#nonfiction #history #hardcover #competition #science #property #medicine #consumption #work #worldhistory missing the dust jacket. Amazing historic work on the rise and fall of various cultures

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

South Dakota

The West and the Rest

Civilization

#hardcover #selfhelp #work #humor Finding joy and purpose in the work you do everyday. 

Florida

Finding Joy in the Work You Do Every Day

Having held 18 different jobs in various fields, author Amanda Dickson is keenly aware that not all work in equally enjoyable. In the trademark enthusiastic style that has made her a top-ranked radio personality and sought-after speaker, she offers practical suggestions for finding joy in whatever work you do. Included are ways to identify the work you were born to do and basic changes in attitude that will help you deal with less-than-ideal working conditions. Amanda's fresh outlook and laugh-out-loud humor will change the way you think about work...and life

Wake up to a Happier Life

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#hardcover #nonfiction #emotions #hunor #lizandmollie #nohardfeelings #work #workplacehumor #lizfosslien #worklife #molliewestduffy

Oregon

The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

No Hard Feelings

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

The Work Trap

#career #careerchange #women #empowerment #business #work #selfhelp #inspirational #profession #entrepreneurs

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Empowering Strategies from Women Who Recharged, Reignited, and Reinvented Their Careers

Professional career reinvention is possible and this resource shows women how to play to their strengths, discover their passions, and own confidence as they plan their next career move. Told through the lens of amazing women who have re-ignited and reinvented their careers, the journey begins with the author's own emotional career transition.

This Is Not the Career I Ordered

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Clean. No marks. Small crack on spine is taped. See pics 📸


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Michigan

Discover how the Egyptians lived, played, worked and fought.

⭐ Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt

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Virginia

A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads and Other Workplace Afflictions

The creator of Dilbert, the fastest-growing comic strip in the nation (syndicated in nearly 1000 newspapers), takes a look at corporate America in all its glorious lunacy. Lavishly illustrated with Dilbert strips, these hilarious essays on incompetent bosses, management fads, bewildering technological changes and so much more, will make anyone who has ever worked in an office laugh out loud in recognition.

The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers will be systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage -- management.

Since 1989, Scott Adams has been illustrating this principle each day, lampooning the corporate world through Dilbert, his enormously popular comic strip. In Dilbert, the potato-shaped, abuse-absorbing hero of the strip, Adams has given voice to the millions of Americans buffeted by the many adversities of the workplace.

Now he takes the next step, attacking corporate culture head-on in this lighthearted series of essays. Packed with more than 100 hilarious cartoons, these 25 chapters explore the zeitgeist of ever-changing management trends, overbearing egos, management incompetence, bottomless bureaucracies, petrifying performance reviews, three-hour meetings, the confusion of the information superhighway and more. With sharp eyes, and an even sharper wit, Adams exposes -- and skewers -- the bizarre absurdities of everyday corporate life. Readers will be convinced that he must be spying on their bosses, The Dilbert Principle rings so true!

The Dilbert Principle

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Minnesota

Co-Active Coaching

#hardcover #business #ignitereads #happiness #work 

Illinois

How to Choose and Create Purpose and Fulfillment in Your Work

For working adults, business leaders, and HR professionals who want to lead a more fulfilling life, THE SECRETS TO HAPPINESS AT WORK shows how we can thrive at work by making empowered, wise choices about the kind of work we do, the people we work with, and the ways we manage our work-life boundaries.
Perfect for readers of What Color is My Parachute?, expert Tracy Brower sets a foundation by making the case for joyful work and life, pointing to research on personal, family, and child health. From stress and sleep to marriage and child development, joyful work is a critical part of a healthy life.
The book goes on to provide key touchpoints on fundamental human needs and compelling neuroscience that drive our understanding of experiences at work. In addition, the book debunks myths of work and life in order to provide the reader with new ways of thinking about work and life--even if you hate your job.
THE SECRETS TO HAPPINESS AT WORK lays down fundamentals through descriptions of how to create purpose and meaning, and how to find the right match with a company's culture. Tracy emphasizes the power of relationships at work--and the importance of colleagues and coworkers--and how to foster the very best of trust, empathy, and work with others.
THE SECRETS TO HAPPINESS AT WORK explains the growth mindset and how to say yes more often, learn from failure, embrace stress, and stretch to achieve fulfillment.

