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84) Touch
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"From the author of the acclaimed I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, a satirical and moving novel in the spirit of Maria Semple and Jess Walter about a New York City trend forecaster who finds herself wanting to overturn her own predictions, move away from technology, and reclaim her heart. Sloane Jacobsen is the most powerful trend forecaster in the world (she was the foreseer of "the swipe"), and global fashion, lifestyle, and tech companies...
85) Forecasts
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"Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to forecasts. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
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"This [book] ... covers everything from the earliest efforts by seafarers at predicting storms to the way satellite imaging is revolutionizing hurricane forecasting. It reveals the latest information on hurricanes: their effects on ocean waves, the causes of the variable wind speeds in different parts of the storm, and the origins of the super-cooled shafts of water that vent at high altitudes."--rear cover.
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"In a brilliant but sobering work of journalism, Ellen Ruppel Shell takes a hard look at the forces that are reshaping the nature of work in America, overturning the often espoused mythology that retraining workers in software, engineering, and the sciences is the key to job security and career success, and achieving the middle-class dream in the future. In a wide-ranging narrative that takes us from a downsized marketing executive in Massachusetts,...
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"Una propuesta rigurosa e imaginativa para que empresas y trabajadores afronten con éxito nuevas formas de trabajar y otras maneras de vivir. ¿Es el empleo asalariado un buen invento? ¿Por qué trabajamos como lo hacemos? ¿Los robots nos van a quitar el trabajo? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que nos hacemos en un momento de incertidumbre, conscientes de que las relaciones laborales han cambiado drásticamente: nuestros padres tuvieron...
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