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all of it is you.: poetry
by Nico TortorellaA debut poetry collection from actor Nico Tortorella exploring “all of it,” from the smallest cells in our bodies to the outer limits of our universe. Nico Tortorella's debut poetry collection presents a singular voice honed through years as an actor, podcaster, and advocate, one colored with love, wonder, and endless curiosity. But it is also more than just words on a page – it is a sensuous journey into who we are and how we relate to the world around us, showing how the connections we make are vital to understanding why we are here. Provocative, enlightening, and emotionally charged, all of it is you. is a poetry experience like no other.
alibaba: The Inside Story Behind Jack Ma and the Creation of the World's Biggest Online Marketplace
by Liu Shiying Martha AveryThe first in-depth look at the multibillion-dollar company Alibaba.com—known to many as "China's eBay"—and the inspirational story behind the man who created it.A bestseller in China and now translated into English and updated with recent events, Alibaba by Liu Shiying and Martha Avery tells the remarkable story behind the Internet phenomenon Alibaba.com and its founder Jack Ma, a man Barron's named one of the World's Top 30 CEOs in 2008. Ma's rise to prominence presents a riveting story: Despite growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution—in a period of total state control of the economy—he developed the keen entrepreneurial instincts that propelled him to billionaire status and enabled him to build a company outside the usual government channels. These instincts and habits incorporated martial arts training and allowed him to recognize, early on, that the Internet could leverage his company to rapid growth and also transform the way business is done around the world. Alibaba.com, where businesses can buy and sell everything from air beds to zippers, started with a modest initial investment of $60,000 and has grown exponentially since its founding in 1999 to become the world's biggest business-to-business Web site. In 2007 it became the second largest IPO in history (after Google), and Fast Company has named it one of the world's most innovative companies. As a result, smart investors and technology insiders will be keeping a close eye on Alibaba for years to come. Whether you're seeking to understand China's meteoric rise, or just searching for the next Google, Yahoo!, or Amazon, Alibaba is crucial reading.
alcides lanza: Portrait of a Composer
by Pamela JonesIn the first full-length biography of one of Canada's most gifted and influential composers, Pamela Jones draws from extensive interviews with composers, performers, students, friends, and family members. She offers an analysis of lanza's key compositions and discusses his musical development in a vivid portrayal of the social, cultural, and political milieus in which he worked - from the difficulties of composing under a repressive government in 1950s Argentina to the "anything goes" atmosphere of New York in the 1960s, the post-war cultural revival in Berlin, and the multicultural diversity of Montreal.
alcides lanza
by Pamela JonesIn the first full-length biography of one of Canada's most gifted and influential composers, Pamela Jones draws from extensive interviews with composers, performers, students, friends, and family members. She offers an analysis of lanza's key compositions and discusses his musical development in a vivid portrayal of the social, cultural, and political milieus in which he worked - from the difficulties of composing under a repressive government in 1950s Argentina to the "anything goes" atmosphere of New York in the 1960s, the post-war cultural revival in Berlin, and the multicultural diversity of Montreal.
aka Marcel Duchamp
by Anne Collins Goodyear James W. Mcmanusaka Marcel Duchamp is an anthology of recent essays by leading scholars on Marcel Duchamp, arguably the most influential artist of the twentieth century. With scholarship addressing the full range of Duchamp's career, these papers examine how Duchamp's influence grew and impressed itself upon his contemporaries and subsequent generations of artists. Duchamp provides an illuminating model of the dynamics of play in construction of artistic identity and legacy, which includes both personal volition and contributions made by fellow artists, critics, and historians. This volume is not only important for its contributions to Duchamp studies and the light it sheds on the larger impact of Duchamp's art and career on modern and contemporary art, but also for what it reveals about how the history of art itself is shaped over time by shifting agendas, evolving methodologies, and new discoveries.
aka Connie Bailey (Dreamspinner Press Bundles #5)
by Connie Bailey Toki Malthea Persephone Roth Stefan SeabourneAuthor Connie Bailey has written in a wide variety of genres under different pen names. Now check out this exclusive bundle of several of her different works all in one place! Enjoy these stories featuring an undercover policeman and a drug lord's boytoy, an unlikely vampire and his hipster/geek love, two men hiding a secret in an arranged marriage, a young prince and his bodyguard, and two imperial army recruits fighting for honor and love. Five stories in one volume!
