SuperSummary

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

English

Study Guide: Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman (SuperSummary)

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Cheryl Richardson

A Practical Step-By-Step Plan to Build Inner Confidence and Personal Power

Richardson, "challenges readers to begin an interactive training program that will transform internal obstacles such as self-doubt, conflict phobia, and a fear of what others think, into a new foundation of courage, confidence, and self-esteem."

Stand up for Your Life

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Mark A. Williams

Donald O. Clifton

Your Guide to Living and Working in a Multicultural World

Leading business consultant Williams has developed ten "lenses" to profile how people "view" race, culture and ethnicity in their world. For corporations, civic institutions, and individuals--these ten lenses provide easily accessible and recognizable profiles of people's belief systems and their influence in the workplace and in society.

The 10 Lenses

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Karl Maier

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Nigeria in Crisis

A journey into contemporary Africa's most powerful and most corrupt nation

This House Has Fallen

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Randy Woodley

Embracing God's Passion for Ethnic Diversity

"We would never give Picasso a paintbrush and only one color of paint, and expect a masterpiece," writes Randy Woodley. "We would not give Beethoven a single piano key and say, 'Play us a concerto.' Yet we limit our Creator in just these ways." Though our Christian experience is often blandly monochromatic, God intends for us to live in dynamic, multihued communities that embody his vibrant creativity. Randy Woodley, a Keetowah Cherokee, casts a biblical, multiethnic vision for people of every nation, tribe and tongue. He carefully unpacks how Christians should think about racial and cultural identity, demonstrating that ethnically diverse communities have always been God's intent for his people. Woodley gives practical insights for how we can relate to one another with sensitivity, contextualize the gospel, combat the subtleties of racism, and honor one another's unique contributions to church and society. Along the way, he reckons with difficult challenges from our racially painful history and offers hope for healing and restoration. With profound wisdom from his own Native American heritage and experience, Woodley's voice adds a distinctive perspective to contemporary discussions of racial reconciliation and multiethnicity. Here is a biblical vision for unity in diversity.

Living in Color

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Sondra Thiederman

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Seven Steps for Defeating Bias in the Workplace

Making Diversity Work

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R. Roosevelt Thomas

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

How We Can Move to the Next Level in Our Workplaces, Our Communities, and Our Society

Called "one of the most effective consultants in the United States" by the Wall Street Journal, the author presents the five-step process of his Strategic Diversity Management approach. Readers will learn to recognize and address being "diversity challenged," resulting in organizations and individuals more in tune with the benefits of diverse environments.

Building on the Promise of Diversity

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Sheila Wellington

Betty Spence

Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success

Surprising secrets of success from some of America's women leaders; all the things a mentor would tell you are revealed in this mentor-in-a-book. Sheila Wellington, the president of Catalyst, draws on Catalyst research, contacts, and know-how to tell you how to understand the unspoken rules in the real world of work today and how to get ahead.

Catalyst studies reveal that having a mentor is the crucial key to success at work, and it's the single advantage men usually have, and women usually don't. Even at the best organizations for women, there is still a shortage of mentors. Be Your Own Mentor becomes that mentor for you, providing through stories and eye-opening advice a step-by-step guide to advancement. How to master the art of networking, how to create opportunities to gain experience and visibility, how to manage time, how to negotiate salary, and much, much more is discussed, as you learn from leading women how they got where they are, the mistakes they feel they've made along the way, and how they created lives of achievement and satisfaction. Hear from women such as Carly Fiorina (CEO, Hewlett-Packard), Cathleen Black (president, Hearst Magazines), Judith Rodin (president, University of Pennsylvania), and Andrea Jung (president and CEO, Avon). From that first resume all the way to the CEO's office, Be Your Own Mentor guides you along your path to success.

Be Your Own Mentor gives advice from top women on how to:
Devise a short-term and long-term career strategy
Gain visibility in the workplace and in your field
Create opportunities to gain valuable experience
Change your career path
Negotiate salary
Balance work and family
And much, much more...

Be Your Own Mentor

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Dale Carnegie

Provides suggestions for successfully dealing with people both in social and business situations

How to Win Friends and Influence People

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Andrew Hacker

A profound analysis of the conditions that keep blacks and whites dangerously far apart in their ability to participate in the American dream. In this groundbreaking study, Hacker offers a fresh and disturbing examination of the divisions of color and class in 1990s America.

