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A Different Life
Growing Up Learning Disabled and Other Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Ten percent of the population is affected by a learning disability, but few of us understand what being learning disabled (LD) is really like. When he was fourteen, Bradlee was diagnosed with Velo-Cardio-Facial-Syndrome (VCFS), a wide-spread, little-understood disorder that is expressed through a...
No Ordinary Life
The Biography of Elizabeth J. McCormack
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A member in the Society of the Sacred Heart for nearly thirty years; president of Manhattanville College in New York; recipient of a doctorate in philosophy; philanthropic advisor to the Rockefeller family; beloved wife of Jerome I. Aron; pivotal board member of some of the most generous foundations...
Benchwarmer
A Sports-Obsessed Memoir of Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
For most of his life, Josh Wilker has been on the sidelines. Spending his days in a cubicle in the far reaches of Chicago, and his nights in front of Red Sox games, he has been content to let others take center stage. From childhood onward, he sought comfort from anxiety and depression in the archival...
The Snowball System
How to Win More Business and Turn Clients into Raving Fans
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Mo Bunnell's comprehensive system will help you win more clients, build stronger relationships, and bring in more business.
If you're good at doing something, and you need to connect with paying clients in order to keep doing it, this book is for you. There are more of us out there than you...
by George Soros
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
An impassioned defense of open society, academic and media freedom, and human rights.
George Soros--universally known for his philanthropy, progressive politics, and investment success--has long been under sustained attack from the far right, nationalists, and anti-Semites in the United States...
The Loyalist Team
How Trust, Candor, and Authenticity Create Great Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Great teams are built and maintained with great intention, though they can make it look deceptively easy. Too many teams engage in dysfunctional behaviors or fall into territorialism, apathy, and unproductive relationships. The result? An overwhelmed, unengaged, and stressed-out workforce that settles...
Crucible
The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
A bold, revisionist account of World War I's lingering end, the bloody years that followed, and the Western world's reeling transformation.
In Petrograd a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to the Urals. A rancorous Russian exile crosses war-torn Europe to make his triumphal entry into the...
Creative Construction
The DNA of Sustained Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This myth-busting book shows large companies can construct a strategy, system, and culture of innovation that creates sustained growth.
Every company wants to grow, and the most proven way is through innovation. The conventional wisdom is that only disruptive, nimble startups can innovate;...
The Five Percent
Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
One in every twenty difficult conflicts ends up grinding to a halt. That's fully 5 percent of not just the diplomatic and political clashes we read about in the newspaper, but disputations and arguments from our everyday lives as well. Once we get pulled into these self-perpetuating conflicts it is...
by Paul Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2020
"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
-Lilla Watson, Aboriginal activist and artist
World-renowned physician and public health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer has long been...
The Sand Cafe
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Dhahran Palace Hotel, Saudi Arabia, 1991. The US forces are massing on the border with Iraq, preparing to throw Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait. Men and material are arriving daily, helicopters and armor are training in the desert sand. There are rumors of Scud missiles, talk of the possibility of chemical...
The War On Our Freedoms
Civil Liberties In An Age Of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
In each generation, for different reasons, America witnesses a tug of war between the instinct to suppress and the instinct for openness. Today, with the perception of a mortal threat from terrorists, the instinct to suppress is in the ascendancy. Part of the reason for this is the trauma that our...
The Snow Leopard Project
And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
The remarkable story of the heroic effort to save and preserve Afghanistan's wildlife-and a culture that derives immense pride and a sense of national identity from its natural landscape.
Postwar Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty. Evolutionary...
Messengers
Who We Listen To, Who We Don't, and Why
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
A fascinating exploration of the powerful forces that shape who we choose to listen to and believe, why talented and qualified people are ignored, and how these "messengers" influence society.
We live in a world where proven facts and verifiable data are freely and widely available. Why, then,...