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Julia Hobsbawm Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Interested in how we live and work. Book and pod @nowhereoffice. Writes Bloomberg column @thefuture. New book in the works. Opinions My Own (natch)

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Book Cover for: The Pandemic Effect: Ninety Experts on Immunizing the Built Environment, Blaine Brownell

The Pandemic Effect: Ninety Experts on Immunizing the Built Environment

Blaine Brownell
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And I see @FastCompany has The Pandemic Effect @PAPress book I was lucky enough to be asked to contribute to in its list of books for 2023. #design #nowhereoffice #architecture -@nowhereoffice https://t.co/7nicj80YKx

Paperback, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Woman Without a Man is Like a Fish Without a Bicycle, Margie Melvin

A Woman Without a Man is Like a Fish Without a Bicycle

Margie Melvin
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Long before International Women's Day, back in the 1970s, I had a pink badge I cherished which read "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" and with all love to the men in my life that still gets me every time.

Paperback, 2009

$10.95$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Late Americans, Brandon Taylor

The Late Americans

Brandon Taylor
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"He knew America to be a war of contradicting archives" - Brandon Taylor "The Late Americans" @vintagebooks

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet, Nell McShane Wulfhart

The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet

Nell McShane Wulfhart
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Work history book of the year for me? No doubt @nellmwulfhart The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 feet. It's alive with personality, passion and perspective from an untold angle. I wish @CarmenCallil were alive to read it. https://t.co/jv1rkmMqQA

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: All in My Head: A Memoir of Life, Love and Patient Power, Jessica Morris

All in My Head: A Memoir of Life, Love and Patient Power

Jessica Morris
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My late great friend Jessica Morris of @ourbrainbank features in this new episode of @thenowhereoffi1on publishing in association with @HachetteAudio to tie in with publication of her posthumous memoir "All In My Head" https://open.spotify.com/episode/3KYjFfRmJI3meGsiXebh3k?si=PYqtaKspSfOCtUGKFrhDQg

Hardcover, 2023

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: I Would Prefer Not to: Essential Stories, Herman Melville

I Would Prefer Not to: Essential Stories

Herman Melville
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"I would prefer not to" - Bartelby The Scrivener being a Quiet Quitter in Herman Melville's genius short story (1853)

Paperback, 2021

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Leadership: Essential Selections (Pb), Barbara Kellerman

Leadership: Essential Selections (Pb)

Barbara Kellerman
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"Followers always matter. They especially matter when they do something as opposed to nothing". Barbara Kellerman: she is always incisive and instructive on why we should focus less on leadership and more on followership https://t.co/OSF3EOROAs

Paperback, 2023

$47.00$23.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life, Marie Kondo

Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life

Marie Kondo
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It's official, I'm twinned with Joy At Work. Actual Marie Kondo. Joy! https://t.co/qRLQ09Rbed

Hardcover, 2020

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders, Barbara Kellerman

Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders

Barbara Kellerman
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"Followers always matter. They especially matter when they do something as opposed to nothing". Barbara Kellerman: she is always incisive and instructive on why we should focus less on leadership and more on followership https://t.co/OSF3EOROAs

Hardcover, 2008

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Moby Dick: Or, The Whale, Taylor Anderson

Moby Dick: Or, The Whale

Taylor Anderson
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Politically.... "the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open" (Herman Melville Moby Dick)

Paperback, 2017

$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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