Two Nations

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Walter Benn Michaels

How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality

A critique of the American obsession with diversity argues that we are ignoring the ever-widening economic divide in American society, that diversity has created a false notion of social justice, and that we need to emphasize equality over diversity.

The Trouble with Diversity

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Ike Okonta

Oronto Douglas

Shell, Human Rights, and Oil

A devastating case against the world's largest oil company.

Where Vultures Feast

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Dawna Markova

A Creative Process for Discovering What's Right about What's Wrong

Guides the reader in transforming bad experiences and stresses by using the imagination

No Enemies Within

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Zoie Kaye

How to Manage Negativity in Yourself, Your Boss and Your Co-Workers

Saying "No" to Negativity

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Carol Evans

The Working Mothers' Manifesto

A guide for working moms and their employers shares firsthand accounts of women who are successfully balancing the demands of a career with parenthood, drawing on the expertise of Working Mother magazine to propose strategies for overcoming key obstacles. 50,000 first printing.

This Is How We Do It

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Hunt Janin

Gives informative tips on the do's and don'ts of custom in the Netherlands and provides interesting insights into the social and business attitudes of the Dutch people.

Netherlands

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Barbara Trepagnier

How Well-Meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide

Vivid and engaging, Silent Racism persuasively demonstrates that silent racism - racism by people who classify themselves as "not racist" - is instrumental in the production of institutional racism. Trepagnier argues that heightened race awareness is more important in changing racial inequality than judging whether individuals are racist. The collective voices and confessions of "non-racist" white women heard in this book help reveal that all individuals harbor some racist thoughts and feelings. Trepagnier uses vivid focus group interviews to argue that the oppositional categories of racist/not racist are outdated. The oppositional categories should be replaced in contemporary thought with a continuum model that more accurately portrays today's racial reality in the United States. A shift to a continuum model can raise the race awareness of well-meaning white people and improve race relations. Offering a fresh approach, Silent Racism is an essential resource for teaching and thinking about racism in the twenty-first century.

Silent Racism

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Leslie Aguilar

Communicating Respectfully in A Diverse World

"Why is Ouch! important? Staying silent in the face of demeaning comments, stereotypes or bias allows these attitudes and behaviors to thrive. The undermines our ability to create an inclusive workplace where all employees are welcomed, treated with respect and able to do their best work. Yet, most employees and leaders who want to speak up don't how. So, we say nothing. Finally, a video that shows the viewed exactly how to respond in moments of diversity-related tension! No blame, no guilt, no conflict - just practical, specific skills that can be immediately applied in the workplace ..."--Conteneur.

Ouch! That Stereotype Hurts

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Molly Dickinson Shepard

Jane K. Stimmler

Eight Surefire Ways for Women to Thrive in Business

A study of the potential stumbling blocks that prevent women from reaching the top of the corporate ladder offers eight effective strategies to overcome such hurdles to achieve success in a male-dominated business culture. Original.

Stop Whining and Start Winning

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Chris Downie

The 28-Day Breakthrough Plan for Losing Weight, Getting Fit, and Transforming Your Life

From the experts who created SparkPeople.com, America's #1 diet and fitness site, comes The Spark. This groundbreaking book outlines the best of what has worked for millions of members who have lost weight, kept it off, and reached other goals. Driven by positive energy and proven results, The Spark outlines a breakthrough formula that combines nutrition, exercise, goal setting, motivation, and community, which has helped people change their lives beyond the scale. * Discover the 27 Secrets of Success--the best action steps, foods, and proven medical advice that have helped tens of thousands of members lose from 2 to 200 pounds. * Special tips from people who lost 100 pounds or more--see what these people had in common and what they did and didn't do to make huge transformations in their lives. * A step-by-step 28-day program that brings together the most effective, medically accepted nutrition and fitness practices from SparkPeople experts in an easy-to-follow plan, including flexible mix-and-match meal plans, fully illustrated workout programs, full-color before-and-after success stories, and more! * New to this edition! Breakthrough survey results have been used to create a Strong Start Guide to help you jumpstart your weight-loss efforts. Based on what tens of thousands of successful SparkPeople members did to lose weight and change their lives, this guide tells you what to do in the first two weeks to make you five times more likely to reach your ultimate weight-loss goal! Whether you want to fit into your "skinny jeans," improve your health and fitness levels, change your outlook and mood, or reach all new goals, The Spark can help you transform your body and your life. What are you waiting for? Spark your life today!

