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Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio · Simon & Schuster Pages: 567 Format: Hardcover
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#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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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
DAVID GRAEBER · Simon & Schuster Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate
Spencer Rascoff · Grand Central Publishing, 2015. ©2015 Pages: 275 Format: Print book
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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