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Six Books to Help You Quit Your Job: What To Read Before You Quit
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For three and a half years, I worked for a boss who had zero experience in the department he managed. He was the "good old boy" type who got ahead by being a white male who kissed his boss's ass (and, likely, other parts). He had
Book Review: The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen
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Bananas, it turns out, don't grow on trees, but instead are large herbs and are best classified as berries. The plant, which is actually a tall grass, can grow - from a cutting and not a seed - twenty inches in twenty-four hours. The banana we eat in
Book Review: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway wrote and rewrote A Moveable Feast [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/143918271X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theident-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=143918271X&linkId=078e8ace01d22ee523b7f08d126eae39] , the memoir of his impoverished years as a young writer in
Book Review: Luck Favors the Prepared by Nathaniel Barber
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In the first sentence of what turns into an uncommonly poignant and funny book, Nathaniel Barber dives headlong into a familiar topic: the interview for the job your don't want. We've all been there, sitting across from our future boss, being talked out of a position
Book review: Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century, by Chuck Klosterman
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If you devoured a lot of pop culture over the last decade, you might wonder what Chuck Klosterman's latest volume, Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399184163/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&
Book review: Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court, by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Let me start off by saying that the entirety of my basketball knowledge comes from Space Jam [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M0QMM8/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=theident-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B000M0QMM8&linkId=cd45cd323e04bdf37966bd7b05cd1c9f] , so this
Book Review: Practicing New Historicism, by Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt
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Book reviewers read many things, some quite strange. Yesterday, for instance, I was forwarded a press release for the "must-read non-fiction children's book of the season" about bald eagles. Today, I read a new historicist's perspective on "The Potato in the Materialist Imagination&