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  Fortune and Folly - The Weird...

  Sara A. H. Butler

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  Briarcliff Mansion and the land it occupies are owned by Emory University, which refers to it as its "Briarcliff Campus." Fortune and Folly, in part, illuminates the largely lost story of how the mansion, and the entire surrounding neighborhood, got its name. But in order to understand the mansion, we have to understand the man who built it. 
   
   
   
  Briarcliff Mansion once belonged to a man named Asa Candler, Jr.—also known as Buddie. The second son and namesake of Coca-Cola founder Asa Griggs Candler, Buddie was a wealthy real estate developer of great successes and greater failures. A man of big vision and bigger adventures, and a socialite whose boisterous, unapologetic personality made him both beloved and reviled in the Atlanta community. But after he passed away in 1953, his stories faded from memory, either tangled up with or overshadowed by his father. 
   
   
   
  It's no mystery why Briarcliff garners attention. It's self-consciously grandiose, built to display maximum grandeur to the neighborhood. It towers over the landscape, set far back from the road behind a filled-in, overgrown pool. Its face is stitched together where a music hall was added two years after the main house was completed, and the bricks don't quite match up. This book offers a deep-dive into the life of Asa Candler, Jr. to excavate a piece—and place—of Atlanta history.

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  The 5 Keys to a Clear Mix -...

  Stephen Robert Cass

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  Do you feel like there's no way you'll mix a song demo as good as (insert name here)? 
  Are you struggling to understand how to make the worship band sound better? 
  Do you want to start being confident with your mixes? 
  Stephen Robert Cass has been playing and mixing songs in church and for bands for over 50 years. He has 14 album projects and hundreds of studio hours as a musician and producer and wants to help produce your next song demo or worship team mix. Find your new mix philosophy with the 5 Key method. Take charge behind the mixing console, physical or digital. 
  These 5 Keys, plus two bonus strategies with immediate results for a professional mix, will inform and prepare you, instilling the confidence you need to manage a multi-track recording or a live band.

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  XENOPHON: Athens vs Sparta - Why...

  Xenophon

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  The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from birth to old age. It only because of Xenophon that we have most of our knowledge about the Spartans. Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens which may explain why he is so negative and sarcastic when describing the Athenian democracy. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.. 
  "But having realised at one time that Sparta, although one of the most sparsely populated of cities, proved to be the most powerful and most renowned city in Greece, I wondered how could this possibly have happened. However, when I perceived the practices of the Spartans, I wondered no longer".  This .is a treatise by the ancient Greek historian Xenophon, describing the institutions, customs, and practices of the ancient Spartans. The work examines the reasons for Sparta's power and renown, despite the city state's sparse population. There are fifteen chapters: the first thirteen enumerate the practices and institutions that made Sparta great; the last two describe Sparta's decline and the survival of its monarchy. The Polity dates to the period between 387 and 375 BC, and is the only contemporary account of the Spartan political system which survives. Together with Plutarch's "Life of Lycurgus", it provides the most detailed surviving description of the Spartan state, and is considered the best source of information about Spartan women during classical antiquity. 
  Xenophon then describes the laws and customs of the city state Athens in the Polity of the Athenians.

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  Agile Project Management for...

  Daniel Garfield

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  Are you a novice project manager eager to enhance your project delivery process and achieve remarkable results? Look no further! "Agile Project Management for Beginners" is your comprehensive and accessible guide to embracing Agile methodologies and transforming your project management approach. 
  In today's fast-paced and dynamic business world, traditional project management practices often struggle to keep up with evolving project requirements and customer expectations. Agile Project Management, with its adaptive and iterative approach, has emerged as a game-changer, enabling teams to deliver value faster, stay responsive to change, and foster a collaborative work environment. 
  This step-by-step guide is tailor-made for project managers like you who are new to the Agile world. It demystifies the concept of Agile Project Management and equips you with the essential knowledge and tools to implement Agile practices successfully. Whether you work in software development, marketing, construction, or any other field, this book will empower you to drive success in your projects. 
  Packed with real-life success stories and insightful examples, this book is the ultimate companion for novice project managers seeking to embark on their Agile journey. Each chapter offers clear explanations, actionable takeaways, and practical advice to ensure that you can seamlessly adopt Agile Project Management principles and elevate your project outcomes. 
  Whether you lead a small team or a large organization, "Agile Project Management for Beginners" will empower you to harness the power of Agile methodologies, increase project flexibility, improve team collaboration, and delight your stakeholders with outstanding results. Embark on your Agile transformation today and embrace a more efficient and rewarding approach to project management. 
   

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  1996: My Backstage Pass to The...

  Dominic Mohan

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  1996. Britpop ruled the airwaves. The tabloids framed reality long before Instagram. Football was finally coming home. Tony Blair was learning to play rock star – and rock stars were learning they could play politics. Everyone was partying hard, and Britain was the coolest place on earth.  
  Showbiz reporter Dominic Mohan wasn’t watching the party from afar – he was in the room. 
  Backstage at Knebworth with Oasis. In strip clubs with Robbie Williams. On the phone to Bowie. On the receiving end of Spice Girls gossip, Gallagher gobbiness and tabloid-era chaos. From Euro ’96 euphoria to Brit Awards anarchy, from rave culture to New Labour, Mohan witnessed the moment the UK went from scruffy indie island to global cultural powerhouse. 
  Part memoir, part cultural autopsy and part riotous tour through the 90s and its greatest year, 1996 is a jaw-dropping front-row seat to the madness, the music, the football, and the politics that reshaped Britain – and created legends along the way. 
  Three decades on, Mohan returns to the year everything peaked, and asks: what the hell happened, why did it matter, and can it ever happen again? 
  If you were there – this book will feel like going home. 
  If you weren’t – you’ll wish you had been. 
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  Egg and Spoon

  Rosie Blake

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   In Egg and Spoon, the artist and illustrator Rose Blake tells the story of a childhood fuelled on art and creativity, infused with travel and steeled by the more quotidian aspects of family life growing up with the artist Peter Blake. Surrounded by a cast of originals and eccentrics and taking in backdrops such as London, L.A. and Paris, Blake creates poetic snapshots of a family, with the joys of a life dedicated to art and the inevitable fragilities and poignancy of age and, pertinently, ill health. The effect is that of a literary photo album, with all the charm and character and emotional intensity those documents communicate.

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