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  Underserved - Harnessing the...

  Chris Pilkerton, Ja'Ron Smith

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  Underserved is a tangible blueprint for today's conservative who understands the need for a new and viable political plan of action—one that addresses the needs of the underserved communities that make up these United States of America. Utilizing the concept of the "Party of Lincoln" and the conservative principles set forth over centuries by the movement's most recognized thought leaders, Underserved examines President Lincoln's intentions for Reconstruction, President Grant's aims to implement that vision, and Frederick Douglass's influence on both men in the process. Underserved brings home the very real impact of a failed plan that has had negative implications on modern America, whether conservative, moderate, or liberal. 
   
   
   
  With this historical plan as the linchpin for creating a framework that services disenfranchised communities, authors Ja'Ron K. Smith and Chris Pilkerton challenge conservative policy makers to employ strategies that mirror those originally presented over 160 years ago, while making necessary concessions for its modern audience. 
   
   
   
  From education and workforce development to criminal justice reform and healthcare disparities, Underserved makes a bold statement about what is necessary to see a change in the current state of affairs and presents a realistic action plan to make it happen.

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  Friction - Why we're paying...

  Eliot Mannoia

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  Why the life we made easier still feels hard to live 
  "Eliot Mannoia asks a quiet yet unsettling question: what makes us human in a world where life no longer presents us with challenges?" — Prof. Dr. Sabine T. Köszegi, Chair of the UNESCO Advisory Board on AI Ethics, Austria 
  We take the escalator all day, then pay a gym to climb its stairs. We download meditation apps to recover the stillness our devices helped erode. We swipe for connection in cities packed with people. A multi-trillion-dollar wellness industry now sells back the effort, focus, and texture that ordinary life once gave us for free. 
  In Friction, Eliot Mannoia names a defining contradiction of modern life: we pay once for the technologies that remove friction, and again for the products and services that sell it back to us. 
  Drawing on observations from London to Tokyo to São Paulo, Mannoia introduces the idea of Artificial Hardship: the deliberate reintroduction of challenge, effort, and presence into lives made too frictionless. He connects the dots between the wellness boom, rising loneliness, and our growing hunger for meaning, depth, and human contact. 
  Friction is not anti-technology. It is a deeply researched, practical guide for living well with progress without losing the parts of ourselves that convenience cannot replace. 
  Inside, you’ll find:A close look at the impact of technology on our next generationThe Human Curve: why the winding path matters more than the straight oneThe Friction Compass: a practical tool for deciding when to add effort and when to remove itStrange Symmetry: how humans grow more efficient and machines grow more emotionally fluent, and where they meet 
  A book for anyone who senses that something essential is being smoothed away. 
  For readers of Stolen Focus, Four Thousand Weeks, Dopamine Nation, and How to Do Nothing.

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  Seeking Social Democracy - Seven...

  Edward Broadbent, Frances Abele,...

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  The first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent’s ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life
  		 
  Part memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent’s ideas and remarkable seven-decade engagement in public life. In dialogue with three collaborators from different generations, Broadbent leads readers through a life spent fighting for equality in Parliament and beyond: exploring the formation of his social democratic ideals, his engagement on the international stage, and his relationships with historical figures from Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Castro to Tommy Douglas, René Lévesque, and Willy Brandt. From the formative minority Parliament of 1972–1974 to the contentious national debate over Canada’s constitution to the free trade election of 1988, the book chronicles the life and thought of one of Canada’s most respected political leaders and public intellectuals from his childhood in 1930s Oshawa to the present day. Broadbent’s analysis also points toward the future, offering lessons to a new generation on how principles can inform action and social democracy can look beyond neoliberalism. The result is an engaging, timely, and sweeping analysis of Canadian politics, philosophy, and the nature of democratic leadership.

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  Never Concede - Negotiate Like a...

