World Design

In a series of fascinating tales, Gene Kohn explains how he helped build one of the most successful architecture firms in the world, offering inspiring lessons on business leadership and design innovation that can be applied to many fields.

Forthright and engaging, Kohn examines both award-winning achievements and missteps in his 50-year career in architecture. In the process, he shows how his firm, KPF, has helped change the buildings and cities where we live, work, learn, and play.

The landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women. #1 International Bestseller * Winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize Data...

The only concise, high-impact handbook you’ll ever need to master system design. The Ultimate System Design Cheatsheet isn’t another 400-page textbook full of theory. It’s a fast, practical, no-fluff guide that distills years of experience, research, and top interview questions into one compact, visual, and easy-to-recall handbook. Whether you’re preparing for FAANG-level interviews, architecting a startup system, or simply trying to understand how large-scale applications actually work — this cheatsheet will give you absolute clarity in record time.

Bloomsbury presents… How to Design a Universe: The Science of Real and Virtual Worlds Written and read by Professor Catherine Heymans Could we be living in a computer simulation? How would we even know? In How to Design a Universe, acclaimed astrophysicist Catherine Heymans takes you on a...

The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world’s most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is “pulse quickening…a nonfiction thriller” (The...

The world is working exactly as designed. And it’s not working very well. Which means, we need to do a better job of designing it. Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power. The power to choose. The power to influence. As designers, we need to see ourselves as gatekeepers of what we are bringing into the world and what we choose not to bring into the world.

Master industrial automation and ladder logic from scratch to confidently troubleshoot any factory floor. Whether you are commuting to your first job as a maintenance technician or upskilling for a career shift, this empowering audio experience breaks down complex systems. You will step into the...

In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing t….

Human Design is a blueprint that reveals the unique way you’re designed to move through life; how you make decisions, use your energy, relate to others, and experience the world around you. When you understand your design, things begin to shift. Decisions feel clearer, resistance softens, and life starts to feel more natural and aligned. At first glance, Human Design can seem overwhelming. Charts, symbols, centers, gates, and unfamiliar language can make the system feel more complicated than it really is. But at its core, Human Design is simply a tool for understanding yourself more deeply.

The bestselling author of Own Your Everyday and Embrace Your Almost leads you on a journey of health and faith as you pursue wellness as a way to worship God without turning wellness into a god you worship. “In her most profound work to date, Jordan has taken historical biblical truths and...

This book is for a very small percentage of business people. You see, most people in business are not trying to use Category Design to create a new category that changes the future and generates exponential new value. Instead, many people in business are trying to “not get fired.” Many people want to go to work, make a contribution, and go home.

DESIGNING AI AGENT SYSTEMS Build, Orchestrate, and Deploy Intelligent Multi-Agent Workflows for Real-World Applications Move beyond AI chatbots and learn how to design intelligent agent systems that can plan, use tools, coordinate tasks, and support real-world workflows. AI agents are changing how software is built, how businesses operate, and how complex tasks can be automated. But creating a useful agent involves much more than writing a prompt. You need to understand system architecture, tool integration, workflow orchestration, testing, security, and deployment. Designing AI Agent ...

This book explores the theory and practice of design justice, demonstrates how universalist design principles and practices erase certain groups of people - specifically, those who are intersectionally disadvantaged or multiply burdened under the matrix of domination (white supremacist heteropatriarchy, ableism, capitalism, and settler colonialism) - and invites listeners to "build a better world, a world where many worlds fit; linked worlds of collective liberation and ecological sustainability".  

A miniature home is more than tiny furniture and perfect little rooms. It is a world waiting to take shape, one thoughtful detail at a time. Little Worlds Within Walls guides you through the rewarding process of planning, building, decorating, and caring for a dollhouse that feels wonderfully complete. Start with a clear plan choose a style and scale, measure the rooms, sketch a floor plan, and set up a workspace that suits your project. Then prepare the house itself, from checking a kit or existing structure to assembling walls, floors, stairs, and roof. Learn why it helps to think ahead ...

A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder—exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish. As a successful Harvard and...

From “tomorrow’s greatest designer” (The Atlantic), a personal and deeply researched look at how the choices we build into our environment reflect and determine the way we think, connect, and live. We've been led to believe that purposefully designed spaces are something reserved only for...

What if hell isn't waiting for you after death? What if you're already in it? Miguel A. Segura spent over two decades as a paranormal investigator in Spain — Ouija sessions, EVP recordings, whole nights in the country's most active abandoned and haunted sites. But the evidence that changed everything wasn't hidden in some haunted building. It was sitting in plain sight, in broad daylight, in the ordinary machinery of the world. This book makes one unflinching argument: that the design of reality itself points to a maker who built this place to hurt. Not through faith. Through what you can...

From the creators of the wildly popular99% Invisiblepodcast, comes a guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities. Narrated by Roman Mars, with a bonus Q&A and a Full Episode of 99% Invisible. Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk...

Take your games to the next level with advice from more than 60 of the best board game designers in the world. Game design is hard. We all need sound advice to guide our work and help us become better at the craft. In this book you'll find incredible wisdom and insight from the top designers in the industry today.

From a precious oral tradition rooted over 2,500 years in Ireland's past, John O'Donohue's Celtic Wisdom Trilogy brings you this vibrant spiritual legacy, unique in the Western world. A liberating feast of authentic blessings, insights, and teachings, brought to life by this acclaimed poet...