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Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)

Ruha Benjamin · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future.A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn't strangle the life...

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How to Be a Multi-Hyphenate in the Theatre Business: Conversations, Advice, and Tips from "Dear Multi-Hyphenate"

Michael Kushner · Focal Press
Format: 1st Edition

How to Be a Multi-Hyphenate in the Theatre Business empowers theatre professionals to take hold of their own career and become successful 'multi-hyphenates'- artists with multiple proficiencies, often cross-pollinating each other to help flourish professional capabilities.Discussing...
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Dear Younger Me: What 35 Trailblazing Women Wish They'd Known as Girls

Elisa Boxer · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring book for young adult readers that Kirkus Reviews says offers "many inspiring, resilient role models along with encouraging advice to take away."A fascinating group of women from all walks of life share their inspirations, advice, and what they wish they'd known...
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Working in the 21st Century: An Oral History of American Work in a Time of Social and Economic Transformation

Mark Larson · Agate Midway
Format: Hardcover

From nurses and teachers to wildland firefighters and funeral directors - an intimate, honest, and illuminating collection of interviews that reveal what it's like to work in America at this historic and volatile moment in time. Author Mark Larson sits down with more than one hundred...
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Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide

Ilona Bray · NOLO
Format: Paperback

Buyers can't wait to get a look at your home -- but what's the best way to earn the highest return? You may hope to inspire multiple offers, but also want to make sure to choose a buyer who will close the deal without last-minute issues or drama. Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential...
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The Crypto Launderers: Crime and Cryptocurrencies from the Dark Web to DeFi and Beyond

David Carlisle · Wiley
Format: Hardcover

Re-discover the crypto undergroundIn The Crypto Launderers: Crime and Cryptocurrencies from the Dark Web to DeFi and Beyond, renowned anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing expert David Carlisle delivers a fascinating breakdown of the impact of crime on the world of Bitcoin...
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All Are Welcome: How to Build a Real Workplace Culture of Inclusion that Delivers Results

Cynthia Owyoung · McGraw Hill; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Seize the competitive edge and increase innovation -- while doing right by people -- with a strong culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belongingStudies prove that companies with more diversity in their ranks are more innovative, expand their markets, and perform better financially....
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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis · Melville House
Format: Paperback

In a revelatory and pathbreaking work, the #1 international bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world . . .. "The Thucydides of our time." - Jeffrey Sachs. Big tech has replaced capitalism's twin pillars - markets and profit...
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Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order

Saleha Mohsin · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

From Bloomberg News reporter Saleha Mohsin, the untold story of how one of America's most invincible institutions - the Treasury - has used the U.S. dollar to define America's role in the world, and our economic future.. In 1995, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin re-defined the next...
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Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us

Gerald Epstein · University of California Press
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform. Bankers brought the global economic system to its knees in 2007 and nearly did the same in 2020. Both times, the US government bailed out the banks...
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Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write (A Norton Short)

Dennis Yi Tenen · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, physician, programmer, and attorney.Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval...
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The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor

Hamilton Nolan · Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

A timely, in-depth, and vital exploration of the American labor movement and its critical place in our society and politics, from acclaimed labor reporter Hamilton Nolan. Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized...
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Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation

Leslie T. Chang · ?Random House

An incisive exploration of women and work, showing how globalization's promise of liberation instead set the stage for repression - from the acclaimed author of Factory GirlsWhat happens to the women who choose to work in a country struggling to reconcile a traditional culture with...
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Be Amazing: Discover Your Purpose, Conquer Your Fears, and Fulfill Your Potential

Paul S. Boynton · Skyhorse
Format: Paperback

A Roadmap to Living an Extraordinary Life from the Bestselling Author of Begin with YesBe Amazing is a motivational and inspiring call to action for people who want more out of life, guiding them and helping them discover how to be amazing in their everyday work and personal lives. Using...
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The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now

Hilke Schellmann · Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Based on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real world test results, Emmy?award winning Wall Street Journal contributor Hilke Schellmann delivers a shocking and illuminating expose on the next civil rights issue of our time: how AI has already taken over...
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