High Technology

How can we apply technology to drive business value? For years we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter - that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research to include data collected from the State of DevOps reports conducted with Puppet, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance - and what drives it - using rigorous statistical methods.

A river of stars remembers every wound. Jay Fendrick was supposed to be a farmer, a repairman, and a sensible man who kept his hands out of impossible machinery. That was before prophecy dragged him from his solar fields, before ancient maps woke under his skin, and before the battered airship Veyrion carried him and his companions toward Serpent’s End—a place where old locks, lost worlds, and unfinished debts wait in the dark. Now the crew must cross the Starlit River, a beautiful and treacherous road where water remembers, music hunts, and the dead speak in the voices each traveler ...

His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic best seller - one of the most influential business books of all time - innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right - yet still lose market leadership. Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation.

Jean Twenge, PhD, award-winning professor of psychology and author of the “lavishly informative” (The New York Times) Generations, returns with a concrete and accessible guide to raising resilient, successful, happy children in a time of overwhelming technological intrusion. Parenting today...

Technology is awesome. Teachers are better. Blending new technologies into instruction is a non-negotiable if we are to help our students gain the skills they'll need to thrive in careers. And so too is educators' old school wisdom in planning intentional blended learning that works. Too often, sincere enthusiasm for technologies pushes proven instructional strategies to the wayside, all but guaranteeing blended learning that is all show and no go. Bold School is an audiobook that restores teachers to their rightful place in effective instruction.

Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator's Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation. Sharp, cogent, and provocative—and consistently noted as one of the most valuable business ideas of all time—The Innovator's Dilemma is the book no manager, leader, or entrepreneur should be without.

From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might. For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons...

AI Swing Trading Made Simple shows you how to use ChatGPT and modern AI tools to find high-probability swing trades, manage risk intelligently, and hold winning positions with confidence—without staring at charts all day or day trading stress.

February 1, 2003. A light flashed over a Texas sky and twisted metal rained across the countryside. As images of the wreckage from the Space Shuttle Columbia streamed across the nation's television screens, they became forever burned into our memories. But behind those images were stories that remained untold...until now.

AI isn’t the threat. It’s the turning point. While the world debates whether AI will take our jobs, our clients, or our creativity, women like us are asking a different question: How can we use it to take our power back? You’ve been building the business, leading the team, hitting the goals, raising the family, and holding it all together. But now there’s this new AI wave moving faster than anything we’ve seen before. Everyone’s telling you to “figure it out.” But between the strategy calls, carpool lines, team meetings, and text messages, where’s the bandwidth to learn ...

One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman's last literary legacy, prepared with his friend and fellow drummer, Ralph Leighton.

Can we envision a world that was truly united and organized to serve humans, our environment, and all living beings? As the process of planetary acceleration of time and energy continues, many previous patterns of interaction may no longer serve humanity. We are in the midst of enormous change. Although it is easy to write those words, it is difficult to comprehend the changing of everything we take for granted: our financial, political, medical, educational, scientific, and religious systems are shifting. The purpose of A Planetary Vision is to create a blueprint that summarizes the areas ...

In the spirit of The Final Countdown and The Man in the High Castle comes a time-bending alternate-history thriller where Napoleon Bonaparte gains access to the future. A modern military aircraft disappears into a violent storm... —and emerges in the middle of Napoleon’s rise to power. At first, survival is all that matters. But one man aboard the aircraft sees opportunity. A chance to change history itself. As Napoleon’s empire expands beyond anything the world was ever meant to become, the timeline begins to fracture. Battles change. Nations vanish. The future itself starts ...

Master the AP Biology exam—without the burnout. Are you overwhelmed trying to memorize every term, every process, and every diagram in AP Biology? Do you wish someone would just tell you what’s actually going to be on the test—and how to remember it? Tired of flipping between vocab lists, notes, and confusing diagrams? We get it—and this guide was made for you.

AI Stock Options for Beginners shows you how to use ChatGPT and modern AI tools to simplify options trading, understand risk clearly, and identify high-probability setups—without advanced math, coding, or expensive platforms.

A dark family secret. A bizarre cult. A talisman that can destroy entire cities. Darwin must stop the skeletons in his past... before they bury our future. Darwin Lacroix is a wreck. An ancient booby trap nearly kills his wife, Eyrún. A tunnel under their home hides an alchemy lab with strange crystals. And a tabloid reveals his forebear stole American gold, threatening his job as Vatican special director of antiquities. Then he’s slapped with a paternity suit. Could his life get any worse? Modern tests show the crystals are a scientific holy grail—an unlimited energy source—worth ...

Great companies can fail: not because they do anything wrong, but because they do everything right. Meeting customers' current needs leads firms to reject breakthrough innovations, "disruptive technologies", that create the products and opportunities of the future.

The horror is real. Darwin and team face off against a cult hellbent on resurrecting the world's deadliest disease. When thieves steal holy relics from the Vatican Museums, he suspects the antiquities cartel he shut down is still operating. But something doesn’t add up. As Darwin chases evidence of the saint’s bones from Rome to Kyrgyzstan and Warsaw, he meets an investigative reporter who links them to a series of devasting attacks on remote Siberian villages. Has someone genetically engineered a bioweapon? With time running out and no government willing to investigate Russia, Darwin ...

The world has entered a new era of geopolitical conflict. Cold War Two is no longer a distant possibility—it is today’s high-stakes conflict reality, shaping the global economy, financial markets, supply chains, trade policies, energy security, and technological competition. In this groundbreaking book, Jason Schenker, a top-ranked economist and futurist, provides a data-driven, forward-looking analysis of Cold War Two—how it began, where it’s headed, and what it means for businesses, policymakers, investors, and national security leaders. Drawing on his expertise as Chairman of The...

Artificial intelligence is already in your students' pockets. The AI Classroom Playbook is the practical guide for middle and high school teachers who want to use AI tools effectively, ethically, and without losing what makes great teaching great. Jennifer Walsh spent 18 years in the English classroom before becoming an instructional technology coach. She covers everything: the best AI tools for lesson planning, differentiation, feedback, and assessment; how to teach students to use AI responsibly; how to redesign assignments so AI becomes a learning tool instead of a shortcut; and how to ...