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  • You're Not Playing with a Full Deck

    Why the Coworkers Who Drive You Crazy Are Your Unfair Advantage

    THAT PERSON WHO DRIVES YOU NUTS? THEY'RE THE ACE UP YOUR SLEEVE.With the best of intentions, you hire people who fit the mold.But here’s the problem: when everyone fits the mold, your organization grows mold. You get stale thinking. Safe ideas. No breakthroughs.You end up playing with only half a deck.The perspectives you avoid—the colleagues who make you cringe, the ideas that sound crazy—are the ... Read more

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    Invisible Solutions

    25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems

    Narrated by Stephen Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 8 min

    Unprecedented access to infinite solutions has led us to realize that having all of the answers is not the answer. From innovation teams to creativity experts to crowdsourcing, we've turned from one source to another, spending endless cycles pursuing piecemeal solutions to each challenge we face. What if your organization had an effective systematic approach to deal with any problem? To find ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Year's Work at the Zombie Research Center

    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    "Playful and (un)deadly serious . . . chew[s] through a near-exhaustive array of films, television, literature, culture, music and even cocktails."— Times Literary SupplementThey have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    You're Not Playing with a Full Deck

    Why the Coworkers Who Drive You Crazy Are Your Unfair Advantage

    Narrated by Stephen M. Shapiro ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 25 min

    With the best of intentions, you hire people who fit the mold. The problem? When everyone fits the mold, your organization grows mold. You get stale thinking. Safe ideas. Zero breakthroughs. You end up playing with only half a deck. The perspectives you avoid—the colleagues who make you cringe, the ideas that sound crazy—are the missing cards. And ignoring them is costing you. In You're Not ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Read Marx's Capital

    Series series How to Read Theory
    Capital Volume I is essential reading on many undergraduate courses, but the structure and style of the book can be confusing for students, leading them to abandon the text. This book is a clear guide to reading Marx's classic text, which explains the reasoning behind the book's structure and provides help with the more technical aspects that non-economists may find taxing.Students are urged to ... Read more

    $25.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best Practices Are Stupid: 40 Ways to Out-Innovate the Competition

    40 Ways to Out-Innovate the Competition

    Well-intentioned leaders, in their attempts to boost innovation, are inadvertently destroying it.What if almost everything you know about creating a culture of innovation is wrong? What if the way you are measuring innovation is choking it? What if your market research is asking all of the wrong questions?It’s time to innovate the way you innovate.Innovation isn’t just about generating occasional ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Goal-Free Living

    How to Have the Life You Want NOW!

    Praise for Goal Free LivingSetting goals may be fine. But letting your goals take control of your life can be devastating. Goal-Free Living shows you how to explore paths in your life you never knew existed and discover a more exciting, successful, and rewarding life--today!"If you have only one goal this year, let it be this: Read Goal-Free Living!"--Daniel H. Pink author, A Whole New Mind and ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Horror

    Edited by Stephen Shapiro, Mark Storey ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Opening up the warm body of American Horror – through literature, film, TV, music, video games, and a host of other mediums – this book gathers the leading scholars in the field to dissect the gruesome histories and shocking forms of American life. Through a series of accessible and informed essays, moving from the seventeenth century to the present day, The Cambridge Companion to American Horror ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • How to Read Foucault's Discipline and Punish

    Series series How to Read Theory
    Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish is one of the best-selling works of critical theory and a key text on many undergraduate courses. However, it is a long, difficult text which makes Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro's excellent step-by-step reading guide a welcome addition to the How to Read Theory series.Undergraduates across a wide range of disciplines are expected to have a solid ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Decolonizing the Undead

    Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Film, and Media

    Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US centric zombie narratives, Decolonizing the Undead reconsiders representations and allegories constructed around this figure of the undead, probing its cultural and historical weight across different nations and its significance to postcolonial, decolonial, and neoliberal discourses. Taking stock of zombies as they appear in literature, film, and television from the ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

    Edited by Liam Kennedy, Stephen Shapiro ...
    Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dominance of our neoliberal regime. The essays collected here reveal how contemporary American writers have both propped up and interrogated the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown

    Political Pamphlets, Volume 4

    Series series Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown
    Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) was a key writer of the revolutionary era and early U.S. republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown presents all of Brown’s non-novelistic writings—letters, political pamphlets, fictions, periodical writings, historical writings, and poety—in a seven-volume scholarly set. ... Read more

    $121.49 USD