Artificial Intelligence isn't a side project. It's the new playbook.Most AI initiatives stall in pilot purgatory, chasing cosmetic wins that don't move the needle. This book shows private equity leaders how to do it differently by building intelligent systems that scale, adapt, and create real enterprise value.Written by Mark Rogerson, a seasoned private equity Operating Partner and Portfolio Chair, and Gary Pearson, former CEO of a publicly listed tech company, startup fou...

27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings...On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise Tiger, the main rehearsal for the Utah Beach landings.This fiasco, in which nearly 1,000 soldiers died, was buried by officials until it was almost forgott...

My brief life on Earth had been a mess. The metallic aliens had rescued me when I was trying to kill myself. But after a 400,000-year, deep-frozen move across space, and two years of relaxed student life on the moonless planet Vweialer, I was doing well. I wasn’t expecting any more surprises. Haha. Then the aliens returned, bearing a young man who was unusually interested in getting to know me. This was the beginning of an astonishing, epic journey into love and danger in lands where I might ...

Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story • A New York Times Notable Book"A fantastical travel guide, reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels, in which the narrator visits fifteen planes and describes the people, language and customs with the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist." —USA TodayIn these classic "vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches"

A collection of word scrambles to keep your mind sharp and provide hours of entertainment. English words from 5 to 10 letters in length and appropriate for any age reader.

In Good Bones, first published in 1992, Margaret Atwood has fashioned an enthralling collection of parable, monologue, mini-romance and mini-biography, speculative fiction, prose lyric, outrageous recipe and reconfigured fairy tale, demonstrating yet again the play of an unerring wit overseen by a panoramic intelligence. Good Bones is a cornucopia of good things—precise, witty, wise, and sometimes offbeat Atwood writing, with the funny and the sidelong view of the world w...

"26000+ English - Hebrew Hebrew - English Vocabulary" is a list of more than 26000 words translated from English to Hebrew, as well as translated from Hebrew to English. Easy to use- great for tourists and English speakers interested in learning Hebrew. As well as Hebrew speakers interested in learning English.

In 1890 a Victorian scientist tells his friends he has built a Time Machine that will take him far into the future. His friends dont believe him. But then the man vanishes. The Time Traveler eventually returns to tell his friends that he has journeyed nearly a million years into the future to the year 802,701. He reveals how he discovers a new race of human beings who seem to enjoy a perfect life of leisure. But the nightmarish truth emerges when the Time Traveler meets a dreaded underworl...

The January 2013 issue of the Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine, *Clarkesworld.*This issue features the following stories: "Driftings" by Ian McDonald, "Variations on Bluebeard and Dalton’s Law Along the Event Horizon" by Helena Bell and "Effigy Nights" by Yoon Ha Lee. Non-fiction includes an interview with Jesse Bullington, an article on color and perception in the ancient world by Erin Hoffman, an Another Word column by E. C. Ambrose and an editorial by Neil...

“Fried’s stories are laugh-out-loud hilarious and wonderfully weird, yet his many strange worlds also have the power to haunt.” --Dan ChaonIn “Loeka Discovered,” a buzz flows throughout a lab when scientists unearth a perfectly preserved prehistoric man who suggests to them the hopefulness of life, but the more they learn, the more the realities of ancient survival invade their buoyant projections. “Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre” meditates on why an entire town en...

Influenced by Dante's InfernoA Tale of a narrator's journey through the dream realm with H.P. Lovecraft as guide

Ian Watson is one of the finest writers of SF and fantasy stories, and Butterflies of Memory is his 10th collection, a selection of stories that are by turns serious and playful, and always wildly imaginative...In the title story, what if mobile phones were to become truly mobile, flying about like butterflies? 'An Appeal to Adolf' tells of gay sailors on a Nazi battleship many kilometres long during a Second World War unfamiliar to us; 'Lover of Statues' of an enigmatic alien visi...