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How Women Decide: What's True, What's Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices

Therese Huston · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

A definitive playbook for making stronger, wiser choices that thoughtfully addresses how the cultural landscape - and the research - defines how women decide Books about decision making are often inadvertently tailored primarily to men. Meanwhile, books about women in business overlook...
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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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Grant Writing For Dummies

Beverly A Browning · John Wiley
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Discover enterprising ways to get grants Write compelling applications for grant funding Find budgets, sample letters and more online Find and win grant money Grant writing can be daunting, but this book gives you everything you need to get started with your application right away! This...
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Works Well with Others: An Outsider's Guide to Shaking Hands, Shutting Up, Handling Jerks, and Other Crucial Skills in Business That No One Ever Teaches You

Ross McCammon · Dutton Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Esquire editor and Entrepreneur etiquette columnist Ross McCammon delivers a funny and authoritative guide that provides the advice you really need to be confident and authentic at work, even when you have no idea what's going on. Ten years ago, before he got a job at Esquire magazine...
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No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future

Samuel I. Schwartz · PublicAffairs
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous...
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Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making It Work at Work

Lee Caraher · Bibliomotion
Format: Hardcover

As management ages and prepares to work longer than previous generations and Millennials join companies at a steady rate, companies are faced with the truth: they can't just wait for management to age out to fix the dissonance and tension between Boomers and Millennials in the workplace....
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When Buyers Say No: Essential Strategies for Keeping a Sale Moving Forward

Tom Hopkins · Business Plus, 2014.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

This is a complete and practical guide which highlights the authors' new strategic approaches to selling when the buyer initially declines or is resistant on a sales opportunity. Hopkins and Katt explain that most sales reps take a traditional linear approach to selling, but that the trick...
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Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2019

PETERSON'S. · Peterson's
Format: Paperback

Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2019 provides up-to-date information on more than 1.6 million awards worth nearly 10 billion dollars available to college students. It contains detailed profiles of awards based on academic fields and career goals, ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience,...
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed - be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence...
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This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See

SETH GODIN · Portfolio
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Real marketing isn't about racking up clicks and tweets; it's about connection, empathy, and making a difference.Over the past quarter century, Seth Godin has taught and inspired millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, leaders, and fans from all walks of life, via his blog, online courses,...
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Reset: Business and Society in the New Social Landscape

James R Rubin · Columbia University Press
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover

As consumers, our access to -- and appetite for -- information about what and how we buy continues to grow. Powered by social media, increasingly we look at the companies behind the products and are disappointed when their actions do not meet our expectations. With engaged citizens acting...
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GMAT prep plus 2019 : 6 practice tests proven strategies online video mobile

Kaplan Publishing. · Kaplan Publishing
Pages: 1169
Format: Print book

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Every landlord's legal guide

Marcia Stewart; Ralph E Warner; Janet Portman · Nolo
Format:  Print book : English : Thirteenth editionView all editions and formats

Every Landlord's Legal Guide gives landlords the legal and practical solutions they need to rent residential property right. From move-in to move-out, this book covers a wide range of issues, including fair housing, repairs, sublets, screening for good tenants, and environmental hazards...
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

MICHAEL LEWIS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments,...
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Hustle and Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work

Rahaf Harfoush
Format: Paperback

OUR CULTURE HAS BECOME OBSESSED WITH HUSTLING. As we struggle to keep up in a knowledge economy that never sleeps, we arm ourselves with life hacks, to-do lists, and an inbox-zero mentality, grasping at anything that will help us work faster, push harder, and produce more.There's just one problem:...
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