![]() ![]() The second half of the book will be great for you if you work at Facebook. She describes her mistakes and misconceptions. Her analysis is good and includes ideas about what you can and should do. Zhuo’s descriptions of a manager’s work are clear, and you’ll be able to see yourself in them. If you’re somewhere in that first two years, buy this book. It usually takes a new manager a year or two to settle into the job, learn the basics, and manage effectively. If you’re a new manager, this is a great book for you. The key insight is that you must love the work. If management is not for you, it’s good to know before you become one. ![]() They may keep you from making a terrible, irreversible mistake. ![]() Those few pages are worth the price of the book. She describes how your answers can help you decide if management is for you. Zhou asks you questions about who you are and what you’re like. If you’re thinking about becoming a manager. If you’re thinking about becoming a manager this is a great book for you. It’s true no matter who you are or where you work as a manager. “A manager’s job is to help her team get better results.” That’s the key insight for the book. The second half of the book may be for you if you work at Facebook or a company very much like it. The first half of the book is excellent and helpful for almost anyone. There are two very different halves to this book. When I was partway through The making of a manager: what to do when everyone looks to you I was sure that I would be giving this an unqualified five-star review. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As the situation looked increasingly grave, conservation organizations turned to captive breeding as an eleventh-hour effort in rescuing the species from the brink of extinction in the wild. As few as 40–60 individual foxes remained scattered across Scandinavia in 2000, down from a historical population of ~10,000–20,000. For the Arctic fox, the factors most consequential to their relatively recent decline include excessive hunting around the turn of the 20th century, competition with the red fox (a close relative with a slightly more accommodative lifestyle), and reduced habitat availability as the planet continues to warm (namely, ongoing deterioration of alpine and Arctic terrain that Arctic foxes rely so heavily upon).Įven after protective legislation took effect in Scandinavian countries in the 1920s-1940s, we saw no sign of natural recovery, but instead a continued decline in the following decades. As is also often the case, this is a result of many factors. Like many arctic species, Arctic foxes (scientific name Vulpes lagopus) have suffered sharp declines and are struggling to persist in the wild. ![]() ![]() In his free time, he dedicated himself to scholarly pursuits, which sometimes included astronomical work. He returned to Poland, where he became a church administrator and doctor. Astronomy and astrology were at the time closely related and equally regarded, and Novara had the responsibility of issuing astrological prognostications for Bologna.Ĭopernicus sometimes assisted him in his observations, and Novara exposed him to criticisms both of astrology and of aspects of the Ptolemaic system - founded by the ancient mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy - which placed Earth at the center of the universe.Ĭopernicus later studied at the University of Padua and in 1503 received a doctorate in canon law from the University of Ferrara. ![]() While studying at the University of Bologna, he lived for a time in the home of Domenico Maria de Novara, the principal astronomer at the university. ![]() He was given the best education of the day and bred for a career in canon (church) law.Īt the University of Krakow (today’s Jagiellonian University), he studied liberal arts, including astronomy and astrology, and then, like many Europeans of his social class, was sent to Italy to study medicine and law. ![]() Copernicus was born into a family of well-to-do merchants, and after his father’s death, his uncle–soon to be a bishop–took the boy under his wing. Nicolaus Copernicus was born on Februin Torun, a city in north-central Poland on the Vistula River. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was painted over in 2017 after it was deemed unfixable. ![]() Painted in a popular spot for taggers - in the hope that it would deter graffiti artists - the playful mural depicting famous Rhode Islanders as well as invented characters was repeatedly tagged with graffiti. The three paid for by the project were: “Windows,” which shows the inside of a mill building, done by Gretchen Dow Simpson and painted on the S-curve in Pawtucket “Racing Sailboats,” celebrating the return of America’s Cup competition to Rhode Island, done by Anthony Russo and painted on the Wampanoag Trail overpass on Route 195 in East Providence and Macaulay's “State House,” painted near Saints Sahag and Mesrob Armenian Church on an elbow of Jefferson Street between the Orms and Smith street overpasses, which was meant to pay tribute to the region’s architecture. What and Why RI: Providence was built on 7 hills, now there are only 6. Fidelity Investments, BankRI and The Rhode Island Commodores funded three of the murals. Lincoln Chafee’s “Gateway Beautification Project” that led to several murals on the state’s main corridors painted by artists with Rhode Island roots. The mural, called “Gnomes,” was finished in October 2013. What and Why RI: Why do Rhode Islanders say bubbler when most people don't? Here's what we found out How did Macaulay come to do this mural? He loved to draw simple technology, so he went to the Rhode Island School of Design to study architecture. He was born in England but moved to Cumberland, Rhode Island, in 1962. ![]() ![]() ![]() Underdeveloped nations have dependably been appealing for the Europeans and for the Americans, apparently because of their lack of the ‘precious’ touch of modern civilization but in that process, ironically showing their bounteous