Ever wanted to lead a truly innovative team but weren't sure where to start? Ever questioned your ability to think like an innovator? Ever rolled your eyes at the latest corporate change roll out? Have you been wanting to read a book that wouldn't bore you to tears? Finally, there is a book for you!

Innovation may be the hottest discipline around today, in business circles and beyond. And for good reason. Innovation transforms companies and markets. It is the key to solving vexing social problems. And it makes or breaks professional careers. For all the enthusiasm the topic inspires, however, the practice of innovation remains stubbornly impenetrable. No longer. In this book the author draws on stories from his research and field work with companies like Procter & Gamble to demystify innovation. He presents a simple definition of innovation, breaks down the essential differences between types of innovation, and illuminates innovation's vital role in organizational success and personal growth. This unique hybrid of professional memoir and business guidebook also provides a powerful 28-day program for mastering innovation's key steps: (1) Finding insight, (2) Generating ideas, (3) Building businesses, and (4) Strengthening innovation prowess in workforces and organizations. Using several illustrative case studies and vignettes from a range of companies around the globe, this playbook teaches people how to turn themselves or their companies into true innovation powerhouses.

This “superb history” of artificial light traces the evolution of society—“invariably fascinating and often original . . . [it] amply lives up to its title” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In Brilliant, Jane Brox explores humankind’s ever-changing relationship to artificial light, from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. More than a survey of technological development, this sweeping history reveals how artificial light changed our world, and how those social and cultural changes in turn led to the pursuit of more ways of spreading, maintaining, and controlling light. Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who didn’t—through the centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She identifies the pursuit of whale oil as the first time the need for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world’s ecosystems. Edison’s bulbs produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox’s informative portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us. Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light

In this special collection, rediscover two of the #1 New York Times bestselling author’s classic novels: A Deeper Love Inside and Life After Death. The author of The Coldest Winter Ever, the million-selling raw and powerful Brooklyn tale that shook the foundation of literature and coughed up the most loved, celebrated, and imitated character ever etched onto a page, offers readers that familiar feeling, gritty hardcore, perfectly woven storytelling in her two passionate follow-up novels, A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story and the recently released Life After Death. Real readers and true Winter fans gotta get all three reads to keep up with the first family of nonstop dope style, fashionable hustle. Unpredictable, shocking, creative, and unforgettable novels all written by Sister Souljah.

Little "Bites"; this is what the author, Melissa Pasch, feels is taken out of each of us. Every hurtful comment, every unconstructive thought . these are bites that eventually build, and lead us down the path of negative body image, eating disorders, and ultimately self-destruction. Melissa has spent the last 20 years of her life giving into each bite, allowing them to control her. Allowing them to dictate her every thought, every meal. She tells her story in diary format, including her food consumption and exercise regimen over a 25-day period. During this 25-day period, Melissa works to repair these bites that have been taken from her . works to repair her self-esteem and self-worth. An added bonus, she loses 10 lbs in the process! Melissa offers readers a candid approach, including body image exercises, self-reflection pages, and a realistic take on how we view ourselves. There are many self-help books that have been written concerning body image and eating disorders. However, this easy to read, realistic story will help readers get rid of those negative, self destructive thoughts, and start a journey down the path to loving themselves for who they are!

A novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five children who perished during a bombing at a local store, tracing their everyday dramas as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of twentieth-century London.

Natural-born hustler Porsche Santiaga refuses to accept her new life in juvenile detention after her family is torn apart and fights to regain what she has lost.