The Secrets to Happiness at Work

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#hardcover #work #antiwork #bestself #life #office 

Washington

Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe

The definitive collection of thoughts, assaults, and hilarious observations from America's premier business humorist and bestselling author of Throwing the Elephant and What Would Machiavelli Do?

The Big Bing will be a mandatory addition to the library of everyone who works for a living, or would like to. For nearly 20 years, Stanley Bing's funny, wise, pleasantly mean-spirited, and at times even useful columns have delighted readers in the pages of Esquire, Fortune and a variety of other national publications.

Bing has lived the last two decades inside the belly of the corporate beast, clawing his way to the top of one of the great multinational companies in the cosmos. And he has seen it all: the high body count after many a gruesome deal, the machine that grinds up the bones of those who stood in its way, the birth and death of executive dinosaurs (and he's had quite a few lunches with some of them, too). The result is storytelling at its best--sophisticated, amusing, and driven by the kind of insight that only a true insider can possess.

The Big Bing provides a mole's-eye-view of the society in which we all live and work, creating one of the most entertaining, thought-provoking, and just plain funny bodies of work in contemporary letters.

The Big Bing

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#paperback #selfhelp #meetings #professional #work 

Colorado

Offers meeting leaders with activities that improve group dynamics, emphasize meeting objectives, and create an atmosphere conducive to creativity and getting things done. This guide features hands-on, proactive tools to help meeting leaders and facilitators avoid dull, uninspired meetings and to keep participants involved and inspired.

The Big Book of Meeting Games

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About unconscious bias - an informative read especially if you’re new to the topic. Some damage to the jacket (in pic) #microagression #antiracist #nonfic #work #bias #hardcover 

The Person You Mean To Be 

Oklahoma

Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging

Build trust and achieve high performance in your business by redefining team culture.

Have you ever been on a team where the talent was strong, but the team wasn't very good? On the flip side, have you ever been on a team where not every single member was a rock star, but something about the team just worked?
 
In this book, corporate consultant Mike Robbins dives deep into the ways great businesses build trust, collaborate, and operate at their peak level. As an expert in teamwork, leadership, and emotional intelligence, Mike draws on more than 20 years of experience working with top companies like Google and Microsoft, as well as his baseball career with the Kansas City Royals. And, while each team and organization have their own unique challenges, goals, and dynamics, there are some universal qualities that allow teams to truly come together and thrive.
 
The book's core principles include facilitating an environment of psychological safety, fostering inclusion and belonging, addressing and navigating conflict, and maintaining a healthy balance of high expectations and empathy. Throughout, Mike shares powerful exercises and tools he's successfully utilized in the keynote speeches, group sessions, and corporate retreats that he delivers, so that you and your team can communicate more authentically, give and receive feedback with skill, and create deeper connections.
 
"Mike Robbins shares tangible techniques that leaders and teams can use to excel, backs up his ideas with important research, and provides a road map for creating a team environment of personal connection and optimal performance."
-- Tom Rath, New York Times best-selling co-author of How Full is Your Bucket?

We're All in This Together

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The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do

A Life at Work

#hardcover #nonfiction #lizandmollie #work #workplacehumor 

New York

#paperback #business #economics #ceo #work #family #money #wealth #howto #bestseller

The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy

In the new connected global economy, two experts offer a dynamic and insightful blueprint for conducting business and reveal who today's hottest innovators are and what tomorrow's winners will need.

Blur 

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#paperback #fiction  #comics #dilbert #work #humor

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Cartoons from the comic strip "Dilbert" feature the hapless engineer and his cynical canine companion, Dogbert

It's Obvious You Won't Survive by Your Wits Alone

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Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work

If you only read one book on the future of work, Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work should be that book.

