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Effective business communication is a skill that anyone can develop. From interview strategies to high-stakes negotiation tactics, 10 Skills for Effective Business Communication offers practical strategies to improve communication skills and help you succeed in your career. Equal parts research and actionable advice, this book applies effective strategies from the world’s most successful professionals to common workplace scenarios.

If a gorilla walked out into the middle of a basketball pitch, you’d notice it. Wouldn’t you? If a serious violent crime took place just next to you, you’d remember it, right? The Invisible Gorilla is a fascinating look at the unbelievable, yet routine tricks that your brain plays on you...

Energy medicine. Acupuncture. Superfoods. Healing magnets. What does the scientific evidence really say about these and other eclectic treatments for personal wellness that fall under the popular term “alternative medicine”? How can we know if a treatment is safe and effective? How can you become your own best skeptical consumer of health news in the media? Join neurologist and science educator Dr. Steven Novella for a fascinating exploration of these and other important questions about the truths - and myths - behind alternative medicine.

'Safety' for women in India is, more often than not, coded as curtailment of autonomy. To be 'safe', women are told they must allow themselves to be kept under constant surveillance. Their movement is restricted to specific spaces, often homes and hostels. Extreme levels of control are exercised...

For generations, creating a family was an ordinary part of human life. But today, there’s a marked gap between how many children people want to have, and how many they actually will. As birth rates plummet around the world, this book answers the urgent question: How did such a fundamental...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Yogi, mystic, and bestselling author Sadhguru provides a deeper understanding of death so that we can live more fulfilling lives. Death is an inevitable part of our lives, yet most societies have struggled to come to terms with it. Today, we continue to grapple with the...

One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2023 The secrets to successfully planning and delivering ambitious, complex projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world's leading expert on megaprojects. Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a...

A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series “Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal As a...

Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense - one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The book explores the incentives, the visions, and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups but for societies as a whole.

Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the...

Brought to you by Penguin. The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising...

From Oxford Ballroom to Federal Courtroom The Rise and Fall of High Society's Most Notorious...

You lost your child. And the world still expected you back at work.The bills still come. The people in your life still need you. Your body still has to get up, get dressed, and move through a day that no longer makes sense — and no one tells you how to do that. How do you grieve your child and...

Dauerstress, Lärm und permanente Erreichbarkeit prägen den Alltag moderner Gesellschaften. Aktivität gilt als Maßstab für Leistung, Geschäftigkeit als Zeichen von Produktivität. Doch diese permanente Betriebsamkeit hat Folgen: Konzentration, Ruhe und Rückzug als Voraussetzungen für Denken, Wissensarbeit und politische Urteilskraft gehen zunehmend verloren. Der Essayband „Ruhe!“ untersucht diese Entwicklung in drei miteinander verbundenen Essays.

O potente pensamento antiacadêmico de Clóvis Moura encontra em sociologia do negro brasileiro o seu momento mais importante. Um audiolivro-síntese ao iluminar o vínculo íntimo entre o problema dos negros e as questões estruturais da nossa sociedade. Investe contra um pensamento social subordinado ou submisso, estereotipado, puro reflexo da estrutura social brasileira, revelando, dessa maneira, a ideologia do autoritarismo a que esse pensamento serve—pois racismo e visão autoritária de mundo são as duas faces dessa moeda.

In the land of the dead, there is life all around. Banaras, Uttar Pradesh. A place where life and death co-exist in the most unimaginable way. The Doms are a Dalit sub-caste in Banaras designated by tradition to perform the Hindu rite of cremation. They have ownership of the sacred fire without...

Ein Plädoyer für Zusammenhalt, Sisterhood und den Mut, laut zu sein: Das erste Hörbuch der Aktivistin Hamadan Hasun (@hami.hsn). Die Familiengeschichte einer Flucht aus dem Irak und dem Neuanfang in Deutschland. Als Jesiden vor dem Genozid im Irak geflohen, musste sich Hamis Familie aus dem Nichts eine neue Existenz aufbauen. Was sie rettete, war ihre Sisterhood: starke Frauen, die einander unterstützen, anstatt miteinander zu konkurrieren.

The pressure is unmistakable—conform or get cancelled. New York Times bestselling author Mark Batterson invites you into a different way of living in the digital age with a call to Christlike nonconformity that doesn’t withdraw from the world but transforms it. “In Not My Circus, Mark...

As inequality, inflation, and overwhelming corporate power threaten democracy, a rising-star economist asks what it would mean to create an anti-fascist economics that guarantees dignity for all. On the night of President Trump's second presidential victory, economist Isabella Weber tweeted...

“Kamau Bobb writes with a piercing clarity about race, history, and technology that does not comfort but confronts. His words do not allow you the luxury of distance. They leave you sharper, more aware, and undeniably changed about the AI crisis we are living through.”—Bettina L. Love...