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Pollan M: A World Appears

A World Appears

A Journey into Consciousness

Cambridge Studies on Governing Knowledge Commons

Governing Educational Technology in Schools and Universities

You know you have more to offer, but you're tired of waiting for a seat at the table to prove it. Most emerging leaders feel stuck in a holding pattern, believing that their ability to make an impact is capped by their current title or the person above them on the org chart. But influence isn't a reward for a promotion. It's a muscle you build in the mundane, everyday moments of your current role.In 90 Days to Grow Your Influence Clay Scroggins, bestselling author of How to Lead When You're Not in Charge, provides a daily roadmap for the "not-in-charge" leader. Drawing from his foundational work on leveraging influence without authority, this 90-day reader helps you navigate the tension of having great responsibility but very little power.Each day is designed to be a "snackable" but substantial 5-minute read, perfect for your morning coffee or the commute to the office. Through a mix of relatable stories, leadership metaphors, and spiritually grounded reflections, you'll learn how to: <ul><li>Understand Identity: Secure your worth in who you are, not just what you do or what your business card says.</li><li>Lead Yourself: Master the disciplines of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.</li><li>Choose Positivity: Cultivate a resilient, solution-oriented mindset that shifts the energy of every room you enter.</li><li>Think Critically: Stop being a passive observer and start solving problems.</li><li>Reject Passivity: Take ownership of the ground you're standing on today.</li><li>Challenge Well: Influence the leaders above you with relational equity and wisdom.</li></ul>Whether you are a new hire, a middle manager, or an aspiring executive, this book is your daily reminder that your seat on the org chart doesn't define your impact. You have everything you need to start leading right where you are. Real influence starts here.

You know you have more to offer, but you're tired of waiting for a seat at the table to prove it. Most emerging leaders feel stuck in a holding pattern, believing that their ability to make an impact is capped by their current title or the person above them on the org chart. But influence isn't a reward for a promotion. It's a muscle you build in the mundane, everyday moments of your current role.In 90 Days to Grow Your Influence Clay Scroggins, bestselling author of How to Lead When You're Not in Charge, provides a daily roadmap for the "not-in-charge" leader. Drawing from his foundational work on leveraging influence without authority, this 90-day reader helps you navigate the tension of having great responsibility but very little power.Each day is designed to be a "snackable" but substantial 5-minute read, perfect for your morning coffee or the commute to the office. Through a mix of relatable stories, leadership metaphors, and spiritually grounded reflections, you'll learn how to:<ul><li>Understand Identity: Secure your worth in who you are, not just what you do or what your business card says.</li><li>Lead Yourself: Master the disciplines of self-awareness and emotional intelligence.</li><li>Choose Positivity: Cultivate a resilient, solution-oriented mindset that shifts the energy of every room you enter.</li><li>Think Critically: Stop being a passive observer and start solving problems.</li><li>Reject Passivity: Take ownership of the ground you're standing on today.</li><li>Challenge Well: Influence the leaders above you with relational equity and wisdom.</li></ul>Whether you are a new hire, a middle manager, or an aspiring executive, this book is your daily reminder that your seat on the org chart doesn't define your impact. You have everything you need to start leading right where you are. Real influence starts here.

Daily Habits for Leading from Any Level

90 Days to Grow Your Influence

Most workplace conflicts aren’t about facts—they’re about emotions. Learn how to uncover hidden triggers, repair relationships, and turn team tension into stronger collaboration and results. Workplace conflict rarely begins with facts—it begins with emotions. In this book, conflict expert Tish Robinson reveals why most workplace disputes persist: Leaders focus on procedures while ignoring the emotional triggers that drive resentment, misunderstanding, and team breakdown. Drawing on twenty-five years of research and global consulting, Robinson introduces a practical framework for uncovering the real source of conflict and transforming tension into stronger working relationships. At the center of the book is Robinson’s mediator mindset and the memorable 2HUGS framework, a set of tools that helps managers slow emotional reactivity and guide employees toward genuine resolution. Readers learn how to <ul><li>identify emotional triggers and unmet needs rooted not just in work issues but also in childhood baggage or personal challenges,</li><li>reframe “facts” as perspectives to reduce defensiveness and encourage reflection,</li><li>facilitate dialogue that helps colleagues resolve conflict themselves rather than imposing top-down solutions, and</li><li>repair damaged relationships across cultural, generational, and personality differences.</li></ul> Perfect for frontline managers, HR professionals, and team leaders, this book reframes conflict as a signal—not a failure. When leaders learn to surface the emotions beneath disagreement, conflict becomes an opportunity for trust, growth, and stronger teams.

