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A New York Times Notable Book: "Endlessly rich . . . An earnest, wistful collection of biographical sketches of a dozen preeminent 'lovers of wisdom.'" — The Wall Street JournalWe all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and what...

Every business today faces a marketing problem that no amount of effort alone can solve, because the tools that once required a team of specialists, a strategist, a writer, a designer, a media buyer, an email marketer, and an analyst, can now be approximated by a single person who knows how to direct a capable AI assistant. The gap between the businesses with marketing muscle and those without it has collapsed, and the bottleneck has shifted from production capacity to something else entir...

At 2 a.m. on a Tuesday, while the rest of the house slept, the author watched a video of a man in a rented sports car explain how he made $10,000 a month using artificial intelligence to create content he did not write, art he did not paint, and videos he did not film. The man was very confident and very tan and kept pointing at a graph that went up forever, and the author believed every single word of it. That belief cost him a year of his life, a chunk of his savings, and enough dignity ...

James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales's definitive oral history of Saturday Night Live, hailed as "incredible" (Vulture) and "required reading" (People).When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, Live from New York was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night show. In their own words, unfiltered and uncensored, a dazzling galaxy of trail-blazing t...

You watched the Copilot icon appear in Word and wondered if it was help or hype. Your IT team announced it, YouTube promised a perfect chart from one sentence, and your first prompts returned generic text that took longer to fix than to write. This crash course closes the gap between marketing demo and daily work.Built as a 5 in 1 system, this book covers Microsoft Copilot essentials, Excel automation, Word power, Outlook shortcuts, and Teams workflows, with the same honest standar...

Charisma is an intrinsic force that captivates other people's hearts and minds. The keyword there is' authentic,' when we are true to who we are at our core, when we embrace and appreciate our individuality, we exude a completely irresistible magnetic energy.Charisma is one form of energy, in some cases, magnetism. Some people just are plain charismatic, no matter what they do. But let's think about just what we can do to build it in our lives. When that power and magnetism occurs ...

This book is for those Splunk developers who want to learn advanced strategies to deal with big data from an enterprise architectural perspective. You need to have good working knowledge of Splunk.

This practical introduction to linguistics is a must-have resource for all speech and language therapy students, providing you with the fundamental theory needed as a foundation for practice.Written by authors with extensive experience in both research and teaching, Introductory Linguistics for Speech and Language Practice equips you with a practical understanding of relevant linguistic concepts in the key language areas of morphology, syntax, semantics, d...

Learn how to build complete machine learning systems with IBM Cloud and Watson Machine learning servicesKey FeaturesImplement data science and machine learning techniques to draw insights from real-world dataUnderstand what IBM Cloud platform can help you to implement cognitive insights within applicationsUnderstand the role of data representation and feature extraction in any machine learning systemBook DescriptionIBM Cloud ...

The Cattle Chronicles assembles twenty-two works that map cattle's place in ranching imagination, agricultural science, commerce, and everyday rural life. Its range moves from frontier and range narratives to practical discussions of breeding, feeding, disease, markets, and livestock management. Fictional adventure and regional storytelling stand beside technical manuals, association publications, and industry-oriented texts, making the volume a revealing record of how cattle became both c...

Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off course, traffic pile-ups on so-called 'killer' highways - stories abound about the horrors of travel in the Highlands and Islands, and have done for as far as the records go back.James Miller tells the dramatic and sometimes surprisingly humorous story of travel and transport in the Highlands. Some of the figures in the story are familiar - General George Wade, Thomas Telford and Joseph Mitchell among ...

How can Daoism, China's indigenous religion, give us the aesthetic, ethical, political, and spiritual tools to address the root causes of our ecological crisis and construct a sustainable future? In China's Green Religion, James Miller shows how Daoism orients individuals toward a holistic understanding of religion and nature. Explicitly connecting human flourishing to the thriving of nature, Daoism fosters a "green" subjectivity and agency that transforms what it means to live a ...