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Author : James Kelman
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lean Tales written by James Kelman and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Kelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780349115429
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Lean Tales written by James Kelman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0857865625
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 written by Alasdair Gray and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new ones written for the hardback publication of this collection. This last section, Tales Droll and Plausible, shows that Gray's recent twenty-first-century fiction is as uncomfortably funny and up to date as his earliest.
Author : Michael K. Levine
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000682544
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book People Over Process written by Michael K. Levine and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about improving and sustaining agility by focusing on people over process, as the first agile value advocates, and is the third and final book in the author's Lean and Agile Software trilogy. The first – A Tale of Two Systems: Lean and Agile Software Development for Business Leaders – describes what agile is and why we do it. The second – A Tale of Two Transformations: Bringing Lean and Agile Software Development to Life – guides leaders in transforming their organizations to adopt this approach. All three books mix description and elaboration of theory with practical demonstration in fictional companies and projects. This new, third book – People over Process: Leadership for Agility – presents a model of facilitative leadership for agility, which informs the entire book. It begins by describing the roots of the agile movement, which motivates the centrality of people and the need for leadership. The leadership model is then presented, very simply: rigor, alignment, efficiency, through frameworks. Leadership is considered for all team members, and then for the special case of the responsibilities of leaders in formal positions of organizational authority. With this strong background presented, the book proceeds to describe and demonstrate common and highly useful frameworks for agility. The fictional Pacifica Bank is introduced, and we see the Pacifica team work through architecture, project planning, team structure, governance, scrum meeting, and ultimately retrospectives, using frameworks that have been presented. An Appendix summarizes the most useful frameworks for future reference. Throughout the book concepts are illustrated with vignettes from my experience (in the didactic sections) and with the Pacifica fictional case study. The key benefits of the book are to make everyone involved in agile work more effective and fulfilled. Essentially, since agile was first introduced almost two decades ago, the primary focus in practice has been on process. The "scrum" methodology was developed and promulgated, and has been widely adopted. This has been on balance broadly positive, but as an industry we have progressed to the point where following the steps of a methodology, particularly one that seeks to implement concepts where the first value is "People over Process," has reached its limits. The reader of this book: • Gains a powerful, simple model of leadership that enables the "People" in "People over Process;" • Sees these principles in action in a fictional company, making agile leadership understandable and engaging; • Improves their ability to participate in and lead agility; • Learns extraordinarily useful "frameworks" that help in the most important activities in agile software. In short, the reader will be better at delivering valuable software solutions, more valuable to their organizations, and more fulfilled in their work.
Author : Brian Doyle
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814637396
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book A Shimmer of Something written by Brian Doyle and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prose poems, chants, litanies, simple songs, cadenced prayers, brief bursts of rhythmic observation, elegies to little moments that are not little at all in the least whatsoever—welcome to the melodic world of Brian Doyle’s “proems,” swirling with voices unreeling tales, souls telling stories, moments photographed with ink. Accessible, easy to read, blunt, brief, and sometimes unforgettable, “these are not poems,” says the author, “but life set to the music of poetry.” In A Shimmer of Something, Brian Doyle’s characteristic humor and sincerity combine to make this collection a delight to read. From his conviction that miracles breed ripples that do not cease, to his lack of faith about the life of an elderberry bush, to the amusing story of a friend’s experience of driving the Dalai Lama to Seattle, to the humorous experience of his second Confession, to an intimate story of love and loss, Doyle’s lean stories of spiritual substance inspire, entertain, and captivate.
Author : Gavin Miller
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042017570
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Alasdair Gray written by Gavin Miller and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features English literature and Scottish literature.
Author : David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405145374
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story written by David Malcolm and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 1880 to the present Includes essays on topics and genres, as well as on individual texts and authors Comprises chapters on women’s writing, Irish fiction, gay and lesbian writing, and short fiction by immigrants to Britain
Author : James Kelman
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1782118241
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Dirt Road written by James Kelman and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond his Scottish island home. His dad Tom has recently lost his wife and stumbles towards the future, terrified of losing control of what remains of his family life Both are in search of something as they set out on an expedition into the American South. As they travel they encounter a new world and we discover whether the hopes of youth can conquer the fears of age. Dirt Road is a major novel exploring the brevity of life, the agonising demands of love and the lure of the open road. It is also a beautiful book about the power of music and all that it can offer.
