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  World of Warcraft

  Daniel Lisi

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  At more than 100 million user accounts created and over $10 billion made, it is not only the most-subscribed MMORPG in the world, but the highest-grossing video game of all time. Ten years after its launch, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft is less a game and more a world unto itself, and it's a world Daniel Lisi knows well. More time in his high school years was spent in Azeroth than in his hometown of Irvine, California—a home he happened to share with Blizzard itself. 
   
   
   
  Now that Lisi has founded his own game development studio, WoW remains his most powerful example of just how immersive and consuming a game can be. Based on research, interviews, and the author's own experience in a hardcore raiding guild, Lisi's book examines WoW's origins, the addictive power of its gameplay loop, the romances WoW has both cemented and shattered, the enabling power of anonymity, and the thrill of conquering BlizzCon with guildmates you've known for years and just met for the first time.

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  The Power of Social Media -...

  Jim Stephens

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  Do you own or operate your own website or online business? With the rising popularity of the internet, there is a good chance that you do. Whichever type of website you have, did you know that you could help to promote it with social media? 
  I’m sure many of you have heard of different social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Blogger, WordPress, and others. With a fairly large number of such social media websites having over a millions users, there is a good chance that by joining these sites, you not only make new friends but also find internet users that would be interested in visiting your website. Therefore, by joining these social media sites and then providing a link to your website in these sites, you should receive a number of new visitors to your website. 
  If you have totally no experience with social media or if you are still wondering how and why you should use social media to promote your website, then you may want to continue reading to find out more about the power of social media and how you can benefit from it.

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  Anxiety Disorders

  MD Zelde Espinel, MD Elizabeth...

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  Anxiety disorders are common health conditions affecting many people worldwide. Anxiety is a natural human emotion that helps us prepare for challenges. However, when anxiety becomes overwhelming and interferes with daily life, individuals seek help from healthcare providers. 
   
  What Do I Do Now? Anxiety Disorders offers clinicians practical knowledge and tools to navigate various anxiety disorder scenarios. This book places a strong emphasis on providing pragmatic approaches for both diagnosis and treatment. Each chapter highlights a unique clinical case and delves into the underlying medical causes, the interplay between anxiety and substance use, and the intricate relationship between anxiety and various life stages. In addition, this volume will empower clinicians to develop personalized treatment plans that include medication, lifestyle changes, as well as psychotherapy that is evidence-based and driven by current best practices. This book will serve as a valuable resource, helping clinicians answer the question, "What do I do now?" when dealing with anxiety disorders in their patients.

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  The Things We Make - The Unknown...

  Bill Hammack

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  Discover the secret method used to build the world . . . 
   
   
   
  For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the same steps to engineer progress. But this powerful method, the "engineering method", is an all but hidden process that few of us have heard of—let alone understand—but that influences every aspect of our lives. 
   
   
   
  Bill Hammack, a Carl Sagan Award–winning professor of engineering and viral "The Engineer Guy" on YouTube, has a lifelong passion for the things we make, and how we make them. Now, for the first time, he reveals the invisible method behind every invention and takes us on a whirlwind tour of how humans built the world we know today. From the grand stone arches of medieval cathedrals to the mundane modern soda can, Hammack explains the golden rule of thumb that underlies every new building technique, every technological advancement, and every creative solution that leads us one step closer to a better, more functional world. Spanning centuries and cultures, Hammack offers a fascinating perspective on how humans engineer solutions in a world full of problems.

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  Heartificial Empathy - Putting...

  Minter Dial

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  Heartificial Empathy explores the power of empathy, one of the most untapped levers of productivity in business. In the new tech-infused era, where companies continue to scramble with digital transformation, trying to be more customer-centric and spurring innovation, empathy is a killer app. Heartificial Empathy grapples with the major business challenges associated with making organisations and machines more empathic. This is the second and significantly expanded and modified edition of the award-winning Heartificial Empathy, reflecting important developments in artificial intelligence as well as the new context post-pandemic of the future of work, and issues of and new solutions for mental health therapy. Empathy has never been more needed, yet businesses continue to struggle to create a culture of empathy. The author lays out the business case and a path for putting more heart and empathy into business and machines for a healthier and more profitable future. 
  2nd EDITION: WINNER MAINCREST MEDIA AWARD 2024 (Business Management) 
  1st EDITION: WINNER BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARD 2019 and BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS finalist 
  PRAISE RECEIVED: 
  "In Heartificial Empathy, Minter Dial masterfully makes the case for why empathy is not only teachable but a requirement for success in business and in life. By dissecting the elements of empathy, Dial has created the recipe book of how to embed and increase empathy in yourself, your organization, and in our machines."— Charlene Li, bestselling author 
  "In a tech-driven society, empathy is an increasingly rare and valuable skill. Minter Dial's new book is a thought-provoking exploration of the role of empathy in the modern workplace, and how to nurture and sustain it." — Dorie Clark, bestselling author

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  Don’t Die Ugly - Live Beautifully

  Lynn Soles

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  Lynn Soles made her career about creating beauty – as an artist, art teacher, tattoo artist and owner of a “permanent beauty” clinic. Then her doctors told her she had cancer. She had to choose: Die soon and ugly from cancer or enter a long course of treatments that might allow her to regain the life she’d known.  
  This remarkable memoir and guidebook, written in the course of her first year of treatment, gives real-life guidance for best supporting others through long-term illnesses and surgeries. Practical tips describe:how a cancer friend is different from other friends; things to say (and things never to say!) to your friend in treatment; essential cancer self-care tips for the habitual Superwoman;specific ways to ask for and give help to a person exhausted by cancer treatments.  
  You’ll laugh with Lynn as she and her family adjust to the changes treatment causes. You’ll be amazed by her contractor husband’s commitment to support her–even applying her eyelashes to the sounds of crooner Dean Martin. You’ll sense her longing as family holiday traditions, client care schedules, and the most mundane of daily tasks are revised to accommodate her chemotherapy-induced exhaustion. You’ll marvel at the perseverance cancer treatment can teach and learn to respect the times when a patient needs to rest in the “cancer cocoon.”  
  Hollywood stars rely on beauty professionals like Lynn to keep them physically beautiful right to the day their body is viewed in its coffin. Lynn’s cancer journey will inspire you to reconsider whether your hope rests in the beautiful things of this world that will fade away, and to rethink what it means to leave a beautiful, eternal Christian legacy.

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