![]() ![]() Business Adventures is truly financial journalism at its liveliest and best. Five additional stories on equally fascinating subjects round out this wonderful collection that will both entertain and inform readers. ![]() ![]() Longtime New Yorker contributor John Brooks's insightful reportage is so full of personality and critical detail that whether he is looking at the astounding market crash of 1962, the collapse of a well-known brokerage firm, or the bold attempt by American bankers to save the British pound, one gets the sense that history repeats itself. Stories about Wall Street are infused with drama and adventure and reveal the machinations and volatile nature of the world of finance. " Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever read." -Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety these notable and fascinating accounts are as relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life as they were when the events happened. ![]()
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My own personal experience as a teacher of refugees reflects Gladwell's primary thesis. How many people who might have come up with the cure for pancreatic cancer been forced to spend their time standing in lines waiting for clean water or food? ![]() What could all the people with limited opportunities do if given greater opportunities? Think Darfur. Moreover, I felt the text tugging at the need for greater equity. : ) Instead, I found myself reflecting on things that have felt like lucky opportunities in my own life. In a rare moment, I found myself not wanting to argue. While I can see a different way of spinning the data provided to support Gladwell's argument, I didn't care. ![]() ![]() I kept thinking, "I've just got to put in more hours if I want to do better." It helps me feel better about my many failures at initial attempts to master things (like glazing pottery, algebra, Salsa dancing, skiing and sewing. He states that it takes approximately 10,000 hours to master something and that gives me comfort. Gladwell argues that success is tightly married to opportunity and time on task. ![]() ![]() ![]() The tale is of Podkin, a spoilt Cheiftain’s son, who is expected to be the leader of his Warren one day. My review: what a beautifully told story! I love the narration – how the Bard, the old storyteller, is telling the story of the Legend of Podkin to some small inquisitive rabbits! It reminded me just what it is like when a teacher tells a story to children. They’ll always be with us… They can’t take our memories away, can they?” Paz – Podkin One-Ear He was also perhaps the laziest, most spoilt son of a chieftain in the whole Five Realms!īut when his warren is attacked by the Gorm – the most terrifying threat to rabbitkind – Podkin has to step up and so a leader is born… He wasn’t a hero back then: he hadn’t slain any giant rabbits, or formed any robber bands…Oh, and he still had both his ears. ![]() Podkin is the son of Lopkin, cheiftain of the Munbury warren. Now… there are entire villages and cities built under the earth, completely out of sight. Synopsis: Back when rabbits were small, twitchy, terrified things, warrens were little more than a collection of holes and tunnels. ![]() ![]() So, I wanted to pool them all in one place as you decide if this resource is something that might work for you and your classroom! It’s definitely an investment BUT it’s so much better than trying to collect resources each week! As I have shared about this book on Facebook and Instagram, I field lots of questions. ![]() Using Jan’s book “The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading” to guide my instruction, sight word lists, weekly guided reading skills, etc. With Jan’s plan, I am able to create a familiar routine to follow without spending a million hours planning each week. ![]() It is based out of Fountas & Pinnell’s reading research and takes all the guesswork out of my groups. Using texts from Learning A-Z and $1 books from Scholastic, I follow Jan Richardson’s Guided Reading plan and LOVE it. Honestly, I don’t use or create my own Guided Reading products. I receive *a lot* of questions about how I plan for guided reading making the process as streamlined and efficient as possible. Since Guided Reading often means planning for 3-6 groups a week (many groups reading 2+ texts a week), I know the planning and preparing can be overwhelming. As a teacher, we coach and scaffold our readers all while pushing them forward in their reading routines. ![]() Guided Reading offers students intentional reading instruction with texts that are just a little too hard. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, he is best known for his theory of feminine development, a theory formulated in numerous publications, most notably The Great Mother. ![]() His most valuable contribution to psychology was the empirical concept of "centroversion", a synthesis of extra- and introversion. Neumann had a theoretical and philosophical approach to analysis, contrasting with the more clinical concern in England and the United States. He also lectured frequently in England, France and the Netherlands, and was a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and president of the Israel Association of Analytical Psychologists.Įrich Neumann contributed greatly to the field of developmental psychology and the psychology of consciousness and creativity. For many years, he regularly returned to Zürich, Switzerland to give lectures at the C. He practiced analytical psychology in Tel Aviv from 1934 until his death in 1960. Erich Neumann was a psychologist, writer, and one of Carl Jung's most gifted students. ![]() ![]() I had her tell enough so that what happened was clear and, at the same time, not go into details. ![]() ![]() "This girl, like most women, is very reticent about some things – you know, the sex scenes, where she spent the night with a guy. "I've just finished a book called The Cocktail Waitress, where the girl tells her story, and there's some pretty intimate stuff," the author said. Unfortunately, they cannot be disproved either … All I know to do is to tell it and tell it all, including some things no woman would willingly tell … "Ĭain himself said in a 1976 interview that "in my stories there's usually stuff that you wouldn't think any human being would tell at all". "It's in the hope of getting it printed to clear my name of the charges made against me … of being a femme fatale who knew ways of killing a husband so slick they couldn't be proved. Narrated by the widow Joan Medford, who meets two new men in the cocktail bar where she is working – a "handsome young schemer", and a wealthy older man she marries. The Cocktail Waitress is "the Holy Grail" for crime fans, he added. ![]() ![]() The author of classic crime novels including Mildred Pierce – adapted into the acclaimed HBO miniseries starring Kate Winslet – and Double Indemnity, Cain, together with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, "is universally considered one of the three greatest writers of noir crime fiction who ever lived," said Ardai. He called his discovery "like finding a lost manuscript by Hemingway or a lost score by Gershwin – that's how big a deal this is". ![]() |