Brad C Anderson

Violence has an echo, growing louder with each reverberation . . . how do you stop its echo once it starts ringing? Ashme is a New Mesopotamian-a "Meso." She dreams of being a hero, fighting against the brutal Ostarrichi ruling her country. She is an indigo child, her DNA modified by sentient AI, enabling her to control computer systems at will. With this power, she has something to offer the Meso resistance. Her twin brother, Shen, however, suffers from a neurological disorder and needs someone to care for him. Increasingly, that task falls on her. How can she become the hero her people need when her brother's needs are overwhelming? If she continues caring for Shen while joining the resistance, she risks leading Ostarrichi forces to her home. If she leaves, then looking after Shen will fall to her cousin, who is already overworked caring for his frail grandmother. As her society collapses into violence, Ashme must choose between her fellow Mesos, her family, and her values.

A searing far-future science fiction adventure about a lost human colony struggling to survive on an alien planet--no matter what the cost. Majstro Falchilo Kredo has devoted his life to protecting the abandoned earth colony of Duatero from Malamiko, the indigenous ecosystem that makes their crops fail and whose contamination turns humans into mindless monsters. But Malimiko is changing, becoming more dangerous, more aware, even as the ancient technology they use to combat it fails piece by precious piece. Kredo and his fellow soldiers must risk everything or see all they hold precious wiped away and forgotten. Kredo is prepared to sacrifice himself-and anyone around him-to do his duty. But what if the price demanded is even higher?

Management, from a critical perspective. Critical management Studies provide a assessment against prevailing social order and management and are designed to produce better managers and fairer organisations. This Series brings together informed critiques of management, business and organization, grounded originally in critical theory perspectives. Titles included in this set:Organizing Disaster:The Construction of Humanitarianism;Organization Theory:Critical and Philosophical Engagements;Contesting Institutional Hegemony in Today's Business Schools:Doctoral Students Speak Out;The Ideological Evolution of Human Resource Management:A Critical Look into HRM Research and Practices;Making Critical Sense of Immigrant Experience:A Case Study of Hong Kong Chinese in Canada;STEM-Professional Women's Exclusion in the Canadian Space Industry:Anchor Points and Intersectionality at the Margins of Space;Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom:A Case Study of a Canadian Healthcare Authority;

Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom demonstrates that organizations can act wisely. A critical realist framework and phonetic research approach is used to perform an embedded single case study of a group's attempt to develop and spread a medical innovation within a Canadian healthcare authority. The study's exploration of how to spread innovation through a healthcare system will help readers to gain insight into why groups resist change and how individuals can exercise their values, rationality, and power to overcome this resistance. Presenting a framework to conceptualize and study wisdom, the book identifies that values guide wise action, that knowledge is required but insufficient for wisdom, and finally that wisdom is action-oriented. The results of the case study demonstrate the power that values possess to drive organizational behaviour. Offering a unique insight into how values, rationality, and power interact in a real social setting, the book explores how these interactions can both drive and resolve conflict, but also create positive change. Through this understanding, academic and students of management and organizations can create a discipline of scholarship and teaching that fosters the development of organizational wisdom.

As the universe teeters on the edge of collapse, a power from ancient Earth, Dagomir N'ark, has been masquerading as the god of the Holy Nephretian Empire, spurring the empire to wonton acts of destruction. Marco and Victor are part of an invading force of Kalbarians and Alathians attacking the home world of the Holy Nephretian Empire. Their goal is to make it to the Nephretian First Temple where Marco will activate a device to destroy the avatar of Dagomir N'ark. Meanwhile, the planet of Ullrion suffers under the boot of the Holy Nephretian Empire. Rear Admiral Taura leads a fleet against the Nephretian occupiers while Silmion struggles in the city of Selfariene to undermine the Nephretian occupying forces. Finally, Ariadne and Seir T'pan, with the help of Kie, a mad strandwalker, break into the palace of Dagomir N'ark to strike at his heart. The third and final book of the Triumvirate Trilogy, The Light the World Needs offers a conclusion to the future of the human race.

The Holy Nephretian Empire rises. Armed with powerful new weapons from Ullrion and manipulated by the mysterious dagomir N'ark from Earth, the Nephretian empire now has the power to crush all who stand before them. In a desperate attempt to stave off Nephretian victory, Captain Taura and Silmion must make a dangerous trip behind enemy lines on the occupied planet of Ullrion to find a defense against one of the most deadly weapons ever created the deoir solest. Meanwhile on Earth, Marco, Victor, Kaeso and Ariadne must make a harrowing journey to the Ravager's Land to find a way to break N'ark's sway over the Nephretian Empire. In the Ravager's Shadow, second volume of the Triumvirate Trilogy, continues the tale of a richly imagined universe teetering on the edge of collapse.