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Give and take : the hidden social dynamics of success / by Grant, Adam,1981-(CARDINAL)402079;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and index.Good returns : the dangers and rewards of giving more than you get -- The peacock and the panda : how givers, takers, and matchers build networks -- The ripple effect : collaboration and the dynamics of giving and taking credit -- Finding the diamond in the rough : the fact and fiction of recognizing potential -- The power of powerless communication : how to be modest and influence people -- The art of motivation maintenance : why some givers burn out but others are on fire -- Chump change : overcoming the doormat effect -- The scrooge shift : why a soccer team, a fingerprint, and a name can tilt us in the other direction -- Out of the shadows -- Actions for impact.Using his own cutting-edge research as a professor at Wharton Business School, Adam Grant shows how helping others can lead to greater personal success. He demonstrates how smart givers avoid becoming doormats, and why this kind of success has the power to transform not just individuals and groups, but entire organizations and communities.
Subjects: Success; Success in business; Interpersonal relations; Social networks; Success in business;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 16
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Give and take : a revolutionary approach to success / by Grant, Adam,1981-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and index.Good returns : the dangers and rewards of giving more than you get -- The peacock and the panda : how givers, takers, and matchers build networks -- The ripple effect : collaboration and the dynamics of giving and taking credit -- Finding the diamond in the rough : the fact and fiction of recognizing potential -- The power of powerless communication : how to be modest and influence people -- The art of motivation maintenance : why some givers burn out but others are on fire -- Chump change : overcoming the doormat effect -- The scrooge shift : why a soccer team, a fingerprint, and a name can tilt us in the other direction -- Out of the shadows -- Actions for impact.Using his own cutting-edge research as a professor at Wharton Business School, Adam Grant shows how helping others can lead to greater personal success. He demonstrates how smart givers avoid becoming doormats, and why this kind of success has the power to transform not just individuals and groups, but entire organisations and communities.
Subjects: Success; Success in business; Interpersonal relations.; Social networks.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Give and take : why helping others drives out success / by Grant, Adam,1981-,author.;
Good returns: the dangers and rewards of giving more than you get -- The peacock and the panda: how givers, takers and matchers build networks -- The ripple effect: cascading collaboration and the dynamics of giving and taking credit -- Finding the diamond in the rough: the fact and fiction of recognizing potential -- The power of powerless communication: how to be modest and influence people -- The art of motivation maintenance: why some givers burn out but others are on fire -- Chump change: overcoming the doormat effect -- The scrooge shift: why a soccer team, a fingerprint and a name can tilt us in the other direction -- Out of the shadows -- Actions for impact.Using his own pioneering research as Wharton's youngest tenured professor, Grant shows that these styles have a surprising impact on success. Although some givers get exploited and burn out, the rest achieve extraordinary results across a wide range of industries. Combining cutting-edge evidence with captivating stories, this landmark book shows how one of America's best networkers developed his connections, why the creative genius behind one of the most popular shows in television history toiled for years in anonymity, how a basketball executive responsible for multiple draft busts transformed his franchise into a winner, and how we could have anticipated Enron's demise four years before the company collapsed--without ever looking at a single number.Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index.
