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Tobias Zwingmann, Armand Ruiz
Artificial Intelligence has the power to dramatically enhance business performance—but knowing where to begin can be overwhelming. The Profitable AI Advantage offers a clear, actionable roadmap for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and CTOs to identify, design, and scale profitable AI initiatives. You'll learn how AI expands margins by reducing costs, increasing throughput, minimizing risk, and unlocking new revenue streams—without incurring proportional costs.Instead of relying on complex financial models, this guide presents simple thresholds, cost caps, and quick-sizing techniques you can apply to your own financials. The book moves efficiently from foundational AI concepts to practical applications, covering predictive AI, generative AI, and agent-based tools.Frameworks like the Pain Points and Bottlenecks Canvas and the Integration-Automation AI Framework help you identify high-impact opportunities, design use cases, build roadmaps, and prototype solutions quickly and cost-effectively. With real-world case studies from seasoned AI expert Tobias Zwingmann, you’ll sidestep pitfalls, streamline implementation, and drive measurable P&L impact.By the end, you’ll be equipped to scale AI strategically, align your teams, and boost decision-making, productivity, and competitive edge.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A novel of crime and conscience by Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946), the self-styled prince of storytellers. The Profiteers was written about the stock market post-World War I and pre-1929 crash. The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. Bechtel, who led a consortium that constructed the Hoover Dam. From that auspicious start, the family and its eponymous company would go on to build the world, from the construction of airports in Hong Kong and Doha, to pipelines and tunnels in Alaska and Europe, to mining and energy operations around the globe. Like all stories of empire building, the rise of Bechtel presents a complex and riveting narrative. In The Profiteers, Sally Denton, exposes Bechtels secret world and one of the biggest business and political stories of our time.
The Pronoun “You" as a Refraction of the Ontological Self in Gao Xingjian\'s "Soul Mountain"
Ruth Alter, Anna Wendorff
The subject of the study is intellectually compelling and represents an attempt to make an original contribution to the existing scholarship on the work of Nobel Prize laureate Gao Xingjian. The study is distinguished by a high degree of originality, primarily owing to the consistent development of the authors' concept of the "Ontological Self" and the process of "refraction" that is central to it. The authors do not merely reproduce existing interpretations of Soul Mountain, but propose their own coherent theoretical approach, in which "you" is interpreted not as the narrator's conventional alter ego, but as the result of the ontological "refraction" of the subject. This approach marks a significant shift in emphasis from the psychological and narrative level to the philosophical and ontological. From the review by Professor Carlos Dimeo The study addresses an interesting and relevant topic within Gao Xingjian scholarship. The central thesis: that the pronoun "you" functions as a refraction of an "Ontological Self" is original and distinguishes the manuscript from much of the existing criticism, which tends to discuss "you" as shadow, alter ego, projection, or narrative device. This approach offers an original perspective on Gao Xingjian's narrative technique and furthers existing discussions on identity, subjectivity, and pronoun usage by the interpretation of the "you" in Soul Mountain. It has a strong engagement with scholarship and constitutes a clearly identifiable contribution. This manuscript presents a thoughtful and original interpretation of Gao Xingjian's Soul Mountain. From the review by Professor Marie-Christine Seguin
Harold Bindloss
Vayne was 27 years old. And nine of which he spent on scott, canoeing, chopping trees and searching for minerals. He and his friend discovered valuable mineral property several months earlier. They were aiming for a better life and wanted to grow their business. However, not everything is so easy.
The Provincial Lady Goes Further
E.M. Delafield
A sequel to extremely popular, largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady, by E. M. Delafield (also known as Mrs Henry de la Pasture), about her life in England in the early 20th century. Provincial Lady lives in a country house with her husband, two children, the childrens French governess, Cook and a few assorted helpers. A delightful see-youselves-as-others-see-you view that challenges the American sense of humor.
The Provincial Lady in America
E.M. Delafield
No one could have been more surprised than our Provincial Lady to receive an invitation from her American agent to travel transatlantic and embark upon a programme of lectures and signings. What follows after she sets foot on American soil is a series of whirlwind tours about the continent, and also including a trip to Canada. This is book 3 in the Provincial Lady series by English author E. M. Delafield.
E.M. Delafield
Written in the style of a diary, it tells the story of woman living in 1930s Russia who finds herself toiling on a collective farm, battling with public transport, and generally struggling with life in Soviet Russia. Although the style and humor are slightly different than the others in the series, it manages to be on itself a thoroughly interesting book about one womans experiences in Communist Russia.
The Provincial Lady in Wartime
E.M. Delafield
This is the fourth and last of autobiographical novel series by English author E. M. Delafield (1890-1943). It takes the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman in the 1930s. The story of a volunteer in a womans underground canteen service in England during the World War 2 who must cope with gas masks, evacuated relatives etc.