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The Science of Dreams: The Hidden Architecture of the Sleeping Mind. Every night, your brain builds a world from scratch—furnished with rooms, populated with characters, governed by its own elastic physics—and you believe it completely. By morning, almost all of it is gone. In The Hidden Topology of Dreams, Boris Kriger reveals the astonishing architecture behind this nightly vanishing act. Drawing on a rigorous mathematical framework published in the companion monograph.

Organizations rarely fail suddenly. They fail quietly. Meetings become safer than honest. Accountability fades. Leaders delay difficult conversations. Performance declines but slowly enough that no one acts in time. The Quiet Collapse explains how healthy organizations begin deteriorating long before results show it, why leaders often miss the warning signs, and how to intervene before culture, trust, and performance erode beyond repair. This audiobook is for leaders, managers, HR professionals, and anyone responsible for people and performance.

The Mayans and Mesoamerican Cultures: A Story of Cities, Kings, and Sacred Time is a richly told narrative history that brings to life the rise and fall of the great civilizations of ancient Mesoamerica. From the colossal stone heads of the Olmec to the celestial calculations of the Maya, from the forgotten power of Teotihuacan to the imperial glory of the Aztec Triple Alliance, this book invites you on a journey through jungles, temples, and time itself.

A healthcare AI expert examines how artificial intelligence can either undermine or enhance the doctor-patient relationship, offering frameworks to keep medicine human-centered. Subjects to Sovereigns explores what happens when the most powerful AI systems in medicine make decisions about patients who are never really heard? For most of modern medicine, patients have been treated as data points inside someone else’s system. Artificial intelligence risks locking that pattern in forever.

What if genius is not a gift but a regime — a specific, identifiable state of a system that can be understood, entered, and sustained? For centuries, the question of exceptional achievement has been carved up among rival disciplines. Geneticists claim it lives in DNA. Psychologists insist it emerges from practice. Neuroscientists locate it in synaptic density. Sociologists point to culture and timing. Each holds a piece of the truth. None holds the whole.

Greater than goals. More powerful than habits. Discover your streaks! Most of us have a vision for ourselves and who we want to be. But, amid the busyness of our days and all the competing demands, we often fall short of our hopes for ourselves. How could we possibly fit in another activity to become the person we’ve always dreamed we could be? In this practical, step-by-step guide, authors Jeffery Downs and Jami Downs show you how, by introducing the art of streaking (not that kind!) to gain mastery in whatever area you choose to improve.