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Blog / Interviews
Upcoming Interview: Batja Mesquita
By Sally Haldorson
Our next live-streamed author interview is with Batja Mesquita on July 28, 2022 at 6:00pm CST.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It
Book Review by Jasmine Gonzalez
For those that haven’t lived through the firsthand experience of being in an online fan community, Everything I Need I Get from You offers a well-researched, holistic view of what it means to be a fan.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / ChangeThis
Why DEI? A Personal and Historical Perspective
By Deanna Singh
People want to believe the American dream invites everyone to aim high, but the reality is that the mob awaited African Americans who dreamed too big. … Many of these instances of violence flared up against people like my great-great-grandfather, who committed no crime other than being industrious.
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | June 21, 2022
By Porchlight
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Blog / Interviews
Upcoming Interview: Laurie Stone
By Gabbi Cisneros
Our next live-streamed author interview is with Laurie Stone on July 20, 2022 at 1:00pm CST.
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Leading With Heart: Five Conversations That Unlock Creativity, Purpose, and Results
By Porchlight
Two veteran executive coaches dispel the myth of one-size-fits-all leadership, showing instead how truly successful leaders allow themselves to be endlessly curious and inquisitive—the key to finding the strategies and insights that transform organizations.
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Blog / Staff Picks
Last Summer on State Street: A Novel
Book Review by Emily Porter
Toya Wolfe graces us with her debut novel, a coming-of-age story set on the South side of Chicago, showing it as, yes, a hardened and dangerous neighborhood, but also a strong and resilient community.
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Blog / ChangeThis
The Challenge of Power
By Jeffrey Pfeffer
Many books and research studies that are ostensibly about power are fundamentally ambivalent about embracing techniques to make people more powerful. Many commentaries on power, while optimistic and uplifting and often quite popular, are, in their Panglossian views of human behavior and the social world, remarkably untethered from the empirical realities of social life.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / New Releases
Books to Watch | June 14, 2022
By Porchlight
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
By Porchlight
2019 was the last great year for the world economy.
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