Summer Reading at Ford
Even during summer break Ford Library keeps adding new books to our collection. Come check out our New Book and New Audiobook sections for even more great choices. (Click on any of the titles below to check availability or to place a hold.)
Fun Summer Reading:
- The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need by Daniel H. Pink, art by Rob Ten Pas
- Beyond Bullsh*t: Straight Talk at Work by Samuel A Culbert
- Gotcha Capitalism: How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day – And What You Can Do About It by Bob Sullivan
- The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You by Mark Buchanan
- The Future of the Internet (and How to Stop It) by Jonathan Zittrain
Happiness, Health, and Work:
- What Happy Companies Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Company for the Better by Dan Baker, Cathy Greenberg, and Collins Hemingway
- How: Why ‘HOW’ We Do Anything Means Everything…in Business (and in Life) by Dov Seidman
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
- Doubt is their product: how Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health by David Michaels
- Responsibility at Work: How Leading Professionals Act (or Don’t Act) Responsibly by Howard Gardner
- One Foot Out the Door: How to Combat the Psychological Recession That’s Alienating Employees and Hurting American Business by Judith M. Bardwick
Insights in Business:
- Gut Feelings: A Writer’s Truths and Minute Inventions by Merrill Joan Gerber
- The Value Motive: The Only Alternative to the Profit Motive by Paul Kearns
- Closing the Leadership Gap: Add Women, Change Everything by Marie C. Wilson
- Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester Brown (revised and expanded)
- Followership: How Followers are Creating Change and Changing Leaders by Barbara Kellerman
- Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls by Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis
- Trust Rules: How to Tell the Good Guys from the Bad Guys in Work and Life by Linda K. Stroh
Politics and the Economy:
- Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips
- The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris
- Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planetby Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Corpocracy: How CEOs and the Business Roundtable Hijacked the World’s Greatest Wealth Machine – and How to Get It Back by Robert A. G. Monks
- Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life by Robert B. Reich
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