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Andrew McK. Jefferson, Roy V. H. Pollock, Calhoun W. Wick

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Rob Greenbaum

In The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results, renowned instructors and consultants Dr. Roy Pollock, Andrew Jefferson, and Calhoun Wick deliver a complete blueprint to maximize the effectiveness and ROI of training and development programs within any organization. In this newly revised and extensively updated Fourth Edition, listeners will find tools to implement meaningful strategies immediately, supported by the lates...

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Michael Grossberg

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Rob Greenbaum

In 1874, the tragic story of ten-year-old Mary Ellen Wilson galvanized the nation. Spurred to action by reformers and social workers, authorities in New York found that Mary Ellen's caretakers had beaten her, deprived her of proper clothing and food, and effectively imprisoned her indoors, where she would be forgotten by the world. A concerned public responded with new laws establishing the first organization devoted to the prevention of cruelty to children. It paved the way for protection...

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Eldon Dryden Pence III

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Rob Greenbaum

Choke Points: Investing in the Origins of Wealth, by Barron's Hall of Fame advisor Dryden Pence, reveals how great fortunes arise from controlling strategic bottlenecks where economic activity must flow. Drawing on three decades managing institutional capital and a decorated military intelligence career, Col. Pence translates elite investment philosophy into a narrative-driven framework that teaches ordinary investors to recognize pricing power before it becomes obvious.Bu...

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Peter Mitchell

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Rob Greenbaum

First Dogs provides the first comprehensive overview of the relationships between humanity's best friend (and oldest domestic animal) and hunter-gatherers.The book uses archaeological and anthropological evidence to explore the hunter-gatherer/canine relationship from the beginnings of the domestication process to the present. As well as looking at conventional case studies from the Global North, it also uses examples from Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. The res...

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Bill Fournet

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Rob Greenbaum

Traditional strategic plans often collapse when confronted by AI disruption, market shifts, and geopolitical upheaval. In The Map Vs. the Terrain, Bill Fournet, executive coach to over thirty C-suite leaders, draws on decades of real-world consulting experience to deliver a pragmatic approach to leading through the unknown.Rather than relying on outdated military models or academic theory, Fournet provides a framework built from guiding Fortune 5000 companies, financial in...

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Derick Lugo

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Rob Greenbaum

New York City native Derick Lugo's life changed in 2012 when he spontaneously decided to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. In the years that followed, he became an advocate for the outdoors and eventually set out on his second thru-hike—this time on the Continental Divide Trail, one of the most challenging long trails in the world.A Fabulous Thru-Hike: 3,100 Miles on the Continental Divide Trail is the relatable, laugh-out-loud story of Derick Lugo's six-month adventure. Fr...

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G. Edward White

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Rob Greenbaum

Until he joined the US government in 1934, Robert H. Jackson had been a lawyer in private practice in Upstate New York who was admitted to the bar without going to college and after completing only one year of law school. Jackson became, in rapid succession, United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, where he successfully defended New Deal programs before the Supreme Court. In 1941, FDR nominated him to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, on which he served ...

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Peter Economy

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Rob Greenbaum

While some believe that you're either born a great time manager or you're not, that's not really the case at all. Anyone can learn the powerful habits of being more effective and more productive—and getting things done.Wait, You Need It When?!? is the essential guide to learning how to better manage your time, become more productive, and create the daily habits that will make this personal transformation stick in the long run—not just for a day or two. In today's ...

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David Baron

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Rob Greenbaum

In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed we had discovered intelligent life on Mars, as bestselling science writer David Baron chronicles in The Martians, his truly bizarre tale of a nation swept up in Mars mania.At the center of Baron's historical drama is Percival Lowell, the Boston Brahmin and Harvard scion, who observed "canals" etched into the surface of Mars. Lowell devised a grand theory that the red planet was home to a utopian society that had...

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Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

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Rachel Perry, Rob Greenbaum, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

The trusted guide for surviving overwhelm and trauma in today's world, now revised and updated.Trauma Stewardship is the seminal work on sustaining oneself while bearing witness over time to the hardship, overwhelm, suffering, and trauma of humans, other living beings, and the planet itself.Whether through personal caregiving, school, work, or efforts to make the world a better place, trauma exposure is ubiquitous, often experienced as burnout or c...

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Steven L. Davis

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Rob Greenbaum

The fascinating true story of how Taos Pueblo's Indigenous people recruited members of the famous Taos art colony to help spark a movement for Native justice that reshaped the nation.When the first white artists arrived in Taos by horse-drawn wagons, centuries of military conquest and brutal government policies had pushed Indigenous people to the brink of collapse. New Mexico's pueblos had become some of America's last holdouts of traditional culture, resolutely pre...

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Thomas Ramge

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Rob Greenbaum

A groundbreaking, vital examination of a powerful—and extremely controversial—stopgap solution to looming climate catastropheEarth stands at a tipping point. As we fail to curtail emissions fast enough, our planet stares down a cascade of imminent, catastrophic, and irreversible disaster triggered by climate change. Yet a potent technology already exists to buy us more time: solar geoengineering. Through methods such as atmospheric aerosols, human-generated cirrus ...