In this fictionalized case study, Robert Perrine describes what a typical project looks like within information technology. The project is already behind schedule when Robert arrives. There is no agreement on scope and the project budget is being siphoned away. Somehow Robert needs to bring the team together and get the work accomplished before they run out of time, money or sanity.The lesson learned is that effective communication requires filtering...

This is part two in the Fishbowl series. In this adventure Bob helps Marlene learn about the Path with Many Steps. Marlene searches for her higher power. And Linda searches for great restaurants.Bob and Marlene learn that their lives are more tranquil when they step out and seek their higher power.

In this fictionalized case study, Robert Perrine describes what a typical project looks like within information technology. The project begins with the idealistic goals of formalizing best practices for project management. Towards the end the project is just a mad scramble to avoid disaster.The key lesson learned is to study the communications requirements more deeply and delve into the limitations imposed by the "way things are done around here"...

La casa de su abuela llevó a Florence a encontrar lo que a ella se le ocultaba desde que era una niña, pero esto no fue suficiente, tenía que iniciar una larga búsqueda, enfrentarse a situaciones que ella no conocía, algunas de ellas adversas, otras difíciles y peligrosas, pero otras emocionantes y felices. ¿Será suficiente la valentía, la gran esperanza y fuerza de voluntad de Florence para llegar a conocer lo que se le había ocultado?

From Publishers WeeklyAt the beginning of this bawdy, in your face, hugely entertaining bear of a book, Kinder explains that he intends to tell readers about his home state, West Virginia, land of "legendary mountain dancers, moonshiners, stupendous marijuana farmers, snakehandlers, blood-feudists, mystery midgets, mothmen [and] horny space aliens who drop into my home state as regular as clock-work in order to engage in extra-terrestrial sex with...

The new blade, one of a sharp twin pair, slices skin and lets blood out. There's hardly even a sting at first, before the foamy shaving cream turns pink, then red, and here's the sting, for real now, as if let loose by blood. Foam redder still. It's a pretty deep cut."Damn."His right hand passes the razor to his left then dives into a blue box of paper napkins by the basin and brings one-two actually, they tend to cling together-out. He presses them...

July 6, 1961What I dislike the most about electric shock is the smell. That, and the little sound it makes which I didn't hear at first. What with the humming of the machine, the doctors talking, and the patient moaning and even screaming sometimes, it was hard to hear, but once I did, once I did hear this sound, distinct from all the other sounds in the room, now I hear it all the time, I can't stop hearing it.What this sound is, is a tiny sizzle-as...

El descuento es una compilación de 100 relatos breves que tienen en el fútbol su punto de partida, para a través de él narrar y reflexionar acerca de cuestiones vitales que trascienden el deporte. Una amplia y variada selección de historias contadas por 100 escritoras y escritores entre los que destacan Enrique Vila-Matas, Juan Villoro, Sergi Pàmies, Belén Gopegui, Martín Caparrós, Eduardo Sacheri, Carlos Zanón, Pepe Colubi, Miqui Otero,...

Fernando Alfaro es uno de los músicos de referencia del rock independiente nacional y el líder y vocalista de uno de los grupos de culto de los noventa: Surfin' Bichos, recientemente reunidos tras un hiato de tres décadas para grabar un disco que ha visto la luz en 2023. Mundo turbio es la primera novela de Alfaro y parte de las letras de sus canciones para ampliar la vida de su nutrido grupo de personajes atormentados, entre los que destaca Ángel...

This is the story of a basically decent man who hid his true self from others all of his life. It began as a child hiding he was Jewish during the Holocaust period. Over the years, hiding became his main protection against being hurt-or so he believed, until he became trapped in a hidden role, unable to extricate himself and desperately wishing to be perceived as the person he truly was. As he struggled to penetrate what felt like a permanent barrier...