Lauren Simkin Berke

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About Lauren Simkin Berke

Lauren Simkin Berke is a native New Yorker, born in the Bronx, raised in Manhattan, and currently living and working in Brooklyn. Berke works as an artist, illustrator, educator, and when time allows publishes art books and zines under the name Captain Sears Press.

Berke is an award winning illustrator, working with clients such as The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance. Berke's artwork has graced book covers such as Katie Rain Hill's Rethinking Normal, The Paris Review's The Writer's Chapbook, and the first edition of Susan Stryker's Transgender History.

Were I Not A Girl: The Inspiring and True Story of Dr. James Barry is their first picture book.

Gene Kim

Nicole Forsgren PhD

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The Writer's Chapbook: A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit, and Advice from The Paris Review Interviews

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The Art of Business Value 07/04/2016

by Mark Schwartz, Gene Kim

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"Do you really understand what business value is? Information technology can and should deliver business value. But the Agile literature has paid scant attention to what business value means—and how to know whether or not you are delivering it. This problem becomes ever more critical as you push value delivery toward autonomous teams and away from requirements “tossed over the wall” by business stakeholders. An empowered team needs to understand its goal!

Playful and thought-provoking, The Art of Business Value explores what business value means, why it matters, and how it should affect your software development and delivery practices. More than any other IT delivery approach, DevOps (and Agile thinking in general) makes business value a central concern. This book examines the role of business value in software and makes a compelling case for why a clear understanding of business value will change the way you deliver software.

This book will make you think deeply about not only what it means to deliver value but also the relationship of the IT organization to the rest of the enterprise. It will give you the language to discuss value with the business, methods to cut through bureaucracy and strategies for incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all, this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead."

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Were I Not A Girl: The Inspiring and True Story of Dr. James Barry 20/10/2020

by Lisa Robinson, Lauren Simkin Berke

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This unique picture book biography tells the story of Dr. James Barry, born female, who lived as a man from age 18 to his death.

Like other girls of her time, Margaret Bulkley didn't go to school. She wouldn't grow up to own property, be a soldier, a doctor, or hold any job other than perhaps maid or governor--such was a girl's lot in 19th century England. And was she comfortable born in a girl's body? We will never know. What we do know is that at the age of 18, she tugged off her stockings and dress, cut her red-gold curls, and vanished. In her place appeared a young man. Margaret became James Barry. James would attend medical school, become a doctor and a soldier, travel the world. He would fall in love, deliver babies, and fight in a duel. And he would live a rich full life.

Here is a picure book that is both a fascinating and sensitively drawn portrait of someone who would not be undervalued, and an important introduction to the concept of gender identity.

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