News about generative artificial intelligence (AI) is at a fever pitch and AI is already impacting industries. AI Primer for Business Leaders is a quick guide for business professionals who want to establish a baseline understanding to navigate this transformative technology. Whether you're a business leader in software development, an entrepreneur, or a tech-savvy executive, this book demystifies AI and provides metaphors to help build a mental model using real-world applications....

All new managers/leaders have the biggest challenge they face when they are given a staff or a team and they are expected to manage and lead. All of my peers shared the same frustrations. We were great in our jobs, we could do it all. We were picked to show how things worked. We were the ones who demonstarted or trained the new people or the boss's boss how we got things done. Then, our boss moved on and we found ourselves in a new manager or leader role. We never had the training to manag...

The pilot of a light plane crashes in thick bush. He has an injured foot, but avoids rescue. The story takes the reader from the wilds of the New Zealand bush to the cosmopolitan city of Auckland and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf.

Love Will Ruin Us, Still is the debut novel by Eric Saint James.Love Will Ruin Us, Still is set in eastern North Carolina, where Julian Munroe returns home after hearing the news of his father's passing. Coming back means more than attending a funeral. It means facing the reason he left in the first place-the whispers, the wounds, and the memories that never stopped following him, no matter how far he ran.Back in the town he once called home, Julian is for...

" City Kids, City Teachers has the potential to create genuine change in the learning, teaching, and administration of urban public schools." — Library JournalIn more than twenty-five provocative selections, an all-star cast of educators and writers explores the surprising realities of city classrooms from kindergarten through high school. Contributors including Gloria Ladson-Billings, Lisa Delpit, June Jordan, Lewis H. Lapham, Audre Lorde, and De...

In the quaint coastal town of Pendennis, where the sea whispers secrets and the past lingers in every cobblestone, a tale unfolds that spans generations. "The History of Pendennis" by William Makepeace Thackeray is a captivating saga that delves into the lives of the Pendennis family, their triumphs, heartbreaks, and the enduring legacy they leave behind. As young Arthur Pendennis embarks on his journey through life, he encounters a cast of unforgettable characters, each with their own mot...

Welcome to *The History of War - Volume 1*, an immersive journey through six of history’s most pivotal wars, from the medieval Wars of the Roses to the global devastation of World War II. These conflicts, though separated by time and geography, are deeply interconnected, forming a chain of events that shaped the modern world.We begin with the **Wars of the Roses (1455–1487)**, a dynastic struggle that gave rise to the Tudor dynasty and positioned England as a future European power....

The year reaches its end with the Twelfth month. The landscape may be bleak, a sculpture of lines, monochrome dominates. The air carries the sounds of winter; wind, storms, silence.1 - Fifty Shades of January - An Introduction2 - Month of January by Hilaire Belloc3 - Ode Written on 1st of January by Robert Southey4 - Written January 1st, 1832 by Henry Alford5 - January Cold Desolate by Christina Georgina Rossetti6 - January 1st, 1828 by Natha...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

Let’s be clear. Reality is absolute and what takes place is both honest and real even if at times what happens cannot be fully explained.However, in this collection our writers including W F Harvey, Violet Hunt, H G Wells and Amelia Edwards and others look at reality from a different angle. What if reality had an extra layer placed upon it that we could see and feel and interact with and yet logically could not actually exist.It’s a compelling premise as their characters ro...

When you are winning gambling seems very easy. You place a bet and receive your winnings. The thrill is a joyous electric shock of joy and applause. And winnings.If you lose, well, at first you know your luck will turn. It must, you’re a winner. But if your luck fails, and keeps failing, misery endures and then envelops your life. Everything is centered on that next roll of the dice, the turn of the card …. Nothing else matters. You are addicted.01 - Short Stories About Gam...

There are many things we can perhaps more easily say with flowers than with words. And flowers can say many things to us. So perhaps these poetic expressions of spoken words and flowery subject are a perfect match.Many would agree that there is one flower, the rose, that embodies both the human condition, its ambitions, its sacrifices and its symbolism of devoted love that together with its own peerless self; the beauty of its perfume, its hues and colours, its shapes and forms, fr...