Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Anxious 9 to 5	Martin M. Antony	xii, 209 p. ; 23 cm	OL15003124W
Very like a star	Dawn L. Watkins	Relates what happens to a hard-working, dependable bee named Rigel and the lazy bees who tease her.	OL15014143W
High performance through teamwork	Robert Gartner	Discusses teamwork skills and their usefulness in school, at work, and in a future career.	OL15836947W
Working days	Anne Mazer	Fifteen stories relate the experiences of teenagers working for many different reasons in a variety of jobs.	OL16478753W
Daddies	Janet Frank	Vocations and avocations of fathers.	OL16603729W
Bridge	Patrick Jones	Eighteen-year-old Jose serves as the bridge between his non-English speaking family and the rest of the world, and because his parents are illegal immigrants and extended family lives with them, mone…	OL17893355W
The day of Ahmed's secret	Florence Parry Heide,Ted Lewin,Judith Heide Gilliland	A young Egyptian boy describes the city of Cairo as he goes about his daily work and waits for the evening to share a special surprise with his family.	OL1826318W
Pig Pig gets a job	David M. McPhail	Pig Pig thinks of all the jobs he could get, from cook to auto mechanic, and is enthusiastic about performing similar tasks for his family at home.	OL1864738W
Irresistible Forces	Danielle Steel	Danielle Steel's forty-seventh bestselling novel is very much about the tides of our times, changes and responsibilities in the workplace pull two people in different directions, sweeping them into n…	OL19767W
One second ahead	Rasmus Hougaard	Researchers have found that the accelerated pace of modern office life is taking its toll on productivity, employee engagement, creativity and well-being. Faced with a relentless flood of information…	OL20015795W
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy	Jenny Odell,Rebecca Gibel	Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. So arg…	OL20078135W
A spiritual audit of corporate America	Ian Mitroff,Elizabeth A. Denton	"With this book, Mitroff and Denton become the first researchers to offer hard, scientific data regarding the effect of spirituality - or the lack of it - on corporate America, that is, on the perfor…	OL20544719W
Democracy at work	Richard D. Wolff	Wolff shows why and how to make democratic workplaces real. He speaks to those who realize that capitalism economics and politics as usual have become intolerable and who seek a concrete action progr…	OL20547712W
Station K.I.D.S.	Cindy Leaney	Stations K.I.D.S. interviews animals about their work at a zoo. Features the sound of the letter "k" and and silent "k" reinforcing word games.	OL20889541W
Mindfulness at work	Stephen McKenzie	Written by an expert with years of both clinical and personal experience, 'Mindfulness at Work' includes examples of mindfulness in action in the workplace, while also looking at how the principles o…	OL21446605W
Office genius	James Andrews	"Are you stuck in an office snog rug? Are you being held back by cheap office furniture? Is your team experiencing one of the worst gossip droughts in living memory? It's no wonder you're not enjoyin…	OL24289562W
Life Work	Donald Hall	"Trust a poet to write a memoir that is not a memoir but a series of reflections organized around a theme—in this case, the pleasures of work. Hall, a winner of the National Book Critics Circle…	OL2658823W
Faith positive in a negative world	Joey Faucette	Find faith in your work. Step out of the world's negativity and become a positive Christian business person in the world as you increase faith with greater joy at work so you love God and others more.	OL27058384W
The psychology of work and organizations	Stephen A. Woods	"From the challenges of sustainability to disruptive technology, work environments face unprecedented change and this major new textbook provides a cutting-edge introduction to how psychology and the…	OL27293101W
Stepping Up	Timothy D. Dobbins	Stepping Up explains an elegantly simple yet entirely practical approach to making positive choices at work and in life. Timothy Dobbins, a leading executive coach, a Fellow at the Warton School at t…	OL276282W