Most workplace conflicts aren’t about facts—they’re about emotions. Learn how to uncover hidden triggers, repair relationships, and turn team tension into stronger collaboration and results. Workplace conflict rarely begins with facts—it begins with emotions. In this book, conflict expert Tish Robinson reveals why most workplace disputes persist: Leaders focus on procedures while ignoring the emotional triggers that drive resentment, misunderstanding, and team breakdown. Drawing on twenty-five years of research and global consulting, Robinson introduces a practical framework for uncovering the real source of conflict and transforming tension into stronger working relationships. At the center of the book is Robinson’s mediator mindset and the memorable 2HUGS framework, a set of tools that helps managers slow emotional reactivity and guide employees toward genuine resolution. Readers learn how to <ul><li>identify emotional triggers and unmet needs rooted not just in work issues but also in childhood baggage or personal challenges,</li><li>reframe “facts” as perspectives to reduce defensiveness and encourage reflection,</li><li>facilitate dialogue that helps colleagues resolve conflict themselves rather than imposing top-down solutions, and</li><li>repair damaged relationships across cultural, generational, and personality differences.</li></ul> Perfect for frontline managers, HR professionals, and team leaders, this book reframes conflict as a signal—not a failure. When leaders learn to surface the emotions beneath disagreement, conflict becomes an opportunity for trust, growth, and stronger teams.

A Leaders Guide to Finding and Fixing What Really Drives Interpersonal Friction at Work

The Conflict Beneath the Conflict

This edited book addresses the paradox of sustainability amidst the complexities of economics, enterprises, environment, and society. It delves into the economic, social, and environmental dimensions, examining not only the interconnections and alignments, but also the conflicts across various levels of sustainable development.&nbsp;With the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a backdrop, the book addresses the trending topic of sustainability among economists, scholars, practitioners, environmentalists, policymakers, and the general public. Despite the SDGs’ projected realization by the 2090s, significant "why not" challenges remain. Current research, policies, and practices are often fragmented, relying on specialized or professional works.The contents of this book transcend geographical, sectorial, and professional boundaries to examine the intersections and paradoxes among the three dimensions of sustainability, provoking further debates and generating societal impacts. The book is divided into four parts: the first three present original research from various disciplines addressing specific concerns of each sustainability dimension. The fourth part includes perspectives of practitioners such as founders of social enterprises and non-profits, alongside editorial analysis of the complexities and paradoxes of sustainability for theoretical, practical, and policy recommendations.Adopting a holistic approach, this book offers actionable insights and strategies to address sustainability challenges, fostering ecosystem resilience and long-term global development.

This edited book examines the paradox of sustainability across the intertwined realms of economics, enterprises, environment, and society. It delves into the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, analyzing their interconnections, alignments, and persistent conflicts across multiple levels.&nbsp;Against the backdrop of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the book engages with one of the most pressing global debates of our time. Although the SDGs are projected to be fully realized only by the 2090s, significant "why not" challenges remain. Current research, policies, and practices often&nbsp;operate in silos, relying on specialized or profession-specific approaches that overlook systemic tensions.Transcending geographical, sectorial, and disciplinary boundaries, this book brings together diverse perspectives to illustrate the intersections and paradoxes among the three dimensions of sustainability. It&nbsp;provokes deeper debate and aims to generate meaningful societal impact. The book is organized into four parts: the first three present original research addressing the specific concerns of each sustainability dimension,&nbsp;while the fourth offers business cases, management perspectives, and a concluding editorial synthesis. This final chapter highlights the complexities and paradoxes of sustainability and proposes&nbsp;sustainable innovation as a pathway toward triple alignment across economic, social, and environmental goals.Adopting a holistic and integrative approach, the book provides actionable insights and strategies for addressing sustainability challenges, strengthening ecosystem resilience, and advancing long-term global development.

