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....

When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive.In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. And he struggled every day to maintain faith in himself as a soldier and in his country as it appeared to be turning against him.H...

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...

This New York Times bestselling memoir examines an NFL player's rise and fall from the Patriots to prison, recounting the first-degree murder conviction that led to his untimely death—and shocking posthumous CTE diagnosis.Aaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. His every move as a tight end with the New England Patriots played out the headlines,...

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 ...

This is a Century for the history books. The Chinese curse of living in interesting times could not be more suited.A small island continued its expansion across the globe bringing both good and evil in its march. Empires clashed. Revolution shook many. The Industrial Age was upon us.Poets spoke up against slavery bringing social and political pressure upon an abominable horror. It was also the Age of the Romantics; Shelley, Keats, Byron lyrically rapture. Tennyson, Arnold, ...