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What Ever Happened to What I Wrote is a second memoir from writer and diarist Paul K. Lyons. In his first memoir, he reflected on a repressed childhood, as well his young adult years of travelling, and searching for meaning as well as excitement in the arts and love affairs. By his mid-30s, Lyons has become a father (to Adam), a role he relishes but one which brings challenges, practical, emotional and social. And, like all else in his life, he tends to meet these challenges and compromises in unconventional ways. As with the first memoir, this is a patchwork of themed chapters, each one focused on a different aspect of Lyons's life. Two chapters examine his role as a parent within, what he ...
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This fascinating collection of extracts contains diarists famous and ordinary, young and old, serious and cynical, but with Brighton always setting the scene. Many legendary writers - including Walter Scott, Arnold Bennett and Virginia Woolf (who described Brighton as 'a love corner for slugs') – inhabit these pages, often appearing in their most unguarded guises. Here also are less well-known characters, such William Tayler (a footman), Gideon Mantell (a surgeon and dinosaur bone collector), and Xue Fucheng (an early Chinese diplomat). There are also several diarists whose writing has never appeared in print before - Olive Stammer, for example, who kept a diary during the Second World War; and Ross Reeves, a young gay musician whose diary extracts are from 2005-2006. By turn insightful, hilarious and profound, Brighton in Diaries will delight residents and visitors alike.
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Dan Lyons was Technology Editor at Newsweek Magazine for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was unemployed and facing financial oblivion. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the nebulous role of "marketing fellow." What could possibly go wrong? What follows is a hilarious and excoriating account of Dan's time at the start-up and a revealing window onto the dysfuncti...
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An inspiring monograph that captures the practical yet beautiful architecture of one of the leading architectural firms in the world
Explaining the puzzling behavior of exchange rates using models from microstructure finance and data from electronic trading.