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The Hustle Economy: Transforming Your Creativity Into a Career

Jason Oberholtzer · Running Press
Pages: 223
Format: Print book

To survive in today's gig economy, you must be a mover, a shaker, a doer, and a maker. In The Hustle Economy, we give you 25 essays from founders, writers, producers, game makers, artists, and creative types from every path who share one common trait - they are all self-made hustlers...
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The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2018: Billions of Dollars in Scholarships, Grants and Prizes

GEN TANABE · SuperCollege
Pages: 816
Format: Paperback

Information on 1.5 million scholarships, grants, and prizes is easily accessible in this revised directory with more than 300 new listings that feature awards indexed by career goal, major, academics, public service, talent, athletics, religion, ethnicity, and more. Each entry contains...
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Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup

Andrew S Zimbalist · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Author Andrew Zimbalist looks beyond the headlines of two of the world s most beloved sporting events: the Olympics and the World Cup. In the expanded and updated edition of his bestselling book, "Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, "...
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Mindfulness at Work in a Week: Teach Yourself

Clara Seeger · John Murray Learning
Pages: 124
Format: Print book

In today's working environment, which is changing faster than ever, resilience is more than a buzzword. It is a vital skill to help you survive and get ahead in your career. Executive coach and business trainer Dr Seeger has been practising and teaching mindfulness since before it was fashionable,...
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Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More

Morten T Hansen · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 310
Format: eBook

From the New York Times bestselling author of Great by Choice comes an authoritative, practical guide to individual performance - based on analysis from an exhaustive, groundbreaking study.Why do some people perform better at work than others? This deceptively simple question continues...
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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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Around the World in Eighty Wines: Exploring Wine One Country at a Time

Michael Veseth · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by Jules Verne's classic adventure tale, Mike Veseth takes his readers Around the World in Eighty Wines. The journey starts in London, Phileas Fogg's home base, and follows Fogg's itinerary to France and Italy before veering off in search of compelling wine stories in Syria, Georgia,...
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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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Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink

Juliana Barbassa · Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Detroit An American Autopsy and Maximum City comes a deeply reported and beautifully written biography of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro from prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa. Juliana Barbassa moved a great deal throughout...
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The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets

JASON HICKEL · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Global inequality doesn't just exist; it has been created.More than four billion people -- some 60 percent of humanity -- live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography...
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Master Your Time, Master Your Life: The Breakthrough System to Get More Results, Faster, in Every Area of Your Life

Brian Tracy · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

This life-changing book from the bestselling author of Eat That Frog! provides a unique program for determining WHAT to do WHEN, and managing all of the many details of our lives. We may feel stuck and unable to take certain items off our "To Do" lists for one simple reason: the timing...
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Land Your Dream Career in College: The Complete Guide to Success

Tori Randolph Terhune · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback

Contrary to what students, and society, are conditioned to think, obtaining a college degree does not automatically result in a job, let alone a dream career. In the last year, alone, half of college graduates are either jobless or underemployed in positions that don't fully use their...
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Blockchain For Dummies

Tiana Laurence · For Dummies
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Find out what Blockchain is, how it works, and what it can do for you Blockchain is the technology behind Bitcoin, the revolutionary 'virtual currency' that's changing the way people do business. While Bitcoin has enjoyed some well-deserved hype, Blockchain may be Bitcoin's...
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Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets

Al Ramadan
Format: Print book

The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary category-creating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design.Winning today isn't about beating the competition at the old game. It's about inventing a whole new game - d
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Idiot's Guides: Making Money with Rental Properties

Kimberly Smith · ALPHA
Format: Paperback

It takes an incredible amount of know-how to be a successful landlord. Idiots Guides Making Money with Rental Properties is written by experts who have made the mistakes and learned the lessons. They have become successful at spotting high-rent properties, buying them at the right price...
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