Rare Bird Books: 181 books
Brainpower
Leveraging Your Best People Across Gender, Race, and Other Divides
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Is it more profitable for workers and their employers to be "out" in the workplace? What's holding back the "model minority"? A compendium of groundbreaking research studies conducted by bestselling author and notable economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett and her team at The Center for Talent Innovation, Brainpower...
Disrupt Bias, Drive Value
A New Path Toward Diverse, Engaged, and Fulfilled Talent
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
THE CENTER FOR TALENT INNOVATION (CTI) is a New York City–based think tank which focuses on the retention and acceleration of underrepresented labor in the global marketplace. CTI’s research partners now number more than ninety multinational companies and organizations.
Vaulting the Color Bar
How Sponsorship Levers Multicultural Professionals into Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
An era of vibrant diversity is rewriting our culture, schools, workplaces and history. But more than a decade into the twenty-first century, talent of color are not breaking into the top executive ranks in numbers proportionate to their achievements and demographic mass. To move past lingering bias and...
by Andrea Turner Moffitt
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Women in the US exercise decision-making control over $11.2 trillion of investable assets and 62% of women in the US, UK, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and India identify as the primary source of household assets. Yet, a majority (53%) of female wealth in these markets is unmanaged by an advisor and,...
The Compass and the Nail
How the Patagonia Model of Loyalty Can Save Your Business, and Might Just Save the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Brand development and direct marketing expert, Craig Wilson, argues for the responsibility of consumers and the companies they spend money with. It is only through the power of the consumer, and the dedication of businesses to creating responsible and sustainable products, that we will be able to combat...
The X Factor
Tapping into the Strengths of the 35- to 48-Year-Old Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Gen Xers should be stepping into crucial leadership roles and starting families. However, this book reveals that Gen Xers are taking a different life path. Their extreme work schedules, strong career ambition, and changing mores contribute to their high level of childlessness. Gen X was hit by an economic...
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Diana Forster, Laura Sherbin
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The findings were announced at The New York Times auditorium with presentations by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, one of the authors of the study and Founder and President of The Center for Work Life Policy, and Lisa Belkin, the author of the New York Times Magazine cover story The Opt-Out Revolution” which...
by William J. Kelly, Chip Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Maverick environmental writers William J. Kelly and Chip Jacobs follow up their acclaimed Smogtown with a provocative examination of China’s ecological calamity already imperling a warming planet. Toxic smog most people figured was obsolete needlessly kills as many there as the 9/11 attacks every day,...
Vow of Celibacy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Natalie has made a promise: a vow of celibacy, signed and witnessed by her best friend. After a string of sexual conquests, she is determined to figure out why the intense romantic connections she’s spent her life chasing have left her emotionally high and dry. As Natalie sifts through her past...
The Alzhammer
Or Keep Your Friends Close and . . . I Forget the Other Thing
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Mikey is history. He’s got what he calls the Alzhammer. A once-powerful mob boss, he is seriously slipping-losing control of his crew and of his mind. His business is sideways, his rivals are coming for him, he’s crazy forgetful, and it is a fact his parents suffered miserably with Alzheimer's....
We Dropped a Bomb on You
The Best of Slake I-IV
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Cofounded by former LA Weekly editor Joe Donnelly and current Los Angeles Times Arts and Entertainment editor Laurie Ochoa, Slake is a literary journal that sets a new template for the next generation of print publications - collectible, not disposable; destined for the bedside table instead of the recycling...
The King of Good Intentions II
The Continuing and Really Rather Quite Hilarious Misadventures of an Indie Rock Band Called The Weird Sisters
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
The King of Good Intentions II by Los Angeles songwriter and novelist John Andrew Fredrick picks up where we left off cliffhangingly, unsure whether John and Jenny, the brilliant and charming on-again/off-again couple who play in the fictitious fledgling indie band the Weird Sisters, will break up or...
Seven Pillars Acting
A Comprehensive Technique for the Modern Actor
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Cutting-edge, comprehensive, and effective, Seven Pillars Acting empowers the actor to transform into character with ease and authenticity. Inspired by the great acting teachers of the last century, Seven Pillars Acting is a modern method that provides a structured set of tools and a dependable process...
by Jacqueline Suskin
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This is a book about California. Specifically, this first volume is about Northern California, the wet part of the state, the green part, a place where redwoods reign and fog is common. From 2009-2013, Jacqueline Suskin lived in Humboldt County, on the edge of the continent, writing poetry. In this...