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George Lamming—one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices, championed by Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre—reimagines the age of European exploration in a work that stands as one of the great political novels of the twentieth century Under imperial orders, a nameless Commandant sets sail sometime between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, bound for the legendary island of San Cristobal—a place whispered about in maps and myths, promised as a prize of empire. The voyage is meant to secure glory and dominion. Instead, it begins to unravel. As weeks at sea stretch into obsession, the expedition becomes a dangerous test of authority and belief. The Commandant’s power is absolute yet increasingly fragile; his crew is caught between obedience and doubt. What begins as a mission of discovery turns into a voyage haunted by fear, desire, and the unspoken violence at the heart of conquest. Told through shifting perspectives and charged with poetic intensity, Natives of My Person plunges readers inside the imperial imagination at the moment it begins to crack. George Lamming transforms the historical voyage into a gripping psychological drama—one that exposes the ambitions, illusions, and brutal consequences of empire. Urgent, unsettling, and fiercely original, Natives of My Person, Lamming’s masterpiece, reveals how conquest reshapes not only the world, but the minds that seek to rule it. “George Lamming is not so much a novelist as a chronicler of secret journeys to the innermost regions of the West Indian psyche. . . an uninhibited journey to the heart of the colonizer.” —The New York Times

George Lamming—one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices, championed by Richard Wright and Jean-Paul Sartre—reimagines the age of European exploration in a work that stands as one of the great political novels of the twentieth century Under imperial orders, a nameless Commandant sets sail sometime between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, bound for the legendary island of San Cristobal—a place whispered about in maps and myths, promised as a prize of empire. The voyage is meant to secure glory and dominion. Instead, it begins to unravel. As weeks at sea stretch into obsession, the expedition becomes a dangerous test of authority and belief. The Commandant’s power is absolute yet increasingly fragile; his crew is caught between obedience and doubt. What begins as a mission of discovery turns into a voyage haunted by fear, desire, and the unspoken violence at the heart of conquest. Told through shifting perspectives and charged with poetic intensity, Natives of My Person plunges readers inside the imperial imagination at the moment it begins to crack. George Lamming transforms the historical voyage into a gripping psychological drama—one that exposes the ambitions, illusions, and brutal consequences of empire. Urgent, unsettling, and fiercely original, Natives of My Person, Lamming’s masterpiece, reveals how conquest reshapes not only the world, but the minds that seek to rule it. “George Lamming is not so much a novelist as a chronicler of secret journeys to the innermost regions of the West Indian psyche. . . an uninhibited journey to the heart of the colonizer.” —The New York Times

A Novel

Natives of My Person

Red Snake and Blue Snake have been friends since they were small, but that doesn't mean they see things the same way. When Red Snake says the sky is grey, Blue Snake insists it's blue. The cactus looks just like a ghost--or a mitten. With so much to debate, can the snakes stay friends? The two stubborn reptiles start their morning with a little yoga, watch the clouds, bicker about this and that, narrowly escape being captured by a snake charmer, and end the day very nearly agreeing on something. Tallec's knack for high comedy is a highlight of this bright story that reminds us how opposite points of view can be equally true.

Red Snake Blue Snake

ISO 9001 2026 Beyond Compliance: A Practical Guide to Transitioning and Improving Organizational Performance provides organizations with a comprehensive roadmap for successfully transitioning from ISO 9001:2015 to ISO 9001:2026 while transforming their quality management system from a compliance obligation into a strategic business management tool. Written in response to the first major revision of the world's most widely adopted quality management system standard in over a decade, this book addresses enhanced emphasis on organizational context, climate change, quality culture, ethical behavior, digitalization, cybersecurity, and data-driven decision-making, helping organizations achieve meaningful improvements in performance, customer satisfaction, and operational effectiveness.Readers gain access to practical implementation guidance, transition strategies, and real-world examples that demonstrate how to apply ISO 9001:2026 as a framework for leadership engagement, customer focus, strategic alignment, and operational excellence. Comprehensive appendices provide operational perspectives on risk-based thinking, organizational knowledge, competency development, digital systems integration, AI and cybersecurity considerations, organizational resilience, and continual improvement. These features are important because they enable organizations to understand not only what the standard requires, but how to apply quality management principles effectively in complex, technology-driven business environments to achieve sustainable business results.This book is written for Quality Managers, Quality Directors, Operations Managers, Plant Managers, Chief Operating Officers, Management Representatives, Internal Auditors, Continuous Improvement Managers, Management Systems Consultants, and senior leaders responsible for implementing, maintaining, or improving ISO 9001-based quality management systems.

