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Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why

Paul Tough · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 125
Format: Print book

In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success. Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Tough takes on a new set of pressing questions: What does...
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A Colorful Way of Living: How to Be More, Create More, Do More the Vera Bradley Way

Barbara Bradley Baekgaard · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

From the co-founder of the Vera Bradley empire, a practical and inspiring book that shows women how to awaken their full potential, at any age."This place could use some color!" That's what Barbara Bradley said to her friend Pat during an airport layover. It was 1982 and all the women...
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The 30-Day Money Cleanse: Take control of your finances, manage your spending, and de-stress your money for good

Ashley Feinstein Gerstley · Sourcebooks
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Take control of your finances and de-stress your relationship with money! Like food, money is something all of us use but none of us talk about -- creating a stressful relationship that most of us suffer from, obsess over, and try to avoid altogether because it feels too impossible to manage....
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1001 Ways to Pay for College: Strategies to Maximize Financial Aid, Scholarships and Grants

Gen Tanabe · SuperCollege
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

Completely revised with updated descriptions, contact information, websites, and available monies, this guide to financing higher education is the only resource students need to fund their pursuit of knowledge. Balancing detailed explanations with real-life examples and practical resources,...
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How to Think About Money

Jonathan Clements · Jonathan Clements LLC
Pages: 158
Format: Print book

There are those who think the goal of investing is to beat the market and amass as much wealth as possible, that street smarts and hard work ensure investment success, and that the road to happiness is paved with more of everything. And then there are those who get it. Want a more prosperous,...
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This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See

SETH GODIN · Portfolio
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Real marketing isn't about racking up clicks and tweets; it's about connection, empathy, and making a difference.Over the past quarter century, Seth Godin has taught and inspired millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, leaders, and fans from all walks of life, via his blog, online courses,...
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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity

Amy Webb · PublicAffairs
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we--the...
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The Case Against Sugar

Gary Taubes · Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent...
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Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy

Richard E Feinberg · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

90 miles off the coast of Florida a new revolution is afoot. This time instead of guerillas marching through the streets of Havana, it is a global economy that will revolutionize Cuba. Now open to the world, how will this nascent economy develop?Open for Business: The Cuban Economy after...
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

Antonio Garcia Martinez · Harper
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Business Insider Top 20 Business Book of the Year * An Inc. Best Book of the Year for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners"Incisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year.... Clearly there will be people...
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Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy

LAWRENCE KUDLOW · All Points Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Donald Trump promised the American people a transformative change in economic policy after eight years of stagnation under Obama. But he didn't adopt a conventional left or right economic agenda. His is a new economic populism that combines some conventional Republican ideas-tax cuts,...
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Rock Retirement: A Simple Guide to Help You Take Control and be More Optimistic About the Future

ROGER WHITNEY · Morgan James Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Rock Retirement offers inspirational advice on how to enjoy the journey to retirement to its fullest. Traditional retirement advice usually boils down to saving more, sacrificing more, and settling for less. This approach makes people dependent on systems outside their control, such as the market,...
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Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World

ANNIE LOWREY · Crown
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income - a stipend given to every citizen - and why it might be necessary for our age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your checking account,...
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Backroads Boss Lady: Building a Million-Dollar Business by Getting Real with Myself and My Community

Jessi Roberts · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Discover business and life tips from Cheekys's founder, who survived a dark past and turned her tiny Idaho shop into a multi-million dollar brand -- "a manifesto on how to do everything from overcome haters to persevere in business" (Lee Woodruff, #1 NYT bestselling author) .New...
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Know Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth

Mika Brzezinski · Hachette Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Mika Brzezinski's bestselling motivational guide--"a rallying cry for women to get the money they deserve." (TheAtlantic.com) --now updated and expanded.Why are women so often overlooked and underpaid? What are the real reasons men get raises more often than women? How can women...
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