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Atrás queda la tierra by Arianna de Sousa-García
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUna novela que nos llama a no apartar la mirada del horror que viven quienes se ven obligados a emigrar.Mientras su mundo se cae a pedazos, la narradora de Atrás queda la tierra conecta una serie de memorias, palabras e imágenes, para escribir una conmovedora novela de no ficción sobre el dolor que provocan el despojo y la violencia... -
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBasic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics-for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Sowell reveals the general principles behind any kind of economy-capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language, he shows how to critique economic policies in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the goals they proclaim...Categorized as:
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The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life... -
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson, Saira Rao
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling white supremacy...Categorized as:
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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda French Gates
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsA debut from Forbes' third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment.For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live... -
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom one of the world's leading experts on unconscious racial bias, a personal examination of one of the central controversies and culturally powerful issues of our time, and its influence on contemporary race relations and criminal justice.We do not have to be racist to be biased. With a perspective that is scientific, investigative, and personal, Jennifer L...Categorized as:
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Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn introduction to the brain, its structure, function, development, and control of behavior, this text discusses neuroanatomy, cell and molecular mechanisms, mechanisms of signaling, and development in the context of the cognitive approaches to behavior... -
The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It by Mary Ann Sieghart
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s authority and power. Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her... -
Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today by The School of Life
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is a collection of some of the most important ideas of Eastern and Western culture — drawn from the works of those philosophers, political theorists, sociologists, artists and novelists whom we believe have the most to offer to us today... -
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh, Laszlo Bock
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“ an engaging, evidence-based book about how to battle biases, champion diversity and inclusion, and advocate for those who lack power and privilege. Dolly Chugh makes a convincing case that being an ally isn’t about being a good person—it’s about constantly striving to be a better person...Categorized as:
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For the Love of Men by Liz Plank
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For the Love of Men provides actionable steps for how to be a man in the modern world while also exploring how being a man has evolved.In 2019, traditional masculinity is both rewarded and sanctioned. Men grow up being told that boys don’t cry and dolls are for girls... -
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking by Matthew Syed
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRebel Ideas examines the power of 'cognitive diversity' - the ability to think differently about the world around us. It explains how to harness our unique perspectives, pool our collective intelligence and tackle the greatest challenges of our age - from climate change to terrorism... -
I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World by Milan Kordestani
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA straightforward look at the history and the art of maintaining courteous communication in an increasingly divided world.Have you ever been in a conversation that, after volleying back and forth, ended with the words, “I’m just saying . . -
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world’s leading expert on megaprojects “This book is important, timely, instructive, and entertaining. What more could you ask for?”—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize–winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow “Over-budget and over-schedule is an inevitability... -
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I Will Die on This Hill by Meghan Ashburn, Jules Edwards
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere is a significant divide between autistic advocates and parents of autistic children. Parents may feel attacked for their lack of understanding, and autistic adults who offer insight and guidance are also met with hostility and rejection... -
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFiguring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it...Categorized as:
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The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThese are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try"... -
Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators by Elena Aguilar
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA practical framework to avoid burnout and keep great teachers teachingOnward tackles the problem of educator stress, and provides a practical framework for taking the burnout out of teaching. Stress is part of the job, but when 70 percent of teachers quit within their first five years because the stress is making them physically and mentally ill, things have gone too far...Categorized as:
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10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades by Thomas Frank
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIf you're looking to improve your grades and study more efficiently, there are a lot of ways you can go about it. Thomas Frank, founder of the College Info Geek blog, YouTube channel, and podcast, breaks these ways down into ten steps in this short book... -
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds by Michael J. Knowles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“Every single American needs to read Michael Knowles’s Speechless. I don’t mean ‘read it eventually.’ I stop what you’re doing and pick up this book.” —CANDACE OWENS "The most important book on free speech in decades—read it!” —SENATOR TED CRUZ A New We Win, They Lose The Culture War is over, and the culture lost... -
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference by William MacAskill
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMost of us want to make a difference. We donate our time and money to charities and causes we deem worthy, choose careers we consider meaningful, and patronize businesses and buy products we believe make the world a better place. Unfortunately, we often base these decisions on assumptions and emotions rather than facts...Categorized as:
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The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More by Jefferson Fisher
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom communication expert Jefferson Fisher, the definitive book on making your next conversation the one that changes everythingNo matter who you’re talking to, The Next Conversation gives you immediately actionable strategies and phrases that will forever change how you communicate... -
The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations by Robert Livingston
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn essential tool for individuals, organizations, and communities of all sizes to jump-start dialogue on racism and bias and to transform well-intentioned statements on diversity into concrete actions--from a leading Harvard social psychologist."Livingston has made the important and challenging task of addressing systemic racism within an organization approachable and achievable... -
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself by Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsChurches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in the use of strategies that do considerable harm to poor people and themselves. When Helping Hurts provides foundational concepts, clearly articulated general principles and relevant applications. The result is an effective and holistic ministry to the poor, not a truncated gospel...Categorized as:
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Inclusion on Purpose: An Intersectional Approach to Creating a Culture of Belonging at Work by Ruchika Tulshyan, Ijeoma Oluo
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow organizations can foster diversity, equity, and taking action to address and prevent workplace bias while centering women of color.Few would disagree that inclusion is both the right thing to do and good for business...Categorized as:
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Mindful of Race: Understanding and Transforming Habits of Harm by Ruth King
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a moment of racial tension, have you ever tried to simply “shrug off?” your outrage? Or put on a pleasant face so that others wouldn’t feel uncomfortable? Or dared to take a stand—only to find that it inflamed the situation? With Mindful of Race, Ruth King offers another option:To tend first to our suffering, listen to what it is trying to teach us, and direct its energies most effectively...Categorized as:
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDesign for the Real World has, since its first appearance twenty-five years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design... -
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire
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You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“In this bold new book, Tovar eviscerates diet culture, proclaims the joyous possibilities of fatness, and shows us that liberation is possible.” —Sarai Walker, author of DietlandGrowing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it—and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again... -
No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving reconciliation with its former oppressors...Categorized as:
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