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  What Could Go Right

  Justin Bean

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  WINNER: Nautilus Awards and Book Excellence Awards (Sustainability)Amazon BestsellerTired of all the doom and gloom? What Could Go Right invites you to ditch cynicism about the future, and build the one you want.Instead of worst-case scenarios or Pollyanna optimism, you can envision an ideal world and be empowered to build it. The opportunity of our era is to transition to a sustainable, equitable, abundant global economy. Rethink your mindset, understand tech and social trends, & design a future you want to live in, you can thrive through building a better future for us all. Packed with insights, tools, and ideas for what an ideal future might look like and how to build it, What Could Go Right helps you rethink:Your Mindset: Rather than accepting dystopian tropes about our future, we'll look at the reality of our current time as the most abundant and empowered humanity has ever been-and witness it getting better. You'll explore tools and frameworks like Design Thinking, Three Horizons, Five Dynamics, to turn inspiration into pragmatic thinking, planning, and execution. Trends and Opportunities: Explore the empowering tools, sustainable shifts in industry and technology, and social evolutions that are making a more equitable, distributed, democratic, cleaner economy possible. The economic, climate, and social crises around us are accelerating the urgency for change and are inspiring innovators to create new tools and approaches-all to make the transition to a better future. Your Vision of a Better Future: Start imagining what an ideal future might look like by making the most of existing technology and knowledge. With thought leaders and industry experts, you'll tour a future that is abundant, a Zero Marginal Cost Society, post-scarcity, and Omni-Thriving. Apply Maslow's hierarchy of personal needs to social needs. "We don't get the world we want simply by fighting the one we don't. We get the world we want by envisioning, designing, and building it."

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  Enchanted Plants - A Treasury of...

  Varla A. Ventura

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  From fairy tales to your garden, Enchanted Plants is a treasure trove of the lore and magic in the kingdom of plants. Take a walk through mystical, magical, and folkloric gardens and discover the plants and flowers that have captured our hearts and minds for centuries. Will you dare to pick a golden apple or seize the perfect rose? Will you sneak through the gilded gates of the poison garden where plants both alluring and life-saving intertwine? From the baneful bog to the garden gate, plant lover and lover of the bizarre Varla Ventura brings together forgotten lore of plants for the ultimate romp through a botanical wonderland, including excerpts from fairy tales and a lively discussion of each plant's legendary magical and medicinal properties. Don't forget your scissors. Enchanted Plants is arranged by general environment: cultivated plants and edibles; toxic plants; meadowlands; the woods; marshes and swamps; and tropical plants. 
    
  Each chapter contains a cultivated selection of plants with additional information, including botanical name, common names, folklore, ethnobotanical properties, magical and occult properties, and modern usage if applicable.

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  Beyond Handshakes - Building...

  Hanna Miller

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  Beyond Handshakes: Building Business Relationships in a Digital World is your comprehensive guide to mastering the art of online networking and fostering authentic connections in an increasingly digital-first world. From the evolution of networking from handshakes to hashtags, to understanding the influence of technology on business relationships, this book offers a deep dive into the digital landscape. It explores the social media effect, emerging digital platforms, and the rise of remote and digital-first workplaces, setting the stage for a new age of networking. 
  Beyond Handshakes equips you with practical tools to create and develop business relationships online. Learn how to make a strong first impression, build an impactful online presence, and utilize social media for professional networking. Discover the etiquettes of online networking, the art of digital conversation, and strategies to establish trust and credibility in the virtual world. 
   
  As you delve deeper, the book guides you on nurturing these online relationships. From regular interaction and engagement, using collaborative digital tools, to the role of webinars and virtual meetings, you'll learn how to overcome challenges in online networking, including managing digital fatigue and ensuring privacy and security in online interactions. Maintaining long-term relationships in a fast-paced digital world can be daunting. Beyond Handshakes helps you sustain engagement over time, personalize and customize your interactions, and adapt to changes in digital trends. It also shows you how to turn connections into collaborations, leveraging online networking for business opportunities, and collaborating in the cloud. With case studies of successful digital collaborations and insights into the future of business relationships, this book is more than a guide—it's a roadmap to thriving in the evolving networking landscape.

