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Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two

Jim Koch · Flatiron Books, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Founder of The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, and a key catalyst of the American craft beer revolution, Jim Koch offers his unique perspective when it comes to business, beer, and turning your passion into a successful company or career.In 1984, it looked like...
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AgeProof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip

Jean Chatzky · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover

Two of the world's leading experts explain the vital link between health and wealth that could add years to your life and dollars to your retirement savings.All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if we can't get out of bed. And the healthiest body in the world won't stay that way if we're...
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways...
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Fundraising with Businesses: 40 New

Joe Waters · Wiley
Pages: 284
Format: Print book

40 proven strategies for raising big money with businesses There's a reason why nonprofits are getting smaller checks from corporate giving programs. Companies are abandoning or slashing giving budgets and instead focusing on win-win pacts that drive sales and change the world. Nonprofits...
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The Gen Z Effect: The Six Forces Shaping the Future of Business

Dan Keldsen · Bibliomotion
Format: Hardcover

One of the most profound changes in business and society is the emergence of the post-Millennial generation, Gen Z. While every new generation has faced its share of disruption in technology, economics, politics and society, no other generation in the history of mankind has had the ability...
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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work

Liz Wiseman · Harperbusiness
Format: Hardcover

Wall Street Journal BestsellerIs it possible to be at your best even when you are underqualified or doing something for the first time? Is it still possible, even after decades of experience, to recapture the enthusiasm, curiosity, and fearlessness of youth to take on new challenges? With...
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Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics

Thomas H. Davenport · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Why Everyone Needs Analytical SkillsWelcome to the age of data. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up)—your world is awash...
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Christy Wright's Business Boutiques:: A Woman's Guide for Making Money Doing What She Loves

Christy Wright · Ramsey Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

There is a movement of women stepping into their God-given gifts to make money doing what they love. If you're ready to join them, this is your handbook that will take the ideas in your head and the dream in your heart and turn them into action.* Help you create a step-by-step, customized...
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The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown

BLAIRE BRIODY · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Williston, North Dakota was a sleepy farm town for generations -- until the frackers arrived. The oil companies moved into Williston, overtaking the town and setting off a boom that America hadn't seen since the Gold Rush. Workers from all over the country descended, chasing jobs that promised...
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Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service

Devin Leonard · Grove Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, forty percent of the world's volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service - more than twice as efficient as the Japanese...
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What Keeps Leaders Up at Night: Recognizing and Resolving Your Most Troubling Management Issues

Nicole Lipkin · AMACOM
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

No matter how many initiatives you spearhead or how hard you think about decisions, you will make the occasional management misstep. All leaders do. You can lie awake at night questioning yourself or you can read this book. As a clinical and business psychologist who works with executives...
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Knock 'em Dead 2015: The Ultimate Job Search Guide

Martin Yate · Adams Media; 30 Anv edition
Format: Book

Get a better job faster and change the trajectory of your life forever!Classic winner...one of the most valuable career books on the market. --LA TimesThe first, middle, and last word for job seekers on navigating a competitive, and often cutthroat, job market. --Science DailyNew York Times...
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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership

Richard Branson · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola...
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Barron's Real Estate Licensing Exams, 10th Edition

Jack P. Friedman Ph.D. · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 656
Format: Print book

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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