Culture


New Releases Tagged "Culture"

The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The Boy in the Suitcase (Nina Borg, #1)
Honolulu
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

Giveaways

  • The Inclusion Dividend by Mark Kaplan
    The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays Off
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    Release date: May 21, 2013
    In today’s increasingly diverse, global, interconnected business world, diversity and inclusion (D&I) is no longer just “the right thing to do,” i…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: May 06 - May 21, 2013
    2 copies available, 171 people requesting
    Countries available: US
  • Hoopdance Revolution by Jan Camp
    Hoopdance Revolution: Mindfulness in Motion
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    Release date: Feb 04, 2013
    Hoopdance Revolution is a hands-on guidebook to healthy fun, regardless of age, size, or level of fitness. It combines the experiences of the exemplar…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: Apr 27 - May 27, 2013
    10 copies available, 135 people requesting
    Countries available: US
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
    The Kite Runner
    Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
    Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
    Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
    The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
    The Elephant Tree
    The Zombie Room
    SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

    Malcolm Gladwell
    Malcolm Gladwell Outliers: The Story of Success
    [Outliers] was conceived in a period in which CEOs were bringing down huge paychecks, patting themselves on the back, and arguing that they deserved it and that their success was of their own making. I was curious about that — is it true? Is it a fair assessment to say that highly successful people deserve all the credit for their achievement?
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    Naomi Wolf
    Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.
    Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women

    Plato
    The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
    Plato, The Republic of Plato

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