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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and number-one best-selling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers - and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach...
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Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1948]
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English
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A Guide to Confident Living shows you how to release your inner powers to achieve confidence and contentment. Using accessible language, Dr. Peale helps you find the way to new energy that will actually revitalize your life. Here, he offers advice on how to: free your inner powers, "talk out" your troubles, lose your inferiority complex, achieve a calm center for your life, practice the power of prayer, find freedom from fear and sorrow, attain marital,...
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Piatkus, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"All organisations have problems, and they nearly always concern people: how to manage them; whom to hire, fire or promote; and how to motivate, develop and retain high-potential employees. Psychology, the main science for understanding people, should be a pivotal tool for solving these problems - yet most companies play it by ear, and billions of dollars are wasted on futile strategies to attract and retain the right people for key roles. Bridging...
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Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Everything from salary to self-worth can be negotiated -- and Morgan shows you the ways women leave opportunities for happiness on the table by failing to negotiate. Whether you need to negotiate better terms in your career, as a parent, or just in dealing with other adults, she shares advice and case studies that will inspire you to clarify goals, overcome doubts, and set the terms for the life you want to live. -- adapted from back cover
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Siebold compares the thoughts, habits, and philosophies of the middle class to the world class when it comes to wealth. The differences are as extreme as they are numerous. The strategy is simple: learn how rich people think, copy them, take action and get rich
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Taurus/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines...
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