![]() ![]() The twelve books on this list are a starter pack that should get you thinking about how to approach the issue of D&I at the workplace. D&I policies cannot have a one-size-fits-all approach, they will need to be made differently for women, persons with disabilities, people from minority religions and ethnicities, and so on. ![]() ![]() In the Indian context, it’s important to build perspective on social and lived realities of the people employers are wanting to recruit to be able to build the right kind of D&I policies for their organisations. Focusing on one aspect will not address the other. To begin with, it’s important to establish that diversity and inclusion are two distinct processes that require equal time and effort. We’re a country of a billion plus where people speak different languages, practice different religions, and have varied ascribed and avowed identities. Modern workplaces in India, especially the ones committing to getting Diversity and Inclusion right, have a lot of ground to cover. ![]()
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![]() ![]() For me,the directors cut is simply too cut. Its a mixed review depending on what version you have seen. This film also sees Ford in perfect casting.Theirs a rye charm that Ford has that no other actor could fake or fill quite as effortlessly. We have a true smelting pot of nationalities.The heavy eastern references within china town like inner cities is particularly poignant. Its a grimy,violent world inhabited by the sick,lower class,villainous second citizens who haven't quite made the grade for the off world colonies. It really does feel like a science fiction novel brought to life,but not so much as its derivative penned by Phillip K Dick(do androids dream of electric sheep?). What Ridley Scott achieved with this film,is an entirely possible scenario. Films which crudely grope into a possible time ahead,when perhaps a post apocalyptic era is scattered with cliché upon cliché and often miss the whole point. There are a sheer plethora of futuristic films with vision. ![]() ![]() ![]() A spiralling tale of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in shadow by the enduring legacy of slavery. Entangled by fear, prejudice, and lust, the three tether their personal dreams of glory to the speed and grace of Hellsmouth. But when Allmon Shaughnessy, an ambitious young black man, comes to work on their farm after a stint in prison, the violence of the Forges' history and the exigencies of appetite are brought starkly into view. Henry Forge has partnered with his daughter, Henrietta, in an endeavour of raw obsession: to breed the next superhorse. Listen to me, I created this world with my own two hands, and I am going to leave it all to you' Hellsmouth, an indomitable thoroughbred filly, runs for the glory of the Forge family, one of Kentucky's oldest and most powerful dynasties. ![]() Read more Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Fiction Prize Winner of the Kirkus fiction prize `You and I are family. Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. ![]() A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR An American myth and a contemporary portrait of the scars of the past that run through a family, and of our desperate need to escape our history, to subsume it with pleasure - or to rise above it with glory. Description for The Sport of Kings Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() As he explores questions progressive evangelical readers of Scripture commonly face yet fear voicing, Enns reveals that they are the very questions that God wants us to consider - the essence of our spiritual study. Enns - VERY GOOD Pre-owned 22. The Bible Tells Me So chronicles Enns' spiritual odyssey, how he came to see beyond restrictive doctrine and learned to embrace God's Word as it is actually written. The Bible Tells Me So: Why defending Sc., Enns, Peter Pre-owned 12.99 Free shipping Enns Peter-Exodus For Normal People New 14.99 Free shipping Top Rated Plus Last one Exodus (The NIV Application Commentary) - Hardcover By Peter E. With writing that is winsome, readable, and non-intimidating, he cuts a path between wooden literalism and faithless liberalism, giving us a way to read the Bible that is both faithful and intellectually credible. ![]() Is this what God really requires? How could God's plan for divine inspiration mean ignoring what is really written in the Bible? These questions eventually cost Enns his job - but they also opened a new spiritual path for him to follow. Peter Enns has emerged as one of the stars of biblical interpretation for thinking Christians. ![]() ![]() Rejecting the increasingly complicated intellectual games used by conservative Christians to 'protect' the Bible, Enns was conflicted. But the further he studied the Bible, the more he found himself confronted by questions that could neither be answered within the rigid framework of his religious instruction or accepted among the conservative evangelical community. Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion, teaching at Westminster Theological Seminary. Peter Enns recounts his transformative spiritual journey in which he discovered a new, more honest way to love and appreciate God's Word. ![]() ![]() Achilles even reveals to Patroclus that he’s prophesized to be the best fighter of his generation. Patroclus accompanies Achilles everywhere, and the two become inseparable. Patroclus remains distant from everyone on the island, but Achilles eventually befriends him. Thetis was forced by the gods to mate with Peleus, producing a half-god son, Achilles. Phthia is ruled by another king, Peleus, who’s married to the sea-nymph Thetis. As punishment, Patroclus’s father strips his son of his title and banishes him to the kingdom of Phthia, which Patroclus knows is a fate worse than death. Later, when Patroclus is back home, he gets into an altercation with a nobleman’s son, pushing the boy and inadvertently killing him. ![]() Everyone-including Patroclus-agrees, and Helen chooses Menelaus. He proposes a solution: Helen should choose her husband, and the men should vow to defend him. At the palace, one of the gathered men, Odysseus, worries