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Mortgages 101: Quick Answers to Over 250 Critical Questions About Your Home Loan

David Reed · AMACOM
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Everything you need to know before you borrow... Unless you're sitting on a pile of cash, chances are you'll need to take out a mortgage when you're ready to buy a home. But how do you know how much house you can afford? What should you look for in a loan? What kind of paperwork...
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Fired Up! Selling TM: Great Quotes To Inspire, Energize, Succeed

Ray Bard · Bard Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Salespeople love quotes! They put them on their refrigerator doors, post on their bathroom mirrors, carry them as a reminder, use in speeches and team meetings, and send in emails. They use quotes to fire up their sales teams, their friends -- and themselves.A unique crowd-sourcing model,...
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The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower

Yaakov Katz · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From drones to satellites, missile defense systems to cyber warfare, Israel is leading the world when it comes to new technology being deployed on the modern battlefield. The Weapon Wizards shows how this tiny nation of 8 million learned to adapt to the changes in warfare and in the defense...
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Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World

John Chambers · Hachette Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Legendary Silicon Valley visionary and one of the world's greatest business leaders, John Chambers shares the playbook and philosophy that transformed Cisco into a global tech titan and now inspire a new generation of leaders. When Chambers joined Cisco in 1991, it was a company with...
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NeuroWisdom: The New Brain Science of Money, Happiness, and Success

Mark Robert Waldman · Diversion Books
Pages: 292
Format: Print book

Perfect for readers of How God Changes Your Brain, two researchers present over thirty straightforward brain exercises to help readers transform how they think in order to generate happiness and success, in business and in life. Adapted from a business school course they created for professionals,...
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Start Your Own Travel Hosting Business: Airbnb, VRBO, Homeaway, and More

Jason Rich · Entrepreneur Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

GET PAID FOR YOUR PADAn ever-growing number of travelers are searching for more convenient and low-cost accommodation alternatives, as opposed to staying at traditional hotels. As a result, online-based services like Airbnb, FlipKey, HomeAway, Roomorama, and VRBO are making it easy for you to list...
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The PR Agency Handbook

Regina Luttrell · SAGE Publications, Inc
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

A Practical and Concise Introduction to Agency Life The PR Agency Handbook guides you through the day-to-day operations of a professional PR firm and offers best practices for creating a successful career in the industry. Authors Regina Luttrell and Luke Capizzo highlight real-world examples...
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Sustainable Diets: How Ecological Nutrition Can Transform Consumption and the Food System

Pamela Mason · Routledge
Pages: 369
Format: Hardcover

How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the ecosystems on which life depends? The evidence of diet's impact on public health and the environment has grown in recent decades, yet changing food supply, consumer habits and economic aspirations...
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Who Stole Our Market Economy?: The Desperate Need For Socioeconomic Progress

A Coskun Samli · Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover

This book discusses the current landscape of our market economy, which is in the hands of financiers and billionaires who decrease competition as well as consumer power. In order for society to fully thrive and provide its members higher living standards and quality of life, it must distribute...
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The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

Tyler Cowen · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs.The problem, according to legendary blogger,...
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Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics in an Age of Crisis

George Monbiot · Verso
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

What does the good life - and the good society - look like in the twenty-first century?A toxic ideology rules the world - of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that...
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Noncompliant: A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street

Carmen Segarra · Nation Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

A first-hand account of the oversight of the big banks in the wake of the financial crisis, from the Federal Reserve examiner who refused to be silencedIn 2011, Carmen Segarra took a job as at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York supervising for Goldman Sachs. It was an opportunity, she believed,...
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Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future

Thomas M Shapiro · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Since the Great Recession, most Americans' standard of living has stagnated or declined. Economic inequality is at historic highs. But inequality's impact differs by race; African Americans' net wealth is just a tenth that of white Americans, and over recent decades, white families have...
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Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark

David Clark · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Words of wisdom from Charlie Munger - Warren Buffett's longtime business partner and the visionary Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway - collected and interpreted with an eye towards investing by David Clark, coauthor of the bestselling Buffettology series.Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924...
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Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It

Evan Davis · Little, Brown UK
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

'A Malcolm Gladwell-style social psychology/behavioural economics primer' Evening StandardLow-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting - from Trump and the Brexit debate to companies that tell...
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