We Tried to Warn You

Author: Peter H. Jones
Publisher: Nimble Books LLC
ISBN: 1934840513
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 57

Book Description
This book was written as a response to the positive and heartening reception to a series of articles published (online and print) on innovative interventions in organizations. The core message of We Tried to Warn You is that every day, micro-failures of communication and their cover-ups can accumulate, and enable a network of decisions that lead to systemic-level failures of organizations. I report on first hand experiences as an organizational participant, and more recently as a design/management consultant, informed by the substantive research published over the years by key authors I have learned from, and cite in the book. We Tried to Warn You presents a case study in compact form, with identifying details obscured to protect the great and the guilty alike. I focus emphasis on the knowledge-based practices that enable organizations to sense and make decisions from critical feedback from customers in the field, especially the multidisciplinary field now known as "user experience" (or UX). UX has become a primary conduit for understanding "real users" and their needs in current organizations worldwide. UX is often involved throughout all phases of a project, from user research, to product concept design, to final design and user testing. As a still-emerging knowledge discipline, UX practices were developed in the case organization as a response to a systemic failure, with outstanding positive results. The book also shares lessons learned from a process called socialization, which distributes leadership and skill development among organizational players in the formation of key strategic practices such as UX.

Author: Catherine Delaney
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595339581
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 367

Book Description
Kathleen was the average girl of fourteen years, brown hair, and eyes of green. She lives in the most average life. Kathleen thought her town average in the most average boring way, this in the up most sincere way. Soon the halls of her average plain suburbia school would get a rude a wakening to a weird adventure. When a boy is sent on a mission to tell a tale centuries old. Unbelievable as it is her ears don't close him out. Five wizards lived long ago together they ruled, each with separate tasks. On ruled the earth the soil and her blessings, the plants from the smallest tree to the tallest trees. One ruled the humans with their ways of being. One ruled the waters all of the rivers and mighty oceans. One ruled the animals that flew or crawled. And finally one ruled the skies. Three had been murdered but one of their own. Now two remained. One hide away to keep his ways alive waiting for someone to help. Little did Kathleen know things wouldn't be average around here anymore.

The Law of Nines

Author: Terry Goodkind
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0307372367
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514

Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a stunningly original thriller in this powerful page-turner. Trouble will find you They watch you through mirrors… “Your mother was twenty-seven when it came to her. Now you’re twenty-seven, and it’s come to you.” The skin of Alex’s arms tingled with goose bumps. By her twenty-seventh birthday insanity had come to his mother…. Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the mid-western United States, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him — and everyone he loves — into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence… Where do you turn when your own reflection spells doom? In Alex, Terry Goodkind brings to life a modern hero in a whole new kind of high-octane thriller.

The Last Try

Author: John Reed Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description

Ten to Midnight

Author: Toby Emden
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615176151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 506

Book Description
In the near future, Russia has been brought to its knees by a bloody war in Ukraine. With the Russian people facing famine, Chinese troops massing on the Russian border and the global economy on the verge of collapse, a rogue General seizes power with a plan to end the conflict by breaking the last taboo of war. However, a series of fatal errors and miscalculations lead to a regional nuclear conflict and the destruction of several Russian cities. Amidst the ensuing chaos and confusion, the United States suddenly finds itself under nuclear attack. As missiles rain down on the United States, retired CIA analyst Dr. Lewis Stein is brought out of retirement to advise an inexperienced President on how to prevent a limited nuclear conflict from escalating into global apocalypse. But with communications in chaos and panic sweeping the globe, the odds are stacked in favor of Armageddon.

The Ancient Legends Retold: The Legend of Pryderi

Author: Fiona Collins
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752493698
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 94

Book Description
The Four Branches of the Mabinogion are a rich treasure trove of tales. These magical, quintessentially Welsh stories are confusing, but it would be hard to match their splendid strangeness. The Four Branches tell of the kings and queens of Wales in the time of’ ‘Once upon a time’. Only one character appears in all Four Branches. He is Pryderi, and the story of his life journey is told in this book. Pryderi is brave and bold: sometimes foolhardy, always fiercely loyal. The stories of two beautiful, powerful women entwine with his: Rhiannon of the Birds, his mother, and Cigfa, his wife. Both accompany him on his life path. But, at the last, Pryderi must go on alone. Here, for the first time, his tale is told from beginning to end.

