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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - KDP Book DescriptionArtificial intelligence is usually discussed in the language of fear: job loss, deepfakes, stolen art, data centers, corporate power, and machines that may someday outthink us. Those fears are real. But they are not the whole story.Is My AI Showing argues that AI may also be the most powerful democratizer of knowledge, expertise, and creative possibility civilization has ever seen. It can help ordinary people cross gates once guarded by money, credentials, software complexity, and institutional access. A teacher, writer, patient, inventor, artist, retiree, small business owner, or student can now enter conversations that once required experts, consultants, libraries, or expensive professional help.But this book does not offer blind optimism. It takes seriously the pushback against AI: data center water use, energy demand, air pollution, noise, job displacement, unemployment fears, intellectual property disputes, and the anxiety artists and writers feel when their work becomes training material for machines. It calls on AI companies to treat these issues not as public relations problems, but as financial, social, and environmental costs that must be addressed openly and responsibly.At its heart, this is a book about what human life might become if survival is no longer the central organizing principle of work. Could universal basic income, shared AI wealth, shorter workweeks, public-good employment, and support for the arts help move society from a culture of wage survival toward one of meaning, service, creativity, and personal expression Part technological essay, part civic argument, part philosophical reflection, Is My AI Showing invites readers to see AI not as a finished verdict, but as a hinge point. The future is not guaranteed. But if we meet this moment with seriousness, imagination, and shared responsibility, AI may help unfreeze knowledge, creativity, and human possibility on a scale we are only beginning to understand.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Pickleball is fast, loud, and chaotic, which is exactly why your best games sometimes feel like magic and your next game can feel like your paddle turned into a frying pan. Pickle Juice: The Fluid Motion Factor for Pickleball is a lively, science-meets-court-sense guide to making those 'Day 1' flow-state performances less accidental and more repeatable.Co-authors Steven Yellin and Paul Stokstad translate decades of coaching and mind-body practice into a practical system they call the Fluid Motion Factor (FMF): a way of playing that lets your body's movement intelligence run the point while your inner commentator steps aside. You'll learn why conscious micromanagement slows reactions, how fear and outcome-fixation hijack timing, and how to create the inner conditions where touch, placement, resets, and counterpunches show up right on time.Inside, you'll explore memorable tools like the soft inner 'nine,' the micro-pause before contact, 'acknowledge the ball' instead of staring it down, the 'shrinking court' that keeps your mind on your side of the net, and soft eyes that widen awareness while sharpening precision. The book also tackles the hidden saboteurs of competitive play: fear of failure, fear of success, playing for someone else, and the subtle stress that turns partners into critics.Beyond concepts, Pickle Juice is built for use. It includes examples, reflections, and appendices with drills, a trainer's guide, expanded views, and practical ways to add FMF to serves, returns, dinks, volleys, drops, and those frantic kitchen exchanges where everyone suddenly forgets how to blink.Part philosophy, part neuroscience, part on-court playbook, Pickle Juice is for recreational players, tournament regulars, and coaches who want steadier performance under pressure, a lighter mind, and more joy per rally. Ever wonder where your best self goes This book brings it back again. Play freer. Play lighter. Play in flow. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if the tax system wasn't broken by accident What if it evolved, over centuries, into a sprawling machine optimized less for fairness than for complexity, loopholes, prestige, and power And what if it could be redesigned In Paul Fixes the Tax System: And Other Dangerous Ideas About Money and the Common Good, a historically minded citizen named 'Paul' steps into one of civilization's largest and most bewildering machines and asks a question that refuses to go away: Why do billionaires sometimes pay lower effective tax rates than teachers From Sumerian grain taxes and Roman roads to offshore tax havens, carried interest loopholes, and the modern 'buy, borrow, die' strategy, this book traces the strange history of taxation as both a tool of civilization and a battleground of power.But this is not merely a critique.It is also a proposal.Blending economic history, political philosophy, behavioral psychology, corporate governance, and civic imagination, the book introduces a bold framework called Public Benefit Capitalism: - Taxes reframed as 'civilizational dues'- A minimum tax floor that prevents zero-tax outcomes- Public-benefit tax credits tied to measurable social outcomes- New incentives for long-term investment and civic contribution- Corporate prestige systems that reward verified public good- A 'civic dashboard' making taxation visible, transparent, and participatoryAlong the way, the book explores: - benefit corporations and B Corps- philanthropy and democratic accountability- the mythology of the self-made billionaire- ESG investing and greenwashing- Nordic high-trust societies- lobbying, offshore finance, and regulatory capture- capitalism's relationship to legitimacy and public trustPart history, part systems analysis, part civic manifesto, Paul Fixes the Tax System argues that the future of capitalism may depend on whether societies can redirect ambition, prestige, and wealth toward the common good before institutional trust collapses completely.Provocative, humorous, historically grounded, and deeply ambitious, this is a book for readers of, and who are ready to rethink the relationship between money, power, taxes, and civilization itself.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sophie Scholl was only twenty-one when Nazi Germany executed her for distributing anti-Hitler leaflets at the University of Munich.But she was not born a symbol. She was a daughter, sister, student, believer, and young woman who had once been drawn, like many German children, toward the songs, hikes, uniforms, and belonging offered by the regime's youth organizations. Her courage grew through family, faith, disillusionment, books, war, friendship, and the refusal to keep looking away.The White Rose tells the story of Sophie, her brother Hans, and the student resistance circle that dared to oppose Hitler with paper, ink, street slogans, and conscience. Richly dramatic but grounded in history, this narrative follows the Scholl family, the intellectual world around Hans and Sophie, the first leaflets, the Eastern Front, the Munich atrium, the interrogation rooms, the trial, and the final afternoon at Stadelheim Prison.The White Rose students could not stop the war. They could not topple the Reich. But they left behind something the regime could not destroy: proof that courage was possible.…

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | You've had what seems like a million tennis lessons, but you get out on the court and it all goes away. You revert back to old habits and what made sense in the clean green and white world of the tennis pro is lost out there on the gritty high school courts where you are losing again to Hacker Charlie. You get steamed, throw your racket and go home frustrated.This book addresses the problem of getting what you learn in lessons out onto the court where you are hitting the ball with an actual opponent. The book challenges you to take charge of your own growth as a tennis player. It presents a system of "point projects" to help you systematically gather tennis knowledge and effectively incorporate it into actual play situations. This system is applicable to tennis practice, practice matches, match warm-ups, and during competitive match play. The book includes a number of sample point projects on every major stroke for you to try, plus a goal-setting chapter to give you the beginnings of an overall plan for self-improvement built around your own list of point projects.For less than the cost of one tennis lesson, you can double the value of all your other lessons, and start to become your own (best) tennis pro.Praise for How to be Your Own Best Tennis Pro"Paul Stokstad's book puts the attention of the player where it belongs:on self-development. Only by taking a serious look at your own game, bypulling apart and examining the details of every stroke, can you put itall together again as a bigger and better game. The book has aninteresting, systematic method of analysis that should take any playerto a new level of understanding of their own game and of tennis ingeneral." -Jack Kramer.…