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1) Daring greatly: how the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead
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"Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable, or to dare greatly. Whether the arena is a new relationship, an important meeting, our creative process, or a difficult family conversation, we must find the courage to walk into vulnerability and engage with our whole hearts. In Daring Greatly, Dr. Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability. Based on twelve years...
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The phrase "skin in the game" is one we have often heard but have rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it's also an astonishingly complex worldview that, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows in this book, applies to literally all aspects of our lives. In his inimitable style, Taleb pulls on everything from Antaeus the Giant to Hammurabi to Donald Trump to Seneca to the ethics of disagreement to create a jaw-dropping...
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A legal brothel isn't where you'd expect to find an economist. But Allison Schrager isn't your typical economist. Allison Schrager has spent her career examining how people manage risk in their lives. Stepping away from the stock market and other financial institutions, she shares the real-life (and often unusual) places she encountered and learned about risk. Whether we realize it or not, we all take risks large and small every day. Even the most...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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In The Power of Nothing to Lose, award-winning economist William Silber explores the phenomenon in politics, war, and business, where situations with a big upside and limited downside trigger gambling behavior like with a Hail Mary. Silber describes in colorful detail how the American Revolution turned on such a gamble. The famous scene of Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas night to attack the enemy may not look like a Hail Mary, but it...
10) Panic
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"In the poor town of Carp, New York, a group of teens enters a high-stakes game that involves a series of secretive, possibly deadly challenges throughout the summer, with the winner receiving more than $50,000--enough money to start a new life"--
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of the acclaimed Alex Delaware series comes a tour de force standalone novel that illustrates perfectly why "Jonathan Kellerman has justly earned his reputation as a master of the psychological thriller" (People). A brilliant, deeply dedicated psychologist, Grace Blades has a gift for treating troubled souls and tormented psyches--perhaps because she bears her own invisible scars: Only five years old...
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat. From his first day at West Point, to his years in Afghanistan, to his efforts helping business leaders navigate a global pandemic, McChrystal has seen how individuals and organizations fail to mitigate risk. Why? Because they focus on the probability of something happening instead of the interface by which it can be managed. In this new book, General...
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Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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Si deseas cambiar lo que sucede en tu día a día, primero debes comenzar a trabajar en ti mismo, porque las respuestas a tus preguntas siempre están en tu interior. En ¡Arriésgate! descubrirás un método para hacerte preguntas que irán dirigidas a cuatro áreas de especialización que tiene tu cerebro: mente racional, mente creativa, mente emocional y cerebro reptiliano. En cada capítulo cuestionarás de manera integral tu forma de ser para...
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Eric Holthaus offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. Anchored by world-class reporting, interviews with futurists, climatologists, biologists, economists, and climate change activists, it shows what the world could look like if we implemented radical solutions on the scale of the crises we face.
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Sarabande Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"A Man with Eight Pairs of Legs is about the ways our bodies are marked by memory, often literally, and the risky decisions we make when pushed to the extreme. Winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, this collection of short stories is a study in compassion and in passion, a must-read for our times."--
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