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This Gulf of Fire

The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason

By: Mark Molesky

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This Gulf of Fire

The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason

By: Mark Molesky

Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist The captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake--the most consequential natural disaster of modern times. On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring approximately 9.0 or perhaps higher on the magnitude scale swept furiously toward Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the capital of a vast global empire. Within minutes, much of the city lay in ruins. A half hour later, a giant tsunami unleashed by the quake smashed into Portugal’s coastline and barreled up the Tagus River, carrying countless thousands out to sea. To complete Lisbon’s destruction, a hellacious firestorm then engulfed the city’s shattered remains, killing thousands more and incinerating much of what the earthquake and tsunami had spared. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, the latest scientific research, and a sophisticated grasp of European history, Mark Molesky gives us the gripping, authoritative account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake disaster and its impact on the Western world—including descriptions of the world’s first international relief effort, the rise of a brutal, yet modernizing, dictatorship in Portugal, and the effect of the catastrophe on the spirit and direction of the European Enlightenment.

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Our Oldest Enemy

A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France

By: John J. Miller,Mark Molesky

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Our Oldest Enemy

A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France

By: John J. Miller,Mark Molesky

Liberté? Egalité? Fraternité? Or just plain gall? In this provocative and brilliantly researched history of how the French have dealt with the United States, John J. Miller and Mark Molesky demonstrate that the cherished idea of French friendship has little basis in reality. Despite the myth of the “sister republics,” the French have always been our rivals, and have harmed and obstructed our interests more often than not. This history of French hostility goes back to 1704, when a group of French and Indians massacred American settlers in Deerfield, Massachusetts. The authors also debunk the myth of French aid during the Revolution: contrary to popular notions, the French did not enter the war until very late and were mainly interested in hurting their rivals, the British. After the war, the French continued to see themselves as major players in the Western hemisphere and shaped their policies to limit the growth and power of the new nation. The notorious XYZ affair, involving French efforts to undermine the government of George Washington, led to an undeclared naval war with France in 1798. During the Civil War, the French supported the Confederacy and installed a puppet emperor in Mexico. In the twentieth century, Americans clashed with the French repreatedly. The French victory over President Wilson at Versailles imposed a short-sighted and punitive settlement on Germany that paved the way for the rise of fascism in the 1930s. During World War II, Vichy French troops killed hundreds of American soldiers in North Africa, and diehard French fascist units fought against the Allies in the rubble of Berlin. During the Cold War, Charles DeGaulle yanked France out of NATO and obstructed our efforts to roll back Soviet expansion. The legacy of French imperial power has been no less disastrous. The French left Haiti in a shambles, got us into Vietnam, and educated many of the world’s worst tyrants at their elite universities, including Pol Pot, the genocidal Cambodian dictator. The fascist Baath regimes in Iraq and Syria are another legacy of failed French colonialism. Americans have been particularly irritated by French cultural arrogance—their crusades against American movies, McDonalds, Disney, and the exclusion of American words from their language have always rubbed us the wrong way. This irritation has now blossomed into outrage. Our Oldest Enemy shows why that outrage is justified.

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Crown

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0307419185

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A Seat at the Table

IT Leadership in the Age of Agility

By: Mark Schwartz

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A Seat at the Table

IT Leadership in the Age of Agility

By: Mark Schwartz

Agile, Lean, and DevOps approaches are radical game changers, providing a fundamentally different way to think about how IT fits into the enterprise, how IT leaders lead, and how IT can harness technology to accomplish the objectives of the enterprise. But honest and open conversations are not taking place between management and Agile delivery teams. In A Seat at the Table, CIO Mark Schwartz explores the role of IT leadership as it is now and opens the door to reveal IT leadership as it should be—an integral part of the value creation engine. With an easy style, Schwartz reveals that the only way to become an Agile IT leader is to be courageous—to throw off the attitude and assumptions that have kept CIOs from taking their rightful seat at the table. CIOs, step on up, your seat at the table is waiting for you.