ahase tharu ha davase tharu - අහසේ තරු හා දවසේ තරු
by Shantha Hettiarachchi - වෛද්ය ශාන්ත හෙට්ටිආරච්චිඉරු රැස පුවත්පතේ පළවූ තීරු ලිපි පෙළක එකතුව තීරු ලිපි සංග්රහයක් ලෙස පිරිනැමෙන්නේ, පත පොත කියවන්නටද, ලෝකය හැකිතාක් නිවැරදිව දකින්නටද තවමත් හිත ඇති ඔබ සැමටය.
adidas Group: IT Multi-Sourcing at adidas
by Lynda M. Applegate Martin Wiener Carol Saunders Grandon GillThis case describes the design and implementation of an IT-multi-sourcing strategy at a large global sportswear company, the adidas Group, which is headquartered in Germany. To help increase the benefits and reduce the risks of its sourcing arrangements, adidas carefully selected two tier-2 vendors to work with its primary tier-1 vendor, a large Indian outsourcing firm that it had worked with closely for over a decade. The management of the multi-sourcing arrangement is posing a number of challenges. The Chief Information Officer is considering a number of options to ensure the continued success of the multi-sourcing strategy, including restructuring the IT group, developing the skills of its staff, and starting a captive center.
adidas Group: IT Multi-Sourcing at adidas
by Lynda M. Applegate Martin Wiener Carol Saunders Grandon GillThis case describes the design and implementation of an IT-multi-sourcing strategy at a large global sportswear company, the adidas Group, which is headquartered in Germany. To help increase the benefits and reduce the risks of its sourcing arrangements, adidas carefully selected two tier-2 vendors to work with its primary tier-1 vendor, a large Indian outsourcing firm that it had worked with closely for over a decade. The management of the multi-sourcing arrangement is posing a number of challenges. The Chief Information Officer is considering a number of options to ensure the continued success of the multi-sourcing strategy, including restructuring the IT group, developing the skills of its staff, and starting a captive center.
addicted.pregnant.poor
by Kelly Ray KnightFor the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence. In this stunning ethnography Kelly Ray Knight presents these women in all their complex humanity and asks what kinds of futures are possible for them given their seemingly hopeless situation. During her four years of fieldwork Knight documented women's struggles as they traveled from the street to the clinic, jail, and family court, and back to the hotels. She approaches addicted pregnancy as an everyday phenomenon in these women's lives and describes how they must navigate the tension between pregnancy's demands to stay clean and the pull of addiction and poverty toward drug use and sex work. By creating the space for addicted women's own narratives and examining addicted pregnancy from medical, policy, and social science perspectives, Knight forces us to confront and reconsider the ways we think about addiction, trauma, health, criminality, and responsibility.
act normal (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series #80)
by nancy viva davis halifaxi might never be no-one that shiny / the beauty of a sequin’d self / what was stitched into heaven’s dropThe poems in act normal use illegibility and wilful uncertainty to evade the grasp of the normative, as endured by those institutionalized by, and through, the concept of normalcy.act normal starts in an institution where children categorized and constructed as intellectually inferior are placed into custodial care. These poems are inquisitive, articulating the entanglements of lives across categories of difference – particularly the lives of those who as children were considered to be other or less than human. Drawing upon conversations, archival materials, court cases, legislation, transcripts, and case histories, among other sources, nancy davis halifax’s poems destabilize categories of meaning – understanding disability and difference as “undecidability.”act normal is a movement of “feelingthought,” unsettling normative expectations and inviting readers to re-orient from the normative task of assuming the safety of consensual interpretation, while risking, cherishing, and performing non-indifference.
acquiesce
by David YeePlagued by the success of his first book and haunted by his past, Sin Hwang arrives in Hong Kong with some unusual cargo and a lot of emotional baggage. Featuring a surreal cast of characters, from a foul-mouthed Paddington Bear to a wisecracking Buddhist monk, this sharply comedic and heartbreakingly poignant tale of self, familial, and spiritual discovery reflects the cycles from which we must all break free as we find our way.
