Naval Letters from Captain Percival Drayton, 1861-1865: Printed from the Original Manuscripts Presented to the New York Public Library by Miss. Gertru, Drayton Percival
Автор: Everett, Percival Название: Watershed ISBN: 0807083615 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807083611 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 17470.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Open Agile Architecture, a standard of The Open Group, offers an approach to architect at scale with agility. It provides guidance and best practices for Enterprise Architects seeking to transition into Agile and Digital contexts. Empowering an Enterprise to Succeed with its Digital-Agile TransformationAgile teams drive the enterprise`s Digital Transformation by inventing new business models, delivering superior customer experiences, developing digital products, and architecting highly-automated operating systems.The Open Agile Architecture Standard was designed keeping the needs of all business stakeholders in mind:¢ Business Leaders - to drive the enterprise`s Digital and Agile change journey¢ Enterprise Architects - to extend their scope of influence in an Agile at scale world¢ Product Managers - to help transform customer experience, innovate products, and generate growth¢ Product Owners - to accelerate their transformation from managing feature backlogs to steering value delivery¢ Operations Managers - to enable them to leverage Lean and automation to generate sustainable competitive advantages¢ Software Engineers - to leverage the power of digital technologies to co-innovate with the businessThe more Agile the enterprise, the faster the learning cycles, and faster learning cycles translate to shorter time-to-market resulting in more agility. By adopting an Open Agile Architecture approach, your organization can capitalize on this accelerated learning cycle, meaning your Agile and Digital capabilities continuously and simultaneously co-create one another.
Автор: Percival John Название: Return Migration in Later Life ISBN: 1447301226 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447301226 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 113510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The main objective of this edited volume is to explore the motivations, decision making processes, and consequences, when older people consider or accomplish return migration to their place of origin; and also to raise the public policy profile of this increasingly important subject.
Автор: Everett Percival Название: I Am Not Sidney Poitier ISBN: 1555975275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781555975272 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 10420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America "I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier." Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with an unfortunate name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor, and, perhaps more fortunate, a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Percival Everett's hilarious new novel follows Not Sidney's tumultuous life, as the social hierarchy scrambles to balance his skin color with his fabulous wealth. Maturing under the less-than watchful eye of his adopted foster father, Ted Turner, Not gets arrested in rural Georgia for driving while black, sparks a dinnertable explosion at the home of his manipulative girlfriend, and sleuths a murder case in Smut Eye, Alabama, all while navigating the recurrent communication problem: ""What's your name?" a kid would ask. "Not Sidney," I would say. "Okay, then what is it?"" Percival Everett is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of seventeen novels, including "The Water Cure," "Wounded," and "Erasure." Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with a strange name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor, and, perhaps more fortunately, a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Percival Everett's hilarious new novel follows Not Sidney's tumultuous life, as the social hierarchy scrambles to balance his skin color with his fabulous wealth. Maturing under the less-than-watchful eye of his landlord, Ted Turner, Not get arrested in rural Georgia for driving while black, and sleuths a murder case in Smuteye, Alabama, all while navigating the recurrent communication problem: ""What's your name? a kids would ask. "Not Sidney," I would say. "Okay, then what is it?" " "Constantly shifting modes, from comic realism to tall tale, from recounted dreams to refashioned movie plots, Everett's hall of mirrors narrative presents African American identity itself as rooted in contradiction."--Gregory Leon Miller, "San Francisco Chronicle" "Percival Everett made news 20 years ago at the South Carolina State House, where he stopped in the middle of a speech--he had been invited by the Legislature--and refused to go on because of the presence of the Confederate flag. This gesture initiated a controversy that resulted, several years later, in the flag's removal. For this Everett will be a footnote in American history. His work, however, deserves much more attention than a footnote in American literary history. Is any American writer as undervalued as Everett? Does anyone in America write funnier books? Such questions come to mind with Everett's 17th novel and latest tour de force of purposeful nonsense, " I Am Not Sidney Poitier" . . . As always, Everett relies upon capriciousness to ward off reductive interpretations. And as always, his capricious style accords with a serious purpose--in this case a provocative exploration of the unstable nature of African American identity. The name 'Not Sidney' suggests an identity with origins in a negative truth--he is viewed not for who he is, but against who he is not. As indeed was the original: Sidney Poitier, the movie star himself--shimmering on the silver screen, his Bahamian accent erased--was from the start a reflection of African American pride and compromise, and of the wider culture's hopes and fears. Constantly shifting modes, from comic realism to tall tale, from recounted dreams to refashioned movie plots, Everett's hall of mirrors narrative presents Africa
What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of reading but also attempt to intervene in them. The texts interrupt, manage, and manipulate, employing thematic, formal, and performative strategies in order to multiply meanings for multiple readers, teach new ways of reading, and enable the emergence of antiracist reading subjects. Analyzing works by James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Jamaica Kincaid, Percival Everett, Sapphire, and Toni Morrison, Lesley Larkin covers a century of African American literature in search of the concepts and strategies that black writers have developed in order to address and theorize a diverse audience, and outlines the special contributions modern and contemporary African American literature makes to the fields of reader ethics and antiracist literary pedagogy.
Автор: Tom Percival Название: Goat`s Coat ISBN: 1408881012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408881019 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 7910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From author and illustrator Tom Percival, creator of the bestselling Big Bright Feelings series, a beautifully illustrated, uplifting picture book that is bursting with kindness and good deeds'A real winner - great to look at and with a feel-good factor to match.' Books My Toddler LovesAlfonzo the goat couldn't be happier. He's just got himself a dashing new coat and he feels like a million dollars. But when he discovers some creatures in need of help, will Alfonzo be able to part with his treasured possession to save the day?Let me tell you the tale of Alfonzo the goat,Who was terribly fond of his lovely new coat ...
The perfect picture-book pick-me-up showing that love, kindness and friendship make the best recipe for happiness.
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