@Work
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The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work
$18.00 Read moreFew have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ram n Jim nez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In th
- Author: Jiménez, Juan Ramón
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 161
- Publish Date: February 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0983322007
- Language: English
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Work: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’. Work — paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory — is woven i… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Fineman, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0199699364
- Language: English
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Bye, I Quit: Snarkspiration for Surviving Your Job (Until You Just Can’t Anymore)
$16.99 Read moreResign yourself to the great resignation and just say “bye.” BYE, I Quit is a blend of satire and encouragement to help you find meaning and humor to get through the workday. If you have had a recent
- Author: Harper Celebrate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1400239389
- Language: English
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Katy Duck Goes to Work: Ready-To-Read Level 1
$4.99 Read moreKaty Duck makes a splash at her dad’s office in this delightful Level 1 Ready-to-Read story for beginning readers.
“Today is a special day, Katy,”
said Mrs. Duck.
“You are going to work
with Dad!” Katy D- Series: Katy Duck
- Author: Capucilli, Alyssa Satin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1442472812
- Language: English
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Tractor Mac Builds a Barn
$9.99 Add to cartTractor Mac is used to driving across the fields-after all, what good are wheels if you can’t use them? So he’s disappointed when Farmer Bill parks him to run a saw mill and he sees that all of the ot… [more below]
- Series: Tractor Mac
- Author: Steers, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0374301050
- Language: English
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Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
$18.00 Read moreCrossing the Unknown Sea is about reuniting the imagination with our day to day lives. It shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspec… [more below]
- Author: Whyte, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 02 2002
- ISBN10: 1573229148
- Language: English
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The Day of Ahmed’s Secret Trade Book
$9.99 Add to cartThe Day of Ahmed’s Secret
As young Ahmed delivers butane gas to customers all over the city of Cairo, he thinks, I have a secret. All day long, as he maneuvers his donkey cart through streets crowded w
- Author: Parry, Florence H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 25 1995
- ISBN10: 688140238
- Language: English
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Lyddie
$8.99 Add to cartFrom two-time Newbery award-winning author Katherine Paterson.
When Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their family farm’s debts, Lyddie is determined to find a w- Author: Paterson, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140373896
- Language: English
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Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times
$20.00 Add to cartWork is a joke. Laughing at it is political.
Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” In a moment when great numbers of pe… [more below]
- Author: Lane-McKinley, Madeline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1942173709
- Language: English
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Sanctify Your Daily Life: How to Transform Work Into a Source of Strength, Holiness, and Joy
$18.95 Read moreWhether you’re a monk or a manager, whether you change tires or change diapers, you can transform your work into a source of strength, holiness, and even joy — and these pages show you how. Written b
- Author: Wyszynski, Cardinal Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1682780643
- Language: English
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Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work
$16.00 Read moreStories of passion, courage, and commitment, following individuals as they pursue the work they were born to do, from StoryCorps founder Dave Isay
Told through touching conversations between friends,- Series: Storycorps Book
- Author: Isay, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0143110071
- Language: English
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How to Get Sh*t Done: Why Women Need to Stop Doing Everything So They Can Achieve Anything
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the editor-in-chief and co-owner of the highly respected self-improvement site Pick the Brain comes an inspirational guide for overscheduled, overwhelmed women on how to do less so that they can
- Author: Falconer, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 1501165801
- Language: English
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Come Back, Amelia Bedelia
$5.99 Add to cartAmelia Bedelia must look for a new job — Mrs. Rogers has finally had enough. But for poor Amelia Bedelia, each new job is a bigger mess than the last. Can she ever find a place to belong?
- Series: I Can Read Level 2
- Author: Parish, Peggy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 25 1995
- ISBN10: 0064442047
- Language: English
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Accountability at Work: How to make and keep promises and have others do the same
$12.99 Add to cart”You can count on me” is a phrase we don’t hear often enough in the workplace. It is the language of accountability – and putting accountability at the heart of any business can be transformational.
- Series: @Work
- Author: Taylor, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: April 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1838329609
- Language: English
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Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It)
$19.95 Add to cartWhy our workplaces are authoritarian private governments-and why we can’t see it
One in four American workers says their workplace is a “dictatorship.” Yet that number almost certainly would be higher- Series: University Center for Human Values #44
- Author: Anderson, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30, 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192243
- Language: English
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On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity
$12.95 Read moreA rousing commentary on the history of labor and the future of work. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling f
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Thompson, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1638930724
- Language: English
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Independence Day: What I Learned about Retirement from Some Who’ve Done It and Some Who Never Will
$27.99 Read more“Steve Lopez is insightful, ingenious, and often hilarious as he navigates one of life’s biggest questions.” –Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Hours
Four-time Pulitze
- Author: Lopez, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0785288724
- Language: English
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
$19.00 Add to cartA philosopher/mechanic’s wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one’s hands
“This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowled- Author: Crawford, Matthew B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0143117467
- Language: English
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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
$24.99 Add to cartStuds Terkel’s classic oral history of Americans’ working lives–and the inspiration for Barack Obama’s new Netflix series about work in the twenty-first century
“Reading these stories, I started to c- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1565843428
- Language: English
