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This book will inspire you to rethink strategy in the age of AI; help your team become more data savvy; create an achievable road map for digital initiatives; understand the tech skills senior leaders need; reskill employees to support your transformation efforts; and create new processes that speed execution.

The metaverse is no longer a distant idea—it's unfolding now, powered by AI, big data, and immersive digital ecosystems. It's changing how we work, interact, and create value, offering unparalleled opportunities but also competitive pressures. In Building a Thriving Future, Harvard researcher and AI strategist Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio delivers the first strategy-driven guide for business leaders, policymakers, and decision-makers navigating this transformation. This book moves beyond hype, offering a data-backed, actionable roadmap to help organizations adapt and lead in the metaverse economy.

In Find Your Zone of Genius, a career self-help book on performance improvement, you will learn how to find yourself by identifying what author Laura Garnett calls your Zone of Genius―that sweet spot between what you're great at and what fulfills you at work. Both aspirational and practical, Laura introduces a methodology based on a performance tracker tool that has helped Laura's high-profile clients at Linkedin, Capital One, and Verizon transform their careers and lives―and will help do the same for you!

A heartbroken widow. A suspicious accident. And a cat who always trusts his instincts. Mallory Beck never thought delivering a casserole could get her tangled up in murder. But when a routine act of kindness leads her straight into the heart of the Montrose family’s secrets, Mallory finds herself in the middle of a mystery with more layers than her lasagna. Still reeling from her husband’s sudden passing, Mallory is just starting to rebuild—one home-cooked meal at a time.

Climate fiction without apocalypse, centered around Washington, D.C. Electrical engineering professor Jake Harper maintains his laser focus on the repair and re-engineering of the North American electric grids. Abbey London is the junior partner in an infectious disease practice, with principal interest and expertise. in novel vector-borne disorders. Together they operate Dragonfly Inn in nearby Virginia and care for their young infant with support from an au pair.

The 911 call was harrowing. “I accidentally killed someone. Please!” the man said, his voice rising. “Who?” “My stepmom. My name is Ian Anselmo. Sue-Ellen Anselmo, she’s in the car with me. My dad is going to kill me. I guess I strangled her. I don’t remember doing it. I remember the argument.” The call disintegrated quickly, with the 20-year-old howling and sobbing so pitifully that the dispatcher could not understand what he was saying, except that he was calling from a cemetery.

Follow Violet and friends as she caters delicious events and runs into titillating crime! Recipes are woven into these culinary cozy mysteries and follow each story.

In the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project sent mostly anonymous writers into the depths of Florida to reveal its splendor to the world. The FWP and the State of Florida jointly published the results as Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State, which included twenty-two driving tours of the state's main roads. Retracing the original routes in the Guide, Cathy Salustri rekindles our notions of paradise by bringing a modern eye to the historic travelogues.

Once known among New York's elite as the American Adonis, Everett Griffin now lives as a recluse in the wilds of Texas. The treachery of a former admirer left his face and his spirit riddled with scars, so he hides himself away, his only companions a trio of trusted servants and an oversized dog. Locals whisper of the beastly man who lives in the gloomy manor outside of town and his tendency to attack anyone who dares approach. Everett relishes his fearsome reputation and uses it as a shield to guard his privacy.

Drawing from her experience at Google and Meta, Dr. Marily Nika delivers the definitive guide for product managers building AI and GenAI powered products. Packed with smart strategies, actionable tools, and real-world examples, this book breaks down the complex world of AI agents and generative AI products into a playbook for driving innovation to help product leaders bridge the gap between niche AI and GenAI technologies and user pain points.

A well respected urban writer who has focused on New York's transportation system for more than a decade, author Nicole Gelinas resumes the story where Robert Caro's landmark The Power Broker ended. Movement: New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car explores how, in the half-century leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, New York's re-embracement of its mass-transit system and a livable streetscape helped save the city.

This book offers an easy-to-follow overview of the capabilities of generative AI and how to incorporate them into any job. It's perfect for anyone who wants to add AI know-how into their work.

Acceptance-Based Emotion Regulation Therapy offers an empirically supported protocol that addresses all key dimensions of emotion regulation using evidence-based strategies drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and emotion-focused therapy (EFT), as well as basic behavioral principles—resulting in a treatment that is more targeted and far briefer than comprehensive DBT.

Set against the glamorous backdrop of 1924 New York City, Patricia's marriage is a mirror of the era—fast-paced, boozy and free of restrictions that bound previous generations. But when her husband, Peter, fresh off his own one-night stand, demands a divorce due to her behavior, Patricia is left reeling. Ex-Wife is her story of reinvention—a journey into the wild, uncertain world of the "modern woman," rife with boozy nights, fleeting love affairs and fabulous fashion.

This fun and inspiring story shows that it is never too late to fulfill a long held dream. For thirty years, Diane Covington-Carter dreamed of living in France and immersing herself in the country and language that spoke to her heart and soul.

A Thousand Lifetimes will resonate with everything you knew, and hoped, was true. Here is the very real story of one woman’s life with rescue animals, and in particular, Celeste — a beloved canine who found a home in the author’s heart and never left. Celeste was plagued with a number of mysterious health problems. But despite being deaf, and being a dog, Celeste was able to communicate everything she was experiencing, thinking, and feeling through Carol, a professional Animal Communicator with the ability to converse with animals telepathically.

Old Mr. Berkshire hasn’t opened his attic in years. So long, in fact, that the door is covered in cobwebs. But why is it locked? To keep people out or to keep something in? Holly is certain Mr. Berkshire has a mysterious secret hidden away inside, and he doesn’t want it to escape. When the lonely, old man admits to being haunted by what’s behind that door, and he accidentally lets it free, Holly and Jordan set out to find the ghost from Mr. Berkshire’s attic.

After a fight over the family ranch, Dad's young fiancée is found dead. Bria risks her family's disapproval to sneak around and investigate as the tragedies pile up. Luckily, she has help from her childhood crush and from the handsome new deputy. When new love blooms in two directions and her main suspect dies, she must grow around her grief to discover the family's secrets before she loses everyone she loves.

As Violet waffles over whether to stick with her cheating fiancé, she and her friends must cater his formal military dinner. When an officer is found beaten, and not with a whisk, her fiancé is the prime suspect and temperatures rise in and out of the kitchen. Can Violet and the handsome investigator crack the criminal before the tension boils over?

Something is buried beneath the watcher tree in the woods—a metal box with treasure inside. But what kind of treasure? Gold? Secrets? Memories? And who buried the box at the base of the spookiest tree in Stony Brooke? The tree with a reputation for snatching children and gobbling them up. Jordan and Holly discover the box on one of their adventures and crack it open to find unusual objects inside.