the suitors will kill one another over Helen. ![]() When Patroclus is nine, his father takes him to Sparta, home to the beautiful princess Helen-she’s ready to marry, and Patroclus will make his case as a suitor. ![]() Patroclus, a young Greek prince, grows up disliked by his father: his mother is intellectually disabled, and his father resents them both for their weakness. ![]() ![]() ![]() All they know is there is rowboat in the middle of the town lake, and her body was found at the bottom of it. ![]() The big problem is nobody knows how or why Lydia died. After her death, the whole family undergoes a changing dynamic and they have to figure out how to adjust to life without Lydia. She was obviously the favorite in the family and the other children knew this. The main storyline of this book revolves around a family of 5 that recently became a family of 4 after one of the daughters tragically dies. Also, this review is pretty full of spoilers since I felt I had to explain it more to get my views across so if you do not want to know the final scene, do not read the second to last paragraph. I ended up giving this book 4 stars since I felt it lacked a big wow factor and never had that big “aha-moment” that I was expecting. For today’s review, we have “Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng. Welcome back to another episode of Anna writing a book review at 10 pm. ![]() ![]() ![]() I often think of a good book as a good friend, and I know so many of the kids that we serve feel the same way. Since then, No Name-Calling Week is recognized each year to bring attention to this all-too-important topic. Together, they organized an actual No Name-Calling Week in schools across the country. Motivated by this message, the No Name-Calling Week Coalition was created by GLSEN and Simon & Schuster Children’s publishing. They band together and decide to create their own political party with the platform of eliminating all name-calling from their school. ![]() It’s a story about four middle school students who feel like outsiders in their own community. No Name-Calling Week was actually inspired by a book– The Misfits by James Howe. By providing tools and inspiration, this project kick-starts dialogue about ways to eliminate bullying and name-calling of all kinds in communities across the country. That’s why the No Name-Calling Week campaign is important. It’s a sad reality–children with and without disabilities are often the target of name-calling and bullying in our schools and in our communities. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These stories are like a bit of warm milk spiked with a only tiny splash of whiskey to help you get to sleep. While the good writing is much appreciated, and the solid composition of the stories bespeak experience and skill, sometimes I like my horror fiction to cut closer to the bone, or engage the world at large, or aspire to bigger concerns than the simple formality of tales-well-told. The series is called Shadows, after all, not Wounds or Headshots or Guts. Then again, I'd say there were more real writers working in the field in the '70s and early '80s, or there were fewer less talented writers being published (of course Grant would disagree with none of what I'm saying, I'm sure). I don't want to say the stories are light-hearted, but they don't often seem to have that gravitas - or is it pretension? - that I see in short horror fiction later in the decade, when younger writers seemed more intent on disturbing and upsetting readers rather than providing them with cozy chills. ![]() Altogether, Shadows 3 offers entertainments of the "macabre and bizarre," as the 1980 hardcover states. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will Natalie find a way to reverse the curse and save the man she finds herself falling for? It seems that an evil spell has trapped Lord Denbury’s soul, while his body acts as a vessel for a sinister spirit in the outside world. When she does, Natalie falls into a strange world, one inside the painting that has become a prison for the handsome Lord. Small changes in the painting catch her eye, and it seems that Lord Denbury is calling to her, begging her to reach out and touch the canvas. Soon, however, Natalie realizes that there is more to her infatuation than just a love for brushstroke on canvas. Upon seeing the painting, Natalie is immediately captivated by Lord Denbury’s magnetic blue eyes and handsome features. It seems that late Lord Denbury, the attractive, young man depicted on the canvas, is rumored to haunt the piece. Northe informs Natalie and her father that a painting with a curious history has come into her possession. Northe, like Natalie, is fluent in sign language and the two become fast friends. Evelyn Northe, a wealthy and kind woman with an interest in spiritualism. ![]() ![]() One day, Natalie and her father meet Mrs. The year is 1880, and Natalie’s father works for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Now seventeen-years-old, Natalie’s existence is one of longing yearning to live a normal life, have friends, and fall in love. Plot summary: At a young age, Natalie Stewart witnessed the death of her mother in a tragic accident and found herself unable to speak from then on. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amelia was the friend that Adam cheated with. Later, in a big plot twist, we learn that Robin is actually Adam's first wife (all the letters are written by her, not Amelia). The letters culminate in describing how Adam cheated on her with her best friend from work. ![]() Meanwhile, interspersed throughout the book are letters addressed to Adam (but never sent) each year on their anniversary detailing their relationship history. At the chapel, Amelia and Adam find there are strange occurrences (thanks mostly to Robin) and power outages. He has reoccuring nightmares about his mother being killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was 13. Adam is a screenwriter who is known for adapting the novels of a writer named Henry Winter. There's also a woman named Robin living in a cottage nearby. The two-paragraph version: Amelia and Adam are on a getaway, staying at an old chapel. ![]() |