Karen Ellis
2) Last night
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"One of the few black kids on his Brighton Beach block, Titus "Crisp" Crespo was raised by his white mother and his Russian grandparents. He has two legacies from his absent father, Mo: his weird name and his brown skin. Crisp has always been the odd kid out, but a fundamentally good kid, with a bright future. But one impulsive decision triggers a horrible domino effect--an arrest, no reason not to accompany his richer, whiter friend Glynnie on a...
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Thomas Alva Edison was one of the most creative inventors in the history of mankind. His inventions-including systems for electric lighting, improvements to communication technology, and devices for recording and replaying sounds and movies-shaped the modern world. A tireless worker who often spent up to twenty hours a day at work, he made invention a commercial proposition, setting up the world's first industrial research laboratory. This book describes...
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What if the ways you think about yourself, the world and everyone in it, were the human equivalent of your own internal 'operating system'?
What if you could upgrade that operating system, evolving it as radically now, as you did as a child? You'd suddenly find it easier to:
• Achieve better outcomes with a lot less effort
• Find opportunities in fiendishly complex problems
• Juggle stakeholders' diverse, evolving needs
• Take relationships...