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Algorithms to Live By Brian Christian...
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions.
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.
All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions they've found have much to teach us.
In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms used by computers can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.
Talking to strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know.
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true?.
Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland---throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt.
Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller, David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hem...
Brief Summary
Traditional Chinese edition of The Old Man and The Sea edited for young adults. The story is told with text and graphics and accompanied with Zhuying (phonetic annotation).
A reading guide of this Hemingway classic helps young readers develop their writing skills.
ISBN:9780435122164
Author:Ernest Hemingway
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics.
Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location or where we are going but about the world in general.
And yet, when it comes to geo-politics, much of what we are told is generated by analysts and other experts who have neglected to refer to a map of the place in question.
All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. In "one of the best books about geopolitics” (The Evening Standard), now updated to include 2016 geopolitical developments, journalist Tim Marshall examines Russia, China, the US, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan, Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic—their weather, seas, mountains, rivers, deserts, and borders—to provide a context often missing from our political reportage: how the physical characteristics of these countries affect their strengths and vulnerabilities and the decisions made by their leaders.
Offering "a fresh way of looking at maps” (The New York Times Book Review), Marshall explains the complex geo-political strategies that shape the globe. Why is Putin so obsessed with Crimea? Why was the US destined to become a global superpower? Why does China’s power base continue to expand? Why is Tibet destined to lose its autonomy? Why will Europe never be united? The answers are geographical. "In an ever more complex, chaotic, and interlinked world, Prisoners of Geography is a concise and useful primer on geopolitics” (Newsweek) and a critical guide to one of the major determining factors in world affairs.
The Spirit of Leadership Cultivating ...
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After personally training thousands of leaders from around the world, best-selling author Dr. Myles Munroe reports that, while every person possess the potential of leadership, many do not understand how to cultivate the leadership nature and how to apply it to their lives.
In The Spirit of Leadership, Dr. Munroe defines the unique attitudes that all effective leaders exhibit, how to eliminate hindrances to your leadership abilities, and how to fulfill your particular calling in life.
With wisdom and power, Dr. Munroe reveals a wealth of practical insights that will move you from being a follower to becoming the leader you were meant to be!
ISBN:9780883689837
Author:Myles Munroe
Extreme Ownership How US Navy SEALs L...
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Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed "all but lost.” In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, they learned that leadership—at every level—is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails.
Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training that helped forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After departing the SEAL Teams, they launched Echelon Front, a company that teaches these same leadership principles to businesses and organizations. From promising startups to Fortune 500 companies, Babin and Willink have helped scores of clients across a broad range of industries build their own high-performance teams and dominate their battlefields.
Now, detailing the mind-set and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult missions in combat, Extreme Ownership shows how to apply them to any team, family or organization. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic such as Cover and Move, Decentralized Command, and Leading Up the Chain, explaining what they are, why they are important, and how to implement them in any leadership environment.
A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, Extreme Ownership revolutionizes business management and challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win.
ISBN:9781250067050
Author:Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Kybalion A Study of the Hermetic Phil...
Who wrote this mysterious guide to esoteric psychology and wordly success? History has kept us guessing. Discover for yourself an occult classic that has introgued and enlightened seekers for generations.
Here are the teachings of the legendary sage Hermes Trismegistus, reinterpreted for the modern person.
Said to be an ancient Egyptian man-god who fathered astrology. alchemy, and other magical arts, the mythical figure of Hermes has fascinated readers of occult literature for centuries. Magicians and gnostics in late antiquity identified Hermes Trismegistus as the author of many esoteric teachings, building the mysteru of his lineage.
Since 1908, The Kybalion–written by the hand of "Three Initiates”–has itself generated debate and controversy. Who is behind it? Do its ideas really arise from the secrets of a faraway era? And, most important, do they work for the contemporary seeker?
In this concise, engaging guide, the Three Initiates assemble Hermetic doctrine into seven compelling principles, and provide practical methods for applying these ideas for self-development in everyday life.
Fully redesigned and reset for ease of reading, this is the definitive text of an esoteric classic.
Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
"True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are." Social scientist Brene Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives--experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy.
In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. With her trademark mix of research, storytelling, and honesty, Brown will again change the cultural conversation while mapping a clear path to true belonging.
