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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Kim Malone Scott · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

"I raced through RADICAL CANDOR--It's thrilling to learn a framework that shows how to be both a better boss and a better colleague. RADICAL CANDOR is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories...

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Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car-and How It Will Reshape Our World

Lawrence D. Burns · Harperaudio
Format: Preloaded Digital Audio Player

An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car - an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone

We stand on the brink of a technological revolution. Soon, few of us will...

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The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

Cait Flanders · Hay House, Inc.
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

The Year of Less

In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt, her old habits took hold again. When...

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Barron's GMAT, 2nd Edition

BOBBY UMAR · BARRON'S
Pages: 800
Format: Print book

Barron's brand-new GMAT is a game-changer, designed to give you the best balance in both the depth of content and breadth of strategies. Written by two of North America's leading GMAT experts and award-winning instructors, this updated edition gives you the confidence to tackle...
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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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You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want

JESSE MECHAM · HarperBusiness
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Discover four simple rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money faster! The You Need A Budget (YNAB) Method has helped tens of thousands of people to turn their financial lives around. It can certainly help you! Whether you're looking to right...
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Start Your Own Business, Sixth Edition: The Only Startup Book You'll Ever Need

The Staff of Entrepreneur Media · Entrepreneur Press; Sixth Edition edition
Format: Print book

Tapping into more than 33 years of small business expertise, the staff at Entrepreneur Media takes todays entrepreneurs beyond opening their doors and through the first three years of ownership. This revised edition features amended chapters on choosing a business, adding partners, getting...
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Bitcoin For Dummies

Prypto · For Dummies
Pages: 216
Format: Print book

Learn the ins and outs of Bitcoin so you can get started today Bitcoin For Dummies is the fast, easy way to start trading crypto currency, with clear explanations and expert advice for breaking into this exciting new market. Understanding the mechanisms and risk behind Bitcoin can be a challenge,...
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A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

Edward O Thorp · Random House
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street. A child of the Great Depression, legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented...
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Pick Three: You Can Have It All

RANDI ZUCKERBERG · Dey Street Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In this motivational handbook - both a business how-to and self-help guide - the New York Times bestselling author of Dot Complicated takes on the fallacy of the "well-balanced" life, arguing that the key to success is learning to be well-lopsided.

Work. Sleep. Fitness....

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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life

Lea Berman · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message - everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well.

Former White House social secretaries Lea Berman,...
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Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth?and How to Fix It

DAMBISA MOYO · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover


From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy

Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned...
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Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City

Kelly Leonard · HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Executives from The Second City - the world's premier comedy theater and school of improvisation - reveal improvisational techniques that can help any organization develop innovators, encourage adaptable leaders, and build transformational businesses.For more than fifty years, The Second...
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The Amusement Park: 900 Years of Thrills and Spills, and the Dreamers and Schemers Who Built Them

Stephen M. Silverman · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

The electrifying, never-before-told history of amusement parks, from the middle ages to present day, populated by the colorful (and sometimes criminal) characters who built them, and the regular folks who sought their magical, albeit temporary, charms.
Step right up! The Amusement...
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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

Ruchir Sharma · W W Norton
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change.

Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks...
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