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  Tech Startups - Building and...

  Craig Dames

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  The foundation of every successful tech startup lies in adopting the right mindset—one that embraces uncertainty, thrives under pressure, and is relentlessly focused on solving real problems. Unlike traditional business models that may prioritize structure and predictability, startups demand a different kind of thinking: bold, experimental, and deeply resilient. The startup mindset is not just about launching a product; it’s about challenging the status quo and envisioning a better way of doing things. 
  At the heart of this mindset is the willingness to take risks. Entrepreneurs must accept that failure is not just a possibility—it’s often a necessary step toward success. Embracing risk doesn’t mean acting recklessly, but rather being comfortable making decisions without having all the answers. It means testing assumptions, learning quickly from setbacks, and moving forward with renewed insight. The ability to pivot when something isn’t working is a hallmark of great startup founders. 
  Equally important is cultivating a culture that thrives on problem-solving. Tech startups are often born out of frustration with how something works—or doesn’t work—in the world. Founders who succeed are those who remain obsessed with their customers’ pain points and are constantly looking for innovative ways to address them. This requires curiosity, empathy, and a drive to keep iterating until a solution clicks. It also involves surrounding oneself with a team that shares this passion and can offer diverse perspectives on how to improve and evolve.

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  Lakes - Their Birth Life and Death

  John Richard Saylor

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  Lakes might be the most misunderstood bodies of water on earth. And while they may seem commonplace, without lakes our world would never be the same. In this revealing look at these lifegiving treasures, John Richard Saylor shows us just how deep our connection to still waters run. 
   
    
    
  Lakes is an illuminating tour through the most fascinating lakes around the world. Whether it's Lake Vostok, located more than two miles beneath the surface of Antarctica, whose water was last exposed to the atmosphere perhaps a million years ago; Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, the world's deepest and oldest lake formed by a rift in the earth's crust; or Lake Nyos, the so-called Killer Lake that exploded in 1986, resulting in hundreds of deaths, Saylor reveals to us the wonder that exists in lakes found throughout the world. Along the way we learn all the many forms that lakes take—how they come to be and how they feed and support ecosystems—and what happens when lakes vanish.

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  Computer Vision AI - Unleash the...

  Et Tu Code

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  📘 Unlock the World of Computer Vision AI 
  Welcome to the definitive guide on Computer Vision, a journey through the evolution of this transformative field. This book is a comprehensive exploration of key concepts, historical milestones, and cutting-edge techniques that define the fascinating realm of Computer Vision AI. 
  Explore the Past to Understand the Present: Dive into the roots of Computer Vision, tracing its trajectory from Early Concept. 
  Master the Core Techniques: Delve into essential Image Processing Techniques, Object Detection, Recognition, Image Classification, Segmentation, Feature Extraction, Matching, and the pivotal role of Deep Learning in Computer Vision. 
  Meet the Titans: Encounter the popular Computer Vision Models that have redefined the field - ResNet, YOLO (You Only Look Once), SSD, GANs, EfficientNet, MobileNet, and InceptionNet. 
  Enter the GenAI Era: Embark on a journey into the future with GenAI in Computer Vision. Understand the Applications of GenAI in Image Generation, its role in enhancing Image Recognition, and the associated Challenges and Opportunities that lie ahead. 
  Navigate the Landscape of Hugging Face Models: Uncover a rich collection of Hugging Face Computer Vision Models, ranging from Depth Estimation and Image Classification to Object Detection, Image Segmentation, and more. 
  Bring Theory to Life with Practical Examples: Immerse yourself in real-world scenarios with Practical Examples of Computer Vision. From Facial Recognition to Object Detection, Image Segmentation for Medical Imaging, and Gesture Recognition. 
  Unlock the full potential of Computer Vision – your gateway to a world where machines see and understand like never before. 🚀

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