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Your Credit Score: How to Improve the 3-Digit Number That Shapes Your Financial Future

Liz Weston · Financial Times Pren Hall, 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Improve your credit score, for real, with the #1 best-selling guide you can trust! Today, a good credit score is essential for getting credit, getting a job, even getting car insurance or a cellphone. Now, best selling journalist Liz Pulliam Weston has thoroughly updated her top-selling...
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Knock 'em Dead Resumes: A Killer Resume Gets More Job Interviews!

Martin Yate CPC · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Expert advice for writing job-winning resumes!Learn to write a resume that:Stands out in a resume databasePasses the recruiters' six-second scan testResonates with savvy hiring managers At a time when every job seeker needs an edge, Martin Yate, CPC, shows you how to beat the competition....
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Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday · Portfolio Penguin
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

"While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I've found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their...
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The Job Search Checklist: Everything You Need to Know to Get Back to Work After a Layoff

Damian Birkel · Amacom
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback

Losing your job can be a crushing setback, but the key is to remember the expression: "When one door closes, another one opens." With the proven tips and tactics featured in The Job Search Checklist, you'll learn how to turn your loss into opportunity and find another job fast....
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Attitude: Develop a Winning Mindset on and off the Court

Jay Wright · Ballantine
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of a champion, the coach of the Villanova University men's basketball team shares his competitive and cooperative philosophy, along with lessons from his coaching career and the story of his personal road to success. When Kris Jenkins sank...
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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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Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular

Derek Thompson · Penguin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Nothing "goes viral." If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today's crowded media environment, you're missing the real story. Each blockbuster has a secret history - of power, influence, dark broadcasters, and passionate...
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The Confident House Hunter: A Home Inspector's Tips for Finding Your Perfect House

Dylan Chalk · Plain Sight Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

With a zillion houses out there, find your perfect home in the midst of imperfection. In The Confident House Hunter, home inspector Dylan Chalk weaves over a decade of home inspection experience into stories and tips with easy-to-understand language, teaching homebuyers and real estate...
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Never Be Closing: How to Sell Better Without Screwing Your Clients, Your Colleagues, or Yourself

Tim Hurson · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Speaker and consultant Tim Hurson presents 12 techniques that benefit both the seller and the client Never Be Closing expands on the principles of Tim Hurson's first book, Think Better, to teach salespeople how to improve their strategy and sell anything to anyone using a simple, repeatable...
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How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance

Brian Patrick Eha · Oneworld Publications
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

"The rollicking, delightfully told tale of the creation of one of the most profound new technologies of our time." -- Nicholas Thompson, editor-in-chief, Wired "If Brian Patrick Eha can make me, a Luddite dunce, both understand and care about the enigmatic Bitcoin, and if he can also...
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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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A Truck Full of Money

Tracy Kidder · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture." - Charles Duhigg Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy - the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English,...
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New Power: How Movements Build, Businesses Thrive, and Ideas Catch Fire in Our Hyperconnected World

JEREMY HEIMANS · Doubleday
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

From two visionary thinkers and practitioners comes a big idea about how power works differently in our hyperconnected age.Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in today's chaotic, connected world? In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms confront the biggest stories of our age--the...
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MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom

Anthony Robbins · Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pages: 664
Format: Print book

In his first book in two decades, Anthony Robbins turns to the topic that vexes us all: How to secure financial freedom for ourselves and for our families. "If there were a Pulitzer Prize for investment books, this one would win, hands down" (Forbes.com) .Tony Robbins is one of the most...
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The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them

Todd G Buchholz · Harper
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

In this bold history and manifesto, a former White House director of economic policy exposes the economic, political, and cultural cracks that wealthy nations face and makes the case for transforming those same vulnerabilities into sources of strength - and the foundation of a national...
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