A collection of the best articles to inspire you and your organization to overcome bias and achieve a more diverse workforce.The ideal volume will cover issues on bias, policy, training/development, hiring, and issues related to underrepresented groups.Content mix will include research-based pieces to ground advice, case studies to inspire, and practical steps to take toward creating a more welcoming and equal workplace.Audience: Human resources profe...

In Malta Convoys David Thomas, the distinguished naval historian, gives a fascinating account of the vital battles fought by sea and air to ensure that essential supplies got through. He vividly describes the appalling cost in men and ships. Here is an important contribution to naval history in the Second World War and, at the same time, a rattling good read.

Rethinking How to Build Inclusive OrganizationsRace, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people's experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations changing? How do we build inclusive organizations?Inspired by and developed in conjunction with the research and programming for Harvard Business School's ...

An invaluable and up-to-date reference book listing every battle honour awarded to ships of the Royal Navy. Although the honours go back to the Spanish Armada in 1588, surprisingly the system was not officially sanctioned until 1954.

For nearly 40 years "among the glades of Epping Forest" Churchill found a base for his parliamentary life. This book relates with anecdotal and archival evidence the attempt to unseat him after what many supporters considered an injudicious Munich speech.

Leading for Equity tells the compelling story of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools and its transformation—in less than a decade—into a system committed to breaking the links between race and class and academic achievement.In chapters organized around six core themes, the authors lay out the essential elements of MCPS’s success. They identify key lessons other districts can draw from MCPS’s experience and offer a framework for applying them. A...

Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people's experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations changing? How do we build inclusive organizations?Inspired by and developed in conjunction with the research and programming for Harvard Business School's commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the HBS Afr...

Reap the benefits of a diverse workforce.We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you create a culture that seeks and celebrates difference.This book will inspire you to: identify and address bias; short-circuit discrimination instead of unintentionally feeding it; attract, retain, and engage talented people who represent myriad identities; ensure that everyone has equal access to growth ...

The pattern was already there. He just happened to notice.Professor Frank Nolan is seventy-one, Irish, unremarkable. He has spent a long academic career at Trinity College Dublin doing competent work that nobody has ever called important. Then, late one night, he notices something in the historical record: the rise and fall of empires lands on Fibonacci intervals. One year. One year. Two. Three. Five. Eight. Thirteen. The numbers grow. The empires last longer as th...

He thought he was saving the future. He didn't realise the future had been arranged.Jake Firelli is a mid-career operative in the Corps—one of a handful of people born with the rare genetic marker that makes forward time travel possible. The Corps has a noble mission: travel to the future, identify extinction-level threats, and prevent them. Forty million lives saved in Chennai. A nuclear exchange averted over Frankfurt. The record is public and celebrated....

In a world where virtual reality has become humanity's refuge, a failed writer begins detecting stories that don't feel human. A government investigator follows the trail to its source: quantum interference patterns that suggest something vast and alien is exploring our systems—and us.A science fiction novella about first contact, the nature of narrative, and what it means to be noticed by something that thinks in ways we cannotcomprehend.

Seven interconnected stories exploring the quiet tyranny of algorithmic optimization—and the human cost of lives curated for maximum efficiency.Connected through Elias Vance and his book "The Curated Self," these stories follow people at different stages of recognition: those who never notice,those who almost wake, and those who choose to see.