Author : Heather Lean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781953177520
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (775 download)
Download or read book Angel Grandma written by Heather Lean and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack V. Haney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317457765
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Complete Russian Folktale: v. 4: Russian Wondertales 2 - Tales of Magic and the Supernatural written by Jack V. Haney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories of heroism and magic, and of terrifying encounters with Baba Yaga, Zmei the serpent and Koschchei the Immortal, represent at least one example of every wondertale type known in Russia.
Author : Paul Akers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990601067
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Lean Travel written by Paul Akers and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phil Moores
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Alasdair Gray written by Phil Moores and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays contains a detailed bibliography of Gray's writing and design, illustration of his artwork and critiques from such diverse hands as Professor Philip Hobsbaum, Kevin Williamson, Jonathan Coe and others.
Author : Charles Duhigg
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385697759
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Supercommunicators written by Charles Duhigg and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Globe and Mail and New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit, an investigation of what makes conversations work, and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in our lives. We all know people who seem capable of connecting with almost anyone. They are the ones we turn to for advice, the ones who ask deep questions but who also seem to hear what we are trying to say. What do they know about conversation that makes them so special? And what can they tell us about how communication really works? Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg argues, understand—some by intuition, some by hard-won experience—that there is a science to how human beings connect through words. They understand that whenever we speak, we're actually participating in three distinct conversations: What is this really about? How do we feel? And who are we? They know the importance of recognizing—and then matching—each kind of conversation, and how to hear the complex emotions, subtle negotiations and hidden beliefs that color and inform everything we say. Our pasts, our values, our affiliations—our identities—shape every discussion we have, from who will pick up the kids to how we want to be treated at work. With his trademark insight and clarity, Duhigg shows readers how to recognize these three conversations—and teaches us the skills we need to navigate them more successfully. Communication, he argues, is a superpower. By bringing readers into jury deliberations and fraught CIA recruitments, into Netflix's company-wide conversations about equity and the writers' room of The Big Bang Theory, we learn why some people are able to make themselves heard—and to hear others—so clearly. We learn how to recognize and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation. In the end, we learn a simple but powerful lesson: We can connect with anyone, as long as we understand how conversations work.
Author : Nick Iuppa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136142770
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Story and Simulations for Serious Games written by Nick Iuppa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to create a simulation where participants have a sense of freedom and personal control while still maintaining the structure necessary for an effective story is a difficult task indeed. This book examines how to create an engaging, effective story (necessary to teach participants), while relating practical considerations of building a simulation. It also looks at stories as classic ways of teaching and gathering knowledge and considers other theories of interactive narrative design such as synthetic story creation and management and participant-generated story experiences. It also discusses enabling technologies in artificial intelligence, synthetic characters design and development, speech recognition technology, 3D modelling, and the future of story-driven games. Story Driven Simulations reviews the existing efforts in this field as well as focusing on the recent efforts of Paramount Pictures and The Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California, where this expert author team created successful simulations for the U.S. Army, Department of Defense, as well as other educational simulations.
Author : Agnes Owens
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857901400
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Agnes Owens written by Agnes Owens and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “terrific collection” presents the beloved Scottish author’s complete short stories, plus 14 new tales of bracing honesty and mordant wit (The Times, UK). A twice-married mother of seven, Agnes Owens had worked for years as a house cleaner, typist, and factory worker before being discovered in a small-town writing workshop. Her first story, “Arabella,” announced her great talent to her three instructors: Liz Lochhead, Alasdair Gray, and Jim Kelman. Many more stories followed, filling the now-classic volumes Gentlemen of the West, Lean Tales, and People Like That. This collection presents the complete contents of those books, plus fourteen previously unpublished stories, presented under the collective title The Dark Side. Owens' talent for pithy, unsettling tales is as sharp as ever, confirming her place as one of Scotland's finest contemporary writers. “Owens is a gentle writer with a slicing with . . . honest and unaffected.” —Sunday Times, UK
Author : Kevin Brownlow
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312145780
Total Pages : 835 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book David Lean written by Kevin Brownlow and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Lean was one of a handful of movie-makers of international renown and, arguably, the most famous and successful of all British film directors. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, Lean found success as the director of the such classic films as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and Doctor Zhivago.Learn about the making of movies a s realized by a master, but also of the highly personal costs of genius. in color.
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771008791
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Handmaid's Tale written by Margaret Atwood and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.
