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In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high

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Drawing on diverse sources, this book offers a view of ancient Rome as seen by its people that reveals the lasting legacy of its ordinary men and women.The Romans loom large in the imagination, credited with roads, aqueducts, politics, plumbing, and empire--yet these familiar achievements tell only part of the story. The Romans: A People's History turns away from generals and emperors to focus instead on the millions of ordinary men and women whose voices rarely made it into history. Drawing on inscriptions, literature, household objects, mosaics, and myth, it reveals how plebian lives shaped the culture that still surrounds us: from food and labor to beliefs, entertainment, violence, and political resistance. Not shying away from contentious subjects--misogyny, slavery, racism, and the enjoyment of brutal spectacle--Paul Chrystal offers a rich, human-centered account of Roman civilization seen from the ground up, suggesting that what ordinary Romans endured and achieved still echoes i

This book delves into the design and implementation of IoT applications, showing how data analytics, machine learning, and AI enhance IoT efficiency and innovation. With a focus on automation, decision-making, and connectivity, it tackles challenges in various domains including healthcare, agriculture, and industrial automation.

Integrate nature into early learning for kids birth to eight using research-based techniques that overcome urban constraints, limited gear, and safety concerns. By weaving outdoor experiences into daily lessons, educators nurture focus, connection, communication, collaboration, and strategic thinking to enrich core education.

This groundbreaking book investigates the human tendency to follow, as well as the occasional defiance of this norm. This is the first work to focus not on why people with power and authority behave as they do, but on why people without respond as they do.Leadership is a relationship. There is no leader without at least one follower. Still, notwithstanding their essential importance - especially to leaders - followers are largely ignored. This book is a corrective: followers are placed in the foreground, and leaders in the background.First, Barbara Kellerman focuses on the rewards and punishments that prompt us to go along with the leader and conform to the group. Next, she highlights what motivates some individuals some of the time to do the opposite. Finally, she demonstrates that the human condition is submission: obedience is typical, while resistance is atypical. Drawing upon the latest research in business, government, psychology, philosophy, religion, education, and the sciences