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Move the Needle: Yarns from an Unlikely Entrepreneur
Shelley Brander
Format: Hardcover
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People always ask Shelley Brander what possessed her to leave the successful advertising firm she founded with her husband to open a local yarn store. And then they wonder how that one storefront grew into an e-commerce business, and from there into a global movement to Knit the World Together.... |
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Political Correctness
Michael Eric Dyson - House of Anansi Press
Format: Paperback
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"You're telling me I'm being sensitive, and students looking for safe spaces that they're being hypersensitive. If you're white, this country is one giant safe space." -- Michael Eric Dyson Is political correctness an enemy of free speech, open debate, and the free exchange... |
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Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped
Russell Brand - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Russell Brand explores the idea of mentoring and shares what he's learned from the guidance of his own helpers, heroes and mentors.Could happiness lie in helping others and being open to accepting help yourself? Mentors - the follow up to the New York Times bestseller Recovery... |
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The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
Jonathan Rauch - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover
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Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America's ability to distinguish... |
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Navigating Ambiguity: Creating Opportunity in a World of Unknowns
Andrea Small - ?Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback
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A thought-provoking guide to help you lean in to the discomfort of the unknown to turn creative opportunities into intentional design, from Stanford University's world-renowned d.school."Navigating Ambiguity reminds us not to run from uncertainty but rather see it as a defining... |
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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Steven Pinker - Random House Large Print; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Paperback
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Can reading a book make you more rational Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's "new favorite book of all time") answers all the questions here Today humanity is reaching new heights... |
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Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your BrainAnd How They Guide You
Rebecca Schwarzlose
Format: Hardcover
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Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual maps of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Scientists first began uncovering these maps over a century ago, but we are only now beginning to unlock... |
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