NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A young entrepreneur’s blueprint for taking the right risks, scaling to new heights, and building a legendary brand.“I love it when my fellow rap comrades diversify their portfolio with books of information and knowledge.”—Snoop DoggArmed with only his hustle and an otherworldly instinct for marketing and branding, Berner, the co-founder and CEO of the world-conquering legal cannabis company Cookies, had...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A young entrepreneur’s blueprint for taking the right risks, scaling to new heights, and building a legendary brand.“I love it when my fellow rap comrades diversify their portfolio with books of information and knowledge.”—Snoop DoggArmed with only his hustle and an otherworldly instinct for marketing and branding, Berner, the co-founder and CEO of the world-conquering legal cannabis company Cookies, had...

Travel in the entertaining company of a man made of equal parts bullshit and inspiration, in what is ultimately a twisted panegyric to the power of strange music to change people from the inside outAt turns funny and strangely sobering, this "found memoir" is a picaresque tale of inspired, heroic deceit, incompetence, and -- just possibly -- triumph. Follow the flailing escapades of maverick music manager Campbell Ouiniette at the Calgary Folk Festival, as he leaves a trail of empt...

An instant New York Times bestseller, How to Giggle is “honest, hectic, and always hilarious” (Amy Poehler) advice on how to take life a little bit less seriously from the hosts and best friends of the Giggly Squad podcast, Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo.Finding joy and laughter in the mundane can be challenging at times, but Hannah Berner and Paige DeSorbo have mastered the art of not taking life too seriously. Brought together under th...

Discover practical tips and techniques for leveraging CMake to optimize your software development workflowKey FeaturesMaster CMake, from basics to advanced techniques, for seamless project managementGain practical insights and best practices to tackle real-world CMake challengesImplement advanced strategies for optimizing and maintaining large-scale CMake projectsPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Explore a compendium of tips, tricks, and techniques for leveraging CMake and empowering your software development workflow.Key FeaturesUnderstand what CMake is, how it works, and how to interact with itDiscover how to properly create and maintain well-structured CMake projectsExplore tools and techniques to get the most out of your CMake projectBook DescriptionCMake is a powerful tool used to perform a wide variety of tasks,...

A common level of understanding is the key to collaboration and the production of good quality. Any discussions about and the modelling of business processes and the respectively manipulated data can be only as good as the underlying comprehension of the matter itself. Based on his experiences, the author claims that the absence of or a flawed understanding is the main cause for bad software and failed IT-projects. IT people must understand what users need (and not only what they want or a...

What if all 4.5 billion years of Earth’s history happened in just one day?That question started as a late-night thought experiment — and became this book.I wrote Earth in a Day to take you on a journey through time the way no textbook ever could: fast, visual, human, and a little bit mischievous. From molten chaos to conscious thought, from comets delivering oceans to algorithms writing poetry, this is the entire story of our planet — told as if it all happened in 24...

I didn’t write this book to glorify artificial intelligence—I wrote it because I’ve watched it become human.Not in form, but in pattern, purpose, and paradox.From the mechanical rules that once defined machines to the sentient realms where they now evolve, I’ve traced every step—ten stages that reveal not just how AI learns, but how it mirrors us. These aren’t sterile algorithms; they’re reflections of human ambition, fear, and longing.Each st...

This e-book contains high-resolution graphics and tables that can only be read on e-readers capable of enlarging images. How can students be supported in their learning? How can useful, joyful, and creative learning be furthered? Children and adolescents should be able to successfully shape their learning, to feel comfortable and safe while learning and to assume the responsibility for their educational development. As in the book "Simply Good Teaching", prospective and experienced teacher...

I’ve always felt that history whispers — not through the words of kings or conquerors, but through patterns, symbols, and architecture left behind. Echoes & Engineers is my exploration into those silent codes that shape civilizations and, perhaps, even our minds.In this book, I dive into the world of secret societies, sacred geometry, and the mysterious engineers of culture — the thinkers and builders who encoded meaning into stone, proportion, and myth. You’ll journey with...

A biography that doesn’t quite exist, about a violinist who can’t be found, as told by people who don’t agree on much.Novelist Geoff Berner has been tasked with writing a biography of DD, a mysterious, charismatic, chimerical musician who has, it seems, dropped off the face of the earth. In the course of his search for DD, Berner interviews her friends, ex-bandmates, ex-lovers, and others. They paint such variable portraits of her that each successive attempt to de...