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Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

Adia Harvey Wingfield - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

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Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens

Rajiv Shah - S&S/Simon Element
Format: Hardcover

"Encouraging ... Uplifting...Meeting apparently insurmountable goals requires thinking big ... this will inspire." - Publishers Weekly "Raj Shah has written a practical guide to making the world a better place. He knows what he's talking about, because he's done...
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Hiring Veterans: How To Leverage Military Talent for Organizational Growth

Matthew J. Louis - Career Press
Format: Paperback

The definitive guide to hiring and retaining members of the military community by the foremost authority on the transition from military to civilian work life.. Hiring Veterans makes the clear case for the value of employing members of today's military community. Veterans represent...
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Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times

Alexandrea J. Ravenelle - University of California Press
Format: Paperback

The first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workers - a sociological exploration that reads like a novel. This is the story of what the most vulnerable wage earners - gig workers, restaurant staff, early-career creatives, and minimum-wage laborers - do when the economy suddenly...
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How to Hire: The Essential Guide to Recruit & Retain the Right People

Clint Smith - Amplify Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Hiring has never been more challenging. There are fewer qualified applicants with more employers competing for them. And most business owners are stuck trying to figure this out on their own. Most books on hiring are written for HR professionals.How to Hire was written to give owners & operators...
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How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions—and the Art of Knowing When Not To

Kit Yates - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A "vivid, wide-ranging, and delightful guide" (bestselling author Tim Harford) for understanding how and why predictions go wrong, with practical tips to give you a better chance of getting them right . How can you be 100 percent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeians...
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The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism

Adam Nagourney - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of "the paper of record," The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and faced the existential threat of the internet"An often enthralling chronicle [that] delivers the gossipy...
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The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy

Nick Romeo - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed: a provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy.Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century - widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions...
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Copyright Handbook, The: What Every Writer Needs to Know

Stephen Fishman J.D. - NOLO
Format: Paperback

If you work with words, you need this book No writer likes to see their hard work or creativity copied by others - or to be accused of copying. Fortunately,The Copyright Handbook provides everything you need to protect yourself. Find information and forms to help you: learn what copyright...
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Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading

Chris Anderson - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED explores one of humankind's defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future - "an essential read to kick off the new year" (Forbes, "16 Must Have Books and Podcasts...
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