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“ryan underwood”

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  • A Year Like No Other

    How a Global Pandemic Led to Vanderbilt University's Proudest Moment

    by Ryan Underwood ...
    The University that was at the heart of the research to discover the vaccines for the pandemic pens the story of how it all happened.In 2020, as COVID-19 threw the U.S. higher education system into turmoil, university administrators around the country debated whether it was prudent—or even possible—to teach students in person or conduct laboratory research amid a once-in-a-century pandemic. For ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

    by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz ...
    An Economist Best Book of the YearA PBS NewsHour Book of the YearAn Entrepeneur Top Business BookAn Amazon Best Book of the Year in Business and LeadershipNew York Times BestsellerForeword by Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of our NatureBlending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noi... ... Read more

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  • Work Won't Love You Back

    How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

    by Sarah Jaffe ...
    An “indispensable” (Nation) examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life."In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • When to Rob a Bank

    ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

    by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner ...
    In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. It’s the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love all things Freakonomics. Surprising and erudite, eloquent and witty, When to Rob a Bank demonstrates the brilliance that has made the Freakonomics guys an international sensation, ... Read more

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  • Smart People Should Build Things

    How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America

    by Andrew Yang ...
    Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, offers a unique solution to our country's economic and social problems—our smart people should be building things. Smart People Should Build Things offers a stark picture of the current culture and a revolutionary model that will redirect a generation of ambitious young people to the critical job of innovating and building new businesses.As the ... Read more

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  • Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be

    An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

    by Frank Bruni ...
    Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years.Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • What School Could Be

    Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America

    by Ted Dintersmith ...
    An inspiring account of ordinary teachers who are doing extraordinary things that could transform educationWhat School Could Be offers an inspiring vision of what our teachers and students can accomplish if trusted with the challenge of developing the skills and ways of thinking needed to thrive in a world of dizzying technological change.Innovation expert Ted Dintersmith took an unprecedented ... Read more

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  • Our Black Year

    One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy

    by Maggie Anderson ...
    Maggie and John Anderson were successful African American professionals raising two daughters in a tony suburb of Chicago. But they felt uneasy over their good fortune. Most African Americans live in economically starved neighborhoods. Black wealth is about one tenth of white wealth, and black businesses lag behind businesses of all other racial groups in every measure of success. One problem is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Responsive City

    Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance

    by Stephen Goldsmith, Susan Crawford ...
    Leveraging Big Data and 21st century technology to renew cities and citizenship in AmericaThe Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive, and economically resilient cities. Featuring vivid ... Read more

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  • The Medical School Admissions Guide: A Harvard MD's Week-by-Week Admissions Handbook

    by Suzanne M. Miller ...
    This guide contains the weekly, step-by-step plan Dr. Miller used to get into Harvard Medical School. She has since utilized the strategy to help hundreds of applicants gain entry into medical school first as a Harvard pre-med tutor and then as CEO of MDadmit, a medical school admissions consulting service. Following this handbook's advice will provide you a distinct advantage in the competitive ... Read more

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  • Success Runs in Our Race

    The Complete Guide to Effective Networking in the Black Community

    by George C. Fraser ...

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  • The City Authentic

    How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

    by David A. Banks ...
    **One of Dazed's Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023The first book to explore how our cities gentrify by becoming social media influencers—and why it works.**Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In The City Authentic, author David A. Banks shows how cities are transforming themselves to appeal to modern desires for authentic urban living through the attention ... Read more

    $25.99 USD