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The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life
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The Happiness Advantage

By Shawn Achor ,

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The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
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The Managed Heart

By Arlie Russell Hochschild ,

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Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
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Talent Is Overrated

By Geoff Colvin ,

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Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life
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Love + Work

By Marcus Buckingham ,

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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
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Shop Class as Soulcraft

By Matthew B. Crawford ,

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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
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Bullshit Jobs

By David Graeber ,

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Strengthsfinder 2.0
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Strengthsfinder 2.0

By Gallup , Tom Rath ,

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The Art of Quiet Influence: Timeless Wisdom for Leading Without Authority
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The Art of Quiet Influence

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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
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Rest

By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang ,

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The Project 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!
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The Project 50 (Reinventing Work)

By Tom Peters ,

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Splat the Cat Gets a Job!
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Splat the Cat Gets a Job!

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Help Mom Work from Home!
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Help Mom Work from Home!

By Diana Murray , Cori Doerrfeld (illustrator) ,

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My America 1928-1938
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My America 1928-1938

By Louis Adamic ,

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The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America
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The End of Loyalty

By Rick Wartzman ,

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The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It
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The Fissured Workplace

By David Weil ,

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Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
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Linchpin

By Seth Godin ,

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The Human Moment: The Positive Power of Compassion in the Workplace
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The Human Moment

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God in the Marketplace: 45 Questions Fortune 500 Executives Ask About Faith, Life, and Business
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God in the Marketplace

By Henry T. Blackaby , Richard Blackaby ,

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Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
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Work Won't Love You Back

By Sarah Jaffe ,

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Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology
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Intellectual and Manual Labour

By Alfred Sohn-Rethel , Martin Sohn-Rethel (translator) ,

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The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland
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The Long Deep Grudge

By Toni Gilpin ,

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Rupturing The Dialectic: The Struggle Against Work, Money, and Financialization
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Rupturing The Dialectic

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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

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Workers and Capital
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Workers and Capital

By Mario Tronti ,

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Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
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Shadow Work

By Craig Lambert ,

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Diary of a Void
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Diary of a Void

By Emi Yagi , David Boyd (translator) , Lucy North (translator)

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Banishing Burnout: Six Strategies for Improving Your Relationship with Work
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Banishing Burnout

By Michael P. Leiter , Christina Maslach ,

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Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work
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Every Good Endeavor

By Timothy Keller ,

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Work Matters: Connecting Sunday Worship to Monday Work
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Work Matters

By Tom Nelson ,

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The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
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The Three Marriages

By David Whyte ,

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Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow
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Strengths Based Leadership

By Tom Rath ,

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