Jon Yates
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"Watch out, Goliath. Jon Yates has a slingshot and he's teaching us how to use it."
-Amy Dickinson, New York Times bestselling author and America's favorite advice columnist
"Jon Yates gives consumers a great primer on how to solve their own customer service problems."
-Angie Hicks, Founder of "Angie's List"
Jon Yates, the Chicago Tribune's popular "Problem Solver," offers eminently practical, money-saving advice on how to become your own consumer...
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How can one man kill two other men in the same way in different places at the same time? What if, while investigating something, you discovered everything and realised that you knew it all along? These two seemingly unrelated questions lead Eddy Pain on a voyage of discovery in the land of Taja, a place with a long and complicated history that just won't seem to leave the present alone. Eddy is a foundling, a former militia man, and now a legal investigator,...
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This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more understanding, tolerant, and even friendly we become. Combining fresh analysis with a wealth of fascinating examples, Jon Yates demonstrates the ways in which our societies have become disconnected, so that most of us spend less and less time with people who are different - as defined by age, race, or class, earning...