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"In 2009, Brogan and Smith released their bestseller Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust. In the ten years since, companies have saturated social media channels with low quality content, and businesses have seen minimal results from social media efforts. Social media platforms have, however, also been used to effect powerful change. This 10th anniversary edition of Trust Agents will help companies get...
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Counterpoint Press
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With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound transformation in the nature of work that is significantly altering lives: the incoming tidal wave of shadow work.
Shadow work includes all the unpaid tasks we do...
Shadow work includes all the unpaid tasks we do...
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"Heather C. McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. As she dug into subject after subject, from the financial crisis to declining wages to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common problem at the bottom of them all: racism--but not just in the obvious ways that hurt people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It's the common denominator in our most vexing public...
5) A practical wedding: creative ideas for planning a beautiful, affordable, and meaningful celebration
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Da Capo Lifelong
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2012
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English
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"A Practical Wedding helps you create the wedding you want--without going broke or crazy in the process. After all, what really matters on your wedding day, what you'll remember 'til you're old and gray, is not so much how it looked as how it felt. In this refreshing guide , expert Meg Keene shares her secrets her secrets to planning a beautiful celebration that reflects your taste and your relationship."--P. [4] of cover.
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University Press of Kentucky
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c2013
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English
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In the early 1970s, as U.S. combat forces began to withdraw from Southeast Asia, South Vietnamese and Cambodian forces continued the fight against the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF), more commonly known as the Viet Cong. Despite the evacuation of its ground troops, the United States promised to materially support its allies' struggle against communist aggression. Over time, however,...
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Simon & Schuster
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2016.
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"Leading innovation expert Alec Ross explains what's next for the world, mapping out the advances and stumbling blocks that will emerge in the next ten years--for businesses, governments, and the global community--and how we can navigate them. Ross highlights the best opportunities for progress and explains why countries thrive or sputter. He examines the specific fields that will most shape our economic future over the next ten years, including cybercrime...
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Lexington Books
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c2018
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English
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"Using illustrations from research on racial inequality in varied domains from public procurement and contracting to mortgage lending to child maltreatment to competitive swimming, Race Neutrality: Rationalizing Remedies to Racial Inequality argues that race neutrality--while desirable on its face--often fails to do what it is intended to do"-- Provided by publisher.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2015.
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From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it.
Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new American oligarchy, a shrinking...
Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new American oligarchy, a shrinking...
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Basic Books
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2018.
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of “Big Data”, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete.
In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to the Big Data revolution. As Viktor Mayer-Scharger, bestselling author of “Big Data”, and Thomas Ramge, who writes for The Economist, show, data is replacing...
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Random House
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c2013
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English
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Traces the rise of the processed food industry and how addictive salt, sugar, and fat have enabled its dominance in the past half century, revealing deliberate corporate practices behind current trends in obesity, diabetes, and other health challenges.
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2016.
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"When it's not attached to your head, your very own hair takes on a disconcerting quality. Suddenly, it is strange. And yet hair finds its way into all manner of unexpected places, far from our heads, including cosmetics, clothes, ropes, personal and public collections, and even food. Whether treated as waste or as gift, relic, sacred offering or commodity in a billion-dollar industry for wigs and hair extensions, hair has many stories to tell. Collected...
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Basic Books
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c2008
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English
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Globalization is not flattening the world; in fact, place is increasingly relevant to the global economy and our individual lives. Who's Your City? offers the first available city rankings by life-stage, rating the best places for singles, families, and empty-nesters to reside.--From amazon.com.
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2011
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world—from the highly acclaimed author of 1491. • "Fascinating...Lively...A convincing explanation of why our world is the way it is." —The New York Times Book Review
Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows...
Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows...
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