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The solution to the world's greatest problems already exists. Inventors and artists have been using it for years through intellectual property (IP) laws that allow control of an idea on the back end, which justifies investment in that idea in the first place. Imagine the possibilities In How to Fix the World, attorney Joshua W. Hunking explores the revolutionary concept of leveraging IP law to create better ideas. Ideas that work. Ideas that...

Assuming something is wrong with schools, how might they be fixed? Analyze how the larger forces of imposition, invitation, and innovation can lead to change through examples from Saudi Arabia, the U.S., and Myanmar, where Buddhist monks have established non-religious schools at their monasteries to remedy the poor quality of government-provided education.

"What happens to our trash? Why are our oceans filling with plastic? Do we really waste 40 percent of our food 65 percent of our energy? Waste is truly our biggest problem, and solving our inherent trashiness can fix our economy, our energy costs, our traffic jams, and help slow climate change-all while making us healthier, happier and more prosperous. This story-driven and in-depth exploration of the pervasive yet hard-to-see wastefulness that permeates...

Wendy is down on her luck, but hoping to turn things around with a summer job in Alaska. Instead, she and her beloved dog Lucy find themselves stranded with no money in a small Oregon town.

With seven unpublished novels wasting away on his hard drive, Tony Vanderwarker is astonished when John Grisham offers to take him under his wing and teach him the secrets of thriller writing. "The beginning and the end are easy," Grisham tells him. "It's the three hundred pages in the middle that's the hard part." To ensure his plot doesn't run out of gas, Grisham puts Tony though his outline process. Tony does one, and then Grisham asks for another...

Jonathan Haskel is professor of economics at Imperial College Business School and an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. Stian Westlake is executive chair of the Economic and Social Research Council. They are the authors of Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy (Princeton) and cowinners of the Indigo Prize. From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring...

Larry Weingarten's The Philosopher's Wrench brilliantly takes a philosophical approach to fixing things: from home water heaters to personal relationships. Weingarten speaks to the heart and soul of living wisely and lightly on the planet. He is an expert on hot water heaters, energy efficient homes, and living off the grid. But his writings on living well go much deeper than the mere proper maintenance of a home's technology. The process of fixing...

The educational system in the United States is broken, and its time to do something about it! In this guide, author Clifford Bebell, EdD, who taught at several universities, exposes major flaws in our schools and shows what can be done to improve them. He offers solutions aimed at fixing the system so that all students succeed. He outlines the most serious problems that prevent students from achieving, such as improper use of homework, the grading...

How to Increase Book Sales, Get More Speaking Gigs and/or Attract More Coaching Clients with your Website... Without Having to Get a Web Design Degree or Learn Coding... Even If You're Terrible at Web Stuff Don't Have a Lot of Time and Just Want to Hand this Web Stuff Over to a Virtual Assistant This is your business. This is your website. You need to understand what makes it effective so that you know that your web designer and virtual assistant...