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Alboher focuses squarely on careers that deal with social good, but in many ways, this book provides basic tools for any midlife job hunter.

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That is what makes this book so valuable: it provides a reliable guide to a treacherous subject, giving its readers the mental ammunition to make sense of official claims.

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This painful but moving scene provides a clue as to why Mr Browner felt compelled to write this book and why the art of hospitality has come to matter so much to him.

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But Enrico Moretti has a great example in his recent book that provides a very intuitive explanation for why this need not be true.

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Because you might encounter this prejudice when you pose flexibility to your own employer, the book provides practical guidance for transforming workplace structures, management styles, measures and rewards, and culture to actually realize those economic, environmental and health benefits.

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