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An “absorbing” (San Fransico Chronicle) and “fascinating” (Financial Times) account of San Francisco’s meteoric transformation into a global capital of technology, and how the same creative and political forces that gave rise to its boom now threaten to destroy what made it great.At the dawn of the 1990s, San Francisco was a beautiful if troubled mid-sized metropolis. It was still reeling from the AIDS epidemic and the Lome Prieta earthquake, its ...

Whether you’re a marketer with development skills or a full-on web developer/analyst, Practical Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager for Developers shows you how to implement Google Analytics using Google Tag Manager to jumpstart your web analytics measurement.There’s a reason that so many organizations use Google Analytics. Effective collection of data with Google Analytics can reduce customer acquisition costs, provide priceless feedback on new product initiatives, an...

Late nineteenth-century Mexico was a country rife with health problems. In 1876, one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time, which saw more modest premature death rates of one out of fifty-two (London), one out of forty-four (Paris), and one out of thirty-five (Madrid). It is not an exaggeration to maintain that each day dozens of bodies could be found scattered throughout the st...

Navigate the digital economy and secure your future of work by mastering the hidden data networks shaping global markets. Transform your daily commute into a high-yield learning session with this calm, grounded exploration of modern business. Strip away the relentless tech buzzwords to finally understand how platforms, algorithms, and cloud computing dictate who wins and loses.Stop feeling overwhelmed by headlines about artificial intelligence and remote work, and start seeing the ...

MutinyFor Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the moon. For Dahak, a self-awareImperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face ofthe enemy. The mutiny was never resolved—Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crewon prehistoric Earth.Dahak has been helplessly waiting as the descendants of the loyal crew regressed while th...

Just when the world needs it most, a new style of social engagement is emerging: Active Citizenship.A key member of one of New York’s most civic-minded families—one that has supported many of America’s notable institutions and deserving programs—Jonathan Tisch has devoted a lifetime to “active citizenship.” It’s an idea that uses the power of practical creativity and grassroots participation to solve seemingly intractable problems. In Citizen You, Tisch challenges readers ...

He never wanted to be a rebel.The Five Hundred, the elite families who rule the Terran Federation and control its political power and its wealth, have grown steadily wealthier and more powerful, thanks to the war against the Terran League. War may be hard on the people who get caught in its path, but it's very good for business in the short term, and the Five Hundred own the shipyards that build the Navy's ships. They own virtually all the industry that produces th...

For more than fifty years, the Terran Republic and the Terran League have been killing one another.The death toll has climbed ever higher, year after year, with no end in sight. But the members of the Five Hundred, the social elite of the Republic's Heart Worlds, don't care.Rear Admiral Terrence Murphy is a Heart Worlder. His family is part of the Five Hundred. His wife is the daughter of one of the Five Hundred's wealthiest, most powerful industrialists. H...

JOB PRESSUREColin MacIntyre’s life as a NASA astronaut might not have been exciting, but at least it was orderly. Unfortunately, he’s been tapped for greater things, and he isn’t too sure he likes it.First he was kidnapped by an ancient, self-aware starship masquerading as Earth’s moon. Then he was drafted as its captain to suppress a five-thousandyear-old mutiny. And then he had to mobilize the planet against the attack of aneons-old ancient menace dedicated to the ...

Emperor Colin has a reputation for toughness that's second tonone. But now the galaxy had better watch out—because Colin'schildren are on the loose. It's not that Sean and Harriet aren't nicekids—but they are stranded a long way from home.

All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in Dangerous Women include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors’ bestselling continuities—including a new “Outlander” story by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden’s world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman set in the world of The Magicians, and a 35,000-word novella by George R. R. Martin about the Dance of the Dragons, the vast civil war that tore Westeros a...

With new alliances forged and old regimes fractured, Merlin—the cybernetic avatar of Earth's last survivor and immortal beacon to humanity—and the colonies of Safehold have many adventures ahead in Through Fiery Trials, the continuation of David Weber's New York Times bestselling military science fiction series.Those on the side of progressing humanity through advanced technology have finally triumphed over their oppressors. The unholy war between...