Law, Reinvented explains how AI is reshaping legal practice and offers practical guidance for the people leading the change, the lawyers living through it, and the newcomers entering a profession in flux. It covers pricing, risk, training, and service design, helping legal professionals understand, adopt, and apply AI in the firm and in their day-to-day practice.
Digital Sovereignty is for leaders across government, the private sector and international development who need to operate successfully in the constrained space they find themselves in today, while building their capacity to act differently tomorrow. The book is structured around the questions senior leaders actually face and the forces that shape those questions. The book is available to UK buyers for pre-order via a link in the description below.
This book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor. The book examines the period from the late-eighteenth-century crisis of the Old Poor Law, through the adoption of the New Poor Law reform in 1834, the loosening of the ‘principles of 1834’ in the 1890s, and on past the early-twentieth-century Liberal reforms, to the eve of World War I. This long chronological sweep thus examines the Old and New Poor Laws together as experienced by generations of pauper inmates. See the main description below for details on how the book can be pre-ordered.
An invaluable guide to all those involved with building defects claims, particularly in relation to practical considerations such as expert evidence and the respective merits of the various available dispute-resolution procedures. Pre-orders can be made via the link in the description below.
Alan W. Brown — the co-author of Digitizing Government, the book that helped shape the UK’s approach to digital government — presents both a new analysis of why the UK’s AI ambitions will fail in the absence of institutional reform and a five-year programme to break the cycle. Only 9% of the government’s major technology programmes are currently on track. This book explains why and what to do about it.
In a world in which healthcare systems are under immense strain, Implementing Value-Based Healthcare offers a pragmatic, deeply human and globally relevant solution. Written by Professor Sally Lewis, a frontline physician and transformative leader in the Welsh National Health Service, this book is a call to action for all healthcare policymakers, clinicians and managers. The book can be ordered via the orange button below.
The World at Economic War is a timely and thought-provoking reminder of the role that economics plays in modern warfare. It argues that economics itself is at war – the institutions of the post-war economic order are riven with challenges to their legitimacy, rendering the old certainties of market-based economics at best contested and at worst irrelevant.
The aim of this book is to help readers prioritize their emissions-related actions so they can focus their efforts on things that work for them (recognizing that we are in a cost-of-living crisis as well as a climate crisis) and that can make a real difference. The book includes more than 100 carbon-saving actions and money-saving tips as well as ideas for living a healthier lifestyle.
Why are today’s businesses as they are? Building on WH Beable’s Romance of Great Businesses, a description of 32 significant companies published a century ago, this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment. Who were those Victorian entrepreneurs? How did their beliefs influence their work? What is their legacy? What has been lost and what gained?
The modern economic history of Japan is an extraordinary tale. The country rose over the course of just a hundred and twenty odd years from outright backwardness to the elite tier of the most advanced economies. This was a unique achievement, and one realised despite the nation succumbing to a damaging interlude of ugly totalitarianism and subsequently suffering the most demoralising of military defeats. This book – written in an accessible style by the author of the highly successful The Tyranny of Nostalgia – tells that story.
Circle Back! is a tongue-in-cheek A–Z guide to the weird and often perplexing world of corporate jargon. Covering every term from ‘across the detail’ to ‘wheelhouse’, it will help you navigate the linguistic minefield of any office or online meeting and provide you with a comprehensive dictionary of today’s most used business buzzwords while also poking fun at our bizarre and collective compliance in using a completely different vocabulary while at work.
In Inflation Is About More Than Money, Brian Griffiths charts recent history and policy developments with regard to inflation. He sees inflation as a moral problem: a form of taxation and deceit that those in positions of authority should always seek to address.
This book is the first that provides a comprehensive overview of the law of net zero and nature positive. While the book focuses on England and Wales, it also sets out the wider domestic and international context and relevant law, including the principal domestic and European legislation, in particular the Climate Change Act 2008 and the Environment Act 2021, and how legal obligations in respect of net zero and nature positive translate across different sectors of the economy.
Failures of digital systems cause service outages and data breaches that are now of a number and scale that has major negative effects on the economy and society, internationally. As our dependence on digital systems for services continues to increase, it becomes ever more important to reduce the consequences of errors and outages in these systems. This book provides decision makers in the private, government and not-for-profit sectors with both the motivation to take action and the methods to achieve IT service resilience.
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This book describes the types of interaction we should expect from the next generation of public services, the digital platforms and infrastructure they will be built with, and the public sector design values needed to make them a reality. Including 30 illustrated design patterns, 10 strategic interventions, and global examples of emerging patterns in digital government.
This book provides a cradle to grave guide to the process of construction industry adjudication from the perspective of the adjudicator. It covers the whole process of adjudication, from the initial enquiry through case management, the conduct of the proceedings, the production of the Decision and post-Decision matters. The purpose is to provide a resource for aspiring and practising adjudicators, both in the UK and internationally.
