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Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune

Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Palgrave MacMillan Trade
Format: Hardcover

Fact: the Millennial Generation will not be able to rely on pensions and social security in retirement. Instead, they will have to save and invest in the global stock market to meet their goals. When it comes to thinking about money, Millennials are, as a generation, different from their...
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Nasty Galaxy

Sophia Amoruso · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From Sophia Amoruso, the New York Times-bestselling author of #GIRLBOSS, a lushly illustrated embodiment of the collective spirit of the Nasty Gal brand, Sophia's own personal brand, and girlbosses everywhere, with a foreword by Courtney Love. Warning: this is not a style...
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Making Social Security Work for You: Advice, Strategies, and Timelines That Can Maximize Your Benefits

Emily Guy Birken · Adams Media
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A guide to getting the most out of Social Security Despite reports of Social Security's impending bankruptcy, Social Security remains an important part of most Americans' retirement plans. But will it be enough? Making Social Security Work for You teaches you what you need to know...
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Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud

David Dayen · New Press
Pages: 385
Format: Print book

In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history - a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions...
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Preston Tucker and His Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow

Steve Lehto · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 260
Format: Print book

After World War II, the American automobile industry was reeling. Having spent years building tanks and airplanes for the army, the car companies would need years more to retool their production to meet the demands of the American public, for whom they had not made any cars since 1942....
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The Best Things in Life are Free

Lonely Planet. · Lonely Planet Pbns
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet's The Best Things in Life are Free is packed full of money-saving tips, tricks and recommendations for the best-value sights and experiences around the world. From parks, museums and exercise classes that are free, to insider ideas on food and experiences offered at great...
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What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Rethinking Resumes: Write a Winning Resume and Cover Letter and Land Your Dream Interview

Richard N. Bolles · Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback

The first resume book from the What Color Is Your Parachute? career guru Richard Bolles.Resumes get an average of eight seconds of attention before going in the trash—or getting on the shortlist. Thats just one of the findings reported here, as legendary career expert Richard N. Bolles...
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How Women Decide: What's True, What's Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices

Therese Huston · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A definitive playbook for making stronger, wiser choices that thoughtfully addresses how the cultural landscape - and the research - defines how women decide

Books about decision making are often inadvertently tailored primarily to men. Meanwhile, books about women in business...
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The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence

Dacher Keltner · Penguin Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world.It is taken...
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The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby

Lauren Smith Brody · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The Fifth Trimester is your new best friend: a brilliant, tells-it-like-it-is guide that helps moms cope with the demands of the real world after the baby arrives

The first three trimesters (and the fourth - those blurry newborn days) are for the baby, but the...
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Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Robert Leon Wilkins · Proud Legacy Publishing
Pages: 155
Format: Print book

In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession-eventually...
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The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company

Scott K. Edinger · AMACOM
Format: Hardcover

Think you can spot the leaders in your company? Don't assume that you can identify them by their positions. What about those employees who consistently step up: the field agent who solves a previously intractable problem; the service rep who thinks outside the box and creates unshakeable...
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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership

Richard Branson · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola...
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How to Use the Internet to Advertise, Promote, and Market Your business or Web Site - With Little or No Money REVISED 3RD EDITION

Bruce C Brown · Atlantic Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Book

Interested in promoting your business and/or Web site, but don t have the big budget for traditional advertising? This new book will show you how to build, promote, and make money off of your Web site or brick and mortar store using the Internet, with minimal costs. Let us arm you with...
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The Hustle Economy: Transforming Your Creativity Into a Career

Jason Oberholtzer · Running Press
Pages: 223
Format: Print book

To survive in today's gig economy, you must be a mover, a shaker, a doer, and a maker. In The Hustle Economy, we give you 25 essays from founders, writers, producers, game makers, artists, and creative types from every path who share one common trait - they are all self-made hustlers...
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