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Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales

PENN JILLETTE · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

Penn Jillette's New York Times bestselling account of his "extremely funny and somewhat profane journey to discovering a healthy lifestyle ... that will motivate others to seek weight-loss solutions" (The Washington Post) .More than three hundred and thirty pounds and saddled...
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The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic

Ganesh Sitaraman · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

An original, provocative contribution to the debate over rising economic inequality that argues that a strong and sizable middle class is in fact embedded in the very framework of our government and its founding document. For two thousand years, constitutional republics assumed class divisions...
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Co-Create: How Your Business Will Profit from Innovative and Strategic Collaboration

DAVID NOUR · ST MARTIN'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

What if your customers had a vested interest in guiding your company toward greater success? What if your employees had a personal as well as professional commitment to elevating your organization? Imagine how different your results would be if investors, vendors, and even analysts treasured...
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Warren Buffett's Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World's Greatest Investor

Jeremy Miller · Harperbusiness
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Using the letters Warren Buffett wrote to his partners between 1956 and 1970, a veteran financial advisor presents the renowned guru's "ground rules" for investing - guidelines that remain startlingly relevant today.In the fourteen years between his time in New York with value-investing...
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American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper

Jacob S Hacker · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

From the groundbreaking author team behind the bestselling Winner-Take-All Politics, a timely and topical work that examines what's good for American business and what's good for Americans - and why those interests are misaligned.In Winner-Take-All Politics, Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson...
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The Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers are Transforming the Lives of Animals

Wayne Pacelle · William Morrow, 2016.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A major new exploration of the economics of animal exploitation and a practical roadmap for how we can use the marketplace to promote the welfare of all living creatures, from the renowned animal-rights advocate Wayne Pacelle, President/CEO of the Humane Society of the United States and New York...
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Janesville: An American Story

AMY GOLDSTEIN · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Moving and magnificently well-researched...Janesville joins a growing family of books about the evisceration of the working class in the United States. What sets it apart is the sophistication of its storytelling and analysis." - The New York Times A Washington Post reporter's...
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Win at Losing: How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead to Our Greatest Gains

Sam Weinman · Penguin Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

An engaging, inspiring exploration of the surprising value of setbacks - and how we can use them to succeed As an award-winning sports journalist, Sam Weinman has long studied the ripple effects of losing. But as a father of two competitive boys, he struggled to convince them that failing...
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Fast Food Maniac: From Arby's to White Castle, One Man's Supersized Obsession with America's Favorite Food

Jon Hein · Three Rivers Press, 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The beloved personality from The Howard Stern Show celebrates American fast food, exploring the history and secret menu items of both national and regional chains, ranking everything from burgers and fries to ice and mascots, and offering his own expert tips on where to go and what to order....
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The Underground Culinary Tour: How the New Metrics of Today's Top Restaurants Are Transforming How America Eats

Damian Mogavero · Crown Business
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling vein of Moneyball comes an entertaining, behind-the-scenes narrative about how the restaurant business is being transformed by the use of data, in an industry historically run by gut and intuition. From celebrity-run restaurants to today's cutting-edge culinary trendsetters,...
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SPARK: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success

Angie Morgan · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 210
Format: Print book

Leadership isn't about a job title - it's about action and behavior. In SPARK, entrepreneurs, business consultants and military Veterans Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch, and Sean Lynch show how anyone can become an extraordinary leader by embracing seven key behaviors. Many people believe...
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Knock 'em Dead Cover Letters: Cover Letters and Strategies to Get the Job You Want

Martin Yate · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Cover letters that get noticed, get read, and get the interview! In the newest edition of his classic cover letter guide, job search expert Martin Yate shows you how to dramatically increase your chance of landing an interview. The key, as Yate explains, is to use language drawn from the job posting...
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A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service

Robert Michael Gates · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 239
Format: Print book

From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale. Across the realms...
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The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy

Zachary Roth · Crown
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A deeply reported look inside the new conservative movement working to undermine American democracy. Control of the country is up for grabs - and Republicans have been rigging the game in their favor. Twenty-two states have passed restrictions on voting. Ruthless gerrymandering has given...
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The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation

Antoine W van Agtmael · PublicAffairs
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Antoine van Agtmael coined the term "emerging markets" and built a career and a multibillion-dollar investing firm centered on these surging economies that would, over time, supplant the West as engines of wealth and prosperity. The trend held for decades, but a few years ago van Agtmael...
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