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Adora Svitak is a Bay Area-based writer and public speaker who advocates for youth empowerment around the world. In 2010, she delivered the speech ‘What Adults Can Learn from Kids’ at TED. It has received over 5 million views on TED.com alone, and has been translated into more than 40 different languages.

Adora was named one of the ‘30 Top Thinkers Under 30’ by Pacific Standard Magazine and contributes to numerous publications including Huffington Post, Mashable, Women's Media Center, Bust, The Bold Italic, and the TED blog. She has spoken in front of audiences at Google, Mashable and the United Nations. ...more

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Average rating: 3.63 · 101 ratings · 18 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Speak Up!: Speeches by young people to empower and inspire 4.07 avg rating — 45 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flying Fingers: Master the Tools of Learning Through the Joy of Writing by Adora Svitak (Goodreads Author), Joyce Svitak 3.23 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	50 Interviews: Young Entrepreneurs - What it Takes to Make More Money than Your Parents (Vol. 1) by Nick Tart, Nick Scheidies, Joe Penna 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yang in Disguise 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green My Parents by Tom Feegel, Jordan Howard, Adora Svitak (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dancing Fingers by Adora Svitak (Goodreads Author), Adrianna Svitak 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Adora rated a book it was amazing The Asset Economy by Lisa Adkins	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Solid, readable book about how asset ownership is an essential dividing line in contemporary economies. The authors provide a rapidfire survey of political economic work on inequality and class stratification. They argue Piketty etc’s focus on plutoc ...more
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Adora has read On Drugs: Psychedelics, Philosophy, and the Nature of Reality by Justin Smith-Ruiu	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adora rated a book it was amazing Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work (Near Futures, 10) by Annie McClanahan	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Solid and engrossing, Beneath the Wage offers persuasive arguments about how service work is at the core of contemporary capitalism, how ever-heightening expectations for efficiency in task-based service work (the piecework of today) accelerate immis ...more
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Adora has read Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body by Erin Maglaque	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adora has read Men I Hate: A Memoir in Essays (21st Century Essays) by Lynette D'Amico	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adora rated a book it was amazing Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 by Karl Marx	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
sooooo suspenseful. can’t wait to read vol 2 and find out what happens next
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Adora has read Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood by Joseph Osmundson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adora rated a book it was amazing Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America by Bridget Read (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This reads like a thriller sometimes but it’s so depressing. The author put it succinctly somewhere in this book (I can’t find the exact quote) that these MLM companies don’t make their money off of products, but dreams.
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