David Robinson

Jim Highsmith

Linda Luu

EDGE: The Agile Operating Model That Will Help You Successfully Execute Your Digital Transformation “[The authors’] passion for technology allows them to recognize that for most enterprises in the 21st century, technology is THE business. This is what really separates the EDGE approach. It is a comprehensive operating model with technology at its core.” —From the Foreword by Heidi Musser, Executive Vice President and Principal Consultant, Leading Agile; retired, Vice President and CIO, USAA Maximum innovation happens at the edge of chaos: the messy, risky, and uncertain threshold between randomness and structure. Operating there is uncomfortable but it’s where organizations “invent the future.” EDGE is a set of fast, iterative, adaptive, lightweight, and value-driven tools to achieve digital transformation, and EDGE: Value-Driven Digital Transformation is your guide to using this operating model for innovation. Jim Highsmith is one of the world’s leading agile pioneers and a coauthor of the Agile Manifesto. He, Linda Luu, and David Robinson know from their vast in-the-trenches experience that sustainable digital transformation requires far more than adopting isolated agile practices or conventional portfolio management. This hard, indispensable work involves changing culture and mindset, and going beyond transforming the IT department. EDGE embraces an adaptive mindset in the face of market uncertainty, a visible, value-centered portfolio approach that encourages continual value linkages from vision to detailed initiatives, incremental funding that shifts as strategies evolve, collaborative decision-making, and better risk mitigation. This guide shows leaders how to use the breakthrough EDGE approach to go beyond incremental improvement in a world of exponential opportunities. Build an organization that adapts fast enough to thrive Clear away unnecessary governance processes, obsolete “command and control” leadership approaches, and slow budgeting/planning cycles Improve collaboration when major, fast-paced responses are necessary Continually optimize investment allocation and monitoring based on your vision and goals Register your product for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Value-Driven Digital Transformation

EDGE

Dean Ray Koontz

A collection of photographs from the burial grounds of Europe explores the beauty of cemeteries and the emotions the survivors of the dead placed into the making of the tombs, accompanied by a meditation on the death of his own parents by Dean Koontz. 60,000 first printing.

Art of the Cemetery

Beautiful Death

His Life and Art

Chaplin

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (BFI Film Classics)

Writing about writers, far from being irrelevant, is a genuine act of solidarity, supportive and steadying. I enjoyed it enormously' - Brian Morton, Sunday Herald Tracing the blurred line between life and literature has taken David Robinson to places as far afield as west Kansas and the edge of the Kalahari. It's also taken him on journeys of discovery into the minds of some of the most gifted writers alive. This beautifully produced collection of essays and interviews is based on his articles in The Scotsman newspaper and is a record of those fascinating encounters - a book that starts in a couple of dozen other books and takes the reader on the road to even more. If you've ever found yourself enthralled underneath the canvas of a book festival tent—or if you've only wished for the chance—In Cold Ink is the perfect recreation, taking you straight to your best-loved authors and helping you discover new favourites!

On the Writers' Tracks

In Cold Ink

Auteur, scénariste, musicien, cinéaste, producteur, Charlie Chaplin a incarné le cinéma pour des millions de spectateurs pendant plusieurs générations. Avec son talent de mime, son sens de l'observation, sa silhouette et sa moustache devenues archétypiques, Charlot est l'un des plus grands comiques que le monde ait connus. David Robinson, pour mener à bien cette biographie, a rencontré ceux qui ont côtoyé Chaplin. Mais surtout il a été le premier à avoir accès à ses archives privées. Il retrace donc en détail les époques de sa vie, depuis l'Angleterre victorienne, le music-hall, la naissance et le déclin de Hollywood ou le cauchemar du maccarthysme, jusqu'aux dernières années écoulées paisiblement en Suisse, où il meurt le 25 décembre 1977. Il révèle certains faits méconnus et réajuste les avis, inévitablement subjectifs, que Chaplin avait exprimés dans son autobiographie à l'égard de ses amis, de ses proches ou de ses aventures amoureuses. Les notes de travail, les rapports de studios, les prises non utilisées viennent aussi dévoiler ce que Chaplin gardait secret : le processus de création de ses visions comiques. L'ascension formidable de ce petit Anglais, animé par une infatigable quête de perfection, s'explique à bien des égards par sa personnalité complexe et souvent contradictoire. Adulé par le public, malgré les chroniques scandaleuses qu'alimenta sa vie privée, il fut et reste incontestablement un génie et un des mythes fondateurs du XXe siècle.

