Uncommon Sense Teachingby Barbara Oakley, Beth Rogowsky and Terrence J. Sejnowski
How Students Learn
To make sure your students retain their lessons, engage their brains’ memory systems!
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The Bond Kingby Mary Childs
The Bond King’s Rise and Fall
Mary Childs — cohost of NPR’s Planet Money podcast — details the vertiginous rise and precipitate fall of Bill Gross, the insightful bond trader who foretold…
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Beyond the Coreby Chris Zook
Adjacency Strategies
Corporate growth strategy expert Chris Zook explains why you should focus your expansion efforts on “adjacencies” closely aligned with your core business.
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On Brandby Aliza Licht
Shape Your Brand
Branding coach Aliza Licht – who also wrote Leave Your Mark – offers detailed guidance – for beginners – for building and maintaining your personal…
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Hidden Potentialby Adam M. Grant
You Can
Everyone is born with immense potential — but it often remains untapped. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant dismantles common misconceptions about what it takes to become…
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The Imposter Cureby Jessamy Hibberd
You can escape Imposter Syndrome
Veteran author and clinical psychologist Jessamy Hibberd breaks down imposter syndrome and shows you how to escape it.
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You Coach Youby Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
Vest in Self-Belief
Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis – who co-wrote the best-selling book The Squiggly Career – offer sound, workable advice for boosting your growth mindset and self-belief.
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Endsby Nicole Perlroth
Privacy? What Privacy?
Nicole Perlroth offers a thrilling, educational and politically aware overview of the history and future of cyberattacks and data privacy.
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Dream Teamsby Shane Snow
Embrace Team Diversity
Bestseller Shane Snow breaks down how to gather, sustain, motivate and inspire diverse teams to collaborate over the long term.
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The Art of Insubordinationby Todd B. Kashdan
A How-To for Heretics
Disrupters, dissenters and nonconformists make the world a better place. Here’s help for the rebels – and guidance for everyone else on how to give…
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Nudgeby Cass R. Sunstein and Richard H. Thaler
Embrace the Nudge
Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law professor Cass R. Sunstein take another look at people who make decisions that are not in their self-interest.
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Wake Up With Purpose!by Sister Jean Schmidt and Seth Davis
Sister Jean Rules the Court
Sister Mary Jean Dolores Smith – better known as Sister Jean – details her (as of now) 104 years-long life of Catholic devotion and service…
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Profit from the Sourceby Christian Schuh, Wolfgang Schnellbächer, Alenka Triplat and Daniel Weise
Procurement Power
Four Boston Consulting Group partners offer a radical – and profitable, they insist – revamping of procurement and of its relationship with the rest of your…
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All That She Carriedby Tiya Miles
Identity in a Small Sack
US National Book Award winner Tiya Miles relates the heartbreaking saga of a young enslaved girl being separated from her mother and sold in pre-Civil…
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And There Was Light:by Jon Meacham
The Human Side of Lincoln
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham presents an emotionally rich biography of Abraham Lincoln, offering a full and human portrait of the man who saved America.