Bøger af Jeffrey James

Funny. Insightful. Intelligent. Stupid.Have you ever chased a baby rabbit out of your living room with a broom, or elaborately staged your house to appear deserted in order to avoid speaking with a door to door salesperson? These are real things that happen to real people, and Jeffrey James wants to talk about them. His essays and stories uniquely blend inspiration, wit, comedy, and raw emotion in an entertaining collection about living life. He advocates slowing down, finding comforts, and celebrating the goofy side of our personalities. This compilation is sure to inspire and entertain. This is his first collection of essays. Its selections will have you rolling with laughter as you read, but also provide a platform for insightful introspection, helping you examine life and all its wondrous nonsense.A selection from Uffish Thoughts: The day following our wedding, my new wife and I sat in the back seat of our good friend's tiny clown car sausage wagon really cool new Honda Fit as he graciously transported us across the dull, empty, 126-mile expanse between my in-laws' house and Pittsburgh International Airport, where we were scheduled to depart for our honeymoon: a luxurious week of Disney World escapades. If you haven't been to Disney World as an adult, I suggest you remedy that horrendous problem with haste, because it's really the only way to go. I'm sure witnessing the expression on your child's face the first time they see Cinderella's castle elicits some sort of euphoric emotional orgasm, but being an adult trapped in a child's play-town without the encumbrance of actual kids is an exercise in unparalleled bliss. Our honeymoon was my third (fourth?) time to the carnival of commercialism and all newlywed elation aside, it was my favorite trip. There is something eerily amazing about the magical world of Disney, ever-growing and expanding, reaching its giant Disney fingers around everything you've ever known and loved and smothering you under its weight, charging you enormous fees to breathe again. The place is just giant plush characters, $5 sodas, zillions of people, standing in lines in the hot Florida sun, bronze statues, and everything in sight is trying to plunder every dollar you've ever earned from your moth-eaten pockets. But for some reason, you do it all nary a plaint be heard, never wanting to leave. You hand over your money, drop your pants, bend over, and let the Imagineers see if they can dig a couple extra nickels from your colon - because dammit, Disney World is magic, and they know it.This was the first time my wife and I had flown anywhere together, and I think only the second time she'd ever been on an airplane in her life, which is adorable in a really sad sort of way, like when handicapped dogs use those hind leg mobility carts to wheel themselves around.We arrived at the airport after what felt like an infinite amount of time trying not to throw up in the back of that Honda Fit. Inside, we did the whole bag, shoe, laptop, belt, scanner, beep, wand, beep, pass, scanner, belt, laptop, beep, shoe, bag routine and got to our gate without much of a hitch. None of this 21st-century airport security business really bothers either of us because we're a couple mellow yellows and don't get all hissy about nonsense. (That description of our attitudes you just read is a literary term called 'foreshadowing.' You'll see why at the end. That's how foreshadowing works.) And now I've just insulted your intelligence.We boarded the plane and Laura took the window seat because she gets what she wants. Happy wife, happy life. We were on day two and I already knew that, guys...Check out the full book for the rest!

This is a Fantasy/Sci-fi/Adventure story about an alien disguised as a human and visiting this planet. He has an invisible ship hidden in the clouds and can time-travel. He is hunting down monsters that killed his father, but finds a nice girl instead. There are castles, pirates, mobsters, natives, cowboys, hippies, nerds, ninjas, a blue tiger-dragon, a hovercraft, and a hoverboard... Time to fly away.

This book analyzes the use of the mobile Internet against the background of gender bias and Covid-19, currently two of the most important and pressing problems of the Global South. The book argues that the degree of benefits from this new technology depends heavily on the way it is actually used and that most new technologies are developed for the conditions prevailing in rich countries, where they tend to be quite easily adopted and used. In the Global South, by contrast, a paucity of digital skills and other factors make the potentially valuable benefits from the Internet much more difficult to derive. Using empirical data recently provided by the Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA), the book examines the existence and extent of the digital divide between males and females in mobile Internet use, which constitutes a new form of divide. It sheds light on the acute difficulty for first-time mobile Internet users in the Global South, and especially Sub-Saharan Africa, to learn the digital skills that are needed to use the said technology effectively, with a special focus on how these users acquire the required knowledge, without having undergone the process of learning by doing. The book further discusses the determinants of digital skills in the Global South, as well as major factors underlying the extent to which different users actually benefit from the mobile Internet, such as gender, location, age, and education. Finally, it investigates how womens' use of the Internet has been altered by the pandemic in the Global South.This book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of development economics and development studies, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of the impact of gender bias and Covid-19 on mobile internet use in the Global South.

This novel book, motivated by the recent introduction of a major innovation in information technology, explores the possibility of the Internet being made available to millions of poor people in developing countries, who are not yet connected.

The first joint biography of the three sons of William the Conqueror. They became kings, crusaders and rulers of England and Normandy.

Few English monarchs had to fight harder for the right to rule than King Edward IV - Shakespeare's glorious son of York. Cast in the true Plantagenet mould, over six feet tall, he was a naturally charismatic leader. Edward had the knack of seizing the initiative and winning battles and is free from the unflattering characterisations that plagued his brother, Richard III, having been portrayed as a good-looking and formidable military tactician. Described sometimes as reckless and profligate, all sources remark on his personal bravery. In the eleven years between 1460 and 1471 he fought five major battles in the Wars of the Roses. Three of them - Towton, Barnet and Tewkesbury - rank among the most decisive of the medieval period. This book covers Edward's family background, the Yorkist takeover and the drift to war. It charts the tensions created by the controversial Woodville marriage and Edward's deposition by the Earl of Warwick and subsequent exile. The return of the king brought with it battles anew and Edward's decisive campaigns against Warwick and Margaret of Anjou. Finally, Edward's sudden death heralded the demise of the House of York and the triumph of the Tudors against Richard III. This is a history of Edward IV's struggle to gain and retain the kingship of England during a period of sustained dynastic turmoil during the Wars of the Roses.

To gauge the effects of mobile phones on these aspects, the author refers to the standard concept of technology adoption and also analyses the actual utilization of mobile phones as a means of communication and the degree to which they have supplanted fixed-line phones.

This book explores the notion of a technological system and more specifically the distinction between modern and traditional technological systems. By identifying distinct systems of technology in a multisectoral model of the economy we have been able to quantify certain aspects of those systems within a rigorous conceptual framework.

This original contribution to the debate on developing countries and IT suggests that the benefits of the internet can be passed on via an intermediary.