![]() It really made you re-evaluate how you decide to spend your time. These scenes were a stark contrast to the modern lifestyle of constant entertainment that many of us find ourselves dependent on for fun. ![]() As a fan of traditional or hard science fiction I typically don't get into more relationship driven stores, but this was an exception. ![]() The scenes of Shevek with his family were very moving. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? I also wondered how powerful this might have been to read this book as a younger man. The scenes of Shevek as a young man were interesting, I couldn't help thinking of Catcher in the Rye at times. A very compelling and thought provoking character. I didn't always like him but he served as a touchstone for the ideas and concepts in the book from economics, to the Sapir Whor hypothesis, moral and ethics and physics. Shevek has to be one of the most compelling characters I have every read. He also highlighted the gravity of the writing, which is spectacular in a clear and simple manner. ![]() The narrator went back and forth between characters with ease. Great production of a great scientific fiction classic. What made the experience of listening to The Dispossessed the most enjoyable? ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() For the next two hours, Simon, wearing a gray Dolce & Gabbana suit and a white shirt, open at the neck, hovered around a table piled high with copies of his book. ![]() The author, 42, and his wife, Santa, 37, also a best-selling author, of romantic historical fiction-she has written nine books, which have sold more than two million copies in 20 languages-arrived at the party with their nanny and two children, Lily, 6, dressed as a princess, and Sasha, 4. The book was published in October in the U.S. Miramax and Ruby Films, in a deal with Film4, have bought the film rights and signed John Hodge, the screenwriter of Trainspotting, to write the script. The book went on to become a best-seller in the U.K., winning the prestigious Costa award for biography this month. launch of Young Stalin, a biography of the early years of the Soviet dictator, by the prize-winning English historian Simon Sebag Montefiore. On a rainy Monday evening in London last May, several hundred royals, politicians, socialites, journalists, intellectuals, and leading businessmen gathered inside the Bond Street jewelry store Asprey to toast the U.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the main selling points of the new book, called “ Working Backwards: Insights, Stories and Secrets From Inside Amazon,” is that it offers insight into a company that is often secretive about how it conducts business.īut Amazon’s use of Lean Six Sigma philosophy and tools is not a surprise. A Focus on Deficit Reduction and Execution It’s also the focus of a new book from insiders about how Amazon leaders built the company for success. The working backwards approach mirrors the teachings of Lean Six Sigma, which focuses on understanding customers’ needs and then meeting them. ![]() The company reached $386 billion in sales in 2020, a 37% increase from 2019. That philosophy has helped Amazon grow from 600 employees in 1997 to about 1.3 million. Success at Amazon has involved always keeping the customer in mind. They used the same approach when developing a new product, even going as far as writing the press release about the product’s release before they even started developing it. Amazon uses the term to describe the process of setting an objective based on a desired customer experience and then working backwards through the process to make that happen. “Working backwards” helped achieve that goal. ![]() Amazon emerged as the company that made the right moves to leverage that technology into business success. But that technology was available to a lot of companies in the 1990s. The technology behind the creation of the internet allowed Amazon to grow from an online bookseller to the go-to shopping spot for thousands of items. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments The undoing project author![]() ![]() ![]() On the other hand, if you’d like to take the opportunity to win the $2,000, then you should choose both options giving you a 50% chance to achieve it. If you are happy with $1,500, then you should pick both options offering the same resulting amount with a 100% chance. However when you think carefully, you'll see that the two questions are virtually identical. When answering the second question, however, most people chose the prospect with a 50% chance of losing $1,000. The result showed that for the first question, the majority picked the option with a 100% chance of winning $500. These were the two questions that the two psychologists asked their research participants. Question two: You've been given $2,000, and you need to choose from another two options. Question one: Imagine you’ve been given $1,000, and you need to choose from two options. Today we’ll unlock the book The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds.īefore we proceed, first think of the following two questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. Love in the Big City is an energetic, joyful, and moving novel that depicts both the glittering nighttime world of Seoul and the bleary-eyed morning-after. Both award-winning for its unique literary voice and perspective, and particularly resonant with young readers, it has been a phenomenon in Korea and is poised to capture a worldwide readership. A runaway bestseller, the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores and went into nine printings. Love in the Big City is the English-language debut of Sang Young Park, one of Korea’s most exciting young writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s why.