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Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers

Teri Agins · Gotham
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating chronicle of how celebrity has inundated the world of fashion, realigning the forces that drive both the styles we covet and the bottom lines of the biggest names in luxury apparel. From Coco Chanel's iconic tweed suits to the miniskirt's surprising comeback in the late...
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Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier

Ali Almossawi · Viking
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

The wildly popular author of Bad Arguments returns with a funny, smart introduction to algorithms - those perennially misunderstood, increasingly important problem-solving rules that can save you time and lead to better choices, every day. Why is Facebook so good at predicting what you like?...
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The Path to Personal Power

NAPOLEON HILL · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

This true lost manuscript from the "grandfather of self-help," Napoleon Hill provides timeless wisdom on how to attain a more successful and wealthy life using simple principles. Napoleon Hill first wrote The Path to Personal Power in 1941, intending it as a handbook for people...
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Avid Reader: A Life

Robert Gottlieb · Farrar
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf...
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Post-Truth: Peak Bullshit - and What We Can Do About It

Evan Davis · Little, Brown
Pages: 347
Format: Paperback

Low-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting - from Trump and the Brexit debate to companies that tell us 'your call is important to us'. How did we get to a place where bullshit is not just...
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Rich Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How to Survive Obamacare, Trump Wall Street, Kick-start Your Retirement, and Achieve Financial Success

Gerri Willis · Crown Forum
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

In a fiery polemic on our personal finances, Gerri Willis, anchor and personal finance correspondent for Fox Business News, reveals how liberal policy has decimated our wallets. In Rich Is Not a Four-Letter Word, veteran financial journalist and pundit Gerri Willis takes on the progressive...
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Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It

JEFFREY PFEFFER · HarperBusiness
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying...
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Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 567
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller "Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving." - The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over...
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Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing for Business

SUSAN GUNELIUS · Entrepreneur Press
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback

Send Better Email. Build a Better Business. With more than 2.6 million email messages sent every second, it's becoming harder to stand out in inboxes -- not to mention in a sea of spam, which accounts for 67 percent of those emails. Marketing and strategic branding expert Susan Gunelius...
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Start Your Own Event Planning Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success

The Staff of Entrepreneur Media · Entrepreneur Press; Fourth Edition edition
Format: Print book

"Covering hot new trends in the industry, including the rise in first birthday celebrations, environmentally friendly parties, small-plate catering, and more, this startup guide provides entrepreneurs with everything they need to take their event business from concept to reality. Aspiring...
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis · W.W. Norton
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account -- character-rich and darkly humorous -- of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash,...
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And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future

Yanis Varoufakis · Nation Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"The strong do as they can and the weak suffer what they must." - ThucydidesThe fate of the global economy hangs in the balance, and Europe is doing its utmost to undermine it, to destabilize America, and to spawn new forms of authoritarianism.Europe has dragged the world into...
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Successful Selling in a Week: Teach Yourself

Christine Harvey · Teach Yourself
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Learn in a week what the experts learn about selling in a lifetimeThe ability to sell products and services successfully is crucial to anyone who wants to advance their career. Written by Christine Harvey, a leading expert on selling, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need...
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3 Things Successful People Do: The Road Map That Will Change Your Life

John C Maxwell · Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

You have the potential to become a success today. Success is a journey. If you know where you're going and how to get there, you are going to reach your destination. In fact, you already have. The single most fulfilling, game-changing state of mind a person can adopt is the notion...
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