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Great at Work: How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More

Henri Vernes · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Shane Bauer · Penguin Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana....
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No B.S. Guide to Maximum Referrals and Customer Retention: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Plan to Securing New Customers and Maximum Profits

Dan S Kennedy · Entrepreneur Press
Pages: 281
Format: Paperback

FACT: NOTHING IS COSTLIER OR MORE DIFFICULT THAN GETTING A NEW CUSTOMER.Business owners agree. The referred customer is far superior to the one brought in by 'cold' advertising. Yet most business owners will invest more money to find new customers than getting referrals from current,...
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Unshakable: How to Thrive

TONY ROBBINS · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

After interviewing fifty of the world's greatest financial minds and penning the #1 New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins returns with a step-by-step playbook, taking you on a journey to transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial freedom....
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The Smart Woman's Guide to Planning for Retirement: How to Save for Your Future Today

Mary Hunt · Revell
Format: Hardcover

What does a woman want to do when she retires? Travel? Pursue hobbies? Spend time with friends and family? We all have dreams about what those days will be like. But when it comes to turning those dreams into reality, women's retirement confidence and know-how is low. According to a 2012...
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Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts

RYAN HOLIDAY · Portfolio
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and marketing strategist Ryan Holiday reveals to creatives of all stripes - authors, entrepreneurs, musicians, filmmakers, fine artists - how a classic work is made and marketed.In Hollywood, a movie is given a single weekend to succeed before being written off. In Silicon...
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Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day

Todd Henry · Portfolio Hardcover; 10.1.2013 edition
Format: Book

"Embrace the importance of now, and refuse to allow the lull of comfort, fear, familiarity, and ego to prevent you from taking action on your ambitions...The cost of inaction is vast. Don't go to your grave with your best work inside of you. Choose to die empty." Most of us live...
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Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier

Maya Rao · PublicAffairs
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The story of a twenty-first century American frontier--where the free market reigns supreme as profiteers rush to develop a massive new oilfield.The word was that you could earn $17,000 a month in the Bakken Oilfield of North Dakota. So they flooded in: the profiteers, deadbeats, ex-cons,...
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Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet

Mckay Jenkins · Avery Pub Group
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Are GMOs really that bad? A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us. In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding...
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The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty: Answers to Your Most Important Money Questions

Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz · Crown
Pages: 414
Format: Print book

Here at last are the hard-to-find answers to the dizzying array of financial questions plaguing those who are age fifty and older.The financial world is more complex than ever, and people are struggling to make sense of it all. If you're like most people moving into the phase of life...
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Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor: The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career

Sylvia Ann Hewlett · Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Book

Who’s pulling for you? Who’s got your back? Who’s putting your hat in the ring? Odds are this person is not a mentor but a sponsor. Mentors can build your self-esteem and provide a sounding board—but they’re not your ticket to the top.If you’re interested...
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Elisabeth Rosenthal · Penguin Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller.At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems."Patients can save thousands of dollars by purchasing An American...
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Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders

Lindsey Pollak · HarperBusiness; Original edition
Format: Book

The author of Getting from College to Career reinvents the concept of management for a new generation, offering a fresh and relevant approach to career success that shows them how to make the next step: becoming a leader.We are in the midst of a leadership revolution, as power passes from...
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Your Score: An Insider's Secrets to Understanding, Controlling, and Protecting Your Credit Score

ANTHONY DAVENPORT · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The most comprehensive insider's look at what every consumer needs to know about their credit score - and most importantly, how to fix it Like it or not, a healthy credit score is essential if you want to participate in today's financial world. But very few people actually understand how their...
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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership

Richard Branson · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola...
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