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WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

Abby Wambach - Celadon Books
Format: Hardcover

Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College's graduates in New York City, New York Times bestselling author, two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach delivers her empowering rally cry for women to unleash their individual...
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Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It

Steven Brill - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America's core values - meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even...
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Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism

Bartow J. Elmore - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover

An absorbing history of how Coke's insatiable thirst for natural resources shaped the company and reshaped the globe. How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction of mostly sugar, water, and caffeine? The easy answer is advertising, but the real formula...
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A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control

Kartik Hosanagar - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence are starting to run every aspect of our lives, and how we can shape the way they impact usThrough the technology embedded in almost every major tech platform and every web-enabled device, algorithms...
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Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2020

Peterson's - Peterson's
Format: Paperback

Peterson's Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2020 provides up-to-date information on more than 1.6 million privately funded awards worth over 10 billion dollars available to college students. It contains detailed profiles of awards based on academic fields and career goals, ethnic heritage,...
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American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History

Casey Michel - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"An indefatigable young American journalist who has virtually cornered the international kleptocracy beat on the US end of the black aquifer." For years, one country has acted as the greatest offshore haven in the world, attracting hundreds of billions of dollars in illicit finance...
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Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream

Nicholas Lemann - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Over the last generation, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions have given way to frictionless transactions, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of great wealth has coincided with the fraying of social ties...
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Stephanie Land - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."While the gap between upper...
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Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You

Heidi Grant- Halvorson - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Imagine walking up to a stranger on the subway and asking them for their seat. What about asking a random person on the street if you could borrow their phone? If the idea makes you squeamish, you're not alone--social psychologists have found that doing these very things makes most...
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How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics

Ryan Cooper - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Throughout America, structural problems are getting worse. Economic inequality is near Gilded Age heights, the healthcare system is a mess, and the climate crisis continues to grow. Yet most ambitious policy proposals that might fix these calamities are dismissed as wastefully expensive...
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