abazona izehluleki
by Agnes Mabururu — Translated by Pumla Mdontswa and Zanele ZumaisiZulu — First sentences
aPHR and aPHRi Associate in Human Resources Certification Study Guide: 2024 Exams (Sybex Study Guide)
by Sandra M. Reed James J. Galluzzo IIIPrepare for the aPHR and aPHRi exams—as well as a new career in HR—smarter and faster In the aPHR and aPHRi Associate Professional Human Resources Certification Study Guide: 2024 Exams, a team of dedicated human resources professionals and educators delivers a must-read roadmap to obtaining the entry-level Associate in Professional Human Resources and Associate in Professional Human Resources (International) credentials. Unique certifications in the industry, the aPHR and aPHRi do not require any prior work experience or education and are perfect for non-HR professionals and newcomers to the field interested in exploring the industry or upgrading their skillset to include core human resources concepts, including talent acquisition, learning and development, compensation and benefits, employee relations, and compliance and risk management. aPHR and aPHRi Associate Professional Human Resources Certification Study Guide walks you through its comprehensive coverage of every functional area on the exams and offers complimentary access to an interactive online learning environment and test bank. In the book: Access to electronic flashcards, a glossary of key terms, a practice exam, and an assessment test prepare you for the exam Discussions of brand-new diversity, equity, and inclusion concepts and the differences between the international and domestic versions of the exam The knowledge you'll need to hit the ground running in an entry-level position in human resources An essential read for experienced professionals looking to expand their knowledge base into human resources and aspiring human resources professionals seeking to begin a new and rewarding career in the industry, the aPHR and aPHRi Associate Professional Human Resources Certification Study Guide: 2024 Exams will help you prepare for the exam—and a new job in HR—smarter and faster.
a.k.a. Genius
by Marilee HaynesThirteen-year-old Gabe Carpenter is just like any other middle-school boy at St. Jude Academy...well, except for the fact that he is a genius who can't even open his own locker or talk to his crush. Themes include: self-acceptance, giftedness, and humor.
a tumblr book: platform and cultures
by Alexander Cho Allison McCracken Louisa Stein Indira N HochThis book takes an extensive look at the many different types of users and cultures that comprise the popular social media platform Tumblr. Though it does not receive nearly as much attention as other social media such as Twitter or Facebook, Tumblr and its users have been hugely influential in creating and shifting popular culture, especially progressive youth culture, with the New York Times referring to 2014 as the dawning of the “age of Tumblr activism.” Perfect for those unfamiliar with the platform as well as those who grew up on it, this volume contains essays and artwork that span many different topics: fandom; platform structure and design; race, gender and sexuality, including queer and trans identities; aesthetics; disability and mental health; and social media privacy and ethics. An entire generation of young people that is now beginning to influence mass culture and politics came of age on Tumblr, and this volume is an indispensable guide to the many ways this platform works.
a thin line between
by Wanda PraamsmaIn what can be described as a verse-novel for its lyricism and rhythmic structure, Wanda Praamsma crafts a story that transcends geographic boundaries and time periods, by weaving together lives from her own family's past, including her poet-grandfather and sculptor-uncle. Subtle in its life lessons, a thin line between works at 'peeling away the I's' to explore concepts of self and family in flux. What emerges is a poignant, and at times humorous, portrait of a Dutch-Canadian family and a close look into a young woman's exploration of her own being and creative life.
a solas con mi gamberro
by Dawn BrowerLady Odessa Lynwood ama al conde de Havenwood desde que era una niña. Él es el mejor amigo de su hermano y su vecino más cercano. Está cansada de que él la evite y decide hacer algo al respecto. No hay duda en su mente de que él también la ama; sin embargo, ella no entiende por qué lo niega. Ella deja Kingbridge, su hogar familiar, al borde de una tormenta de nieve para enfrentarlo. Gavin Barrington, el conde de Havenwood no ha hecho un movimiento para declarar su intención para Odessa por una muy buena razón. Su familia está maldita y él se niega a someterla al desastre que su apellido le ocasionaría. Pero cuando están atrapados en una cabaña de caza durante una tormenta de nieve épica, todo cambia. En medio de la ventisca, deben reconciliarse con su amor y descubrir si pueden superar los peores temores de Gavin y tener una vida en común.
a questionable life: A Novel
by Luke LivelyHard-charging Philadelphia banker Jack Oliver has always made tough choices and sacrifices to achieve success, but when his mid-sized banking group is bought out by a mega-chain, Jack finds himself knocked from the top rung to the bottom of the ladder. When the stress of the merger lands him in the hospital, he realizes that his wife and kids hate him and his mistress is only interested in the number of zeros in his paycheck. When Jack is approached by Benny, the old-fashioned president of a small Virginia bank, he doubts he could ever work for such a small-town guy after his cut-throat career.Left without the success he once craved and the family he undervalued, Jack may discover how to reclaim what he had taken for granted and lead a new kind of 'questionable life'.
