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Start Your Own Microbrewery, Distillery, or Cidery: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success

Corie Brown · Entrepreneur Press
Format: Print book

Start Your Own Microbrewery, Distillery, or Cidery and Craft Your Success StoryGrowing each year, this multi-billion dollar industry, driven by consumer preferences, shows no signs of slowing down - giving you the perfect opportunity to start up.Corie Brown of Zester Daily and our experts...
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The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World

Dan Ackerman · PublicAffairs
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Tetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, popular video game ever made. But the fascinating story of its origins is lesser known. How did an obscure Soviet programmer, working on frail, antiquated computers, create a product that has earned nearly $1 billion in sales? How did an inspired,...
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The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

Ted Genoways · Harper
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and important work of investigative journalism that explores the runaway growth of the American meatpacking industry and its dangerous consequences.On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule the chain never slows. Every year, the chain conveyors...
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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development

Vandana Shiva · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 228
Format: Print book

Inspired by women's struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that "maldevelopment"...
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The Classical Economists Revisited

D P O'Brien · Princeton University Press
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

The Classical Economists Revisited conveys the extent, diversity, and richness of the literature of economics produced in the period extending from David Hume's Essays of 1752 to the final contributions of Fawcett and Cairnes in the 1870s. D. P. O'Brien thoroughly updates, rewrites,...
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The Donor Lifecycle Map: A Model for Fundraising Success

Deborah Kaplan Polivy · CharityChannel Press
Pages: 98
Format: Paperback

Until now, the accepted wisdom in the nonprofit fundraising world was that everything you need to know about fundraising strategy is embodied in the venerable Donor Pyramid. In this brilliant yet down-to-earth and conversational book, Deborah Kaplan Polivy shows you how to retool your fundraising...
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Steam Titans: Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic

William M. Fowler. · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The story of the epic contest between shipping magnates Samuel Cunard and Edward Collins for mid-19th century control of the Atlantic. Between 1815 and the American Civil War, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution delivered a sea change in oceanic transportation. Steam travel...
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Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price: An Insider's Guide to Getting More Than You Ever Thought Possible

Kevin M. Short · AMACOM
Format: Hardcover

Too many businesses sell for far less than they should! After pouring time, energy, and money into their company, owners deserve to squeeze every last dollar they can from that hard-earned investment. Sell Your Business for an Outrageous Price is the playbook they need to win big at the closing...
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Create Your Own Employee Handbook: A Legal & Practical Guide for Employers

Lisa Guerin · NOLO
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback

Make -- or update -- your employee handbook today with this user-friendly guide! Every company should have an employee handbook to communicate with employees, manage workers effectively, ensure consistent treatment across the organization, and protect itself from lawsuits. But creating...
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The Art of Fact Investigation:Creative Thinking in the Age of Information Overload

Philip Segal · Ignaz Press
Pages: 107
Format: Print book

Investigation is as much art as it is science. This book helps lawyers, investigators and others to get the information they need for litigation, due diligence and finding assets. New York-based investigative lawyer Philp Segal shows through real-life examples the way a good investigation...
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Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing How We Buy and Who We Are

Zoe Fraade-Blanar · W W Norton
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

As fandom sheds its longtime stigmas of geekiness and hysteria, fans are demanding more from the celebrities and brands they love. Digital tools have given organizations from traditional businesses to tech startups direct, real-time access to their most devoted consumers, and it s easy...
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The Heart of Hospitality: Great Hotel and Restaurant Leaders Share Their Secrets

Micah Solomon · SelectBooks
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Success in today s rapidly changing hospitality industry depends on understanding the desires of guests of all ages, from seniors and boomers to the newly dominant millennial generation of travelers. Help has arrived with a compulsively-readable new standard, The Heart of Hospitality: Great...
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Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune

Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Palgrave MacMillan Trade
Format: Hardcover

Fact: the Millennial Generation will not be able to rely on pensions and social security in retirement. Instead, they will have to save and invest in the global stock market to meet their goals. When it comes to thinking about money, Millennials are, as a generation, different from their...
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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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The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class

Edward Conard · Portfolio Penguin
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The scourge of America's economy isn't the success of the 1 percent - quite the opposite. The bigger problem is the government's well-meaning but misguided attempt to reduce the payoffs for success. Four years ago, Edward Conard wrote a controversial bestseller, Unintended Consequences,...
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