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Overcome the Eight Barriers to Confidence      Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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30 Outdated Leadership Practices Holding Your Company Back

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Inside The Box: People Don't Actually Like Creativity

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The Stockdale Paradox: How Optimism Creates Resilience

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Why Successful People Never Bring Cellphones Into Meetings

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Zappos' CEO on Using Corporate Relocation to Preserve Customer Led Culture

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Industrial Style: Design for Makers

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The New Yorker: Weekend Reading

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January Free Book:

For more than fifty years, readers have enjoyed Robert van Gulik’s acclaimed detective mysteries featuring Judge Dee—magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger—based on a famous statesman of the Tang Dynasty. Two Judge Dee mystery short stories form our free e-book for January, Murder in Ancient China. Murder in Ancient China is in our series of Chicago Shorts, and it is available on our website DRM-free in your choice of an EPUB file (for most e-reading devices, phones, and computers), as well as in a PRC file (for the Kindle). Or, you can get Murder in Ancient China free thoughout January at leading e-book retailers, including in the Amazon Kindle store, at Apple iBooks, and at GooglePlay. Whichever you choose, please introduce yourself to the deductive powers of Judge Dee and enjoy Murder in Ancient China free in January. Happy New Year! Yes, it’s 2014, but you can still save money on books in the Great Chicago Book Sale. Get a Judge Dee mystery, The Phantom of the Temple, for just $7 (see page 38). More than 600 books are in the Great Chicago Book Sale. Sale prices start at $5 and are up to 80% off. Use promo code AD9978 to get the discount prices. Our Sale Catalog has books in all subjects, for all readers. And plenty of lovely gift books. Prices are valid only until 2/28/2014. Quantities are limited, so some titles may be depleted before 2/28/2014. Order today! About Chicago's e-books: The University of Chicago Press has over 2000 titles in its Chicago Digital Editions e-book program. Some of Chicago's e-books are DRM-free, while others require Adobe Digital Editions software, which is freely downloadable. Chicago Digital Editions are powered by BiblioVault.

This is the January 2014 free e-book notification.