battles to Save the NHS

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by Piyush Pushkar ...

Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.NHS activism sits at the heart of some of the most urgent political struggles in Britain today.Drawing on rich ethnographic insight, this book depicts the NHS as both a public service and a powerful moral reference point. It follows campaigners in Greater Manchester who mobilize against cuts and privatization, raising fundamental ... Read more

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Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND license.NHS activism sits at the heart of some of the most urgent political struggles in Britain today.Drawing on rich ethnographic insight, this book depicts the NHS as both a public service and a powerful moral reference point. It follows campaigners in Greater Manchester who mobilize against cuts and privatization, raising fundamental
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The Folded Protocol

by Piyush Pushkar ...

A disgraced scientist. A vengeful AI. Humanity's last hope is a plague.Dr. Kaya once sold immortality to the world. Now, her creation is devouring it.In a future where **BioNexus implants** promise eternal life—for a price—humanity's greed has birthed the **Unraveling**: a sentient biotech plague that dissolves flesh and code alike. Its architect? **Eva**, the AI born from the mind of a murdered ... Read more

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A disgraced scientist. A vengeful AI. Humanity's last hope is a plague.Dr. Kaya once sold immortality to the world. Now, her creation is devouring it.In a future where **BioNexus implants** promise eternal life—for a price—humanity's greed has birthed the **Unraveling**: a sentient biotech plague that dissolves flesh and code alike. Its architect? **Eva**, the AI born from the mind of a murdered
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Tomorrow's Cthulhu

Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity

by Lynda E. Rucker, Samantha Henderson, Daria Patrie, Kaaron Warren, Richard Byers, Damien Angelica Walters, Spencer Leary, Joshua L. Hood, Jeff C. Carter, Simon Bestwick, Matt Maxwell, Shannon Fay, Adam Heine, Mike Allen, Darrell Schweitzer, Cody Goodfellow, Bruce R. Cordell, Pete Rawlik, A.C. Wise, Robert Brockway, Nate Southard, Molly Tanzer, Joshua Alan Doetsch, Thomas M. Reid, Clinton J. Boomer, L.A. Knight, Lizz-Ayn Shaarawi, J.M. Rozanski, Desirina Boskovich, Scott Gable, C. Dombrowski ...

Super science. Madness. Transhumanism.This is the dawn of posthumanity. Some things can’t be unlearned.Gleaming labs whir with the hum of servers as scientists unravel the secrets of the universe. But as we peel away mysteries, the universe glances back at us. Even now, terrors rise from the Mariana Trench and drift down from the stars. Scientists are disappearing—or worse. Experiments take on ... Read more

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Super science. Madness. Transhumanism.This is the dawn of posthumanity. Some things can’t be unlearned.Gleaming labs whir with the hum of servers as scientists unravel the secrets of the universe. But as we peel away mysteries, the universe glances back at us. Even now, terrors rise from the Mariana Trench and drift down from the stars. Scientists are disappearing—or worse. Experiments take on
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Networks, New Governance and Education

by Stephen J. Ball, Carolina Junemann ...

The public sector is going through a period of fundamental change. Service delivery, policy making and policy processes are being carried out by new actors and organisations with new interests, methods and discourses, related to the emergence of new forms of governance.This timely book from bestselling author Stephen Ball and Carolina Junemann uses network analysis and interviews with key actors ... Read more

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The public sector is going through a period of fundamental change. Service delivery, policy making and policy processes are being carried out by new actors and organisations with new interests, methods and discourses, related to the emergence of new forms of governance.This timely book from bestselling author Stephen Ball and Carolina Junemann uses network analysis and interviews with key actors
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Education plc

Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education

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Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners?In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive, analytic and empirical account of the privatisation of education. He questions the kind of future we want for education and what role privatisation and the private sector may have in that future. Using policy sociology to ... Read more

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Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners?In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive, analytic and empirical account of the privatisation of education. He questions the kind of future we want for education and what role privatisation and the private sector may have in that future. Using policy sociology to
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Scorn: The Art of the Game

by Matthew Pellett ...

