Every organization has two versions of itself. There's the documented one — the processes, the org charts, the goals and values that make up the official story. Then there's the way things actually work. The workarounds people build because the real process doesn't fit. The spreadsheets no one asked for but everyone depends on. The conversations where someone finally says what they actually need.That second version has always been there. It's how businesses actually run. And AI is ...

Police Chief Nick Catesby has been haunted for seven years by the unsolved disappearance of a young boy from his peaceful New Jersey town. When Megan Guthrie goes missing from her school playground, followed quickly by two teenage boys, Nick’s nightmare begins anew. He has only one suspect, disgraced professor and town drunk Preston Howard, whose arrogance has left him with nothing more than his pride, a sea of whiskey, and his exasperated daughter, Fanny, with whom Nick is falling in love...

Nine-year-old Blaise finds solace in a forest near his troubled home, where he bonds with Sophie, a mysterious seven-year-old girl. Their friendship begins under tragic circumstances and grows as they share stolen moments and small gifts. When Sophie suddenly disappears, Blaise, suspecting foul play from her abusive family, risks everything to uncover the truth.

Performing Public History explores history-telling as a performance across a wide range of media, including theatre and film, historical re-enactments and living history performances, operas, and video games.Taking historians as storytellers, this book illustrates how the choices they make shape historical meaning. While historians may strive to be objective when they research and write the past, they inevitably draw on their imagination, emotions, and creativity, aligning...

Museum Exhibition is the only textbook of its kind to consider exhibition development using both theory and practice in an integrated approach. This comprehensive study covers care of exhibits, writing accompanying text, using new technology, exhibition evaluation, administration and content for a wide range of collections. It provides a complete outline for all those concerned with providing displays in museums and other cultural heritage contexts.

“The Duelist” is a story about deception and truth, vengeance and justice, bravery and cowardice, love and loss. It’s also about bullying. David Dean doesn’t like bullies. You probably don’t either. If that’s the case, this story is for you.The Barb Goffman Presents series showcases the best in modern mystery and crime stories, personally selected by one of the most acclaimed short story authors and editors in the mystery field.

A WWII history told from US and Japanese perspectives—"an impressively researched chronicle of the months leading up to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima" ( Publishers Weekly).During the closing months of World War II, two military giants locked in a death embrace of cultural differences and diplomatic intransigence. While developing history's deadliest weapon and weighing an invasion that would have dwarfed D-Day, the US called for the "unconditional surren...

On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this heart-pounding account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armageddon on August 6, 1945.Here are the secret strategy sessions, fierce debates, looming assassinations, and planned invasions that resulted in history’s first use of nuclear weapons in combat, and the ensuing chaotic days as the Japanese government struggled to respond to the real...

In this well-researched, informative history, David Dean Bowlby examines church and state in the American colonies and the early national period up to the framing of the religion clauses of the First Amendment by the First Congress. Bowlby describes the history of the church and state up to that time as one involving the struggle of religious minorities against church establishments, with increasingly vocal calls for the free exercise of religion, liberty of conscience, and disestablishmen...

Veteran character actor David Dean Bottrell draws on his 35+ tumultuous years of work in the entertainment industry to offer a guide to breaking in, making a living, and making a life in the fabulous trenches of show business. Covers every facet of the business, including:- Capturing the perfect headshot- Starting (and maintaining) your network- Picking an agent- Audition do’s and don’ts- Joining the union(s): SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity Association (AEA...

This book outlines a Catholic moral theology in response to pressing moral issues.Catholic positions on contested moral issues are rejected by the majority in the secular West and are increasingly rejected by Catholics themselves. In this book, David Deane argues that there are two main reasons for this. First, the dominance of secular approaches deprives Catholic positions of their claim to coherence. Second, the Catholic positions, Deane shows, have lost contact ...

A book about causation/determinism, the absurdity of human endeavors, the dual nature of the human animal, the devaluation of everything that follows from a worldview that is overly analytical and overly scientific, and some suggestions for what can be done about the nihilism that comes from that type of worldview.