Engineering Business

In the middle of New York City lies a neighborhood where all secrets are valuable, all assets are liquid, and all deals are sealed with a blessing rather than a contract. Welcome to the diamond district. Ninety percent of all diamonds that enter America pass through these few blocks, but the inner workings of this mysterious world are known only to the people who inhabit it.

Katrina. Haiti. BP. Fukushima. The Great Recession. Those are just a few of the catastrophic disruptions the world has endured in recent years. As we try to respond to such crises, key questions arise: What causes one system to break under great stress and another to rebound? How much change can a complex system absorb while still retaining its purpose and function? What characteristics make it adaptive to change? Provocative and eye-opening, Resilience sheds light on the nature of change.

Kristie Macrakis combines a storyteller's sense of drama with a historian's respect for evidence in this pause-resisting history of intrigue and espionage, love and war, magic and secrecy. From the piazzas of ancient Rome to the spy capitals of the Cold War, Macrakis' global history reveals the drama and importance of invisible ink. From Ovid's advice to use milk for illicit love notes, to al-Qaeda's hidden instructions in pornographic movies, this book presents stories of secret messaging that chart its evolution in sophistication and its impact on history.

In Cool, the neuroscientist and philosopher Steven Quartz and the political scientist Anette Asp bring together the latest findings in brain science, economics, and evolutionary biology to form a provocative theory of consumerism, revealing how the brain's "social calculator" and an instinct to rebel are the crucial missing links in understanding the motivations behind our spending habits.

In the male-dominated world of engineering, breaking through barriers and claiming your rightful place can seem like an impossible challenge. Yet for Anat Rapoport, this challenge was an opportunity, not just for her, but for women everywhere. In 2015, she stood on the cusp of a significant promotion. With every project milestone achieved, deadline met, and positive feedback garnered, she felt ready. But was her career trajectory truly in her hands, or was it subject to the whims of superiors/ mercy of the higher-ups?

In his book Driving Eureka!, best-selling business author Doug Hall presents the System Driven Innovation scientific method for enabling innovation by everyone, everywhere, every day. It’s the essential resource you need to enable yourself - and your team - to innovate, succeed, and do amazing things that matter, on a daily basis.

This audiobook allows you to peek behind the curtain and find out how designers and builders really differentiate between good and bad clients. You will learn how client behavior affects the price and quality of work and even how designers and builders choose their clients. That's right! Just because you have a project to bid doesn't mean anybody has to bid it.

Do you want to become an expert in Rails programming, but do you find all the technical jargon challenging? Do you need a reference guide that walks you through step by step and skips all the challenging, intimidating technical data? This audiobook includes step-by-step details on creating all steps of articles, data, and forms! Take the correct step, download this audiobook now to begin your successful education in Rails - in a single day!

A great handbook to get you going with Ruby programming! Skip your traditional technical books and dive right in so you're proficient with programming instantly! Do you need to learn fast? Are you tired of spending too much time trying to get through your standard technical books? Do you just want to get started and begin all your desired program development by the end of the day? Learn how to get set up with Ruby now.

You weren’t meant to spend your life chasing money. You were meant to build an income machine that runs while you enjoy life. This 2-in-1 guide includes our books: ChatGPT AI Guide and ChatGPT Prompt Engineering. Learn how to use AI, prompts, and focused systems to generate income with clarity, speed, and control. This isn’t about working harder. It’s about creating freedom that lasts. Start today and let this be the defining moment that changes your life forever.

With the aim to educate and encourage every listener to adopt disruptive technologies, as well as to understand their impact on the future of businesses, workforce, and societies, The Future of Disruptive Technologies was born.

This is a collection of two comprehensive books about data analytics and data mining.

Each business day, some 35,000 executives, scientists, consultants, and lawyers pass through the nation's airports to destinations across the globe. They carry, along with proprietary documents and computer files, the latest in personal electronic gear. However, carefully watching most of those travelers beginning the moment they arrive at the airport and often sooner are an uncounted number of espionage operatives. These individuals work for foreign intelligence services and economic concerns and seek to separate international business travelers from their trade secrets.

Here’s how you can engineer your career in just 13 simple steps! When it comes to landing your dream engineering job, you cannot afford to be unprepared. Remember, this next job interview might be that crucial first step towards your ultimate goal: A successful career in engineering. That’s exactly why you need a plan that will help you avoid common pitfalls, promote your skills, and sell yourself as the perfect candidate. Discover the complete guide to landing a job in engineering.

Despite Agile's dominance in software development, 81% of UK and 89% of US business leaders are concerned about the timely delivery of projects. The success rates for transformation initiatives are alarming, with 96% of Agile transformations and 70% of digital transformations failing. Just 10% of companies that enter restructuring survive the process. Personal transformation success is also exceedingly rare, with only 7.5% of smokers successfully quitting despite 55% attempting to quit each year and just 1.8% of obese individuals maintaining a modest 5% weight loss over five years.

The Impression of a Good Life helps you break away from the traditional song and dance of "get a degree", "get a job", and "get married". Feeling unfulfilled after studying hard to get good grades, finding a secure and stable position at a company, and trying to fall in love quickly out of college, a tattooed, pierced, and mohawked engineer embarks on a journey to discover a more meaningful life.

Warnings is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the US economy, and possibly the fate of civilization. In Greek mythology Cassandra foresaw calamities, but was cursed by the gods to be ignored. Modern-day Cassandras clearly predicted the disasters of Katrina, Fukushima, the Great Recession, the rise of ISIS, and many more. Like the mythological Cassandra, they were ignored. There are others right now warning of impending disasters, but how do we know which warnings are likely to be right?

In Nature’s Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that nature is not only the foundation of human well-being, but also the smartest commercial investment any business or government can make. The forests, floodplains, and oyster reefs often seen simply as raw materials or as obstacles to be cleared in the name of progress are, in fact as important to our future prosperity as technology or law or business innovation.

Johnnie Johnson, a successful entrepreneur and former all-pro football player from the NFL, and Dr. Michael E. Webber, a distinguished professor, chief technology officer at a large venture firm, and former corporate executive in charge of research at a global company, use decades of experience in coaching, mentoring, and leadership to lay out eight ways you can support diversity, equity, and inclusion for all at your workplace, in your community, and for everyday living.

His story is now legend. In 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, Ray Anderson felt a "spear in the chest." The founder of Interface, Inc., a billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer, realized that his company was plundering the environment and he needed to steer it on a new course. Since then, Interface has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 82 percent, and the goal is to reach a zero environmental footprint by 2020.