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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It
Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It

Larry Olmsted · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

"Impressive . . . Readers will be inspired by Olmsted's intensity and clarity, and floored by how far some counterfeiters go to fool consumers and some historic food institutions go to protect their products and their names. Olmsted's sharp language will hopefully put fires under counterfeiters...
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2017: For Preparing Your 2016 Tax Return
J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2017: For Preparing Your 2016 Tax Return

J. K. Lasser Institute. · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 848
Format: Print book

America's number-one all-time best-selling tax guide, with 2,500 money-saving tips J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2017 puts America's most trusted tax advice to work to help you with your 2016 tax return. Reader-friendly and easy to use, this book answers your most pressing questions...
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Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable...About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business

Patrick Lencioni · Jossey-Bass
Pages: 272
Format: Book

Casey McDaniel had never been so nervous in his life. In just ten minutes, The Meeting, as it would forever be known, would begin. Casey had every reason to believe that his performance over the next two hours would determine the fate of his career, his financial future, and the company...
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The Peace Corps Volunteer's Handbook: A Personal Field Guide to Making the Most of Your Peace Corps Experience
The Peace Corps Volunteer's Handbook: A Personal Field Guide to Making the Most of Your Peace Corps Experience

Travis Hellstrom · Hatherleigh Press
Pages: 109
Format: Print book

THE PEACE CORPS MAY BE "THE TOUGHEST JOB YOU'LL EVER LOVE," BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEARN THAT THE HARD WAY.The Peace Corps Volunteer's Handbook is both your guide and your companion. Learn from the experiences of outstanding former Volunteers, while cataloging your...
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The Science of Growth: How Facebook Beat Friendster--and How Nine Other Startups Left the Rest in the Dust
The Science of Growth: How Facebook Beat Friendster--and How Nine Other Startups Left the Rest in the Dust

Sean Ammirati · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

The lean entrepreneurship movement has captivated Silicon Valley and entrepreneurs across the country. It's provided an agile framework to develop the right product solution for a given target market, and is now used by almost every fledgling company to do just that.The next challenge...
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Preparing for Baby: All the Legal, Financial, Tax, and Insurance Information New and Expectant Parents Need
Preparing for Baby: All the Legal, Financial, Tax, and Insurance Information New and Expectant Parents Need

Nihara K Choudhri · American Bar Association
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Preparing for Baby is a must-have resource for every new and expecting parent, a legal and financial version of What to Expect While You're Expecting. Often, parents don't have the time or energy to deal with important legal and financial matters -- like buying life insurance, learning...
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Crafting the Customer Experience For People Not Like You: How to Delight and Engage the Customers Your Competitors Don't Understand
Crafting the Customer Experience For People Not Like You: How to Delight and Engage the Customers Your Competitors Don't Understand

Kelly McDonald · John Wiley & Sons Inc
Pages: 197
Format: Hardcover

Deliver a better business experience, for every kind of customer A "one-size fits all" approach to customer service is no longer viable. Businesses competing on service need to understand and cater to customers' racial, ethnic, religious, generational, and geographic differences...
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Not In The Club: An Executive Womans Journey Through the Biased World of Business
Not In The Club: An Executive Womans Journey Through the Biased World of Business

Janet Pucino · Deep Canyon Media LLC
Format: Hardcover

Winner 2013 New York Book Festival Award - Business Category                  Winner 2012-2013 Los Angeles Book Festival Award - Business Category Winner Beverly Hills Book Awards - Business CategoryWinner...
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Real Leadership: 9 Simple Practices for Leading and Living with Purpose
Real Leadership: 9 Simple Practices for Leading and Living with Purpose

John A Addison · McGraw-Hill
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Leadership lessons for enduring business and personal success from renowned motivational speaker, current leadership editor of Success magazine and former co-CEO of Primerica, John AddisonIn Real Leadership, author John Addison shares his straightforward practices for successful leadership...
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Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas
Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas

John Butman · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

How do you gain influence for an idea?In Breaking Out, idea developer and adviser John Butman shows how the methods of today’s most popular “idea entrepreneurs”—including dog psychologist Cesar Millan, French lifestyle guru Mireille Guiliano (French Women Don’t...
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Loopholes of Real Estate
Loopholes of Real Estate

Garrett Sutton · RDA Press, LLC; 1ST edition
Format: Book

The Loopholes of Real Estate reveals the tax and legal strategies used by the rich for generations to acquire and benefit from real estate investments. Clearly written, The Loopholes of Real Estate shows you how to open tax loopholes for your benefit and close legal loopholes for your protection.
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Mindful Leadership for Dummies.
Mindful Leadership for Dummies.

Adams Juliet
Format:  Print book : English

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When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

Steven D. Levitt · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. It’s the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love all things Freakonomics. Surprising and erudite, eloquent and witty, When...
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Simon Sinek · Portfolio Trade; Reprint edition
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Why do you do what you do? Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over?...
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When Buyers Say No: Essential Strategies for Keeping a Sale Moving Forward
When Buyers Say No: Essential Strategies for Keeping a Sale Moving Forward

Tom Hopkins · Business Plus, 2014.
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

This is a complete and practical guide which highlights the authors' new strategic approaches to selling when the buyer initially declines or is resistant on a sales opportunity. Hopkins and Katt explain that most sales reps take a traditional linear approach to selling, but that the trick...
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