Books that I've listened to for my #AcademicRunPlaylist
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Created by Ben Waber
Books that I've listened to for my #AcademicRunPlaylist
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Scaling Migrant Worker Rights by Xóchitl Bada, Shannon Gleeson
3 stars
As international migration continues to rise, sending states play an integral part in "managing" their diasporas, in some cases even …
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Hubris by Johannes Krause, Thomas Trappe
2 stars
Humans are the most intelligent beings this planet has ever produced. But how is it that we can travel into …
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Varieties of Impact Investing by Noé Kabouche, Philip Balsiger, Daniel Burnier
4 stars
A new trend in ethical finance, impact investing aims to generate positive social or environmental impacts alongside financial returns. But …
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Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers by Catherine Barnard, Fiona Costello, Sarah Fraser Butlin
4 stars
This book offers an in-depth exploration of the lives of EU migrant workers in the UK following Brexit and COVID-19.
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Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe by Rano Turaeva, Rustamjon Urinboyev
4 stars
This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, …
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Hood by Alison Kinney (Object Lessons)
3 stars
"A popular, personal, historical take on a singular garment and its myriad associations with death, violence, and identity"--
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Metazoa by Peter Godfrey-Smith
5 stars
Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign …
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In Essentials, Unity by Jenny Bourne
4 stars
The Patrons of Husbandry—or the Grange—is the longest-lived US agricultural society and, since its founding shortly after the Civil War, …
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Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson
4 stars
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments--and why we can't see it
One in four American workers says their …
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"We are all fast-food workers now" by Annelise Orleck
3 stars
"The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. We Are All …
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Dead Reckoning by Diane Vaughan
5 stars
An ethnographic study of the Boston sector of the American air traffic control system to investigate the sources of its …
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Private Equity Laid Bare by Ludovic Phalippou
3 stars
Designed for an MBA course on private equity, this textbook (now version 1.7) aims to familiarize any listener with the …
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Mastering Private Equity by Claudia Zeisberger, Bowen White, Michael Prahl
5 stars
Mastering Private Equity was written with a professional audience in mind and provides a valuable and unique reference for investors, …
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