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Globalization and its Discontents: Expanded Edition

JOSEPH E STIGLITZ · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz's landmark book, now with a new foreword.When it was first published, Globalization and Its Discontents quickly became a bestseller and a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz argued...
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Getting financial aid 2017.

College Board. · College Board
Pages: 1040
Format: Paperback

A latest edition of an annual reference provides insights into the specific challenges of today's economy while sharing step-by-step, simplified instructions for the FAFSA form and the College Board's CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE® form, in a guide complemented by financial profiles for more...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Leadership Fast-Track

Susan Caba · ALPHA
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Written to quickly develop the reader's leadership skills, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Leadership, Fast-Track is a short but rich introduction to leadership skills and how best to use them. After a brief examination of the required, but learnable, qualities, skills, and behaviors of leadership,...
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Your Own Terms: A Woman's Guide to Taking Charge of Any Negotiation

Yasmin Davidds · AMACOM/American Management Association
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

When it comes to negotiation, there is an ugly double standard. As women, if we make concessions to further a deal, we're viewed as weak. But if we play hard-ball, we can be seen as overly aggressive - and the strategy backfires. No wonder most women hate negotiating. In Your Own Terms,...
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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

Ruchir Sharma · W W Norton
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change. Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks...
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Rich Dad's Before You Quit Your Job: 10 Real-Life Lessons Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Building a Million-Dollar Business

Robert T. Kiyosaki · Plata Publishing; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Before You Quit Your Job • Do you have a million-dollar idea? • Are you afraid of failing? • Are you fed up with making other people rich? • Are you sick of taking orders from your boss? • Are you tired of working hard and not getting ahead? • Are you ready...
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Rich bitch : a simple 12-step plan for getting your financial life together ... finally

Nicole Lapin · William Morrow
Pages: 372

Talking about money sucks -- but so does being broke. Financial journalist Nicole Lapin lays out a 12-step plan in which she shares her experiences -- mistakes and all -- of getting her own finances in order. She talks to you not like a lecturer but as your friend. And even though money...
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Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives

Peter Orner · Verso
Pages: 389
Format: Paperback

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WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

Tim O'Reilly · HarperBusiness
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Silicon Valley's leading intellectual and the founder of O'Reilly Media explores the upside and the potential downsides of our future - what he calls the "next economy."Tim O'Reilly's genius is to identify and explain emerging technologies with world shaking potential - the World...
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Warren Buffett's Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World's Greatest Investor

Jeremy Miller · Harperbusiness
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Using the letters Warren Buffett wrote to his partners between 1956 and 1970, a veteran financial advisor presents the renowned guru's "ground rules" for investing - guidelines that remain startlingly relevant today.In the fourteen years between his time in New York with value-investing...
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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

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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The Innovation Blind Spot: Why We Back the Wrong Ideas?and What to Do About It

Ross Baird · BenBella Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Our innovation economy is broken. But there's good news: The ideas that will solve our problems are hiding in plain sight. While big companies in the American economy have never been more successful, entrepreneurial activity is near a 30-year low. More businesses are dying than starting...
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Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale

Tom Wilber · Cornell University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Running from southern West Virginia through eastern Ohio, across central and northeast Pennsylvania, and into New York through the Southern Tier and the Catskills, the Marcellus Shale formation underlies a sparsely populated region that features striking landscapes, critical watersheds,...
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Yes Ma'am, No Sir: The 12 Essential Steps for Success in Life

Coach Carter · Business Plus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Accountability . . . Overcoming adversity . . . Taking charge of your life . . . Learning how to succeed when others expect you to fail. These are the essences of Coach Carter's basic building blocks for winning in life. From learning about the quality of one's character to the love...
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