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The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt

ROBERT I SUTTON · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

How to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic bestseller The No Asshole Rule "Help, I'm dealing with an asshole! What can I do?" Since his book The No Asshole Rule became a national bestseller a decade ago, Robert Sutton has heard that question...
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The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage

Mel Robbins · Savio Republic
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover

How to enrich your life and destroy doubt in 5 seconds. Throughout your life, you've had parents, coaches, teachers, friends and mentors who have pushed you to be better than your excuses and bigger than your fears. What if the secret to having the confidence and courage to enrich your...
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Your Score: An Insider's Secrets to Understanding, Controlling, and Protecting Your Credit Score

ANTHONY DAVENPORT · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

The most comprehensive insider's look at what every consumer needs to know about their credit score - and most importantly, how to fix it Like it or not, a healthy credit score is essential if you want to participate in today's financial world. But very few people actually understand how their...
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What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems

LINDA YUEH · Picador
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"What Would the Great Economists Do? comes at the right time: a highly accessible and acute guide to thinking and learning from the men and woman whose work can inform and ultimately aid us in understanding the great national and global crises we're living through." --Nouriel...
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Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies

Joshua Waldman · For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

Harness social media to land your dream job For anyone looking for a first job, exploring a career change, or just setting up for future success, social media sites are proven platforms for facilitating connections, demonstrating passions and interests, and ultimately landing the job. Job Searching...
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Social Security 101: From Medicare to Spousal Benefits, an Essential Primer on Government Retirement Aid

Alfred Mill · Adams Media
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

A crash course in retirement benefits! Too often, writing about social security turns the noteworthy details of the benefits into boring details about regulations or biased political arguments that would put even a die-hard bureaucrat to sleep. Social Security 101 cuts out the tedious explanations...
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Pause: Harnessing the Life-Changing Power of Giving Yourself a Break

Rachael O'Meara · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or stuck? Discover the power of the pause. Sometimes life throws you for a loop. You're stressed out at your job; you're torn between work and family; your motivation and productivity are taking a nosedive. Your impulse might be to lean in and tough it out,...
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The Economy of You: Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur and Recession-Proof Your Life

Kimberly Palmer · AMACOM
Pages: 239
Format: Hardcover

The biggest trend in business is the microbusiness! Handcrafted jewelry, artisanal eats, life coaching, app development, you name it—entrepreneurial side ventures are everywhere. Weary of pink-slip anxiety and the endless money squeeze, millions of people are taking the leap. They’re...
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The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

ANDREW YANG · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes-and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy. The shift toward...
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All I Want Is a Job!: Unemployed Women Navigating the Public Workforce System

Mary Lizabeth Gatta · Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2014.
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback

In All I Want Is a Job!, Mary Gatta puts a human face on workforce development policy. An ethnographic sociologist, Gatta went undercover, posing as a client in a New Jersey One-Stop Career Center. One-Stop Centers, developed as part of the federal Workforce Investment Act, are supposed...
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The captured economy : how the powerful enrich themselves, slow down growth, and increase inequality

Brink Lindsey · Oxford University Press
Format: eBook

"For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. Yet economists have long taught that there is a tradeoff between equity and efficiency-that is, between making a bigger pie and dividing it more fairly. That is why our current predicament is so puzzling:...
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Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion

David Zweig · Portfolio Penguin
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring look at the hidden stars in every field who perform essential work without recognition In a culture where so many strive for praise and glory, what kind of person finds the greatest reward in anonymous work? Expanding from his acclaimed Atlantic article, "What Do Fact-Checkers...
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Labor Under Fire: A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979

Timothy J. Minchin · The University of North Carolina Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

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Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power

Noam Chomsky · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

NOAM CHOMSKY is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic, income inequality: "During the Great Depression, things were much worse than they are today, but there was an expectation that things were going to get better....
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The Vanity Fair Diaries

OCTAVIA MANN · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story...
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