![]() ![]() In the next two decades, it became a worldwide energy giant with 40,000 employees in 31 countries and revenues of $8.6 billion. It is the story of AES, whose business model and operating ethos -"let's have fun"-were conceived during a 90-minute car ride from Annapolis, Maryland, to Washington, D.C. Bakke tells the true story of this extraordinary company-and how, as its co-founder and longtime CEO, he challenged the business establishment with revolutionary ideas that could remake America's organizations. Could such a company compete in today's bottom-line corporate world? Could it even turn a profit? Well, imagine no more. Imagine a company whose top executives, in a quest to create the most "fun" workplace ever, obliterate labor-management divisions and push decision-making responsibility down to the plant floor. ![]() Imagine a company where people love coming to work and are highly productive on a daily basis. Download Joy at Work Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]()
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Andre agassi book5/10/2023 ![]() Moehringer is widely known to have worked with Agassi on Open, though his involvement with it is more co-writer than ghostwriter (as Agassi praises him in the book's acknowledgments, as he did on the promotional tour). Moehringer himself penned a memoir, The Tender Bar, that like Shields' There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me, tells the story of living in bars when young-Moehringer as a preteen boy, Shields carried by her alcoholic mother as a baby. Um, I write my own books, FYI," Shields said, gesturing broadly toward a vigorously nodding and finger-snapping Cohen. ![]() And I spent five hours with his ghostwriter. "I was asked to read it by him so that I could correct things that I believed were not correct because he told me that his memory was not that good. ![]() The black and the blue matthew horace5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The book ends with one of Horace’s favorite quotes: “Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something. ![]() A must-read for anyone interested in understanding and solving these problems, which, Horace emphasizes throughout, start with unearthing our own implicit biases. Police shootings get special attention, with Horace showing how bias escalates danger. During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a. The book skillfully weaves together Horace’s own harrowing and enlightening experiences with the stories and reflections of those interviewed. For this hard-hitting, convincing indictment of the biases in today’s law enforcement, Horace, with coauthor Harris, conducted interviews with approximately 100 cops, officials, community advocates, and survivors of police shootings between 20. Horace’s career in law enforcement was wide ranging, including stints serving as a special agent and, later, senior executive with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. An opening anecdote in which Horace learns about his own biases during a domestic-violence call is especially gripping. Horace started as a street cop in Arlington, Virginia, in 1986, learning firsthand about how bias infects police work. Horace, a contributor to CNN and the Wall Street Journal, has the hard-earned credibility to write about the racism and injustice endemic to policing since he, an African American, had a decades-long career in law enforcement. ![]() ![]() ![]() What was different about that process this time? What was the same?īarnes: The major difference was, when I wrote Crown, I didn’t even have a book deal, let alone an illustrator for the project. This is your first time working on a project together since the success of Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut. BookPage spoke to Barnes and James about the new book, what it was like to work together again and the good things in their lives right now. I Am Every Good Thing, which pairs James’ lush illustrations with Barnes’ lyrical ode to Black boyhood, is sure to satisfy even the most exacting of readers. Needless to say, the expectations for their next project together were high. ![]() James’ first collaboration, the picture book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, won a Caldecott Honor, a Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Author and Illustrator Honors, the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers and more. Author Derrick Barnes’ and illustrator Gordon C. ![]() Teri terry slated series5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe.
