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A fully updated edition of The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution (Finalist, Ben Franklin Awards, Independent Book Publishers Association, Business Category).The world changes continuously and rapidly. It's foolhardy to believe that strategies should not do so as well. Nonprofit leaders already know this, but traditional strategic planning has locked them into a process that's divorced from today's reality. That's why plans sit on the shelf and why smart execut...

Target high returns and greater consistency with this insightful guide from a leading investorThe market volatility exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic has led many to question their exposure to risk in their own portfolios. But what should one do about it?In Risk Parity: How to Invest for All Market Environments, accomplished investment consultant Alex Shahidi delivers a powerful approach to portfolio management that reduces the potential for sig...

An exuberant exploration of why the stuff we use (mostly) works—and a celebration of the unsung engineers who ensure it does.When a manufacturer offers a 10,000-mile warranty on a car or slaps a “bear-resistant” label on a camping cooler, what do we know about how trustworthy that promise is, and how it’s backed up? For the cooler, it’s Kobuk the Destroyer, the fiercest member of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee’s panel of product-testing bears: Gifted at cra...

If Guy Ritchie directed a James Bond caper starring a queer 007, it might look something like this hilarious and action-packed spy thriller by Paul Rudnick, acclaimed screenwriter and author of Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style, that blends espionage and social commentary with an elite society of gay secret agents.They are fierce patriots. They are licensed to kill. And they are really, really gay. Welcome to democracy’s secret weapon, the Tuxe...

Digital transformation is no longer news—it's a necessity.Despite the widespread threat of disruption, many large companies in traditional industries have succeeded at digitizing their businesses in truly transformative ways. The New York Times, formerly a bastion of traditional media, has created a thriving digital product behind a carefully designed paywall. Best Buy has transformed its business in the face of Amazon's threat. John Deere has formed a dat...

A study of one of the most beloved and strong heroines in the history of American literature.Part of the great western migration of the late 1800s, Ántonia Shimerda and her Bohemian family settle in Nebraska to start a new life on the Great Plains. Jim Burden, a child just a couple of years older than Ántonia, travels the same route from the east and becomes, with his grandparents, the Shimerdas’ nearest neighbor. Jim becomes Ántonia’s tutor and good friend, and ultimately he choos...

Book 7: SEALs of HonorMarkus learned firsthand that love hurts when he lost someone who’d meant everything to him. Afraid to feel that deeply again, he’s buried his pain, believing his heart is dead. So certain that he’ll never be the same, he devotes himself wholly to serving others. Meeting Bree wakes him from a deep sea of grief, and he’s stunned to recognize his heart beating for the first time in so long.Lost, alone and in serious peril, Bree reeled at how her life bec...

His dream is to become a journalist. Will his father give his blessing?Thorliff Bjorklund has been writing since he was a young boy and now longs to attend college to study journalism.But his father has other plans for him and refuses to agree. To make matters worse, the threat of crop failure may meanthere’ll be no money for further schooling. Thorliff is torn between love for his father and the pull of his dream. Musthe choose between the two?Elizabet...

Book 2: SEALs of HonorStumbling over a dead body is one hell of a way to start a vacation…While growing up, Hawk was always the wild card, the one who couldn't sit still or find a place to belong. Becoming a SEAL gave him a niche and a purpose in the world like no other. Nevertheless, the wild man remains under the surface, waiting for the match to his flame. Ending up back home for a few days' R&R, Hawk notices a new, darker element has moved in next door--and, at least in...

Terraform has become a key player in the DevOps world for defining, launching, and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) across a variety of cloud and virtualization platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more. This hands-on third edition, expanded and thoroughly updated for version 1.0 and beyond, shows you the fastest way to get up and running with Terraform.Gruntwork cofounder Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman walks you through code examples that demonstrate Terraform's simple,...

The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasionIn 1991, after seventy years of imperial Soviet rule, Ukraine became an independent country. Since 2022, it has been fighting an existential war against an unprovoked, brutal, and ongoing invasion by Russia. At the center of its resistance is the resilience of a united people.Ukraine expert Adrian Karatnycky provide...

In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, the enigmatic, legendary Warhol makes the listener his confidant on love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success, and much more.Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party—so that he could get in. But more often than not, the party was at his own studio, The Factory, where celebrities—from Edie Sedgwick and Allen Ginsberg to the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground—gathered in an ongoing bash.