Subjects: Success; Success in business; Interpersonal relations; Social networks;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The inheritance : Inspector Trave and Detective Clayton, book 1 / by Tolkien, Simon,1959-(CARDINAL)668315;
When a famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence points to his son, Stephen. About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death. When his fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, Stephen s guilt seems undeniable. But there were five other people in the manor house at the time, and as their stories slowly emerge along with the revelation that the deceased man was involved in a deadly hunt for a priceless relic in Northern France at the end of World War II the race is on to save Stephen from a death sentence. Everyone has a motive, and no one is telling the truth. Unwilling to sit by and watch the biased judge condemn Stephen to death, an ageing police inspector decides to travel from England to France to find out what really happened in that small French village in 1945 and what artifact could be so valuable it would be worth killing for.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Legal fiction (Literature); Thrillers (Fiction); Fathers and sons; Historians; Historians; Inheritance and succession; Lost works of art;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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The forger's spell : a true story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the greatest art hoax of the twentieth century / by Dolnick, Edward,1952-(CARDINAL)650688;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-330) and index.OCCUPIED HOLLAND. A knock on the door -- Looted art -- The outbreak of war -- Quasimodo -- The end of forgery? -- Forgery 101 -- Occupied Holland -- The war against the Jews -- The forger's challenge -- Bargaining with vultures -- Van Meegeren's tears -- HERMANN GOERING AND JOHANNES VERMEER. Hermann Goering -- Adolf Hitler -- Chasing Vermeer -- Goering's art collection -- Insights from a forger -- The amiable psychopath -- Goering's prize -- Vermeer -- Johannes Vermeer, superstar -- A ghost's fingerprints -- THE SELLING OF CHRIST AT EMMAUS. Two forged Vermeers -- The expert's eye -- A forger's lesson -- Bredius -- "Without any doubt!" -- The uncanny valley -- Betting the farm -- Lady and Gentleman at the Harpsichord -- Dirk Hannema -- The choice -- The Caravaggio connection -- In the forger's studio -- Christ at Emmaus -- Underground tremors -- The summer of 1937 -- The lamb at the bank -- "Every inch a Vermeer" -- Two weeks and counting -- Too late! -- The last hurdle -- The unveiling -- ANATOMY OF A HOAX. Scandal in the archives -- All in the timing -- Believing is seeing -- The men who knew too much -- Blue Monday -- He who hesitates -- The great changeover -- THE CHASE. The secret in the salt mine -- The dentist's tale -- Goering on the run -- The nest egg -- Trapped! -- "I painted it myself!" -- Command performance -- The evidence piles up -- The trial -- The players make their exits.As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren, who dared to impersonate Vermeer centuries later. The con man's mark was Hermann Goering, one of the most reviled leaders of Nazi Germany and a fanatic collector of art.
Subjects: Art.; Meegeren, Han van, 1889-1947.; Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675; Art treasures in war; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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Arts of living on a damaged planet. by Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt,editor.(CARDINAL)344311; Swanson, Heather,editor.(CARDINAL)344312; Gan, Elaine,editor.; Bubandt, Nils,editor.(CARDINAL)344313;
Includes bibliographical references.[Volume 1.] Ghosts. Introduction : haunted landscapes of the Anthropocene / Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt, Anna Tsing, and Heather Swanson -- A garden or a grave? : the canyonic landscape of the Tijuana-San Diego region / Lesley Stern -- Marie Curie's fingerprint : nuclear spelunking in the Chernobyl zone / Kate Brown -- Shimmer : when all you love is being trashed / Deborah Bird Rose -- Future megafaunas : a historical perspective on the scope for a wilder Anthropocene / Jens-Christian Svenning -- Ladders, trees, complexity, and other metaphors in evolutionary thinking / Andreas Hejnol -- No small matter : mushroom clouds, ecologies of nothingness, and strange topologies of spacetimemattering / Karen Barad -- Haunted geologies : spirits, stones, and the necropolitics of the Anthropocene / Nils Bubandt -- Ghostly forms and forest histories / Andrew S. Mathews -- Establishing new worlds : the lichens of Petersham / Anne Pringle -- Coda : concept and chronotope / Mary Louise Pratt.[Volume 2.] Monsters. Introduction : bodies tumbled into bodies / Heather Swanson, Anna Tsing, Nils Bubandt, and Elaine Gan -- Deep in admiration / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Symbiogenesis, sympoiesis, and art Science activisms for staying with the trouble / Donna Haraway -- Noticing microbial worlds : the postmodern synthesis in biology / Margaret McFall-Ngai -- Holobiont by birth : multilineage individuals as the concretion of cooperative processes / Scott F. Gilbert -- Wolf, or, Homo homini lupus / Carla Freccero -- Unruly appetites : salmon domestication "all the way down" / Marianne Elisabeth Lien -- Without planning : the evolution of collective behavior in ant colonies / Deborah M. Gordon -- Synchronies at risk : the Intertwined lives of horseshoe crabs and red knot birds / Peter Funch -- Remembering in our amnesia, seeing in our blindness / Ingrid M. Parker -- Coda : beautiful monsters : terra in the Cyanocene / Dorion Sagan.
