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In 2006 residential real estate prices peaked and started to fall, then threatened the world's financial institutions in 2007, and confronted the global economy with disaster in 2008. In the past few years, millions of people have lost very substantial portions of their wealth. And while the markets...

“More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being,” says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology’s irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from?...

The NFL is the most popular professional sports league in the United States. Its athletes receive multimillion-dollar contracts and almost endless media attention. The league's most important game, the Super Bowl, is practically a national holiday. Making it to the NFL, however, is not about the promised...

The Theory of Everybody, rather than play upon our fears, explores the positive opportunities presented by super-intelligent machines. In several genres—a play, essays, articles, and science fiction—Robert W. Fuller explores the most daunting challenge we humans will ever face: the advent of robots...

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare,...

THE MIDAS TOUCH by James Cummins & Cameron W. Reed Counterfeit Stock, Naked Short-Selling & Selling America Short “. . . a journey into the predatory nature of some of the practicies and institutions in the financial industry today . . . .” Authors James Cummins...

The Pursuit of God is one of A.W. Tozer's best work. During a train trip from Chicago to Texas in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to write The Pursuit of God. He wrote all night, and when the train arrived at his destination, the rough draft was done. The depth of this book has made it an enduring...

Master predictive analytics, from start to finish   Start with strategy and management Master methods and build models Transform your models into highly-effective code—in both Python and R   This one-of-a-kind book will help you use predictive analytics,...

What is it you really want from your life? What do you truly desire? The list might be long or short...more money, financial security, a dream home, the perfect job, true love, peace, happiness, spiritual growth… Life is full of wants and desires. Have you ever wondered why it seems...

Celebrated journalist R. W. ("Johnny") Apple was a veteran political reporter, a New York Times bureau chief and an incisive and prolific writer. But the role he was most passionate about was food anthropologist. Known both for his restless wideopen mind and an appetite to match, Apple was...

'The New Knowledge Management' is the story of the birth of "second-generation knowledge management," told from the perspective of one its chief architects, Mark W. McElroy. Unlike its first-generation cousin, second-generation Knowledge Management seeks to enhance knowledge production,...

Persuasion in Society, Third Edition introduces readers to the rich tapestry of persuasive technique and scholarship, interweaving rhetorical, critical theory, and social science traditions. This text examines current and classical theory through the lens of contemporary culture, encouraging readers...

Imagine being ill and in extreme pain, as many of your friends or relatives insist that you try medical marijuana. Naturally, at that point you might wonder: "Is this quackery, or perhaps even worse just a lame excuse to get stoned? Can this drug truly help me?" Well, finally for the first time here,...

Written by J W Mitchell - a freelance photojournalist since 1990 - this eBook will give you all the information you need to begin a career in freelance press photography and provides essential advice about managing and distributing your news photos, sports photos, celebrity photos, stock photos, HD...