April 2020 Archives - State Library of Ohio

Business/Commerce

Ignore Your Customers (and They’ll Go Away)

by Micah Solomon

Discover how to create exceptional customer service and a superior customer experience, learning from the greatest companies of our time. When it comes to delivering […]

Think on Your Feet: Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Impromptu Communication Skills on the Job

by Jen Oleniczak Brown

Get out of your own way! Our professional lives are full of situations outside of our control. A job interviewer asks a question out of […]

Edge

by Laura Huang

Laura Huang, a preeminent Harvard Business School professor, shows that success is about gaining an edge: that elusive quality that gives you an upper hand […]

How to Raise Successful People

by Esther Wojcicki

The Godmother of Silicon Valley, legendary teacher, and mother of a Super Family shares her tried-and-tested methods for raising happy, healthy, successful children using Trust, […]

All You Have to Do Is Ask

by Wayne Baker

University of Michigan Professor and co-founder, with Adam Grant, of Give and Take Inc, shows us how to master one of life’s most critical skills: […]

Antisocial

by Andrew Marantz

From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a […]

Tightrope

by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

“This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf”–Copyright page.

Tools and Weapons

by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne

From Microsoft’s president and one of the tech industry’s wisest thinkers comes a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential […]

Designing Your Work Life

by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

Designing Your Work Life teaches readers how to create the job they want—without necessarily leaving the job they already have. “Increasingly, it’s up to workers […]

The Joy of Movement

by Kelly McGonigal

Exercise is health-enhancing and life-extending, yet many of us feel it’s a chore. But as Kelly McGonigal reveals, it doesn’t have to be. Movement can […]

Finding Meaning

by David Kessler

In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler—an expert on grief and the coauthor with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross of the iconic On Grief and Grieving—journeys beyond the […]

Successful Aging

by Daniel J. Levitin

Successful Aging delivers powerful insights: Debunking the myth that memory always declines with age; Confirming that “health span”—not “life span”—is what matters; Proving that sixty-plus […]

Exercise Is Medicine

by Judy Foreman

Aging, despite its dismal reputation, is actually one of the great mysteries of the universe. Why don’t we just reproduce, then exit fast, like salmon? […]

Food Fix

by Mark Hyman

How to grow, produce, and consume food to resolve the world’s health, environmental, social, and economic crises, from Mark Hyman, MD. Our most powerful tool […]

Migrating for Medical Marijuana

by Tracy Ferrell

In the last six years, Colorado has seen a population boom reminiscent of the state’s first few years of settlement. But rather than staking mining […]

Fight of the Century

by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, ed.

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our […]

Leadership Is Language

by L. David Marquet

You might imagine that an effective leader is someone who makes quick, intelligent decisions, gives inspiring speeches, and issues clear orders to their team so […]

Think Outside the Building

by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world’s complex, messy, and recalcitrant […]

New Books: April 2020