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The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money: Thirteen Ways to Right Your Financial Wrongs

Jill Schlesinger · Ballantine Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Why do even the smartest among us make dumb mistakes with our money? Pinpoint your biggest money blind spots and take control of your finances with these tools from CBS News Business Analyst and host of the nationally syndicated radio show Jill on Money, Jill Schlesinger.

Do...
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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...
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Edison

Edmund Morris · Random House
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.

Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered...
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Thank You for Being Late: Finding a Job, Running a Country, and Keeping Your Head in an Age of Accelerations

Thomas L Friedman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 496
Format: Audiobook

A New York Times Bestseller

A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observers

We all sense it -- something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read...

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You Don't Have to Be a Shark: Creating Your Own Success

Robert Herjavec · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

" Many people assume that effective sales ability demands a unique personality and an aggressive attitude. It's not true, and Robert Herjavec is proof. Known as the "Nice Shark" on the ABC's Emmy Award-winning hit show SHARK TANK, Robert Herjavec is loved by viewers, who respond...
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Handbook of Essentials That Every High Schooler Needs to Know: About Finance and Much More!

Sunjay Letchuman · AuthorHouse
Pages: 58
Format: Paperback

This book discusses the basics of finance that are prevalent in high school. There are certain activities that will destroy a high school student's life if he or she engages in them, and this book points out those detrimental activities in a concise manner. Once a student understands...
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If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?

Raj Raghunathan · Portfolio Penguin
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Widely admired psychological researcher Raj Raghunathan explains how the traits that usually lead to success can also lead to unhappiness--and how to be happy and successfulFifteen years after Raj Raghunathan completed his MBA, he checked in on his old classmates and noticed something strange:...
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Time Management Ninja: 21 Rules for More Time and Less Stress in Your Life

Craig Jarrow
Format: Hardcover

Time management made simple and easy

Fans of The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy, Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy, and 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington will love Time Management Ninja.

More time, stress relief, and relaxation: You want more time in your life. Time...

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The Curse of Cash

Kenneth S Rogoff · Princeton University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Is Different, "a fascinating and important book" (Ben Bernanke) about phasing out paper money to fight crime and tax evasion--and to battle financial crises by tapping the power of negative interest rates

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The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future

Steve Case · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 221
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

One of America's most accomplished entrepreneurs - a pioneer who made the Internet part of everyday life and orchestrated the largest merger in the history of business - shares a roadmap for how anyone can succeed...
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Resumes For Dummies

Laura DeCarlo · For Dummies
Pages: 504
Format: Paperback

Master the art of resume writing and boost your chances of getting hired

With unemployment rates still running high, getting an edge up on the competition in your field - whatever it may be - can be an intimidating and exhausting undertaking. Luckily, Resumes For Dummies is here...

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Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

Laura Vanderkam · Portfolio
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Learn to savor life's best moments--no matter how busy you are--through mindset shifts that alter your perception of time.

Laura Vanderkam, the acclaimed author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, isn't like other time-management gurus. She's not trying...
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Start Before You're Ready: The Young Entrepreneurs Guide to Extraordinary Success in Work and Life

Mick Spencer · Wiley
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Unleash your entrepreneurial spirit with a counterintuitive approach to starting your own venture or taking your career to the next levelStart Before You're Ready offers entrepreneurs an inspiring new roadmap to success - one that runs against nearly everything you've ever been...
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The Disney Way, 3E: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company

Bill Capodagli · Mcgraw-Hill Education, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

"Dream, Believe, Dare, Do . . ." Though four simple words, this carefully crafted credo lies at the heart of Walt Disney's enviable empire and has led The Walt Disney Company to prosperity for decades. As foremost experts on Disney, authors Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson...
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Travel with Purpose: A Field Guide to Voluntourism

Jeff Blumenfeld · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Imagine yourself in a schoolroom in one of the most remote regions of one of the most hard-to-reach countries on earth. Nepal. The Lower Mustang region to be exact. To reach it takes a 14-hour flight from New York to Doha, Qatar. Then four hours by air to Kathmandu. Transfer at one of the world's...
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