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Hi, Jack! Jack is a good guy, but he can also be bad. In this book: Jack plays a video game. There is a big zap! Jack gets trapped in the TV. Who will save Jack?...

Agile is here to stay and is poised to move beyond IT and project management teams into other business units, even HR. If you're still using top-down planning across your organization, your company will fall to competitors that are nimbler than you. This audiobook will help you understand today's most essential thinking on the latest agile practices so your company can develop offerings faster, react to fluctuations in the market, and ensure your strategy and people can adapt at a moment's notice. 

The United States was founded based on the monumental idea that everyone deserves the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet throughout our two hundred and fifty years as an independent country, we have faced many obstacles to these self-evident truths: slavery, wars, economic...

Funny, thought-provoking, and bursting with curiosity, Wise Up! Wise Down! is a lively conversation between two internationally known poets. How can laughter be more powerful than a sword? Why do days have names but not weeks? And do pigeons ever get a craving for cake? Two friends, esteemed...

From New York Times bestselling author Mac Barnett and Geisel Award-winning illustrator Greg Pizzoli, an uproarious early reader series about a mischievous rabbit, a cranky old lady, and a lovable dog. Meet Jack: He lives in a tree house. His interests include snacks, petty theft, and lipstick...

The “definitive” (The New York Times) biography of film legend Bruce Lee—the martial arts icon who made kung fu a global phenomenon, shattered Hollywood stereotypes of Asian and Asian American actors, and became one of the most influential pop culture figures of the 20th century...

From revolution to civil rights, Old Hollywood to the Space Age—the extraordinary story of a nation that contains multitudes "A masterpiece of concision and analysis. Every American should read it."—Judith Thurman, National Book Award–winning writer at the New Yorker When Britain's...

In a trenchant work of nonfiction, the #1 New York Times bestselling author identifies a series of self-inflicted wounds on our body politic that have led to the current moment, and shows us how we can undo the harm “A modern-day Tocqueville, Richard North Patterson marshals an immense amount...

In this raucous, high-stakes heist novel, a down-and-out card counter gets the chance to turn his life around by taking down a ruthless Vegas casino boss. Blackjack pro Ronnie “the Technician” Redfield, the “most feared card counter between Vegas and Reno,” has his life blown up when a...

Why do we still believe in UFOs, despite repeated efforts to dismiss them? For most of the twentieth century, reports of unidentified flying objects were treated as cultural error: cranks, hoaxes, late-night radio. Then, abruptly, the posture changed. The Pentagon released videos it could not...

“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review “A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” —NPR “[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare...

“A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane” (Kirkus Reviews), Don’t Make Me Pull Over! offers a nostalgic look at the golden age of family road trips—before portable DVD players, smartphones, and Google Maps. The birth of America’s first interstate highways in the 1950s hit...

Cooper Vega's family moves so often that he's practically invisible at any school he attends. Now they've relocated to the town of Stratford—where nobody even makes an effort to learn Cooper's name. To them, he's just … whatshisface. Cooper's parents feel bad about moving him around so much...

Best-selling author of A Path with Heart, Jack Kornfield invites you into a new awareness: how you can free yourself, whomever you are and whatever your circumstances. Renowned for his mindfulness practices and meditations, Jack provides the keys for opening gateways to immediate shifts in perspective and clarity of vision, allowing yourself to change course, take action or simply relax.

Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook are in an unprecedented race towards a $1 trillion valuation, and whoever gets there first will exert untold influence over the global economy, public policy and consumer behaviour. How did these four become so successful? How high can they continue to rise? Does any other company stand a chance of competing? To these questions and more, acclaimed NYU Stern professor Scott Galloway brings bracing answers.

From USA Today bestselling author Carter Wilson comes a psychological thriller about forgotten strangers, dark pasts, and a secret so big it just might destroy everything. They meet on a plane, but nothing about this situation is coincidental… This flight will take them somewhere they never...

An essential aid for training sitting and aspiring admissions officers in the skills required to succeed in higher education today The college admission deanship―often called "the hottest seat on campus"―requires navigating institutional politics, legal hurdles, revenue allocation, and more...

A hilarious follow-up to the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul: Laughter Is the Best Medicine! If you are looking to put yourself in a better mood and escape the day’s worries, it isn’t complicated—all you have to do is listen, laugh, and repeat. Chicken Soup for the Soul shares the...

Fluffiness abounds! When Takumi and Leo find a downtrodden beastkin girl named Lieza in the city slums, they decide to take her to Claire's mansion for help. At first, the foxgirl is welcomed with open arms—until, that is, the incredible floofiness of her tail demands the attention of all...

A revelatory account of how words and actions combined to destroy Britain's colonial rule and secure Washington's American victory The American Revolution was not only fought on bloody battlefields, it was waged with the ink of pen and print. George Goodwin shows how the leaders of the American...