Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
$360.00 $324.00
Win Every Argument shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, rise above the tit for tats on social media, and triumph in a successful and productive debate in the real world.
MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan isn’t one to avoid arguments. He relishes them as the lifeblood of democracy and the only surefire way to establish the truth. Arguments help us solve problems, uncover new ideas we might not have considered, and nudge our disagreements toward mutual understanding. A good argument, made in good faith, has intrinsic value—and can also simply be fun.
Arguments are everywhere—and especially given the fierce debates we’re all embroiled in today, everyone wants to win. In this riveting guide to the art of argument and rhetoric, Hasan shows you how. As a journalist, anchor, and interviewer who has clashed with politicians, generals, spy chiefs, and celebrities from across the world, Hasan reveals his tricks of the trade for the first time.
Whether you are making a presentation at work or debating current political issues with a friend, Mehdi Hasan will teach you how to sharpen your speaking skills to make the winning case.
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The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
$380.00 $342.00
The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice.
The Lean Startup movement has contributed new and valuable ideas about product development and has generated lots of excitement. However, many companies have yet to successfully adopt Lean thinking. Despite their enthusiasm and familiarity with the high-level concepts, many teams run into challenges trying to adopt Lean because they feel like they lack specific guidance on what exactly they should be doing.
If you are interested in Lean Startup principles and want to apply them to develop winning products, this book is for you. This book describes the Lean Product Process: a repeatable, easy-to-follow methodology for iterating your way to product-market fit. It walks you through how to:
- Determine your target customers
- Identify underserved customer needs
- Create a winning product strategy
- Decide on your Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
- Design your MVP prototype
- Test your MVP with customers
- Iterate rapidly to achieve product-market fit
This book was written by entrepreneur and Lean product expert Dan Olsen whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products. As a hands-on consultant, he refined and applied the advice in this book as he helped many companies improve their product process and build great products. His clients include Facebook, Box, Hightail, Epocrates, and Medallia.
Entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts and anyone who is passionate about building great products will find The Lean Product Playbook an indispensable, hands-on resource.
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The Path to Senior Product Designer: An Actionable Growth Plan for a UX Design Career
$360.00 $324.00
A practical guide to growing your UX design career
Knowing every Figma trick doesn’t get you promoted. Learn 12 skills that do, like presenting, mentoring, giving feedback, and improving processes.
An industry-backed approach to growth
Based on how more than 50 companies evaluate designers and employees, including Etsy, Medium, Dropbox, Square, Figma, Zendesk, Intercom, and Coursera.
Master the 12 skills by which top companies evaluate UX designers
- Set career goals within six design career paths
- Learn which skills top companies require designers to have at each level
- Build an actionable growth plan to reach your next level
- Improve 12 crucial design skills with actionable frameworks (mentoring, giving feedback, presenting, managing stakeholders, improving processes, etc.)
- Put the above into practice at work to get promoted faster
Get answers to these questions:
- What career options do I have as a designer?
- What career path is right for me?
- What are the steps to reach my career goal?
- How do companies evaluate designers?
- What are my skill levels?
- What competencies should I be working on?
- How do I get a promotion?
- How do I practically improve my skills?
What’s inside
- More than 60 concrete action items on growing your career
- Six templates and canvases for career planning
- Printable PDF canvas for your growth plan
- 14 recommendations for additional resources
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The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
$270.00 $243.00
They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell you the truth. It's your responsibility to find it and it's worth doing right .
Talking to customers is one of the foundational skills of both Customer Development and Lean Startup. We all know we're supposed to do it, but nobody seems willing to admit that it's easy to screw up and hard to do right. This book is going to show you how customer conversations go wrong and how you can do better.
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Strategic: The Skill to Set Direction, Create Advantage, and Achieve Executive Excellence
$380.00 $342.00
The practical content will help executives in any industry improve what research has shown to be the most important leadership factor to an organization's future success―strategic competence―and use this skill to transform complexity to clarity in charting their strategic direction. The book features:
- A common language for strategy and business planning
- Practical tools for developing the four dimensions of executive fitness key to advancing the company's growth: strategy, leadership, organization, and communication
- Techniques for designing enduring competitive advantage and frameworks for creating innovative new value for customers
- Methods for evolving the business model to transform the trajectory of the business
- The Strategic Quotient (SQ)―a validated assessment of an executive's strategic thinking, planning, and execution
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I and 2
$1,440.00 $1,296.00
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime!
Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery.
Also included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling “ The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” the baffling riddle of “The Musgrave Ritual,” and the ingeniously plotted “The Five Orange Pips,” tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.
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No Tomorrow: An Angsty Love Story
$455.00 $409.50
They say you never forget your first love, and that’s true. But some loves wrap themselves around your heart and never let go. They’re not just your first love but your forever love.
That’s what Blue is to me. My first, only, and forever love.
I met him when I was 19 years old. He was playing the guitar in a park with his adorable dog at his side. His smile made my heart race, and his eyes stilled my soul. I was completely captivated by his alluring melancholy. We fell hard and fast, and I dreamed of a forever with him.
Then he disappeared without a trace.
Five years later, I found him. Famous. Charming. Still just as in love with me as I was with him.
But behind the fame and the sexy smile, the quiet, tortured soul I met in the park years ago still lived. I was naive. I didn’t realize that Blue, my love, was fighting a battle no one could see.
Not even me.
He called me the keeper of his heart, and I guarded it fiercely. He promised me all his tomorrows, and I cherished every single one.
I never wanted or needed a perfect love. I only wanted his love. Our love.
This is our story. It’s raw and sexy and beautiful and sad and filled with endless ups and downs.
They say love conquers all, and I hope—I believe—that’s true.
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Islam Between East and West
$380.00 $342.00
Islam between east and west is not a book of theology, it deal with dogmas, institutions and teachings of Islam with the aim of establishing the place of Islam in the general spectrum of ideas.