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The Perfect Resume: Resumes That Work in the New Economy

Dan Quillen · Cold Spring Press
Pages: 183
Format: Print book

HR Director and author of four job search books Dan Quillen shows readers how to craft an incredible resume that will get job-seekers in the door!

Dan Quillen calls on his expertise as an HR professional (and as one who lost and found a job in the toughest economic environment since...
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

Walter Scheidel · Princeton University Press
Pages: 504
Format: Print book

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully....
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55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life

Elizabeth White · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

For the millions of people in their fifties and sixties who find themselves out of work, unable to find a job, and financially incapable of retiring, here's a practical plan for getting past any blame or shame, overcoming denial, and finding a path to a new normal.

Elizabeth White...
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Resumes For Dummies

Laura DeCarlo · For Dummies
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Polish up that old resume - and land your dream job

We've all been there: it's time to apply for a job or internship and you have to create or revise your resume. Many questions pop in your head. What do employers want? What skills should I highlight? How do I format this? How do I get noticed?...

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Have You Eaten Grandma?: Or, the Life-Saving Importance of Correct Punctuation, Grammar, and Good English

Gyles Brandreth · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

For anyone who wants to make fewer (not less) grammar mistakes, a lively, effective, and witty guide to all the ins and outs of the English language, reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

Our language is changing, literary levels...
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Heads I Win, Tails I Win: Why Smart Investors Fail and How to Tilt the Odds in Your Favor

Spencer Jakab · Portfolio Penguin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

INVESTING IS ONE OF THE FEW AREAS IN LIFE WHERE EVEN VERY SMART PEOPLE LET HOPE TRIUMPH OVER EXPERIENCE According to Wall Street Journal investing colum­nist Spencer Jakab, most of us have no idea how much money we're leaving on the table - or that the average saver doesn't come...
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What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles that Separate the Best from the Rest

Denise Lee Yohn · Jossey-Bass
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

Discover proven strategies for building powerful, world-class brands in this 800CEOREAD bestseller It's tempting to believe that brands like Apple, Nike, and Zappos achieved their iconic statuses because of serendipity, an unattainable magic formula, or even the genius of a single...
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Water Plant Operator

National Learning Corporation. Civil Service Division. · National Learning Corp.
Pages: 1
Format: Paperback

The Water Plant Operator Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: plant maintenance...
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Know Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth

Mika Brzezinski · Hachette Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Mika Brzezinski's bestselling motivational guide--"a rallying cry for women to get the money they deserve." (TheAtlantic.com) --now updated and expanded.Why are women so often overlooked and underpaid? What are the real reasons men get raises more often than women? How can women...
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Open Secret: The Global Banking Conspiracy That Swindled Investors Out of Billions

Erin Arvedlund · Portfolio Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

“Gaming the LIBOR—that is, fixing the price of money—had become just that: a game. Playing it was the price of admission to a club of men who socialized together, skied in Europe courtesy of brokers and expense accounts, and reaped million-dollar bonuses.”In the midst...
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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...
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Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of

Itamar Simonson · HarperCollins
Pages: 232
Format: Print book

Going against conventional marketing wisdom, Absolute Value reveals what really influences customers today and offers a new framework - the Influence Mix, a totally new way of thinking about consumer decision making and marketing, and about developing more effective business strategies.How...
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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...
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The Power of the Other: The startling effect other people have on you, from the boardroom to the bedroom and beyond-and what to do about it

Henry Cloud · HarperBusiness
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Wall Street Journal bestseller

An expert on the psychology of leadership and the bestselling author of Integrity, Necessary Endings, and Boundaries For Leaders identifies the critical ingredient for personal and professional wellbeing.

Most leadership coaching focuses on helping...

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The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change

Ellen Ruppel Shell · Currency
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Critically acclaimed journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell uncovers the true cost--political, economic, social, and personal--of America's mounting anxiety over jobs, and what we can do to regain control over our working lives.

Since 1973, our productivity has grown almost six times faster...
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