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How can we learn to deal with uncertainty at work? The answer is to learn from the adaptive behaviors of entrepreneurs. Play, the authors show, is a crucial component of this. It encourages exploration, experimentation, and curiosity, while it also challenges established practices and orthodoxies. It facilitates change in people and organizations. Drawing on in-depth interviews with entrepreneurs and innovators, this audiobook explains why we should incorporate play into work, what play looks like, and how to encourage playfulness in individuals and organizations.  

221b Baker Street is known all over the world, for it’s the address most associated with the legendary Sherlock Holmes! But there was a time before Sherlock Holmes moved to Baker Street, before his fame had grown, when he was still learning his craft and struggling to create his unique profession - the first of its kind - consulting detective! Join some of the finest Sherlockian writers as they explore those early days before Baker Street. 

Prepping can be a challenge for new preppers as well as old pros. New preppers can be overwhelmed by the number of tasks that need to be accomplished. This book provides a blueprint that prioritizes the different aspects of preparedness and breaks them down into achievable goals. Seasoned preppers often get overweight in one particular area of preparedness.

The most interconnected generation in history is navigating unimaginable amounts of social pressure, both in personal and online interactions. How do we help the overloaded and distracted next generation deal with increasing complexity and help them not only survive, but thrive? How do we help them experience stress-free productivity and gain momentum and confidence? Getting Things Done for Teens will train the next generation to overcome these obstacles and flourish by coaching them to use the internationally renowned Getting Things Done methodology.

Detroit high-priority 911 calls average 58 minutes for a response. How much longer will it be until budget cuts, natural disaster, or a total collapse make you responsible for your own security? Retreat Security and Small Unit Tactics by David Kobler and Mark Goodwin will teach you how to organize your team or neighborhood into a force to be reckoned with. You'll get tips to harden your home and protect your family, life, and property, both now and after the stuff hits the fan.

From 1891 to 1894, Sherlock Holmes was presumed to be dead, having perished during the epic struggle with Professor Moriarty atop the Reichenbach Falls. But unknown to most, even his friend Dr. Watson, Holmes survived. During those three years, he roamed the world, acting as an agent for the British government and using his very special skills along the way. In volume one of Holmes Away from Home, the incredible two-volume collection of new traditional Holmes adventures, we find our hero crisscrossing the world - Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the US. 

Sherlock Holmes! The very name of the world's greatest detective conjures up images of Victorian London, gaslit streets, hansom cabs, and dense fogs. But there was a time, a dark three-year period, when London had to make do without Sherlock Holmes. From 1891 to 1894, he was presumed dead, having perished during the epic struggle with that infamous Napoleon of crime, Professor Moriarty, atop the Reichenbach Falls. But unknown to most, even his friend Dr. Watson, Holmes survived.

Leaders who can detect hidden “fault lines” that signal impending industry change are better able to prepare and adapt to it.

Most people have this idea that we should be trying to find our passion or discover our passion - like we're on some magical Easter egg hunt for our perfect calling in life. But instead of "finding our passion", what if we started creating a life we could be passionate about living?

Finally back in print - David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop." The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom.

After a week of media silence following the school shooting in Florida, the National Rifle Association went on the offensive in its first public response to the massacre, pushing back against law enforcement officials, the media, gun-control advocates and the teenage survivors of the massacre who have pleaded for stricter gun laws.

"NRA Goes on the Offensive After Parkland Shooting, Assailing Media and Calling for More Armed School Security" is from the February 22, 2018 National section of The Washington Post. It was written by Mark Berman, David Weigel and narrated by Sam Scholl.

President Donald Trump’s first national security strategy envisions a world in which the United States confronts two “revisionist” powers — China and Russia — that are seeking to change the global status quo, often to the detriment of America’s interests.

"Trump’s National Security Plan Warns of ‘Great Power Competition’ With Russia and China" is from the December 18, 2017 Politics section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger and Mark Landler and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

President Donald Trump, after promising a radical break with the foreign policy of Barack Obama, is embracing some key pillars of the former administration’s strategy, including warning Israel to curb settlement construction, demanding that Russia withdraw from Crimea and threatening Iran with sanctions for ballistic missile tests.

The components of the global cyberattack that seized hundreds of thousands of computer systems last week may be more complex than originally believed, a Trump administration official said Sunday, and experts warned that the effects of the malicious software could linger for some time.

"Cyberattack Aftershock Feared as U.S. Warns of Its Complexity" is from the May 15, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger, Sewell Chan and Mark Scott and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

President Donald Trump on Friday made good on a long-running threat to disavow the Iran nuclear deal that was negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama. But he stopped short of unraveling the accord or even rewriting it, as the deal’s defenders had once feared.

"Trump Disavows Nuclear Deal and Denounces Iranian Leadership" is from the October 13, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Mark Landler and David E. Sanger and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

In our culture, there is a premium placed on finding our passion, as though somehow once we've found it, our lives will finally start to come together as we've always imagined. We've held onto these beliefs about passion and have made daily and even life-changing decisions based on the principle of following our passion.

Die Leben des Bettlers Tom und des Prinzen Edward könnten kaum unterschiedlicher sein und doch gleichen sich die beiden Jungen äußerlich bis aufs Haar. Als sie sich eines Tages zufällig begegnen, tauschen sie die Rollen: Fortan lebt Tom als Thronfolger im Luxus, während sich Edward mit dem harten Leben der Armen auseinandersetzen muss. Als der König stirbt, müssen die Jungen versuchen, in ihre wahre Rolle zurück zu kehren, damit nicht der Falsche den Thron besteigt.

Mark Twains Lausbub Tom Sawyer und sein Freund, der Straßenjunge Huckleberry Finn begeistern bis heute ebenso junge wie alte Leser. Ob es darum geht, sich um das Streichen eines Zaunes zu drücken, das Herz der schönen Becky zu gewinnen oder ein Leben als Pirat zu beginnen - der gewitzte Tom hat immer eine Idee auf Lager! Doch das lustige Leben endet, als die beiden Freunde eines Nachts auf dem Friedhof zufällig einen Mord beobachten.

"Obama Says He Told Putin: ‘Cut It Out’ on Hacking" is from the December 16, 2016 United States section of The New York Times. It was written by Mark Landler and David E. Sanger and narrated by Paul Ryden.

When Rex W. Tillerson, the former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, arrived in Washington five months ago to become the secretary of state, his boosters said he brought two valuable assets to a job that had usually gone to someone steeped in government and diplomacy: a long history managing a global company, and deep relationships from the Middle East to Russia that enabled him to close deals.

"Where Trump Zigs, Tillerson Zags, Putting Him at Odds With White House" is from the June 25, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger, Gardiner Harris and Mark Landler and narrated by Kristi Burns.