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Material World is a celebration of the humans and human networks, the miraculous processes and little-known companies, that combine to turn  raw materials into things of wonder. This is the story of human civilization from an entirely new perspective: from the ground up.   1 Homo Faber This story begins with a bang. An explosion

At Stanford University’s world-renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, aka “the d.school,” teachers and learners of all ages bring together their diverse perspectives and backgrounds to tackle ambitious projects. Whether your students are interested in making an impact in the social sector or the business world, the d.school’s approach to design helps uncover hidden possibilities and bring

Todd Rogers and Jessica Lasky-Fink offer the most valuable practical writing advice today. Building on their own research in behavioral science, they outline cognitive facts about how people actually read and distill them into six principles that will transform the power of one’s writing: Less is more Make reading easy Design for easy navigation Use

Two-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his life in competitive debating and reveals the timeless secrets of effective communication and persuasion. 1. Topic How to find the debate On a Monday morning in January 2007, a couple of months after my graduation from

You can search for books across these disciplines through our course lists, which cover General Business, Business Statistics, Business Law and Legal Environment, Decision Sciences, International and Economic Development, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Principles of Economics, Quantitative Methods, and Special Topics. Here is a small selection of the books available:   General Business     Business Statistics

In Ideaflow, Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn of Stanford’s renowned Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka the “d.school”) offer a proven strategy for coming up with great ideas by yourself or with your team, and quickly determining which are worthy. With the proven system in this book, students, entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders will learn how

by Nell McShane Wulfhart Stewardesses aren’t the first workers that come to mind when you think of the labor movement. But behind that smiling, compliant, conventionally attractive image lies a group of militant unionists who led an unheralded workplace revolution that changed American history. In the beginning of the 1960s, the airplane cabin might have

Michael Heller and Jim Salzman, the authors of Mine! How the hidden rules of ownership control our lives, have written an open-source Teacher’s Manual available for free download. Mine! is the first popular story-based book to bring together the basics of modern property law. The authors explain modern property law—the rules for who gets what and

One of Silicon Valley’s top leadership trainers distills his proven framework that has empowered teams at the world’s most innovative companies—from Google and Facebook to Cisco Systems and biotech giant Genentech/Roche—to do the best work of their lives.     Richard Lee has worked with thousands of ambitious leaders and their teams, and has found

Beaten Down, Worked Up is a stirring and essential look at labor in America, poised as it is between the tumultuous struggles of the past and the vital, hopeful struggles ahead.    Beaten Down, Worked Up Award-winning journalist and author Steven Greenhouse guides us through the key episodes and trends in history that are essential

In recent years, corporate profits have skyrocketed in the United States. Workers often haven’t seen the same good fortune as their employers, with wages on average remaining stagnate or seeing only slight increases after inflation. In this excerpt from Beaten Down, Worked Up, reporter Steven Greenhouse shares the struggles faced by many Americans, their stories

The Random House Group has announced it will publish long-time CEO, Chairman, and current Chairman Emeritus of Starbucks Howard Schultz’s most revelatory and visionary book yet, From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America, on February 12th, 2019.  The book will be edited by Chris Jackson, editor of such authors as Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bryan Stevenson