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“madeleine baker”

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  • Make Your Own Job

    How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America

    by Madeleine Baker ...
    A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States, from Horatio Alger to Instagram influencers.How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Thrift and persistence came to seem old-fashioned. Successful workers were increasingly expected to show initiative and enthusiasm for change—not just to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Make Your Own Job

    How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America

    by Madeleine Baker ...
    Narrated by Steve Menasche ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 48 min

    How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century. Successful workers were increasingly expected to show initiative and enthusiasm for change. Our culture of work today is more demanding than ever, even though workers haven't seen commensurate rewards.Make Your Own Job explains how this entrepreneurial work ethic took hold, from its origins in late ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Human Resource Management

    In-Basket Exercises for School Administrators

    by Jerry R. Baker, Madeleine S. Doran ...
    Research has shown that adult learners prefer a problem solving approach to learning rather than subject centered. This text provides a non-traditional approach to teaching and learning the basics of human resource management through a series of 120 'in-basket' exercises and guided questions. The in-basket exercises focus on real-life problems and issues that confront school administrators on a ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology

    A collection of prose and poetry from emerging Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada

    Edited by Jordan Abel, Carleigh Baker, Madeleine Reddon ...
    To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Indigenous Voices Awards, an anthology consisting of selected works by finalists over the past five years, edited by Jordan Abel, Carleigh Baker, and Madeleine Reddon.Established in 2017, the Indigenous Voices Awards honour the sovereignty of Indigenous creative voices and nurture the work of emerging Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada.Through ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Power

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  • J'aime dire la verite I Love to Tell the Truth

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  • A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Theory

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