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  • Polishing and Finishing for Jewellers and Silversmiths

    by Stephen M Goldsmith ...
    Polishing and finishing is a highly skilled specialist craft; a professional finish will transform a piece of jewellery or silver into a work of art. Written by a leading polisher, this practical book explains the traditional techniques and shares the secrets of this often-underrated craft. The book includes advice on setting up a workshop, tools and compounds; a guide to finishing methods ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Growing Fairly

    How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development

    by Kate Markin Coleman, Stephen Goldsmith ...
    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    Tested, practical ideas to meet current and future skilling needs of both workers and employersThe labor market in the United States faces seemingly contradictory challenges: Many employers have trouble finding qualified applicants for current and future jobs, while millions of Americans are out of work or are underemployed—their paths to living-wage jobs blocked by systemic barriers or lack of ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • The Human-Agent Orchestrator

    Leading and Scaling AI-Driven Organizations

    by Pascal Bornet, Jochen Wirtz, Tarja Stephens, Rachel Wood, Frederique Covington Corbett, Shigeki Yamaguchi, Rakesh Gohel, Helen Yu, Nima Schei, Cassie Kozyrkov ...
    From the authors of a Forbes "Top 10 Must-Read Tech Book" for 2025.“The magic isn’t in bigger AI models, it’s in Orchestration.”—Andrew Ng, Founder, DeepLearning.AI and Coursera“The era of the user is ending. The era of the Orchestrator has begun.”—Marshall Goldsmith, two-time Thinkers50 #1 Global Leadership ThinkerWe are the last generation to manage only humans. The next will manage hybrid teams ... Read more

    $14.90 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A New City O/S

    The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance

    by Neil Kleiman, Stephen Goldsmith ...
    Series series Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
    Proposing an entirely new governance model to unleash innovation throughout local governmentAt a time when trust is dropping precipitously and American government at the national level has fallen into a state of long-term, partisan-based gridlock, local government can still be effective-indeed more effective and even more responsive to the needs of its citizens. Based on decades of direct ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Vicar of Wakefield

    by Oliver Goldsmith ...
    When Dr Primrose loses his fortune in a disastrous investment, his idyllic life in the country is shattered and he is forced to move with his wife and six children to an impoverished living on the estate of Squire Thornhill. Taking to the road in pursuit of his daughter, who has been seduced by the rakish Squire, the beleaguered Primrose becomes embroiled in a series of misadventures - ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Power of Social Innovation

    How Civic Entrepreneurs Ignite Community Networks for Good

    by Stephen Goldsmith ...
    THE POWER of SOCIAL INNOVATIONCivic leaders across the U.S. and throughout the world are discovering creative ways to overcome the obstacles that seal the doors of opportunity for too many.These inspiring individuals believe that within our communities lie the entrepreneurial spirit, compassion, and resources to make progress in such critical areas as education, housing, and economic self-reliance ... Read more

    $37.00 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

    $23.00 USD

  • Collaborative Cities

    Mapping Solutions to Wicked Problems

    by Stephen Goldsmith, Kate Markin Coleman ...
    Dynamic problems require dynamic collaboration and technology.Our communities today face difficult issues—such as climate change, access to health care, and homelessness—which are tangled, complicated, and constantly evolving. Coined “wicked problems” more than 40 years ago by the University of California’s professors Horst Rittel and C. West Churchman, these issues exceed the capacity of any one ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Governing by Network

    The New Shape of the Public Sector

    by William D. Eggers, Stephen Goldsmith ...
    A fundamental, but mostly hidden, transformation is happening in the way public services are being delivered, and in the way local and national governments fulfill their policy goals. Government executives are redefining their core responsibilities away from managing workers and providing services directly to orchestrating networks of public, private, and nonprofit organizations to deliver the ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • What We See

    Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs

    Edited by Stephen A. Goldsmith, Lynne Elizabeth ...
    A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs' insights, essayists bring their diverse experience to bear to sketch the blueprints for the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    In Hoffa's Shadow

    A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth

    by Jack Goldsmith ...
    Narrated by Stephen Graybill ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 17 min

    As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O’Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa’s disappearance on behalf of the mob. It was only years later, when Goldsmith was serving as assistant attorney general in the George ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Smarter Government

    How to Govern for Results in the Information Age

    by Martin O'Malley ...
    This is the new way of governing.The time has come for the rise of the tech savvy executive: an individual who innately understands the need to help the use of technology rise at the same level across the entire organization. In Baltimore and in Maryland, Governor Martin O’Malley has done all of these things and more.Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age is about a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD