![]() This would happen to organizations using the scrum/sprint method all over the country. If you’ve heard of sprints, or scrum, Shape Up is an alternative methodology to project management.īasecamp, one of the most well-known web software companies, used to struggle hard-core with underestimating projects, tangled codebases, not meeting deadlines, and experiencing a significant gap in understanding between management expectations and realistic execution of these expectations.īefore Shape-up, a process framework for developing software products that rearranged the process, they would do very quick 2-week sprints that made the team feel like projects were “never-ending.” It’s a process framework for developing software products. ![]() ![]() Shape Up leads to more effective results by bridging the understanding gap between product managers and the software developers doing the work on the ground. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She’s set to marry the hometown hero and current mayoral candidate from book one. Naomi is a sweet, seemingly perfect Southern belle full of charm and grace. ![]() Getaway Girl is first and helpful to read, but I think you can go into this book without reading it. ![]() Runaway Girl by Tessa Bailey is the second book in the Girl series. Grab it and go on a long walk listening to the slow burn romance of book one turn into a full-on fire. His demon brother princes are delightfully wicked, the underworld’s horses, dogs, enchanted lakes, talking skulls, and court dynamics is enthralling. Wrath has a BIG secret and it’s driving Emilia nuts. I was grabbing my AirPods and folding laundry, doing dishes, avoiding zoom calls, you name it. This book took over my life from the beginning. Emilia is now in the underworld, bonded to Wrath (but not married), and still searching for her sister’s killer. They’re both a lot of fun! The romance between Wrath and Emilia is taken up several notches with the latest installment. The narrator is excellent and it even features some spooky effects and music at key moments, too. Book one was terrific, book two…even better!! I listened to both books. I loved all of these books, let’s get started.įirst up…the newest book release, Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco is book two in the Kingdom of the Wicked series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the chase scene with Zora to the flybys over the city capturing a stunning skyline,chimneys and skyscrapers in one shot. It captured the raw smells and light of a brutal future scarily depicted in films or even so well. No other sci-fi futuristic film has ever made the grade before or since in my humble opinion. The finest moment with this narration has to be the moments described by Batty in his dying eyes and the summing up by Ford of this man/machines passion and love for life. ![]() I preferred the audience friendly screening which had the wonderful narration. For me,the directors cut is simply too cut. Its a mixed review depending on what version you have seen. This film also sees Ford in perfect casting.Theirs a rye charm that Ford has that no other actor could fake or fill quite as effortlessly. We have a true smelting pot of nationalities.The heavy eastern references within china town like inner cities is particularly poignant. Its a grimy,violent world inhabited by the sick,lower class,villainous second citizens who haven't quite made the grade for the off world colonies. It really does feel like a science fiction novel brought to life,but not so much as its derivative penned by Phillip K Dick(do androids dream of electric sheep?). What Ridley Scott achieved with this film,is an entirely possible scenario. Films which crudely grope into a possible time ahead,when perhaps a post apocalyptic era is scattered with cliché upon cliché and often miss the whole point. There are a sheer plethora of futuristic films with vision. ![]() ![]() ![]() My celebrity this.my celebrity that.īasically, there's a lot of 'telling' and not enough 'showing'. ![]() I mean, Olivia is supposed to be a college graduate and yet she doesn't know what an oncologist is? How is that for being smart? And Garrett keeps referring to his fame as his celebrity. I am told over and over again how smart and witty Olivia is but I wasn't shown one instance where she was being witty or smart for that matter. The dialogue were stilted and the characterizations were laughable. Olivia is fucking Mary Sue and Garrett talks like a robot. The characters were one-dimensional to be honest. I thought so, too.īut my biggest problem with this book is not the unbelievability of Garrett and Olivia's relationship but how this book was executed from beginning to end. Suddenly, Garret was hit with insta-lust and miraculously turned into a faithful and committed schmuck overnight.