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Unti on creative artists agency.
Unti on creative artists agency.

James Andrew Miller · William Morrow
Pages: 704
Format: Print book

An astonishing - and astonishingly entertaining - behind-the-curtain history of Hollywood's transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun.In 1975, five...
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Pogue's Basics: Money: Essential Tips and Shortcuts
Pogue's Basics: Money: Essential Tips and Shortcuts

David Pogue · Flatiron Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Following the success of the New York Times bestsellers Pogue's Basics: Tech and Pogue's Basics: Lifecomes the next book in the series: Pogue's Basics: Money which will be a timeless reference book of 200 simple tips and tricks for making managing your finances easier. This book will shed...
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Uncontainable: How Passion, Commitment, and Conscious Capitalism Built a Business Where Everyone Thrives
Uncontainable: How Passion, Commitment, and Conscious Capitalism Built a Business Where Everyone Thrives

Kip Tindell · Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Youre going to sell what? Empty Boxes?Back in 1978, Kip Tindell Chairman CEO of The Container Store and his partners had the vision that people were eager to find solutions to save both space and time - and they were definitely onto something. A new category of the retailing industry was born...
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The United States of Beer: A Regional History of the All-American Drink
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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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 362
Format: Print book

How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways...
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Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away
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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Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends that Will Transform Your World
Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends that Will Transform Your World

James Canton · Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover

Game-changing trends are coming in business, technology, workforce, economy, security, and environment. Climate change, energy demand, and population growth will redefine global risk and power. Exponential new technologies will emerge in digital money, mobile commerce, and big data. An explosive...
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Why Wall Street Matters
Why Wall Street Matters

WILLIAM D COHAN · RANDOM HOUSE
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

For readers of Michael Lewis comes a counterintuitive defense of the banks. One of America's most respected financial journalists debunks all the misinformed arguments against Wall Street - while acknowledging the greed and excess that fuel those feelings - and argues persuasively that,...
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Microsoft Project 2016 Step by Step
Microsoft Project 2016 Step by Step

Carl Chatfield · Microsoft Press
Pages: 557
Format: Print book

The quick way to learn Microsoft Project 2016! This is learning made easy. Get more done quickly with Project 2016. Jump in wherever you need answers-brisk lessons and colorful screenshots show you exactly what to do, step by step. Quickly start a new plan, build task lists, and assign...
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Lucifer's Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy
Lucifer's Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy

Bradley C Birkenfeld · Greenleaf Book Group Llc
Pages: 344
Format: Print book

As a private banker working for the largest bank in the world, UBS, Bradley Birkenfeld was an expert in Switzerland's shell-game of offshore companies and secret numbered accounts. He wined and dined ultrawealthy clients whose millions of dollars were hidden away from business partners,...
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

Christopher Voss · Harperbusiness
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations - whether in the boardroom or at home.After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator...
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Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street

SHEELAH KOLHATKAR · RANDOM HOUSE
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

For readers of deeply reported nonfiction such as The Big Short and Dark Money comes the story of the largest insider trading investigation in history - and the rise and fall of the Wall Street legend who rewrote all the rules.
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The Difference: When Good Enough Isn't Enough
The Difference: When Good Enough Isn't Enough

Subir Chowdhury · Crown
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

As Subir Chowdhury makes clear, while improving a company's processes is vital, if you don't focus first on your people -- your employees -- the best processes in the world won't get you where you want to go. In the bestselling tradition of "The Fred Factor" and "What...
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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It
Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It

Larry Olmsted · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

"Impressive . . . Readers will be inspired by Olmsted's intensity and clarity, and floored by how far some counterfeiters go to fool consumers and some historic food institutions go to protect their products and their names. Olmsted's sharp language will hopefully put fires under counterfeiters...
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Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare & Try a Winning Case
Represent Yourself in Court: How to Prepare & Try a Winning Case

Paul Bergman JD · NOLO
Pages: 560
Format: Print book

How to prepare and present a winning civil court case Many disputes are too big for small claims court but too small to justify a lawyer's fee. Fortunately, if you are willing to learn the courtroom ropes, you can successfully handle your own case from start to finish. Represent...
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