Chaplin, sa vie, son art

Julia Silge

Tackle a variety of tasks in natural language processing by learning how to use the R language and tidy data principles. This practical guide provides examples and resources to help you get up to speed with dplyr, broom, ggplot2, and other tidy tools from the R ecosystem. You’ll discover how tidy data principles can make text mining easier, more effective, and consistent by employing tools already in wide use. Text Mining with R shows you how to manipulate, summarize, and visualize the characteristics of text, sentiment analysis, tf-idf, and topic modeling. Along with tidy data methods, you’ll also examine several beginning-to-end tidy text analyses on data sources from Twitter to NASA datasets. These analyses bring together multiple text mining approaches covered in the book. Get real-world examples for implementing text mining using tidy R package Understand natural language processing concepts like sentiment analysis, tf-idf, and topic modeling Learn how to analyze unstructured, text-heavy data using R language and ecosystem

A Tidy Approach

Text Mining with R

The Open University

Marion Hall

The Human Brain: The CD-ROM Has a simple, easy-to-use layout, thet guides the student through an introduktion to the human nervous system, using text, voice.over and interactive images,including a rotatable model of the brain which allows various substructures to be highlighted

Sabine Loebbe

Fereidoon Sioshansi

Energy Communities explores core potential systemic benefits and costs in engaging consumers into communities, particularly relating to energy transition. The book evaluates the conditions under which energy communities might be regarded as customer-centered, market-driven and welfare-enhancing. The book also reviews the issue of prevalence and sustainability of energy communities and whether these features are likely to change as opportunities for distributed energy grow. Sections cover the identification of welfare considerations for citizens and for society on a local and national level, and from social, economic and ecological perspectives, while also considering different community designs and evolving business models. Defines and conceptualizes the energy community for the current generation of researchers and practitioners facing the energy transition Explores the main benefits and challenges in forming energy communities and to what extent they are welfare-enhancing Examines under what terms, conditions, regulations or policies energy communities can be beneficially and successfully organized and why Reviews the combination of business models and forms of organization which are conducive to economic feasibility and the commercial success of energy communities

Customer-Centered, Market-Driven, Welfare-Enhancing?

Energy Communities

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin first formed the story of Limelight as a 34,000-word novella, Footlights. This book traces the evolution of the story, from its origin in Chaplin's 1916 meeting with Nijinsky, then recounts the making of the film, and traces the real-life sources of Chaplin's memories: the people and theatres of London's Soho, and the ballet tradition of the theatres of Leicester Square, the Empire and the Alhambra.--From back cover.

Footlights

David Goforth

2x2 games provide the very basis of game theory and this book constitutes something approaching a 'periodic table' of the most common games - the prisoner's dilemma, coordination games, chicken and the battle of the sexes among them.

A New Periodic Table

The Topology of the 2x2 Games

Mushroom Picker

Tony Dungy

Tom Osborne

Now, in The Greatest Coach Ever, 30 - plus athletes, coaches and other popular sports figures reflect on his genius and share how they have been challenged and changed by the insights of Coach Wooden. Each reading, from such invited contributors as Tony Dungy, Tom Osborne, David Robinson, Bobby Bowden, Jim Tressel, Andy Pettitte, Mike Singletary...

Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden

The Greatest Coach Ever

Hollywood in the Twenties: A complete Critical Survey of Hollywood Films from 1920 - 1930 (International Film Guide)

Laurent Mannoni

Donato Pesenti Campagnoni

Light and Movement: Incunabula of the Motion Picture, 1420-1896

The Illustrated History of the Cinema

R. James Bingen

John M. Staatz

Mali, a country rich with history and culture, but one of the poorest in the world, emerged in the 1990s as one of Africa's most vibrant democracies. Strengthened by bold political and economic reforms at home, Mali has emerged as a leader in African peace keeping efforts. How has such a transition taken place? How have these changes built on Mali's rich heritage? These are the questions that the contributors to this volume have addressed. During the past twenty-five years, the scholarly research and applied development work of Michigan State University faculty and students in Mali represents the most significant combined, long-term, and continuing contribution of any group of university faculty in the United States or Europe to the study of Malian society, economy, and politics. The applied nature of much of this work has resulted in a significant number of working papers, reports, and conference presentations. This volume represents a coherent and connected set of essays from one American university with a widely known and highly respected role in African development. While the essays identify and review Mali's unique historical and contemporary path to democracy and development, they also contribute to the advancement of theoretical knowledge about African development.