Ĭan you sense my sarcasm? Yeah. He's fine with it until he meets Olivia, who is undergoing treatment for cancer. ![]() ![]() It''s in her blood, as this talented scientist''s grandmother served as a code-breaker at Bletchley. ![]() Part travel journal, part popular science, part personal narrative, von Petzinger''s groundbreaking book starts to crack the code on the first form of graphic communication. Instead, she''s obsessed with the abstract geometric images that accompany them, the terse symbols that appear more often than any other kinds of figures-signs that have never really been studied or explained until now. Von Petzinger looks past the beautiful horses, powerful bison, graceful ibex, and faceless humans in the ancient paintings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Join renowned archaeologist Genevieve von Petzinger on an Indiana Jones-worthy adventure from the open-air rock art sites of northern Portugal to the dark depths of a remote cave in Spain that can only be reached by sliding face-first through the mud. The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world-the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language. ![]() ![]() ![]() Learn how to make a Southwestern Pasta Bake and you’ll be able to make a Smoky Chipotle Chili Con Queso Mac the next time. ![]() Rachael offers dozens of recipes that, once mastered, can become entirely new dishes with just a few ingredient swaps. without a single repeat!īased on the original 30-Minute Meal cooking classes that started it all, these recipes prove that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every night. With Rachael Ray’s most varied and comprehensive collection of 30-minute recipes ever, you’ll have everyone at your table saying “Yummo!” 365 days a year.Įven your favorite dinner can lose its appeal when it’s in constant rotation, so mix it up! Food Network’s indefatigable cook Rachael Ray guarantees you’ll be able to put something fresh and exciting on your dinner table every night for a full year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This guide has included all the information you need on where to stay and eat, how to get around, where to shop, where to go and what to see. With over 100 beautiful full color photos, Paul and Kiki take you on an Italian vacation through Rome, Tivoli, Naples, Florence, and Pisa. And you are given enough information and tips to make up your own unique travel plans or you can just sit back, relax and replicate Paul and Kiki's easy-to-follow vacation plans in this book. Unlike many travel books, PAUL AND KIKI'S GUIDE TO VACATIONING IN ITALY is written in a very personal narrative style that will help you go through the steps of planning your own itinerary to Italy to your favorite "must see" destinations, along with tips on how to make the most out of your vacation traveling time. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's both hilarious and moving to read Eleanor's most ungraceful attempts at self-improvement. The mantra's first sentence is the title of Semple's novel, today will be different. She's decided to get her life together and has created a mantra to say to herself when she wakes up in the morning. Timby's unusual name was suggested by an autocorrect error on Eleanor's iPhone. ![]() She's also worried she's not romantic enough with her husband, or present enough with their son Timby. That was many years ago, and now, having made no progress, she's dodging calls from her editor. She was also nominated for a prestigious graphic novel award that led to a book contract. Eleanor is a middle-aged mother, who earlier in life had success as the animation director for a popular TV show. Our guest, Maria Semple, has written a new comedic novel that takes place on one day in the life of its main character, Eleanor Flood. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, but I’m supposed to be talking about this version-so, “Ash” is the (barely) 18 yo protagonist who is discovered by a misogynist/sadist twice her age, and she is coerced into exchanging her beauty/power for cash. Neglect, omission, inattention-yeah, the remarried man with a daughter he doesn’t seem to know or see in a personal way is ripe for humiliation by the society she lives in-whether she works as a maid or not. How a girl with “daddy issues” is most likely the spawn of an ineffectual, quiet narcissist who is never blamed for not protecting his daughter at all-ever-from being tortured and abused in his own home. The evil step-sisters are replaced with rapey step-brothers, the step-mother is evil as always, and wow-this book made me realize just how very horrible Cinderella’s real father is in EVERY iteration of this old fairy-tale. ![]() ![]() Well, well, well-this is the smuttiest Cinderella story I’ve ever read □ and the book cuts itself off before she even gets to the ball. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These were decades when China represented a new area of inquiry, and the stakes for writers to flex their expertise were at once intellectual, professional, and deeply personal. It is about the creation and refinement of those ideas, as well as the spirit of competition that underlies all critical endeavors. The book is about the circulation of ideas about China but it is also a book about writers, rivalries, and the acquisition of authority. On the margins-in Chinatowns, on college campuses, in the failed avant-gardism of Tsiang-a different conversation about the possibilities of a transpacific future was taking place. ![]() At this time the United States "rediscovered" China, and the book traces its causes and cues in a variety of sites: the comfortable, middlebrow literature of Pearl Buck, Alice Tisdale Hobart and Lin Yutang the journalism of Carl Crow and Henry Luce exuberant reports from oil executives proclaiming a new era in global trade. Tsiang, an eccentric Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary novels in the 1930s, a time when China was recast as a rich, unexplored mystery to the American public. The title is taken from a lost manuscript by H.T. "A Floating Chinaman is, in the broadest sense, a book about who gets to speak for China. ![]() |