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The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World
Dan Ackerman · PublicAffairs
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Tetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, popular video game ever made. But the fascinating story of its origins is lesser known. How did an obscure Soviet programmer, working on frail, antiquated computers, create a product that has earned nearly $1 billion in sales? How did an inspired,... |
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Needles and Haystacks: Smart Thinking in the Age of New Data
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz · Dey Street Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An Economist Best Book of the YearA PBS NewsHour Book of the YearAn Entrepeneur Top Business Book An Amazon Best Book of the Year in Business and LeadershipNew York Times BestsellerForeword by Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of our Nature Blending the informed analysis of The Signal... |
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Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges
Joanna Barsh · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Powerful, unvarnished advice for growing through the work challenges all aspiring leaders faceThe business world is full of catchphrases: follow your passion; think positive; be authentic; suck it up; take risks; network. All well-intentioned, but let's be honest. This inch-deep advice... |
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Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking
Jennifer Riel · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Move Beyond Trade-Off ThinkingWhen it comes to our hardest choices, it can seem as though making trade-offs is inevitable. But what about those crucial times when accepting the obvious trade-off just isn't good enough? What do we do when the choices in front of us don't get us what we need?... |
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The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt
ROBERT I SUTTON · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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How to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic bestseller The No Asshole Rule "Help, I'm dealing with an asshole! What can I do?" Since his book The No Asshole Rule became a national bestseller a decade ago, Robert Sutton has heard that question... |
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Elisabeth Rosenthal · Penguin Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestseller.At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems."Patients can save thousands of dollars by purchasing An American... |
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Our Damaged Democracy: We the People Must Act
Joseph A Califano, Jr. · Touchstone
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative and passionate primer on the three branches of government reveals the changes - political, cultural, constitutional, technological, institutional - that render our government completely dysfunctional, and the urgent need to fix our democracy before it's too late.If you've... |
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Dead Companies Walking: How A Hedge Fund Manager Finds Opportunity in Unexpected Places
Scott Fearon · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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Unlike most investors, who live in fear of failure, Scott Fearon actively seeks it out. He has earned millions of dollars for his hedge fund over the last thirty years shorting the stocks of businesses he believed were on their way to bankruptcy. In Dead Companies Walking, Fearon describes... |
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Getting Permission: How to License & Clear Copyrighted Materials Online & Off
Richard Stim · Nolo
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
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Want to use copyrighted material? Better get permission first. If you plan to use any copyrighted material for your own purposes, you need to get permission first from the owners of that work. If you don't, you could find yourself slapped with an expensive and time-consuming lawsuit.... |
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FIRE: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation
Dan Ward · HarperBusiness
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover
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Noted military technology expert Dan Ward's manifesto for creating great products and projects using the methods of rapid innovation.Why do some programs deliver their product under cost, while others bust their budget? Why do some deliver ahead of schedule, while others experience... |
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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It
Larry Olmsted · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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"Impressive . . . Readers will be inspired by Olmsted's intensity and clarity, and floored by how far some counterfeiters go to fool consumers and some historic food institutions go to protect their products and their names. Olmsted's sharp language will hopefully put fires under counterfeiters... |
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