Brown argues that we're experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe about ourselves and each other. She writes, "True belonging requires us to believe in and belong to ourselves so fully that we can find sacredness both in being a part of something and in standing alone when necessary. But in a culture that's rife with perfectionism and pleasing, and with the erosion of civility, it's easy to stay quiet, hide in our ideological bunkers, or fit in rather than show up as our true selves and brave the wilderness of uncertainty and criticism.
But true belonging is not something we negotiate or accomplish with others; it's a daily practice that demands integrity and authenticity. It's a personal commitment that we carry in our hearts." Brown offers us the clarity and courage we need to find our way back to ourselves and to each other. And that path cuts right through the wilderness. Brown writes, "The wilderness is an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. It is a place as dangerous as it is breathtaking, a place as sought after as it is feared. But it turns out to be the place of true belonging, and it's the bravest and most sacred place you will ever stand."
On Writing A Memoir of the Craft by S...
On Writing begins with King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. King next turns to the basic tools of his trade and culminates with a profoundly moving account of how King's overwhelming need to write spurred him toward recovery.
"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."
In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever.
Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, and so revealing. On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. A series of vivid memories from adolescence, college, and the struggling years that led up to his first novel, Carrie, will afford readers a fresh and often very funny perspective on the formation of a writer.
King next turns to the basic tools of his trade -- how to sharpen and multiply them through use, and how the writer must always have them close at hand. He takes the reader through crucial aspects of the writer's art and life, offering practical and inspiring advice on everything from plot and character development to work habits and rejection.
Serialized in the New Yorker to vivid acclaim, On Writing culminates with a profoundly moving account of how King's overwhelming need to write spurred him toward recovery, and brought him back to his life.
Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower -- and entertain -- everyone who reads it.
The Complete Works of Florence Shinn
The Complete Works of Florence Scovel Shinn: The Game of Life and How to Play It; Your Word Is Your Wand; the Secret Door to Success; and the Power of the Spoken Word.
Florence Scovel Shinn taught generations of readers how to live richer, fuller lives with her four empowering classics: The Game of Life and How to Play It; Your Word Is Your Wand; The Secret Door to Success; and The Power of the Spoken Word.
This volume collects all four of those works, offering a wealth of affirmations and real-life success stories. Self-improvement expert Norman Vincent Peale praised Shinn's works as essential guides, helping readers to "find prosperity, solve problems, and have better health."
Who Will Cry When You Die by Robin Sh...
Brief summary
This self-help and motivating book, in simple language draws out 101 ways by which we all could live a more carefree life and not sacrifice our today for a worried tomorrow.
The hundred plus solutions confront the reader with some of the most complex and dire situations they might face in life. They teach about how to handle stress with a smile, overcome the problems and lead a healthy lifestyle.
The book has separate sections on Start Your Day Well, Honor Your Past, Discover Your Calling and See Troubles as Blessings. Each section containing parables and amusing anecdotes, not just make 'Who Will Cry When You Die' a compelling read but impart great life lessons that are very inspirational.
They also make us realize about some of the simplest pleasures that we ignore in our stressful and busy lives. Most readers would be able easily relate to the book.
Written in simple, lucid language, some of the text does turn into quotations that a reader will remember for a long time. Sharma urges the reader, never to quit trying and look for fulfilment and a purpose in whatever one does.
From his earlier books and this present one, it is obvious that Robin Sharma has the talent to invigorate his readers with his superior diction. His books almost always contain inspiring quotes from famous celebrities from all over the world. The book is highly recommended for those who want to improve their interpersonal skills and lift their lifestyle.
Relentless From Good to Great to Unst...
Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable.
For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats—Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and dozens more—and made them greater. Now, for the first time in paperback, he reveals what it takes to get those results, showing you how to be relentless and achieve whatever you desire.
For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats—Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade, and dozens more—and made them greater. Now, for the first time ever, he reveals what it takes to get those results, showing you how to be relentless and achieve whatever you desire.
Direct, blunt, and brutally honest, Grover breaks down what it takes to be unstoppable: you keep going when everyone else is giving up, you thrive under pressure, you never let your emotions make you weak. In "The Relentless 13,” he details the essential traits shared by the most intense competitors and achievers in sports, business, and all walks of life.
