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Work Wife: The Power of Female Friendship to Drive Successful Businesses

Erica Cerulo · Ballantine Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Get inspired by the women who discovered that working with your best friend can be the secret to professional success - and maybe even the future of business - from the co-founders of the website Of a Kind.

When Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur met in college in 2002, they bonded instantly....
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Eyes Wide Open: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities in a World That Can't See Clearly

Isaac Lidsky · Tarcherperigee
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In Eyes Wide Open, Isaac Lidsky draws on his experience of achieving immense success, joy, and fulfillment while losing his sight to a blinding disease to show us that it isn't external circumstances, but how we perceive and respond to them, that governs our reality.Fear has a tendency...
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

Thomas L. Friedman · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Thomas L. Friedman's no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy - both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly...
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Retirement Reality Check: How to Spend Your Money and Still Leave an Amazing Legacy

· AMACOM
Pages: 224


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Tipping Sacred Cows: Kick the Bad Work Habits that Masquerade as Virtues

Jake Breeden · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Book

Strategies for overcoming the "sacred cows" that hold people back at workYou should try your best, work well with others, and produce excellent work. Right? But these cherished nuggets of advice, in practice, have a dark side that can lead to career-limiting unintended consequences....
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Workplace Poker: Are You Playing the Game, or Just Getting Played?

Dan Rust · HarperBusiness
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A career advisor explains why many talented, hard-working people often miss out on their full career potential, revealing the tells, blind spots, secrets, and unspoken rules you need to know in order to play the game to win.

While many careers have been impacted by economic downturns,...

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Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success

Benjamin Hardy · Hachette Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

If you're relying on willpower alone to help you lose weight, improve your relationships, or achieve more at work, you're doomed to fail. The environment around us is far too powerful, stimulating, addicting, and stressful to overcome by white knuckling. The only way to stop just surviving...
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Your Rights in the Workplace

Barbara Kate Repa · NOLO
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

Your Rights in the Workplace is an invaluable reference for every employee. Whether you have questions about your paycheck, discrimination, layoffs, or benefits, you'll find answers here.



Get the facts on:


wages, hours, and breaks
drug and alcohol...
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You Don't Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie's Dark Side

Orly Lobel · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover

Are your ideas your own or does your employer own them? This is the question that set off the greatest toy war of our time.

When Carter Bryant began designing what would become the billion-dollar line of Bratz dolls, he was taking time off from his job at Mattel, where he designed...

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Enlightened Negotiation: 8 Universal Laws to Connect, Create, and Prosper

Mehrad Nazari · SelectBooks
Pages: 238
Format: Print book

Enlightened Negotiation™ is a guide to real-world, mindful negotiation practices drawing on the principles of Eastern wisdom traditions. In the realm of business where self-styled experts teach haggling rather than negotiation, people drink in harmful practices on a daily basis. Mehrad...
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Start Your Own Retail Business and More: Brick-and-Mortar Stores • Online • Mail Order • Kiosks

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

OPEN THE STORE OF YOUR DREAMS: START YOUR OWN RETAIL BUSINESSAt more than a trillion dollars, retail is one of the fastest-growing - and fastest-changing - segments of the economy. Apps, pop-up shops, and online shopping have made it easier to reach, interact with, sell to, and gain loyal...
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Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know®

James K Galbraith · Oxford University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Over the past thirty years, the issue of economic inequality has emerged from the backwaters of economics to claim center stage in the political discourse of America and beyond---a change prompted by a troubling fact: numerous measures of income inequality, especially in the United States...
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Day Trading For Dummies

Ann C. Logue · For Dummies
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback

Understand how day trading works - and get an action plan Due to the fluctuating economy, trade wars, and new tax laws, the risks and opportunities for day traders are changing. Now, more than ever, trading can be intimidating due to the different methods and strategies of traders on Wall...
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Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

Frank Trentmann · Harpercollins, 2016.
Pages: 880
Format: Print book

What we consume has become a central - perhaps the central - feature of modern life. Our economies live or die by spending, we increasingly define ourselves by our possessions, and this ever-richer lifestyle has had an extraordinary impact on our planet. How have we come to live with...

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