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Author : James Kelman
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780099585411
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Lean Tales written by James Kelman and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1995 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael K. Levine
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000682544
Total Pages : 291 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 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps participants in agile software development environments learn to become leaders. Facilitative leaders should be at every level of the organization, from individual contributor to informal team leader to managers of all stripes -- it takes much focus and intentionality from senior organizational leaders, who have special obligations in creating successful lean and agile development environments. But, beyond the principles of facilitative leadership for agility, People over Process provides tips and demonstrative scenes for the more important and common software meetings: architecture simulations, project planning, team configurations, retrospectives, and more. The author fully illustrates the principles and shares proven techniques for the most important leadership events in agile projects. While this book focuses on facilitating extraordinarily well-prepared meetings, it serves as a metaphor for leadership more broadly. The leader’s obligation to help their team make rigorous fact-based decisions; to gain broad input and have participants aligned on the outcomes and next steps; and to do so in an efficient way that respects the time of the participants is as relevant to every-day leadership activity as it is to conducting meetings. The author mixes background and explanation with demonstration -- in this case, the story of an agile project at the fictitious Pacifica Bank. The scenario constructed at Pacifica illustrates the concepts of effective leadership and productive workplace environments. The book concentrates on the flow of software from understanding what is needed through design, development, testing, and deployment. Essentially, the author provides a simple and powerful model of leadership, examples, and tips. This is not a cookbook on how to lead -- It is a set of principles and examples. All leaders must find their own way for their team, their organization, and their unique challenges.
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 : Jon Mcgregor
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1646221001
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Lean Fall Stand written by Jon Mcgregor and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling and propulsive novel of an Antarctica expedition gone wrong and its far-reaching consequences for the explorers and their families "leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story" (Hilary Mantel). Remember the training: find shelter or make shelter, remain in place, establish contact with other members of the party, keep moving, keep calm. Robert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of Antarctic surveying, was there on the ice when the worst happened. He holds within him the complete story of that night—but depleted by the disaster, Wright is no longer able to communicate the truth. Instead, in the wake of the catastrophic expedition, he faces the most daunting adventure of his life: learning a whole new way to be in the world. Meanwhile Anna, his wife, must suddenly scramble to navigate the sharp and unexpected contours of life as a caregiver. From the Booker Prize-longlisted, American Academy of Arts & Letters Award-winning author of Reservoir 13, this is a novel every bit as mesmerizing as its setting. Tenderly unraveling different notions of heroism through the rippling effects of one extraordinary expedition on an ordinary family, Lean Fall Stand explores the indomitable human impulse to turn our experiences into stories—even when the words may fail us.
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 : Rodge Glass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408833352
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Alasdair Gray written by Rodge Glass and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alasdair Gray, author of the modern classics Lanark, Poor Things and 1982, Janine, is without doubt Scotland's greatest living novelist. Since trying (unsuccessfully) to buy him a drink in 1998, Rodge Glass, first tutee and then secretary to the author, takes on the role of biographer, charting Gray's life from unpublished and unrecognised son of a box-maker to septuagenarian "little grey deity" (as Will Self has called him). A Jewish Mancunian Boswell to Gray's Johnson, Glass seamlessly weaves a chronological narrative of his subject's life into his own diary of meeting, getting to know and working with the artist, writer and campaigner, to create a vibrant and wonderfully textured portrait of a literary great.
Author : James Kelman
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (874 download)
Download or read book All We Have Is the Story written by James Kelman and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist. From his first publication (a short story collection An Old Pub Near the Angel on a tiny American press) through his latest novel (God's Teeth and other Phenomena) and work with Noam Chomsky (Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime—both published on a slightly larger American press), All We Have Is the Story chronicles the life and work—to date—of “Probably the most influential novelist of the post-war period.” (The Times) Drawing deeply on a radical tradition that is simultaneously political, philosophical, cultural, and literary, James Kelman articulates the complexities and tensions of the craft of writing; the narrative voice and grammar; imperialism and language; art and value; solidarity and empathy; class and nation state; and. above all, that it begins and ends with the story. “One of the things the establishment always does is isolate voices of dissent and make them specific—unique if possible. It's easy to dispense with dissent if you can say there's him in prose and him in poetry. As soon as you say there's him, him, and her there, and that guy here and that woman over there, and there's all these other writers in Africa, and then you've got Ireland, the Caribean—suddenly there's this kind of mass dissent going on, and that becomes something dangerous, something that the establishment won't want people to relate to and go Christ, you're doing the same as me. Suddenly there's a movement going on. It's fine when it's all these disparate voices; you can contain that. The first thing to do with dissent is say ‘You're on your own, you're a phenomenon.’ I'm not a phenomenon at all: I'm just a part of what's been happening in prose for a long, long while.” —James Kelman from a 1993 interview
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 : David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444304787
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 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 2009-01-30 with total page 592 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 : David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144435521X
