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How to Create Products and Services Customers Want. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.
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A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
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Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It. Basic Books, 2018.
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How Overconsumption Is Killing Us and How to Fight Back. Berrett-Koehler, 2014.
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The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.
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A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Workman Publishing, 2017.
Simon Sinek
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Portfolio/Penguin, 2009.
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The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.
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How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Change the World. TarcherPerigee, 2018.
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How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.
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Logic in Writing and Thinking. 3rd ed., Pearson, 2020.
Mark Pendergrast
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.
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A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
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The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.
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Dilemmas of the Modern Fan. University of Texas Press, 2020.
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On Impatient Love, Long Life, and Good Witches. Ballantine Books, 2021.
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The Effective Executive. HarperCollins, 2002.
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A Global History of Economic Bubbles. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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A Secret History of the Workplace. Public Doubleday, 2014.
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The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow, 2016.
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Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China. Vintage, 2015.
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A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017
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Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It. Basic Books, 2018.
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New Skills for Coaching People toward Success in Work and Life. Davies-Black Publishing, 2007.
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An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace. Harper Wave, 2016.
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