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AgeProof: Living Longer Without  Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip
AgeProof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip

Jean Chatzky · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Two of the world's leading experts explain the vital link between health and wealth that could add years to your life and dollars to your retirement savings. All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if we can't get out of bed. And the healthiest body in the world won't stay that...
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Hell Week: Seven Days to Be Your Best Self
Hell Week: Seven Days to Be Your Best Self

Erik Bertrand Larssen · Gallery Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

From world-renowned mental trainer Erik Bertrand Larssen, whose clients include Olympic athletes and Fortune 500 CEOs, Hell Week is a military-inspired yet accessible guide to making the critical changes necessary for long-term professional and personal success and overall lifestyle improvements.Norway...
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Self-Management for Actors: Getting Down to
Self-Management for Actors: Getting Down to

Bonnie Gillespie · Cricket Feet Publishing; 4 edition
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback

Become your future agent's dream client before you've even met. Self-Management for Actors will help you take control of the business side of your creative career. By learning how to build your brand, target your buyers, create content that showcases you best, and pitch like the rockstar...
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Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream

Sara Goldrick-Rab · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with Paying the Price, she shows in damning detail exactly why. Quite simply, college is far too expensive...
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Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions
Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions

Gerd Gigerenzer · Viking
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening look at the ways we misjudge risk every day and a guide to making better decisions with our money, health, and personal livesIn the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But as risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows,...
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Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good

Chuck Collins · Chelsea Green
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

As inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep the system operating in their favor -- all while retreating...
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Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela

Raul Gallegos · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude - the world's largest reserves - an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support,...
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Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street

SHEELAH KOLHATKAR · RANDOM HOUSE
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

For readers of deeply reported nonfiction such as The Big Short and Dark Money comes the story of the largest insider trading investigation in history - and the rise and fall of the Wall Street legend who rewrote all the rules.
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Killing It: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Head Without Losing Your Heart
Killing It: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Keeping Your Head Without Losing Your Heart

Sheryl O'Loughlin · Harper Business
Pages: 290
Format: Print book

The former CEO of Clif Bar, Co-founder of Plum, and serial entrepreneur offers insights about launching and growing a business while maintaining a fulfilled life in this practical guide filled with hard-won advice culled from the author's own sometimes dark, raw experiences. With a foreword...
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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality
Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

James Kwak · Pantheon Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics,...
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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

Beth Macy · Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations,...
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Stand Up to the IRS
Stand Up to the IRS

Frederick W. Daily Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback

IRS Bills? Get the information and strategies you need to deal with the taxman. Named a "Best Tax Book" by Entrepreneur.co The Internal Revenue Service can wreak havoc on your life. But now you can confront America's most intimidating government agency with confidence. Packed...
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Cracking the GMAT with 2 Computer-Adaptive Practice Tests, 2017 Edition
Cracking the GMAT with 2 Computer-Adaptive Practice Tests, 2017 Edition

Princeton Review · Princeton Review
Pages: 704
Format: Print book

IF IT'S ON THE TEST, IT'S IN THIS BOOK. Get all the prep you need to ace the GMAT--including 2 full-length Computer Adaptive practice tests for realistic exam preparation, up-to-date content reviews for every test section, and extra practice online.Techniques That Actually...
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Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible

William N Goetzmann · Princeton University Press
Pages: 600
Format: Print book

In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and jobs, and undermines governments and banks. In Money Changes Everything, leading financial historian William Goetzmann argues the exact opposite - that the development...
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Making work work : the positivity solution for any work environment
Making work work : the positivity solution for any work environment

Shola Richards · Sterling Ethos
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Is your office a place of soul-destroying negativity? Shola Richards keynote speaker, award winner, and creator of The Positivity Solution blog is about to change that . . . forever. " My mission was clear: I needed to fix the problems facing the workplace. As quickly as I came up with...
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