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On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her 20-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside the American embassy in Dublin, where she intends to starve herself to death. Although Maria was once a student radical and still proudly lives by her beliefs, gentle, book-loving Pearl has never been interested in politics nor in the Catholicism her mother rejected years before. What, then, is driving her to martyr herself?

Businesses need agility and optimization to thrive amidst constant unpredictability. Scientist and entrepreneur Stephanie Novak Hau cracked the code to resilient organizational architecture. For over thirty years Hau studied hundreds of diverse organizations. She engineered the revolutionary Sprocket® framework to structurally transform any business for maximum efficiency, accountability, and sustainability. In Sprocket: The Mechanics of Business Success, Hau provides the step-by-step blueprint to optimize your organizational architecture.

In Push Play: Gaming for a Better World, Dr. Songyee Yoon describes how gaming can help us craft a better world together. Through stories from her career in the gaming industry, she outlines how innovations in gaming push industries forward and create a more equitable world for all.