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The Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide

Peri Pakroo · NOLO; Third Edition edition
Format: Paperback

GOLD winner of the IBPA 2015 Benjamin Franklin Award - Business & Career The Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit, written by the author of the bestselling The Small Business Start-Up Kit, gives you the practical and legal information you need to kickstart a successful enterprise...
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Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

Ezekiel Emanuel · PublicAffairs; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The definitive story of American health care today—its causes, consequences, and confusionsIn March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America’s health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever....
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Not Buying It: Stop Overspending and Start Raising Happier, Healthier, More Successful Kids

Brett Graff · Seal Press, 2015.
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Parents will do just about anything to give their kids the best shot at good lives. Marketers know this - and use it to manipulate parents into buying millions of dollars worth of unnecessary products each year. Enough is enough. In Not Buying It, Brett Graff, the "Home Economist,"...
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Plan Your Estate

DENIS CLIFFORD · NOLO
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback

Turn to Plan Your Estate for straightforward, plain-English explanations of each of your estate-planning options, so you can make the best decisions for you and those you love. Attorney Denis Clifford shows you how to: avoid probate leave property through a will or trust use life insurance...
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Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace

Jessica Bennett · Harperwave
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work - a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.It was a fight club - but without...
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Executor's Guide, The: Settling a Loved One's Estate or Trust

MARY RANDOLPH · NOLO
Pages: 520
Format: Paperback

The Executor's Guide shows someone who's wrapping up a loved one's estate how to proceed, step by step. It explains what must be done right away and what can wait, and guides readers through a land of unfamiliar legal procedures and terminology. It covers: preparing for the job of executor...
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Stuffocation: Why We've Had Enough of Stuff and Need Experience More Than Ever

James Wallman · Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

Stuffocation is a movement manifesto for "experiential" living, a call to arms to stop accumulating stuff and start accumulating experiences, and a road map for a new way forward with the potential to transform our lives.Reject materialism. Embrace experientialism. Live more with...
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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

Great strategies for writing killer cover letters!At a time when every job seeker needs an edge, Martin Yate, CPC, shows you how to dramatically increase your chances of landing an interview with a dynamic cover letter. Using his 25+ years of experience, he has built a practical, easy-to-follow...
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Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

Jonathan Haskel · Princeton University Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, or software, than...
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Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life

Francesca Gino · Dey Street Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Do you want to follow a script - or write your own story? Award-winning Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino shows us why the most successful among us break the rules, and how rebellion brings joy and meaning into our lives. Rebels have a bad reputation. We think of them...
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Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink

Juliana Barbassa · Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

In the tradition of Detroit: An American Autopsy and Maximum City comes a deeply reported and beautifully written biography of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro from prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa.Juliana Barbassa moved a great deal throughout...
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The Manager's Legal Handbook

Amy DelPo · NOLO; Seventh Edition edition
Format: Paperback

All the legal information supervisors need. If you supervise employees or independent contractors, The Manager’s Legal Handbook is the perfect resource. Need information about overtime? Want useful ideas on workplace policies? Have a question about trade secrets and need the answer...
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Women Change the World: Noteworthy Women on Cultivating Your Potential and Achieving Success

Michelle Patterson · BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

Women Change the World is a collection of world-changing women—from actresses, recording artists, and writers to businesswomen and other high-profile female professionals—on women’s unique contributions to society.Women Change the World will be released in conjunction with...
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Energy: A Human History

RICHARD RHODES · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power...
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A Truck Full of Money

Tracy Kidder · Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

"A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture." - Charles Duhigg Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy - the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English,...
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