a perverção do céu (A batida 9E #1)
by Ghesia MorettPrimeiro livro da série A batida essa obra de Ghesia Morett é um livro que vai prender sua anteção do começo ao fim. Eu nunca deveria ter olhado, é a primeira lei no inferno das trevas. Baronte é um demônio que perverte o homem há séculos. Adabel é um anjo de amor, empatia e misericórdia. Nami é uma menina chinesa, órfã e trabalhadora, que só tem Yucki, sua avó. Dassiel é o anjo da guarda de Nami e o irmão de confiança de Adabel, que não descobre até que seja tarde demais o quanto ele está apaixonado por seu protegido. Esses personagens cruzam suas existências por causa de um milagre impossível: a batida de um coração, que pula chocante no peito do demônio enquanto ele tropeça em Adabel em sua luta por uma alma inocente. A partir daí tudo mudará não apenas para eles, mas também o jogo entre o céu e o inferno. Eles serão presos por um milagre que nenhum lado pode entender, nem a si mesmos, e o mundo pode acabar pagando o erro de suas dúvidas. Se você acredita que o amor vai além dos preconceitos físicos. Se você acredita que um coração pode aprender a amar sobre todas as coisas; é a sua história Intriga, amor e um fato real que ninguém esqueceu.
a million billion pieces
by David James BrockIt’s time to make every moment count. Sixteen-year-olds Pria and Theo—or as they know each other online, the aspiring opera singer PriaSoprano and outer-space aficionado Eagle19—have decided to have sex. There’s just one catch… they both have life-threatening genetic disorders that may cause them to explode from one another’s touch. But they won’t know what will happen until they try. Sick of being told what to do their whole lives, they rebel against their reality and meet at a motel. But while Pria is more or less accepting of her fate, Theo has hopes for the future, and what was planned as a simple meeting becomes much more intimate as they open up about their experiences. The fate of their lives comes down to one decision… This teen romance space opera explores our willingness to live, what it means to belong, and the necessity of emotional and physical relationships.
a levinasian ethics for education’s commonplaces: between calling and inspiration
by Nick To JohnJoldersma applies Levinas's ethics systematically to the commonplaces of education - teaching, learning, curriculum, and institutions - and elucidates the role of justice and responsibility and the meaning of calling and inspiration in education.
a Year & other poems
by Jos CharlesFrom the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recounting the survival of a period suffused with mourning. Jos Charles’s poems communicate with one another as neurons do: sharp, charged, in language that predates language. “A scandal / three cartons red / in a hedge / in / each the thousand eye research of flies.” With acute lyricism, she documents how a person endures seemingly relentless devastation—California wildfires, despotic legislation, housing insecurity—amid illusions of safety. “I wanted to believe,” Charles declares, “a corner a print leaned to / a corner can save / a people.” Still the house falls apart. Death visits and lingers. Belief proves, again and again, that belief alone is not enough. Yet miraculously, one might still manage to seek—propelled by love, or hope, or sometimes only momentum—something better. There is a place where there are no futile longings, no persistent institutional threats to one’s life. Poems might take us there; tenderness, too, as long as we can manage to keep moving. “A current / gives as much as it has,” writes Charles—despite fire, despite loss. Harrowing and gorgeous, a Year & other poems is an astonishing new collection from a poet of “unusual beauty and lyricism” (New Yorker).
`abdu’l-bahá’s Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity
by Negar MottahedehThis edited volume of specially commissioned essays written for the anniversary of `Abdu'l-Baha's journey to America tells the story of this former prisoner's interactions with the white upper echelon of American society as well as his impact on the lives and writings of important early figures in the African-American civil rights movement.
`Race', Sport and British Society
by Ben Carrington Ian McDonaldContrary to the popular belief that sport is an arena largely free from the corrosive effects of racism, this book argues that racism is evident throughout British sport. From playing fields and boardrooms of sports organisations, to the offices of sports policy makers and the media, this book breaks new ground in showing how discourses of 'race' and nation continue to pervade our sporting life.Looking at a range of sports, including football, rugby league and cricket, this book covers key topics such as:* British nationalism and nationalist ideology* racial science and the images of Asian and black physicality* sport, racism and the law* black feminism and the issues of race, gender and sport* the role of the media in perpetuating and challenging racial stereotypes.Challenging the prevailing liberal view that sport is one area of society where 'good race-relations' are developed, this book offers a wealth of research material, and a strong theoretical perspective on contemporary British sport. It will therefore be of vital interest to sociologists, sports studies students, sport policy-makers and anyone with an interest in contemporary British sport.