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    5 Books to Enhance Your Skills as a Social Worker, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

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    Social Work and Beyond: How to be a conscious social work entrepreneur
    by Peter Nduwayesu Buturo

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    A New History of Social Work: Values and Practice in the Struggle for Social Justice (Routledge Adva
    by John H. Pierson

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    Conversation Starters for Direct Work with Children and Young People (Practical Guides for Direct Wo
    by Audrey Tait

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    Bloody Social Worker: One Man's Three Decades in Social Care
    by Richard Wills & Jeff Weston

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    Days in the Lives of Social Workers: 62 Professionals Tell "Real-Life" Stories From Social Work Pr
    by Linda May Grobman & Kathryn Conley Wehrmann

5 Books to Enhance Your Skills as a Social Worker

by Daisy Reynolds

     

    Top five career books for LGBTQ+ people, recommended by Layla McCay

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    Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling: How LGBTQ+ people can thrive and succeed at work
    by Layla McCay

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    Forging Queer Leaders: How the LGBTQIA+ Community Creates Impact from Adversity
    by Bree Fram & Elizabeth Cavallaro

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    Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
    by Margot Canaday

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    All Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive's Journey to Living and Leading Authentically
    by Jim Fielding

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    Queeristan: LGBT Inclusion at the Indian Workplace
    by Parmesh Shahani

Top five career books for LGBTQ+ people

by Layla McCay

     

    Best non fiction books on self-transformation, recommended by John Laby

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    Cartography of Inner Worlds: A Journey to Deepen the Meaning of our Lives
    by Niels de Fraguier

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    The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
    by Brianna Wiest

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    The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
    by Eckhart Tolle

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    The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
    by Gabor Maté MD & Daniel Maté

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    The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Global Icons Series)
    by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams & Gail Hudson

Best non fiction books on self-transformation

by John Laby

     

    BEST RELATIONSHIP BOOKS FOR COUPLES, recommended by m sab

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    Out of the Box Activities and Games for Couples: The book of games and date ideas to have fun with y
    by Fiona Chiaraviglio & Patrick Fischer

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    Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection
    by Julie Schwartz Gottman PhD & John Gottman PhD

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    Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Cre
    by Lysa TerKeurst

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    Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples: Third Edition
    by Harville Hendrix Ph.D. & Helen LaKelly Hunt PhD

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    Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep--Love
    by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller

BEST RELATIONSHIP BOOKS FOR COUPLES

by m sab

     

    Top Five Books on Creating Future-Fit HR, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

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    OpenHR: The Human Capital Framework for the Blended Workforce
    by Jeremy Blain & Dr. Rochelle Haynes

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    Future of Work: AI in HR
    by Sreejith Sreedharan

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    HR Disrupted: It’s time for something different
    by Lucy Adams

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    Digital HR Mastery: Navigating the Future of People Management
    by Pinky Deb

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    The Future of Work: HR Innovations and Insights
    by Amar Shankar Mishra & B Ravi Prakash Rao

Top Five Books on Creating Future-Fit HR

by Daisy Reynolds

     

    Top 5 Autobiographies Passing on Lessons to the Next Generation, recommended by Daisy Reynolds

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    Bad Behaviour: And other stories
    by Michael Higgs

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    Life Without a Tie
    by Ray Martin

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    Educated
    by Tara Westover

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    Back in the Day: A Memoir
    by Melvyn Bragg

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    My Life as a Foreign Country
    by Brian Turner

Top 5 Autobiographies Passing on Lessons to the Next Generation

by Daisy Reynolds

     

    Five Books For Improving Resilience And Boosting A Confident Mindset, recommended by Jayden Gould

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    ReThink Resilience: 99 Ways to Recharge Your Career and Life
    by Beth Benatti Kennedy MS LMFT, Karthik Venkatakrishnan PhD FCP & Songmao (Ben) Zheng PhD

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    Burnout: How to Manage Your Nervous System Before it Manages You
    by Dr Claire Plumbly

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    Everyday Resilience: A Practical Guide to Build Inner Strength and Weather Life's Challenges
    by Gail Gazelle MD

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    The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from Setbacks
    by Al Siebert

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    The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
    by Kelly McGonigal

Five Books For Improving Resilience And Boosting A Confident Mindset

by Jayden Gould

     

    BEST BOMARZO MONSTER PARK NOVELS, recommended by Tuscia Flat

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    Bomarzo;: A novel
    by Manuel Mujica Lainez

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    Dante's Garden: Magic and Mystery in Bomarzo 2nd Edition
    by Teresa Cutler-Broyles

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    Michelangelo's Ghost (A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Book 4)
    by Gigi Pandian

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    Signatures in Stone: A Bomarzo Mystery
    by Linda Lappin

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    In the Garden of Monsters: A Novel
    by Crystal King

BEST BOMARZO MONSTER PARK NOVELS

by Tuscia Flat

     

    Best Contemporary Sci-Fi Books, recommended by Michal Jirak

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    The Martian
    by Andy Weir

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    Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears (Singularity Series)
    by William Hertling

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    Seveneves
    by Neal Stephenson

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    Recursion: A Novel
    by Blake Crouch

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    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

Best Contemporary Sci-Fi Books

by Michal Jirak

     

    Five Books On Reaching Workplace Equality, recommended by Jayden Gould

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    Valued at Work: Shining a light on bias to engage, enable, and retain women in STEM
    by Lauren Neal & Lauren Neal

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    Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
    by Sheryl Sandberg

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    3

    The Power Of Women: Harness your unique strengths at home, at work and in your community
    by Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

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    4

    How Women Rise
    by Sally Helgesen

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    5

    Own It: The Power of Women at Work
    by Sallie Krawcheck

Five Books On Reaching Workplace Equality

by Jayden Gould

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