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The British and Irish Short Story Handbook written by David Malcolm and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as well as the major authors and their works, providing a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area. Guides readers through the development of the short story and critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the British and Irish short story Includes extensive analysis of non-canonical writers, such as Hubert Crackanthorpe, Ella D’Arcy, T.F. Powys, A.E. Coppard, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Mollie Panter-Downes, Denton Welch, and Sylvia Townsend Warner Provide a wide-ranging discussion of non-realist and experimental short stories Includes a large section on the British short story in the Second World War
Author : Michael Shea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780586064993
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (649 download)
Download or read book Nifft the Lean written by Michael Shea and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Elissa Shevinksy
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 1939293871
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Lean Out written by Elissa Shevinksy and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Disconcertingly thought-provoking.” —TechCrunch "Nineteen disruptive, disturbing and divergent voices ... an honest portrait of a network of gender-oppressed people leaning every which way." —Feministing "Everyone who hires or manages anyone in tech ought to read the remarkable book Lean Out. If tech companies are unwelcoming places, to hell with them. Start your own company and run it better." —The Los Angeles Times Why aren’t the great, qualified women already in tech being hired or promoted? Should people who don’t fit in seek to join an institution that is actively hostile to them? Does the tech industry deserve women leaders? The split between the stated ideals of the corporate elite and the reality of working life for women in the tech industry—whether in large public tech companies or VC-backed start-ups, in anonymous gaming forums, or in Silicon Valley or Alley—seems designed to crush women’s spirits. Corporate manifestos by women who already fit in (or who are able to convincingly fake it) aren’t helping. There is a high cost for the generation of young women and transgender people currently navigating the harsh realities of the tech industry, who gave themselves to their careers only to be ignored, harassed and disrespected. Not everyone can be a CEO; not everyone is able to embrace a workplace culture that diminishes the contributions of women and ignores real complaints. The very culture of high tech, where foosball tables and endless supplies of beer are de facto perks, but maternity leave and breast-feeding stations are controversial, is designed to appeal to young men. Lean Out collects 25 stories from the modern tech industry, from people who fought GamerGate and from women and transgender artists who have made their own games, from women who have started their own companies and who have worked for some of the most successful corporations in America, from LGBTQ women, from women of color, from transgender people and people who do not ascribe to a gender. All are fed up with the glacial pace of cultural change in America’s tech industry. Included are essays by anna anthropy, Leigh Alexander, Sunny Allen, Lauren Bacon, Katherine Cross, Dom DeGuzman, FAKEGRIMLOCK, Krys Freeman, Gesche Haas, Ash Huang, Erica Joy, Jenni Lee, Katy Levinson, Melanie Moore, Leanne Pittsford, Brook Shelley, Elissa Shevinsky, Erica Swallow, and Squinky. Edited and selected by entrepreneur and tech veteran Elissa Shevinsky, Lean Out sees a possible way forward that uses tech and creative disengagement to jettison 20th century corporate culture: “I’ve figured out a way to create safe space for myself in tech,” writes Shevinsky. “I’ve left Silicon Valley, and now work remotely from home. I adore everyone on my team, because I hired them myself.”
Author : H. Gustav Klaus
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 0746310641
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (463 download)
Download or read book James Kelman written by H. Gustav Klaus and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most powerful and provocative writers to have emerged in Britain in recent years, James Kelman has engendered a good deal of criticism over his use of 'bad' language. This text examines his work, exploring the social and political issues that he raises.
Author : Christine Amanda Müller
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443831441
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book A Glasgow Voice written by Christine Amanda Müller and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on James Kelman, a leading Scottish author, and his use of language. It examines how Kelman presents a spoken Glasgow working-class voice in his stories while breaking down the traditional distinction made between speech and writing in literature. Three main themes are explored: the use of Glaswegian/Scots language, the inclusion of working-class discourse features, and an expressive preference for spoken over written forms. Kelman’s writing is approached through an examination of his use of punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, swearing, and body language. Throughout, examples from Kelman’s writing are analysed and statistical comparisons are made between his writing and the Scots Corpus of Texts and Speech. In summary, the reader will find a detailed and systematic analysis of Kelman’s use of language in literature, showing linguistic patterns, identifying key textual strategies and features, and comparing these to the standards that precede him and those that surround his work.
Author : Harris M. Lentz III
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476679789
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019 written by Harris M. Lentz III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2019, including television icon Doris Day, iconic novelist Toni Morrison, groundbreaking director John Singleton, Broadway starlet Carol Channing and lovable Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2019 are included in this edition. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.
Author : Scott Hames
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748642889
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman written by Scott Hames and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Kelman is one of the most important Scottish writers now living. His fiction is widely acclaimed, and widely caricatured. His art declares war on stereotypes, but is saddled with plenty of its own. This book attempts to disentangle Kelman's writing from his reputation, clarifying his literary influences and illuminating his political commitments. It is the first book to cover the full range and depth of Kelman's work, explaining his position within genres such as the short story and the polemical essay, and tracing his interest in anti-colonial politics and existential thought. Essays by leading experts combine lucid accounts of the heated debates surrounding Kelman's writing, with a sharp focus on the effects and innovations of that writing itself. Kelman's own reception by reviewers and journalists is examined as a shaping factor in the development of his career. Chapters situate Kelman's work in critical contexts ranging from masculinity to vernacular language, cover influences from Chomsky to Kafka, and pursue the implications of Kelman's rhetoric from Glasgow localism to 'World English'.
