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Insight Editions: The Art and Making of
Gears of War: E-Day

The Art and Making of Gears of War: E-Day

Mignon's first art book, it includes his original and commercial illustrations presented in full-color. From healthy charm, fresh and beautiful illustrations, to portraits so sexy that you'll want to eat them, this book is just chock full of what the title YUMMY TUMMY suggests. Including new illustrations, a making-of corner, as well as interviews, this is a must-have for fans and illustrators alike!

The Art of mignon

Yummy Tummy

Sport Management Series

Now available in a fully revised and updated seventh edition, Sport Management: Principles and Applications tells you everything you need to know about the contemporary sport industry. Covering both the professional and nonprofit sectors, and with more international material than any other introductory sport management textbook, it focuses on core management principles and their application in a sporting context, highlighting the unique challenges of a career in sport management. The book covers all the key functional areas of sport management, including strategic planning, human resources, leadership and governance, marketing and sponsorship, the media, sport policy, sport law, and digital business. This seventh edition includes expanded coverage of key contemporary issues, including the impact of AI as well as ethics and DEI, and features a new chapter focused on sport development. Containing useful features throughout, including conceptual overviews, guides to further reading, links to important websites, study questions, and up-to-date case studies showing how theory works in the real world, this is an ideal textbook for first- and second-year students in sport management degree programs and for business students seeking an overview of applied sport management principles. Ancillary material includes summary slides, case diagnostics and teaching notes for lecturers, plus a test bank.

Principles and Applications

Sport Management

Artificial intelligence was sold as the next great leap for humanity.A revolution. A productivity miracle. A new intelligence layer that would reshape civilization.But beneath the hype, the world made a hidden trade: long compute, short human origin.In the rush to build ever-larger AI systems, the market assumed that scale would solve everything. More chips. More data centers. More parameters. More synthetic content. More automation. More benchmark gains.But what happens when the raw material runs out?Shorting Human Origin argues that the real scarcity in the next AI economy will not be compute, chips, or scale. It will be authentic human-origin intelligence: expert judgment, lived experience, provenance, trust, creativity, responsibility, and contact with reality.This is not an anti-AI book.It is a pro-human book.It exposes the fragile assumptions behind the AI boom and shows why the future will not be owned by those who merely scale models, but by those who preserve and govern the source layer of all intelligence: human origin.From model collapse and synthetic data contamination to the data famine, infrastructure trap, benchmark theater, and power grid reckoning, this book maps the wall now forming in front of the AI industry. It explains why useful technology can still be dangerously overvalued, why fluent machines can still lack judgment, and why the deepest forms of intelligence cannot be manufactured by recursively training systems on their own outputs.The first AI boom treated human knowledge as free fuel.But that fuel is becoming scarce.The clean public web has been mined. Synthetic content is flooding the information environment. Expert knowledge was never fully online to begin with. Provenance is becoming valuable. Data rights are becoming negotiable. Human feedback loops are becoming strategic. Trust is becoming infrastructure.The next era of AI will be shaped by a new architecture: authenticated data, expert calibration, local intelligence, governed data commons, auditability, fair compensation, and systems that amplify human judgment instead of erasing it.Inside, you will discover: Why AI became a financial religion instead of just a technological revolutionHow synthetic content poisons the future training environmentWhy model collapse begins at the edges, where rare knowledge matters mostWhy the true bottleneck is shifting from compute to human-origin dataHow benchmarks can create the performance of intelligence without proving real-world reliabilityWhy the AI infrastructure boom may become overbuilt, even if AI itself succeedsHow power, energy, and grid politics will force a reckoningWhy creators, experts, workers, communities, and institutions must govern the knowledge they generateWhat founders, investors, policymakers, technologists, and domain experts should do nextThe central message is simple: The model is not the source. The benchmark is not the truth. The data center is not destiny. The human being is not obsolete.The human being is where meaning enters the system.Shorting Human Origin is a bold, urgent, and deeply human examination of the AI age. It is for builders, investors, creators, leaders, technologists, educators, policymakers, and anyone trying to understand what remains after the hype collapses.The AI reckoning is coming.The source remains.

AI, Scarcity and the Fight for the Source of Intelligence

Shorting Human Orginin

Every career is a journey, every journey needs a compass, and behind every compass there is a navigator: a human. Set course in your career using the The Cybersecurity Compass. Blending four decades of technological upheaval with a deeply human career journey, The Cybersecurity Compass reveals how cybersecurity evolved from a niche technical craft into one of the most critical business disciplines of our time. Through personal stories, industry-defining moments, and hard-earned wisdom, Ali Waezzadah shows readers that true success in cybersecurity comes not just from technical skill, but from communication, leadership, resilience, and the courage to trust your own compass. Rather than focusing solely on technology, the book explores the human side of the profession, including the mindset needed to thrive in an ever-changing industry. Whether you are just beginning your cybersecurity career, preparing for leadership, or looking to broaden your impact, Ali offers practical insights and timeless principles to help you chart your own path with confidence, purpose, and humility.

