![]() ![]() In Delivering Happiness, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh shares the different lessons he has learned in business and life, from starting a worm farm to running a pizza business, through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. After debuting as the highest-ranking newcomer in Fortune magazine’s annual “Best Companies to Work For” list in 2009, Zappos was acquired by Amazon in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing. Sound crazy? It’s all standard operating procedure at Zappos, the online retailer that’s doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually. Help employees grow-both personally and professionally Make customer service the responsibility of the entire company-not just a departmentįocus on company culture as the #1 priorityĪpply research from the science of happiness to running a business ![]()
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![]() ![]() And through careful listening over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her-but also the things that kept her alive. In her mother's final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her parent's childhood in order to invite the past into the present and to hold space for her mother's multiple voices at the table. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother's schizophrenia. Tastes Like War, Cho chronicles her efforts to reconnect with her mother as an adult. When Grace was fifteen, her dynamic mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve for the rest of her life. as a baby, with her Korean mother and her father, a white American who served in the Merchant Marines. ![]() They were one of few immigrants in a xenophobic small town during the Cold War, where identity was politicized by everyday details-language, cultural references, memories, and food. ![]() Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. ![]() ![]() After an arrest for burglary at the age of 16 he decided to turn his life around, and joined the British Army.Īndy joins me to talk about the failure of that Bravo Two Zero mission, about what the SAS taught him about how to fail, about how someone who struggled with literacy managed to make a career as a bestselling author, about why he's been married so many times (four, since you ask) and about how he's now found lasting happiness with his wife Jenny (partly to do with a laminated strip in his wallet.listen to find out more). ![]() He was also awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his courage behind enemy lines. In 2017, he was awarded a CBE.īut this SAS hero did not have the most auspicious start in life: abandoned as a baby in a carrier bag on the steps of a London hospital, he was brought up by adoptive parents on a Peckham council estate and dropped out of school as a teenager, barely able to read or write. He withstood six weeks of torture and imprisonment, later turning his harrowing experiences into the bestselling book, Bravo Two Zero. It resulted in the deaths of three of the squad, a cat-and-mouse chase across the desert and McNab's eventual capture. ![]() This was the most horrific kind of failure. ![]() Andy McNab led the Bravo Two Zero SAS mission during the first Gulf War but his team was compromised soon after they were dropped into Iraq in 1991. ![]() You could say that my guest this week became famous because of failure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only is it an easily digestible length, but it fully encapsulates the major points of Marx’s analysis of production, accumulation of capital, and the exploitation of labor. However, this summary, while not a substitute, is undoubtedly an adequate primer. Given the length of Capital, Volume 1, those without the adequate time or skill set may be put off in reading it in its entirety. ![]() My ultimate hope is that this work will further Cafiero’s original goal in writing this book: to develop class consciousness and the knowledge of basic Marxian economics among workers, activists, and students. It’s with great pride and anticipation that I present this first complete English translation of Carlo Cafiero’s summary of Karl Marx’s Capital. The Correspondence between Cafiero & Marx Commodities, Currency, Wealth and Capital Original Introduction to the Italian Online Publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() With his face covered in bandages, Milo has become an invisible man in more ways than one. Then, Agent Graves presents his trademark attaché case containing a gun and 100 untraceable bullets to Milo Garret-a small-time private dick who's just gotten out of the hospital after losing an argument with his car's windshield. As more is revealed about the series' main characters, the true meaning and importance of the conflict between Graves and the Trust starts to emerge. But as these self-serving manipulations take place, pieces of the mystery of the Minutemen and the organization that created them start to come together, and we discover to the research and conspiracy theories of Mr. In the second collection of the acclaimed, award-winning 100 BULLETS, Agent Graves continues to offer immunity to everyday people to carry out their innermost desires of vengeance with the 100 bullets that he supplies. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first five seasons received highly positive reviews, and both nominations and wins for several awards, including a Golden Globe and an Emmy. The series premiered on September 7, 2008, and concluded on August 24, 2014, comprising seven seasons and 80 episodes. The show was broadcast on the premium cable network HBO, in the United States, and was produced by HBO in association with Ball's production company, Your Face Goes Here Entertainment. Sookie's world is turned upside down when she falls in love with 174-year-old vampire Bill Compton ( Stephen Moyer), and for the first time, she must navigate the trials and terrors of intimacy and relationships. It chronicles the vampires' struggle for equal rights and assimilation while anti-vampire organizations begin to gain power. It is set two years after the invention of a synthetic blood product branded "Tru Blood" that has allowed vampires to "come out of the coffin" and let their presence be known to mankind. The series revolves around Sookie Stackhouse ( Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress living in the fictional rural town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of novels by Charlaine Harris. ![]() True Blood is an American fantasy horror drama television series produced and created by Alan Ball. ![]() ![]() The characters are all superbly developed and interesting, and the reader will want to know more about this time period and this series. Can their newfound love survive a political firestorm, or will three generations of family rivalry drive them apart forever? "This is a well-written, captivating romance that is rich with history. Now they must embark on a dangerous gamble to reconcile their growing feelings with Luke's driving passion for vital reforms in Congress. Luke is fascinated by the vibrant Marianne and her daring work as a government photographer, leading them into a forbidden romance. ![]() ![]() Trouble begins when Luke meets Marianne Magruder, the congressman's only daughter. His current mission: to thwart the reelection of Congressman Clyde Magruder, his only real enemy in the world. In reality, he has been secretly carrying out an ambitious agenda in Congress. ![]() 2022 Carol Award Winner Luke Delacroix has long had a reputation of being an impulsive adventurer, the wild son of one of Gilded Age Washington's most prominent families. ![]() ![]() “A love letter to the obsessions that captivated an outcast generation: punk, politics, passion, and provocation. ![]() ” -Maria Raha, author of Cinderella’s Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Just a Bit Shameless (Straight Guys Book 8). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. “A love letter to the obsessions that captivated an outcast generation: punk, politics, passion, and provocation. Just a Bit Shameless (Straight Guys Book 8) - Kindle edition by Hazard, Alessandra. Pissing in a River captures the glee and turbulence of surviving the cacophony of modern life. But she also must confront her own mental illness, her lover’s rape, and the violence of post-9/11 politics. In this irreverently funny yet profound novel, Amanda risks deportation, recalls the fervor of AIDS activism in the United States, connects to the class struggle of punk, and finds redemption in love. ![]() She forms a band, Lesbian Raincoat, and completely rewrites the story of her life. With the company of a few friendly voices in her head, she looks for-and finds-a best friend and new lover. ” -Kirkus ReviewsĪmanda moves to London with nothing but her guitar and her collection of punk music as the soundtrack to her every move. “An honest and genuine DIY punk-rock lesbian love story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. ![]() Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. ![]() ![]() The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are quite a few but the author managed to write them all in such a uniquely way that it doesn’t feel like too much like it sometimes can be with other books, if that makes sense. I also loved reading about all the various characters, of course. I just can’t say anything negative about it. The writing is just so detailed and wonderful to read. I already mentioned this in my recent review of the first book but again I loved the writing so so so so much. It was definitely a worthy sequel and I can’t wait to read book three. ![]() Just like with the first book, Song of Sascrifice, this was a fantastic read. And I loved it! I’ve become a real fan of mythology retellings, especially when they revolve around the Trojan War, like this one. It took me a while to get around to it but I finally read Rise of Princes. ![]() |