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  Agile Discovery & Delivery - A...

  Amber R. Field

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  If you’re building software today, mastering agile development is no longer optional. With 80% of software companies using some form of agility, collaborating on agile teams is an essential skill for high-performing engineers & tech entrepreneurs. 
  Agile Discovery & Delivery walks readers through the key concepts of agility from start to finish. From how agile teams figure out what to build to how they collaborate to build it. It’s the perfect agile development overview for anyone new to the industry. 
  Agile Discovery & Delivery helps you:Understand the agile principles and why they’re so important for building great productsContribute to and/or form high-performing, fun agile teamsDetermine what to build using techniques like Lean Start-up, Design Thinking, and Google Design SprintsInterview your target customers to gain valuable product insightsWrite great user storiesMaster key agile delivery frameworks like Scrum and KanbanUnderstand how to estimate, pair program, branch & merge, and work in a scaled agile environmentSurvive and thrive on agile teams with actionable tips in every section 
  Written especially for engineers and start-up founders, even those in marketing, support, sales, and leadership will walk away with a better understanding for how their product teams work. Give yourself a head start in the tech industry with this book.

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  Power of Love Leadership - 7...

  Sarah Higgins

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  What's stopping you being an outstanding leader?
  
  Continually adapting to change and still exceeding business goals is a consistent leadership challenge.
  
  Uncertainty and doubt, fear and frustration, anger and resentment, pressure and stress all stand in the way of getting the results you want.
  
  In this inspiring and practical guide, leadership expert Sarah Higgins will coach you in seven revolutionary strategies that will enable you to break through the fear-based barriers that hold you and your team back, so you can lead from the heart and build resilience in your team with:
  
  > Gratitude - recognise and nurture strengths and success.
  > Hope - unite purpose with passion so everyone feels inspired.
  > Learning - value mistakes and feel powerful in the face of failure.
  > Forgiveness - promote acceptance and collaboration, leading to resolution instead of blame.
  > Enthusiasm - face every challenge and task with energy and positivity.
  > Compassion - encourage insight and empathy valuing difference and individuality.
  > Humility - embrace vulnerability and courage to build honesty, integrity and trust.
  
  With the Power of Love Leadership® you can build a highly motivated team that's fearless and motivated to collaborate, create, inspire and innovate. You'll think more clearly, make better decisions, push morale and productivity to unimaginable levels and navigate success with compassion, confidence and care.

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  Oil Beach - How Toxic...

  Christina Dunbar-Hester

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  Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade? 
    
  San Pedro Bay, which contains the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is a significant site for petroleum shipping and refining as well as one of the largest container shipping ports in the world—some forty percent of containerized imports to the United States pass through this so-called America’s Port. It is also ecologically rich. Built atop a land- and waterscape of vital importance to wildlife, the heavily industrialized Los Angeles Harbor contains estuarial wetlands, the LA River mouth, and a marine ecology where colder and warmer Pacific Ocean waters meet. In this compelling interdisciplinary investigation, award-winning author Christina Dunbar-Hester explores the complex relationships among commerce, empire, environment, and the nonhuman life forms of San Pedro Bay over the last fifty years—a period coinciding with the era of modern environmental regulation in the United States. The LA port complex is not simply a local site, Dunbar-Hester argues, but a node in a network that enables the continued expansion of capitalism, propelling trade as it drives the extraction of natural resources, labor violations, pollution, and other harms. Focusing specifically on cetaceans, bananas, sea birds, and otters whose lives are intertwined with the vitality of the port complex itself, Oil Beach reveals how logistics infrastructure threatens ecologies as it circulates goods and capital—and helps us to consider a future where the accumulation of life and the accumulation of capital are not in violent tension.

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  MINIMALISM DECLUTTERING AND...

  David Clark

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  Is your house strewn with useless clutter you thought would make you happy, but never did? Do you need to let go of meaningless possessions and money-wasting habits, but you just don’t know how to start? Then you need to keep reading...Recent studies have shown that clutter can be bad for our mental health. Not only can it hurt our bank accounts, but it can trigger stress, diminish focus, and make us less capable of processing information efficiently. The minimalist approach, however, is a known remedy for mental and material clutter, lauded for its ability to ignite greater life satisfaction and create bigger savings.This bundle includes:Minimalism & Decluttering: Goodbye Things, Hello FreedomMinimalist Budget: Achieve Financial Freedom, Smart Money Management Strategies to Budget Your Money Effectively. In this audiobook, you’ll discover:Fifteen easy steps to bigger savings and a higher income NOW. (These expert-known financial plans will send the numbers on your paychecks and bank balance skyrocketing!)Essential decluttering tips for every beginner minimalist.Quick-start action tips to free yourself from compulsive spending tendencies.Eleven must-know techniques to pull yourself out of the black hole of debt.The subtle warning signs telling you to declutter NOW. (Recognize the symptoms of an overcluttered life and the exact formula to jumpstart a stress-free new beginning immediately!)And much, much more…Even if you’re a big hoarder and you’re sinking under the weight of your enormous debt, the extensive research behind this guide will show you the exact formula to gain control over your spending, boost your income, eliminate debt, eradicate stressful clutter, and fatten your savings account.If you want to access these ground-breaking strategies and finally achieve freedom from the shackles of clutter, then you should listen to this audiobook!

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  Offshore - Stealth Wealth and...

  Brooke Harrington

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  How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? The ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world's ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign finance rules, and other laws that get in their way. 
   
   
   
  In Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, sociologist Brooke Harrington reveals how this system works, as well as how it degrades democracy, the economy, and the public goods on which we all depend. Through interviews with dozens of wealth managers in nineteen countries, Harrington uncovered how this global network of offshore financial centers arose from the remnants of colonialism and has created a new, hidden imperial class. 
   
   
   
  This engrossing deep dive reveals what offshore finance costs all of us, and how it has colonized the world—not on behalf of any one country, but to benefit a largely invisible empire of a few thousand billionaires, who help themselves to the best society has to offer while sticking us with the bill. As politicians struggle to address the deepening economic and political inequality destabilizing the world, Harrington's exposé of the offshore system is a vital resource for understanding the most pressing crises of our time.

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  The Geometry of Wealth - How to...

  Brian Portnoy

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  Joint Gold medallist of the Axiom Business Book Award 2019 - Personal Finance/Retirement Planning/InvestingHow does money figure into a happy life?In The Geometry of Wealth, behavioral finance expert Brian Portnoy delivers an inspired answer, building on the critical distinction between being rich and being wealthy. While one is an unsatisfying treadmill, the other is the ability to underwrite a meaningful life, however one chooses to define that. Truly viewed, wealth is funded contentment.At the heart of this groundbreaking perspective, Portnoy takes readers on a journey toward wealth, informed by disciplines ranging from ancient history to modern neuroscience. He contends that tackling the big questions about a joyful life and tending to financial decisions are complementary, not separate, tasks.These big questions include:- How is the human brain wired for two distinct experiences of happiness? And why can money "buy" one but not the other?- What are the touchstones of a meaningful life, and are they affordable?- Why is market savvy among the least important sources of wealth but self-awareness is among the most?- How does one strike a balance between striving for more while being content with enough?This journey memorably contours along three basic shapes: A circle, triangle and square help us to visualize how we adapt to evolving circumstances, set clear priorities, and find empowerment in simplicity. In this accessible and entertaining book, Portnoy reveals that true wealth is achievable for many – including those who despair it is out of reach – but only in the context of a life in which purpose and practice are thoughtfully calibrated.

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