A Watch of Nightingales

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025252
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book A Watch of Nightingales written by Liza Wieland and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modest, quiet woman, Mara Raynor never dreamed she'd one day find herself in charge of the small private school in Washington, D.C., where for many years she taught music and choir. But after the unexpected death of her husband, the school's headmaster, Mara finds herself thrust into the public eye, burdened not just with the responsibilities of acting headmaster---a role she never wanted---but also with a potentially explosive political and religious controversy that tests parents' and school administrators' spirit of tolerance. When a Sikh student is caught wearing a ceremonial knife on school grounds, fear spreads among parents and the school board. Coming at the same moment as the disappearance of Mara's teenage daughter, the controversy quickly assumes a far more personal nature. Not just any student, the Sikh boy is both the son of a woman with whom Mara shares a complicated past and---as Mara soon discovers---her own daughter's boyfriend. As it moves back and forth in time between the school in contemporary Washington and a girls' boarding school in the British countryside in 1977, A Watch of Nightingales weaves a rich and textured exploration of fear and remorse, the mysteries of love, and the complicated tensions that ring down the generations from parent to child. "Conjuring the entwined lives of teachers and students in two schools (and two generations) on either side of the Atlantic, A Watch of Nightingales stands alongside The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Goodbye, Mr Chips as a testament to the responsibilities, rewards, and risks of teaching. This is a book of luminous insight and quiet but telling wisdom, about youth and maturity and the bridge of loss and remorse that connects them. Liza Wieland's is a mature and deeply moving vision, conveyed in prose that sings as sure and clear as the birds of her title." ---Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl Praise for Liza Wieland: "[T]here is a nobility and boldness to her characters that lends them a heroism missing from much modern fiction and makes these stories wholly absorbing adventures of the heart." ---Ron Hansen, author of Exiles: A Novel "Liza Wieland understands down to the bone how loneliness and love compel her characters to make their impossible choices. Not only does she have a searing intelligence and wisdom, her prose is by turns graceful and astonishing." ---Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World Liza Wieland is the author of four previous works of fiction: The Names of the Lost; Discovering America; You Can Sleep While I Drive; and Bombshell, as well as a volume of poems, Near Alcatraz. Her work has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, and the North Carolina Arts Council. She teaches creative writing and literature at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.

Grantville Gazette II

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Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 1416520511
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Grantville Gazette II by : Eric Flint

Download or read book Grantville Gazette II written by Eric Flint and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "New York Times" bestselling series continues. For the thousands of readers of "1632" comes another close-up look at life in Grantville, the American town lost in time.

BPM Everywhere

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Publisher : Future Strategies Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
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Book Synopsis BPM Everywhere by : Nathaniel Palmer

Download or read book BPM Everywhere written by Nathaniel Palmer and published by Future Strategies Inc.. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are entering an entirely new phase of BPM – the era of “BPM Everywhere” or BPME. BPME represents the strategy for leveraging, not simply surviving but fully exploiting the wave of disruption facing every business over the next 5 years and beyond. Without question, one of the single most disruptive events in the last decade was the introduction of the smartphone. Consider for a moment how great of an impact this has had on the relationship between businesses and their customers. Not even the emergence of the Web and Internet-based “digital native” business models can compare with the level of intimacy now available with your customers. In the era of the Internet of Things where smart homes, appliances, cars, phones, virtually imaginable devices are all connected, BPM must, and will, be everywhere. As Peter Whibley discusses in “The Internet of Things Will Be Invisible,” by 2025 there are expected to be more than 26 billion or more connected devices. In the chapter “Digital Prescriptive Maintenance: Disrupting Manufacturing through IoT, Big Data, and Dynamic Case Management,” Dr. Setrag Khoshafian introduces the “4 Vs” of “thing” data, specifically “Volume, Velocity, Variety and Value.” From monitors and remote sensors, to appliances and vehicles, to tens of billions of other “things,” connected devices are generating meaningful and informative data that would easily overwhelm any human being, but collectively they present critical context about processes and the state of operations. “Big Data” has never been so large, nor presented such an acute role within enterprises and the processes that drive them. BPME as well as traditional BPM methods can already be found at the center of this. Its role will grow exponentially. Emergent factors such as process mining (see chapter “Mining the Swarm” by Keith Swenson, et al.) will be critical for uncovering engagement patterns and the need for process management platforms to coordinate interaction and control of smart devices. It is intelligent BPM that is expanding the window of what can be automated, by enabling adaptable automation. The mobile strategies in far too many organizations seem to be the building of apps that presume that customers will use their smartphones like mini laptops. This avoids the fact that we now have a level of intimacy with our customer we've never had before. As discussed in the chapter “BPM to Go – Supporting Business Processes in a Mobile and Sensing World,” our customers are carrying around a device that offers a range of capabilities unlike any laptop. A smartphone produces volumes of meaningful data about our customers (think about the “4Vs”) and is able to interact with that customer in ways that a laptop never can. The growing ubiquity of connectivity always within reach combined with new services and capabilities such as mobile banking is a key part of driving constantly-changing expectations. Yet digital disruption is not limited to mobile devices, and is in fact disrupting everywhere BPM is otherwise found, and why BPM everywhere is becoming the new normal.

From Out of the Shadows

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Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525567055
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book From Out of the Shadows written by A.G.V. McPherson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Believe me when I say, if you do not fear Dark Elves, you are a fool, for there is much to be afraid of." Silmanus and Mara are the unlikeliest of allies: an elven wizard and a human outlaw. Plunged together in a struggle for survival, desperation and necessity form an uneasy alliance between elf and human, an alliance challenged by the most lethal warriors in Aeternerras—the sinister Dark Elves. Much to his astonishment, Silmanus discovers his lowly views towards humans are misplaced as he fights side-by-side with them as equals. But could a wizard and a human have anything in common? "As you are not an Arcanist—that is, someone who uses magic—you are probably under the impression that living things have souls or spirits." On the other side of the world, companions Amber and Jeddo—dwarf and gnome—have devoted their lives to hunting down monsters that escape The Fell Lands, naturally reaping the profits that this profession brings. Their ventures become far more trouble than they are worth when the two are taken captive by Dark Elves becoming entangled in a web of death and deceit. "Growling, Amber pushed herself to her feet, but Mordasine’s boot shoved her back down. 'On your knees, filth,' he hissed." In From out of the Shadows, blood is spilled and tears are shed as these four fight for freedom. Many questions remain, questions of trust, motivations, and uncertainty. One question supersedes them all, "What are the Dark Elves plotting – and what other evils are lurking in the shadows?"

Beginning Operations

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429982292
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Beginning Operations written by James White and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-06-02 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sector General: A massive deep-space hospital station on the Galactic Rim, where human and alien medicine meet. Its 384 levels and thousands of staff members are supposedly able to meet the needs of any conceivable alien patient--though that capacity is always being strained as more (and stranger) alien races turn up to join the galactic community. Sentient viruses, interspecies romances, undreamed-of institutional catering problems--it all lands on Sector General's doorstep. And the only thing weirder than a hitherto unknown alien species is having a member of that species turn up in your Emergency Room. The first of two omnibus volumes reprints the works that began the Sector General series, which were previously published as Hospital Station (1962), Star Surgeon (1963), and Major Operation (1971). At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Strategy and Place

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684834898
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Book Synopsis Strategy and Place by : Martha A. O'Mara

Download or read book Strategy and Place written by Martha A. O'Mara and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organisational boundaries are being transformed by downsizing, outsourcing, and networked links with customers and suppliers. Unprecedented advances in telecommunications and 'virtuality' are changing how companies occupy real space. To survive, managers must radically rethink the physical aspects of their companies. Based on cutting-edge research at such companies as Pacific Bell, Lever Brothers and Merrill Lynch, STRATEGY AND PLACE presents a framework for making key business decisions about one of the organisation's most valuable assets: its physical facilities and properties. O'Mara outlines three main approaches to real estate and facility management decision making: Incrementalism, where only short-term commitments to space are made and capital expenditures minimised; Standardisation, in which control over both design and management procedures is strictly maintained with centralised decision making; and Value-based, where organisational values factor into all design-related decisions, and procedures are flexible to meet the needs of individual parts of the organisation. O'Mara explains the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy, and shows how to apply them appropriately, based on an understanding of the profound impact of competitive uncertainty in today's new business environment.

In Praise of Walking

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9781784707576
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book In Praise of Walking written by Shane O'Mara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking upright on two feet is a uniquely human skill. It defines us as a species. It enabled us to walk out of Africa and to spread as far as Alaska and Australia. It freed our hands and freed our minds. We put one foot in front of the other without thinking - yet how many of us know how we do that, or appreciate the advantages it gives us? In this hymn to walking, neuroscientist Shane O'Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits it confers on our bodies and minds. In Praise of Walking celebrates this miraculous ability. Incredibly, it is a skill that has its evolutionary origins millions of years ago, under the sea. And the latest research is only now revealing how the brain and nervous system performs the mechanical magic of balancing, navigating a crowded city, or running our inner GPS system. Walking is good for our muscles and posture; it helps to protect and repair organs, and can slow or turn back the ageing of our brains. With our minds in motion we think more creatively, our mood improves and stress levels fall. Walking together to achieve a shared purpose is also a social glue that has contributed to our survival as a species. As our lives become increasingly sedentary, we risk all this. We must start walking again, whether it's up a mountain, down to the park, or simply to school and work. We, and our societies, will be better for it.