Finding Your Direction in the Cybersecurity Profession

The Cybersecurity Compass

A progressive, architecture-fi rst guide to using the Technical Sales Alliance - Customer Discovery Calculator

COMPLEX TECHNICAL DISCOVERY(TM)

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

What lies underneath digital platforms—their invisible architecture and governance that determine everything visible. Every time you unlock your phone, stream a show, or start your car, you’re entering a world shaped by thousands of engineering decisions you’ll never see. Most platform conversations fixate on their visible canopy—business models, user experience, competitive strategy—the “leaves,” in a sense. Platforms by Amrit Tiwana excavates their roots. The book begins with a simple DNA test that separates authentic from faux platforms, then traces the forces turning tractors, pacemakers, and elevators into platforms. Using the platform trinity, the author explores principles behind why platforms behave so differently, why superior technology doesn’t always win, and why—unlike products that reach a final form—platforms never stop evolving. From there the book explains platforms’ two hidden root systems: The first system, architecture, shows how Lego-like “modular” design, frozen interfaces, and prefab building blocks let thousands of outsiders contribute pieces that snap into colossal systems. The second system, governance, describes where architecture confronts human behavior. Elegant architecture flails with poor governance, so both demand discipline.

What lies underneath digital platforms—their invisible architecture and governance that determine everything visible. Every time you unlock your phone, stream a show, or start your car, you’re entering a world shaped by thousands of engineering decisions you’ll never see. Most platform conversations fixate on their visible canopy—business models, user experience, competitive strategy—the “leaves,” in a sense. Platforms by Amrit Tiwana excavates their roots. The book begins with a simple DNA test that separates authentic from faux platforms, then traces the forces turning tractors, pacemakers, and elevators into platforms. Using the platform trinity, the author explores principles behind why platforms behave so differently, why superior technology doesn’t always win, and why—unlike products that reach a final form—platforms never stop evolving. From there the book explains platforms’ two hidden root systems: The first system, architecture, shows how Lego-like “modular” design, frozen interfaces, and prefab building blocks let thousands of outsiders contribute pieces that snap into colossal systems. The second system, governance, describes where architecture confronts human behavior. Elegant architecture flails with poor governance, so both demand discipline.

Platforms

When an AI initiative dies, the machine takes the blame. It's almost always the wrong suspect. Every executive who has quietly shelved an AI project has the same explanation ready: the model underperformed, the vendor oversold, the technology "wasn't there yet." In Prevail: What Leaders Must Do Now That Machines Can't Manage, Dr. Tim Bottke argues that this story is a convenient way to avoid the real culprit - a chain of management decisions made long before anyone trained a model. The bug isn't in the technology. It's in us. Bottke turns two decades of decision data into a working diagnostic. PREVAIL starts at the ground floor, where leaders reach for the tool before they've named the problem, and moves up through data, experimentation, ownership, measurement, funding, and governance. The uncomfortable finding is that the damage concentrates on the ground floor and compounds as management builds on those decisions.&nbsp; Readers will discover: <ul> <li>Why AI initiatives fail and how to course correct before the budget is committed</li> <li>Chapter checklists that allow for a working audit</li> <li>Action lists for the operator fixing a rollout, the executive shaping a portfolio, and the board member or investor stress-testing a proposal</li> <li>The one question that predicts success better than anything: what problem does this solve?</li> <li>Composite case studies based on public filings that show each failure pattern in the wild, and the fix that would have caught it</li> <li>A shared vocabulary for boards, investors, and operators to pressure-test any AI proposal</li> <li>What the market actually does when companies admit an AI failure&nbsp;</li> </ul> &nbsp; Prevail is written for those who need something firmer than hype to judge what's in front of them.&nbsp;

What Leaders Must Do Now Because Machines Can't Manage

Prevail

Adaptive Enterprise Architecture by Rubi Kaur is a practical guide for enterprise architects and technology leaders who need architecture to become a strategic, responsive capability rather than a static governance process.Drawing on decades of experience, this book explains why traditional enterprise architecture practices are no longer enough in a world shaped by AI, complex organizational structures, ESG requirements, technology supply chains and geopolitical risk. The book introduces the FLOW model, a practical approach to building architecture that evolves alongside changing business conditions.Through reflection prompts, practical experiments, practitioner interviews and real-world examples from financial services, telecommunications, the public sector and consulting, you will learn how to: - Build adaptive architecture that evolves with business priorities - Orchestrate across business, technology, people and AI - Create agile governance that responds to changing conditions - Reimagine the enterprise architect as a strategic orchestrator - Navigate complexity, emerging technology and interconnected business risksAdaptive Enterprise Architecture equips architects to operate in flow, strengthening strategic alignment, organizational adaptability and decision-making as technology and business conditions evolve.Themes include: enterprise architecture, adaptive architecture, AI strategy, agile governance, technology risk, business transformation

