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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
306.36 WALLAC 2023
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
306.36 WALLAC 2023
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Description

"Having one full-time job is the riskiest career move you can make; we need a new path to design sustainable, future-proof, fulfilling lives that doesn't tie our identities and livelihoods to our jobs. In The Portfolio Life, Harvard professor, serial entrepreneur, and self-described "human Venn diagram" Christina Wallace delivers a model for thriving amidst the constant disruptions of the 21st century. Adapting tried-and-true practices from the business...

2) Philanthro-capitalism: how the rich can save the world

Author

Bishop, Matthew

Publisher

Bloomsbury Press

Pub. Date

c2008

Language

English

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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
361.7 BIS 2008
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The social venture network

3) True to yourself: leading a values-based business

Author

Albion, Mark S

Series

Publisher

Berrett-Koehler

Pub. Date

[2006]

Language

English

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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
658.408 ALB 2006
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4) The Big Nine: how the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity

Author

Webb, Amy

Publisher

PublicAffairs

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
006.301 WEBB 2019
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Description

A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the everyday people whose data powers AI--aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have...

5) Thriving: the breakthrough movement to regenerate nature, society, and the economy

Author

Visser, Wayne

Publisher

Fast Company Press

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

On Shelf

Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
658.4083 VISSER 2022
1 available

Description

An innovation agenda for turning our biggest global societal challenges into opportunities to thrive. The future will be better than you think. Thriving shows how innovation can regenerate nature, society, and the economy by taking us from degradation to restoration of ecosystems, from depletion to renewal of resources, from disparity to responsibility in communities, from disease to revitalization of health, from disconnection to rewiring through...

6) Tyranny, Inc: how private power crushed American liberty--and what to do about it

Author

Ahmari, Sohrab

Publisher

Forum Books

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
322.3097 AHMARI 2023
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Description

"The inside story of how our political class enabled an era of unaccountable corporate might that left ordinary Americans isolated and powerless-and how we can fight back-from the acclaimed author of The Unbroken Thread. Over the past two generations, U.S. leaders deregulated big business on the faith that it would yield a better economy and a freer society. But the opposite happened. Americans lost stable, well-paying jobs, Wall Street dominated...