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  Extreme Leadership - How Extreme...

  Charles Patton

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  Leadership is often talked about—but rarely understood. 
  Extreme Leadership cuts through the jargon and theory to show what real leadership looks like under pressure. With clarity, edge, and real-world insight, Charles Patton delivers a direct, no-nonsense guide for those who want to lead—and get results. 
  Leadership isn't about titles, org charts, or abstract models. It's about stepping up when it counts, seeing what others miss, and taking action when others hesitate. Drawing from bold examples and practical lessons, this book explores how extreme leaders think, respond, and succeed—even in chaotic, high-stakes environments. 
  Written as a supplement to graduate-level courses but accessible to anyone with a stake in leading or following, this book challenges the idea that leadership is soft, outdated, or optional. It's not. It's essential. 
  If you want the things great people have, you must do the things great leaders do. This book shows you how.

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  Trafficking Data - How China is...

  Aynne Kokas

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  From TikTok and Fortnite to Grindr and Facebook, Aynne Kokas delivers an urgent look into the technology firms that gather our data, and how the Chinese government is capitalizing on this data flow for political gain. 
   
   
   
  In Trafficking Data, Aynne Kokas looks at how technology firms in the two largest economies in the world, the United States and China, have exploited government policy (and the lack thereof) to gather information on citizens, putting US national security at risk. Kokas argues that US government leadership failures, Silicon Valley's disruption fetish, and Wall Street's addiction to growth have fueled China's technological goldrush. In turn, American complacency yields an unprecedented opportunity for Chinese firms to gather data in the United States and quietly send it back to China, and by extension, to the Chinese government. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the US and China and a large trove of corporate and policy documents, Trafficking Data explains how China is fast becoming the global leader in internet governance and policy, and thus of the data that defines our public and private lives.

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  The Game Is Afoot - The Enduring...

  Jeremy Black

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  Through the enduring eye of Sherlock Holmes, noted historian Jeremy Black traces how Holmes and his milieu evolved in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books and how Holmes continues to resonate today. Black explores the context of Doyle's ideas and stories and why they struck such a chord with readers in London, and ultimately the world. He portrays a complex man with eclectic interests, from soccer to spiritualism, from cricket to divorce law reform. Standing twice for Parliament, Doyle was a committed meritocrat whose political experiences and values were expressed through his writings. Reading the Holmes stories through the lens of Doyle's multifaceted career, Black throws fresh light on the values expressed in them and how Holmes would have been perceived at the time. He traces the imperial strand in the Holmes stories and Doyle's treatment of America and Europe. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on a masterful knowledge both of Doyle's era and his writings, this entertaining and wide-ranging book uses the Holmes stories to bring Victorian England to vibrant life, a world where crimes large and small abound and where dark corners and well-lit drawing rooms alike hide villainy. Holmes was a hero and an inspiration for many a character who redefined the idea of detection and the detective, a private man of great public importance. Here is his story.

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  No Lessons Learned - Vietnam The...

  Alfredo Bonadeo

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  While the book rests on the backbone of the Vietnam experience, it aspires to go beyond the confines of that particular war and lead the reader to question an American foreign policy that has, especially since 2001, been militarily driven. The harm done to American and allied soldiers and to the indigent peoples and societies of the countries the U.S. has so thoughtlessly invaded has secured no advantage to the U.S. or any other country. The author delves into the human physical and psychological cost of war and implicitly makes the case for diplomacy over force, restraint, and modesty over hubris. He establishes the importance of cause to the combatant's ability to fight winningly and to remain psychologically sound in battle and afterward. It is especially relevant today because it connects the human and societal consequences of the decisions made in and around that war with the recent squandered ventures in the Middle East.

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  Edward Vernon-Harcourt - The...

  Tony Vernon-Harcourt

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  Edward Vernon-Harcourt (1757–1847) was Archbishop of York from 1807 until his death at the age of 90.
  
   
  As a younger son of a wealthy land-owning family, Archbishop Harcourt depended on good family and political connections to make progress in the Church. He had to combine his responsibility for one of the largest dioceses in the Church of England with his duties in parliament and at court and with providing for his family of 16 children. More supportive of reform of both parliament and the church than most of his fellow bishops, Harcourt took steps to improve the training of ordinands in his diocese, encouraged the building of over 100 new churches to cope with population growth in the industrial towns of the West Riding and made some progress in tackling pluralism and non-residence. He was not afraid to stand up for a cause he believed to be right.
  
   
  In this biography, Tony Vernon-Harcourt examines the professional and family life of one of the last aristocratic bishops in the Church of England.

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  R Programming - R Basics for...

  Andy Vickler

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  R is an open-source statistical environment and programming language that has grown in popularity for data management and analysis in various industries. “R” Programming teaches you all the R you'll ever need in a rapid and painless manner. This accessible tutorial taught you your way around a list with no previous programming expertise and loads of practical examples, step-by-step exercises, and sample code. This book covers the most significant modeling and prediction methods, as well as their applications. 
  Learn how to use R to transform raw data into knowledge, understanding, and insight. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a set of R tools that work together to make data research simple, fluent, and enjoyable. This book is meant to get you practicing data science as fast as possible, even if you have no prior programming expertise. You'll get a comprehensive grasp of the data science cycle and the fundamental tools you'll need to handle the details. 
  R is becoming more well-known by the day, as large institutions embrace it as a standard. Its popularity stems partly from the fact that it is a free tool replacing expensive statistical software products that may take an undue amount of time to master. Furthermore, R allows a user to do complicated statistical analyses with only a few keystrokes, making advanced studies accessible and clear to a broad audience. 
  Learn how to import data, construct and dismantle data objects, traverse R's environment system, develop your own functions, and utilize all of R's programming tools with this book. This book will not only teach you how to program but also how to use R for more than simply displaying and analyzing data. 
  The book is highly informative with lots of code, and also I added tons of pictures of how the code will look in r studio. Following the book, you will be able to start Rstudio and use the program smoothly.

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