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No matter what industry we're in or how much we may love our work, almost all of us experience workplace stress at some point or another. Whether it's due to having too many impending deadlines, a coworker with whom you don't quite mesh, or even your office being disorganized, work-related stress makes us less productive, not allowing us to perform at our best. What's more, chronic, uncontrolled stress has negative effects on our health.
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'Work hard, have fun, make history' proclaims the slogan on the walls of Amazon's warehouses. This cheerful message hides a reality of digital surveillance, aggressive anti-union tactics and disciplinary layoffs. Reminiscent of the tumult of early industrial capitalism, the hundreds of thousands of workers who help Amazon fulfil consumers' desire are part of an experiment in changing the way we all work.
In this book, Alessandro Delfanti takes...
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Le travail est-il liberté ou aliénation ?
Le travail est-il, quoiqu'on fasse, l'opposé de la liberté et de la « vraie vie », don’t l'humanité pourrait, et devrait parvenir à se libérer ? Ou bien, est-il une modalité essentielle de l'accomplissement de soi, le lieu essentiel de la vie sociale en même temps que d'une transformation du monde capable de libérer l'homme du règne de la nécessité ? La modernité a exalté cette seconde...
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The "Moneyball" thesis is simple: Using statistical analysis, small-market baseball teams can change their odds for success by accruing assets that are undervalued or overlooked by other teams (and selling overvalued ones). Through a nonprofit lens, this thesis could be compared to a small organization regularly securing large donations traditionally captured by larger national entities and institutions such as medical research organizations, hospitals,...
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Summary and Analysis of The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class Based on the Book by Edward Conard So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Upside of Inequality tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Edward Conard's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and...
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The must-read summary of Vic Johnson's book: "52 Mondays: The One-Year Path to Outrageous Success & Lifelong Happiness".
This complete summary of the ideas from Vic Johnson's book "52 Mondays" shows that an awful lot can happen in a year. In his book, the author explains that if you want to progress towards a goal, even just a few steps a week make all the difference. This summary will teach you just how much the combined impact of 52 weeks of small...
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Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it, and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And, yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ministers are regarded, as minnows compared with their 'big...
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In 1938, the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt created a small agency called Fannie Mae. Intended to make home loans more accessible, the agency was born of the Great Depression and a government desperate to revive housing construction. It was a minor detail of the New Deal, barely recorded by the newspapers of the day. Over the next seventy years, Fannie Mae evolved into one of the largest financial companies in the world, owned by private...
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Descubre cómo acabar con el acoso moral en el trabajo
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible que te ayudará a identificar el acoso moral en el trabajo, que te aportará la información esencial y te permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos podrás:
• Analizar las conductas y los factores ambientales que favorecen que se instale una situación de acoso en el ámbito laboral
• Saber de primera mano qué acciones debes llevar...
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'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry' - Guardian
There is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured by its staff and students. While academia was once thought of as the best job in the world - one that fosters autonomy, craft, intrinsic job satisfaction and vocational zeal - you would be hard-pressed to find a lecturer who believes that...
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This true story of greed, corruption, and scandal follows one of the most famous oil families in Texas. Moncrief reveals how petty office politics in his family's business led to a frame-up, explores the effects from the subsequent IRS raid, and details the years-long trial that ended with the Moncrief family absolved of all charges.
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013" Peter Temin is the Elisha Gray II Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include Prometheus Shackled, The Roman Market Economy (Princeton), and The World Economy between the World Wars. David Vines is Professor of Economics and a Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford. His books include The IMF and Its Critics and The Asian Financial Crisis....
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'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker' - Jane McAlevey
In Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organising experience, Holgate examines the structural inertia of today's unions from a range of perspectives: from strategic choice, leadership and union democracy to politics, tactics and the agency afforded to rank-and-file...
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To try to solve their toughest problems, people either push for what they want at all costs or try to completely avoid conflict. Adam Kahane argues that these two seemingly contradictory approaches are each a reflection of two distinct, fundamental drives: power, the single-minded desire to achieve one's solitary purpose; and love, the drive towards unity. They are inextricable parts of human nature, so to achieve lasting change you have to able to...
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The must-read summary of Robert Miles' book: "Warren Buffett Wealth: Principles and Practical Methods Used by the World's Greatest Investor".
This summary of the ideas from Robert Miles' book "Warren Buffett Wealth" shows that the key to creating enormous wealth isn't to constantly try to time the market's peaks and troughs. Instead, to become wealthy, carefully select businesses you'd like to own, invest significant amounts of capital into those...
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People may associate Texas with cattle drives and oil derricks, but the sea has shaped the state's history as dramatically as it has delineated its coastline. Some of that history has vanished into the Gulf, whether it is an abandoned port town or a gale-tossed treasure fleet. Revisit the shipwreck that put Texas on the map. Add La Salle's lost colony, the Texas Navy's forgotten steamship and Galveston's overlooked 1915 hurricane to the navigational...
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Between Conflict and Collegiality explores how ethnonational-religious struggle between Jews and Palestinians affects relations in ethnically mixed work teams in Israel. Asaf Darr documents the tensions that permeate the workplace and reveals when such tensions threaten the cohesion of the work environment. Darr chronicles the grassroots coping strategies employed by both Jewish and Palestinian through field studies conducted with workers in various...
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This digest was prepared by: Jean-Michel Glachant, Florence School of Regulation andNicolò Rossetto, Florence School of RegulationMichael G. Pollitt, University of Cambridge (Takeaways from the Handbook on Electricity Markets for Power Sector Reform in China) with generous support from the authors of the Handbook on Electricity Markets. LEGAL DISCLAIMER Chapter 1 and the book cover are included here in this digest with the permission from Edward...
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The must-read summary of Helen Thomas's book: "Watchdogs of Democracy?: The Waning Washington Press Corps and How it Has Failed the Public ".
This complete summary of "Watchdogs of Democracy?" by Helen Thomas, former member of the White House press corps, presents her argument that the press is failing in its duty to monitor democracy in the White House. She adds that she believes there is no hope for democracy if the truth is not recounted through...
46940) Rivers in the Desert
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Rivers in the Desert is the quintessential American story. It follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitable environment by designing the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere, bringing water from the mountains to support a large city. Davis chronicles Mulholland's...
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