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IT Revolution

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1942788126

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A Seat at the Table and The Art of Business Value

By: Mark Schwartz

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A Seat at the Table and The Art of Business Value

By: Mark Schwartz

A Seat at the Table: Agile, Lean, and DevOps approaches are radical game-changers. They provide a fundamentally different way to think about how IT fits into the enterprise, how IT leaders lead, and how IT can harness technology to accomplish the objectives of the enterprise. But honest and open conversations are not taking place at the interface between management and Agile delivery teams. In A Seat at the Table, CIO Mark Schwartz explores the role of IT leadership as it is now and the role of IT leadership as it should be—an integral part of the value creation engine. Asking two critical questions, how can IT harness Agility to achieve the best value for the enterprise and how can IT redefine its relationship with the enterprise to maximize this value, and in the process, earn that seat at the table, Schwartz shows that the only way to become an Agile IT leader in today’s world is to be courageous—to throw off many of the attitudes and assumptions that have left CIOs struggling to gain a seat at the table, to proceed in bold strokes, and to lead the enterprise in seizing opportunities to create business value through technology. The Art of Business Value: Do you really understand what business value is? Information technology can and should deliver business value. But the Agile literature has paid scant attention to what business value means—and how to know whether or not you are delivering it. This problem becomes ever more critical as you push value delivery toward autonomous teams and away from requirements “tossed over the wall” by business stakeholders. An empowered team needs to understand its goal! Playful and thought-provoking, The Art of Business Value explores what business value means, why it matters, and how it should affect your software development and delivery practices. More than any other IT delivery approach, DevOps (and Agile thinking in general) makes business value a central concern. This book examines the role of business value in software and makes a compelling case for why a clear understanding of business value will change the way you deliver software. This book will make you think deeply about not only what it means to deliver value but also the relationship of the IT organization to the rest of the enterprise. It will give you the language to discuss value with the business, methods to cut through bureaucracy and strategies for incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all, this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead.

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IT Revolution

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1942788576

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This Gulf of Fire

The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason

By: Mark Molesky

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A Reader's Guide to A Seat at the Table

IT Leadership in the Age of Agility

By: Mark Schwartz

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A Reader's Guide to A Seat at the Table

IT Leadership in the Age of Agility

By: Mark Schwartz

A Reader's Guide to A Seat at the Table is intended to add another dimension to the original book. This reader's guide walks through A Seat at the Table chapter by chapter. Each chapter includes additional material on: • The author's take on the chapter. • The author's motivation in writing the chapter, including the personal experiences. • What has changed between the Waterfall/contractor-control world and the Agile world. • The key points of the chapter. • The concrete actions that IT leaders should take away from the chapter. • Questions to help stimulate further debate. • Further reading to explore the topic. • And more.

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IT Revolution

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1942788525

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Business Strategy in the Artificial Intelligence Economy

By: J. Mark Munoz,Al Naqvi

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Business Strategy in the Artificial Intelligence Economy

By: J. Mark Munoz,Al Naqvi

Technological breakthroughs relating to artificial intelligence has redefined business operations worldwide. For example, the ways in which data is captured, processed, and utilized to optimize customer interactions has grown by leaps and bounds. The change is redefining the structural dynamics of business strategy, economic theory, and management concepts. Leading technology companies around the world have expanded their research in artificial intelligence. With IBM’s launch of Watson, a new cognitive era has started. Investment firms have backed numerous emerging artificial intelligence companies. Meanwhile, there is paucity of academic and business research on the subject. This book project is a pioneering examination of how artificial intelligence is transforming the contemporary business strategy.

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Business Expert Press

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1948198991

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Bombs Over Brussels

By: Mark Verma

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Bombs Over Brussels

By: Mark Verma

A compilation of humorous quotes, real and imagined, about the European Union and its member nations as well as surrounding countries.

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Lulu.com

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1312666730

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A Calgary Album

Glimpses of the Way We Were

By: Mark Kozub,Janice Kozub

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A Calgary Album

Glimpses of the Way We Were

By: Mark Kozub,Janice Kozub

Before becoming the oil capital of the nation, Calgary was a nineteenth-century boomtown in the heart of Alberta. The roots of great prosperity were growing, despite the fact that politicians and the general public believed the West was best left to the trapper and trader. Nurtured by a sense of vision and the sweat of good old-fashioned hard work, Calgary grew, and has now blossomed into a world-class cosmopolitan city noted for its burgeoning oil and gas industry, its famed Calgary Zoo, and of course, the Stampede. A Calgary Album is a sentimental journey into a cattle town that grew to be so much more. Through sixty-five glorious black and white photographs and engaging storytelling, the authors take the reader back to the time of the "real" cowboys, to the days when the streetcar seemed like science fiction, through the Depression, the great wars, the times of boom, bust, and recovery. We revisit the movers, the shakers, and the honourable everyday people who turned this "cow town" into a city worth bragging about.