The future of work swept in sooner than expected, accelerated by Covid-19, creating an urgent need for new maps, new mindsets, new strategies-- and most importantly, a trusted guide to take us on this journey. That guide is Jeff Schwartz. A founding partner of Deloitte Consulting's Future of Work practice, Schwartz brings clarity, humor, wisdom, and practical advice to the future of work, a topic surrounded by misinformation, fear, and confusion. With a fundamental belief in the power of human innovation and creativity, Schwartz presents the key issues, critical choices, and potential pitfalls that must be on everyone's radar.

 * If you're anxious about robots taking away your job in the future, you will take comfort in the realistic perspective, fact-based insights, and practical steps Schwartz offers.
 * If you're not sure where to even begin to prepare, follow his level-headed advice and easy-to-follow action plans.
 * If you're a business leader caught between keeping up, while also being thoughtful about the next moves, you will appreciate the playbook directed at you.
 * If you're wondering how Covid-19 will change how and where you will work, Work Disrupted has you covered.

Written in a conversational style by Schwartz, with Suzanne Riss, an award-winning journalist and book author, Work Disrupted offers a welcome alternative to books on the topic that lack a broad perspective or dwell on the problems rather than offer solutions. Timely and insightful, the book includes the impact of Covid-19 on our present and future work. Interviews with leading thinkers on the future of work offer additional perspectives and guidance.Cartoons created for the book by leading business illustrator Tom Fishburne bring to life the reader's journey and the complex issues surrounding the topic.

Told from the perspective of an economist, management advisor, and social commentator, Work Disrupted offers hope--and practical advice--exploring such topics as:

How we frame what lies ahead is a critical navigational tool. Discover the signposts that can serve as practical guides for individuals who have families to support, mortgages to pay, and want to stay gainfully employed no matter what the future holds.

The importance of recognizing the rapidly evolving opportunities in front of us. Learn how to build resilience--in careers, organizations, and leaders--for what lies ahead.

Why exploring new mental models helps us discover the steps we need to take to thrive. Individuals can decide how to protect their livelihood while businesses and public institutions can consider how they can lead and support workforces to thrive in twenty-first-century careers and work.

"Jeff's marvelous book is a roadmap for the new world of work with clear signposts. His insights will help readers discover opportunities, take action, and find hope in uncertain times. The ideas are fresh, beautifully crafted, and immediately applicable. This is not only a book to be read, but savored and used."
--Dave Ulrich, Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan; Partner, the RBL Group; Co-author Reinventing the Organization

Work Disrupted

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#hardcover #work #emotionaltraps #selfhelp 

Freeing Yourself from Emotional Traps at Work

This authoritative manual provides valuable insights for turning conflicts inthe workplace into productive working relationships.

Working with You Is Killing Me

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#paperback #nonfiction #engineering #engineer #mechanical #science #scientific #career #work #lifestyle 

The Existential Pleasures of Engineering

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Finding a job is never easy, but Buzby the kitten is clean, polite and a good mouser. On the first day of his job at the hotel, however, Buzby spills water on a guest and creates havoc. Fortunately the guests love him, and Buzby finds himself a new job that is just right for him.

Buzby

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#paperback #TimKimmel, #HowToDealWithPowerfulPersonalities #Relationships #Family #Church #Work #Psychology #InterpersonalRelationships #Christianity box 66

