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You Got This!: Unleash Your Awesomeness, Find Your Path, and Change Your World

By Blyth Meier

Maya S. Penn's must-read young adult business book is the perfect way to celebrate today's Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.

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Born for This, and The Atomic Weight of Love (for What You Do)

By Sally Haldorson

In Born for This, Chris Guilllebeau has given us a primer on "any number of scenarios that create job dissatisfaction, and reveals tips and tricks on how to make a change."

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What Works: Gender Equality By Design

By Sally Haldorson

Behavioral scientist Iris Bohnet presents 36 research-based design suggestions to circumvent the unconscious biases that prevent gender equality in organizations.

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How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life

Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent discoveries in behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our every day.

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The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America

In her new book, Ann Neumann looks squarely at the issues surrounding death and dying in America.

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This is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon

By Sally Haldorson

Jon Wertheim and Sam Sommers have written a speedy compendium of sports stories and human behavioral tendencies that serves up social science insight with agility and good humor.

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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It...Every Time

By Sally Haldorson

The author of Mastermind, a book that instructed us to think with deduction and precision in the vein of Sherlock Holmes, brings us The Confidence Game, a look at some of the most skillful cons every executed, how the grifters performed them, why people were often willing participants to the bitter end,

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What books are you giving this holiday season?

Here’s what our staff is giving this holiday season.

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6 Non-Fiction Gift Books for the Business Reader (and really, anyone)

By Sally Haldorson

When a tie or scarf just won't do.

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What books are on your holiday nightstand?

The 800-CEO-READ family is all set for the Thanksgiving holiday, and have some great books on hand to take with us to the couch after the feasting is done!