Shape the Flow of Value, Decisions and Innovation

Adaptive Enterprise Architecture

Materialising the Digital

Where and how we pay is changing dramatically. This timely, innovative book navigates the so-called 'Cambrian explosion' of FinTech companies and more specifically to the emergence of Blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies through the lens of the case of Ripple, a company in the field of cryptoassets and cross-border payments. Combining STS with human geography and political economy, it navigates the maelstrom of proliferating new and old payment infrastructure, to develop a theoretical and empirical 'infrastructural inversion' of money. Money does not just flow through or behave like an infrastructure, but rather it is an infrastructure, because it is predicated upon the existence of accounting and payment infrastructures of memory for its very existence. Using the concepts of active forms and dispositions from design and architecture, this nuanced book analyses how money's infrastructures act in the world materially, spatially, as objects and subjects of desire and as political and economic machines. If we want new forms of money for new forms of society, we need to think holistically and ecologically about the complex combinations of materiality, space, desire and political economies that money generates and propagates. Tracing the trajectory of a cryptoasset project from an alternative credit system to an interbank, cross-border company, the book moves beyond a Bitcoin-centric view of money. It reveals how alternative and mainstream, networked and sovereign forms of money have long been intertwined.

An ecology of materiality, space, desires, and power

Money’s infrastructures

From the former New York Times technology reporter, "an enlightening breakdown of how Silicon Valley billionaires have shifted the popular discourse in their favor" (Kirkus)--with a new introduction and fully updated chapters Hailed as "a valuable addition" and a "Top Tech Book" by Wired.com, The Know-It-Alls offers a prescient chronicle of the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force. Showcasing this new class of super geeks, former New York Times technology reporter Noam Cohen sketches "finely researched portraits" (Nature) of the smart guys, including Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg, who fell in love with a radically individualistic, anti-government ideal--and then mainstreamed it. Now, in this completely revised and updated edition, published one year after DOGE came to town, Cohen shows how the know-it-alls came to Washington, providing a richly documented account of how their influence has metastasized, their wealth has exploded, and their technologies have frayed America's social and political fabric. The know-it-alls claim that they support Trump because the Democrats abandoned them; Cohen reveals that Trump gave them the political opening they'd been waiting for, all along. From the decisive influence of the pandemic, to the emergence of Elon Musk as a national political force, and the appearance of new characters and technologies, Cohen's "unabashed critique" (Library Journal) is the essential guide to the real power players on today's political scene.

The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball

The Know-It-Alls

Crypto crises examines how the cryptocurrency industry has become a powerful force in global capitalism. Far from the promise of decentralisation, it reveals how crypto is deepening social inequality, fuelling environmental destruction, and reshaping political power. Drawing on extensive research and vivid examples, the book traces the rise of a new class of "crypto-capitalists" - from billionaire investors and mining conglomerates to populist politicians - who are embedding digital assets at the heart of finance and governance. It exposes the hidden networks of influence linking crypto to Wall Street, Big Tech, and the Global South, where exploitation is reframed as innovation. Provocative and timely, the book offers a critical account of how cryptocurrency's dream of liberation became one of the defining engines of twenty-first-century capitalism.

How digital currencies accelerate global instability

Crypto crises

The first analysis of how AI, robotics, and genetic engineering converge to reshape civilization Most analyses of technological disruption examine AI, robotics, or genetic engineering in isolation. A Perfect World: The Unintended Consequences of the AI, Robotics and Biotech Revolution is the first work to analyze their inevitable convergence and the societal consequences it creates. William Nobrega, a Deloitte alumnus and Army Special Forces veteran who advises Fortune 500 companies on disruption strategies, introduces what he calls the "holy trinity of disruption." Drawing on extensive research, expert interviews, and historical analysis spanning 50,000 years of human development, A Perfect World examines where these three technologies stand today and where expert consensus places them in fifteen years. Nobrega applies basic economic principles to reveal how their interaction effects will create impacts far exceeding what each technology produces independently, potentially yielding a bifurcated world. Readers will also find: <ul> <li>A framework for understanding how AI, robotics, and genetic engineering convergence will reshape industries and global labor markets</li> <li>Analysis of how genetic engineering may enable designed physical characteristics, disease elimination, and IQ augmentation within the coming decades</li> <li>Exploration of both utopian and dystopian outcomes grounded in military, corporate consulting, and academic research perspectives</li> <li>Historical parallels including examination of modern connections to Orwell's 1984 and the origins of human communication</li> <li>Analytical tools for business leaders and policymakers navigating what robotic labor replacement means for low-skilled workforces globally</li> </ul> Written for business leaders, policymakers, and informed citizens seeking to understand how the convergence of AI, robotics, and genetic engineering will transform their industries and society, A Perfect World provides the frameworks and analytical tools necessary to navigate the most consequential technological transformation in human history.

The Unintended Consequences of the AI, Robotics and Biotech Revolution

A Perfect World

The Art and Making of Gears of War: E-Day

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