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2020.
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"Understanding experience at work, especially in toxic organizations, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include all senses. The use of applied poetry has its primary value as an evocative approach to sensing, knowing, and understanding workplace experience. Poetry at its best condenses into relatively few words, metaphors, and images what conventional social science narratives would take much longer to articulate. Where poetry often hints...
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2024.
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English
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While some of us enjoy a lively debate with colleagues and others prefer to suppress our feelings over disagreements, we all struggle with conflict at work. Every day we navigate an office full of competing interests, clashing personalities, limited time and resources, and fragile egos. Sure, we share the same overarching goals as our colleagues, but we don't always agree on how to achieve them. We work differently. We rub each other the wrong way....
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2023.
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English
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Burnout isn't a personal failure. It's a wake-up call. This global epidemic is not merely a case of working too hard or feeling physically exhausted for an extended period of time. According to physician, executive coach, and speaker Neha Sangwan-an expert empowering corporate leaders and organizational teams to excel under pressure-burnout is due to prolonged stress and an ongoing net drain of energy on one or more of five levels: physical, mental,...
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[2024]
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English
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Learn to reconnect your brain and heart to find happiness and engagement at work and in life In The Happiness Index: Why Today's Emotions Equal Tomorrow's Business Success, cofounder and CEO of The Happiness Index Matthew Phelan delivers a fascinating dive into data from over 100 countries and 2 million human beings that helps us understand what really drives our engagement and happiness at work. Grounded in an evidence-based and neuroscientific approach,...
5) Sadie X
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Having followed the brilliant virologist RÉgnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day, she pushes the limits of her understanding alongside RÉgnier, who taught her that to study viruses, she must think infectiously, allow herself to be contaminated by dangerous ideas. By night, Sadie loses herself in...
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"Bobby's Exciting Adventure: A Story of Friendship, Creativity, and Helping the Environment! Here's an amazing story about Bobby, a smart kid who wanted some fun over the holidays. With the help of his mother, Bobby embarked on an adventurous adventure with his friends and classmates. The thrill is that they are they are all from different nations. Join the adventure where Bobby's creativity results in a wonderful surprise for everyone.. And you know...
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Title: "Mithun and the Talking Tree"Description:Embark on an enchanting journey with "Mithun and the Talking Tree," a captivating tale that weaves the magic of friendship, courage, and the wonders of nature. In the heart of a mystical forest, young Mithun discovers a secret that will change his life forever-a tree that can talk.As Mithun befriends the wise and ancient Talking Tree, he learns of a hidden world filled with ancient wisdom and the power...
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Generational distrust and ageism are seeping into organizations worldwide. Differences over communication style, technology preferences, identity, and politics are fueling harmful stereotypes and hurting team performance. It doesn't need to be this way. Smart leaders are harnessing age diversity and encouraging mutual learning, cross-generational collaboration, and a culture that embraces both similarities and differences across age groups. Multigenerational...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Even in a turbulent environment where employees are facing job insecurity, leadership changes, or reorgs, managers can take steps to give their team members a sense of stability and help mitigate their anxiety. The author suggests seven ways managers can support their teams during times of instability to help restore employees’ sense of control and maintain their motivation.
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Français
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Ce texte a une histoire, le réchauffement climatique m'angoisse, l'avenir me terrifie. Quel sera le futur de nos enfants ou petits-enfants ? Bien malin, celui qui pourra répondre à cette questionLe réchauffement climatique n'est pas seulement un sujet qui cause des tourments à un auteur. C'est une réalité. Périodiquement, les médias nous donnent des températures record, nous nous inquiétons et c'est normal. Ce sont celles que les scientifiques...
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The journey makes the destination special! Cathy Riley pines away at home while her husband, Bob, tries to save the world as safety manager at a chemical plant. When he won't spare her a week away from his precious job, she ventures out on her own to hike in Zion National Park. She quickly discovers hiking is about so much more than a pretty destination. But can she complete her journey alone, with little hiking experience? Will trail angels help...
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How many times do we visit a place or see a picture and feel we have been there in the past? Jake Sands had such a "been there before" feeling and followed it to a coastal area of Florida where the land is as natural as the sea is wild. Here he meets a pageantry of rugged characters who all fit into a larger story while experiencing life beyond each person's wildest hopes and dreams.
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The finding of a body in a Florida wildlife preserve, Florida Fish and Wildlife officers are told the man died from a poisonous cobra bite. How did the man come into contact with such a dangerous reptile?Officers Seth Grayson and Liz Corday join forces with Special Agent Pat Miller from the Federal Wildlife commission. Together they try to track down the black-market dealers that are illegally importing venomous snakes from around the world.A man...
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The process was messier than she had anticipated, a mixture of tears and runny noses and dirt and ash, but that was perfectly appropriate. Life when lived, truly lived, was messy.
After a series of life-changing events, fifty-seven-year-old Key North breaks with her usual conventional, acquiescing nature and impulsively purchases a house situated above a patch of woods in rural North Carolina. The move surprises everyone, even herself, and irritates...
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Seeking peace in Idaho after a brutal war, ex SEAL, Commander Ross McCallister, is asked by his former Special Ops Agency to do one last job, to derail a Democrat politician who is running for the Governorship of Idaho on an anti-nuclear waste ticket. McCallister finds that sometimes it's dangerous to do the right thing. This is a story of betrayal, heroism and redemption - an environmental adventure and a love story. This Country I Call My Own features...
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2024.
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English
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"Are you enduring a toxic workplace? Toxic workplaces take all kinds of forms-whether it's a narcissist boss who belittles and bullies, colleagues who backstab and gaslight, ""work friends"" who drain you with endless complaining, or a culture of overwork and burnout. It can feel impossible to know whether to speak up and when to keep your head down. Do you try to address it head-on, go to HR, or play office politics? And what can you do if you don't...
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About the Book
Lake Girl Chronicles is a delightful story about a little girl's childhood adventures growing up on a lake in New York. Charming, sweet and spirited, Lake Girl Chronicles is told through a child's voice from her diary. The story comes alive through bold and colorful illustrations, drawing the reader into a child's life at the lake.
'Lake Girl' is curious, adventurous and adorable. A true free spirit, Lake Girl loves to explore while...
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Betty Staley, author of books on child, adolescent, and adult development writes this delightful meadowland fable in which the creatures try to guess the owl's riddle-Too hoo, too hoo, a bit of heaven on the earth. Children will join to solve the riddle as each creature takes a turn. As often happens in real life, it is the lowliest creature whom others put down who is the real hero. At the end of the story, children learn how they can reveal the...
19) Reckoning 3
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Navigating by heartstrings through fire and flood in pursuit of a future.
"At once elegiac and urgent, focused on the great, unfolding injustice of our times: the wanton destruction of a livable climate and biosphere. The complexities and entanglements of the human and non-human emerge here through diverse planetary voices that make an abstract global phenomenon feel as here-and-now and as real as it gets."
-Vandana Singh, author of Ambiguity Machines...
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Cecil is a well-read and world-traveled bird of nearly flightless origin. After a daring escape from Egypt on the back of a camel, an ocean crossing in the belly of a whale, and a short stint on the back of a condor, he finds himself in Terra Austris.He quickly seeks out the most intellectual beings of the new land and ends up the friend of the native horses and egrets. Friends he finds lacking his tact and ambition, but they will do, for now.While...
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