Texas

For Ingest Only - Data needs to be cleaned up for all products being loaded

How to Deal with Powerful Personalities

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Georgia

The creator of Dilbert, the fastest-growing comic strip in America (syndicated in more than 900 newspapers and read by more than 60 million people), presents a hilariously biting compilation of cartoons that expose the absurdities of corporate management. Dilbert is sweeping the nation. The San Francisco Chronicle dubbed him "the cartoon hero of the workplace," saying that the strip "has its finger on the pulse of the '90s white-collar workplace." Now online, it is one of the hottest Web sites on the Internet, and more than a million copies of the Dilbert cartoon books have been sold. In this latest cartoon compilation, Dilbert's canine sidekick, the Machiavellian Dogbert, presents a breakthrough management manual to help bosses stick it to their employees. All too often, new managers make mistakes like rewarding good work with good pay, communicating clearly and improving departmental efficiency. Dogbert shows that this could have devastating results: Employees begin to expect fair treatment and compensation, productive workers show results (making the managers look bad by comparison) and the department's future budget allotment could be decreased because it spends only what it needs. Drawn from years of experience tormenting Dilbert and advising his boss, Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook uses pithy essays, whose points are illustrated with hundreds of comic strips, to drive home the lost cause of the employee in the workplace. It is the perfect gift for bosses and office workers everywhere.

Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook

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#hardcover #fiction #startup #botm #bookofthemonth #humor #corporate #work #techstartup #contemporary

Arizona

A Novel

From veteran online journalist and BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir comes a hilarious debut novel that proves there are some dilemmas that no app can solve. "A biting and astute debut novel [with] many delights." --Lara Vapnyar, New York Times Book Review Recommended as a book to read this month by BuzzFeed, Bustle, Entertainment Weekly, Fast Company, Nylon, Town & Country and Lit Hub One of the most anticipated books of 2017--Vulture, BuzzFeed, The Millions, Nylon, PopSugar and Book Riot's "All the Books" Podcast Mack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech and he's about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion dollar business--in startup parlance, an elusive unicorn. Katya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. An ambitious young journalist at a gossipy tech blog, Katya knows that she needs more than another PR friendly puff piece to make her the go-to byline for industry news. Sabrina Choe Blum just wants to stay afloat. The exhausted mother of two and failed creative writer is trying to escape from her credit card debt and an inattentive husband-who also happens to be Katya's boss-as she rejoins a work force that has gotten younger, hipper, and much more computer literate since she's been away. Before the ink on Mack's latest round of funding is dry, an errant text message hints that he may be working a bit too closely for comfort with a young social media manager in his office. When Mack's bad behavior collides with Katya's search for a salacious post, Sabrina gets caught in the middle as TakeOff goes viral for all the wrong reasons. As the fallout from Mack's scandal engulfs the lower Manhattan office building where all three work, it's up to Katya and Sabrina to write the story the men in their lives would prefer remain untold. An assured, observant debut from the veteran online journalist Doree Shafrir, Startup is a sharp, hugely entertaining story of youth, ambition, love, money and technology's inability to hack human nature.

Niall Ferguson

Civilization

Amanda Dickson

Wake up to a Happier Life

Liz Fosslien; Mollie West Duffy

No Hard Feelings

Ted W.Engstrom & David J.Juroe

The Work Trap

Caroline Dowd-Higgins

This Is Not the Career I Ordered

Nathaniel Harris

⭐ Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt

Scott Adams

The Dilbert Principle

Laura Whitworth

Co-Active Coaching

Tracy Brower

The Secrets to Happiness at Work

Stanley Bing

The Big Bing

Marlene Caroselli

The Big Book of Meeting Games

Dolly chugh

The Person You Mean To Be

Mike Robbins

We're All in This Together

Thomas Moore

A Life at Work

Liz Fosslien; Mollie West Duffy

No Hard Feelings

Stan Davis; Christopher Meyer

Blur

Scott Adams

It's Obvious You Won't Survive by Your Wits Alone

Jeff Schwartz; Suzanne Riss (As told to); Tom Fishburne (Illustrator)

Work Disrupted

Katherine Crowley; Kathi Elster

Working with You Is Killing Me

Samuel C. Florman

The Existential Pleasures of Engineering

Julia Hoban; John Himmelman (Illustrator)

Buzby

Tim Kimmel

How to Deal with Powerful Personalities

Scott Adams

Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook

Doree Shafrir

Startup