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Law For Small Business For Dummies

Claudia Gerrard · Wiley
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Your own in-house legal advisor - at a fraction of the cost Written in plain-English for business people without any legal training, Law For Small Business For Dummies covers everything you need to be aware of regarding the law when you're starting and running your own business. Cutting...
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Nice Companies Finish First: Why Cutthroat Management Is Over--and Collaboration Is In

Peter Shankman · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover

The era of authoritarian cowboy CEOs like Jack Welch and Lee Iacocca is over. In an age of increasing transparency and access, it just doesn't pay to be a jerk -- to employees, customers, competitors, or anyone else. In Nice Companies Finish First, Shankman, a pioneer in modern PR, marketing,...
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The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs

Alexa Clay · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A book that argues that lessons in creativity, innovation, salesmanship, and entrepreneurship can come from surprising places: pirates, bootleggers, counterfeiters, hustlers, and others living and working on the margins of business and society.Who are the greatest innovators in the world?...
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I.M.: A Memoir

Isaac Mizrahi · Flatiron Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Isaac Mizrahi is sui generis. Designer. Cabaret singer. Talk show host. He's a pop culture icon unlike any fashion designer of recent memory, just as likely to be recognized walking down Main Street USA as Madison Avenue NYC. Yet ever since he shot to fame in the 1980s, the private Isaac...
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The Millionaire Dropout: Fire Your Boss. Do What You Love. Reclaim Your Life!

Vince Stanzione · Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

If like millions of others you know deep down that you deserve to do better than where you are today, than this book is for you. Not a book based on old fashion theories or textbook scenarios, The Millionaire Dropout is instead based on tried and tested methods of increasing personal...
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What Your Financial Advisor Isn't Telling You: The 10 Essential Truths You Need to Know About Your Money

Liz Davidson · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 235
Format: Print book

A highly readable personal finance book that translates financial jargon and enables readers to ask the tough questions to protect their money and their financial well-being In today's unsettled financial markets, where most pension plans died out with the twentieth century and where no one's...
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Born For This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do

Chris Guillebeau · Crown Business
Pages: 313
Format: Print book

Have you ever met someone with the perfect job? To the outside observer, it seems like they've won the career lottery -- that by some stroke of luck or circumstance they've found the one thing they love so much that it doesn't even feel like work - and they're getting paid well to do it. To the outside...
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

Brian Alexander · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land**A New York Post Must-Read Book, a Newsweek Best New Book, one of The Week's 20 Books to Read in 2017, one of Bustle's 16 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017**"A devastating read...For anyone wondering why swing-state...
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Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing How We Buy and Who We Are

Zoe Fraade-Blanar · W W Norton
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

As fandom sheds its longtime stigmas of geekiness and hysteria, fans are demanding more from the celebrities and brands they love. Digital tools have given organizations from traditional businesses to tech startups direct, real-time access to their most devoted consumers, and it s easy...
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Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

Jonathan Haskel · Princeton University Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, or software, than...
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Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It

Steven Brill · Knopf
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America's core values - meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even...
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Capital offenses : business crime and punishment in americas corporate age

Samuel Buell · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

From the lead prosecutor on the Enron investigation, an eye-opening examination of the explosion of American white-collar crime.If "corporations are people too," why isn't anyone in jail?A serious defect in a GM car causes accidents; Enron scams investors out of their money; banks...
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Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior

Jonah Berger · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make - from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat - in this fascinating and groundbreaking work.If you're like most people, you think that your choices...
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Elisabeth Rosenthal · Penguin Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller.At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems."Patients can save thousands of dollars by purchasing An American...
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Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace

Jessica Bennett · Harperwave
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work - a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.It was a fight club - but without...
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