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Product: Flourish - Mentor Journal - Year 1
Brand: LifeWay Press
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Product: How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
Description: Building on his national best seller The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley chronicles the history of innovation, and how we need to change our thinking on the subject.

Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st century for good and ill. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen, hard to summon into existence to order, yet inevitable and inexorable when it does happen.

Matt Ridley argues in this audiobook that we need to change the way we think about innovation, to see it as an incremental, bottom-up, fortuitous process that happens to society as a direct result of the human habit of exchange, rather than an orderly, top-down process developing according to a plan. Innovation is crucially different from invention because it is the turning of inventions into things of practical and affordable use to people. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others. It is always a collective, collaborative phenomenon, not a matter of lonely genius. It is gradual, serendipitous, recombinant, inexorable, contagious, experimental, and unpredictable. It happens mainly in just a few parts of the world at any one time. It still cannot be modelled properly by economists, but it can easily be discouraged by politicians. Far from there being too much innovation, we may be on the brink of an innovation famine.

Ridley derives these and other lessons, not with abstract argument, but from telling the lively stories of scores of innovations, how they started and why they succeeded or in some cases failed. He goes back millions of years and leaps forward into the near future. Some of the innovation stories he tells are about steam engines, jet engines, search engines, airships, coffee, potatoes, vaping, vaccines, cuisine, antibiotics, mosquito nets, turbines, propellers, fertiliser, zero, computers, dogs, farming, fire, genetic engineering, gene editing, container shipping, railways, cars, safety rules, wheeled suitcases, mobile phones, corrugated iron, powered flight, chlorinated water, toilets, vacuum cleaners, shale gas, the telegraph, radio, social media, block chain, the sharing economy, artificial intelligence, fake bomb detectors, phantom games consoles, fraudulent blood tests, faddish diets, hyperloop tubes, herbicides, copyright, and even - a biological innovation - life itself.
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Product: The Girl with the Louding Voice: A Novel
Description: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK!
“Brave, fresh . . . unforgettable.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A celebration of girls who dare to dream.”—Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers (Oprah’s Book Club pick)

Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and recommended by The New York Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, Essence, PopSugar, Daily Mail, Electric Literature, Red, Stylist, Daily Kos, Library Journal, The Everygirl, and Read It Forward!
The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education so that she can find her “louding voice” and speak up for herself, The Girl with the Louding Voice is a simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant tale about the power of fighting for your dreams. Despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in her path, Adunni never loses sight of her goal of escaping the life of poverty she was born into so that she can build the future she chooses for herself – and help other girls like her do the same. Her spirited determination to find joy and hope in even the most difficult circumstances imaginable will “break your heart and then put it back together again” (Jenna Bush Hager on The Today Show) even as Adunni shows us how one courageous young girl can inspire us all to reach for our dreams…and maybe even change the world.
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Product: Flourish
Brand: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Product: Flourish: 7 Ways Gratitude Can Transform Your Life
Brand: New Degree Press
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Product: Flourish: Live Free, Live Loved
Brand: Worthy Inspired
Worthy Inspired
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Product: Flourish - Mentee Journal - Year 1
Brand: LifeWay Press
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Product: Chasing Vines: Finding Your Way to an Immensely Fruitful Life
Brand: Tyndale Momentum
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Product: Flourish: Stunning Arrangements with Flowers and Foliage for Every Season
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Product: Esther: The Hidden Hand of God (Flourish Bible Study)
Brand: Crossway
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Product: Flourish: How the Love of Christ Frees Us from Self-Focus
Brand: Crossway
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Product: Flourishing: Incorporating Modern Flourishes into Your Lettering - Guide and Workbook
Description: ***ALL BOOKS COME WITH A TOMBOW FUDENOSUKE HARD TIP BRUSH PEN [retail value $3.49]*** Embark on the next chapter of your lettering journey in modern calligraphy. Flourishing is the art of embellishing your calligraphic letterforms with loops, swoops, turns, and letter extensions. This guide and workbook contain a few rules to adhere to, common ways to flourish certain letters of the alphabet, and examples of how to evaluate your flourished lettering pieces. This book is broken up into two main sections: a 35-page guide portion and the 52-page flourished alphabet tracing worksheets. If you are struggling with incorporating modern flourishing into your lettering, this guide will give you a solid foundation for not only flourishing letters, but connecting words with flourishes, and learning how to evaluate your work.
*BONUS* Tombow fudenosuke hard tip calligraphy brush pen with each book
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Product: The Fight to Flourish: Engaging in the Struggle to Cultivate the Life You Were Born to Live
Brand: Thomas Nelson
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Product: The Prophetic Warrior: Operating in Your True Prophetic Authority
Brand: Destiny Image
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Product: Fully Alive: Learning to Flourish--Mind, Body & Spirit
Brand: Bethany House Publishers
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Product: Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being
Brand: Atria Books
Free Press
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