A Practical Guide to Transitioning and Improving Organizational Performance

ISO 9001 2026 Beyond Compliance

You can have a sharp mind and still disappear on screen.

Zoom to Success: Present Like a Pro identifies the gap between having strong ideas and landing them under live, on¿camera pressure. Credibility takes shape through how you show up on screen, as work unfolds visibly and in real time. Virtual presentations, meetings, and interviews do more than convey information. They determine how others experience your thinking in the moment.

Most professionals never learned how to think on their feet, speak clearly, and stay grounded on camera. When nerves spike or attention thins, their thinking freezes at the moment it matters most. Zoom to Success addresses that failure by strengthening improvisation, so presenters stay present and move forward as conditions shift.

Nancy Ancowitz focuses on the mechanics of presence when conditions are imperfect. She zeroes in on the moments presenters dread because those moments decide outcomes. A shaky opening. A sudden tech failure. A zinger question that disrupts your train of thought. The book treats these as expected disruptions and shows how to recover footing without losing authority or momentum.

Zoom to Success reflects how communication actually unfolds on screen. Attention drops. Energy shifts. Pressure rises fast. Ancowitz shows how to respond, stay intentional, and perform effectively without becoming performative. The book positions performance as the purposeful coordination of thinking, voice, and body under pressure, even when technology distracts or glitches on screen. It treats this as a disciplined practice grounded in clear thinking, physical steadiness, vocal use, and sustained attention to the virtual room.

The book also integrates the strategic use of AI as a preparation and sparring partner for thinking. It uses AI for rehearsal as a low¿stakes way to practice thinking aloud and pressure¿test ideas, helping presenters test language, probe weak spots, and refine points of view before going live, so they can stay coherent and responsive when the moment turns unpredictable.

Zoom to Success speaks to people whose ideas should carry weight once they land and whose credibility comes under scrutiny on screen. It values durability over surface polish. It keeps pace with real workplace demands and holds up when consequences are real.

Present Like a Pro

Zoom to Success

A lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times"What happens to a writer's work when it is translated–specifically, what happens if his name is Franz Kafka?"In Kafkaesque, Maïa Hruska traces the strange, shape-shifting legacy of one of literature’s most elusive figures—not through traditional biography but through the lives of his earliest and most influential translators. With rigor and élan, she shows us how our understanding of Kafka is inevitably filtered through these voices, many of whom were, or would become, major writers and thinkers in their own right.Jorge Luis Borges rendered Kafka into Spanish, recognizing in him a fellow architect of the infinite. Primo Levi used the German he acquired in a concentration camp to bring The Trial into Italian despite the “psychoanalytic repulsion” he felt toward Kafka. Bruno Schulz published his Polish edition of the same novel before being shot by a Nazi officer. Vladimir Nabokov annotated The Metamorphosis in exile, having undergone his own transformation–from native to foreigner. Milena Jesenská, Kafka’s great love, translated him into Czech, a language he was both surrounded by and estranged from.What emerges across these essays isn’t just a portrait of a legendary writer and his translators but also a portrait of the twentieth century itself—its fractures and displacements, its aesthetic revolutions, its ethical crises. Part cultural history, part group biography, Kafkaesque is a dazzling meditation on language, identity, and the irreducible strangeness of reading and being read.

A lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times "What happens to a writer's work when it is translated–specifically, what happens if his name is Franz Kafka?"In Kafkaesque, Maïa Hruska traces the strange, shape-shifting legacy of one of literature’s most elusive figures—not through traditional biography but through the lives of his earliest and most influential translators. With rigor and élan, she shows us how our understanding of Kafka is inevitably filtered through these voices, many of whom were, or would become, major writers and thinkers in their own right. Jorge Luis Borges rendered Kafka into Spanish, recognizing in him a fellow architect of the infinite. Primo Levi used the German he acquired in a concentration camp to bring The Trial into Italian despite the “psychoanalytic repulsion” he felt toward Kafka. Bruno Schulz published his Polish edition of the same novel before being shot by a Nazi officer. Vladimir Nabokov annotated The Metamorphosis in exile, having undergone his own transformation–from native to foreigner. Milena Jesenská, Kafka’s great love, translated him into Czech, a language he was both surrounded by and estranged from. What emerges across these essays isn’t just a portrait of a legendary writer and his translators but also a portrait of the twentieth century itself—its fractures and displacements, its aesthetic revolutions, its ethical crises. Part cultural history, part group biography, Kafkaesque is a dazzling meditation on language, identity, and the irreducible strangeness of reading and being read.

From Jorge Luis Borges to Primo Levi, Ten Writers Who Translated Kafka and Transformed Twentieth-Century Literature

Kafkaesque

A step-by-step guide to transforming data into stakeholder buy-in and decisive action Driving Buy-In, by data storytelling veteran Mico Yuk-who has trained over 20,000 data professionals at Fortune 500 companies including Shell, Nestlé, and Zoom-provides a practical guide for professionals who craft data visualizations and presentations that light a fire under decision-makers. It shows how to transform insights into real-world action. Eighty-eight percent of insights never influence a decision. This book fixes that. Yuk introduces the Buy-In Method(TM), a two-pillar system for turning information into action - grounded in behavioral science and neuroscience research. Pillar 1, the Data Storytelling Framework(TM) (Discover, Define, Design, and Deliver), turns data into a story the brain is wired to respond to. Pillar 2, the Three Signs of Influence (Clarity, Buy-In, and Action), reveals in real time whether your message is landing and exactly where stakeholders are in the decision process. Rather than focusing on technical skills or visual design, this book teaches the often-overlooked skill of reading human behavior. You'll learn: <ul> <li>How to ask the right questions that uncover the real problem - move beyond vague requests and endless scope creep to get to the truth</li> <li>How to transform the way you communicate with stakeholders or executives - translate and present technical findings so anyone can understand and act on them</li> <li>How to build stories that drive action - using the same structure behind Hollywood blockbusters</li> <li>How to read any room using the Three Signs of Influence (Clarity, Buy-In, Action) - no more guessing if stakeholders will act on your insights</li> <li>Why human influence is your competitive advantage - in the AI era, anyone can generate insights, but driving stakeholder buy-in is what makes you irreplaceable</li> </ul> This book is for professionals who present data to influence stakeholders and accelerate decisions: analysts, data scientists, BI teams, product managers, consultants, AI/ML professionals, and executives. It's an expert guide in data communication for professionals who want to know exactly what works, what doesn't, and how to design and deliver presentations that will get buy-in from the people who make decisions. Go from order-taker to decision driver.

The Science of Influence with Data

Driving Buy-In

Uncertainty Advantage fundamentally reframes how leaders should think about disruption, arguing that uncertainty is the primary source of competitive advantage in modern markets. When crises emerge, value doesn't disappear; it redistributes to those who detect shifts earlier, decide faster, and act while competitors are still in analysis paralysis.

Drawing from real-world wins across various industries, Lynch exposes the fatal flaw that traditional risk management can breed inefficiency. When supply chains collapse, cyberattacks hit, or pandemics strike, defensive leaders hunker down while market winners do the opposite - they pounce.

