![]() Collective performance improves when you tap the entire pool of human resources and talent. Sandberg believes that a truly equal world would have women running half the corporate world and men running half the homes. When Sandberg started working she thought things were changing, but she soon realized they were not because she was often the only woman in the room. ![]() Figures show that women are still at great disadvantage when it comes to obtaining positions of leadership and equal salaries to men. Women in the modern developed world, thanks to the work of their predecessors, are better off than women of the past and women in undeveloped countries. This experience made her wonder about other pregnant women who suffered in silence due to the lack of parking and other special considerations. She expressed the need for pregnancy parking to Sergey Brin, one of Google’s founders, and he immediately agreed. As the company grew, and her pregnancy advanced, she started to notice things that were not helpful to her condition, such as the lack of parking spots for pregnant women at the front of the building. ![]() When Sandberg got pregnant she was working at Google, which at the time was only an obscure startup. This is an Instaread Summary of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg.īelow is a preview of the earlier sections of the summary: We read every chapter, summarize and analyze it for your convenience. ![]() With Instaread Summaries, you can get the summary of a book in 30 minutes or less. ![]()
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![]() Improbable Infant Survival: The baby girl Zoe gives birth to is perfectly healthy, even despite the beach's conditions.Express Delivery: Zoe, one of the rapidly aging children, ages into a teenager, winds up pregnant after having sex with Louis, and swiftly delivers a baby girl.The last scene shows her building a sandcastle. ![]() Zoe and Louis's daughter is the last surviving person, though in the body of a 50 year old and will inevitably age to death as well. Downer Ending: Everyone inevitably dies of old age on the beach.Night Shyamalan wrote, directed and produced the graphic novel’s film adaptation, Old. Soon everybody is growing older-every half hour-and there doesn't seem to be any way out of the cove. ![]() Then there is the odd fact that all the children are aging rapidly. It's a perfect beach day, or so thought the family, young couple, a few tourists, and a refugee who all end up in the same secluded, idyllic cove filled with rock pools and sandy shore, encircled by green, densely vegetated cliffs.įirst there is the dead body of a woman found floating in the crystal-clear water. It was initially published in France, before being translated into English by Nora Mahony and released in the United States in 2013. Sandcastle is a French-language Swiss sci-fi mystery graphic novel written by Pierre Oscar Lévy and illustrated by Frederik Peeters. ![]() ![]() ![]() If our commitment to diversity is more than skin deep, we must cultivate deep friendships with smart people with whom we fundamentally disagree. But our society seems to be losing the art of debate within friendships, and we instead surround ourselves with people who think like us. Indeed, I debate hardest with the people I respect the most, because I take their ideas seriously. (45)ĭisagreement is not evidence of disrespect. If you care about diversity, don’t dismiss Christianity: it is the most diverse, multiethnic, and multicultural movement in all of history. Read the New Testament, and you will find that trying to marry biblical Christianity to white-centric nationalism is like trying to marry a cat to a mouse: one is designed to hunt the other, not mate with it. The idea that Christianity is a diversity-resistant, white Western religion of privilege is utterly irreconcilable with the New Testament. Indeed, calling Christianity “Western” is like calling literacy “Western.”. While Christianity held a monopoly on Western culture, Western culture never held a monopoly on Christianity. ![]() ![]() Turn this data on its head and the trend toward secularization in America is a public-health crisis. In general, religious participation appears to be good for your health and happiness. But to say that religion is bad for you is like saying, “Drugs are bad for you,” without distinguishing cocaine from life-saving medication. We need only open a newspaper to see that religious beliefs can cause harm. ![]() ![]() It was a stroke of luck for him, as he went on to hit. There will never be another like him.”Ī pitcher in the low minors until he injured his arm, Musial turned to playing the outfield and first base. “Stan will be remembered in baseball annals as one of the pillars of our game,” Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson said. He had been the longest-tenured living Hall of Famer. He spent his entire 22-year career with the Cardinals and made the All-Star team 24 times - baseball held two All-Star games each summer for a few seasons. Musial won seven National League batting crowns, was a three-time MVP and helped the Cardinals capture three World Series championships in the 1940s. He was one of baseball’s greatest hitters, every bit the equal of Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio even without the bright lights of the big city. Louis that two statues in his honor stand outside Busch Stadium - one just wouldn’t do him justice. Musial, the Midwest icon with too many batting records to fit on his Hall of Fame plaque, was so revered in St. The team said Musial’s son-in-law, Dave Edmonds, informed the club of the slugger’s death.Įarlier Saturday, baseball lost another Hall of Famer when longtime Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver died at age 82. ![]() ![]() The Cardinals announced Musial’s death in a news release and said he died at his home in Ladue, a St. ![]() “I never heard anybody say a bad word about him - ever,” Willie Mays said in a statement released by the Hall of Fame. ![]() ![]() Then Bryce’s lips land on mine, and the world turns upside down. Saying hello to Bryce turns into hours spent together on the ice, and then an invite to dinner, and then days at each other's side. ![]() And there’s my hero: Bryce Michel, league superstar. I never thought I’d be invited to the All-Star Weekend, but here I am. Look inside myself? Lotta beer and burgers there. I’m just trying to keep my head up and get through each day, until this wild ride comes to an end.