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Veggie Smarts: A Doctor and Farmer Grows and Savors Eight Families of Vegetables
Author:
Michael T. Compton
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Veggie Smarts inspires people to get smart about vegetables, so that meals will be more delicious and health will be optimized. It helps the reader eat vegetables smartly, while cultivating curiosity about how they are grown on farms and can be grown at home. Beyond nutrition advice and ample quirky scientific facts about many of our veggies (like why some people are genetically prone to despise broccoli and kale, how onions make us cry, why beans make us fart, and how beets can make our pee pink), Veggie Smarts is a doctor's personal account of leaving behind the big city for an old stone house and a fertile field in the Hudson Valley. It's about his journey in building a small-scale, organic-certified vegetable farm. It elevates readers' understanding of how nearly all of our veggies come from just eight families of flowering plants, from among more than 400: the Brassicas, the Alliums, the Legumes, the Chenopods, the Aster Greens, the Umbellifers, the Cucurbits, and the Nightshades.
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Braving the Workplace: Belonging at the Breaking Point
Author:
Beth Kaplan
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Braving the Workplace: Belonging at the Breaking Point revolutionizes the conversation around belonging—a vital yet overlooked human need—within modern workplaces. Through groundbreaking research and compelling narratives, the book explores how the absence of belonging fosters workplace-induced trauma, identity disorders, and burnout, offering a new lens to understand and address these pervasive issues.
Dr. Kaplan reframes belonging as an active process, connecting identity, inclusion, and purpose. Her actionable insights bridge the gap between productivity and humanity. In a world reshaped by the pandemic, where employees are reevaluating work’s role in their lives, her work provides a timely blueprint for systemic change.
Accessible and universally relevant, this book speaks to leaders, professionals, and anyone seeking fulfillment at work, making a compelling case for belonging as the foundation of well-being and workplace transformation.
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Addiction Is A Family Disease
Author:
Arthur D Dielhenn
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At its core, "Addiction Is A Family Disease" is a pathway to understanding and/or recovering from the damage addiction inflicts on addicts, their families, friends, and employers. All are affected, some more severely than others, but all deserve the opportunity to heal, to leave chaos, guilt, and shame behind, no longer burdened or entrapped. Armed with a new gratitude for life all can re-build, contribute, love, laugh, and thrive again.
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PROPEL VALUES: Emotional Intelligence
Author:
Alain Rondelli
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Emotional Intelligence — Book N°2 of the PROPEL VALUES series — delivers a timely doctrine for leaders navigating the age of Artificial Intelligence. As technology accelerates, organizations risk forgetting that true innovation is not built on algorithms but on the distinctly human ability to Connect, Empathize, and Inspire Trust.
This volume reframes Emotional Intelligence as today’s most strategic asset: the skill that enables leaders to Translate Complexity into Clarity, Build Resilient Teams, and Drive Responsible Innovation. Where A.I. analyzes, E.I. Humanizes. Where machines process, leaders must relate.
By placing Emotional Intelligence at the core of business practice, Alain Rondelli provides a bold answer to the challenges of automation and disruption. Emotional Intelligence is not only a book — it is a call to Anchor Progress in Humanity, proving that The Future of Business Innovation belongs to Leaders Who Value People First.
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