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Power Your Profits: How to Take Your Business from $10,000 to $10,000,000

Susie Carder · Atria Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In the United States, most people who own small businesses struggle daily to make ends meet. Two-thirds of businesses earn less than $25,000 a year. Thankfully, Susie Carder - entrepreneur and business coach to everyone from Steve Harvey to Paul Mitchell - has developed the ultimate formula...
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The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World's Most Famous Museum

James Gardner · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

Some ten million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incomparable art collection. Yet few of them are aware of the remarkable history of that place and of the buildings themselves -- a fascinating story that historian James Gardner elegantly chronicles...
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15-Minute STEM Book 2: More quick, creative science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities for 5-11-year-olds

Emily Hunt · Crown House Publishing Ltd
Format: Paperback

Emily Hunt's 15-Minute STEM Book 2: More quick, creative science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities for 5-11-year-olds offers a stimulating selection of easy-to-resource STEM activities designed to engage and inspire young learners. Like most teachers and parents, you probably...
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People Strategy: How to Invest in People and Make Culture Your Competitive Advantage

Jack Altman · Wiley; 1st edition
Format: 1st Edition

People Strategy: How to Invest in People and Make Culture Your Competitive Advantage provides readers with a powerful framework in which to develop high-performing teams, increase employee motivation, and use data to build an inviting and effective company culture. Author Jack Altman,...
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Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption

Rafia Zakaria · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women's rights.Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria...
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

EyalPress · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States' most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view...
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Refugee High: Coming of Age in America

Elly Fishman · ‎The New Press
Format: Hardcover

A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highest proportions of refugees of any school in the nation "A wondrous tapestry of stories, of young people looking for a home. With deep, immersive reporting, Elly Fishman pulls off a triumph of empathy. Their tales...
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The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower's Guide to Ecological Market Gardening

Jesse Frost · Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback

Principles and farm-tested practices for no-till market gardening--for healthier, more productive soil! From the host of the popular The No-Till Market Garden Podcast -- heard around the world with over 850k downloads! Discovering how to meet the soil's needs is the key task for every...
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Here, Right Matters: An American Story

Alexander Vindman · ‎Harper
Format: Hardcover

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. HERE, RIGHT MATTERS is a stirring account of Vindman's...
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Valuing Clean Air: The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection

Charles Halvorson · ‎Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover

The passage of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 marked a sweeping transformation in American politics. In a few short years, the environmental movement pushed Republican and Democratic elected officials to articulate a right to clean...
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