New Culture

A simple introduction to Namibia and its people providing basic facts.

Colonialism has not disappeared; it has taken a new form. In the new world order where data is the new oil, big Tech companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources - our data - exploiting our labour and connections, and repackaging our information to control our views, track our movements, record our conversations and discriminate against us. In this searing, cutting-edge guide, two leading global researchers and founders of the concept of data colonialism reveal how history can help us understand the emerging future - and how we can fight back.

Alice-Miranda and her friends are off to the Australian Outback! They’re going to help an old family friend who’s found himself short staffed during cattle mustering season. The landscape is like nothing else - wide open and dusty red as far as the eye can see. It’s also full of quirky characters, like eccentric opal miner Sprocket McGinty and the enigmatic Taipan Dan.

In the 15th century, four Mahu sail from Tahiti to Hawaii and share their gifts of science and healing with the people of Waikiki. The islanders return this gift with a monument of four boulders in their honor, which the Mahu imbue with healing powers before disappearing. As time passes, foreigners inhabit the island and the once-sacred stones are forgotten until the 1960s. Though the true story of these stones was not fully recovered, the power of the Mahu still calls out to those who pass by them at Waikiki Beach today.

Time and again, teachers of color have been blamed for every conceivable wrong in urban schools, a tactic that ignores the history of racism and bolsters the expansion of charter schools that lack community roots. Covering the rich, fifty-year legacy of George Washington Carver Senior High School from 1958-2005, What We Stand to Lose investigates how public school closures have impacted predominantly Black urban neighborhoods in New Orleans.

Why are many readers drawn to stories that texture ethnic experiences and identities other than their own? How do authors such as Salman Rushdie and Maxine Hong Kingston, or filmmakers in Bollywood or Mexico City produce complex fiction that satisfies audiences worldwide? In Analyzing World Fiction, 15 renowned luminaries use tools of narratology and insights from cognitive science and neurobiology to provide answers to these questions and more.

The Lambchops are on a family vacation to San Francisco, California. But when Stanley saves a girl from barreling down one of San Francisco's famously steep hills, he's shocked to find that she's actually been looking for him. The girl, Lily, is trying to perform an amazing trick that no one has done before - escape from Alcatraz prison - and she needs Stanley's help! Can the famous flat boy help with this tricky stunt?

Have you ever wanted to travel? How about traveling solo? How about traveling solo as a female? Once you’ve made traveling a priority and want to make your dreams a reality, go ahead and pick up this quick guide! I’ll cover everything you need to know! It will help you manage details from trip preparation to your return home. I’ll even discuss concerns you might forget during your initial excitement.

Leading change is not about breaking things - it’s about using empathy to enrich the world. In Empathy for Change: How to Create an Understanding World, former White House entrepreneur-in-residence Amy J. Wilson dives into the intricate science of empathy, debunking common myths and sharing practical uses for a better society.

You may have been asked to: Roll out new organizational values to different regions, divisions, business units or departments. Develop a programme to translate the organizational values into behaviours and get individuals and teams to act in a way that supports the new values. Ensure employees practice the new behaviours over and over again, until these behaviours become habits. Link your organization's reward systems to the new values. Embed your new values into your organization's culture. Before you begin to design a roadshow for your CEO, you need to develop a comprehensive strategy, ...

Discover the transformative power of travel through authentic cultural immersion. If you're tired of surface-level sightseeing and craving meaningful global experiences, Cultural Immersion: Experiencing Local Life Around the Globe is your ultimate guide to connecting with people, traditions, and places on a deeper level. Packed with actionable insights, ethical travel strategies, and firsthand reflections, this book is for conscious travelers, gap year students, solo backpackers, digital nomads, educators, and global citizens alike.

To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders are less and less respectable; in the realm of business, cheating, lying, and stealing are hazily defined; and in daily life, rapidly changing technology offers permission to act in ways inconceivable without it. Yet somehow this hasn't quite led to a complete free-for-all - people still draw lines around what is acceptable and what is not. Collinsworth sets out to understand how and why.

Unsupervised examines the fast-emerging technologies and tools that are already starting to completely revolutionize our world. Beyond that, the book takes an in-depth look at how we have arrived at this dizzying point in our history, who holds the reins of these formidable technologies, mostly without any supervision. It explains why we as business leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, educators, lawmakers, investors or users and all responsible citizens must act now to influence and help oversee the future of a technological world.

Join Imani, Tommy, and Maya on an exciting educational adventure perfect for readers ages 6-9! In this delightful installment of the "What Shall We Do Today?" series, three diverse friends discover the wonders of English language and traditions during a special school celebration. When curious Imani, enthusiastic Tommy, and knowledgeable Maya arrive at school, they're thrilled to find it transformed for an "All Things English" day! Your child will learn alongside our characters about: World Book and Copyright Day - fostering a love of reading and respect for authors International English ...

The story of a man who can't escape the past, and a woman who won't return to it. Ben, a Vietnam Veteran, relives his past every day. He saw and experienced too much to let it go, and it doesn't help that he also feels guilty about what happened to his best friend. Sarah, whose husband was killed in Vietnam, does not want to think about those days. She raised her daughter as a single mom and has lived a good life. The last thing she wants to do is have those old feelings resurface. A chance meeting at a Vietnam Veterans reunion in Washington D.C. brings them together, and with the help of ...

The New Employee Manual is not your dad's or mom's employee manual. It's the new playbook for corporate survival, fitting today's realities and the challenges facing employees who join or work in large, seemingly successful companies. Those companies already issued very specific and detailed employee manuals covering everything under the sun except how to compete well in our brave new world.

Over the last 20 years, our economy and our society, from how we shop and pay our bills to how we communicate, have been completely revolutionized by technology. As Aneesh Chopra shows in Innovative State, once it became clear how much this would change America, a movement arose around the idea that these same technologies could reshape and improve government. But the idea languished, and while the private sector innovated, our government stalled, trapped in a model designed for the America of the 1930s and 1960s.

In The Token, your new token Black friend, Crystal Byrd Farmer, acts as the bridge between majority White organizations that are dedicated to social justice and "diverse" people in community they want to recruit, across identities of race, LGBTQ, education, socioeconomic status, and disability. With a blunt style that pulls no punches, Crystal tells you how it is, calling you out on tokenism, while extending a hand to help your organization make real transformative change toward diversity and inclusion.

A comprehensive description of how seven cultural worldviews affect the way we perceive the world and engage with it, affecting our own values, thoughts, emotions, and everything we do. Filled with examples of the practical manifestationms of these perspectives in everyday life: at work and in social settings. Tackles issues faced by individuals, organisations and societies in three different yet connected sections.

Saturna finally meets with all three Princes. The Red, the Green and the Blue one. Which one should she pick? The choice seems impossible to make, picking one moon to save while letting the other two to their doom. This is book 3 of the Saturna series. Warning: Contains explicit content.