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The $1,000 Challenge: How One Family Slashed Its Budget Without Moving Under a Bridge or Living on Government Cheese

Brian J. O'Connor · Portfolio Trade
Format: Paperback

Are You Brave Enough for the $1,000 Challenge?   Middle-class incomes are stretched more than ever. Feeling the strain himself, personal finance columnist Brian O’Connor decided to put his own family’s spending to the test. He began a ten-week experiment...
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Stand Up to the IRS

Frederick W. Daily · NOLO
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback

The book the IRS doesn't want you to read The Internal Revenue Service can wreak havoc on your life. But now you can confront America's most intimidating government agency with confidence. Packed with practical information and advice, Stand Up to the IRS reveals the tactics of the IRS and how to deal...
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From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places

Elmira Bayrasli · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Why the next Steve Jobs is just as likely to come from Lagos, Acapulco, Lahore, or Mumbai as from Silicon Valley.Elmira Bayrasli's colorful narrative brings readers inside the world of high-growth entrepreneurs as they overcome vexing obstacles to build businesses that create jobs and economic...
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The CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors That Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders

ELENA L BOTELHO · Currency
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Based on an indepth analysis of over 2,600 leaders drawn from a database of more than 17,000 CEOs and C-suite executives, as well 13,000 hours of interviews, and two decades of experience advising CEO's and executive boards, Elena L. Botelho and Kim R. Powell overturn the myths about what...
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Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America

Glenn Hubbard · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In this groundbreaking book, two economists explain why economic imbalances cause civil collapse— and why the United States could be next. From the Ming Dynasty to Ottoman Turkey to imperial Spain, the Great Powers of the world emerged as the greatest economic, political, and military...
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Make Your Kid A Money Genius

Beth Kobliner · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

From Beth Kobliner, the author of the bestselling personal finance bible Get a Financial Life - a new, must-have guide showing parents how to teach their children (from toddlers to young adults) to manage money in a smart way.Many of us think we can have the "money talk" when...
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Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away

Lisa Napoli · Dutton
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The dramatic relationship between Ray Kroc, the man who amassed a fortune as chairman of one of America's most controversial and iconic companies - McDonald's - and the passionate woman, his wife, Joan, who then gave that fortune away.Beginning in the 1950s, salesman Ray Kroc presided...
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Extraordinary PR, Ordinary Budget: A Strategy Guide

Jennifer R Farmer · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback

Low Cost, High Impact!Public relations is a make-or-break factor for all organizations, especially those that are small or mission driven. While it can be tempting to think that PR is a luxury only larger organizations can afford, PR expert Jennifer R. Farmer shows how her CCRR framework...
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ENGAGED!: Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life

Gregg Lederman · Evolve Publishing
Format: Book

Customers love it when employees are ENGAGED to deliver an experience. However, it doesn’t come easy for most companies. The level to which your workforce is ENGAGED also has a significant impact every day on employees’ happiness and productivity, the customer experience, and your...
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The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time

Bob Harris · Walker & Company
Format: Print book

Hired to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: he would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make lives like...
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You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice

Tom Vanderbilt · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

"From the best-selling author of Traffic, a brilliant and entertaining exploration of our personal tastes--why we like the things we like, and what it says about us,"--NoveList.From the tangled underpinnings of our food taste to the complex dynamics of our playlists, our preferences...
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Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk

Craig R. Roach · BenBella Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Imagine your life without the internet. Without phones. Without television. Without sprawling cities. Without the freedom to continue working and playing after the sun goes down. Electricity is at the core of all modern life. It has transformed our society more than any other technology....
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Disenchantment: Managing Motivation and Demotivation at Work

Adrian Furnham · Bloomsbury Business
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

Workplace disenchantment can cause major issues for organisations - productivity decreases, employees can turn actively destructive and individual health and well-being can deteriorate. Most people start a job happy enough and determined to do a good job - if they are lucky, they have found...
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Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity

Bernard Lietaer · Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Book

As the United States struggles and the economies of Europe stagger, we fail to see a way out of this agonizing cycle of repeated financial meltdowns. In fact, there are thousands of ways to solve not only our recurring fiscal crises but our ongoing social and ecological debacles as well....
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Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media In the Digital Age

Michael Wolff · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

"The closer the new media future gets, the further victory appears." --Michael WolffThis is a book about what happens when the smartest people in the room decide something is inevitable, and yet it doesn't come to pass. What happens when omens have been misread, tea leaves...
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