Miscellaneous and Uncategorized Books

Wikipedia's first twenty years: how what began as an experiment in collaboration became the world's most popular reference work. Wikipedia is now known for its reliable sourcing and as a bastion of (mostly) reasoned interaction.

Searching for enlightenment or just wanting to know the truth? Alex was. But what he finds leaves him reeling and adrift in a strange new reality; where he is God stretching out into infinity.

Exposes the corrupt symbiosis between the corporate mass media and the health fraud industries. Shows how this corrupt partnership deceives the public, costs us billions, and endangers our health.

Exploring the nature of creativity, this book remains a provocative consideration of how creativity takes form, while also operating as a revealing snapshot of mid-twentieth century psychological thought.

How Can I Be Happy? How Can I Find Joy? How Can I Find Happiness that Lasts? This book answers these questions, and many more. This book is about learning to be happy. The good news is: everyone has the natural power to be happy, right now! Everyone wants to be happy and wants that happiness to last. This book teaches unconditional happiness. The nature of unconditional happiness is that it is lasting. In addition, you do not have to do anything to get it. It is natural, and it is already inside of you, waiting to be released.

A rallying manifesto for the innovative problem-solving we need to build a better, more verdant, and sustainable planetary existence. Our critical thinkers must become actual thinker-doers.

This book reminds us what a remarkable writer and journalist John T. Flynn truly was. It is a first-class business history, by any standard. It is the story of great fortunes made by the most notable men of wealth in history: Jacob Fugger, John Law, Nathan Rothschild, Thomas Gresham, Robert Owen, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and all the way through J.P. Morgan and J.D. Rockefelle.

A new and provocative take on the formerly classified history of accelerating superpower military competition in space in the late Cold War and beyond.

This book is designed to provide an introduction to digital storytelling and its multifaceted applications. It gives storytellers practical tools to help them think about different reasons for making digital stories and different ways to think about using and incorporating digital stories into teaching, learning, and living.

This is a nuanced look at how banks continue to boost investment—even in unstable markets—and a rare insider’s look into the often opaque financial practices that shape the global economy.

This open access book investigates a multitude of emerging technologies including 3D printing, 5G, blockchain, and many more to assess their potential for use to further humanity’s shared goal of sustainable development.

This open access book defines the field of Smart Life and Smart Life Engineering, identifying a clear scope of what constitutes “smart” in the context of digital technologies, develops a cross-field perspective, provides insights into various related disciplines, and offers illustrative examples of existing works in the field.

Creativity is a difficult concept, how can it best be defined, understood, applied, and practiced? This book provides important answers to these questions, which is relevant for artists, designers, scientists and technologists.

This book explores the intersection between neuroscience and science fiction stories. Rigorously researched and highly accessible, the author argues that psycho-emotional science fiction writers both imitate and inform alien and post-human consciousnesses through exploratory narratives and metaphor.

This book aims to help learners create knowledge with the support of artificial intelligence mapping apps and engage them deeply with sustainable development supported by green digital skills.