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  The World As We Knew It -...

  Tajja Isen, Amy Brady

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  Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives 
   
   
   
  In this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat. 
   
   
    
  In the opening essay, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet mourns the end of the Saguaro cacti in her Arizona backyard due to drought. Later, Omar El Akkad contemplates how the rise of temperatures in the Middle East is destroying his home and the wellspring of his art. Gabrielle Bellot reflects on how a bizarre lionfish invasion devastated the coral reef near her home in the Caribbean—a precursor to even stranger events to come. Traveling through Nebraska, Terese Svoboda witnesses cougars running across highways and showing up in kindergartens. 
   
   
    
  As the stories unfold—from Antarctica to Australia, New Hampshire to New York—an intimate portrait of a climate-changed world emerges, captured by writers whose lives jostle against incongruous memories of familiar places that have been transformed in startling ways.

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  Starved for Light - The Long...

  Christian Warren

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  A wide-ranging history of rickets tracks the disease’s emergence, evolution, and eventual treatment—and exposes the backstory behind contemporary worries about vitamin D deficiency. Rickets, a childhood disorder that causes soft and misshapen bones, transformed from an ancient but infrequent threat to a common scourge during the Industrial Revolution. Factories, mills, and urban growth transformed the landscape. Malnutrition and insufficient exposure to sunlight led to severe cases of rickets across Europe and the United States, affecting children in a variety of settings: dim British cities and American slave labor camps, moneyed households and impoverished ones. By the late 1800s, it was one of the most common pediatric diseases, seemingly an intractable consequence of modern life. Starved for Light offers the first comprehensive history of this disorder. Tracing the efforts to understand, prevent, and treat rickets—first with the traditional remedy of cod liver oil, then with the application of a breakthrough corrective, industrially produced vitamin D supplements—Christian Warren places the disease at the center of a riveting medical history, one alert to the ways society shapes our views on illness. 
   
  
  Sweeping and engaging, Starved for Light illuminates the social conditions underpinning our cures and our choices, helping us to see history’s echoes in contemporary prescriptions.

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  Silicon Empires - The Fight for...

  Nick Srnicek

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  Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative technology?In Silicon Empires, Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, revealing how a handful of powerful corporations and states are engaged in a monumental struggle to control its future. Srnicek moves beyond the headlines to lay bare the elaborate strategies that these silicon empires—from tech giants to great powers—are deploying to capture the immense value of AI.This incisive analysis uncovers the deep-seated tensions between corporate ambitions and national interests, and the profound consequences of this new era of technological competition. As the race for AI supremacy accelerates, Srnicek compellingly demonstrates that the decisions being made in the boardrooms of Silicon Valley and the halls of government will shape the distribution of wealth and power on a global scale for decades to come.This book is essential listening for anyone who wants to understand the critical battle for the future of AI.

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  Lean Leadership and Management -...

  Steve Abrams

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  In "Lean Leadership and Management: Mastering Efficiency Through Visual Management," readers are introduced to a transformative approach that synergizes leadership with proven Lean principles to dramatically enhance organizational efficiency and agility. This comprehensive guide dives deep into the heart of Lean methodology, illuminating how leaders can spearhead a culture of continuous improvement through the strategic use of visual management tools. 
  This book starts with the fundamentals, exploring the origins and core principles of Lean management, and progressively builds to more complex concepts, illustrating how these can be seamlessly integrated into daily business operations. It emphasizes the crucial role of leadership in effecting sustainable change, shifting from traditional command-and-control paradigms to more inclusive and empowering Lean leadership styles. 
  Central to this Lean journey is the concept of visual management—a powerful toolset that enhances transparency and operational clarity. Readers will learn how to implement practical visual techniques such as the 5S system, Kanban, and value stream mapping, transforming their work environments into models of efficiency and responsiveness. Each chapter not only explains the theoretical aspects but also includes real-world case studies and success stories, offering a practical blueprint for implementation. 
  "Lean Leadership and Management" is an indispensable resource for executives, managers, and leaders at all levels aspiring to refine their operational practices and cultivate a forward-thinking workplace culture. Whether in manufacturing, healthcare, technology, or any other sector, this book provides the strategies needed to achieve peak performance and sustainability through Lean principles and visual management. Embrace the journey towards mastery of efficiency and discover how visual cues can revolutionize your approach to leadership and management. 
   

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  The Shock of Change that...

  Jeremy Griffith

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  As biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview (which psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen described as “the most important interview of all time”), while we humans lacked the explanation for our 2-million-year corrupted human condition we had no choice but to deny that our distant ape ancestors lived in a state of cooperative and loving innocence. But with the good reason for our corrupted condition now finally found, our species' original state of innocence can at last be admitted - and, as Griffith makes clear in his essay The Great Guilt, what that honesty finally allows us to see is the immense guilt and shame we humans have been carrying for corrupting our original instinctive self or soul. 
  Finding the redeeming understanding of our corrupted condition also means we no longer need to employ the artificial reinforcements we have been depending on to sustain our sense of self-worth of attacking, defying, and denying the implication that we are guilty, bad people. What this essay, The Shock Of Change that understanding the human condition brings, addresses is how to manage the great shock of change that inevitably occurs in this fabulous transformation from having to depend on our now obsoleted, artificial, angry, egocentric and alienating forms of reinforcement, to living free of them. 
  This booklet is supported by a very informative website at HumanCondition.com.

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  The Nature Fix Bundle 2 in 1...

  Nina Yakov, Tristan Salem

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  The Nature Fix Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Nature’s Best Hope and Speed and ScaleReports on global warming and climate change seem to be everywhere and people are starting to get alarmed. Global warming poses one of the most serious threats to the global environment ever faced in human history. We hear and read about it everyday and how this impacts our planet. The publication of these reports may be a good thing since it presents that there is awareness of this particular problem. As a response, people want to find ways on how they can help mother earth. One of the ways to do it is by going green. But what does it mean to go green?This bundle will educate you on the basics of going green so you can do your part in helping the environment. You will learn what are the current problems our world is facing now and what part you can take to help solve them. It will teach you tips and different practices on how you can start living green so you can do your part in helping the environment. You will get tips on how to incorporate changes in different activities of your everyday life . This 2 in 1 bundle includes the following audiobooks:1. Nature’s Best Hope: The Essential Guide on How to Go Green. Discover Practices That Will Help You Protect Mother Earth2. Speed and Scale: The Smart Guide on Living Green. Discover Useful Tips on How to Live Green so You Can Help the Environment and Mother Earth.If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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