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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Bright-sided Bright-sided Barbara Ehrenreich In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to i… OL15710774W
Bright-sided Bright-sided Barbara Ehrenreich A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism, existential clarity and courage. "Confronts the false promises of positive… OL17728163W
Bait and switch Bait and switch Barbara Ehrenreich Ehrenreich enters the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible résumé of a professional "in transition," she attempts to land a job--undergoing career coaching and persona… OL19829597W
Dancing in the Streets Dancing in the Streets Barbara Ehrenreich "Cultural historian Ehrenreich explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic reve… OL2520830W
Gouden bergen Gouden bergen Barbara Ehrenreich Ehrenreich gaat - als undercover verslaggever - op zoek naar een nieuwe kantoorbaan en werpt hierdoor licht op de problematische situatie van de middenklasse in Amerika. Ze krijgt loopbaanbegeleiding… OL26368460W