Dagon and cthulhu5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() This, coupled with the Cthulhu Mythos’ 100th anniversary, is why I’ve compiled a list of the Top Six Cthulhu Mythos adaptations. ![]() While it’s likely that we’ll never see big budget adaptations like Guillermo Del Toro’s vision for At The Mountains of Madness, there are still a few worthy translations of some of Lovecraft’s best stories. Some noteworthy directors have attempted to bring the Mythos to the big screen, but the nihilistic nature of the author’s particular brand of cosmic horror doesn’t sit very well with studio executives. ![]() His creation of the Cthulhu Mythos, a shared universe of scary stories featuring insanity-inducing elder beings and unfortunate protagonists, revolutionized fiction, and the author’s formula for cosmic horror can still be seen in media to this very day.ĭespite this, the list of satisfying adaptations of Lovecraft’s work is remarkably small, with most talented fans of the author preferring to borrow elements from his tales instead of adapting them entirely. Lovecraft was without a doubt one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, I was sucked into a whirlwind of idiocy. ![]() I love romance, but I read this book hoping to be swept away by a romance. Once you get used to having it, it doesn't really bother you much anymore. Anna is the sort of character that grows on you, much like mildew, or herpes. I know many of people enjoyed it, and I can see why. It wasn't the worst contemporary I've ever read, but this book was tremendously annoying and I simply do not understand the hype. The good thing about it is that this book isn't the sugar-free type of sweet, so there were no anal explosions. It's sickening, and best in small doses, and I still feel like I need an internal cleanse after spreading the reading of this book over several days. It's the "Oh my god, why did I eat that entire package of Oreos? I DON'T EVEN LIKE OREOS!" sort of sweet. Yeah, I guess you could say this is a sweet romance, but it's not the good sort of sweet. To be frank, Anna Oliphant is a motherfucking idiot. Mostly, I just want to bring Anna in front of the US Congress as an example of how the US educational system has grievously failed our students. Some of them involve a bottle of choloroform, a shovel, and an unmarked grave. There were many things I wanted to do to Anna Oliphant throughout this book. I’ve never felt this way about anybody before-” What's the saying? Once a cheater, always a cheater? Oh, the fucking hypocrisy. In my mind, I thought of you in ways I shouldn’t have, again and again. ![]() The midnight star by marie lu5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() She is dressed in Sealand silk and a necklace of sapphire. Her hair and lashes are painted a shifting silver, and a scar crosses one side of her face. It brightens until it overwhelms every other star in the sky, brightens until it seems to touch the ground, and then the glow is gone, and in its place is a girl. “If you are very quiet and do not look away, you may see the brightest star in the constellation glow steadily brighter. A witness’s account of Queen Adelina’s siege on the nation of Dumor There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.” But even now, as an old man, I remember her as clearly as if she were standing before me. She nodded to her Rainmaker, and he descended from his horse to plunge a sword through the dying soldier. It is a sound I shall never forget as long as I live. I don’t know what he saw in her expression, but his muscles tightened, his legs pushing against the dirt as he tried in vain to get away from her. He trembled on the ground, but his eyes stayed on her. “She paused to look down at one of our dying soldiers. ![]() As if the goddess of Death herself had come. Where they went, the sky dimmed and the ground cracked-the clouds gathered behind the army as if a creature alive, black and churning in fury. Her other Elites followed and then rows of white-robed Inquisitors, wielding the white-and-silver banners of the White Wolf. “She passed through our village, through fields littered with dead soldiers after her forces overwhelmed the nation of Dumor. ![]() Reliquary sarah fine5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() As Cora’s dark past swirls chaotically with the versions of Hannah’s life and death that her family and friends want to believe, Cora discovers the disturbing depths of what some people may do-including herself. When a downward spiral of self-destruction forces Cora to work with an AI counselor, she finds an unexpected ally, even as others around her grow increasingly convinced that Hannah’s death was no accident. ![]() ![]() But when she awakens after that night, her memories gone, Cora is left with only questions-and dread of what the answers might mean. No memories. Cora should remember every detail about the night her stepsister, Hannah, fell down a flight of stairs to her death, especially since her Cerepin-a sophisticated brain-computer interface-may have recorded each horrifying moment. Uncanny by Sarah Fine was published on October 3rd, 2017 by Skyscape and is a young adult science fiction novel. ![]() The Maid by Nita Prose5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Before she knows what's happening, Molly's odd demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect and she finds herself in a web of subtext and nuance she has no idea how to untangle. But Molly's orderly life is turned on its head the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. No matter-she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Since her Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has had to navigate life's complexities all by herself. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. About the Book "Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. ![]() |