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The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

Lynn Povich · PublicAffairs
Pages: 264
Format: Print book

The inspiration for the original television seriesIt was the 1960s--a time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the "Help Wanted" ads were segregated by gender and the "Mad Men" office culture was rife with sexual stereotyping...
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The Rough Guide to Economics

Rough Guides · Rough Guides Limited
Pages: 362
Format: Paperback

The financial crisis and resulting global problems have dramatically demonstrated the importance of economics to everyday life. The Rough Guide to Economics explains the basics of the subject in an engaging, accessible, yet rigorous way and demonstrates the power of economic models when...
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So, What's Your Proposal?: Shifting High-Conflict People from Blaming to Problem-Solving in 30 Seconds!

Bill Eddy · Unhooked Books
Format: Print book

Complain! Complain! Complain! Have you ever dealt with high-conflict people who blame you or others for one problem after another without taking any responsibility themselves? Don’t you feel like wringing their necks?Instead, consider the simple method taught in this book for getting...
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The Value of a Dollar 1860-2014: Prices and Incomes in the United States

Scott Derks · Grey House Pub; 5 edition
Format: Hardcover

This fifth edition of the highly successful The Value of a Dollar records the actual prices of thousands of items that consumers purchased from the Civil War to the present, along with facts about investment options and income opportunities.
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The Power Formula for Linkedin Success

Wayne Breitbarth · Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

3rd Edition of the world's most popular LinkedIn book. Completely revised and updated.Many LinkedIn books focus solely on creating a killer LinkedIn profile. But LinkedIn is not a passive sport. You can't just sit around waiting for people to find your awesome profile.This book...
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How to Make Money with Social Media: An Insider's Guide to Using New and Emerging Media to Grow Your Business

Jamie Turner · Pearson FT Press; 2 edition
Format: Hardcover

Set up, launch, and run your winning socialmobile media campaign! This guide is packed with actionable tools, techniques, and tips you can really use all fully revamped for todays newest platforms and opportunities. Authors Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah have unsurpassed experience using...
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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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The Purpose Is Profit: The Truth about Starting and Building Your Own Business

Ed Mclaughlin · Greenleaf Book Group Llc
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Do you feel the pull to start your own business? Tired of working for others and dealing with office politics, eager for control and more money, Ed ''Skip'' McLaughlin certainly felt it. When he left his high-level corporate position to start not one but two new businesses,...
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Sailing into Retirement: 7 Ways to Retire on a Boat at 50 with 10 Steps that Will Keep You There Until 80

Jim Trefethen · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 244
Format: Print book

How-to guidance for retiring on a boat -- for aging captains and landlubbersHave you ever thought you might want to retire on a boat? Of course you have or you wouldn't have picked up this book! Whatever form your yearning for aquatic retirement takes, Jim Trefethen can help you realize...
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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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Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond

Gideon Rachman · Other Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

From the winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize for Commentator of the Year, a provocative analysis of how a new era of global instability has begun, as the flow of wealth and power turns from West to East. Easternization is the defining trend of our age - the growing...
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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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Social Security 101: From Medicare to Spousal Benefits, an Essential Primer on Government Retirement Aid

Alfred Mill · Adams Media
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A crash course in retirement benefits! Too often, writing about social security turns the noteworthy details of the benefits into boring details about regulations or biased political arguments that would put even a die-hard bureaucrat to sleep. Social Security 101 cuts out the tedious explanations...
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