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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....

Valeria Velez has just pulled off a stunning upset in California's 27th District, ousting ten-term corporatist incumbent Fillian Dunne from his seat in Congress. Young, beautiful, and idealistic, Valeria and her boyfriend/campaign manager Preston Jante are determined to use Valeria's new position to "stop stuffing the maw of the military machine" and return power to the people. But when fugitive hacker Lance Thaddeus uncovers a top-secret Pentagon program combining artificial intelligence with nuclear command-and-control, Valeria might have to choose between her ideals...and her life.

Fight, survive, adapt, and rely only on yourself. That is Derek’s creed and what's got him through the System Integration on Earth. Everything changed when the System came. Cute bunnies and beautiful butterflies became savage killing machines. Then the Invaders arrived with a single goal: to obtain ownership of this new habitable planet. War has raged ever since. None of this mattered much to Derek, aside from making living a little more perilous.

Dysregulation is often referred to as being triggered or upset. Quite often people who are unaware of their dysregulation are angry, explosive, or they might shut down or be overly emotional. Dysregulation can be exaggerated by difficult past experiences - especially in childhood. It is also useful to understand that dysregulation is the CORRECT expression of a properly functioning nervous system - everyone can become dysregulated at times.

Build Systems Your Team Can Run Without You is a practical blueprint for turning chaotic processes into repeatable, scalable workflows that keep delivering value even when leadership isn’t in the room. No more bottlenecks, no more firefighting—just clear rules, trusted playbooks, and a culture that can sustain itself. This book walks you through the exact mechanisms that let teams operate with autonomy defining measurable outcomes, designing SOP playbooks, and translating goals into rules that guide daily decisions. You’ll learn how to establish documentation standards that travel ...

Author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate the diverse data landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications. 

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts that make you who you are. Is there just one “you”? We’ve been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can’t control the inner voices that don’t...

Gary doesn’t have all that much going for him. He’s a teenage boy who lives in a Tier-3 town that’s barely hanging on, and his family’s just a rung above dirt poor. Which is why he’s taken the very dangerous step of becoming an errand boy for the savage Underdogs gang. He doesn’t like what they do, but if he tries to get out, he’s pretty sure he’ll get very dead.

Do you sometimes feel like your business is an adult daycare center? Are you constantly repeating yourself, fixing errors, and trying to hold things together? What if it were possible to create a business that runs itself? You’ve dreamed about it - now it’s time to make this a reality! SYSTEMology solves this problem with a proven, step-by-step business systemisation framework - designed so that even the busiest business owner can deploy it.

Jay Luckrun has many interests: street dancing, anime, action movies, comedy, and dashing across rooftops to the point where his bullies nicknamed him Rooftop Weirdo. After struggling to confront his untouchable high school crush at her seventeenth birthday party, Jay adds another interest to his list—Dungeon Crawling in the face of the apocalypse. Jay meets a divine creature who chooses him to become a Champion. Someone with a leveling System, stats, skills, access to other dimensions containing dungeons filled with supernatural loot, and magical powers that’ll alter reality as they know it.

From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change. There is a mounting sense that our political-economic...

The Systems Thinker will help you to implement systems thinking at your workplace, human relations, and everyday thinking habits. Boost your observation and analytical skills to find the real triggers and influencing forces behind contemporary politics, economics, health, and education changes.

You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. And you don’t need another productivity hack that collapses by Wednesday. If you live with both autism and ADHD (AuDHD), you already know the truth: Traditional advice doesn’t work. To-do lists pile up. Routines fall apart. Burnout hits hard and fast. Simple tasks feel impossibly heavy. So you blame yourself. But here’s the reality — your brain isn’t the problem. The systems you’ve been told to use are.

Fueled by memories of a fallen world and revenge, Nick takes on a quest to take down the all-powerful [Admin]. Armed with nothing more than his grit, his experience, and an unyielding will, his every decision becomes a high-stakes gamble in a world changed by the coming of the system. Powerful and otherworldly foes obstruct his path, their strength formidable enough to pulverize any ordinary man. But Nick is far from ordinary. He embodies humanity's best hope to overcome the catastrophe known as System Fall and to challenge the [Admin].

Automate. Innovate. Build Agentic Workflow with n8n. Have you ever wished your digital tools could work for you instead of making you work harder? 🔹 With this “n8n Beginner’s Book: Build Your Own AI Agents and Automate Everything”, you’ll learn how to transform your ideas into intelligent workflows that think, react, and save you hours every day - without writing a single line of code. This book is your step-by-step companion to mastering n8n, the open-source automation platform trusted by creators, developers, and businesses worldwide. Written in a friendly, beginner-first tone,...

Systems Thinking and Complexity Explained: How Feedback Loops, Emergence, and Nonlinear Dynamics Shape the Modern World is a clear, in depth guide to understanding why the world behaves the way it does when simple cause and effect explanations fall short. From global challenges like climate change and economic instability to everyday issues in organizations, technology, and personal decision making, this book shows how complex systems generate surprising outcomes through interaction, feedback, and adaptation. Written for curious readers with no technical background required, it offers a ...

Modern economics explains outcomes but fails to explain flow. Markets rise and fall, recessions appear and disappear, and asset prices detach from fundamentals—not because of mysterious forces, but because liquidity moves through the economy in structured, repeatable ways. The Economy as a Liquidity System reframes macroeconomics, financial markets, and investing through a single unifying lens: liquidity. Rather than treating money, credit, capital markets, households, corporations, and governments as isolated components, this book presents the economy as a dynamic liquidity network—one...

✔️ Check ‘Systems Science and Social Systems: (Towards a Formal Theory of Social Systems)’. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F14YXJL7 Current Book: A New Look! A Fundamental Approach! 'System' is used for many objective or subjective things and carries a 'concept' with itself than a name for 'computer'. Evidences show that we are living in a world of 'objects' and related 'events'. Objects are the 'things' that have their 'order' or properties in the 'space'. Events are the 'happenings' in relation to the things that have their 'rule' or methods in the 'time'. 'News' as 'hot' subjects ...

AN EXPLOSIVE AND REVELATORY PORTRAIT REPORTED FROM DEEP BEHIND THE SCENES OF BIG-TIME NCAA COLLEGE FOOTBALL: THE PASSION, THE THRILLING ACTION—AND THE SHOCKING REALITIES THAT LIE BENEATH THIS COLOSSAL, MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR BUSINESS COLLEGE FOOTBALL has never been more popular—or more...

Are you tired of depending on coffee, energy drinks, or endless cups of tea just to get through the day? Caffeine promises quick energy, but it often leaves you trapped in a cycle of jitters, fatigue, and sleepless nights. The good news is—you can break free without harsh withdrawal or giving up energy altogether. How to Break a Caffeine Addiction Naturally is your gentle guide to restoring balance in your body while regaining calm, steady energy. This empowering book reveals practical, natural strategies that help reset your nervous system, restore healthy hormone rhythms, and support ...