Comfort Food

Author: Ray Comfort
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458797856
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 458

Book Description
From years of coming face - to - face with unbelievers on the street, answering their questions, and facing down their arguments, Ray Comfort has a wealth of experience and advice for anyone interested in doing the same thing. His concern for the watered - down Gospel that is being preached in many quarters is countered by his commitment to sharing God's holiness and the inherent sinful nature of man. Christians who want to be on the frontlines of the battle for souls will findComfort Food an inspiring account of how one man called of God can make a difference by just following - as the name of Ray Comfort's TV show says - The Way of the Master.

Genesis Prime

Author: Gary W. Babb
Publisher: Fiction4All
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119

Book Description
The arduous 200 light year space journey from a destroyed Earth is finally over. Now Captain Nick Johns and the crew of the spaceship Genesis must carve out space on a new world to colonize. Unfortunately, their new home planet, Genesis Prime, is already inhabited by three sentient races, one of which is human transplanted from Earth in the 3rd Century BC by aliens needing slave labor. Captain Johns and his crew liberate the enslaved humans and capture the aliens ruling over them. The human slaves still lived in the 3rd Century culture and viewed the humans of the Genesis as Olympian gods, actually believing Captain Johns was the Olympian god, Zeus. During the liberation they also captured the alien technology, which was far more advanced than that of the Genesis. Eventually they befriend the few remaining aliens and learn the secrets of their technology, one of which is a Plasma Bubble that can transport matter through time and space. They use this technology to free the last remaining almost extinct aliens from their home world. In doing so, the Genesis attracts the attention of the alien's adversaries that were waging genocide against them. These adversaries now turn their war upon the Genesis colony. Battles rage against these vicious, attacking aliens until the Genesis must face the most ruthless and dangerous race yet, the Human Race. Captain johns learns with absolute certainty that humans can not be trusted to govern themselves. Humans by their very nature are self-destructive, and given enough time they will destroy themselves. The hardest battles came from within the Human Race and its inherent treachery.

Escape Plus

Author: Ben Bova
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429932015
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
No one could move without being followed. No one could speak without being overheard. The almost sentient computer system was everywhere. The prison was billed as "escape-proof," and sofar that was true. But Danny Romano was not about to believe it... the jail hadn't been built that could hold him. Danny would escape. Even if he had to permanently change his identity to do it. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Glittering World

Author: Robert Levy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476774536
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
In the tradition of Neil Gaiman (The Ocean at the End of the Lane), Scott Smith (The Ruins), and Jason Mott (The Returned), award-winning playwright Robert Levy spins a dark tale of alienation and belonging, the familiar and the surreal, family secrets and the search for truth in his debut supernatural thriller. AS A BOY, HE VANISHED INTO THE WOODS. SOMETHING ELSE CAME BACK. When up-and-coming chef Michael “Blue” Whitley returns with three friends to the remote Canadian community of his birth, it appears to be the perfect getaway from New York. He soon discovers, however, that everything he thought he knew about himself is a carefully orchestrated lie. Though he had no recollection of the event, as a young boy, Blue and another child went missing for weeks in the idyllic, mysterious woods of Starling Cove. Soon thereafter, his mother suddenly fled with him to America, their homeland left behind. But then Blue begins to remember. And once the shocking truth starts bleeding back into his life, his closest friends—Elisa, his former partner in crime; her stalwart husband, Jason; and Gabe, Blue’s young and admiring coworker—must unravel the secrets of Starling Cove and the artists’ colony it once harbored. All four will face their troubled pasts, their most private demons, and a mysterious race of beings that inhabits the land, spoken of by the locals only as the Other Kind...