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My Father's Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company

CAL TURNER · Center Street
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"This classic story told through the eyes of my friend Cal Jr. is instructive in almost every area of life. I simply could not put it down. Must-read!"-Dave Ramsey, bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio show hostThe first-person account of the family that changed...
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Unstoppable Influence: Be You. Be Fearless. Transform Lives.

Natasha Hazlett · Soul Food Publishing
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback

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The Leader Habit: Master the Skills You Need to Lead--in Just Minutes a Day

Martin Lanik · AMACOM
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In leadership as in life, only practice makes perfect. Habits are powerful. They can lock us into negative behaviors (like snacking and smoking) or train us to act automatically in ways that benefit us (such as putting on a seat belt) . Routines quietly undergird large portions...
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

NOT AVAILABLE. · Ecco
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

"A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro's sinking." - Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook"The one account I've read that solves...
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Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity

Condoleezza Rice · Twelve
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Political risk -- the chance that political action could impact a company's business -- is changing fast. Here are the essential lessons, corrective measures, and counterintuitive insights for executives, entrepreneurs and investors to navigate an uncertain, volatile world.From New York...
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Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

SARA WACHTER-BOETTCHER · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A revealing look at how tech industry bias and blind spots get baked into digital products -- and harm us all.Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us ask why all these digital products are designed...
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Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 4th Edition: Breed Selection, Facilities, Feeding, Health Care, Managing Layers & Meat Birds

GAIL DAMEROW · Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover

Serious poultry farmers and backyard bird raisers have relied on this best-selling reference for more than 20 years. The fourth edition of Gail Damerow's comprehensive handbook is now completely revised and redesigned, making it more accessible and informative than ever. You'll...
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Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days

Chris Guillebeau · Crown Business
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The author of the New York Times Bestseller THE $100 STARTUP shows how to launch a profitable side hustle in just 27 days. For some people, the thought of quitting their day job to pursue the entrepreneurial life is exhilarating. For many others, it's terrifying. After all, a stable...
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Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

Corey Pein · Metropolitan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley tech culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefitAt the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with...
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy...
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