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Devora Zack on how the logical and the sensitive can thrive side by side: An interview by Bob Morris
Devora Zack is a Washington Post bestselling author and global keynote speaker with books in forty-five languages. Her clients include the Smithsonian, Pfizer, Delta Airlines, and the US Food and Drug Administration. She has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, USA Today,…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Jon Meacham by Kevin Nance for the Chicago Tribune. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * In the ranks of top biographers of…
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In The Attention Merchants, Tim Wu examines merchants who have been involved in an “epic scramble to get inside our heads” for more than a century. He observes: “As an industry, attention merchants are relatively new. Their lineage can be…
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Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations Dan Ariely TED Books (November 2016) How and why people can have perpetual energy by investing in “a sense of connection, meaning, ownership, and long-term thinking” In Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded…
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Avid Reader: A Life Robert Gottlieb Farrah, Straus and Giroux (2016) Self-portrait of a remarkable life that continues to be driven and nourished by reading Since childhood, Robert Gottlieb has been an avid reader of books and those who write…
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In his latest book, The Geography of Genius, Eric Weiner engages his reader as a companion during “a search for the world’s most creative places, from ancient Athens to Silicon Valley.” Here are a few excerpts that correctly suggest the…
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In The Geography of Genius, Eric Weiner shares what he learned during his search for the world’s most creative places, from ancient Athens to Silicon Valley. Other stops along the way: Vienna of 1900, Renaissance Florence, nineteenth-century Calcutta, Hangzhou during…
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Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Niraj Chokshi for the Washington Post. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information , please click here. Photo Credit: Nati Harnik/AP * * * Sourpusses take…
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At Folsom prison, Johnny Cash found his cause
Johnny Cash stands on the lawn outside Folsom State Prison, near Sacramento, on Jan. 13, 1968. The music that he would record later this day, on the other side of these walls, led many already inside to think he had…
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