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Expert Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Creating a Mass Movement of People Who Will Pay for Your Advice

Russell Brunson · Morgan James Publishing
Pages: 268
Format: Paperback

Your message has the ability to change someone's life. The impact that the right message can have on someone at the right time in their life is immeasurable. It could help to save marriages, repair families, change someone's health, grow a company or more ... But only if you know...
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Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley, as Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom

ADAM FISHER · Twelve
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

A candid, colorful, and comprehensive oral history that reveals the secrets of Silicon Valley -- from the origins of Apple and Atari to the present day clashes of Google and Facebook, and all the start-ups and disruptions that happened along the way.Rarely has one economy asserted itself...
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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

Thor Hanson · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships...
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The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown

Blaire Briody · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Williston, North Dakota was a sleepy farm town for generations -- until the frackers arrived. The oil companies moved into Williston, overtaking the town and setting off a boom that America hadn't seen since the Gold Rush. Workers from all over the country descended, chasing jobs that...
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The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation

DARRELL M WEST · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Looking for ways to handle the transition to a digital economyRobots, artificial intelligence, and driverless cars are no longer things of the distant future. They are with us today and will become increasingly common in coming years, along with virtual reality and digital personal assistants.As...
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Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Ajay Agrawal · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"What does AI mean for your business? Read this book to find out." -- Hal Varian, Chief Economist, GoogleArtificial intelligence does the seemingly impossible, magically bringing machines to life--driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that...
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INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

Marty Cagan · Wiley
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently than the vast majority of tech...
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The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines

JAY W RICHARDS · Crown Forum
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and economist Jay W. Richards makes the definitive case for how the free market and individual responsibility can save the American Dream in an age of automation and mass disruption.For two and a half centuries, America has been held together by the belief that if you work...
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The Ambition Decisions: What Women Know About Work, Family, and the Path to Building a Life

HANA SCHANK · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A big idea self-help book about the decisions that shape women's lives, in the vein of Designing Your LifeWhat happens to women's ambition in the years after college? The essays which were the catalyst for this book began as a series for the Atlantic, a project between two friends...
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100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask, Fourth Edition: With Answers from Top Brokers from Around the Country

ILYCE R GLINK · Three Rivers Press
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

From the most trusted name in real estate, a new and fully updated edition of the indispensable guide that helps first-time buyers land the home of their dreamsWhat does "location, location, location" really mean? How do I decide what to offer on a house? What exactly is the closing?Buying...
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