Sifting through the dirt to get to the gold
"Captivity does things to you. It shows you how base an animal you can be. How you'd do anything to stay alive and suffer a little bit less than the day before." One of my initial thoughts after finishing the book, and a subtext to the whole relevance of the plot, was how big of... Continue Reading →
SUMMARY Like sharks safe in the dark fathoms of the sea to prey on targets, the Bullies' Predatory Footprint looks at the vast, opportunistic, cruel, and predatory behaviour of bullying that is exercised to repress and maintain an ascendancy of dominance, power, and control over others. Harrying many young and vulnerable people to suicide, the... Continue Reading →
"Sometimes our office is like high school. Cliquey and ruled by popularity, people getting teased for what they wear and what they say. All these judgments passed based on what someone likes, and the only form of humour is the toilet kind. You know what I mean?" "Max used to say, pay attention at school... Continue Reading →
"I thought of the divisions, within and through my city, small ones, cracks in pavements and in people's minds, that were familiar, nondescript, repeated as often as the scene in front of me was repeated, glowing and then gone. I thought of bigger divisions, moral and political, how Eden Carmichael had moved across them, and... Continue Reading →
SUMMARY Supercharge the way you build business relationships--online and off!Business success is all about connections, relationships, and networks! In "New Business Networking," Dave Delaney shows how to combine proven offline business networking techniques with the newest social media--and make them both far more effective. Drawing on nearly 20 years of experience building great online and... Continue Reading →
"Regrettably, the immune system protecting this global nervous system is weak and under persistent attack. The consequences of its failure cannot be overstated. As a result, it is time to start designing, engineering and building much more robust systems of self-protection - safeguards that can grow and adapt as rapidly as new technological threats are... Continue Reading →
"New York as a character in a mystery would not be the detective, would not be the murderer. It would be the enigmatic suspect who knows the real story but isn't going to tell it." Bleeding Edge refers to an incorporation of technologies that are so innovative that they have a high risk of being... Continue Reading →
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