Subjects: Nature; Human ecology.; Global environmental change.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Some of them will carry me / by Scodellaro, Giada,1988-author.;
The Cord -- Freedom of White Boys in the Sand -- George Washington's Dentures -- Barbershop -- A Triangle -- The Foot of the Tan Building -- The Balcony -- Leave a Fingerprint, Gnocchi -- Three Months of Banana -- yyyy -- Pendergrass -- Adult Head -- Cabbage, the Highest Arch -- The Misconduct of Sand, and the Seven -- Forty-Seven Days Ago -- Real Number -- Spalding -- There's D'Angelo's Gap -- A Dry Drowning, Spaghetti Alle Vongole -- Wet Sand Used as an Abrasive Element -- Peach -- Ceremony -- False Lashes -- The New Husband -- Pasta, Fagioli + Cozze -- 540i -- Bending -- Haint -- Pool -- Hangnails, and Other Diseases -- La Genovese -- Catcalls -- Constellations -- In the Sand, the Nonconformity of Women Who Are Violently Shushed -- The Ethics of Piracy."A fiercely original debut collection centers Black women in moments of imminent change. Giada Scodellaro's stories range in length, style, and tone-a collage of social commentary, surrealism, recipes, folklore, and art. What brings them together is a focus on experiences of black women in moments of dislocation, and a cinematic prose style saturated with detail: a child's legs bent upon the small bosom of their mother, three-piece suits floating in a river, a man holding a rotting banana during sex, wet cardboard, a woman walking naked through a traffic tunnel. In language that is lyrical, minimal, and often absurd, the diverse stories in Some of Them Will Carry Me deconstruct contemporary life while building a surprising new reality of language, intimacy, and loss"--
Subjects: Short stories.; Fiction.; Women, Black;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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Dear Mr. Watterson [videorecording] : an exploration of Calvin & Hobbes / by We Were Pirates(Musician),composer.; Allen Schroeder, Joel,film director,film producer,editor of moving image work.; Amend, Bill,interviewee.(CARDINAL)781436; Breathed, Berke,interviewee.(CARDINAL)352921; Browne, Christopher(Filmmaker),film producer.; Green, Seth,1974-interviewee.(CARDINAL)747287; Kellett, Dave,interviewee.(CARDINAL)478402; Mallett, Jef,interviewee.; Martell, Nevin,interviewee.(CARDINAL)537073; McUsic, Matt,film producer.; Pastis, Stephan,interviewee.(CARDINAL)345725; Robb, Jenny E.,interviewee.; Solomon, Charles,1950-interviewee.(CARDINAL)727943; Wos, Joe,interviewee.(CARDINAL)549089; Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)DLC(CARDINAL)808538; Fingerprint Films,presenter,film distributor.;
Meet the fans -- Intro to Calvin and Hobbes -- Chagrin Falls -- Circle of influence -- Comics as art -- The cheapening of the comics -- Control -- Licensing and merchandise -- The legacy of Bill Watterson -- The end of Calvin and Hobbes.Cinematography, Andrew Waruszewski ; edited by Joel Allen Schroeder ; music, We Were Pirates.Featuring Berkeley Breathed, Stephan Pastis, Jenny Robb, Lee Salem, Charles Solomon, Nevin Martell, Dave Kellett, Jef Mallett, Joe Wos, Seth Green, Bill Amend.Calvin & Hobbes took center stage when it appeared in comics in 1985. A decade later, when Bill Watterson retired his strip, millions of readers felt the void. Here is an exploration to discover why his 'simple' comic strip has made such an impact on so many readers.Rating: Not rated.Golden Badger Award Winner, Wisconsin Film Festival, 2013
Subjects: Documentary films.; Feature films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Calvin (Fictitious character from Watterson); Hobbes (Fictitious character); Watterson, Bill.; Comic books, strips, etc.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Open me up / by Buller, Laura.(CARDINAL)363797;
