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  Agile Project Management with Scrum

  Vincent Berry

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a world where speed, adaptability, and collaboration are essential for success, Scrum has become one of the most effective Agile frameworks for managing projects and delivering value faster. Agile Project Management with Scrum is a practical guide designed to help individuals and teams successfully adopt Scrum principles and create more efficient, productive workflows. 
   
  Whether you are new to Agile or looking to strengthen your project management skills, this book provides a clear and actionable roadmap to understanding Scrum and applying it in real-world environments. From planning and sprint execution to team collaboration and continuous improvement, you’ll learn how to manage projects with greater clarity and flexibility. 
   
  Inside this book, you will discover how to: 
   
  - Understand the foundations of Agile and Scrum 
  - Organize and manage projects using Scrum frameworks 
  - Define clear roles for Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and development teams 
  - Plan and execute successful sprints 
  - Build and prioritize effective product backlogs 
  - Improve team communication and accountability 
  - Conduct productive daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives 
  - Adapt quickly to changing customer and business needs 
  - Deliver high-quality results through continuous iteration 
  - Create a culture of collaboration, transparency, and improvement 
   
  Packed with practical insights, proven strategies, and real-world examples, this book helps simplify Scrum concepts and turn them into actionable methods you can use immediately.

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  Behavioral AI - Unleash Decision...

  Rogayeh Tabrizi

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  In Behavioral AI: Unleash Decision Making with Data, behavioral economist Dr. Rogayeh Tabrizi delivers an intuitive roadmap to help organizations disentangle the complexity of their data to create tangible and lasting value. The book explains how to balance the multiple disciplines that power AI and behavioral economics using a combination of the right questions and insightful problem solving. 
   
   
   
  You'll learn why intellectual diversity and combining subject matter experts in psychology, behavior, economics, physics, computer science, and engineering is essential to creating advanced AI solutions. You'll also discover how behavioral economics principles influence data models and governance architectures and make digital transformation processes more efficient and effective; discussions of the most important barriers to value in typical big data and AI projects and how to bring them down; and the most effective methodology to help shorten the long, wasteful process of "boiling the ocean of data." 
   
   
   
  An exciting and essential resource for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders engaged or interested in harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and big data, Behavioral AI will also benefit data and machine learning professionals.

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  The Descent into Chaos

  Roger G. Trow

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. There are two opposing views concerning the cosmos. The first assumes we are evolving toward a higher state and the second predicts the descent of the world into chaos. 
   
  Adherents of the first view derive their optimism for the future of humankind and the world in general, and is based on Darwinian evolutionary principles, which are considered at some length in this book. 
   
  The second view also must comply with the universal laws of science. Roger Trow argues that evolution theory is itself a belief system rather than a proven fact. It will then be for the individual to decide what they will believe on the balance of the evidence presented.

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  Saving Ourselves - From Climate...

  Dana R. Fisher

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  We've known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we've seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the challenge. Fossil fuel interests maintain a stranglehold on political and economic power. Even though we have seen growing concern from everyday people, civil society has succeeded only in pressuring decision makers to adopt watered-down policies. Is there any hope of achieving the systemic change we need? 
   
   
   
  Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action—but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private-sector efforts have been ineffective. Spurred by this lack of progress, climate activism has become increasingly confrontational. Fisher examines the radical flank of the climate movement: its emergence and growth, its use of direct action, and how it might evolve as the climate crisis worsens. She considers when and how activism is most successful, identifying the importance of creating community, capitalizing on shocking moments, and cultivating resilience. Clear-eyed yet optimistic, Saving Ourselves offers timely insights on how social movements can take power back and open windows of opportunity for transformative climate action.

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  Signals in the Noise - Security...

  Timothy E Reed

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  Signals in the Noise: Security, Technology, and the Hidden Patterns of Modern Risk examines how clarity, judgment, and human discernment can survive in an age dominated by algorithms and information overload. 
  Drawing on lessons from intelligence tradecraft, behavioral science, and crisis management, Reed explores how modern organizations can recover the habits of mind that once defined strategic thinking. Each chapter translates operational insights—from aviation and medicine to corporate command centers—into practical methods for navigating uncertainty. 
  The book argues that true intelligence lies not in speed or scale, but in discernment: the ability to distinguish what matters from what merely shouts the loudest. Reed shows that the future of security depends not on better machines, but on better meaning.

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  The Search - The life of a...

  Paul Besley

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  Coming from a working-class background, Paul Besley knew the worst and best of life in a Yorkshire steel town. He had always been drawn to the solitude of the hills, but that life nearly ended when a fall while hillwalking left him critically injured and alone in the mountains of the Lake District. Paul was found and brought to safety by a mountain rescue team. This was the trigger for him to transform his life, first by joining his local team, then by finding Scout, his very own Border collie puppy, and training him to become a mountain rescue search dog.
  In The Search, Paul writes with humour and honesty as we follow him and Scout through their complex training, with searches and rescue incidents sometimes tragic and often funny. Paul's demons and headstrong characters threaten to derail them, until his past finally catches up with him and his life inescapably unravels. It's up to Scout to keep an eye on him now as Paul tries to build the best life he can.

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