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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...

CAUTION! All employees must correctly dispose of otherworldly biohazards found on Dark Enterprises property. Failure to comply may result in one hell of a mess...from the author of Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World."If a door is closed, you leave it alone."That's the one rule janitor Sam is given when he starts cleaning the infamous thirteenth floor of the Denver branch of Hell-like multinational corporation Dark Enterprises.Sam is th...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional interpretationOriginalism, the view that the meaning of a constitutional provision is fixed when it is adopted, was once the fringe theory of a few extremely conservative legal scholars but is now a well-accepted mode of constitutional interpretation. Three of the Supreme Court's nine justices explicitly embrace the originalist approach, as do increasing numbers of judges ...

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...

A must-listen new book from author, teacher, and former CEO Brian Kibby.

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 Real Estate Titans, Erez Cohen shares the advice and learnings of the world´s leading real estate experts to create a guide for becoming a savvier real estate player.Cohen draws on his experience as a research and teacher’s assistant at Wharton Business School with an investment expert—and his mentor—Dr. Peter Linneman.Throughout his career, Cohen has collected first-hand knowledge from meetings with such real estate titans as Stephen Ross, Barry Sternlicht, Sam Zell, St...

Named a Best History Book of the Year by The Times (London)From “one of the most thoughtful Russian writers of our time” (Yulia Navalnaya) comes “an extraordinarily revealing account” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of why the Soviet Union’s collapse was incomplete and the Cold War never really ended—resulting in the resurgence of Russian imperialism, the invasion of Ukraine, and Russia’s tense relationship with Western Europe and America...