  Ezra Tovell

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  What do hostage negotiators know that the rest of us don't? They know that logic alone never saves a life—and that the same is true at the bargaining table, in the boardroom, and at the kitchen table.
  In Never Concede: Negotiate Like a First Responder, behavioral scientist and decision theorist Ezra Tovell reveals the counterintuitive principles that elite crisis negotiators use to resolve the highest-stakes standoffs on earth—and shows exactly how those principles translate into the salary conversations, business deals, family disputes, and personal conflicts that shape everyday life.
  Drawing on neuroscience, behavioral economics, clinical psychology, and decades of real crisis negotiation cases, Tovell dismantles the myth that better facts and stronger arguments win negotiations. In reality, people resist not what is said but how it makes them feel. Proposals fail not because they are illogical but because they trigger loss, threaten identity, or signal disrespect. Understanding why is the first step. Knowing what to do about it is what this book delivers.
  Chapter by chapter, Never Concede builds a complete, practitioner-tested skill set:
  - Why emotion is not a distraction from rational decision-making but the engine that drives it—and what that means for every offer you make - How every conversation operates on four simultaneous channels, and why skilled negotiators listen on all of them - The difference between performative listening and tactical listening—and why only one of them changes outcomes - How tone, pace, and vocal presence often matter more than the words themselves - Why "that's right" is the most valuable phrase in any negotiation, and how to earn it without forcing it - The hidden power of "no"—and why inviting refusal is often the fastest route to genuine agreement - How to name what the other side won't say, using emotional labels that reduce threat and open communication - The mirroring technique that makes people reveal far more than they intended - Calibrated questions that hand over the feeling of control while keeping the negotiation on track - How to detect deception, identify hidden players, and read the forces shaping a negotiation from outside the room - The psychology of anchoring—and how the first number sets a gravitational field that most negotiators never escape - Why personal negotiations—salary, family, friendship—are the hardest of all, and how to approach them without losing the relationship - What culture and digital communication do to the signals we send and receive—and how to compensate - A complete daily practice system for building real negotiation skill through deliberate, low-stakes repetition
  Never Concede is not a collection of clever tricks. It is a rigorous, research-grounded manual for becoming the kind of negotiator people trust, engage with, and ultimately move toward. Whether you are navigating a business acquisition, a difficult employee, a family inheritance, or a moment of genuine crisis, the tools in this book will change what you are able to hear—and what becomes possible as a result.

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  Handbook for the Revolution -...

  Derrick Palmer

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  From the cofounder of the Amazon Labor Union, a definitive how-to guide to workplace organizing told through a David vs. Goliath chronicle for the ages. This program is read by the author.On April 1, 2022, the Amazon warehouse known as JFK8, in Staten Island, notched an improbable victory when its workers voted to become the company’s first unionized facility. Miraculously, a completely self-taught and worker-led union had defeated one of the most powerful corporations on the planet. In the aftermath, two of the founders of the Amazon Labor Union, Derrick Palmer and Chris Smalls, began traveling across the country to help workers at Amazon and other corporations form their own unions. Unsurprisingly, nearly everyone they met had the same question: How did they do it?   In Handbook for the Revolution, Derrick Palmer, who continues to work at JFK8, provides the answer in the form of a how-to guide to organizing in today’s workplace while providing gripping, never before-told anecdotes from the ALU's fight and its plans for the future. Practical, philosophical, and full of personality, Palmer’s manual-cum-manifesto is an accessible step-by-step playbook for the often contentious and complex process of unionization, and a powerful call for equality—and greater understanding—through worker solidarity.   Full of hard-won lessons and personal experience, and written in the context of mass consolidation, fluctuating labor laws, and an ever widening wealth gap, Handbook for the Revolution is an invaluable resource for the modern labor movement, a thrilling chronicle of persistence, and an inspiring push for change in the workplace—and beyond.A Macmillan Audio production from AUWA Books

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  Quietly powerful - How your...

  Megumi Miki

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  In the uncertain, changing, global and interconnected world, the 'alpha' or 'hero' leadership style alone is outdated and inadequate. Quieter professionals, who are often overlooked or taken advantage of without recognition, have immense value to contribute to organisations. In this book, Megumi Miki shares her own experience and those of many other quiet professionals who have achieved great success in the business environment. 
  Megumi believes that a shift in our beliefs about leadership will allow talented quiet professionals to view their quiet nature as a strength and to succeed in their own way, rather than seeing it as a disadvantage. She aims to empower quieter professionals and those outside majority groups to fulfil their potential. 
  Quietly Powerful challenges quiet professionals to reframe the story they tell themselves about their leadership potential - and encourages organisations to expand their ideas about what good leadership looks, sounds and feels like.

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