The metaverse is here. Are you ready? 
In The Metaverse Handbook: Innovating for the Internet's Next Tectonic Shift, a duo of experienced tech and culture experts delivers a can't-miss guide to participating in the most promising new technology since the advent of the web. Through dozens of metaverse creator case studies and concise, actionable insights, you'll walk away from this book understanding how to explore and implement the latest metaverse tech emerging from blockchain, XR, and web3. 
In The Metaverse Handbook, you'll discover: What the metaverse is, why you should care about it, and how to build your metaverse strategy The history of the metaverse and primers on critical technologies driving the metaverse, including non-fungible tokens, XR, the blockchain, and web3 How to unearth unique metaverse opportunities in digital communities, commerce, and immersive experiences 
As the metaverse has rapidly become the technology platform and marketing buzzword of the future, this new reality for companies, creators, and consumers is not easily understood at the surface level. Those who aim to be at the forefront of this exciting new arena must first understand the foundations and central technologies of the metaverse. 
An essential resource for digital professionals, creators, and business leaders in the vanguard of the coming technology revolution, The Metaverse Handbook provides the go-to roadmap for your journey into the metaverse.\nFrom the Inside Flap\nMore than just the hottest new trend in tech, the metaverse promises to fundamentally reshape the way we interact with machines and each other. It describes a virtual and augmented reality environment that offers groundbreaking new tools and strategies for communication, commerce, research, education, and everything in between. The question isn’t if the metaverse will transform our lives, but when. 
In The Metaverse Handbook: Innovating for the Internet’s Next Tectonic Shift, a team of accomplished growth marketers and content creators delivers an eye-opening discussion of the metaverse, the technologies that make it possible, and the limitless potential it offers to companies and individuals who participate in it. 
You’ll discover how Web3 development is shaking up traditional websites with blockchain-based innovations and how digital asset creation through non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is revolutionizing what it means to own something in the digital realm. You’ll explore immersive gaming and social environments and understand the building blocks of the metaverse, even as they’re still being created. 
The authors highlight over 120 digital creators building new tools that are changing the way we look at the world and show readers how to harness these innovations in their commercial ventures, community-building efforts, and personal digital experiences. They also point out some of the pitfalls experienced by metaverse participants and demonstrate how to avoid these obstacles.\nFrom the Back Cover\nUnderstand and explore the next great digital leap forward 
Author Neal Stephenson coined the term “the metaverse” in his seminal cyberpunk novel Snow Crash when he described a virtual world so realistic that it was indistinguishable from reality. And what was fiction thirty years ago is rapidly becoming our new reality as new technologies make it possible to build and experience the metaverse for ourselves. 
The Metaverse Handbook is a one-of-a-kind resource for C-suite executives, business leaders, and creative professionals who seek to understand and implement the latest technologies emerging in blockchain and the web to their own business ventures. Simultaneously inspirational and educational, the book highlights over 120 creators building new digital tools and guides readers through the steps they need to take to harness innovations in digital commerce, communities, and experiences. 
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The Metaverse Handbook: Innovating for the Internet's Next Tectonic Shift

Business & Money

Terry, QuHarrison

Keeney, Scott

Industries

wiley

Sappho Does Hay(na)ku is a collection of 77 poems that deal in love, lust and sarcasm. They are a mix of interpretations, translations and variations of Greek poet Sappho's work. One of the first complete hay(na)ku collections, author Scott Keeney gives us a fresh, accessible take on provocative topics.

Sappho Does Hay(na)ku

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Sephyrus Press

Above the Surface: A Fairytale for Adults

Archelaus, Rachel

Mythology & Folk Tales

Quixotic, bold, and rooted in the metaphysical underpinnings of our everyday lives, the richly expressive poems in this slim volume carve riffs of words and ride those rhythms to sometimes playful, sometimes poignant, but always surprising, destinations. The "practiced nonchalance" of Keeney's language, at turns deceptively simple and cooly demanding, culminate in a cavalcade of desultory contemplations and consciously open-ended conclusions: "thoughts, swallowed in the leaves" of this stunning and surrealistically personal work. In the end, Keeney's "Little Anthems" establish impassioned resonances worth returning to again and again

Wahoo Sunset: Poems

Walloping Shrug: Poems 1994–2000

United States

Some Clouds Press

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Above the Surface

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

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