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Pick Three: You Can Have It All

RANDI ZUCKERBERG · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In this motivational handbook - both a business how-to and self-help guide - the New York Times bestselling author of Dot Complicated takes on the fallacy of the "well-balanced" life, arguing that the key to success is learning to be well-lopsided.Work. Sleep. Fitness. Family....
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Power Your Tribe: Create Resilient Teams in Turbulent Times

Christine Comaford-Lynch · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Is your team thriving in a world of relentless and rapid change?From the New York Times bestselling author of SmartTribes and Rules for Renegades comes a potent set of neuroscience-based tools to empower your team in uncertain times.Whether it's diminished sales, increased competition,...
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

ADAM TOOZE · Viking
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover

From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today.In September 2008 President George Bush could still describe the financial...
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China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine

Rosemary Gibson · Prometheus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it--and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This is a disturbing, well-researched wake-up call for improving the current system of drug supply and manufacturing.Several decades ago, penicillin,...
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JELL-O Girls: A Family History

ALLIE ROWBOTTOM · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its façade - told by the inheritor of their stories.In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor...
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Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do

Carl J. Schramm · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"The evangelist of entrepreneurship" (The Economist) reveals the true stories about how a range of entrepreneurs created their successful start-ups: hint, many of them never began with a business plan.Business schools teach that the most important prerequisite for starting...
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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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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

Jesse Eisinger · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 377
Format: Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, "a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission ... It is a book of superheroes" (San Franscisco Review of Books) .Why were no bankers...
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Essential Guide to Family & Medical Leave, The

Lisa Guerin · NOLO
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback

The purpose of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is to help employees balance the demands of work and family. But the law can be hard for employers to apply in the real world. Questions about eligibility, coverage, notice and certification requirements, administering leave,...
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