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In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world....

Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does "it" even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully.

You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line. Meanwhile, someone with half your skills just automated their entire workflow, launched a side income stream, and did it all with the same tool sitting open in your browser right now. The difference wasn't talent. It was knowing how to talk to Claude like a professional instead of guessing like a tourist.

At most technology companies, you'll reach Senior software engineer, the career level for software engineers, in five to eight years. At the career level, your company's career ladder won't require that you work towards the next promotion; being promoted further is an exception rather than expected. This is also when many engineers are first given an opportunity to move into engineering management.

Future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage by learning the skill necessary to stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way in this essential guide that goes beyond the insights of popular works such as Extreme Productivity, Deep Work...

What if your technology organization stopped defending its cost and started proving its value? Profitable Engineering is a leadership book grounded in the realities of software delivery. It examines the organizational system behind engineering performance: how work is funded, prioritized, structured, measured, and led, and why those decisions often matter more than the framework teams follow. Most software organizations do not struggle because their people lack talent or because they chose the wrong methodology.

Master the Art of Machine Prompt Engineering: Unlock AI for Life, Business, and Career Success is your ultimate guide to thriving in the digital age. Whether you're looking to boost your career, grow your business, or transform your personal life, this book equips you with the tools to unlock the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and achieve unparalleled success. This transformative guide will teach you how to: Harness the power of Machine Prompt Engineering (no coding required) to leverage AI in any language, including English, Arabic, Spanish, French, and Mandarin. Cultivate a creator...

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling...

“Sarah Wilson is a force of nature – quite literally. She has taken her pain and grief about our sick and troubled world and alchemized it into action, advocacy, adventure, poetry, and true love.” — ELIZABETH GILBERT Will you sleep through the revolution? Or do you want to wake up and...

“Unlocking Internet Wealth in 2025 and Beyond: Mastering AI & Machine Prompt Engineering- No Code ” is your essential guide to making money and thriving in the digital age. This book takes you on a transformative journey, teaching you how to: Leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) through machine prompt engineering (no code) with any language (English, Arabic Spanish French Mandarin etc). Embrace the creator mentality and consciousness to establish your worth. Craft your personal philosophy for success. Improve your personal life, business and career. AI does not work effectively without...

Growing on just one and a half acres, owners Jean-Martin and Maude-Helène feed more than 200 families through their thriving CSA and seasonal market stands and supply their signature mesclun salad mix to dozens of local establishments. The secret of their success is the low-tech, high-yield production methods they've developed by focusing on growing better rather than growing bigger, making their operation more lucrative and viable in the process.

AI Game Changer: Mastering the Art of Machine Prompt Engineering and Creator Mentality to Transform Your Life, Business, and Career is your ultimate guide to thriving in the digital age. Whether you're looking to boost your career, grow your business, or transform your personal life, this book equips you with the tools to unlock the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and achieve unparalleled success. This transformative guide will teach you how to: Harness the power of Machine Prompt Engineering (no coding required) to leverage AI in any language. Cultivate a creator mentality and ...

“Mr. Ridley’s best and most important work to date…there is something profoundly democratic and egalitarian—even anti-elitist—in this bottom-up approach: Everyone can have a role in bringing about change.” —Wall Street Journal The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational...

Did you ever want to start 3D printing but think it might be too difficult to learn? Do you feel that the subject matter is overly technical and possibly out of reach? Or do you believe that it would be just too complicated to even get started? We know the struggle very well and understand how you feel. In this book, we will help you to overcome all of these obstacles and more. Not only do we offer a brief history of how 3D printing came to be, we will help guide all prospective hobbyist on how to get started from scratch.

LONGLISTED AS A FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE An illuminating tour through the manufacturing world and its seismic influence on our lives, from internationally renowned expert Tim Minshall We live in a...

National Bestseller For readers of Outliers, Atomic Habits, and Deep Work, comes a game-changing approach to unlocking your greatness, using a secret strategy that’s vaulted business titans and creative geniuses to the top of their profession. We’ve long been taught there are two ways to...

Most conversations about artificial intelligence focus on the same question: Will AI take my job? But the more interesting, actionable reality is happening right now: How can you use AI to do the work you don't want to do, faster and more reliably than you could do it yourself? Welcome to the era of autonomous AI agents , and welcome to OpenClaw. Unlike traditional chatbots that simply reply to text, OpenClaw is an open-source "harness" that wraps around leading language models (like Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini) , giving them the hands, eyes, and tools to act independently on your machine ...

"Fail to Grow is a comprehensive, insightful must-read for any general manager or business owner looking to unlock the full potential of their service department. Drawing from nearly 5 decades of hands-on experience and consulting, Don's expertise shines through in every page, making his book an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to optimize their operations and propel their business forward in today's market."

You can master DeepSeek without writing a single line of code. Maybe you opened the DeepSeek website, stared at the blank prompt, and immediately closed the tab. You had no idea what to do next. That happens constantly. Jeffrey Lee wrote DeepSeek AI for Beginners after watching his own colleagues do the exact same thing. They got curious. They logged in once and never went back. Nobody had actually sat down and shown them how to start. This book is the walkthrough you were missing. You might want to get through your daily work faster. Or maybe you plan to build custom web applications and ...

Applying the dozens of lessons and practical advice will save you the time, energy, and cost of learning them the way I did—the long way and the hard way. Adopting these principles early in your business career will significantly improve your chances of success and move you ahead of your peers who are not as well informed.