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The Glitter Plan: How We Started Juicy Couture for $200 and Turned It into a Global Brand

Pamela Skaist-Levy · Gotham
Format: Hardcover

Part memoir, part business manual, and 100 juicy—the inside story of Juicy Couture, one of the most iconic brands of our times While working together at a Los Angeles boutique, Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor became fast and furious friends over the impossibility of finding the perfect...
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Rebooting Work: Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship

Maynard Webb · Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From Silicon Valley leader Maynard Webb, how we can leverage technology to change how we work Maynard Webb has always been the go-to guy when Silicon Valley companies have thorny problems. Whether revamping eBays crashing servers transforming their technology weaknesses into a competitive...
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The Safe Investor: How to Make Your Money Grow in a Volatile Global Economy

Tim McCarthy · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Investing information is everywhere there are blogs, newspapers, magazines, and cable TV shows all dedicated to helping individuals invest in smarter and more successful ways. Yet despite all the efforts to educate the public on investing, most people still feel uncomfortable with how they...
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The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order

Paul Vigna · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy anything from coffee to cars, yet few people seem to truly understand what it is. This raises the question: Why should...
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Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire

Bruce Nussbaum · HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Offering insights from the spheres of anthropology, psychology, education, design, and business, Creative Intelligence by Bruce Nussbaum, a leading thinker, commentator, and curator on the subjects of design, creativity, and innovation, is first book to identify and explore creative intelligence...
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Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck

Jon Acuff · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

It took me sixteen years to write this book. That breaks down to a brisk twelve words per day. But it wasn't the writing that took so long. . . . It was the working.I had to work at big companies and small companies. I had to get hired and fired several times. I had to find my dream...
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

Tim Harford · Riverhead Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From the award-winning columnist and author of the national bestseller The Undercover Economist comes a provocative big idea book about the genuine benefits of being messy: at home, at work, in the classroom, and beyond.Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives celebrates the benefits...
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The United States of Beer: A Regional History of the All-American Drink

Dane Huckelbridge · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

From the author of Bourbon, "the definitive history" (Sacramento Bee) , comes the rollicking and revealing story of beer in America, in the spirit of Salt or Cod.In The United States of Beer, Dane Huckelbridge, the author of Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit - a Southern...
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How to Change Minds: The Art of Influence without Manipulation

Rob Jolles · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

Persuade, Don’t Push!Surely you know plenty of people who need to make a change, but despite your most well-intentioned efforts, they resist because people fundamentally fear change. As a salesman, father, friend, and consultant, Rob Jolles knows this scenario all too well. Drawing...
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American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper

Jacob S Hacker · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 455
Format: Print book

From the groundbreaking author team behind the bestselling Winner-Take-All Politics, a timely and topical work that examines what's good for American business and what's good for Americans - and why those interests are misaligned.In Winner-Take-All Politics, Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson...
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