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  Summary, Analysis, and Review of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad PLEASE NOTE: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad A Novel includes a summary of the book, review, analysis & key takeaways, and a detailed About the Author section. PREVIEW: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a novel about Cora, an enslaved woman in Georgia who escapes from a plantation and heads north. Although it is loosely based on real slave narratives, it also includes fantastic and ahistorical elements. For example, the historical Underground Railroad was a network, which helped slaves escape, but, in the novel, the Underground Railroad is a buried railway line.

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  PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book.
  
  Uncanny Valley is a captivating account of Anna Wiener’s struggle to find meaning and fulfilment in an industry that was brimming with optimism but felt ever so selfish, insidious, and hostile.
  
  What Does this Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review Include?
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  An overview of Wiener's experiences in the tech industry
  Lessons on sexism, data privacy, and other pitfalls of Silicon Valley
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  About the Original Book:
  Through the lens of her personal experiences, Wiener traces the rise of Silicon Valley and documents the opportunities and problems it has created. She takes the reader through her experiences working at a literary agency and then an e-book startup in Manhattan to providing customer support at a data analytics company and then an open-source company in San Francisco’s Silicon Valley. In between, Wiener reflects on the failings of startup culture and considers what it might take for the tech industry to be a source of good in a delicate socio-economic landscape. Anyone curious about what Silicon Valley feels like to an outsider and how it is shaping the world will find this memoir a handy guide.
  
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  Hold Fast to Dreams - A College...

  Beth Zasloff, Joshua Steckel

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  An “invaluable” memoir by a counselor who left the elite private-school world to help poor and working-class kids get into college (Washington Monthly).  Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Award   Joshua Steckel left an elite Manhattan school to serve as the first-ever college guidance counselor at a Brooklyn public high school—and has helped hundreds of disadvantaged kids gain acceptance. But getting in is only one part of the drama. This riveting work of narrative nonfiction follows the lives of ten of Josh’s students as they navigate the vast, obstacle-ridden landscape of college in America, where students for whom the stakes of education are highest find unequal access and inadequate support.   Among the students we meet are Mike, who writes his essays from a homeless shelter and is torn between his longing to get away to an idyllic campus and his fear of leaving his family in desperate circumstances; Santiago, a talented, motivated, and undocumented student, who battles bureaucracy and low expectations as he seeks a life outside the low-wage world of manual labor; and Ashley, who pursues her ambition to become a doctor with almost superhuman drive—but then forges a path that challenges received wisdom about the value of an elite liberal arts education.   At a time when the idea of “college for all” is hotly debated, this book uncovers, in heartrending detail, the ways the American education system fails in its promise as a ladder to opportunity—yet provides hope in its portrayal of the intelligence, resilience, and everyday heroics of young people whose potential is too often ignored.   “A profound examination of the obstacles faced by low-income students . . . and the kinds of reforms needed to make higher education and the upward mobility it promises more accessible.” —Booklist

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  Summary of Carol S Dweck’s Mindset

  Falcon Press

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  Buy now to get the key takeaways from Carol S. Dweck’s Mindset. 
    
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  1) Our beliefs, no matter how simple or complex, can deeply affect our ability to reach our goals.  
  2) Humans have used the nature versus nurture argument to explain why people think and act differently. However, genes and environment work hand in hand rather than separately. 
   

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  Take Charge - The Skills That...

  Norman Bacal

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  Do you want to become a successful lawyer, business manager or accountant? 
  What you're learning in professional school isn't enough. It's just the basics. 
  If you want to move ahead, there are all kinds of skills you need to learn that no one is teaching in an organized way. 
  How to interview so you'll get hired, choosing the workplace most suited to you, how to be effective in communicating with clients and superiors, the secrets of service you need to master, how to set up a career plan and so much more. 
  I've taken the secrets of my own success as a prominent entertainment attorney and law firm leader, and I've interviewed countless other professionals who've succeeded against all odds, to boil it down for you into an easy-to-read instructional book. 
  This isn't another "how to" book written by a consultant who's never done it. This is practical advice from someone who has sat on both sides of the interview table, hired thousands of professionals, just like you, and helped them flourish.  
  “Whether you are in college or just starting your career, this book is a roadmap to turbo charge your career."  
   ­— Bill Carmody, TEDx Storyteller, Executive Coach and Bestselling Author of The Three Rules of Marriage 
  “A thought-provoking, practical and insightful book loaded with ‘nuggets of gold’ to power your career forward.” 
   —Barry Beloff, President, Inspiratum Executive Coaching 
  “Advice and insights on the dynamics of practice that should be part and parcel of a professional education.” 
   —Justice Lorne Sossin, former Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School

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  Reframing Academic Leadership

  Lee G. Bolman, Joan V. Gallos

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  The authors apply the powerful Four Frames model developed by  Bolman and Deal to the unique challenges of higher education  leadership, illustrating the different view of academic  leadership.       Part I: Leadership Epistemology: When You Understand, You Know  What to Do  Chapter 1: The Opportunities and Challenges in Academic  Leadership  Chapter 2: Sensemaking and the Power of Reframing  Chapter 3: Knowing What Youre Doing: Learning,  Authenticity, and Theories for Action  Part II: Reframing Leadership Challenges  Chapter 4: Building Clarity and Capacity: Leader as Analyst and  Architect  Chapter 5: Respecting and Managing Differences: Leader as  Compassionate Politician  Chapter 6: Fostering a Caring and Productive Campus: Leader as  Servant, Catalyst, and Coach  Chapter 7: Keeping the Faith and Celebrating the Mission: Leader  as Prophet and Artist  Chapter 8: Leading from the Middle: The Academic Leader as  Boundary Spanner  Part III: Courage and Hope  Chapter 9: Sustaining Higher Education Leaders: Advancing the  Work  Chapter 10: Sustaining Higher Education Leaders: Feeding the  Soul  Epilogue: Higher Education as Sacred Calling

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