- -5%Venkat Sankaran is a seasoned technologist and industry leader with over 34 years of experience, including more than a decade pioneering the Internet of Industrial Things (IIoT). As the President and Managing Partner at C2C Advanced Systems and the visionary Founder and CEO of Levergent Technologies Inc. and LogicApps Technologies Inc., he has driven transformative Industry 4.0 projects across the globe, collaborating with C-level executives in the USA, India, UAE, and beyond.Venkat holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s in Technological Operations and is currently pursuing a doctorate at BITS Pilani, India. His career is a testament to his passion for integrating technology with industrial operations, focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and innovative applications of ChatGPT for enhanced business communication.Through his latest book, Precision Prompts: Mastering ChatGPT for Business Excellence, Venkat shares actionable insights into harnessing AI for professional growth, showcasing his commitment to empowering businesses and fostering innovation in emerging markets.
Precision Prompts: Mastering ChatGPT for Business Excellence
Estimated delivery on 27 December - 2 January - -3%Gauutam Aggarwaal is an entrepreneur and a budding life coach who hails from Punjab, India. He is passionately keen on exploring the truth about human mind and its evolution. "In Pursuit of Detachment" is his first book and first attempt to put his thoughts across to a wider audience. In his quest to seek the truth he considers Vipassana an indispensable technique which he practices on a daily basis. He is a proponent of minimalism and mindfulness and a strong believer in lifelong learning.He received his bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal and MBA from The Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
In Pursuit of Detachment: Cultivating Clarity in a Chaotic World
Estimated delivery on 27 December - 2 January - -29%HAZEL PRIOR lives on Exmoor with her husband and a huge ginger cat. As well as writing, she works as a freelance harpist. Ellie and the Harp-Maker is her first novel.
Gone with the Penguins
Estimated delivery on 27 December - 2 January - -29%Elly Conway was born and raised in upstate New York. She wrote her first novel about Agent Argylle while working as a waitress in a late-night diner.
Argylle: The explosive spy thriller that inspired the new Matthew Vaughn film starring Henry Cavill and Bryce Dallas Howard
Estimated delivery on 27 December - 2 January - -31%Kate Griggs is an award winning British social entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Made By Dyslexia, a charity lead by famous and successful dyslexics. Launched in May 2017 this global charity aims to help the world properly understand, value and support dyslexia by developing campaign and tools which explain dyslexic thinking.She is a leading voice in Global Dyslexia advocacy having spoken on television, radio and TEDx. In 2005 Griggs founded dyslexia charity Xtraordinary People which united the UK dyslexia charities. This charities leading high-profile campaign culminated in the UK government's Dyslexia Review. Griggs was given an award by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown in recognition of her campaigning work.
This Is Dyslexia
Estimated delivery on 27 December - 2 January - -29%Helen Fielding is the author of Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and was part of the screenwriting team on the associated movies. Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries is her sixth novel. She has two children and lives in London and Los Angeles.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
Estimated delivery on 27 December - 2 January - -32%Imani Erriu is the author of the romance fantasy series Heavenly Bodies. She is a graduate from the Manchester Metropolitan University where she received a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing.A Lake District born girl, she spent most of her childhood in the forests of the English countryside, which definitely gifted her an overactive imagination. When she isn't crying over her own fictional characters or daydreaming up her next plot twist, she can be found eating pasta and watching The Office on repeat.
Heavenly Bodies
Estimated delivery on 27 December - 2 January - -31%Dr Irvin Yalom is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and the author of many books, including Creatures of a Day and the bestselling Love's Executioner. He and his wife, the author Marilyn Yalom, live in Palo Alto, California.
Hour of the Heart: Connecting in the Here and Now
Estimated delivery on 27 December - 2 January - -26%A bibliophile and dendrophile, Samhitha is an Indian lawyer who navigates the intricate worlds of international human rights and development with passion and purpose. An avid traveller, she immerses herself in diverse cultures and cuisines, all while indulging in her love for Indian mythology and history. Whether she is crafting compelling narratives to champion causes close to her heart or savouring local delicacies in hidden cafés, Samhitha's adventures are always a mix of curiosity, compassion and boundless wanderlust.
