The bot arrived on a Tuesday morning in 3 cardboard boxes, which is how the office learned that its future had been ordered online. So begins this hilarious true story of what happens when a mid-size creative agency gets a workplace AI named CHAOS, an acronym that stands for Corporate Help And Operational Solutions and was absolutely reverse engineered to spell the word chaos. Told by a senior copywriter who watched the whole thing from the copy desk, this book follows a group of terrified...

From the opening of the first suburban railway in the world, the Dublin and Kingstown in 1834, Ireland was in the vanguard of early railway development. This important and engaging book sets out the history of the railway and includes the stories of the people at its heart, the permanent way. The book is splendidly illustrated with a wealth of photographs and engravings, from the past to the present. With a different and fresh look at the human face of the railways author Michael Barry bri...

CIA intelligence officer Rick Blayne must use all his skills—and charm—to achieve his mission of infiltrating émigré Cambodian factions in the center of international intrigue, Paris.Richard "Rick" Blayne has a mission. One of the CIA's top expert on Cambodia, who escaped the country's fall to the Khmer Rouge and has monitored the ensuing genocide from Thailand ever since, he has been sent to Paris to further the CIA's plan to infiltrate the Cambodian resistance to the Hanoi-control...

"The chronicle of [Broman's] Cold War CIA career bounces around the globe with his own recollections of running agents and other espionage derring-do, as well as stories told to him by friends and colleagues. There's also a good deal about his off-duty travels throughout the world. The result is an anecdote-heavy, if often stimulating, meander down memory lane." — Publishers Weekly Barry Broman joined the CIA in 1971 straight out of the Marine Corps, choosing a career in intelligence large...

"The chronicle of [Broman's] Cold War CIA career bounces around the globe with his own recollections of running agents and other espionage derring-do, as well as stories told to him by friends and colleagues. There’s also a good deal about his off-duty travels throughout the world. The result is an anecdote-heavy, if often stimulating, meander down memory lane." — Publishers WeeklyBarry Broman joined the CIA in 1971 straight out of the Marine Corps, choosing a care...

Some stories spring from pure imagination, mere reflections of an author's perception of reality. Others, like this one, are forged in the mud and misery of actual conflict. In the decaying jungles and fetid rice paddies of South Vietnam, a diverse band of soldiers and civilians endures a harrowing year of combat that will continue to haunt them for more than three decades. Their season of need reveals not only the horror of war, but also the possibility of finding solace and purpose in th...

This is your complete guide to putting together a collaboration that gets results! You'll see how to get a collaboration going, define the results you're after, determine everyone's roles, create an action plan, and evaluate the results. Includes a case study, worksheets, and special sidebars with helpful tips such as what to do at your first meeting.

The average independent musician, that is, a musician without a major label or publishing contract, struggles to earn a living even in the best of times. Those lucky enough to be salaried musicians, such as music directors or staff composers, earn an average salary of about $35,000 a year. Of the roughly 250,000 or so who list themselves as musicians on their tax returns, 40 percent are employed only part-time, and almost half are self-employed. About 85% of all CDs released every year sel...

This book is a collection of 13 essays centering on supernatural serials such as television programs, video games, anime, and manga, featuring teen protagonists and marketed to teen audiences. These essays provide discussions of characters in teen supernatural serials who disrupt white, cisgender social narratives, and addresses possible ways that the on-screen depictions of these characters, who may be POC or LGBTQIA+, can lead to additional discussions of more accurate representations of...

"Broman's true tales of putting his life on the line recruiting and running spies in a dozen countries are the stuff of action movies." —Peter Arnett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Live from the BattlefieldJoining the CIA after fighting in Vietnam as a Marine, Barry Broman's first posting was war-torn Cambodia. He was present at the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975, escaping just before the Khmer Rouge took power. During his career, he was twice chief of stati...

Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature.**“Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . . . in ways that still resonate with us.”—New York Times“His crystalline humor and expansive range are a continuous source of delight and awe.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review**Mark Twain’s complete, uncensored Autobiography was...

'Beautiful, an instant classic, a poignant voyage through Barry's love for cycling and the turmoil he lived through because of it.' DAVID MILLARIn Shadows on the Road, Michael Barry explores the dreams and passions of cycling in this moving and controversial account of life at the heart of the Peloton, from the one day classics to the Tour de France, from US Postal to Team Sky.In 2012, veteran cyclist Michael Barry announced his re...