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Wiley
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Many people spend hours a week commuting into work. Some arrive to an office that is uninspiring or chaotic and wonder, "Why did I come in at all?" They spend all day answering emails and fiddling with computer systems, which they could easily do from home. Home Sweet Home Office is the guide to finding a job where you can ditch the commute and stuffy office environment and work remotely. Career expert Kerry Hannon walks you through getting a remote-access...
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In [this book, the author] talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. [He] shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world more deeply - and find the joy of family connectedness in the process. -Dust jacket.
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Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
In this book, brand strategist Josh Levine provides a proven framework for designing and managing a company culture to maximize retention and performance. Levine identifies the six key components of workplace culture, illustrating their connection to one another and how they drive an organization's ability to find, keep, and support the best employees.
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Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2020.
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"The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and unnecessary tasks? These are the modern-day hazards of working, and they can slowly drain the joy from work, limit our chances of career progress, and undermine our well-being. There is another way. In Joy at Work, bestselling author and Netflix star Marie Kondo and Rice University business professor Scott Sonenshein...
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Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Tu lugar de trabajo es más importante que nunca. Aprende con Marie Kondo a sacarle el máximo partido y mejorar tu vida. El puesto de trabajo es un imán para el desorden y el caos. ¿Quien no se ha sentido agotado por reuniones improductivas, papeles revueltos, interminables correos electrónicos y tareas innecesarias? Todo esto consume tu motivación, limita tus posibilidades de progreso y socava tubienestar. La felicidad en el trabajo aplica el...
8) The appeal
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
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Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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"In an era of cell phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature--but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilizes near trees, the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses. Drawing on new scientific discoveries, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2002
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Beginning with the Bronze Age eruption that caused the demise of Minoan Crete, this book shows how volcanism shaped religion in Hawaii, permeated Icelandic mythology and literature, caused widespread population migrations, and spurred scientific discovery. 18 halftones. Illustrations & maps.
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Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Have you ever wondered why we stop to watch the orange glow that arrives before sunset, or why we flock to see cherry blossoms bloom in spring? Is there a reason that people -- regardless of gender, age, culture, or ethnicity -- are mesmerized by baby animals, and can't help but smile when they see a burst of confetti or a cluster of colorful balloons? We are often made to feel that the physical world has little or no impact on our inner joy. Increasingly,...
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New York University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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"Based on interviews with 127 successful working women, over half of them women of color, What Works for Women at Work presents a toolkit for getting ahead in today's workplace. Distilling over 35 years of research, Williams and Dempsey offer four crisp patterns that affect working women: Prove-It-Again!, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall, and the Tug of War. Each represents different challenges and requires different strategies--which is why women...
18) Company: a novel
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Nestled among Seattle's skyscrapers, The Zephyr Holdings Building is a bleak rectangle topped by an orange-and-black logo that gives no hint of Zephyr's business. Lack of clarity, it turns out, is Zephyr's defining characteristic. The floors are numbered in reverse. No one has ever seen the CEO or glimpsed his office on the first (i.e., top) floor. Yet every day people clip on their ID tags, file into the building, sit at their desks, and hope that...
20) I love the earth
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Publisher
LB Kids
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"We can all help protect the earth and make it feel good. If we take care of it, it will take care of us!" --back cover.
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