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Dundurn

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1550028979

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The Art of Business Value

By: Mark Schwartz

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The Art of Business Value

By: Mark Schwartz

Do you really understand what business value is? Information technology can and should deliver business value. But the Agile literature has paid scant attention to what business value means—and how to know whether or not you are delivering it. This problem becomes ever more critical as you push value delivery toward autonomous teams and away from requirements “tossed over the wall” by business stakeholders. An empowered team needs to understand its goal! Playful and thought-provoking, The Art of Business Value explores what business value means, why it matters, and how it should affect your software development and delivery practices. More than any other IT delivery approach, DevOps (and Agile thinking in general) makes business value a central concern. This book examines the role of business value in software and makes a compelling case for why a clear understanding of business value will change the way you deliver software. This book will make you think deeply about not only what it means to deliver value but also the relationship of the IT organization to the rest of the enterprise. It will give you the language to discuss value with the business, methods to cut through bureaucracy, and strategies for incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all, this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead.

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IT Revolution

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1942788053

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War and Peace and IT

Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age

By: Mark Schwartz

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War and Peace and IT

Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age

By: Mark Schwartz

The Business-IT Wall Must Come Down With A Seat at the Table, thought leader Mark Schwartz pulled out a chair for CIOs at the C-suite table. Now Mark brings his unique perspective and experience to business leaders looking to lead their company into the digital age by harnessing the expertise and innovation that is already under their roof: IT. In the war for business supremacy, Schwartz shows we must throw out the old management models and stereotypes that pit suits against nerds. Instead, business leaders of today can foster a space of collaboration and shared mission, a space that puts technologists and business people on the same team. For business leaders looking to unlock their enterprise's digital transformation, War and Peace and IT provides clear context and strategies. Schwartz demystifies the role IT plays in the modern enterprise, allowing business leaders to create new strategies for the new digital battleground. It is time to change not only the enterprise's relationship with technology, but its relationship with technologists. To accelerate, enterprises must bring technology to the heart of their work, for just as technology is causing this disruption, it is technology that provides the solution. Unlike Napoleon, it is time for business leaders to come down from the hill atop the Battle of Borodino and enter the fray with the technologists, for that is where the war will be won or lost.

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194278872X

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Our Oldest Enemy

A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France

By: John J. Miller,Mark Molesky

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Our Oldest Enemy

A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France

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My Final Analysis of Everything - including Emotions, Feelings and Thoughts - By Mark Rozen Pettinelli

By: Mark Pettinelli

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My Final Analysis of Everything - including Emotions, Feelings and Thoughts - By Mark Rozen Pettinelli

By: Mark Pettinelli

This book is online free at bit.ly/3lUmgdU its my Google drive folder.

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This Gulf of Fire

This Gulf of Fire

Our Oldest Enemy

Our Oldest Enemy

A Seat at the Table

A Seat at the Table

A Seat at the Table and The Art of Business Value

A Seat at the Table and The Art of Business Value

This Gulf of Fire

This Gulf of Fire

A Reader's Guide to A Seat at the Table

A Reader's Guide to A Seat at the Table

Business Strategy in the Artificial Intelligence Economy

Business Strategy in the Artificial Intelligence Economy

Bombs Over Brussels

Bombs Over Brussels

A Calgary Album

A Calgary Album

The Art of Business Value

The Art of Business Value

War and Peace and IT

War and Peace and IT

Our Oldest Enemy

Our Oldest Enemy

My Final Analysis of Everything - including Emotions, Feelings and Thoughts - By Mark Rozen Pettinelli

My Final Analysis of Everything - including Emotions, Feelings and Thoughts - By Mark Rozen Pettinelli

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