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Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

General Stanley McChrystal · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

What if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization? THE OLD RULES NO LONGER APPLY . . . When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2004, he quickly realized...
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War

Robert J Gordon · Princeton University Press
Pages: 768
Format: Paperback

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth...
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Unfinished Work: The Struggle to Build an Aging American Workforce

Joseph Coleman · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The era of the aging worker is here. The forces driving the first decades of the 21st century -- globalization, technology, societal aging, and jarring economic instability -- have made later retirement a necessity for many, but those who choose to stay in the workforce are frustrated by a job market...
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Barron's Real Estate Licensing Exams, 9th Edition

Jack P. Friedman Ph.D. · Barron's Educational Series; 9 edition
Format: Paperback

This study guide and test preparation manual has been updated to provide the latest information in real estate finance, federal law and regulation, and appraisal license requirements. Explains all aspects of real estate law and finance, including contracts, deeds, appraisals, brokerage,...
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Supercommunicator: Explaining the Complicated So Anyone Can Understand

Frank J. Pietrucha · AMACOM
Format: Paperback

In our increasingly complicated and data-driven world, many new developments are so complex that only experts comprehend their nuances. But what they don't grasp is how to tell the world about them. Communicating technical content to nontechnical listeners has fast become a critical...
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Agency: Starting a Creative Firm in the Age of Digital Marketing

Rick Webb · Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardcover

As large agencies have struggled to adapt to the digital age, they have come to rely on these freelancers and specialists. These specialists have begun forming shops of their own - the new modern version of the agency. Increased marketing fragmentation and brand's need for specialists...
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Becoming a U.S. Citizen: A Guide to the Law, Exam & Interview

Ilona Bray JD · NOLO
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Everything you need to become a naturalized U.S. citizenFor a green card holder, taking the next step to U.S. citizenship offers a host of benefits. But the application process itself can be long and confusing. With Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can save months, or even years. Best of all,...
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How to Buy a House in California

Ira Serkes · Nolo
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Strategies that work in California's unique market. Looking for a house in the Golden State? How to Buy a House in California will show you how to get a house you can afford and will enjoy living in for many years. With this bestseller in hand, you'll learn how to: choose a house...
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Quicken Willmaker Plus 2017 Book & Software Kit

Betsy Simmons Hannibal · NOLO
Pages: 488
Format: Print book

"Quicken WillMaker Plus 2017" is the easiest ways to create your estate plan, whether it's your first time or you want to update a previous plan. You'll be guided through the process from beginning to end with practical and relevant legal information so that you can make...
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For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism, and Sacrifice

Howard Schultz · Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A celebration of the extraordinary courage, dedication, and sacrifice of this generation of American veterans on the battlefield and their equally valuable contributions on the home front. Because so few of us now serve in the military, our men and women in uniform have become strangers...
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Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide

Stephen Fishman · Nolo
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

Maximize your tax deductions. Named a "Top 10 Real Estate Book" by Robert Bruss, syndicated real estate columnist. If you own residential rental properties, you will want to know about all the valuable deductions you are entitled to take as a landlord. Every Landlord's Tax Deduction...
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Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success

Ivanka Trump · Portfolio
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Ivanka is donating the unpaid portion of her advance and all future royalties received from Women Who Work to the Ivanka M. Trump Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund that will make grants to organizations that empower and educate women and girls.* "This...
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Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

Rosabeth Moss Kanter · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

"America has been waiting for a call to think big and act big as we envision our transportation future. Kanter's important book is it." -- Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts, 2007 -- 2015Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays...
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Plan Your Estate

Denis Clifford · NOLO; Twelfth Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Straightforward, plain-English explanations of every significant estate-planning option available, all in easy to understand language. Nolo's bestseller Plan Your Estate shows how to:
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Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future

Thomas M Shapiro · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Since the Great Recession, most Americans' standard of living has stagnated or declined. Economic inequality is at historic highs. But inequality's impact differs by race; African Americans' net wealth is just a tenth that of white Americans, and over recent decades, white families have...
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