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What color is your parachute? 2017 : a practical manual for job-hunters and career-changers

Richard N Bolles · Ten Speed
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2017 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.In today's challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed...
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Book of Value: The Fine Art of Investing Wisely

Anurag Sharma · Columbia Business School Publishing
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Financial markets are noisy and full of half-baked opinions, innuendo, and misinformation. With deep insights about investor psychology, Book of Value shows how to apply tools of business analysis to sort through the deceptions and self-deceptions in financial markets. Anurag Sharma joins...
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The Grant Writer's Handbook: How to Write a Research Proposal and Succeed

Gerard M Crawley · Imperial College Press
Pages: 252
Format: Print book

The Grant Writer's Handbook: How to Write a Research Proposal and Succeed provides useful and practical advice on all aspects of proposal writing, including developing proposal ideas, drafting the proposal, dealing with referees, and budgeting. The authors base their advice on many years...
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The Bitcoin Guidebook: How to Obtain, Invest, and Spend the World's First Decentralized Cryptocurrency

Ian DeMartino · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 330
Format: Print book

Bitcoin is not another payment processor. Like the Internet, Bitcoin is a technology that runs through a distributed network. No one controls it, and no one can shut it down. Bitcoin has been called the currency of the Internet, but it is much more powerful than that - more astute observers...
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Schooling and Riding the Sport Horse: A Modern American Hunter/Jumper System

Paul D Cronin · London
Pages: 285
Format: Print book

A protégé of the legendary Vladimir S. Littauer and for more than thirty years director of the riding program at Sweet Briar College, Paul D. Cronin is a well-known and highly respected trainer and riding instructor. Schooling and Riding the Sport Horse is Cronin's clear and practical...
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First Women: The Grace and Power of America's First Ladies

Kate Andersen Brower · Harper
Pages: 380
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle...
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

Ross King · Walker & Company
Pages: 464
Format: Book

While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment....
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Hand-Built Outdoor Furniture: 20 Step-by-Step Projects Anyone Can Build

Katie Jackson · Timber Press
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

With a few basic tools and a weekend, anyone can build a beautiful project out of wood for their outdoor space!Hand-Built Outdoor Furniture covers twenty step-by-step, fully illustrated projects with hundreds of clear and easy-to-follow photographs. Finished pieces include simple items...
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Goodbye Parkinson's, Hello life!: The Gyro–Kinetic Method for Eliminating Symptoms and Reclaiming Your Good Health

Alex Kerten · Divine Arts
Pages: 230
Format: Print book

Parkinson s Disease, a disorder of the central nervous system, affects 1 million people in America and 10 million worldwide. In "Goodbye Parkinson s, Hello Life " Alex Kerten presents his breakthrough holistic technique that combines dance therapy, behavior modification, and martial...
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Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution

Richard Whittle · Picador Usa
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"Fresh and authoritative ... [Whittle] delivers action-packed details about how the CIA and the Pentagon used armed Predators to hunt for Al Qaeda leaders immediately after 9/11."-The Washington PostThe creation of the first weapon in history that can stalk and kill an enemy on the other...
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Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show

Daniel De Vise? · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 303
Format: Print book

A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, this "humorous, informative, and poignant book" celebrates the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America's most iconic television programs and "shows how the magic was created" (Library Journal)...
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Where the Wind Leads: A Refugee Family's Miraculous Story of Loss, Rescue, and Redemption

Vinh Chung · W Publishing Group
Pages: 353
Format: Print book

Vinh Chung was born in South Vietnam, just eight months after it fell to the communists in 1975. His family was wealthy, controlling a rice-milling empire worth millions; but within months of the communist takeover, the Chungs lost everything and were reduced to abject poverty. Knowing...
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Best Real Estate Investing Advice Ever

Joe Fairless · Bookbaby
Pages: 198

"This is a no-fluff real estate investing book that beginning and experienced investors can benefit from reading." -- Barbara Corcoran, Real Estate Mogul, Author of Shark TalesInspirational stories with actionable advice from interview guests on the world's longest running daily...
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Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman

Gladys Aylward · Moody Press
Pages: 153
Format: Book

A solitary woman. A foreign country. An unknown language. An impossible dream? No.With no mission board to support or guide her, and less than ten dollars in her pocket, Gladys Aylward left her home in England to answer God's call to take the message of the gospel to China. With the Sino-Japanese...
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