Economic, Social, and Environmental Dimensions and Paradoxes

Sustainable Development

What if the key to success in a world of constant change was never really grit, or persistence - but curiosity? The modern era asks us to optimise ourselves into corners and build lives that run predictably while we stall inside. And the very blueprint we've been handed for success - one of relentless specialization - is not only incomplete, but completely counterproductive to a fulfilling life.Fusing groundbreaking research, elite business insights, and thrilling studies of history's greatest polymaths, Harvard educator Dr. T. Alexander Puutio uncovers the simple truth behind resilient, fulfilling lives: they're built in loops, not ladders.From Leonardo da Vinci to Steve Jobs, the people who shape the future don't follow straight lines - they explore widely, quit strategically, and stay flexible enough to keep becoming someone new.In a world that breaks ladders as fast as you can climb them, the code of curiosity offers a powerful model for thriving in uncertainty. Exploiting a loop of exploration, feedback and reinvention, curiosity is a force that supercharges our brain's capacity to learn and innovate. Those who can harness the cycle unlock not just a serious strategic edge, but a better way to cultivate a meaningful life.A joyful book that speaks to the meaning vacuum of modern life, The Curiosity Code upends the traditional pillars of self-development. Instead, it offers a bold, practical blueprint for navigating change, reclaiming agency, and building a life that evolves as fast as the world around you.

The Hidden Advantage of Curiosity in a World of Constant Change

The Curiosity Code

Humanity's most spectacular era yet is increasingly within reach.So why are we doing everything we can to hold it back?The bestselling author of The Rational Optimist delivers a daring vision of the future - one that is potentially dazzling, but only if we stop sleepwalking into self-inflicted decline.We're on the brink of a truly spectacular explosion of productivity and prosperity, argues Matt Ridley, thanks to a combination of artificial intelligence, material science and genomic knowledge that is unprecedented in its scope and implications. With characteristic wit and ferocity, he confronts the irrational pessimism that dominates public discourse and examines the bureaucratic bloat, regulatory overreach, ideological superstition and crony capitalism that stand in the way.Optimistic in conclusion but unsparing in its analysis, The Flourishing is a rousing call to achieve and innovate by refusing to settle for a merely adequate future when a magnificent one is within reach.

The Rational Pessimist

The Frankfurt School in New Times

Longstanding debates about neoliberalism in the United States center around whether it has created a culture of entrepreneurial selfhood or a carceral state. Credit, Cops, and Cages presents a novel theory and relevant empirical evidence arguing that capitalist individualism combines both of these tendencies. The book's interdisciplinary authors first derive a critical framework and set of social-psychological hypotheses from the long-neglected criminological writings of the early Frankfurt School. They then test and explore these hypotheses with new data and analyses in a series of chapters that guide the reader down the ladder of capitalist individualism. In the process, the authors synthesize and critically examine scholarship of Constitutional law; big data on indebtedness, segregation, and police militarization; psychological surveys capturing and comparing attitudes and emotions around debt and policing; and the intimate testimony of those who are deeply in debt or are currently incarcerated. Unique in its combination of philosophy and social scientific research, this book restores the relevance of the Frankfurt School's ideas and methods to a comprehensive understanding of contemporary U.S. society.

