Lioness is a comprehensive leadership guide for women who are ready to lead with confidence and reclaim their power at work.As an executive coach and training facilitator, Dr Mel Milton-Smith has worked with hundreds of women across industries and career stages. Time and again, she’s found the same pattern: capable women who have every reason to be confident, yet walk into rooms with quiet voices, minimized selves, and a tendency to play s...

This book introduces a new scheduler to fairly and efficiently distribute system resources to many users of varying usage patterns compete for them in large shared computing environments. The Rawlsian Fair scheduler developed for this effort is shown to boost performance while reducing delay in high performance computing workloads of certain types including the following four types examined in this book:i. Class A – similar but complementary workloadsii. Class B – similar b...

This book, born from years of crafting informational texts, aims to enrich students' science learning experiences. Our focus has been to not only engage readers but also deepen their understanding of the world. Departing from traditional textbooks, this book employs a mix of writing styles, including realistic fiction and diverse narrative perspectives (First-Person, Second-Person, & Third-Person), to engage students more effectively and offer multiple viewpoints. Additionally, it incorpor...

In the style of Cormac McCarthy, a gritty tale of justice and revenge in the Wild WestThe year is 1910.Nate Cooper is an old-school cowboy. He sees the change brought by the turn of the century—horses giving way to motorcars, his girlfriend marrying his best friend, and his nemesis running for governor—and reckons none of it to be good. The west is being tamed, and with progress, some things are lost. But people? They tend to stay the same. Even after spending nearly thirty...

In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This infuriated the Dutch, who were determined to control the world's nutmeg supply. For five years Courthope and his band of thirty men were besieged by a force one hundred times greater - and his heroism set in motion the events that led to t...

Brought to you by Puffin.Puffin presents a collection of magical stories from master storyteller, Dick King-Smith.This collection of exciting stories includes The Magic Carpet Slippers!The great thing about being 75 years old is that you can wear your slippers everywhere - Percy Sloggett wears his in the garden and to the shops as well as in the house. In time his battered old slippers need to be replaced and he gets something of a surprise when he ...

Brought to you by Puffin.Puffin presents five stories from master storyteller, Dick King-Smith.This collection featuring one of Dick King-Smith's most famous stories The Invisible Dog.The Invisible Dog is the story of a girl who tries to satisfy her yearning for a dog by introducing an imaginary Great Dane called Henry to the house. Her wish comes true and she is allowed a real Henry - but there's more than a hint that old Mrs Garr...

Taking Socialism Seriously raises essential questions about what socialism is and how socialists can reach it by addressing a long list of potential quandaries. The contributions compiled by Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt describe how socialism differs from a reformed and more humane form of capitalism. Various chapters discuss suitable forms of love and family in a socialist society and economic arrangements within a socialist system. They also break important new paths by calling for ...

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction.Content:The Harvard Classics:V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & PennV. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus AureliusV. 3: Bacon, Milton, BrowneV. 4: John Milton

Arthur Smith presents music, comedy and entertainment from his South London home - plus a special show from the Edinburgh FestivalWelcome to Arthur Smith's 26-bedroom mock-Tudor manor house, in the heart of international Balham. Behind his front door are a plethora of prodigiously talented performers, all ready and eager to entertain. There's jamming in the kitchen, laughter in the lounge and poetry on the landing - and a whole lot more fun and fro...

"Crisp and illuminating . . . well worth reading."—Wall Street JournalThe publication of The Marketplace of Ideas has precipitated a lively debate about the future of the American university system: what makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects are required? Why are so many academics against the concept of interdisciplinary studies? From his position at the heart of academe, Harvard professor Louis Menand thinks he's found the answer...

Education is a challenging subject for anarchists. Many are critical about working within a state-run education system that is embedded in hierarchical, standardized, and authoritarian structures. Numerous individuals and collectives envision the creation of counterpublics or alternative educational sites as possible forms of resistance, while other anarchists see themselves as “saboteurs” within the public arena—believing that there is a need to contest dominant forms of power and educati...