Relentless shows you how to trust your instincts and get in the Zone; how to control and adapt to any situation; how to find your opponent’s weakness and attack. Grover gives you the same advice he gives his world-class clients—"don’t think”—and shows you that anything is possible. Packed with previously untold stories and unparalleled insight into the psyches of the most successful and accomplished athletes of our time, Relentless shows you how even the best get better . . . and how you can too.
Drive: The Surprising Truth About Wha...
Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people—at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others) explains in his paradigm-shattering bookDrive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of our lives. He demonstrates that while the old-fashioned carrot-and-stick approach worked successfully in the 20th century, it's precisely the wrong way to motivate people for today's challenges. In Drive, he reveals the three elements of true motivation:
Autonomy—the desire to direct our own lives
Mastery—the urge to get better and better at something that matters
Purpose—the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves
Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new approaches to motivation and introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are pointing a bold way forward.
ISBN:2147483647
Author:Daniel Pink
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it.
In this book, you'll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life -- money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You'll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that's within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.
The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers -- men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.
Anatomy of Silence by Juliet Ochieng&...
‘Anatomy of Silence’ is a deeply moving story about resilience, identity, and the quiet strength it takes to rebuild a life from broken pieces. In this intimate narrative, Choka opens the door to her childhood, revealing a home marked by silence, conflict, and emotional wounds that followed her into adulthood.
With honesty and courage, she tells the story of growing up in a troubled family, navigating the confusion of adolescence, and searching for belonging in places that often left her feeling unseen. Through the halls of a boarding school, the chaos of political unrest, and the unexpected journey into motherhood, Choka confronts loss, regret, and the weight of choices that shape a life.
At the heart of ‘Anatomy of Silence’ is a powerful story of healing. Guided by faith, friendship, and the quiet influence of mentors who appeared when she needed them most, Choka slowly begins to reclaim her voice and her dreams. This story is not only a reflection on pain and survival but also a testament to the human spirit’s ability to rise, forgive, and start again.
Raw, reflective, and deeply human, ‘Anatomy of Silence’ invites readers into a journey that many will recognize in their own lives, the journey of finding hope, purpose, and healing after the storms.
The Making of a Man by Jason Kabera
Rooted and Flowing Journal
Rooted and Flowing is a thoughtfully guided journal created to accompany you on the journey of rediscovering your truest self—honest, grounded, and deeply aligned with who you were created to be.
Each page is intentionally designed to support daily reflection and spiritual nourishment. You’ll begin your day with Daily Bread, a carefully selected verse from the NIV Bible to anchor your spirit, followed by a Daily Compass—a gentle positivity prompt to help you start your day with clarity and intention. As the day comes to a close, the Evening Reflection invites you to pause, process your experiences, and grow with compassion as you unwind.
Every purchase comes complete with a pen—a simple but meaningful reminder that all you truly need to begin is your presence.
Rooted and Flowing is for anyone ready to go deeper—without judgment, pressure, or performance—into a more authentic, self-aware, and spiritually grounded way of living.
From Muscle to Brain: The Ultimate Ca...
From Muscle to Brain is a powerful framework that guides professionals through five distinct levels of career advancement and wealth creation—from employment to thought leadership. Drawing on her own journey and years of mentoring professionals across Africa and beyond, Dr. Catherine Kahabuka helps readers understand how to transition from physical, time-bound work (muscle) to intellectual and influence-driven work (brain). The book equips readers with practical tools, mindsets, and strategies to grow their income, impact, and independence while maintaining integrity and purpose.
The book targets professionals, consultants, entrepreneurs, and aspiring thought leaders who wish to use their expertise to achieve financial freedom, impact, and career fulfillment.
Uislamu na Kiarabu: Islamic & Ar...
An English and Swahili Activity book designed to teach children the Arabic letters while also integrating basic concepts of Islam. Every book bought contributes to sadaqatul jaria at Maddrassatul Ikhlas in Lamu, Kenya.
Kitabu cha kuwafundisha watoto herufi za Kiarabu huku kikiunganisha na mafunzo ya msingi ya Uislamu. Kila kitabu kinachonunuliwa kinachangia sadaqatul jaria katika madrassa tul Ikhlas iliyoko Lamu, Kenya.