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Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create. This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with rapid growth and sometimes on disruption as an end in itself. While sweeping digital transformation holds great promise, we have reached an inflection point. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon.

From Microsoft's President and one of the tech industry's wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitisation of everything accelerates. In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith takes us behind the scenes on some of the biggest stories to hit the tech industry in the past decade. From Edward Snowden's NSA leak to the NHS WannaCry ransomware attack, this book is essential listening to understand what's happening in the world around us.

Full-cast adaptations of three of Winifred Holtby’s best-known novels, plus short stories and bonus programmes about the author: Winifred Holtby was an acclaimed novelist, journalist, feminist and social reformer. Her work encompasses six novels, two short story collections, a play and the first critical study of Virginia Woolf, but she is best known for her posthumously published masterpiece South Riding, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Award. She died in 1935, aged just 37.

Sir Ralph Stanza, a hip London poet, is determined to communicate the people's hopes and fears through his verse. Whether they like it or not…These comedy series about a poet with a passion feature a special guest appearance from none other than (actual) poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. A perfect listen for anyone looking for the lighter side of life, culture and laughter.

Six years after Brucie, the collie-cross with extraordinary powers, was rescued by Ginger and her four teenagers, 22-year-old Vanessa is the first of the family to fall in love. But how can she trust this when the relationship of her parents, who'd loved each other, was marred by trouble? Determined to understand what is going on in Vanessa's heart, Brucie undertakes a journey that also encompasses the unusual upbringing of her quirky and gifted young man, Zenon.

Ever hear noises when you're feeling sick and in bed? Pete's Dad is off of work today because he is sick. He wants to be outside on a nice summer day but is stuck in bed because of a cold. As he is resting, he starts seeing strange things, like a Lion walking to the pool. Hearing strange sounds, like a Monkey trying to open a refrigerator. Could these things be real or does he just need to go to bed? Read the fourth absolutely Absurd Adventure of Monkey, Puppy, and Lion: The Day of the Summertime Blues.

Lion, ever since he was a cub, loved to play in the snow. When you're a grown Lion, it's hard to walk around your own treehouse, let alone go outside and play in the snow without anyone seeing you. Monkey and Puppy work together to help Lion realize his wish of playing in the snow...and not get caught doing it!

This is what happens when your stomach thinks for you! Monkey and Lion wait for Pete's family to leave in the morning, but through Monkey's empty stomach and impatience, enter the house while the family is home. Will they get caught? Will they watch TV? Will they scare Pete's family? Will they ever eat breakfast? Find out in the second book in The Absurd Adventures of Monkey, Puppy and Lion series....

Monkey, Puppy, and Lion live in a treehouse in their nine-year-old friend Pete's backyard. They don't always know the right thing to do, so they do what they can, which isn't always the best thing to do! Hear about their adventures trying to sneak food from Pete's house, running around in plain sight, and getting into trouble!

Twenty-one-year-old Megan's worst problem is a night at the club with her friends. She's just not that into it. When a mysterious blond guy buys her a drink, she's not that into him, either. When she wakes up in a sterile, white room with a locked door, she realizes her problems are only just beginning. Megan has been kidnapped by some kind of vampire cult.