ĭeep thinking isn’t really my thing. Good enough to be drafted into the NHL, and I’ve been on the roster for the past two years, but I’ll never make the Hall of Fame. I’m a middle-of-the-road, nothing-special hockey player. So why am I falling head over heels at the NHL's All-Star Weekend? ![]() ![]() Like how a man’s lips might taste, or how his body might feel in my arms. I'm thinking dangerous thoughts, and dreaming about impossible things. I’m shattering records and packing arenas every night, and I’ve promised my team: we’re going to win the Stanley Cup this year.īut I’m keeping big secrets. ![]() This game pulled me from my tiny Quebec hometown all the way to the NHL, and now? I’m the number one player in the league. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The New York Times Book Review About the Author Charles Todd lives on Americas East Coast, but he knows England well. The Boston Globe his challenging plot, complex characters, and subtle psychological insights in thick layers of atmosphere. Washington Post Book World A strong mystery, filled with fine characterizations a superb eye for Cornwall.Wise and wily. A spectacular conclusion that rejuvenates the cliche It was a dark and stormy night. Guided by the voice of Hamish, the Scot he unwillingly executed on the battlefield, Rutledge is driven to uncover the haunting truths of murder and madness rooted in a family crypt. Manning, whose war poetry helped Rutledge retain his grasp on sanity in the trenches of France. Including the identity of one of the dead, a reclusive spinster unmasked as O. Book Synopsis In Charles Todds Wings of Fire, Inspector Ian Rutledge is quickly sent to investigate the sudden deaths of three members of the same eminent Cornwall family, but the World War I veteran soon realizes that nothing about this case is routine. ![]() With him goes his constant companion Hamish, the young Scot whom he unwillingly had to execute on the battlefield and whose tormenting voice in Rutledges head forces him to face unpleasant truths. A concerned relative suspects foul play, so Scotland Yard sends shell-shocked WWI veteran Ian Rutledge to Cornwall. About the Book Cornwall, England, is the setting for three recent deaths in the same family. ![]() ![]() ![]() The detective, Kippy Grimm, notices a poor dog laying down almost dead, and she manages to help rescue the dog. The story starts off with the police being called into an abuse case, and the abuser was unconscious from carbon monoxide fumes. Burton is the first book in his new Mace Reid K-9 Mystery series. Paired with determined Chicago Police Officer Kippy Gimm, Mace must put all his trust in Vira’s abilities to thwart a serial killer who has now set his sights on Mace himself. Suddenly, Reid and his prize pupil find themselves hurled into a taxing murder case, which will push them to their very limits. And when Reid begins training Vira as a cadaver dog, he comes to realize just how special the newest addition to his family truly is… He adopts a rescue dog with a mysterious past-a golden retriever named Vira. ![]() Reid’s coming off a taxing year-mourning the death of a beloved springer spaniel as well as the dissolution of his marriage. Mason “Mace” Reid lives on the outskirts of Chicago and specializes in human remains detection. ![]() Burton – a ReviewĪmazon / B&N / Kobo / Google Play / Apple / BAM / Book Depository ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet in other respects, they are quite different. His pictures have an infectious sort of vibrancy, bursting with a love of life not often seen in fashion photography today.” He knows the best restaurants in any given town,” she writes in Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue, “and always manages to keep the mood up, up, up. “His life is all about jumping off one plane and on to another. They are, as Grace explains, good travellers. ![]() In some repsects, Grace and Mario are quite alike. One of the few contributors to appear in both volumes is the Peruvian-born photographer Mario Testino. The box set includes Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue and Grace: The American Vogue Years. Our new title Saving Grace: My Fashion Archive 1968-2016 is a stunning two-book collection that spans her remarkable career. US Vogue’s creative director at large began her career modeling in London, when the city was truly swinging, and is still working, five decades later, in her adoptive home of New York. There’s no one in the fashion industry who’s had a career quite like Grace Coddington. To celebrate the publication of Saving Grace: My Fashion Archive 1968-2016, Vogue's Grace Coddington recalls some of her favourite photographers, including this Peruvian master who “manages to keep the mood up, up, up” Grace's greatest photographers – Mario Testino ![]() ![]() Martin Family Saga: Whiskey Cove - Gina WatsonĪ. Never Never - Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher.The Patrick Chronicles - Nicole Williams.Boys South of the Mason Dixon - Effy Vaughn.Saga Hermandad de Sangre - Bianca D’Arc. ![]() ![]() Serie This can't be happening - Lynda LeeAnne.Promise Harbor Wedding - Varios Autores. ![]() ![]() ![]() |a Introduction - "Hi, my name is Steve, and I'm addicted to adrenaline" - Least likely to become an FBI agent - Quantico theme park - Not my dad's FBI - I didn't see the train coming - I swear I didn't know she was dead - Career number two - So I just met this girl - Don't lose him, don't get burned - SWAT and other bad habits - It was nice while it lasted - Stupid people tricks - Big guns, small children - My, how time flies - Drinking out of a fire hose - Diplomacy, and other things your mother warned you about - "Isn't there anybody else who could do your job, daddy?" - Insanity - Sparky, why don't you head west? - FBI glossary. ![]() ![]() |a 1 online resource (x, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b my life in the FBI as a terrorist hunter, helicopter pilot, and certified sniper / ![]() |