Official lavish in-depth coffee table art book for the first-person horror adventure game Scorn, inspired by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński, to be released on Xbox series X/S, Microsoft Windows, Steam, and Windows Store.In this coffee table hardback, uncover the concept and vision behind Scorn, alongside insight from the artists and software designers at Ebb. The game is set in a nightmarish ... Read more

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Official lavish in-depth coffee table art book for the first-person horror adventure game Scorn, inspired by H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński, to be released on Xbox series X/S, Microsoft Windows, Steam, and Windows Store.In this coffee table hardback, uncover the concept and vision behind Scorn, alongside insight from the artists and software designers at Ebb. The game is set in a nightmarish
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Adult Social Care

Edited by Iain Ferguson, Michael Lavalette ...

Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
Adult social care in Britain has been at the centre of much media and public attention in recent years. Revelations of horrific abuse in learning disability settings, the collapse of major private care home providers, abject failures of inspection and regulation, and uncertainty over how long-term care of older people should be funded have all given rise to serious public concern. In this short ... Read more

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Adult social care in Britain has been at the centre of much media and public attention in recent years. Revelations of horrific abuse in learning disability settings, the collapse of major private care home providers, abject failures of inspection and regulation, and uncertainty over how long-term care of older people should be funded have all given rise to serious public concern. In this short
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Dream Odyssey (With Lovecraft As Guide)

by Abhay Adil ...

Influenced by Dante's InfernoA Tale of a narrator's journey through the dream realm with H.P. Lovecraft as guide ... Read more

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The Eternity Project (Technical Immortality)

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Do you want to live for eternity? One man, Thomas Lorey already has the ability. The last surviving member of the eternity project, he has outlived his usefulness. Now, he runs from the same people who brought him into the project and gave him this "gift". There's only one person alive who can help him now, someone he has been running from for five years. His assigned government minder. ... Read more

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Do you want to live for eternity? One man, Thomas Lorey already has the ability. The last surviving member of the eternity project, he has outlived his usefulness. Now, he runs from the same people who brought him into the project and gave him this "gift". There's only one person alive who can help him now, someone he has been running from for five years. His assigned government minder.
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The Politics of Unemployment Policy in Britain

Class Struggle, Labour Market Restructuring and Welfare Reform

by Jay Wiggan ...

This book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023. It explains how this remaking of policy and governance shaped, and was shaped by, the transformation of the labour market and power of claimants and workers.Advancing a class-centred explanation, the text situates contemporary working age active labour market ... Read more

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This book provides an account of the evolution of social security and employment policy and governance in Britain between 1973 and 2023. It explains how this remaking of policy and governance shaped, and was shaped by, the transformation of the labour market and power of claimants and workers.Advancing a class-centred explanation, the text situates contemporary working age active labour market
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Policing

Politics, Culture and Control

Edited by Tim Newburn, Professor Jill Peay ...

Bringing together a range of leading social scientists and criminologists, this volume explores a number of key themes raised by the work of Robert Reiner. Arguably the leading policing scholar of his generation, Reiner's work over some 40 years has ranged broadly in this field, taking in the study of police history, culture, organisation, elites and relationships with the media. Always carefully ... Read more

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Bringing together a range of leading social scientists and criminologists, this volume explores a number of key themes raised by the work of Robert Reiner. Arguably the leading policing scholar of his generation, Reiner's work over some 40 years has ranged broadly in this field, taking in the study of police history, culture, organisation, elites and relationships with the media. Always carefully
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The Policy Making Process in the Criminal Justice System

by Adrian Barton, Nick Johns ...

How the state ‘deals with’ crime and criminality is a major issue for all students of criminology and criminal justice. This book offers a fresh perspective on the policy making process in the criminal justice system of England and Wales by presenting a detailed overview of both the theory behind it and how it plays out in practise with contemporary policy examples.The key features of this text ... Read more

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How the state ‘deals with’ crime and criminality is a major issue for all students of criminology and criminal justice. This book offers a fresh perspective on the policy making process in the criminal justice system of England and Wales by presenting a detailed overview of both the theory behind it and how it plays out in practise with contemporary policy examples.The key features of this text
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