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ISBN: 9780061234002
Publisher: WILLIAM MARROW
Subtitle: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING
Author: STEVEN D. LEVITT
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| Weight | 0.28 kg |
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| ISBN | 9780061234002 |
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| Publication Date | 2006 |
| Pages | 320 |
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With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation?s most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all?
Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him, and a TV executive who didn?t even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting-room floor. The payoff is a set of groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.
ISBN: 9780525429562
Publisher: VIKING
Subtitle: HOW NON-CONFORMISTS MOVE THE WORLD
Author: ADAM GRANT
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire – neither Offred’s nor that of the two men on which her future hangs…
ISBN: 9781841593012
Publisher: EVERYMAN`S LIBRARY
Subtitle:
Author: MARGARET ATWOOD
Undoubtedly the most famous scientist on the planet and the very face of physics over the last half-century, Stephen Hawking is remarkable for many reasons, not least because he has continued to strive to achieve so much while being hamstrung by debilitating illness. He has demonstrated categorically that if you put your mind to it, you can achieve anything, no matter your physical state. Of course, it helps if you happen to possess a mind such as his. His work on black holes put him on the map, and he became globally famous for his A Brief History of Time, communicating the most difficult scientific ideas at a period when he’d lost the ability to speak. How to Think Like Stephen Hawking reveals the key motivations, desires, and philosophies that make Hawking one of the world’s most enduring talents. Studying how he overcame great adversity, fought his demons as well as his detractors, and looked back to the origins of the universe, and with quotes and passages by and about him, you too can learn to think like the man who claims he can think in 11 dimensions.
ISBN: 9781782435600
Publisher: MICHAEL O’MARA BOOKS LIMITED
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Author: DANIEL SMITH
Exiled in 1948, Palestinians were robbed of their private property when looting became weaponized
During the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and residents alike plundered Palestinian homes, shops, businesses, and farms. This bitter truth was then suppressed or forgotten over the coming years.
Tens of thousands took part in the pillage of Palestinian property, stealing the belongings of their former neighbors. The implications of this mass looting go far beyond the personality or moral fiber of those who took part. Plundering served a political agenda by helping to empty the country of its Palestinian residents. In this context, it was part of the prevailing policy during the war designed to crush the Palestinian economy, destroy villages, and confiscate and sometimes destroy crops and harvests remaining in the depopulated zones.
The participating Jewish public became a stakeholder, motivated to prevent Palestinian residents from returning to the villages and cities they had left. These ordinary people were mobilized in the push for the segregation of Jews and Arabs in the early years of statehood.
With painstaking original research into primary sources, Adam Raz has brought to light a tragic moment in the history of a conflict that roils the region and the wider world. As the details of the Nakba are understood and documented, redress for Palestinian grievances comes closer to reality.
ISBN: 9781804295151
Publisher: VERSO
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Author: ADAM RAZ
“Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.” ?USA Today
As an Armenian American living in San Francisco, Armanoush feels like part of her identity is missing and that she must make a journey back to the past, to Turkey, in order to start living her life. Asya is a nineteen-year-old woman living in an extended all-female household in Istanbul who loves Jonny Cash and the French existentialists. The Bastard of Istanbul tells the story of their two families–and a secret connection linking them to a violent event in the history of their homeland. Filed with humor and understanding, this exuberant, dramatic novel is about memory and forgetting, about the need to examine the past and the desire to erase it, and about Turkey itself.
ISBN: 9780143112716
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Subtitle: A NOVEL
Author: ELIF SHAFAK
Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing is a roadmap for those who want to become successful investors and invest in the types of assets that the rich do. Whether your goal is to become financially secure, comfortable, or rich this book is your guide to understanding the asset classes and investment strategy. Robert explains his basic rules of investing, how to reduce your risk and Rich Dad’s 10 Investor Controls as well as ways to convert your earned income into passive portfolio income.
ISBN: 9781612680217
Publisher: PLATA PUBLISHING
Subtitle: WHAT THE RICH INVEST IN, THAT THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS DO NOT
Author: ROBERT T. KIYOSAKI
Does the uncertainty and chaos of life keep you up at night? Is irrational anxiety your constant companion? Let God help you win the war on worry and receive the lasting peace of Christ.
We all experience anxiety, but we don?t have to let worry and fear control our lives. Anxious for Nothing, from New York Times bestselling author, Max Lucado, provides a roadmap for coping with and healing from anxiety. Complete with Lucado?s signature storytelling and relatable anecdotes, Anxious for Nothing invites you to study Philippians 4:6-7?the most highlighted passage of the Bible and any book on the planet according to Amazon.
?Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.?
ISBN: 9780718096120
Publisher: THOMSON NELSON
Subtitle: FINDING CALM IN A CHAOTIC WORLD
Author: Max Lucado
The #1 New York Times bestseller about the grumpy old man next door that?s an uplifting exploration of the unreliability of first impressions and a reminder that life is sweeter when it is shared with other people. Also a major film called A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks.
Meet Ove. He?s a curmudgeon?the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him ?the bitter neighbor from hell.? But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn?t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?
Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove?s mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents? association to their very foundations.
Fredrik Backman?s beloved first novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others. ?If there was an award for ?Most Charming Book of the Year,? this first novel by a Swedish blogger-turned-overnight-sensation would win hands down? (Booklist, starred review).
ISBN: 9781476738024
Publisher: WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
Subtitle:
Author: FREDRIK BACKMAN