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April 22, 2025

April 22, 2025

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Celebrating Earth Day with Insightful Reads: Exploring Waste, Climate, and Sustainability

Earth Day offers a powerful opportunity to reflect on our relationship with the planet, the environmental challenges we face, and the actions we can take to safeguard the Earth for future generations. I believe the most effective ways to deepen our understanding of these issues is through learning through discussions and reading. Books can offer knowledge, provoke thought, and inspire change. This Earth Day, I’m excited to highlight six thought-provoking books that tackle various facets of environmentalism, sustainability, and climate […]

April 22, 2025

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Celebrating Earth Day with Insightful Reads: Exploring Waste, Climate, and Sustainability

On Earth Day, it’s a powerful opportunity to reflect on our relationship with the planet, the environmental challenges we face, and the actions we can take to safeguard the Earth for future generations. I believe the most effective ways to deepen our understanding of these issues is through learning through discussions and reading. Books can offer knowledge, provoke thought, and inspire change. This Earth Day, I’m excited to highlight five thought-provoking books that tackle various facets of environmentalism, sustainability, and […]

March 12, 2025

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Celebrate Women’s Voices: Inspiring Books for Women’s History Month from Parnassus Books for Business

February 13, 2025

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Black History Month 2025: Essential New Books Illuminating Our Shared Journey

This Black History Month, a remarkable collection of books offers profound insights into racial dynamics, social progress, and the ongoing struggle for equality. These groundbreaking works by leading authors provide critical perspectives on race, justice, and transformation. Workplace Dynamics and Racial Inequity Qualified by Shari Dunn explores the intricate ways competency checking intersects with race in professional environments. Through rigorous research and compelling interviews, Dunn uncovers systemic barriers that impact career advancement for Black professionals. Scientific Understanding of Racism Keon West’s The Science of Racism presents a data-driven […]

January 10, 2025

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Perry Pidgeon Hooks Pivots to New Adventures

All of us at Parnassus Books for Business hope that your holidays have been happy, healthy and peace-filled. We have been looking at so many new books that we are excited to share with you in the coming months. With the new year comes a big change. At the end of December, Perry Pidgeon Hooks pivoted to new adventures. After nearly thirty years as a book matchmaker, she is looking forward to meditating, campaigning, and serving others in new ways. […]

March 11, 2024

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Failure And Success: Not As Different As We Think

Failure. Chances are you, like most people, don’t find comfort in the word. It evokes pessimistic emotions that pile so high it’s hard to see any positives over the enormity. We’re expected to view failure negatively. Why wouldn’t we? We’ve posited failure at the far end of the spectrum from success until it feels impossible to achieve your goals if failure riddles your path. However, to grow professionally and personally, failure is not only a present factor; it’s essential to […]

February 12, 2024

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Together We Can Be Ready For Anything: Leadership And Reading, 2024’s Perfect Match

As the turn of the year settles in, we are beginning to shed our reflective mindsets of late 2023 and pushing to take action on our 2024 resolutions. Last year came with many changes here at Hooks Book Events and in the workforce as a whole. As the calendar flips to February, we’ve noticed the year has taken a running start, and, maybe for the first time since the 2020 shutdown, the pace has been steady. Professional resolutions seem attainable— […]