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Convinced by Chanticleer that the other animals do not realise how clever he is, the fox opens his mouth to boast, only to lose his prize and allow Chanticleer the opportunity for escape.   A beautiful retelling of a classic fable from the award winning author\/illustrator, Helen Ward.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305263772021,"sku":"9781787416628","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781787416628_b8829cfd-a655-47ca-909c-a4ab66dd62a4.jpg?v=1786025620"},{"product_id":"9781800786202","title":"An Anthology Of Aesop's Animal Fables","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFew stories have endured as long as the fables of Aesop. 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Exploring personalizing practices across the domains of digital culture, healthcare and data science, this open access book argues that they re-articulate relations between economy, politics and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contemporary investment in big data, increasing computational power and ‘real-time’ analytics have made participation in a culture of personalization almost impossible to avoid. We must declare, measure and share our personal data in order to carry out many activities. ‘People Like You’ are simultaneously one and many: a group, a category, or a \u003ci\u003egeneric\u003c\/i\u003e emerging from the mapping of publics onto populations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Focusing in-depth on case studies in digital culture, health care and data science, this book identifies common features of personalizing practices to evaluate their significance for conceptions of the person. 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