A Theory of Capitalist Individualism

Credit, Cops, and Cages

Una lectura para emprendedores que prefieren los consejos honestos a las fórmulas mágicas. Detrás de cada negocio que perdura hay decisiones, tropiezos y aprendizajes que rara vez se dan a conocer. En Horneando el éxito, Gabriel Torres abre la cocina de Pan Gabriel para compartir todo lo que aprendió mientras la construía desde cero. Esta marca de pan saludable empezó como un pasatiempo de fin de semana y hoy llega a las mesas de todo el país a través de 17 sucursales y más de 150 distribuidores autorizados. Este libro va más allá de una historia personal; es una guía práctica para quien sueña con emprender o busca darle rumbo a un proyecto que ya está en marcha. Capítulo a capítulo, Gabriel nos comparte cómo convertir una pasión en un negocio viable, llevar finanzas sanas, escuchar al cliente para innovar, cuidar a tu equipo y mantener el equilibrio entre el trabajo y la vida personal. Además, cada sección cierra con ejercicios pensados para llevar las ideas a tu realidad: definir tu propósito, calcular tu colchón financiero, transformar un tropiezo en oportunidad y reconocer los valores que guían tus decisiones. Escrito desde la experiencia de levantar una empresa en México, con sus aciertos y sus errores, Horneando el éxito acompaña a quien quiere emprender con propósito y paciencia. Porque el éxito, como el buen pan, pide tiempo, dedicación y la disposición de volver a intentarlo las veces que haga falta. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A must-read for entrepreneurs who prefer honest advice over magic formulas. Behind every enduring business are decisions, setbacks, and lessons that rarely make it into the spotlight. In Baking Success, Gabriel Torres opens the doors to Pan Gabriel to share everything he learned while building the company from the ground up. What began as a weekend hobby has grown into one of Mexico’s leading healthy bread brands, now reaching tables across the country through 17 retail stores and more than 150 authorized distributors. More than a personal story, this book is a practical guide for anyone dreaming of starting a business—or looking to take an existing venture to the next level. Chapter by chapter, Gabriel shares how to turn a passion into a sustainable business, manage healthy finances, listen to customers to drive innovation, build and care for a strong team, and maintain balance between work and personal life. Each chapter concludes with practical exercises designed to help readers apply these lessons to their own journey: defining their purpose, calculating a financial safety net, turning setbacks into opportunities, and identifying the core values that guide their decisions. Written from the firsthand experience of building a business in Mexico—with all its successes and failures—Baking Success is an inspiring companion for entrepreneurs who want to build with purpose, patience, and resilience. Because success, like great bread, takes time, dedication, and the willingness to keep trying until you get it right.

Una lectura para emprendedores que prefieren los consejos honestos a las fórmulas mágicas. Detrás de cada negocio que perdura hay decisiones, tropiezos y aprendizajes que rara vez se dan a conocer. En Horneando el éxito, Gabriel Torres abre la cocina de Pan Gabriel para compartir todo lo que aprendió mientras la construía desde cero. Esta marca de pan saludable empezó como un pasatiempo de fin de semana y hoy llega a las mesas de todo el país a través de 17 sucursales y más de 150 distribuidores autorizados. Este libro va más allá de una historia personal; es una guía práctica para quien sueña con emprender o busca darle rumbo a un proyecto que ya está en marcha. Capítulo a capítulo, Gabriel nos comparte cómo convertir una pasión en un negocio viable, llevar finanzas sanas, escuchar al cliente para innovar, cuidar a tu equipo y mantener el equilibrio entre el trabajo y la vida personal. Además, cada sección cierra con ejercicios pensados para llevar las ideas a tu realidad: definir tu propósito, calcular tu colchón financiero, transformar un tropiezo en oportunidad y reconocer los valores que guían tus decisiones. Escrito desde la experiencia de levantar una empresa en México, con sus aciertos y sus errores, Horneando el éxito acompaña a quien quiere emprender con propósito y paciencia. Porque el éxito, como el buen pan, pide tiempo, dedicación y la disposición de volver a intentarlo las veces que haga falta. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A must-read for entrepreneurs who prefer honest advice over magic formulas. Behind every enduring business are decisions, setbacks, and lessons that rarely make it into the spotlight. In Baking Success, Gabriel Torres opens the doors to Pan Gabriel to share everything he learned while building the company from the ground up. What began as a weekend hobby has grown into one of Mexico’s leading healthy bread brands, now reaching tables across the country through 17 retail stores and more than 150 authorized distributors. More than a personal story, this book is a practical guide for anyone dreaming of starting a business—or looking to take an existing venture to the next level. Chapter by chapter, Gabriel shares how to turn a passion into a sustainable business, manage healthy finances, listen to customers to drive innovation, build and care for a strong team, and maintain balance between work and personal life. Each chapter concludes with practical exercises designed to help readers apply these lessons to their own journey: defining their purpose, calculating a financial safety net, turning setbacks into opportunities, and identifying the core values that guide their decisions. Written from the firsthand experience of building a business in Mexico—with all its successes and failures—Baking Success is an inspiring companion for entrepreneurs who want to build with purpose, patience, and resilience. Because success, like great bread, takes time, dedication, and the willingness to keep trying until you get it right.