Being human. The human race ; In touch ; Living anywhere ; Ancient wisdom ; Art inside out ; Measure me up ; Looking inside ; Nowhere to hide -- Outside in. Skin ; Body decoration ; Hairy bodies ; Nail know-how ; Fingerprint files ; Skin shades ; Organ exhibition ; Spare parts ; Body builders ; Super cells ; Inside a cell ; Discovering DNA ; DNA ; Cell division ; Genetic ID -- Moving framework. Skeleton gallery ; Break a leg ; The "x" man ; Joints ; Muscle gym ; Spaced out ; Can your face speak without words? ; Fitness first! ; In hand ; On the move ; Replacement parts -- In control. Nervous network ; A tale of two brains ; Working parts ; Left or right? ; The ANS team ; Reflex actions ; Making memories ; Do not disturb! ; Fears and phobias ; Hormone diary ; Run or stay? ; Talking heads ; Body language ; Trick or cheat? ; Touch test center ; The tasty diner menu ; The taste of success ; iEye ; Your eyes in motion ; Art of illusion ; Music to our ears ; Balancing act -- Fueling your body. Food fest ; Dental kit ; Food, glorious food! ; Lemonaid ; Body fuel ; Gastric experiments ; Toilet truths ; The liver ; Staying cool, staying warm ; The hootervator ; Breathing ; Body tour ; Breathtaking -- Maintenance and transportation. Tube network ; A bloody rebellion ; Heart ; Resume : red blood cell ; Peaks and pulses ; Drain and destroy ; Blood soldiers ; Sailing through life ; Slice of life ; Heart-to-heart ; Making a splash ; Special brew -- Malfunctions and medicine. Pathogen parade ; Spreading disease ; Malaria ; Enemy within ; Human zoo ; Ancient remedies ; Vaccinate and protect ; HIV ; Case: Disease detectives ; Pandemic ; Miracle mold ; First aid ; Alternative therapies ; Making a diagnosis ; Nursing ; Under the knife ; Through the keyhole ; Medical timeline -- Life story. Puberty ; Being female ; Being male ; Mission: Conception ; Nine months ; Baby talk ; Different features ; Twins ; Lifetime ; The end ; Body preservation ; Body parts ; The next step -- Body systems database.Provides everything you need to know about the human body--from human cells and senses to brain structure and body systems. Take a trip through the history of medicine and body science from Hippocrates to the Human Genome Project. Find out more about left-handedness, memory tricks and what sensory skills are needed to be a professional food taster!10-10.Lexile not available
Subjects: Human body; Human anatomy; Human physiology;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 11
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The complete Kennections [book on CD] / by Jennings, Ken,1974-author,narrator.;
Read by the author.Since 2012, Jeopardy! champion and host Ken Jennings has created a weekly puzzle--first appearing in Parade, then Mental Floss--involving a series of trivia questions whose answers have something in common. The trivia questions run the gamut of topics--from pop culture (movies, TV, music) to academic knowledge (history, geography, the arts) to lifestyle (food and drink, sports, hobbies). But the trickiest part might be finding the 'Kennection' that links all five answers. Many are standard trivia categories (D-Day beaches! Presidential middle names! Santa's reindeer! Batman villains!), but almost anything goes, so thinking outside the box is just as important as trivia knowledge. What do feet, McDonald's, fingerprints, and St. Louis have in common? They all have arches. What about Mercury, Chihuahuas, electrons, and Rhode Island? They're all the smallest of their kind. Columbia, Grease, and 'I Ran' (by A Flock of Seagulls)? They're homophones for nations of the world. For the first time, the Kennections canon is available in one convenient volume, with hundreds of new and updated quizzes.163
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Audiobooks.; Puzzles.; Questions and answers.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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