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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music,...
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Incorporate Your Business: A Step-by-Step Guide to Forming a Corporation in Any State

ANTHONY MANCUSO · NOLO
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Form a corporation in any state, quickly and easily. Forming a corporation has many advantages, including limiting your personal liability. With the step-by-step instructions in this book, the process is straightforward and easy to accomplish. Incorporate Your Business clearly explains...
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Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

EMILY CHANG · Portfolio
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Silicon Valley is a modern utopia where anyone can change the world. Unless you're a woman. For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where...
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The Career Manifesto: Discover Your Calling and Create an Extraordinary Life

Mike Steib · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An action-oriented guide to help anyone find their calling and achieve their goals, inspired by the author's popular blog post with the same titleThe Career Manifesto presents an inspiring and refreshingly simple approach to finding your passion and purpose and then jumpstarting a dream...
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The End of Advertising: Why It Had to Die, and the Creative Resurrection to Come

Andrew Essex · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

A recovering Mad Man throws down the ultimate challenge to his profession: Innovate or die.The ad apocalypse is upon us. Today millions are downloading ad-blocking software, and still more are paying subscription premiums to avoid ads. This $600 billion industry is now careening toward...
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Shifting Gears: How to Harness Your Drive to Reach Your Potential and Accelerate Success

Ryan O'Reilly · Morgan James Publishing
Pages: 157
Format: Print book

Sometimes in life you hit plateaus where you know deep down that there must be something more, but you aren't sure what it is. It can feel like you're stuck in neutral--revving the engine as hard as you can, but not going anywhere. It's frustrating, to say the least! If you don't...
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The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt

ROBERT I SUTTON · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

How to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic bestseller The No Asshole Rule "Help, I'm dealing with an asshole! What can I do?" Since his book The No Asshole Rule became a national bestseller a decade ago, Robert Sutton has heard that question...
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Invested: How Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Taught Me to Master My Mind, My Emotions, and My Money

DANIELLE TOWN · William Morrow
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In this essential handbook - a blend of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Happiness Project - the co-host of the wildly popular InvestED podcast shares her yearlong journey learning to invest, as taught to her by her father, investor and bestselling author Phil Town.Growing up, the words finance,...
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Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World

ANNIE LOWREY · Crown
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income - a stipend given to every citizen - and why it might be necessary for our age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your checking account,...
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Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

JENNIFER PALMIERI · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

DEAR MADAM PRESIDENT is an empowering letter from former Hillary Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri to the first woman president, and by extension, to all women working to succeed in any field. By using lessons learned during her experiences with Hillary Clinton, President...
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Growing Weeders Into Leaders: Leadership Lessons from the Ground Up

Jeff McManus · Morgan James Publishing
Pages: 166
Format: Paperback

Aristotle and Nike got it right - GREATNESS is what we humans DO - when given the challenge, the encouragement, the environment, and the opportunity.At some point in this postmodern life, individual greatness has lost its appeal for many of us. It has been commodified and relegated to those...
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Eyes Wide Open: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities in a World That Can't See Clearly

Isaac Lidsky · Tarcherperigee
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In Eyes Wide Open, Isaac Lidsky draws on his experience of achieving immense success, joy, and fulfillment while losing his sight to a blinding disease to show us that it isn't external circumstances, but how we perceive and respond to them, that governs our reality.Fear has a tendency...
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The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th-Century Journalism

MITCHELL STEPHENS · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The first and definitive biography of an audacious adventurer -- the most famous journalist of his time -- who more than anyone invented contemporary journalism.Tom Brokaw says: "Lowell Thomas so deserves this lively account of his legendary life. He was a man for all seasons."Few...
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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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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know

Joanne Lipman · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

First things first: There will be no man shaming in That's What She Said. A recent Harvard study found that corporate "diversity training" has actually made the gender gap worse - in part because it makes men feel demonized. Women, meanwhile, have been told closing the gender...
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