assets to be misused, which have added to the welfare of the First World nations. Also, the evangelization of the inhabitants of Ilujinle is evident in the play. The study will further throw a light on how their traditional beliefs contradict with those of the Western people. ![]() It shows how the females in Ilujinle are treated just like commodities to satisfy the need of the males in parallel with how rapidly the Nigerian village, here the Yoruba village of Ilujinley, goes under the colonial rule of the Western people. ![]() It aims to throw a light on the play from feminist and post-colonial points of view. ![]() The following study shows how Wole Soyinka emphasizes in The Lion and the Jewel the theme of corrupt African culture, more particularly the Nigerian culture and the rapid colonization of their native land. Pundra University of Science and Technologyīride-price, Ideology, Patriarchy, Marginalization, the Occident, Culture Hegemony Abstract ![]() ![]() ![]() I will post some questions/quotes to get things started, but I would love for this to grow into an open discussion with and between you all. The plan is to select and read a book every month, then discuss the work during the month’s last week (to give everyone time to read it!). There is so much amazing stuff out there! Funny, inspiring, sad, thought-provoking, empowering! I’ve been discovering so much that, at times, I’ve felt like my head was about to explode… I decided to start a Feminist book club, as I want to share what I’m learning and hear your thoughts too. ![]() OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM.Īs part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM.Īs part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading as many books and essays about equality as I can get my hands on. ![]() ![]() ![]() Henry "Monty" Montague has been living quietly in London for years, and his sudden appearance sends Adrian on a quest to unravel family secrets that only the spyglass can answer. ![]() When a newly found keepsake of hers-a piece of a broken spyglass-comes into Adrian's possession, he's thrust into the past and finds himself face to face with an older brother he never knew he had. In the wake of his mother's unexpected death, Adrian is also concerned people will find out that he has the mental illness she struggled with for years. But most young Lords aren't battling the debilitating anxiety Adrian secretly lives with, or the growing fear that it might consume him and all he hopes to accomplish. The sole heir to his father's estate, he is an up and coming political writer and engaged to an activist who challenges and inspires him. Return to the enchanting world of the Montague siblings in the finale to the New York Times bestselling and Stonewall Honor-winning series, featuring a teenage Adrian Montague as he desperately seeks the now adult Monty and Felicity- the older siblings he never knew he had.Īdrian Montague has a bright future. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At the height of his career, Law was an advisor to the the King of France, Louis XIV, The Sun King, and also owner of the Mississippi Corporation, with vast holdings in the Americas, and thus the wealthiest man of his time. But he is best known as the inventor of modern finance and architect of the most catastrophic financial crash in history. ![]() He was also a mathematical genius, a masterful gambler, a duelist, murderer, womanizer and lover. In this colorful historical novel set in 17th century England, France and Italy, Cueni tells the story of John Law of Lauriston, the man who invented paper money. The second volume is "The Great Game", released in 2006. The story of a celtic druid in Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars has been translated into numerous languages. The first part of this trilogy, "Caesar's Druid", was an international success. His main work is his monumental 1500-page trilogy about "money, gods and passion" which tells the history of money. Since then he has published crime novels, radioplays, plays and wrote more than 50 screenplays for film and TV ("Tatort", "Eurocops", "Peter Strohm", "Der Clown", "Alarm für Cobra 11"), which were broadcast in 46 countries. Ten years without any success as a writer. Two dozen temporary jobs, which always also served to obtain information for writing: a salesman in a gun shop, assistant to a criminal court, secretary of an Iranian merchant, waiter, baggage porter at a station, archivist at an insurance company, copywriter at GGK. Dropped out of school to become a writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But what collateral will Chichikov receive for these "souls"?įull of larger-than-life Dickensian characters - rogues and scoundrels, landowners and serfs, conniving petty officials, and the wily antihero Chichikov - Dead Souls is a devastating comic satire on social hypocrisy. He proposes to buy the names of their serfs who have died but who are still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them. Regarded as the first great masterpiece of Russian literature, Dead Souls mixes realism and symbolism for a vivid and highly original portrait of Russian life.Ĭhichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town with a bizarre but seductive proposition for local landowners. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape - but he can’t stop society’s collapse. ![]() But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born".Īn epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy - abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued, and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. Louis Post-Dispatch, BookPage, and Library Journal. Named one of the 10 best novels of the year by TIME and one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Esquire, U.S. ![]() Named one of Paste’s best horror books of the decade. This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls “a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction". ![]() |