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The AI Optimization Playbook
Drive business success with proven AI strategies, best practices, and responsible innovation
2025
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Deliver measurable business value by applying strategic, technical, and ethical frameworks to AI initiatives at scale Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\* Key FeaturesBuild AI strategies that align with business goals and maximize ROIImplement enterprise-ready frameworks for MLOps, LLMOps, and Responsible AILearn from real-world case studies spanning industries and AI maturity levelsBook ...
Hacking Happiness
Why Your Personal Data Counts and How Tracking it Can Change the World
2014
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In Hacking Happiness, futurist and contributing Mashable writer John C. Havens introduces you to your “quantified self”—your digital identity represented by gigabytes of data produced from tracking your activities on your smartphone and computer. Harvested by megacorporations such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon, Havens argues that companies gather this data because of its immense economic value, encouraging a culture of “sharing” as they hoard the information based on ou...
Dear Violet, With all my Love, Jack
A B-24 WWII Pilot's Words of Love
2020
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Dear Violet, With all my Love, Jack is a love story told through the love letters Jack wrote to Violet while training to fly the B-24 and then, as he flew 'the Hump' during WWII. But the story does not unfold only through his letters. The story is told through a back drop of many sources. It is a compilation of historical documents, cultural references of the times, excerpts from an interview taped 40 years after the war during a reunion with two other WWII B-24 bomber pilots who flew with...
Going Public … in Shorts!
Complete Collection
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- various authorsJames JoycePhilip K. DickRobert E. HowardHenry Cuyler BunnerOscar WildeMark TwainRichard JeffriesO. HenryKate ChopinVirginia WoolfAbraham LincolnSherwood AndersonAmbrose BierceJack LondonGertrude AthertonM. R. JamesEdgar Allan PoeCharles DickensJoe ArchibaldAnton ChekhovW. W. JacobsGuy de MaupassantLouisa May AlcottF. Scott FitzgeraldAndrew LangRobert W. ChambersWashington IrvingGiovanni BoccaccioCharlotte Perkins GilmanHans Christian AndersenHector Hugh Munro
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- various narratorsH. P. LovecraftJohn LeeMark TuretskyJohn McLainDiane HavensDick HillSimon VanceJohn PrudenArielle DeLisleJo Anna PerrinDion GrahamAmy RubinateKyle MunleyAdam VernerRachel FulginitiCris DukehartColeen MarloSusan EricksenOliver WymanGabrielle de CuirJohnny HellerTish HicksKaleo GriffithDavid DrummondKaren WhitePeter BerkrotVanessa HartPatrick LawlorJeffrey KaferHillary HuberGary DikeosLuke DanielsStefan RudnickiRobert FassCassandra CampbellRobin Ray EllerXe SandsScott O’NeillRichard Powers
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- The Going Public … in Shorts Series
Unabridged
16 hours 49 min
2013
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From haunting ghost stories to classic fairy tales, Going Public … In Shorts! is a collection of forty classic and lesser-known works by history's greatest writers.Among the stories included are "The Death of a Government Clerk," Anton Chekhov's defining vignette; "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," Mark Twain's comedic story that earned him national fame; "The Gift of the Magi," O. Henry's masterful Christmastime tale about love and sacrifice; and "The Stor...
Tactical Transparency
How Leaders Can Leverage Social Media to Maximize Value and Build their Brand
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- Victor Bevine
Unabridged
8 hours 52 min
2020
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Tactical Transparency is based largely on interviews with leaders and communicators in companies that have achieved measurable success though the implementation of transparency strategies. This book is written for those executives and professional communicators who are looking to learn about and create a transparency strategy for their organization in order to remain competitive. This book will: Help organizations determine their readiness for transparency and the steps that need to be tak...
Heartificial Intelligence
Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines
2016
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As we program machines to be more like humans, how will they know what we value, if we don't know ourselves?The notion of robots gaining consciousness is beginning to become a reality, but the future of human happiness is dependent on our ability to teach machines what we value the most today. Featuring pragmatic solutions drawing on economics, emerging technologies, and positive psychology, Heartificial Intelligence provides a road map to help readers emb...
Proven Alpha Course Tips
Consistently Getting God's Best - for All Who Believe in Alpha
2005
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***Written by a colleague:***Alpha is a tremendous worldwide hit, yet most groups deploying it will - at times - be somewhat disappointed by the amount of resulting fruit.Holy Trinity Brompton readily acknowledges this.Even groups faithfully adhering to the official advice that has so far been published can still find many non-Christian attendees disappearing during, or shortly after, the program.Proven Alpha Course Tips identifies several previously unrecognized causes of...
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- Economics and Finance (R0)
2016
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The 2008 financial crisis was a watershed moment which clearly influenced the public's perception of the role of 'finance' in society. Since 2008, a plethora of books and newspaper articles have been produced accusing the academic community of being unable to produce valid models which can accommodate those extreme events.This unique Handbook brings together leading practitioners and academics in the areas of banking, mathematics, and law to present original research on the key iss...
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Hit Refresh
The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
2017
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“At the core, Hit Refresh, is about us humans and the unique quality we call empathy, which will become ever more valuable in a world where the torrent of technology will disrupt the status quo like never before.” – Satya Nadella from Hit Refresh“Satya has charted a course for making the most of the opportunities created by technology while also facing up to the hard questions.” – Bill Gates from the Foreword of Hit Refresh
Reclaiming Conversation
The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
2015
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**“In a time in which the ways we communicate and connect are constantly changing, and not always for the better, Sherry Turkle provides a much needed voice of caution and reason to help explain what the f*** is going on.” —Aziz Ansari, author of Modern RomanceRenowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity**—and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lo...
WTF?
What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
2017
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Can we master the technologies we create before they master us? A "punchy and provocative" assessment by one of Silicon Valley's sharpest observers ( Financial Times).WTF? can be an expression of amazement or of dismay—and today's technology elicits both reactions. In this book, Tim O'Reilly, dubbed "the Oracle of Silicon Valley" by Inc. magazine, explores the upsides—and potential downsides—of today's WTF? technologies.What is the future wh...
Technically Wrong
Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
2017
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“An entertaining romp that tells us where and why the tech industry, once America’s darling, went wrong, and what it might do to recover its good graces.” —Tim Wu, author of The Master SwitchBuying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us realize just how many oversights, biases, and downright ethical nightmares are baked inside the tech products we use every day. It’s time...