Democracy and Development in Mali

Through The Seer, David Robinson leads us back to our fundamental worldviews about how life works. He takes us on a journey to realign our thoughts, beliefs, and actions with our greatest potential so that we might realize our dreams, make the contributions we are here to make, and serve in the ways we feel called to serve. Entrepreneurs and artists share this trait: in order to master their craft, in order to generate and innovate, they must learn to see again. The Seer is an interactive book that will lead you through the process of learning to see and fulfill your extraordinary capacity.

The Mind of the Entreperneur, Artist, Visionary, Innovator, Seeker, Learner, Leader, Creator,...you

The Seer

Douglas K. Smith

Douglas Smith

Sources of the African Past combines a case-study approach with an emphasis on primary and orally transmitted sources to accomplish three objectives; to tell a story in some depth, to portray major themes and to raise basic questions of analysis and interpretation. The case studies are set in the nineteenth century and deal with critical periods in the fortunes of five societies in different parts of the continent (South, East, and West Africa). The authors wish students to work with the "raw" materials of history and to that end have provided a workbook for a "laboratory" experience. Sources of the African Past is designed for use in a wide variety of courses and in conjuction with other texts. The authors have kept their own interpretations to a minimum and invited scrutiny of their decision of selection and arrangement. They chose the cases on the basis of several criteria: geographical coverage, abundance and diversity of primary sources, importance in the secondary literature, and relevance to important historical problems. All the studies emphasize political change. All witness some growth in European intervention. In selecting the documents, the authors sought a balance of perspective without sacrificing accuracy and relevance. This means a conscious effort to present a variety of views: African and European, internal and external, partipant and observer, those of the victims as well as those of the victors, those of the "people" as well as those of the elite. Within the limitations of space, they have made the excerpts sufficiently long to allow the reader to examine the author's style, purpose and other characteristics. Keeping in mind the limitations of libraries, they have attemted to make each chapter self-contained.

Case Studies of Five Nineteenth-Century African Societies

Sources of the African Past

It's the end of October and the Sanford Third Age Club are on one of their outings, this time to York, with an overnight stay in the haunted Palmer Hotel. As the witching hour approaches, things begin to happen. A valuable necklace goes missing and a guest is found dead. Joe Murray and his constant companions Sheila Riley and Brenda Jump are in the thick of it once more. What is arrogant MP, Edgar Prudhoe, up to? How much does his prospective son-in-law, Callum McGuire, hate him? Is Deirdre Prudhoe really as drunk as she appears? What is the history behind Yvonne Naylor's mangled hand? And where does Geoff Vallance fit into it all? With Linda Ellis and Rick Hart orchestrating ghostly goings on at The Old Inn, the puzzle is cranked up several notches when one of the suspects does a runner and a second body is found. A host of suspects. A range of motives. It's a complex and maddening puzzle for Joe and his chums in this, the third in the STAC Mysteries series. Is the master detective up to it? It all adds up to one thing... It's MURDER at Halloween Now complete the collection. Grab the full, bestselling STAC series: THE FILEY CONNECTION THE I-SPY MURDERS A HALLOWEEN HOMICIDE A MURDER FOR CHRISTMAS MURDER AT THE MURDER MYSTERY WEEKEND MY DEADLY VALENTINE THE CHOCOLATE EGG MURDERS THE SUMMER WEDDING MURDER COSTA DEL MURDER CHRISTMAS CRACKERS DEATH IN DISTRIBUTION A KILLING IN THE FAMILY A THEATRICAL MURDER TRIAL BY FIRE PERIL IN PALMANOVA THE SQUIRE'S LODGE MURDERS MURDER AT THE TREASURE HUNT A CORNISH KILLING MERRY MURDERS EVERYONE

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