The Spark

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Elsie Y. Cross

Margaret Blackburn White

This collection of the most-requested articles from the quarterly journal, The Diversity Factor, many of them written by the managers who lived the experience, reflect the complexity of the diversity challenges in today's corporations and offer eloquent suggestions for beginning to deal with this daunting issue. The focus of this volume is on true cultural change, not merely communications and training. The essay writers provide strategies and methods for launching and living with culture change. Their eyes are on the future, not the past. The Diversity Factor takes a hard look at the realities of today and offers strategies that will help you lead your organization into tomorrow's new world.

The Diversity Factor: Capturing the Competitive Advantage of a Changing Workforce

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Phil McGraw

Creating Your Life from the Inside Out

Your life has a root core that, once understood, unlocks a powerful force to create your life the way it was meant to be, the way you want and need it to be. Key questions and an amazingly clear "map" are now at your fingertips to begin your journey to "Live by Design." These are questions that, with the help of this book, you can answer and bring into action-oriented focus: What are the ten most defining moments of your life? What are the seven most critical choices you have made to put you on your current path? Who are the five most pivotal people in your world and how have they shaped you? Identifying and working with these key elements are at the heart of Dr. Phillip C. McGraw's latest work, Self Matters, and soon they will be at the heart of your own new work: you. Through his books, McGraw has changed the lives of millions. In introducing the world to his matter-of-fact, tell-it-like-it-is philosophy of life, Dr. Phil, as he is known to his legions of fans, has put an end to the "everyone's a victim" attitude that had taken hold of our culture. Published in over twenty-five countries, and with millions of books sold, his two number one bestsellers, Life Strategies and Relationship Rescue, forced readers to take a serious look at the excuses they had so long been clinging to as to why they were not happy, not successful, and not enjoying their one chance at living. Now, Dr. Phil takes those lessons a great leap further and explores one of the most challenging questions facing us all: When you look in the mirror, who is truly hiding beneath that face? Instead of taking a surface look at the way we live our lives, Dr. Phil demystifies how your self-concept came to be and gives a nuts-and-bolts approach to creating a new plan for living and, in turn, for discovering the real you. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Phil challenges you to find your "authentic self" -- that person you once were before life took its toll. It is you at your greatest, most fulfilled, most real moment. It is the person you have always wanted to be, but were too distracted, busy, or scared to become. Instead, you have created a "fictional self" -- taking on the identity of who you believe you are supposed be, the person people tell you you are. The incongruence between these two selves is what leads you to feel that your life is incomplete, unbalanced, and altogether more difficult than it really should be. The good news is it no longer needs to be that way. By using the plan set forth in Self Matters, Dr. Phil helps you to demystify your self-concept and learn how to reclaim your authentic self. In evaluating your life by only the facts, you can learn to think beyond the excuses and fears that have masked the person you have always wanted to be. Self Matters is one of the most forward-thinking works on self-concept and self-esteem ever published. For the first time, an author tells it how it is and, in the process, teaches us all how to live the lives we have always wanted but prevented ourselves from living. We get only one chance in this world, and now, Dr. Phil shows all how to make the most of it.

Self Matters

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Trevor Wilson

Y. Wilson

The Business Case for Equity

Diversity at Work: The Business Case for Equity explains why you should strive for a more diverse and equitable workforce: not because you have to comply with legislation and not to feel warm and fuzzy inside, but because it makes good business sense. Diversity at Work: The Business Case for Equity is a hands-on, practical guide to the why and how-to of striving for diversity and equity in the workplace: Creating a fair employment system for all employees Accommodating and valuing difference Hiring and retaining the best-qualified person for the job Basing all recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions entirely on merit and equal opportunity Overcoming backlash associated with controversial affirmative action and employment equity legislation Successfully implementing a sound and effective diversity strategy in your organization Achieving improved bottom-line results

Diversity at Work

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