December 2022 Archives - State Library of Ohio

Business/Commerce

Build

by Tony Fadell

Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in thirty plus years in Silicon Valley about […]

Duped

by Saul Kassin

This conclusive and comprehensive book reveals the psychology behind why innocent men and women, intensely stressed and befuddled by the promises, threats, trickery, and deception […]

Seven Ways to Fix Policing Now

by Kathleen O'Toole and Robert Peirce

The time has come to take a comprehensive look at every aspect of policing. This book does that and offers seven critical steps towards successful […]

Youth Violence Prevention

by John Van Dreal, Courtenay McCarthy, and Coleen Van Dreal

This is a book about behavioral threat assessment that focuses on prevention and early intervention. It’s about thoughtful connection, inclusion, prosocial relationship building, and the […]

The New Education

by Cathy N. Davidson

“One of the most thoughtful voices from within academia” (Washington Post) argues the American university is stuck in the past–and shows how we can revolutionize […]

How to Write a Marketing Plan

by John Westwood

Gain essential marketing skills with this step-by-step guide to improving your ability to research and write a marketing plan, carry out marketing audits and set […]

How to Read Now

by Elaine Castillo

How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not […]

Ambitious Like a Mother

by Lara Bazelon

A law professional argues that women prioritizing their career benefits mothers, kids, and society at large by showing how they can use their talents to […]

Dirty Work

by Eyal Press

Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the ‘kill floors’ of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United […]

Reach

by Becky Robinson

Cut through the noise and create the biggest possible audience for your work. This book offers a proven method for expanding your reach online so […]

What We Say Matters

by Ike K. Lasater and Judith Hanson Lasater

Drawing from Buddhist and yogic precepts, this practical guide offers tools for becoming a better, more compassionate communicator at home, at work, and in the […]

The No Club

by Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie Weingart

A practical, timely guide for bringing gender equity to the workplace: unburden womens careers from work that goes unrewarded. The No Club started when four […]

Belonging

by Geoffrey L Cohen

In 2020, 40 percent of each political party said that supporters of the opposing party were downright evil. In 2019, hate crimes reached a ten-year […]

Heal Your Way Forward

by myisha t hill

Heal Your Way Forward: The Co-Conspirator’s Guide to an Antiracist Future is the trumpet call to white and white-identifying folks, guiding them to recognize their […]

Happier Hour

by Cassie Holmes

Our most precious resource isn’t money. Its time. We are allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us […]

Girls on the Brink

by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Anyone caring for girls today knows that our daughters, students, and girls next door are more anxious and more prone to depression and self-harming than […]

Sit Up Straight

by Vinh Pham and Jeff O'Connell

Futureproof your body and relieve chronic pain resulting from sitting, slouching, and other bad lifestyle habits with this easy-to-perform set of daily stretching and exercise […]

Forest Walking

by Peter Wohlleben

Celebrity forester: Peter Wohlleben is credited for changing the conversation about trees: In his instant NYT bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees, Wohlleben drew on […]

The Life We’re Looking For

by Andy Crouch

In The Life Were Looking For, bestselling author Andy Crouch shows how we have been seduced by a false vision of human flourishingand how each […]

We Are the Troopers

by Stephen Guinan

Amid a national backdrop of the call to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, the National Women’s Football League was founded as something of a gimmick. […]

The Third Reconstruction

by Peniel E. Joseph

One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction. In The […]

The Essential Manager’s Handbook

by DK

Introducing DKs Essential Managers series – a one-stop guide full of top tips to boost productivity, performance and passion within a business environment. Achieving excellence […]

Managing a Nonprofit Organization

by Thomas Wolf

The revised and updated edition of the go-to guide that has been an essential resource for nonprofit administrators, managers, and business professors since 1984–retooled to […]

Talent

by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross

Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross’s Talent offers strategies on how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people. How do you find talent with […]

The Smart Mission

by Edward J. Hoffman, Matthew Kohut, and Laurence Prusak

The project is the basic unit of work in many industries. Software applications, antiviral vaccines, launch-ready spacecraft: all were produced by a team and managed […]

Develop Your Leadership Skills

by John Adair

Develop your leadership skills and find out how to become a leader people want to work with in this essential pocket guide by world leading […]

The Virtual Leader

by Takako Hirata

In The Virtual Leader, Takako Hirata shares the proven leadership methods she has developed over nearly a decade coordinating teams across the globe as the […]

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