Horneando el éxito / Baking Success

New York Times bestselling author of Rich Bitch and renowned money expert Nicole Lapin makes investing accessible and fun so women can make bank and become Miss Independent.You've worked hard for your money and now it's time for your money to work for you. You will never earn or budget your way into real wealth. Growing your money significantly doesn't require starting with a lot of money. It requires a little bit of knowledge about taking smart risks and as much time as possible to take advantage of the glorious power of compound interest, which Einstein refers to as the eighth wonder of the world.From automating your savings to easy, no-stress investing strategies, Nicole will teach you how to take your financial knowledge and portfolio to the next level and start you on your journey to your ultimate destination: true financial independence.In Miss Independent, you will learn: <ul><li>The freedom that wealth affords you, whether it's the ability to leave a crappy job or significant other, go on the vacation of your dreams or otherwise live life on your own terms. </li><li>The best method for establishing your "number"--the amount of wealth you want to accumulate before you retire--and getting it.</li><li>The meaning of the most common investing terms, like stocks and bonds, (and some more exotic ones like REITs or cryptocurrency) and how to make them work to your advantage.</li><li>The ins and outs of big financial decisions and concepts, like taking out a mortgage, owning investment properties, and buying life insurance.</li></ul>Miss Independent takes the fear out of money management and investing once and for all. Using her own vulnerable stories and her signature conversational style, let Nicole show you all the different ways and paths that you can take to become financially free at last.

New York Times&nbsp;bestselling author of&nbsp;Rich Bitch&nbsp;and renowned money expert Nicole Lapin makes investing accessible and fun so women can make bank and become&nbsp;Miss Independent.You’ve worked hard for your money and now it’s time for your money to work for&nbsp;you. You will never earn or budget your way into real wealth. Growing your money significantly doesn’t require starting with a lot of money. It requires a little bit of knowledge about taking smart risks and as much time as possible to take advantage of the glorious power of compound interest, which Einstein refers to as the eighth wonder of the world.From automating your savings to easy, no-stress investing strategies, Nicole will teach you how to take your financial knowledge and portfolio to the next level and start you on your journey to your ultimate destination: true financial independence.In&nbsp;Miss Independent, you will learn:<ul><li>The freedom that wealth affords you, whether it’s the ability to leave a crappy job or significant other, go on the vacation of your dreams or otherwise live life on your own terms.&nbsp;</li><li>The best method for establishing your “number”—the amount of wealth you want to accumulate before you retire—and getting it.</li><li>The meaning of the most common investing terms, like stocks and bonds, (and some more exotic ones like REITs or cryptocurrency) and how to make them work to your advantage.</li><li>The ins and outs of big financial decisions and concepts, like taking out a mortgage, owning investment properties, and buying life insurance.</li></ul>Miss Independent&nbsp;takes the fear out of money management and investing once and for all. Using her own vulnerable stories and her signature conversational style, let Nicole show you all the different ways and paths that you can take to become financially free at last.

