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Humanity now faces the possibility that it will become extinct over the next few decades or so. This is not simply a reality about the biological fate of the species, it also raises the prospect of thought's own extinction. But what does it mean for thought that it, too, might disappear? Thought's possible disappearance shatters the assumption, at work across all the institutions and disciplines of the West, that one version or another of th...

Tourists on a cruise. Stranded in an alien battleground When their warp drive mysteriously stops working, the luxury cruise ship Jewel of The Stars becomes easy pickings for humanity's enemy - the Dracnor. And there may be an enemy agent on board. Before the fall of Earth, a madman made doomsday predictions on Captain Les Miller's doorstop. How did he know the invasion was coming? Now that same man has been spotted walking the promenade. Les m...

We're not on a cruise, anymore Avaline just wanted a perfect honeymoon, but when an alien invasion of Earth forced her ship into unexplored space, she fights with everything she has to hold onto her dream. So why isn't her new husband fighting with her? A series of lootings turn violent, prompting security chief Jaylen Banks to investigate organised crime on the ship, while first officer Maya Rice leads a supply mission to a mysterious earth c...

This book contains an Open Access chapter. Aimed at researchers, postgraduate students, and professionals in the field, Talent Management: A Decade of Developments charts the evolution of talent management, illustrating the progress, prospects, and challenges that have transpired over the last ten years.

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The Cruise is OverHaylee was more confident designing starships than raising an autistic child. Now she just wants a relaxing vacation with her family. But when Earth falls to an alien armada, she knows life will never be the same again.Les was just a cruise ship captain. Now, he must rise up and become something greater, if he is to keep his crew and passengers alive.Braxton never wanted to leave the space navy, but now, taking a cruise is th...

The Oxford Handbook of Talent Management draws upon perspectives from human resource management, psychology, and strategy to chart the topography of the area of talent management and to establish the base of knowledge in the field.

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The second edition of Global Talent Management (GTM) offers a state of the art overview of the key areas of talent management in theory and practice.

In a future one thousand years from now, an echo of the Victorian past thrives. A future terraformed Venus sees our era of high technology as one of innumerable dangers. Dominated by the most advanced technological society on the planet, New Berlin, the nation and city-states of Venus deliberately imitate both the technology and culture of the Victorian Era. As nations chafe under the yoke of New Berlin, war breaks out--driving this culture so...

The second edition of the bestselling Steel-concrete Composite Bridges is fully up-to-date with the methods now used for these structures in accordance with Eurocodes introduced since publication of the first edition.

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Concrete Bridges is a valuable tool for the practising engineer with an interest in the design and construction of bridges, providing a deeper understanding of the methods used and how they are verified against design codes.

Monstrous Society problematizes competing representations of reciprocity in England in the decades around 1800. It argues that in the eighteenth-century moral economy, power is divided between official authority and the counter-power of plebeians. This tacit, mutual understanding comes under attack when influential political thinkers, such as Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and T. R. Malthus attempt to discipline the social body, to make state p...

Expatriate assignments are a key part of international managers' careers and a vital part of maintaining business competitiveness. This book draws on contributions in the expatriation field to open up new lines of enquiry, draw attention to the need for theory building and points to the methodological issues that can beset intercultural research.

A. In the past, the elite manipulated the population through a more mystical belief system. In particular, there was the institution of Sun worship (typified by deities such as Osiris and Set). However, as antiquity gave way to modern history, this system of control began to lose its effectiveness. During the sixteenth century, the ruling class managed to co-opt a relatively new methodology of truth discernment...science. Over the years, they ...