The Band of Sisters, a collective of women who know firsthand how hard it is to navigate gendered workplace situations in the moment, share their experience and offer realistic strategies every witness can use to confront gender bias and productively address it at work. Each chapter also has tips to help if it's about you, if you're the boss, and if you're the witness. "You Should Smile More: How to Dismantle Gender Bias in the Workplace empowers...

A full-length guide based on the author's New York Times article, "No Time to Be Nice at Work," demonstrates how to enhance workplace effectiveness by mastering the skills of professional civility. "From the leading authority on workplace incivility, Christine Porath, shows why it pays to be civil, and reveals just how to enhance effectiveness in the workplace and beyond by mastering civility. Incivility is silently chipping away at people, organizations,...

"Beyond strategies and systems, what really drives workplace equity and inclusion? The truth is, all historically excluded professionals who have broken through to greater levels of belonging and achievement have succeeded not by systems change alone, but because influential leaders chose to remove barriers, open doors, and guide them toward their goals. The bottom line: someone made a way for them. Using case studies, data, and evocative storytelling,...

"It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and sprawled on his broken back, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests:...

"From landing on the Moon to discovering distant stars, the study of space is always expanding. This series highlights eight was humans explore space, explaining each topic's essential history and recent developments."--

In this provocative book, author Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic connects the dots and asks a powerful question: what if the reason for the lack of women at the top -- and the presence of so many incompetent leaders who also happen to be men -- is not that there are too many obstacles slowing women's advancement, but that there aren't enough career-testing obstacles for men? Marshalling decades of rigorous research on leadership to build his case, Chamorro-Premuzic...

How can modest living, art and respect for nature address global threats like habitat loss and climate change? In the last woodland on the city fringe, Ellin is dying. She remembers the Red, when trees stretched across the land - a time before the wildfire, before the Blue and its uncertain inheritance. Ellin weaves these reflections into a letter for her newborn daughter. Could she be the one to lead a transformation? Red Reflection is a contemporary...

"Everyone wonders what it's really like in space, but very few of us ever have the chance to experience it firsthand. This captivating illustrated collection brings together stories from dozens of international astronauts who've actually been there, bringing back accounts of the fascinating, weird, often funny and awe inspiring sensations and realities of space travel in and beyond the Earth's orbit."--