Great Problems

Who knew having a guy as your best friend would bring so much freaking drama! I, Jasmine Baptiste, am surrounded by it. I wish my heart wasn't so stubborn. Because it seems to like getting me in trouble, and there's no end in sight. The common denominator of all of this is Dante. For the sake of my sanity and even his, we probably have to stay as far away from each other as possible. Book 4 of the I’m Not Dante’s Series

No Calculator? No Problem! Mastering Mental Math , award-winning professor of mathematics and celebrated “mathemagician” Arthur T. Benjamin delivers 10 fun-filled lessons on how to do math in your head with confidence, accuracy, and speed - sometimes faster than a calculator. By the end of Professor Benjamin’s lessons, you’ll be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers faster than ever before. And with your newfound skills, you’ll soon find yourself amazing other people and, perhaps more important, yourself.

An exciting scientific adventure from the days of wooden ships and iron men, LONGITUDE is full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd. It is also a captivating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking. During the great ages of exploration, "the longitude problem" was...

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand. This volume details nine of the most versatile all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making, your productivity, and how clearly you see the world.

This book has two primary story lines. First, it is a fictional story of America's collapse. The second major storyline is the author's own spiritual-journey memoir, which includes significant persecution in the U.S. Storyline 1: America's Great Divorce and the soon-to-be Divided States of America are inevitable. What manifests as political disagreement reveals something far deeper—a fracture in the American soul. As accusations of fascism, Marxism, and treason tear the nation apart, the assassination of President Humphrey triggers a chain of events that pushes the federal government ...

Have you ever thought about upgrading your skills when it comes to thinking? Many people want to develop the way they think for business and their jobs but they don’t know how to do it. This creates a problem. As such, this book will help you understand what a mental model is as well as using it to your advantage. In life, how we view ourselves is very important and it affects how you think. In turn, how you think affects your life and how you function in your daily life. When you are able to change your thinking to have a positive outlook on the situation that you are in, you can change ...

New York Times bestselling author Newt Gingrich explores the lasting impact of the 2020 election on the lives of American citizens today. The election will be a decisive choice for America, especially as we emerge from the coronavirus crisis. Will the American people choose four more years of...

The Great Game of Business started a business revolution by introducing the world to open-book management, a new way of running a business that created unprecedented profit and employee engagement. The revised and updated edition of The Great Game of Business lays out an entirely different way of running a company.

Avery Tucker thought surviving her first year at the Academy of Elren would be the hardest part. She was wrong. Elren has been chosen to host the Commonwealth Games. Rival teams from Khemer and Mistbound are on their way to the Floating Isle, and the Academy is racing to prepare before the world arrives. Only eight students will make Team Elren, and Avery, a first-year from the Drylands still waiting on her dragon, is not supposed to be anywhere near that list. But the Academy keeps watching her. As tensions rise and secrets surface, Avery’s missing past stops being her problem alone. ...

Join Imani, Tommy, and Maya on their most comforting adventure yet in this magical chapter book perfect for early readers! When a talking teddy bear crash-lands on their favorite front steps, three young friends are whisked away to Comfort Valley—a world where teddy bears grow on trees, pigs soar through the sky, and the wonderfully weird is celebrated every day. But this magical realm is under attack by the Backwards Baron, who wants to drain all comfort and wonder from the world using his terrible Puzzle Storm! Perfect for children ages 6-9, this enchanting 3,000-word adventure combines...

Most problems are fairly easy: they have a few likely potential root causes. The most important problems often have hundreds or thousands of potential root causes within very complex systems. Such problems are hard problems, and are highly resistant to guessing, brainstorming, or problem-solving methodologies that require conjuring a list of possible causes. Great problem-solvers are armed with a set of behaviors that allows them to avoid guessing.

Decisions equal success - nothing happens until one is made. Businesses make millions of decisions every day. But once in a great while a leader makes a truly game-changing decision that shifts not only the strategy of a single company but how everyone does business. These big decisions are counterintuitive - they go against the conventional wisdom. In hindsight, taking a different direction may seem easy, but these bet-the-company moves involve drama, doubt, and high tension.

The Great Pyramid is older than written history in most of the world. It is also still standing. No steel. No electricity. No computers. No combustion engines. And yet the engineers of the ancient world built structures that have outlasted every empire that followed them — pyramids that have weathered four thousand years, aqueducts that still carry water, roads still in use, harbors still functional, concrete that modern engineers are only now learning to replicate. Most ancient history is written about kings and battles. This book is written about what was actually built — and how the ...

On the eve of America’s 250th anniversary comes a groundbreaking history of patriotism and the question of how to love a country. “Erdozain writes with a poet’s concision but a maximalist’s zeal, leaving no room in his historical account for any doubt that American exceptionalism has...

Every day is full of struggles. We struggle with time; with truth; with authority; with finding peace, purity, and contentment; with our words, thoughts, and actions - and that's just the beginning! Does God speak to us about these daily tests? Is there hope in the struggle? The answer, of course, is yes - but where God speaks about them may surprise you.

When disruption strikes, the difference between success and failure lies in how leaders respond. Conquering Chaos blends ancient battlefield strategy with the realities of modern business, revealing how victories and missteps from history can sharpen today’s decision-making.

Three complete stories in one collection! Includes The Great Bicycle Race Mystery, The Mystery of the Wild Ponies, and The Mystery in the Computer Game.

We know that our minds are capable of great things because, every now and then, they come out with a brilliant idea or two. However, our minds are also unpredictable, spending large stretches of time idling or distracting themselves. This is a book about how to optimize these beautiful yet fitful instruments so that they can more regularly and generously produce the sort of insights and ideas we need to fulfill our potential and achieve the contentment we deserve.

From Christina Lamb, the coauthor of the bestselling I Am Malala and an award-winning journalist—an essential, groundbreaking examination of how women experience war. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in...

What if hunger, poverty, homelessness, unaffordable healthcare, failing education, political polarization, corruption, environmental degradation, and economic inequality are not unsolvable problems—but problems humanity has already learned how to solve? In Back to Eden, author and philosopher HRH Prince Gharios El Chemor presents a compelling, evidence-based case that the greatest barrier to human progress is no longer scientific discovery or technological innovation. The real obstacle is the failure to apply what we already know through coherent institutions, long-term thinking, and ...