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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise December 2020
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| The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias: How to Reframe Bias, Cultivate Connection... by Pamela Fuller and Mark Murphy with Anne ChowWhat it is: a straightforward guide for managers to assess the existence and effects of unconscious bias on themselves and their organizations, with advice and tools to help them address it.
Why you should read it: The recommendations are practical and based on the experiences of real people, and will be useful both inside and outside of the workplace. |
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A Young Adult's Guide to Personal Finance : How to Move Out of Your Parents' Basement
by Mike McGuinness
The power of compound interest -- Budgeting -- Taxes for the new graduate -- Banking -- Credit basics -- A guide to your adult GPA -- Auto & other loans -- Car buying -- Auto insurance -- Renting an apartment -- Home buying -- The mortgage process -- Mortgage options -- Mortgage closing -- Homeowners insurance -- Investing basics: stocks -- Investing basics: bonds -- Investing basics: mutual funds -- Medical insurance -- Disability insurance -- Life insurance -- Review of an employee benefits package -- Paying for school and financial aid -- Finding a financial advisor.
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| How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring... by Guy RazWhat it is: an inspiring and candid examination of the journeys of successful business founders and the lessons to take away from their stories.
Don't miss: a look at the importance of partnership in a business environment that tends to lionize individuals instead of appreciating teams.
About the author: Long-time NPR contributor Guy Raz has worked on shows like All Things Considered and TED Radio Hour, in addition to the podcast How I Built This, which he began in 2016. |
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| Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change by Maggie SmithWhat it is: a thoughtful and moving collection of short essays on loss, longing, and using creativity to help with bouncing back after difficult life experiences.
Why you might like it: Although the essays address serious topics like miscarriage and postpartum depression, the book maintains an inspiring tone throughout.
Reviewers say: "Simple yet profound insights and advice to return to in times of confusion or loss" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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Why we can't sleep : women's new midlife crisis
by Ada Calhoun
"When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and the Millennials, Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age, problems that were being largely overlooked. Speaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to "have it all," Calhoun found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, underemployed, and overwhelmed. Instead of their issues being heard, they were told instead to lean in, take "me-time," or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order. In Why We Can't Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X's predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyss-and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering, and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them"
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The sleep revolution : transforming your life, one night at a time
by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington
The editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post and best-selling author of Thrive evaluates the role of sleep as a cultural and historical unifier, the impact of sleep deprivation on health and the science community's recommendations for how to achieve more restorative sleep. (self-help).
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| Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker, PhDWhat it is: an engaging and conversational attempt to answer the most scientifically elusive question about sleep.
Topics include: how relatively recent our understanding of the mechanics of sleep truly is; what sleep deprivation can do to the mind and body; how modern society's relationship with time makes everyone get less sleep than they need. |
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The dreamers : a novel
by Karen Thompson Walker
The best-selling author of The Age of Miracles presents the story of a student at an isolated Southern California college town who witnesses a strange sleeping illness that subjects patients to life-altering, heightened dreams
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