![]() ![]() ![]() The case goes unsolved and ex-cop Bill Hodges is out of hope when he gets a letter from a man who loved the feel of death under the Mercedes's wheels.īrady Hartsfield wants that rush again, but this time he's going big, with an attack that would take down thousands-unless Hodges and two new unusual allies he picks up along the way can throw a wrench in Hartsfield's diabolical plans. Then the lone driver backs up, charges again, and speeds off, leaving eight dead and more wounded. The stolen Mercedes emerges from the pre-dawn fog and plows through a crowd of men and women on line for a job fair in a distressed American city. Mercedes is a rich, resonant, exceptionally readable accomplishment by a man who can write in whatever genre he chooses" ( The Washington Post). #1 New York Times bestseller! In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Shane is loving and supportive from thousands of miles away, but his homecoming brings a betrayal Kate never saw coming. Now with Shane deployed for seven months, Kate is on her own and struggling with being a single parent. Kate's ability to read him like a book may have once sent Shane running, but their lives are forever entwined and they are growing closer. ![]() Shane's been angry for a year, and now he feels guilty too - for sleeping with his wife's best friend and liking it. ![]() ![]() Then on the first anniversary of Rachel's death, Kate and Shane take comfort in each other in a night that they both soon regret. After Rachel, pregnant with her fourth child, dies in a car accident and the baby miraculously survives, Kate upends her entire life to share parenting duties. The fact that Shane's in the military and away for long periods helps-but when tragedy strikes, everything changes. A "heartbreaking, heartwarming" (Heidi McLaughlin, New York Times bestselling author) love story that asks the question: what do you do when your soul mate marries your best friend? If you're Kate Evans, you keep your friend Rachel, bond with her kids, and bury your feelings for her husband. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much of the novel focuses on the protagonist figuring out why those around him are living underground and why many of them believe that he is a physicist named Poreyra. ![]() Given instructions by a mysterious Mechanism to study the people living in the shelter, the protagonist proceeds as if he is a living machine given a modicum of free will (as explained by the Mechanism). His identity confusion derives from his “birth” on an assembly line under a kind of bell jar. ![]() One might even call Robot surrealist science fiction and liken it to Kafka’s work, or even Lem’s Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, since the main character spends most of his time wandering around the halls of an underground shelter, unsure of his own identity and his place in the community that has formed following an apocalyptic event on the surface. Indeed, both Robot and Lem’s His Master’s Voice (published in Polish just a few years apart) take up the fascinating but insoluble problem of whether or not we’re alone in the universe. If reading Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg’s Robot (Penguin Classics, 2021), translated by Tomasz Mirkowicz, makes you think about Stanislaw Lem’s work, you’re not alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() We guarantee to you right now that your relationship will grow into something even more beautiful thanks to it! Our Favorite I Love You Quotes Take action today and knock them off their feet. Don’t let your significant other wonder about your feelings. Many times, we simply want the people that we strongly care about to tell us that they love us too. The best part? You can use them anytime, anywhere! No special occasion needed, no grand gesture has to follow. So, what better way to express your deep admiration and appreciation of your partner than with some “I will love you forever” quotes? Love truly speaks about human nature’s core potential of being able of grand and noble deeds. ![]() Love is that burning fire in the center of your soul that’s telling you “this person’s needs are above yours”, even when that makes no logical sense. Falling in love is one of those unique feelings that are so hard to put into words. ![]() ![]() ![]() 100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Second: you are going to test your hypotheses by customer development.This canvas will show how the company creates value for its customers. First: before launching your product, instead of consolidating a long report (the Business Plan), you are going to use a Canvas to build your business model.