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Pedigree - How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs - Bok av Lauren A. Rivera - Häftad

\In this riveting account of how the nation's top investment banks, consultancies, and law firms choose employees, Lauren Rivera goes inside the recruitment process, interviewing the interviewers and sitting in on their decision meetings. This eye-opening book exposes how the American elite keep the best jobs for themselves.\--Frank Dobbin, author of Inventing Equal Opportunity\Pedigree provides a rare behind-the-scenes look at the hiring processes for elite jobs. Rivera's thoughtful ethnographic..

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Work Pray Code - When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley - Bok av Carolyn Chen - Inbunden

\Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the very nature of spiritual experience in modern life. Over the past forty years, highly skilled workers have been devoting more time and energy to their jobs than ever before. They are also leaving churches,..

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Henry at Work - Bok av John Kaag - Inbunden

\In this book, John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle illuminate an underexplored aspect of worked-over cultural icon Henry David Thoreau and what his thinking has to tell us about the way we work now. Henry at Work overturns the popular perception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse, scornful of work and other mundanities. Just the opposite, they argue, Thoreau worked hard and thought intensely about work: why we do it, what we hope to gain from it, and what it does to us. They aim to show readers not..

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Privilege - The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School - Bok av Shamus Rahman Khan - Häftad

As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons. This title provides an inside look at an institution that has been the private realm of the elite.

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Complicit - Bok av Max H. Bazerman - Inbunden

\There have been spectacular villains in business that have received a great deal of attention in recent years, such as Elizabeth Holmes, Adam Neumann, and the Sackler family. All of them were supported to varying extents by others who were integral to their rise and fall, what business psychologist Max Bazerman calls \a cast of complicitors.\ Did those others know the extent they were contributing to unethical behaviour? How responsible were they for such behavior? In Profiles in Complicity,..

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Economics in Two Lessons - Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly - Bok av John Quiggin - Häftad

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How Global Currencies Work - Past, Present, and Future - Bok av Barry Eichengreen - Häftad

At first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power's currency--the British pound, the U.S. dollar, and perhaps someday the Chinese yuan--invariably dominates international trade and finance. In How Global Currencies Work, three noted economists provide a reassessment of this history and the theories behind the conventional wisdom. Offering a new history of global finance over the past two centuries, and marshaling extensive..

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Sofonisba's Lesson - A Renaissance Artist and Her Work - Bok av Michael W. Cole - Inbunden

The formation and career of the first major woman artist of the RenaissanceSofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1535ΓÇô1625) was the daughter of minor Lombard aristocrats who made the unprecedented decision to have her trained as a painter outside the family house. She went on to serve as an instructor to Isabel of Valois, the young queen of Spain. Sofonisba''s Lesson sheds new light on Sofonisba''s work, offering a major reassessment of a Renaissance painter who changed the image of women''s education in..

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Identity Economics - How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being - Bok av George A. Akerlof - Häftad

Provides an important way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities - and not just economic incentives - influence our decisions. This title explains how our conception of who we are and who we want to be may shape our economic lives more than any other factor, affecting how hard we work, and how we learn, spend, and save.

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Work Matters - How Parents' Jobs Shape Children's Well-Being - Bok av Maureen Perry-Jenkins - Inbunden

\The transition to parenthood is one of the most life-altering and destabilizing life events that adults experience, even those with significant financial and social resources. We commonly hear about dual-career, professional couples coping with the wage penalties associated with new motherhood or a woman's career being derailed on the 'mommy track.' But we know much less about how low-wage, employed mothers and fathers manage the demands of full-time work and new parenthood, despite the fact that..

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The Work of the Dead - A Cultural History of Mortal Remains - Bok av Professor Thomas W. Laqueur - Häftad

The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes''s argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still mattersΓÇöfor individuals, communities, and nations...

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Agents of Reform - Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State - Bok av Elisabeth Anderson - Häftad

\An account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happen. The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers' efforts to appeal to working-class voters. Elisabeth Anderson shows that the regulatory welfare state began a half century earlier, in the 1830s, with the passage of the first child labor laws. Middle-class and elite reformers..

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All the News That?s Fit to Click - How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists - Bok av Caitlin Petre - Inbunden

\Over the past fifteen years, journalism has experienced a rapid proliferation of data about online reader behavior in the form of web metrics. These newsroom metrics influence which stories are written, how news is promoted, and which journalists get hired and fired. Some argue that metrics help journalists better serve their audiences. Others worry that metrics are the contemporary equivalent of a stopwatch-wielding factory manager. In Desperate Measures, Caitlin Petre offers a rare behind-the-scenes..

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I Hear My People Singing - Voices of African American Princeton - Bok av Kathryn Watterson - Häftad

\I Hear My People Singing adds to the growing collection of studies and memoirs of African Americans around elite white colleges and universities. This book reflects on the progressive racial integration of Princeton over the past half century.\--David Moltke-Hansen, former president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Veto Players - How Political Institutions Work - Bok av George Tsebelis - Häftad

Explains how governments are structured. This book shows why an increase in the number of 'veto players', or an increase in their ideological distance from each other, increases policy stability, impeding significant departures from the status quo.

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Uneasy Street - The Anxieties of Affluence - Bok av Rachel Sherman - Häftad

A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their wealth and place in societyFrom TV's \real housewives\ to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on \easy street\? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-dep

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Create Dangerously - The Immigrant Artist at Work - Bok av Edwidge Danticat - Inbunden

Focuses on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. This title tells the stories of artists, including the author, who create despite, or because of, the horrors that drove them from their homelands and that continue to haunt them.

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Complicit - Bok av Max H. Bazerman - Häftad

What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and beyond It is easy to condemn obvious wrongdoers such as Elizabeth Holmes, Harvey Weinstein, and the Sackler family. But we rarely think about the many people who supported their unethical or criminal behavior. In each case there was a supporting cast of complicitors: business partners, employees, investors, news organizations, and others. And, whether we're aware of it or not, almost all..

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The Wagner Operas - Bok av Ernest Newman - Häftad

Discusses ten of Wagner's most beloved operas, illuminates their key themes and the myths and literary sources behind the librettos, and demonstrates how the composer's style changed from work to work.

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How Global Currencies Work - Past, Present, and Future - Bok av Barry Eichengreen - Inbunden

\This book will come to be known as the one that challenged the old, winner-takes-all view of international currency competition and established the new view. Barry Eichengreen and his coauthors present thorough and telling evidence that the historical reality is that multiple currencies play consequential roles in international trade and finance--and that lock-in effects and persistence are not as strong as traditionally assumed. In short, this is a must-read for all economists interested in international..

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Polyominoes - Puzzles, Patterns, Problems, and Packings - Revised and Expanded Second Edition - Bok av Solomon W. Golomb - Häftad

This work looks at polyominoes, invented by Solomon Golomb, which have contributed to the study of combinatorial geometry and tiling theory. This work takes readers on a mathematical journey through the world of the polyomino.

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Indian Sex Life - Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought - Bok av Durba Mitra - Häftad

During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectualsΓÇöphilologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social criticsΓÇödeployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society. In Indian Sex Life, Durba Mitra shows how deviant female sexuality, particularly the concept of the prostitute, became foundational to this knowledge project and became the primary way to think and write about Indian society.Bringing..

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Making Motherhood Work - How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving - Bok av Caitlyn Collins - Häftad

A cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them.

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Indebted - How Families Make College Work at Any Cost - Bok av Caitlin Zaloom - Inbunden

Taking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life, the author describes the profound moral conflicts for parents take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not pay off.

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Making Motherhood Work - How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving - Bok av Caitlyn Collins - Inbunden