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What color is your parachute? 2017 : a practical manual for job-hunters and career-changers

Richard N Bolles · Ten Speed
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2017 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.In today's challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed...
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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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Sales EQ: How Ultra High Performers Leverage Sales-Specific Emotional Intelligence to Close the Complex Deal

Jeb Blount · Wiley
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The New Psychology of Selling The sales profession is in the midst of a perfect storm. Buyers have more power - more information, more at stake, and more control over the sales process - than any time in history. Technology is bringing disruptive change at an ever-increasing pace, creating...
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Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs

Yukari Iwatani Kane · HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
Pages: 371
Format: Print book

Former Wall Street Journal technology reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane delves deep inside Apple in the two years since Steve Jobs's death, revealing the tensions and challenges CEO Tim Cook and his team face as they try to sustain Jobs's vision and keep the company moving forward.Steve...
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Saving the Family Cottage: A Guide to Succession Planning for Your Cottage, Cabin, Camp or Vacation Home

Stuart J Hollander · Nolo
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Whether you're a parent planning to pass on a cottage to your children, someone who has inherited a cabin with your siblings or other relatives, or someone who is thinking about buying a vacation home, you want to know how to keep the property in the family -- and avoid squabbles over...
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How to Measure Anything Workbook: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

Douglas W Hubbard · New Jersey
Pages: 145
Format: Paperback

The invaluable companion to the new edition of the bestselling How to Measure Anything This companion workbook to the new edition of the insightful and eloquent How to Measure Anything walks readers through sample problems and exercises in which they can master and apply the methods discussed...
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Michael Moss · Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Book

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Atlantic * The Huffington Post * Men's Journal * MSN (U.K.) * Kirkus Reviews * Publishers Weekly#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AWARD FOR WRITING AND LITERATUREEvery year, the average American eats...
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The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

Brad Stone · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book...
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Data for the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You

Andreas Weigend · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Every time we Google something, Facebook someone, Uber somewhere, or even just turn on a light, we create data that businesses collect and use to make decisions about us. In many ways this has improved our lives, yet, we as individuals do not benefit from this wealth of data as much as we could....
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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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Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success

Stephen R Covey · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 194
Format: Print book

From Stephen R. Covey - the late, legendary author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - a new set of rules for achieving a happy and fulfilling life of primary greatness.Many of us are hurting. We have chronic problems, dissatisfactions, and disappointments. Although we generally...
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The Truth About Your Future: The Money Guide You Need Now, Later, and Much Later

RIC EDELMAN · SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author and legendary investment guru Ric Edelman reveals his forward-thinking guide on how technology and science will reshape the way we save, invest, and plan for the future.Technology and science are evolving at a blistering, almost incomprehensible pace. The Human...
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The Profitable Consultant: Starting, Growing, and Selling Your Expertise

Jay Niblick · Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Selling can be uncomfortable for professional business consultants and executive coaches. The two biggest problems are generating more qualified leads, and turning those leads into actual paying clients. Taking traditional beliefs about how best to "sell" and turning them completely...
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Girl in Glass: How My "Distressed Baby" Defied the Odds, Shamed a CEO, and Taught Me the Essence of Love, Heartbreak, and Miracles

Deanna Fei · Bloomsbury
Pages: 314
Format: Print book

Deanna Fei was just five-and-a-half months pregnant when she inexplicably went into labor. Minutes later, she met her tiny baby who clung to life support inside a glass box. Fei was forced to confront terrifying questions: How to be the mother of a child she could lose at any moment....
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

MICHAEL LEWIS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments,...
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