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Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business

By David Birch and Victoria Richardson (including illustrations by Helen Holmes) Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business will be published in late April 2024 with an RRP of £22.50. To … Continue reading

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The Service Organization: How to Deliver and Lead Successful Services, Sustainably

“The Service Organization” explores significant challenges that leaders will recognize, and turns them into solvable puzzles by providing practical advice and tools that reimagine what the organization does from the perspective of its customers. … Continue reading

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Good To Go? Decarbonising Travel After the Pandemic

A comprehensive overview of the transport system, looking at how it has developed, at how it will need to evolve to meet our need for travel – sustainably and economically – and at what our options are for meeting those needs. Continue reading

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Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?

This book, simply put, maps out how to design transport for humans. There is a new way forward that does not measure success only via speed, journey time and efficiency – often not the way that passengers think about a good trip. Continue reading

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Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery

This book is a guide to building a digital institution. This updated and expanded second edition explains how a … Continue reading

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Why You Dread Work: What’s Going Wrong in Your Workplace and How to Fix It

Ever felt that lurking sense of Sunday night dread? It’s not just you. In this warm and empathetic guide to the modern workplace, Helen Holmes tackles … Continue reading

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Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters

The Grenfell Tower tragedy was the worst residential fire in London since World War II. It killed seventy-two people in the richest borough of one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Like other catastrophic events … Continue reading

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Driverless Cars: On a Road to Nowhere? (revised edition)

In this revised and updated edition of Wolmar’s entertaining 2018 polemic, he sets out the many technical, legal and moral problems that obstruct the path to a driverless future, and debunks … Continue reading

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The Currency Cold War: Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony

The way that money works now is, essentially, a blip. It’s a temporary institutional arrangement agreed in response to specific political, technological and economic circumstances… Continue reading

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Gaming Trade: Win–Win Strategies for the Digital Era

While trade still plays a fundamental role in achieving economic targets and promoting growth, it is also, in the modern era, an instrument of state strategy in the contest for international influence and power. Continue reading

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