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When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center on the moment of innovation—the eureka moment that sparks astonishing technological feats. In this book, Jeffrey Ding offers a different explanation of how technological revolutions affect competition among great powers.

Change is constant—so become great at it. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on change management, listen to this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review  articles that will help you lead initiatives effectively, avoid common mistakes, and...

The Eight Laws of Employee Experience is a new framework to build a future-ready organization in an AI-driven world. Bestselling author and professionally trained futurist Jacob Morgan shows that employee experience must return to its core: a value exchange where employees contribute, grow, and...

In The Power of Cash, Professor Jay Zagorsky, former advisor to the Boston Federal Reserve, delivers a startlingly insightful and eye-opening discussion of the harmful and unintended consequences of the demise of paper money. The author convincingly argues that cash is an essential and helpful tool that's worth preserving for the long run.

Imagine a life where financial abundance and personal fulfillment are not just dreams, but tangible daily realities. This revised and revolutionary second edition of Rich Habits unlocks the secrets used by those who have already cracked the code to wealth and happiness. Using the story of J. C. Jobs, author Thomas (Tom) Corley illustrates the most effective daily success habits of wealthy individuals.

After years of investment in sustainable goods and services, most companies still aren't seeing the payoff. Why not? As IMD professors Goutam Challagalla and Frédéric Dalsace show in this eye-opening and practical book, it's due to a basic strategic misalignment and a misunderstanding of what...

For decades, we've been promised that a hydrogen economy is just around the corner. After billions in investment, hydrogen has failed to live up to these overblown promises. Yet it is as hyped as ever, a target of media enthusiasm and hefty investment from government and industry. Is it time to...

The Caring Company: How to Shift Business and the Economy for Good clearly shows how businesses can choose to serve the common good as number one priority and still achieve higher performance. Rather than simply transacting with their customers, suppliers, and the local community, this book explains how companies who instead build unconditionally caring relationships with them are rewarded economically for doing so.

Don't let OCD get the best of you. The "six-moment game" in this powerful workbook can help you manage your worst symptoms—and take back your life. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be insidious. Symptoms such as obsessions and compulsions may interfere with your work life, social life...

Minh’s new faith brings him into conflict with his father’s business interests in Vietnam and the mysterious powers supporting his father. Estranged from his father and shunned by his family, Minh learns to support himself by working as a translator for Americans coming to Vietnam during the waning years of the war.

Emmaline Holton was five years old when the blizzard of 1878 left her an orphan. Her uncle wanted to raise her, but his difficult wife objected. That left only one relative to help Emmaline, her cousin Rachel and her new husband, Samuel.

Last Chance in 1895 is a shadow of what it once was, filled with too many women competing for the few men left to save them from poverty, starvation, and spinsterhood. Closed businesses and broken dreams rule the day, drawing a diversity of men to the struggling town; men on both sides of the law.

Chosen to be the recipient of a great gift, Glenn Hitch receives a title pointing to the destiny all mankind was originally purposed for. Glenn’s new abilities include the same gift granted to Elisha’s servant in answer to the prophet’s prayer: the ability to see the true reality of the war he was engaged in.

Aria’s letter-writing campaign to the Doughboys was a kindness that turned into a journey of the heart. Corresponding with Donald, Joey, and the others became a part of her life. Until one unexpected soldier, Dakota Knox, changed her dreams of becoming a missionary. Instead, the young woman pleads for her new love’s safe return.

Vivianna Risler enjoys interacting with the young women of her daughter’s acquaintance. But when the girls form the Ladies Victory League undertake a letter writing campaign to the Doughboys, she supervises the activities with a mother’s eye toward propriety and protection.

Running from her abusive grandfather—broken and afraid—17-year-old Valentia Brocato flees her homeland, hoping for a brighter future in America. Little does she realize that America is about to enter its own conflict—The Great War.

Chased from their life by scandal, Ilianna Winters and her mother desperately seek a new beginning. But tragedy continues to plague the Winters as they seek out a place to rebuild their lives. As the world totters on the brink of madness, Ilianna finds compassion among her companions in the Ladies Victory League. Still, social constraints and dark secrets hamper the young woman’s potential within high society—until she is blessed to find a kindred spirit amongst her correspondence.

In 1917 every man, woman, and child was called to civic duty as the “war to end all wars” encompassed the globe. When the patriotic call comes, Adella begins her campaign of encouragement by corresponding with the frightened and lonely soldiers. On the cusp of adulthood, the young woman is tired of living a cosseted life and hopes to gain her parents' support when she wants to volunteer her services to the war effort. Her mother worries for her safety, but Adella is more concerned for her heart.

The last thing Orchid Canning expected when she traveled West with her father was to lose him to smallpox. Alone and desperate to fulfill his dream of photographing people’s plights along the Oregon Trail, she finds herself in Last Chance, Nebraska, seeking a husband who will help her accomplish this goal. Will her life’s savings of 10,000 dollars be enough to convince a man to marry her? Aidan MacVeigh is going under. The drought has ruined everything he has worked for all these years. Can one young woman with a camera and an ambitious dream save him?

When America declared war on the German Empire in 1917, young men were drafted and thrown into the conflict on the Western Front. A group of young women decided to help the war effort by writing to the soldiers. As Matrice Hamilton corresponds with several young men, only one claims her heart. Will he come home to her if he survives the carnage on the frontlines? If so, can they find love and fulfillment together, or will the dark clouds of war overshadow them forever?