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Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 567
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller "Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving." - The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over...
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Anatomy of a Business Plan: The Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Business and Securing Your Company's Future

Linda Pinson · Out Of Your Mind . . . And Into The Mark; Eighth Edition, Eighth edition edition
Format: Paperback

Used by more than 1.5 million business owners since its original publication, the new edition of this classic how-to guide provides any entrepreneur the tools to create a well-constructed business plan. All steps are included - from initial considerations to envisioning the organizational...
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

DAVID GRAEBER · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs, and their consequences.Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled...
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Knock 'em Dead Cover Letters: Cover Letters and Strategies to Get the Job You Want

Martin Yate · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Great strategies for writing killer cover letters!At a time when every job seeker needs an edge, Martin Yate, CPC, shows you how to dramatically increase your chances of landing an interview with a dynamic cover letter. Using his 25+ years of experience, he has built a practical, easy-to-follow...
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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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It's Not About the Shark: How to Solve Unsolvable Problems

David Niven · St Martins Pr
Pages: 230
Format: Book

It's Not About the Shark opens the door to the groundbreaking science of solutions by turning problems -- and how we solve them -- upside down. When we have a problem, most of us zero in, take it apart, and focus until we have it solved. David Niven shows us that focusing on the problem...
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Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating

Charles Spence · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The science behind a good meal: all the sounds, sights, and tastes that make us like what we're eating - and want to eat more.Why do we consume 35 percent more food when eating with one other person, and 75 percent more when dining with three? How do we explain the fact that people...
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Patent Searching Made Easy: How to do Patent Searches on the Internet and in the Library

David Hitchcock · Nolo
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Inventor? Find out if you're the first to file a patent, online and in the library In the past, if you wanted to assess the novelty of an idea, you had to wade through the patent database at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in Virginia -- or hire a lawyer to do a patent...
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Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate

Spencer Rascoff · Grand Central Publishing, 2015. ©2015
Pages: 275
Format: Print book

THE HARDCOVER EDITION WAS PUBLISHED AS ZILLOW TALK: THE NEW RULES OF REAL ESTATE. THE NEW TITLE OF THIS BOOK IN OTHER EDITIONS IS ZILLOW TALK: REWRITING THE RULES OF REAL ESTATE.The New York Times bestseller--now updated with a new chapter!How do you spot an area poised for gentrification?...
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music,...
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The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner's Guide to Getting Good with Money

Chelsea Fagan · Holt Paperbacks
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

A budget boot camp and guide to long-term transformation that will help you save, date, decorate and dream your way to your best financial life.The Financial Diet is the personal finance book for people who don't care about personal finance; it's your savvy older sister, your trusted...
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Investing for a Lifetime: Managing Wealth for the "New Normal"

Richard C. Marston · Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Investing for a Lifetime is designed to make saving and investing understandable to the investor. Wharton Professor Richard C. Marston, 2014 recipient of the Investment Management Consultants Association’s  prestigious Matthew R. McArthur Award,  guides an investor through...
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The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World

Steve Levine · Viking
Format: Hardcover

A Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult...
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Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums

Lance Grande · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of engaging exhibits that share those...
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Shane Bauer · Penguin Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana....
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