The Color of Night

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Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0759522537
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book The Color of Night written by David Lindsey and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-05-08 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former intelligence officer Harry Strand learns that a secret agent can never retire--and never surrender. A widower, he has started his life over and fallen in love with Mara Song, a beautiful Asian art collector. But Harry's peaceful world is shattered when he discovers a shocking videotape of his wife's death in Mara's tape collection.

A Person's a Person, No Matter How Small

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Publisher : ANTIBOOKCLUB
ISBN 13 : 0997592338
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book A Person's a Person, No Matter How Small written by Mara Faye Lethem and published by ANTIBOOKCLUB. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Person’s A Person, No Matter How Small is a comic, and ultimately cathartic, novel about a pregnant mother with a toddler who finds herself sucked into a brief killing spree by the demands of hormones, a young child, a fetus pressing on her bladder, and the annoyance of people in general. She murders as naturally as taking a good dump, and initially with as few regrets.

Fire in the Sea

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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623490316
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Book Synopsis Fire in the Sea by : David A. McKee

Download or read book Fire in the Sea written by David A. McKee and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cold, stygian dark of the extreme sea depths is home to some of our planet’s strangest creatures. Even their names evoke a science fiction adventure: dragonfishes, greeneyes, viperfishes, mirrorbellies, lanternfishes. Marine biologist Henry “Hank” Compton (1928–2005) of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Rockport Marine Lab was present on some of the earliest Gulf of Mexico cruises on which these fishes were collected for the first time in Texas waters. Upon returning, Compton would retire to the darkroom he had constructed beneath a stairwell at the lab and photograph the specimens. A talented artist, Compton then painted watercolors based on his photographs. He allowed free rein to both his scientific judgment and his artistic vision as he constructed representations of how the specimens might have appeared in the crushing pressure of their alien environment. Compton dubbed the series of deep-water paintings “Fire in the Sea” because of the shimmering bioluminescence common to these deep-water species. Then, along with taxonomic descriptions, he drafted fanciful narratives to accompany the paintings: quirky, humorous, and sometimes cryptic stories of the fishes in their unreachable habitat. Professor, researcher, and author David A. McKee has taken Compton’s work, discovered in cardboard boxes following his death, and, along with others, provided chapters on bioluminescence, life in the deep, taxonomic arrangement, and life history information.

Ladies' Home Journal

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Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ladies' Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
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Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001

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Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 : 1623768195
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001 written by Clinton, William J. and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
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Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton written by United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Demon's Sire

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304617734
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis The Demon's Sire by : Kristin Stefanos

Download or read book The Demon's Sire written by Kristin Stefanos and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything." -Rainer Maria Rilke Alexandra Drakis lives in a vicious and uncertain world. After all, being the personal food supply to the sadistic vampire king is bound to present a few challenges. But no matter how much she tries not even the reigning queen of calamity can control and predict everything. Every once in awhile the universe decides it's time to test the mettle of sanguinem and vampires alike. To remind everyone of the eternal truth: creation is a leap into the unknown with the potential for untold joy or unspeakable destruction. Too bad the outcome remains unforeseen until it's far too late.

Perforated Heart

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416594337
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Perforated Heart written by Eric Bogosian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost forty years after moving to Manhattan, author Richard Morris has achieved if not stratospheric renown then at least the accomplished career and caliber of fame that he envisioned for himself as a younger man. Now financially comfortable and artistically embittered, Richard is at his home upstate recuperating from heart surgery and nursing resentment toward his publisher and his reading public who have found new, more exciting writers and left his star to wane. In his attic, Richard comes across a stack of notebooks, the journals he began keeping when he arrived in New York in the late '70s. He is alternately fascinated and repelled by the young man he meets in these pages: hilariously naïve and egotistically misguided, the younger Richard compulsively absorbs everything around him from art and creativity to sex and drugs. As he reads more about himself, written by himself, Richard discovers that the pivotal moments of self-invention -- and self-realization -- occur far outside the conventional chronology of a lifetime. Perforated Heart explores two wholly different characters -- a young, ambitious artist and his older self, jaded by both success and failure -- and creates an unforgettable portrait of the two men who inhabit the one individual. By turns meditative, deftly observant, and scathingly analytical, Eric Bogosian re-creates the landscape and atmosphere of 1970s New York City with fresh, vivid imagery and reveals a powerful commentary on the dynamic between creativity and commerce in the artistic world. Perforated Heart is his most rewarding and penetrating novel yet, with prose that reflects an equally astonishing range of experience and emotion.

Connected by Commitment

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190498625
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Connected by Commitment written by Mara G. Marin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Mara Marin complicates the primary ways in which we make sense of human and political relationships and our obligations within them. Rather than thinking of relationships in terms of our intentions, Marin thinks of them as open-ended and subject to ongoing commitments. By assessing three types of social relations -- political-legal relations, intimate relations of care, and work relations -- Connected by Commitment examines our obligations to transform structures of oppression and offers commitment as a model for solidarity across race, gender, and class.