A Simple 12-Step Plan to Start Investing and Grow Your Own Wealth

Miss Independent

Little Clothbound Classics

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. In these elegant and devastating tales of deception, desire, and social intrigue, Edith Wharton exposes the brittle veneer of civility that masks human ambition and longing. From the sunlit terraces of Rome to the drawing rooms of New York, Wharton’s characters navigate a world bound by class and convention yet charged with emotional undercurrents they barely understand. In “Roman Fever,” two middle-aged women confront the unspoken rivalries that have shadowed their friendship for decades; in “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” a lonely widow’s cherished glimpse of life beyond her window becomes the stage for a quiet tragedy; and in “After Holbein,” the elaborate pretenses of two aging New Yorkers reveal the haunting persistence of vanity and illusion. These Wharton works are the latest to join the Little Clothbound Classic series designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. In these elegant and devastating tales of deception, desire, and social intrigue, Edith Wharton exposes the brittle veneer of civility that masks human ambition and longing. From the sunlit terraces of Rome to the drawing rooms of New York, Wharton’s characters navigate a world bound by class and convention yet charged with emotional undercurrents they barely understand. In “Roman Fever,” two middle-aged women confront the unspoken rivalries that have shadowed their friendship for decades; in “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” a lonely widow’s cherished glimpse of life beyond her window becomes the stage for a quiet tragedy; and in “After Holbein,” the elaborate pretenses of two aging New Yorkers reveal the haunting persistence of vanity and illusion. These Wharton works are the latest to join the Little Clothbound Classic series designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Roman Fever

A provocative exposé of how our attention, behavior, and desires have been co-opted by the “choice box”—a curated set of options that offer a false sense of agency while funneling us down pre-determined paths controlled by a select few Choice boxes are all around us, but chances are you’ve never noticed them. Every time you click on a recommended video, rate an Uber driver, run a Google search, or invest in your 401k, you may think you’re the one calling the shots—but in reality, you’re limited to making the choices that a corporation wants you to make. Today, structured decision-making governs our lives to such an extent that we hardly see it at all. But who designs these choices, and whose interests do they serve? In Choose Your Captivity, historian Eli Cook introduces readers to the choice architects who first built these boxes and trapped us inside—from the maze-building eugenicist who invented the multiple-choice test to the marketing gurus who sold off our supermarket shelves to a few ultra-processed food giants. In less than a generation, architects like these have transformed a handful of online platforms into the richest businesses in the world. And by determining our options, controlling our actions, and even shaping our identities, they have laid the groundwork&nbsp;for the winner-takes-all game of digital capitalism that dominates us today. In a society built around the promise of free choice and personal responsibility, Cook argues, these hidden architects might just have the greatest power of all. A propulsive and vivid history, Choose Your Captivity opens readers’ eyes to the immense power of the choice box—and how to escape it.

A provocative exposé of how our attention, behavior, and desires have been co-opted by the “choice box”—a curated set of options that offer a false sense of agency while funneling us down pre-determined paths controlled by a select few Choice boxes are all around us, but chances are you’ve never noticed them. Every time you click on a recommended video, rate an Uber driver, run a Google search, or invest in your 401k, you may think you’re the one calling the shots—but in reality, you’re limited to making the choices that a corporation wants you to make. Today, structured decision-making governs our lives to such an extent that we hardly see it at all. But who designs these choices, and whose interests do they serve? In Choose Your Own Captivity, historian Eli Cook introduces readers to the choice architects who first built these boxes and trapped us inside—from the maze-building eugenicist who invented the multiple-choice test to the marketing gurus who sold off our supermarket shelves to a few ultra-processed food giants. In less than a generation, architects like these have transformed a handful of online platforms into the richest businesses in the world. And by determining our options, controlling our actions, and even shaping our identities, they have laid the groundwork&nbsp;for the winner-takes-all game of digital capitalism that dominates us today. In a society built around the promise of free choice and personal responsibility, Cook argues, these hidden architects might just have the greatest power of all. A propulsive and vivid history, Choose Your Own Captivity opens readers’ eyes to the immense power of the choice box—and how to escape it.

How Corporations Built Our Choices and Sold Our Freedom

Choose Your Captivity

Flannery O'Connor on Writing

A World Appears

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