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In the film Field of Dreams, the lead character gives his struggling farming community a magical place where the smell of roasted peanuts gently wafts over the crowded grandstand on a warm summer evening, just as the star pitcher takes the mound. In The Farmers' Game, David Vaught examines the history and character of baseball through a series of essay-vignettes-presenting the sport as essentially rural, reflecting the nature of farm and small-town...
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In "The Modern Stoic: Applying Ancient Wisdom," readers embark on a transformative journey that bridges the timeless teachings of Stoicism with the complexities of contemporary life. This compelling guide illuminates how the Stoic principles of virtue, resilience, and self-mastery can be integrated into the modern world, offering a path to inner peace and personal growth amidst the chaos of our daily lives.Through a combination of ancient texts and...
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The author of The Shimmering World proposes allowing children to follow their own educational path, thus enabling their curiosity to fuel their learning.
In this thought-provoking new book, bestselling author Steven Harrison ventures far outside the box of traditional thinking about education. His radical proposal? Children naturally want to learn, he asserts, so let them direct their own education in democratic learning communities where they can...
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Tech experts Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever describe dozens of astonishing technological advances in this fascinating and thought-provoking book, which asks what kind of future lies ahead-Star Trek or Mad Max?
Breakthroughs such as personalized genomics, drones, self-driving vehicles, and artificial intelligence could make our lives healthier, safer, and easier. On the other hand, the same technologies raise the specter of a frightening future-eugenics,...
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USA Today Bestseller: A top social media strategist explores how human connection drives success.
Technology continues to evolve and make our lives busier and more complicated, but it can never replace true human connection-our fundamental need to share information, stories, and emotions. Shareology explores the history, art, and science of sharing, and why sharing gives us a unique competitive advantage as individuals and brands.
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Dutton
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[2023]
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"The Savannah Bananas have peeled back the game of baseball and made it fun again. This is their story"--
Cole dreamed of pitching in the Majors. Instead he reshaped Savannah, Georgia's professional team into the league champion Savannah Bananas. And now the Bananas have restyled baseball itself into something all their own: they throw out a first banana rather than a ball. Their first-base coach dances between innings. And the rules themselves are...
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Portfolio/Penguin
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[2024]
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"From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI The release of generative AI-from LLMs like ChatGPT to image generators like DALL-E-marks a new era. We have invented technologies that boost our physical capabilities and others that automate complex tasks, but never, until now, have we created a technology that can...
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