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Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis

Benjamin Kunkel · Verso
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback

After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned. But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexplored outside of the academy. Benjamin...
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The Inventor's Bible, Fourth Edition: How to Market and License Your Brilliant Ideas

Ronald Louis Docie Sr. · Ten Speed Press; 4 edition
Format: Print book

The definitive guide for inventors, newly updated with the latest patenting laws, information on crowdfunding, and online resources. The path to success is clearer than it's ever been! Thanks to experienced inventor Ronald Docie, the process of commercializing your invention and receiving...
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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

Steven D Levitt · William Morrow
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have...
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The Social Organism A Radical Understanding of Social Media to Transform Your Business and Life

Oliver Luckett · Hachette Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

From visionary tech entrepreneur Oliver Luckett and MIT Media Lab's Michael J. Casey, a groundbreaking, must-read theory of social media -- how it works, how it's changing human life, and how we can master it for good and for profit. In barely a decade, social media has positioned itself...
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Avid Reader: A Life

Robert Gottlieb · Farrar
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf...
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Modernize Your Job Search Letters: Get Noticed Get Hired

Wendy Enelow · Emerald Career Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

This book addresses how to write the following types of letters that most job seekers will use through their search campaign: Traditional Cover Letters: Letters that job seekers write in response to job advertisements and postings, send directly to hiring managers, or present to human resource...
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The World's Your Stage: How Performing Artists Can Make a Living While Still Doing What They Love

William F Baker · AMACOM, American Management Association, 2015.
Pages: 219
Format: Print book

If you're like most performing artists, you're not in it for the money. Whether you're a musician, a dancer, or an actor, you've spent years mastering your craft. But to make it your career--you need to figure out how to get paid. Jobs are scarce and talent alone no longer assures success....
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Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done

Jocelyn K Glei · PublicAffairs
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

A modern, no-nonsense guide to getting rid of email anxiety, reclaiming your productivity, and spending more time on the work that matters.Let's face it: Email is killing our productivity. The average person checks their email 11 times per hour, processes 122 messages a day, and spends...
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Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least

Jessica Jackley · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 191
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Kabul Beauty School and Start Something That Matters comes an inspiring story of social entrepreneurship from the co-founder of Kiva, the first online microlending platform for the working poor. Featuring lessons learned from successful businesses in the world's...
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China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Arthur R Kroeber · Oxford University Press
Pages: 319
Format: Print book

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today...
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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

Russell Gold · Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

"Fracking has vociferous critics and fervent defenders, but the debate between these camps has obscured the actual story: Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. It has upended the business models of energy companies around the globe, and it has started...
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Enough Bull: How to Retire Well without the Stock Market, Mutual Funds, or Even an Investment Advisor

David Trahair · Wiley; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover

Stop risking everything to make your investment advisor rich The stock market crash of 2008 proved one thing traditional retirement planning advice simply doesnt work. The risks are too enormous. Trusting the stock market is like gambling with your familys future. But how do you plan for retirement...
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Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer

Robert K Hale · Allworth
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Starting Your Career as an Interior Designer contains all the necessary tools and strategies to successfully launch and grow a professional design business in the competitive world of interior design. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience, this book includes case studies, and personal...
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Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency

Charles Rappleye · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 554
Format: Print book

"A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president...by far the best, most readable study of Hoover's presidency to date." - Publishers Weekly Rappleye's surprising portrait of a Depression-era president Herbert Hoover reveals a very different figure than the usual Hoover,...
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