“Every activity that does not contribute to learning about customers is a form of waste.” Eric Ries ![]() That said, it’s important to reduce or eliminate any and all wasting part, whether they are time, cost, or resources. It’s necessary to work on manners to identify systematically the waste in every and each step of production, sales, and after-sales. Based on the answers obtained, it aims for new versions and adjusts until it finds the ideal product. With this data collected, the startup creates a minimum viable product (MVP) and ask for customer feedback as quickly as possible. In short, in this methodology, the company begins by getting to the market to ask the opinion of potential customers about all elements of the business model: product features, price, distribution channels and economic strategies. It involves identifying and eliminating waste in all the processes, from research to production. The word “lean”, here, has been applied by Eric Ries, Harvard Business School researcher, towards avoiding waste. Differences between the Lean Startup and the traditional business plan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whilst in Japan promoting The Fifth Element, Luc Besson met with Terasawa to discuss the current state of sci-fi. ![]() Representative works include a Civil Defense-ROM format work for use with a Personal Computer, "COBRA II, A Manitoba of Legend" and original animation videos such as "GOKU", "GOKU II", "Raven Tengu Kabuto" and othersīuichi Terasawa"s works are translated and published in more than ten countries and are featured in comics and animation-related gatherings and exhibitions around the world. Next came "COBRA", "British American Tobacco " and "GUNDRAGON SIGMA" (In this latter series, only the main character is drawn by hand) and several other works. ![]() In the ensuing years, in parallel with advances in the personal computer, he created "TAKERU" (1992), the world"s first computer graphics comic book series. In 1985, he kicked off an eight-color comic book series called "British American Tobacco ". In 1977, he began drawing for Weekly Shōnen Jump, a Japanese manga publication.įrom around the beginning of the 1980s, he began to see the personal computer as a tool for the creative purposes. ![]() In 1976 he moved to Tokyo and began to study under the famous Japanese manga artist, Osamu Tezuka. His most famous works include Goku Midnight Eye and Cobra. ![]() ![]() ![]() I admire their composure, because I’m an empath. The nurses here run around at a hundred miles a minute, all the while projecting to everyone that they are cool, calm, and collected. The hospital job is important because it’s a front-row seat to the reality of nursing. I’m struggling with the dual responsibilities of attending class during the day and working as a nursing assistant at night. My interest in becoming a professional caregiver sparked, I toyed with the idea of becoming a doctor - until I shadowed one and found out how little time doctors spend with patients.Īnd I want the human interactions, so I chose nursing.īut nursing school, I’m finding, is hard. Growing up, I watched my mother take good care of my extended family, especially my grandmother. Angela is a traveling nurse and currently lives in California. After graduating from nursing school, she did an externship at a cardiovascular ICU. Angela Parawan was born in New York City and grew up in Virginia Beach. ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter Benchley was an alumnus of Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University.Īfter graduating from college, he worked for The Washington Post, then as an editor at Newsweek and a speechwriter in the White House. His younger brother, Nat Benchley, is a writer and actor. He was the son of author Nathaniel Benchley and grandson of Algonquin Round Table founder Robert Benchley. Benchley also wrote The Deep and The Island which were also adapted into films.īenchley was from a literary family. The subsequent film directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written by Benchley is generally acknowledged as the first summer blockbuster. The success of the book led to many publishers commissioning books about mutant rats, rabid dogs and the like threatening communities. ![]() Peter Bradford Benchley was an American author best known for writing the novel Jaws and co-writing the screenplay for its highly successful film adaptation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some people would rather to just follow the rules. Why some employees put up with it? Because they feel a sense of pride in toughing it out. They rationalize the fear model as “just the way things are done around here”. In developed countries many leaders rely on fear and their employees continue to put up with it. The fear from authorities has been a dominative factor even until present day. In advertising field, there were tight controls which decreased creativity. At offices fearful employees could not put on a good face for customers. ![]() In factories,strict rules dictated to workers in order to increase their productivity metrics. During all these years ” fear” was a dominant model in various societies for example at school, governments,home, work environment and so on. Should we love or have fear from a leader? This reminds me of Niccolo Machiavelli who asked the same question long time ago. Should leaders encourage love or fear? Leadership advice ![]() |