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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

Jesse Eisinger · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, a blistering account of corporate greed and impunity, and the reckless, often anemic response from the Department of Justice.Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing...
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Winning the Loser's Game, 6th edition: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing

Charles Ellis · McGraw-Hill; 6 edition
Format: Hardcover

The classic guide to winning on Wall Street--completely updated and expanded! The go-to guide for anyone seeking long-term gain in the stock market, Winning the Losers Game was referred to by the great Peter Drucker as by far the best book on investment policy and management. Dr. Charles...
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Main Street Entrepreneur: Build Your Dream Company Doing What You Love Where You Live

Michael J Glauser · Entrepreneur Press
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

100 Cities. 100 Entrepreneurs. 9 Keys for Success.Main Street Entrepreneur offers a unique look at what it takes to create a successful and thriving business. Lifelong entrepreneur, business consultant and university professor Michael Glauser rode 4,005 miles in 45 days, spent 246 hours...
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Success Is the Only Option: The Art of Coaching Extreme Talent

John Calipari · Harpercollins
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Kentucky's charismatic coach shares the secrets of creating one of the premiere programs in college basketball, revealing how he transforms a group of former high school superstars into selfless, cohesive teams - including a remarkable squad last year that fell just one game short of a perfect...
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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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Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown

Gerri Hirshey · Sarah Crichton Books ; Farrar
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural iconWhen Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation of second...
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The Big Life: Embrace the Mess, Work Your Side Hustle, Find a Monumental Relationship, and Become the Badass Babe You Were Meant to Be

Ann Shoket · Rodale
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Millennial women are changing what it means to be powerful and successful in the world -- for everyone. Forever. You want The Big Life -- that delicious cocktail of passion, career, work, ambition, respect, money, and a monumental relationship. And you want it on your own terms. Forget...
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FIRE: How Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant Methods Ignite Innovation

Dan Ward · HarperBusiness
Pages: 229
Format: Hardcover

Noted military technology expert Dan Ward's manifesto for creating great products and projects using the methods of rapid innovation.Why do some programs deliver their product under cost, while others bust their budget? Why do some deliver ahead of schedule, while others experience...
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The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown

BLAIRE BRIODY · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Williston, North Dakota was a sleepy farm town for generations -- until the frackers arrived. The oil companies moved into Williston, overtaking the town and setting off a boom that America hadn't seen since the Gold Rush. Workers from all over the country descended, chasing jobs that promised...
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The Secret Club That Runs the World: Inside the Fraternity of Commodity Traders

Kate Kelly · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"Commodity players are a shrewd and indomitable lot. And the contracts they trade are still so loosely regulated that the correct combination of money and skill creates irresistible opportunity. That's why I'm only half joking when I call them the secret club that runs the world."When...
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Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums

Lance Grande · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of engaging exhibits that share those...
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The Devil's Financial Dictionary

Jason Zweig · PublicAffairs, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pages: 234
Format: Print book

Your Survival Guide to the Hades of Wall StreetThe Devil's Financial Dictionary skewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And it distills the complexities, absurdities, and pomposities of Wall Street into plain truths...
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The Social Life of Information: Updated, with a New Preface

John Seely Brown · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

"Should be read by anyone interested in understanding the future," The Times Literary Supplement raved about the original edition of The Social Life of Information. We're now living in that future, and one of the seminal books of the Internet Age is more relevant than ever.The...
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Trump's War: His Battle for America

MICHAEL SAVAGE · CENTER ST
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} The wall, taxes, tariffs, deportations, Obamacare, guns, military strength, schools, abortion, religion - what will the new president do? The "Godfather of Trumpmania,"...
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Worth It: Your Life, Your Money, Your Terms

Amanda Steinberg · North Star Way
Pages: 268
Format: Print book

From the founder and superstar CEO of DailyWorth.com - the go-to financial site for women with more than one million subscribers - comes a fresh book that redefines the relationship between women, self-worth, and money. Worth It shows women how to view money as a source of personal power...
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