The book bridges the gap between C-suite strategy and operational execution, dismantling the "minimize and protect" mindset that's killing competitive advantage for most Fortune 500 companies. Lynch reveals the systems, data infrastructure, and decision-making principles, that turn concurrent and relentless threats into profit opportunities while competitors play catch-up.

Uncertainty Advantage

Most mistakes don't come from lack of knowledge.
They come from acting too quickly.
Something happens.
You react.
In between, there is a pause.
That moment shapes everything.
 
The Investor's Mind is about learning to see it-and use it.
Not by predicting better.
But by thinking clearly when it matters.
 
Pause ¿ Examine ¿ Decide ¿ Review
 
You don't need more information.
You need better moments of thinking.

The Pause Framework for Better Decisions

The Investor's Mind

Flannery O'Connor on Writing

A saga inspired by the incredible but true story of the iconic Klimt painting Painted in Vienna in 1910, Gustav Klimt's 'Portrait of a Lady' was purchased by an anonymous collector in 1916, retouched by the master a year later, then stolen in 1997 before reappearing in the gardens of an Italian modern art museum in 2019. No art experts, museum curators, or police investigators know the identity of the young woman in the painting, nor the mysteries that surround the turbulent history of her portrait. From the streets of Vienna in 1900 to Texas in the 1980s, and from Manhattan during the Great Depression to contemporary Italy, de Peretti imagines the destiny of this young woman as well as that of her descendants, and creates a masterful fresco that intertwines family secrets, disappearances, and thwarted loves.

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

This book is an exploration of the reasons, biases, and blind spots that result in people making assumptions and jumping to conclusions during problem-solving. It delves deep into why even experts often make errors in judgment when problem-solving.Through a combination of behavioral science, data science, and real-world examples, this project is aimed at equipping the reader with a deeper understanding and awareness and a practical toolset to allow them to separate speculation from fact and get to the true root cause.The book applies principles of lean thinking, scientific method, and statistical analysis to problem-solving scenarios. By introducing concepts such as attribute agreement analysis, cognitive biases, hypothesis testing, and special cause vs common cause, the book provides the reader with a structure that enables them to navigate complex problems. The narrative is enriched with stories and anecdotes that reinforce the concepts and demonstrate how the tools have been and can be successfully used. In addition, the book demonstrates through some of these stories the negative impact that assumptions have had in various fields ranging from medicine to engineering.Essentially, the book makes rigorous problem-solving methodologies and the application of the scientific method engaging and accessible. The book employs humor, storytelling, and relatable anecdotes to illustrate abstract concepts, making it an effective learning tool for both professionals and general readers. Readers are encouraged to actively challenge their own biases, improving their ability to validate assumptions before acting on them.

How Business Professionals Can Avoid False Assumptions When Solving Problems

Finding Fact Before Fixing

Our lives are imbued with rules and regulations, some of which are vital and sensible, but others are simply stupid. Natasha Hamilton-Hart maintains that time-wasting processes of compliance don't improve anyone's lives or wellbeing and burden companies and organizations with productivity-sapping paperwork. In these instances, she argues, we would be better off resorting to the exercise of authority, a concept we have become afraid of, but one that is a more efficient and transparent option for getting things done. Navigating the rules maze and compliance culture that has proliferated over recent years, this book challenges us to consider just how ineffective stupid rules are in holding power to account, to improving service delivery, and even in managing the office dress code. The book is a must-read for anyone frustrated by the bureaucratic overload regulations create and for those needing to rethink their approach to management.

Our lives are imbued with rules and regulations, some of which are vital and sensible, but others are simply stupid. Natasha Hamilton-Hart navigates the rules maze and challenges us to consider how effective some rules are, and whether we would be better off resorting to the exercise of authority.

Reducing Red Tape and Making Organizations More Effective and Accountable

Stupid Rules

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