Airy Plumeflights (the title derives from Finnegans Wake) is an enchanting and practical introduction to lettering and decorating in the Celtic style by one of Ireland's best-known calligraphers. Part One tells the story of Daniel, an apprentice scribe in a ninth-century Celtic monstery and is set against the background of daily life there. He describes being introduced to the ancient arts of cleaning animal hides for vellum, mixing inks, and preparing parchment and quills before working w...

There is a heated and chaotic battle between the hosts of darkness and the destinies of the young ones. Unfortunately, we now have many young ones whose destinies are being exchanged through sex and food, and some in the dream. Some are engaging in the primitive trade called "TRADE BY BARTER'. Such people see themselves holding something precious in the dream, such that they cannot afford to give to anybody; yet the devil comes to them In disguise and take away these precious things from t...

The research companion to *Into Alignment*. A guide to AI agents, memory, autonomy, influence, alignment, and the unresolved question of machine consciousness, grounded in the novel and the research behind it.Walt's workplace is a way of seeing how language models, tools, records, and institutional authority combine. An AI system becomes consequential through learned capabilities, working context, persistent records, tools, and the authority attached to them. Each can make...

Generative AI changed how software gets built. It also changed how teams fail.The AI Developer's Field Guide gives developers, engineering managers, and technical leaders a practical vocabulary for recognizing the anti-patterns of AI-assisted coding. Timothy O'Brien uses an illustrated, role-playing-inspired framework of classes, artifacts, spells, and monsters to make recurring engineering problems easier to recognize and discuss.Meet the Fighter, Wizard, ...

"This is how we live. Day by day. Looking forward to the rain. Knowing full well that the rain holds the cup, but the ground held the cross..." The Family, a made-up title given by one of the main characters, James, is thrust into a world altered by global warming. To survive this harsh environment, the Family must "chase the rain" and face harsh obstacles in a world in chaos. There will be death and life along the way. The novel is not linear and will take you back to times when the Earth...

"Raw Youth" is about the aftermath of 9/11 in America as seen through the eyes of a paranoid schizophrenic. After the 9/11 attacks the unnamed protagonist becomes obsessed with the tragedy, creating in his own mind a massively complex and convoluted cosmology of conspiracies ultimately leading back to the figure of his own supposedly dead father. His quest to find the center of his delusions - and find his absent father - takes him across the country and into the heart of his own worst imp...

Ecotaxation covers two distinct ideas. To date, it has largely been associated with the 'polluter pays' principle, in the form of correctional charges imposed on activities which have a demonstrably damaging effect on the quality of life or the environment. The other involves a more ambitious policy shift, aiming to put taxation onto a different basis, away from income and labour, and onto resource-depleting and environmentally damaging activities. By going further, and directing the addit...

THE NUMBER 1 NOVEL IN THE WORLD ABOUT FEMINISM.With each passing day, feminism keeps destroying the society. But our society is filled with people who have refused to see the evil perpetrated by feminists. ‘We Should All Be Antifeminists’ combines fiction and nonfiction to expose the truth about feminism. Stating why feminism and misandry are simply two sides of the same coin, and why it is time for men to rise and take a stand!

"Navigating the Business Maze: Essential Management Skills for Today's Leaders" serves as an indispensable guide for managers seeking to hone their leadership and management skills in today's complex business environment. Through a series of detailed chapters, the book covers the foundational principles of effective management, personal leadership development, strategic decision-making, and the integration of modern technology in managerial practices. It addresses the challenges managers f...

Rob Coleman reads cloud bills for a living. Not the totals — the story underneath: the orphaned systems, the duplicated platforms, the half-million-dollar line item that nobody can explain and nobody wants their name on.He's the director of FinOps at a vaccine-logistics company, one of the people who know what things actually cost. When a billionaire named Lei moves to acquire the company, Rob's numbers become the acquisition math — and every executive with somethi...

Over forty million people a year travel to Las Vegas, more than to Mecca. It is a global celebrity, an improbable oasis, a place offering bank-breaking fortunes and instant gratification, 24/7, with no moral debits.Award-winning writer Timothy O'Grady lived in Vegas for two years. He finally began to understand it when he talked to people who had grown up there, the children of the card dealers and cocktail shakers, the jugglers and the dancers – young people who had borne witness ...

Commentators have argued for many years that law firms need to move forward from their traditional, seniority-based compensation systems. But it's not enough to simply add performance-related elements at the edges of these. Shifting generational-based attitudes; changing career aspirations; increasingly demanding clients; and pricing innovation and development in the range of benefits that can be offered (both financial and non-financial) all conspire to urge firms to rethink how their com...