Grant, Adam
Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights. We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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Summary: ""Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite thinkers thrilled me with his insights and his wonderfully new take on the world." --Malcolm Gladwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outliers and The Tipping Point "Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 153.3 GRAGrant, Adam M.
Summary: As Box searches for the right person to reveal the gift he conceals, he encounters children who are grasping, bickering, rough, and otherwise badly behaved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019
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Summary: Explains how networking and leadership skills are subject to the professional interaction styles of takers, matchers, and givers, and how these personalities dramatically shape success rates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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Summary: "The bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your beliefs and to know what you don't know, which can position you for success at work and happiness at home. The difficulty of rethinking our assumptions is surprisingly common--maybe even fundamentally human. Our ways of thinking become habits that we don't bother to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 153.4 GRAGrant, Allison Sweet
Summary: A worried leaf who fears falling when autumn approaches resolves to find a different way down and races the wind to work with a friend to create a net, a kite, and a parachute in the hope of softening his landing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: After the sudden death of her husband, Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. Grant, a friend, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. Here they combine personal insights with research on finding strength in the face of adversity. Resilience comes from deep within us and from support...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Self Grief SandbergSummary: Adaptation of the stage production which relocates the action to a nameless 20th-century underground facility, offering a parable of the quest for power in the modern world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010