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In their bestselling first book, Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction, they go deeper, examining the most basic unit of analysis: the decision. The authors explain that the two key decision-making ingredients are prediction and judgment, and we perform both together in our minds, often without realizing it.

If you’re like most managers and things keep you up at night, now you can turn to an audiobook that’s designed especially for you! The moral here is this: Managers need to leave their castles and find out what’s actually going on in their kingdoms. 

När den ryska ubåten Kursk gick under i Barents hav på grund av ett amerikanskt misstag stod det klart för världens alla spionorganisationer att Ryssland hade utvecklat en överlägsen ubåtsteknologi. Palestinierna som alltid varit i tekniskt underläge insåg att tillgången till en rysk superubåt för första gången skulle ge dem ett övertag. Uppdraget att genomföra den största terroristattacken i världshistorien går till den kvinnliga brigadgeneralen Mouna al Husseini. Hon inser direkt att problemen i motsättningen mellan rasistiska ryska officerare och högt utbildade palestinier är oöverstigliga.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Terror by Dan Simmons, read by Tom Sellwood. Stephen King hailed Dan Simmons' bestselling novel as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror' and it's now a chilling 10-part AMC Original TV series from Ridley Scott...

We are living in a golden age of biomedical innovation, yet entrepreneurs still struggle with the so-called Valley of Death when seeking funding for their biotech start-ups. In Healthcare Finance, Andrew Lo and Shomesh Chaudhuri show that there are better ways to finance breakthrough therapies, and they provide the essential financial tools and concepts for creating the next generation of healthcare technologies.

Would you live a lie to hold onto the one you love? Dean and Jason are best friends, like brothers since boyhood, now architecture students and college roommates. They've always had each other's back, but when one walks in on the other with another man, everything changes. How do you explain to your best friend that he's the one you've always wanted, that until now your life has been a lie?

He scowls for sport. She destroys executives for a living. Putting them together might cause a catastrophe. Zack Brady prefers soil reports to people and silence to small talk. When a sinkhole starts swallowing the backyard of corporate strategist Nicole Kennedy, fixing the damage should be easy...

Spanien, 1944: Die junge Ofelia reist mit ihrer schwangeren Mutter zu ihrem unbarmherzigen Stiefvater Capitán Vidal in eine verlassene Mühle, die seinen Truppen als Stützpunkt zur Bekämpfung der verbliebenen Rebellen dient. Auf der Flucht vor dieser grausamen Realität findet Ofelia ein verwittertes Labyrinth, das ihr ein Tor in eine fantastische Welt öffnet. Dort trifft sie auf einen Faun, der in ihr die verschollene Prinzessin des unterirdischen Königreichs erkennt und sie vor drei gefährliche Aufgaben stellt.

Max has been in love with his childhood best friend, Ash, for years. The reason he has kept it a secret is because Ash also happens to be Max's brother's ex-boyfriend. Complicated doesn't begin to explain their relationship.

In this highly accessible discussion, Bart Ehrman examines the most recent textual and archaeological sources for the life of Jesus, along with the history of first-century Palestine, drawing a fascinating portrait of the man and his teachings. Ehrman shows us what historians have long known about the Gospels and the man who stands behind them. Through a careful evaluation of the New Testament (and other surviving sources, including the more recently discovered Gospels of Thomas and Peter), Ehrman proposes that Jesus can be best understood as an apocalyptic prophet.

This full-cast performance of Dracula offers a new way to experience Bram Stoker's seminal vampire story, which follows Abraham Van Helsing's efforts to track down Lucy Seward after she becomes the victim of Count Dracula.

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past. 

In this paradigm-shifting book, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and sustainable business guru Andrew Winston provide a model to help leaders build companies that contribute more to the world than they use or take - that is, net positive companies. Net Positive outlines the principles and practices for surviving and thriving based on the experience of one world-leading company, Unilever, and other groundbreaking global organizations. 

Breaking the Medicine Monopolies is a personal narrative about Alfred Engelberg's fifty years of legal work in the drug industry. He takes you inside the mysterious world of patents to provide a basic understanding of how drug makers have gamed the laws governing brand and generic competition, misused patents to prolong monopolies, and delayed generic competition on old drugs instead of focusing on discovering new ones.

Longlisted for Autobiography of the Year, Sports Book Awards 2022 The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller A deeply personal and inspiring memoir from one of the most celebrated and influential names in British sport. Tom Daley captured the hearts of the nation with his unforgettable medal-winning...

I mitten av 80-talet gjorde Carl Gustaf Gilbert Hamilton entré på den politiska arenan. Han klev in som agent Coq Rouge i en tid som präglades av det kalla krigets slut, Sovjetunionens sammanbrott och kapitalismens seger. Ett skede på gränsen mellan det Sverige som var och det Sverige som sedan vuxit fram. Den svenska underrättelsetjänsten fick med den högt specialutbildade löjtnanten Hamilton tillgång till ett hemligt vapen. När en hög Säpotjänsteman blir skjuten i Stockholm kommer Carls unika kunskaper och talanger väl till pass.

Suele relacionarse el Neolítico con la aparición de la agricultura y la ganadería, aunque no se ha estudiado profundamente quiénes consiguieron realmente esta meta que también estuvo relacionada (aunque no siempre se destaca suficientemente) con muchos otros descubrimientos revolucionarios...

Franz Kafka was born on 3rd July 1883 in Prague, then in Bohemia, the eldest of 6, into a middle-class Jewish family. Life for the young Kafka and his passion for literature was often made an ordeal by his over-bearing and domineering entrepreneur of a father. His literary works are few in number but towering in influence. His masterpieces include ‘The Trial’, ‘The Metamorphosis’ as well as a number of short stories which reveal facets of humankind that truthfully could only be born from Kafka’s brain and pen.

Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future.

La gran polémica de nuestro tiempo es la tensión entre figurativismo y no figurativismo pictórico. Está claro que se trata de una polémica profana en la que no entran los entendidos ni los buenos aficionados. Pero la voz de la calle, la famosa “vox populi” es un síntoma muy digno de...