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What You Don't Know about Leadership, But Probably Should: Applications to Daily Life

JEFFREY KOTTLER · Oxford University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover

Leadership is not just for CEOs--we all find ourselves in leadership positions at one time or another, whether in meetings and classes or at social events and family gatherings. And yet, even though leadership is the single most studied aspect of all human behavior, there remains a scarcity...
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Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living

ELIZABETH WILLARD THAMES · HarperBusiness
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The deeply personal story of how award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the city and embraced frugality to create a more meaningful, purpose-driven life, and retire to a homestead in the Vermont woods at age thirty-two with her husband...
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Adam Winkler · Liveright
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, "civil rights movements" in American history. In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal...
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Industrial Disasters and Environmental Policy: Stories of Villains, Heroes, and the Rest of Us

DENISE L SCHEBERLE · Westview Press
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Environmental stories have all the elements that make for a good drama-villains that plunge us into danger, and heroes that fight for positive change. Industrial Disasters and Environmental Policy: Stories of Villains, Heroes, and the Rest of Us illuminates the interplay between environmental...
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Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability: Getting & Keeping Your Benefits

David A Morton · NOLO
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback

Nolo's Guide to Social Security Disability covers the criteria for getting disability benefits for back problems, heart and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases, mental issues like depression and anxiety, and 200 more medical conditions. Learn how to match...
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Picture Your Prosperity: Smart Money Moves to Turn Your Vision into Reality

Ellen Rogin · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Everyone has a unique vision of a prosperous and secure future. Whats yours?If someone asked you to describe prosperity and security, what would you see in your minds eye? Is it finally taking that trip to Paris? A beautiful beach house? Or maybe making that last mortgage payment and staying...
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Big Money Thinks Small: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing

Joel Tillinghast · Columbia University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

Investors are tempted daily with misinformation. They make lucky bets that breed false confidence, and their high-stakes gambles can take an emotional toll. How can anyone stay focused in such a volatile profession?In Big Money Thinks Small, veteran fund manager Joel Tillinghast urges investors...
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How to Make It: 25 Makers Share the Secrets to Building a Creative Business

Erin Austen Abbott · Chronicle Books
Pages: 212
Format: Print book

This is the ultimate tell-all, show-all guide to making a living by making things. Featuring 25 profiles of illustrators, jewelry designers, ceramicists, painters, clothing designers, and printmakers, How to Make It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily rituals and best practices...
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The Outstanding Middle Manager: How to be a Healthy, Happy, High-performing Mid-level Manager

Gordon Tinline · Kogan Page
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Middle managers - those with responsibility for managers or sizeable teams/divisions beneath them and who directly answer to senior management - make up a large portion of a corporation. The Outstanding Middle Manager, co-authored by business psychologists Gordon Tinline and Cary Cooper...
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