Shaun Coffey 🚢 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again
Johann Hari
Will you finish reading the story? Will you even open it? We live in the most distracted time in human history. Can we reclaim our attention spans? Stolen Focus: Johann Hari explains how your attention has been stolen - Vox https://t.co/ugbM5ZJclL
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Curiosity yields insight. “Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.” —Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall) A must read post from @hjarche https://t.co/1IJJE7bGvp
Paperback, 2021
$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World (Second edition, Revised and Expanded) (16pt Large Print Edition)
Bob Johansen
In his 2012 book Leaders Make the Future, Bob Johansen builds on this idea to suggest that being normal may be a disadvantage in abnormal times - those more familiar with chaos are likely to have an advantage in managing the volatility, uncertainty, and complexity, and ambiguity.
Paperback, Large Print, 2015
$50.99$25.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Listening to People: A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up
Annette Lareau
A Practical Guide to Interviewing, Participant Observation, Data Analysis, and Writing It All Up by Annette Lareau | Impact of Social Sciences https://t.co/fxPRN41unS
Paperback, 2021
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
James Lovelock
RIP….James Lovelock, creator of Gaia hypothesis, dies on 103rd birthday The scientist was best known for his theory that the Earth is a self-regulating community of organisms https://t.co/7WRuF4IfzR
Paperback, 2016
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Descent Of Man
Charles Darwin
Enjoying a new look at the contribution of Charles Darwin, and his reluctance to write The Descent of Man https://t.co/GHqD8AXDO7
Paperback, 2017
$12.89$6.45 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson
May 20, 1990: Advice on Life and Creative Integrity from Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson – The Marginalian https://t.co/BAej9uiI8L
Paperback, 1987
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (Dsm-5-Tr(r))
American Psychiatric Association
“Oddly enough, there’s no name in the DSM for the compulsion to diagnose people.” —- Richard Powers in Bewilderment. P.5 DSM = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. American Psychiatric Association
Paperback, 2022
$170.00$145.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Seth Godin
“Criticism, without constructive feedback, is a potent dream-killer because it only shuts someone down and does not give them encouragement or a way forward” Lesson from TRIBES by Seth Godin
Hardcover, 2008
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin
Enjoying a new look at the contribution of Charles Darwin, and his reluctance to write The Descent of Man https://t.co/GHqD8AXDO7
Paperback, 2010
$10.95$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book