Historical Fiction Now brings together prominent authors, scholars, and critics of historical fiction to explore the genre's character, fortunes, and potential in the twenty-first century. Gathering together the voices of novelists, critics, academics, and several authors writing across these categories, the volume explores the nature of reading, writing, and writing about historical fiction in the present moment while meditating on some of the myriad contexts of the genre. What inspires writers to choose particular moments, events, and personalities as the subjects of their fictional imaginings, and with what implications for their readers' understanding of the present? How do contemporary scholars approach the making and reception of historical fiction, and how do these approaches resonate with writers' own preoccupations in the process of invention? What might scholars of a genre with a long and complex history learn from its contemporary practitioners? Conversely, how do novelists understand their own historical fictions (if at all) in relation to the theoretical and critical traditions shaping the work of their academic colleagues? The collection features an original essay by Hilary Mantel on the making of the Wolf Hall trilogy as well as contributions from internationally known novelists such as George Saunders, Namwali Serpell, Maaza Mengiste, and Téa Obreht, among others.

Historical Fiction Now

Literature & Fiction

Holsinger, Bruce

Eaton, Mark

Contemporary

Oxford University Press

The Lean Practitioner's Handbooks

While Lean Thinking is an established approach to developing a culture of continuous improvement, the process of implementing Lean in any organization can be complicated, with programs often ending in failure. The Lean Practitioner's Handbook bridges the gap between the tools and the concepts of Lean and offers a practical, easily accessible resource for anyone preparing for, implementing or evaluating Lean activities. Eaton discusses key areas, such as: aspects of a Lean Program; scoping a program; value stream mapping; 2P and 3P events; rapid improvement events; managing for daily improvement; engaging the team; spotting problems and communicating progress. For Eaton, Lean needs to be part of the organization's culture. Discussing Lean as it applies to organizational change and strategic planning, this book covers a wide variety of tools and concepts and explains how to apply them in practice.

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The Meaning of Life: The Scientific and Social Experiences of Everitt and Robert Murray, 1930-1964

Avery, Donald H.

The Champlain Society

Religion and American Literature Since 1950 (New Directions in Religion and Literature)

History & Criticism

Bloomsbury Academic

From Flannery O'Connor and James Baldwin to the post-9/11 writings of Don DeLillo, imaginative writers have often been the most insightful chroniclers of the USA's changing religious life since the end of World War II. Exploring a wide range of writers from Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and secular faiths, this bookis an in-depth study of contemporary fiction's engagement with religious belief, identity and practice. Through readings of major writers of our time like Saul Bellow, E. L. Doctorow, Philip Roth, Marilynne Robinson and John Updike, Mark Eaton discovers a more nuanced picture of the varieties of American religious experience: that they are more commonplace than cultural ideas of progressive secularisation or faith-based polarization might suggest.

The Lean Practitioner's Handbook bridges the gap between the tools and concepts of Lean and the practical use of the tools. It offers a practical, easily accessible resource for anyone preparing for, implementing or evaluating lean activities covering key areas such as: aspects of a Lean Programme; scoping a programme; value stream mapping; 2P and 3P events; Rapid Improvement Events; managing for daily improvement; engaging the team; spotting problems and communicating progress. In addition, it offers a quick snapshot summary of the key tool and concepts of Lean plus easily applicable templates. Online supporting resources for this book include instructor's manuals on communications, events and standard work, templates for problem-solving and tables such as event summaries

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Lean is an exciting and modern way to develop and improve healthcare services and can form the basis of a culture of continuous improvement within any organisation, and particularly within large and complex healthcare organisations. This book has been written as a starter guide for those involved in delivering Lean in healthcare organisations and covers not only the tools but also the theory and the practice of ‘the journey to Lean’. It has been written in the knowledge that the people who will beneﬁt most from reading it will be busy people and therefore it has a minimum of jargon and focuses on the most important tools and concepts of Lean without lots of the ‘ﬂuff’ that surrounds Lean. The simple message of this book is that Lean is not a Black Art and can be done by anyone, anywhere and at anytime.

Lean for Practitioners: An introduction to Lean for healthcare organisations.

Independently published

There is always an excitement of adventure as we explore the unknown. Scientists making discoveries about DNA, Fractals, quantum mechanics and hidden dimensions of the universe experienced that thrill. Is there a similar Eureka! moment when we find scientific principles embedded in ancient scripture? Those that sailed the vast Atlantic to the “New World” brought back wondrous stories of peoples and lands. Those that ventured into space for the first time and even set foot on the moon captured the imagination of earth’s people. Ride along with us as we journey through the largely unexplored land of Bible acrostics. Yes, these acrostic verses with lines that have words in a pre-arranged alphabetical pattern have their own beauty as prose and poetry. Many Bible scholars have acknowledged and appreciated that over the years and centuries. But further exploration reveals these acrostics have a coded pattern in which mysteries of DNA, fractals, hidden dimensions and quantum mechanics are revealed. Are the modern ‘discoveries’ of science uncovering what was already embedded in scriptures from ancient times?

Bible Acrostic Code Mysteries: Revealing DNA, Fractal and Quantum Creative Linguistics

Religion & Spirituality

Eaton, Cathy

Armstrong, MR Carl

Christian Books & Bibles

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Remembrance of not Remembered Creation: A Bible Timeline of Momentous Events

ARMSTRONG, CARL D

NEW LINGUISTIC DISCOVERIES ARE BROUGHT FORTH BASED ON 2000 BC EGYPTIAN CARVINGS AND 16TH CENTURY SCIENTIST PASCAL'S WORKSThe authors have carefully researched the meanings and graphics of the alphabetical characters and the ancient texts containing them. However, this book brings forth a unique forensic dimension-that of the mathematics and science of an alpha-numeric system. This involves application of the works of Blaise Pascal, a French scientist and mathematician of the 1600's. His work is studied today by science and engineering students having an interest in hydraulics, hydrodynamics, pressure, barometers and calculators. His Pascal's Triangle is still marveled at by mathematicians today. The book examines the visit of patriarch Abraham to Egypt in the same general time frame as when the Wadi-el-Hol inscriptions were thought be made.The authors have followed the thread to the ancient Hebrew language that is consistent with the very parameters of science and mathematical patterns found in nature-an alpha-numeric language that transcends the centuries.

Investigating the Thread of Linguistic Origins: (You Can't Un-See What You Have Seen)

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