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Tech For Good reveals how Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies will help solve the world's greatest challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, inequality, and poverty. Tech For Good presents a unique perspective on how business can successfully apply advanced technologies in a purpose-driven manner while unlocking new markets and seizing business opportunities. Packed with seventy-five real-life business cases of companies from all over the world, this inspiring book unfolds a compelling narrative about how businesses commercially synergize technology and sustainability.

Charismatic minister King Avery persuades state and federal authorities to split North Carolina into two states. He calls his Westcarolina “the first Christian state,” one he will stamp with his own beliefs. The Charlotte Press hires high-profile Texas reporter Annie Price to investigate Avery, his new state, and his God’s Gift Church. The minister, in his new role as governor of Westcarolina, attempts a variety of bizarre changes. The first one would banish Wiccans (witches) from the Christian state, a move that exposes them to potential danger.

When fashionista Annette Dupont and her sister Gabrielle fly from Paris to visit the family ranch, they're met with unexpected trouble before even stepping off the plane. The sisters are forced to stay in the home of a neighbor when the ranch is sabotaged, leaving them to face a series of attacks that threaten their safety. Annette finds herself at the center of the mystery behind their cause, determined to unravel the truth before her family loses their land.

When Gabrielle Gagnon discovers her ex-boyfriend's deceitful life, she realizes she must move on from the betrayal if she is to ever make a home for herself in Paris. Her quest for peace leads her to Andrew Tremblay, a disarmingly handsome cowboy from Canada, who unexpectedly inherits a wine shop in the heart of the Marais. Despite their differences, they form a bond that begins to blossom into love. But their burgeoning romance is threatened when an ominous letter arrives, casting a pall of danger over Gabrielle's life.

Is work working for you? If you experience the "Sunday night scaries", count down the days to the weekend, or dread the thought of another day at work, maybe you can only see two options to escape your current misery: quit your job or stay and suffer. There is another option. In Own It. Love It. Make It Work., one of America's top productivity consultants reveals why you don't have to rely on your company, nor your boss, for your professional fulfillment. Instead, you can take ownership of your career, your life, and your happiness - right now.

The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-Being for a Sustainable Legal Profession is based on an innovative model, grounded in science. This book serves as a resource for promoting well-being and culture-change in the legal community by educating about pertinent issues impacting lawyers, and how to address them. It is a roadmap, highlighting the many over-arching and inter-connected aspects of well-being, and enabling listeners to identify and target the issues most relevant to their unique situations.

Christine Wagoner, a senior leader with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, invites listeners to be attentive to the movements of the spirit and engage with opportunities God gives them. She shares about her own yes moments as well as those of others. And she offers practical tools for moving toward yes. There is a significant journey that gets us from no to yes. It is a profound journey of heart, soul, and mind. A journey filled with risk, excitement, pain, and joy. A journey of growing our character and knowing God intimately.

Quickly find an in-the-moment solution! Now more than ever, states are mandating that children with special needs be included in the general education classroom. As a result, all educational professionals, from teachers to administrators, need specific training on how to handle unusual behaviors.

Have you ever looked at your life and felt like you needed to get rid of all the clutter? Are you caught up in the lifestyle of consumerism that plagues modern society? Do you sense that your life would be better and happier if only you didn't crave so much unnecessary stuff? Do you sense that you are struggling to achieve a work-life balance? Do you struggle to achieve your goals even if you put in all the effort you can muster?

Monster slayer Sandra Barlowe ventures to Madrugar, Mexico to investigate the brutal death of a local rancher. While the signs initially point to a vampire, the deeper she dives into her investigation, the more the murder appears to be the handiwork of something else…something much more terrifying.

In Riverton Falls, a small New England town, globe-trotting bartender Celeste Fortune stands in her kitchen puzzling over last night’s frightening dream - a woman at a window, lilacs blowing in the breeze, someone’s hands tight around her neck. Celeste is sure the dream belongs to someone else. Perhaps she has finally broken through to the collective dreams of Dreamland cult. Hoping her therapist and cult leader will help her untangle it, she heads off into the cold November morning to her final appointment with him - or so she hopes.

Raising the perfect child...it's our dream as parents. But the reality is: the perfect child doesn't exist. Yet parents everywhere are putting the full-court press on their kids to be perfect, fixating on raising them to be smarter, faster, more successful, and more popular than their peers. And that's making today's parents and their children crazy. In Untying Parent Anxiety, nationally syndicated humor columnist and author Lisa Sugarman reminds us that our kids aren't supposed to be perfect.

I’m Iris Engels. I can see through magic. My grumpy shape-shifting partner, Adrian Williams, has a nose for trouble, but he's also frequently the cause.

Blending science and technology studies, sociology, and geography with a host of archival material, in-depth interviews, and ethnographies, The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine.

Behavior Solutions for the Home is a tool for parents who have children whose behaviors are impeding their daily life. Once they see a particular behavior, they can quickly look up an in-the-moment solution, and then learn more about what could be causing that behavior, and more importantly, how to overcome it.

Is Twitter a place for sociability and conversation, a platform for public broadcasting, or a network for discussion? Digital platforms have become influential in every sphere of communication, from the intimate and everyday to the public, professional, and political. Since the scrappy start-up days of social media in the mid-2000s, not only has the worldwide importance of platforms grown exponentially, but also their cultures have shifted dramatically, in a variety of directions.

There's one voice that matters more than any other: the voice of the customer. Learn how to fully understand the number one source of your organization's prosperity, profits, and productivity. These actionable insights will help you to better connect with your customers and gain an undeniable lead over your competition. Listen Up!: How to Tune In to Customers and Turn Down the Noise reveals how to create a customer experience that's built on listening and designed for engagement.

Happines is a choice you can always make. Discover the happiness route and apply it to your life. Happiness Is a Choice aims to make you smile. Simple, isn't it? Simple as it is, the act of smiling tells a lot about you, how you feel, and where you want to go. This book is written in a simple manner to make you realize how easy it is to choose happiness.In this book, you will finally understand that you have to choose to be happy.

With only six days left before flying home to Canada, Sarah Peterson intends to make the most of every moment of her visit to Italy's Cinque Terre. That's when Raphaël, the lost love from her youth and the last person she ever expects to meet again, crosses her path, stirring up old feelings. The silvery moon, shimmering over the Ligurian Sea, casts a magical spell over them. Yet just when it seems like things are going well, Sarah is faced with an impossible question by an unexpected visitor.

One year ago, Elyse Belliveau's world shattered when she tragically lost the man of her dreams. A pillar of strength at her family's centuries-old winery in sun-soaked Provence, she vowed never to love again. But fate has other plans. When an old friend confesses his undying devotion, and a mysterious stranger tempts her with a second chance at happiness, Elyse is caught off guard. Yet a mystery surrounds this stranger. Is he truly as wonderful as he seems?