įirst of all, the nine insights from ‘the Manuscript’ in the novel are listed at the beginning of the book, so right away you have a handy reference point. The Celestine Prophecy was a pivotal springboard to writing and working with my co-author, so when I realised there was an Experiential Guide, I was keen to read it! I did find it quite hard-going at times, but it was worth sticking with it. ![]() Dite che son gonzo? Sarà, ma per una volta non mi dispiace esserlo. Sviluppo dell'energia, drammi del controllo, eredità dei nostri genitori, sensibilità del mondo vegetale, rapporto con l'aldilà: questi sono solo alcuni dei temi che mi hanno appassionato leggendo questo bel libro. Questo testo infatti ha poco di "Guida a.", ha le proprie radici nel libro originario ma non lo ricalca e offre mille spunti di riflessione e di nuove letture. E, al tirar delle somme, devo dire che mai scelta fu più azzeccata. Insomma, è stato il libro a scegliere me, e non il contrario. Per questo libro, infatti, ho inizialmente superato questo mio auto-divieto all'acquisto più per il suo prezzo - 2 euro in una bancarella natalizia dell'usato - che per il brivido del rischio. Quando trovo sugli scaffali un libro dal titolo "Guida a." di solito penso "Ecco la solita speculazione commerciale per spillare qualche soldo ai gonzi!". ![]() Sono sempre contento quando mi devo ricredere riguardo i miei numerosi e ottusi pregiudizi. ![]() ![]() I only got close friend vibes from them in the first two books. Also, it is implied that Jackaby has feelings for Jenny, which I think needed much more foreshadowing. I feel like this book series needs more details I can't see the character's faces all that well. This always had folklore involved, but now it includes mythology.Īs good as this was, there were some problems. This also tackles a whole new part of the world building. ![]() ![]() They feel like The Doctor and their companion from Doctor Who, if they had to take up the role of Holmes and Watson for a day. But it also has plenty of humor, mainly in the bantor between Jackaby and Abigail. But when a similar crime happens, they realize Jenny's case is connected.īecause of the fact that this not only deals with the murder of a liked character, but also includes peeks into Jackaby's past and how he became the seer, this is the darkest book in the Jackaby series. She has hired Abigail and Jackaby to investigate her death. She was murdered ten years ago, and her fiancé (a scientist involved with some suspicious It covers the death of the resident ghost of 926 Augur Lane, Jenny Cavanaugh. ![]() Ghostly Echoes is the third book in the Jackaby series. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments The unbroken by cl clark![]() ![]() ‘High adventure on a human scale – don’t miss it’ Alix E. Fans of epic military fantasy will eagerly await more from Clark’ Booklist ‘Clark’s debut introduces a remarkable LGBTQ+ culture amid a story of colonial conquest, exploitation, prejudice, and brewing revolt in a land with a lost history of mystical powers. Clark spins an epic tale of rebellion, espionage, and military might on the far outreaches of a crumbling desert empire. In a political fantasy unlike any other, debut author C. Through assassinations and massacres, in bedrooms and war rooms, Touraine and Luca will haggle over the price of a nation. Someone who can sway the rebels toward peace, while Luca focuses on what really matters: getting her uncle off her throne. ![]() Someone desperate enough to tiptoe the bayonet’s edge between treason and orders. ![]() But now, her company has been sent back to her homeland to stop a rebellion, and the ties of blood may be stronger than she thought. Stolen as a child and raised to kill and die for the empire, her only loyalty is to her fellow conscripts. ***Nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award and a Nebula Award*** ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Little big crowley review![]() ![]() ![]() For as I read “Little, Big” and became involved in the complex intricacy of the language and characters, I wondered what the author went through as he wrote it. Even John Crowley, at the library podium, was reading printed-out words he had previously written. ![]() There is a curious time-slip involved, as the writer imparts the words for an imagined audience who will read it in the future. ![]() Writers are solitary folk who weave their works alone. Their real performances are alone in front of their keyboards or, as when Crowley wrote “Little, Big” back in the late 1970s, their typewriters. With a few notable exceptions such as Harlan Ellison in his heyday, authors are not public performers. I have never done one, but I have often wondering how I would do if I were offered the opportunity. That’s another subject, incidentally, public readings by authors. Recently I came across it on a list of old Nebula Award nominees I was perusing looking for reading material and I thought, why not? I ordered it and began to read, and then found out, completely coincidentally, that John Crowley had been teaching at Clarion West and was doing a reading at the downtown public library shortly after I was moving to Seattle. I have been wanting to read it for years and never got around to it. You should not approach “Little, Big” with any preconceptions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lynley happily because Lady Helen is there with her sister and he thinks once again he can make his case for her to love and be with him. Lynley volunteers to go in after Scotland Yard is requested to oversee things. When she’s found murdered it ends up not only affecting her father, mother, and stepmother, but many people who all seemed to think that they knew the real Elena. Stephen’s College and had some rocky times at school and with her father and their relationship. ![]() “For the Sake of Elena” has Scotland Yard called in when a young woman, Elena Weaver, is found murdered during her morning run. ![]() Havers struggles with whether she can keep having a neighbor watch her mother or finally have her mother at a home where she can be safe, and Havers can have some sort of life. We also get a great look at Havers home life now that her father has passed. I have to say that George did a masterful job of peeling off the layers of who murdered Elena Weaver as well as how Lynley has been selfish in his pursuit of Lady Helen. ![]() |