The beautifully-written memoir is largely set in 1920s and ’30s Kenya, where British-born Markham grew up. She discovered her love of flying while scouting elephants from a tiny jet and became one of the country’s first bush pilots. Markham was also the first woman to receive a ...
Similar stories are told by officers who were on duty on planets and ships which finally managed to come through the Triangle without disaster. Second, the weather in this part of the Atlantic Ocean is very unpredictable. Dangerous storms that can cause problems even for experienced pilots and ...
Work rules forperformance management Improve performance by focusing on personal growth instead of ratings and rewards Concerns - takes too much time, not transparent, not fair OKRs are public to the company Measuring performance 41 point scale. Average 3.3 and 3.4 Tried with different parameters, t...
Then the DVD rental service Netflix disrupted everything, committing to series without pilots and introducing the concept of dropping all episodes of a series at the same time. And then its competitors arrived with tech giants creating their own streaming arms, notably Apple TV, Disney+ and ...
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet is set in the 1960s and consists of a fictional biography of Arthur Collins Braithwaite, a radical psychoanalyst with a practice based in north London, interweaved with notebooks written by one of his patients which have been purportedly “discovered” by her ...
Boyden’s nonchalance, his near-apathy toward the deaths of some of his fellow pilots and crewmen, staggers Briggs. “Did you ever get to thinking what anything was about?” Briggs asks — meaning, does he ever think about why he was fighting, what he hoped to see in the peace ...
Written by a worldwide respected expert on AI, this book discusses how China has been up against the US regarding AI matters. AI Superpowers is more of an argument that unprecedented AI developments will soon cause dramatic changes. Changes that none of us ever anticipated. Lee says that the...
Similar stories are told by officers who were on duty on planets and shipswhich finally managed to come through theTriangle without disaster. Second, the weather in this part of the Atlantic Ocean is veryunpredictable. Dangerous storms that can cause problems even for experienced pilotsand sailors...
Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, Gottschall proposes that stories help us deal with complex real-life situations, just like pilots use flight simulators during their training. In this sense, fiction has an evolutionary value. The Storytelling Animal is a comprehensive ...
poorly when first published and Algren preferred to draw attention toA Walk on the Wild Side, the 1956 novel into which he worked a number of elements from the earlier work. OfSomeboy, Algren later wrote, “This is an uneven novel written by an uneven man in the most uneven of American ...