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How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
ALAN PELL CRAWFORD · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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An uproarious account of Mark Twain's endless attempts to strike it rich, all of which served only to empty his pockets Mark Twain's lifetime spans America's era of greatest economic growth. And Twain was an active, even giddy, participant in all the great booms and busts of his time, launching... |
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The Four: Or, How to Build a Trillion-Dollar Company
SCOTT GALLOWAY · Portfolio
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook are four of the most influential entities on the planet. Just about everyone knows how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that's been written about The Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering... |
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Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
SCOTT ADAMS · Portfolio
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of Dilbert, an unflinching look at the strategies Donald Trump used to persuade voters to elect the most unconventional candidate in the history of the presidency, and how anyone can learn his methods for succeeding against long odds. Scott Adams - a trained hypnotist... |
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The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
CHIP HEATH · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us - and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work.What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students... |
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Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
Nancy F Koehn · Scribner
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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From a brilliant historian at the Harvard Business School, here is a masterful, in-depth portrait of five extraordinary figures - Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson - that illuminates how great leaders are made in times of adversity... |
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Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change
Morgan Simon · Nation Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Impact investment--the support of social and environmental projects with a financial return--has become a hot topic on the global stage; poised to eclipse traditional aid by ten times in the next decade. But the field is at a tipping point: Will impact investment empower millions of people... |
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Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking
Alice Echols · The New Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Shortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic - boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years - and launches into a fast-paced story that uncovers the dark secrets in Echols's family - an upside-down version of the building and loan story at the center... |
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