The Jyotirlingas: Tales of the Twelve Shrines
Estimated delivery on 27 December - 2 January - -32%Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of over forty books on topics including energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy. No other living scientist has had more books (on a wide variety of topics) reviewed in Nature. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers.
How Food Really Works: The Science of Feeding our Growing Planet
Estimated delivery on 27 December - 2 January - -5%When not conjuring up fantastical worlds, Alex can be found sipping hot chocolate, giggling with kids, or chasing after mischievous pets. With a heart full of wonder and a mind full of sparkles, Alex crafts tales that transport young readers to enchanted realms. Join the adventure!
Timmy’s Big Flight: In search of an endless summer
Estimated delivery on 27 December - 2 January - -32%James Rickards is the Editor of Strategic Intelligence, a financial newsletter, and Director of The James Rickards Project, an inquiry into the complex dynamics of geopolitics + global capital. He is the author of The New Case for Gold (April 2016), and two New York Times best sellers, The Death of Money (2014), and Currency Wars (2011) from Penguin Random House. He is a portfolio manager, lawyer, and economist, and has held senior positions at Citibank, Long-Term Capital Management, and Caxton Associates. In 1998, he was the principal negotiator of the rescue of LTCM sponsored by the Federal Reserve. His clients include institutional investors and government directorates. He is an Op-Ed contributor to the Financial Times, Evening Standard, New York Times, and Washington Post, and has been interviewed on BBC, CNN, NPR, C- SPAN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, and The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Rickards is a guest lecturer in globalization and finance at The Johns Hopkins University, The Kellogg School at Northwestern, and the School of Advanced International Studies. He has delivered papers on risk at Singularity University, the Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is an advisor on capital markets to the U.S. intelligence community, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and is on the Advisory Board of the Center on Sanctions & Illicit Finance in Washington DC. Mr. Rickards holds an LL.M. (Taxation) from the NYU School of Law; a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; an M.A. in international economics from SAIS, and a B.A. (with honors) from Johns Hopkins. He lives in New Hampshire.
MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy
Estimated delivery on 27 December - 2 January - -32%Kim Suhyun is a writer and illustrator based in Seoul, South Korea. Her books have sold more than 2 million copies in Korea, and I Decided to Live as Me is being published around the world in more than a dozen languages.Anton Hur was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the translator of the runaway Korean bestseller, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, he won a PEN Translates award for Kang Kyeong-ae's The Underground Village, and his translation of Bora Chung's Cursed Bunny was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. He lives in Seoul, South Korea.
I Decided to Live as Me: How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others So You Can Learn to Love Yourself
Estimated delivery on 27 December - 2 January - -32%Anu Gupta is a human rights lawyer, scientist, scholar of bias, meditation teacher, and the founder and CEO of BE MORE with Anu, an e-learning company that trains professionals across corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors to advance inclusion and wellness by breaking bias.His work has reached 300+ organizations, training more than 80,000 professionals and impacting over 30 million lives. As a gay immigrant of color, he came to the work of breaking bias after almost ending his life due to lifelong experiences with racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia. The realization that bias can be unlearned helped lead him out of that dark point and inspired a lifelong mission to build a global movement for social healing based on principles of mindfulness and compassion.Anu has lived, studied, and worked globally, which informs his unique perspective on how different forms of biases - whether they are race, gender, ethnicity, religion, or class-based - use the same neural mechanism to create inequities and inefficiencies in different organizational and cultural contexts. A peer-reviewed author, he has written and spoken extensively, including on the TED stage, the Oprah Conversation, TIME, Fast Company, Newsweek, People, and Vogue Business.Anu has a JD from NYU Law, MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge University, and BA in Int’l Relations and Islamic Studies from NYU. Prior to law, he served as a Fulbright middle school teacher in South Korea, studied Spanish in Mexico, worked on international women's rights issues at the UN, and founded an educational nonprofit in Myanmar/Burma.He is a lifetime Fellow of the Mind & Life Institute and a Systems Designer for Penn State Dickinson Law School's Antiracist Development Institute (ADI). He is a student of Buddhism and Kriya Yoga and he has spent over 10,000 hours on retreat at meditation communities in the US and Asia. He is a 500-hour certified yoga and mediation teacher and has served on the boards of many nonprofits and social enterprises. He lives in New York City with his partner.
Breaking Bias: Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From―and the Science-Backed Method to Unravel Them
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