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Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success

Ivanka Trump · Portfolio
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Ivanka is donating the unpaid portion of her advance and all future royalties received from Women Who Work to the Ivanka M. Trump Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund that will make grants to organizations that empower and educate women and girls.* "This...
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A Colorful Way of Living: How to Be More, Create More, Do More the Vera Bradley Way

Barbara Bradley Baekgaard · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

From the co-founder of the Vera Bradley empire, a practical and inspiring book that shows women how to awaken their full potential, at any age."This place could use some color!" That's what Barbara Bradley said to her friend Pat during an airport layover. It was 1982 and all the women...
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The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate

Fran Hauser · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

A candid guide for ambitious women who want to succeed without losing themselves in the process In THE MYTH OF THE NICE GIRL, Fran Hauser deconstructs the negative perception of "niceness" that many women struggle with in the business world. If women are nice, they are seen as weak...
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8 Ways to Avoid Probate

Mary Randolph · Nolo
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

Did you know? If you plan carefully, your estate may not have to go through the process of probate. Probate can drag on for years, and can easily cost your family thousands of dollars--money that would otherwise have gone to them. 8 Ways to Avoid Probate offers simple and effective methods...
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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

Beth Macy · Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations,...
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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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Social Security: The Inside Story, 2016 Edition

Andy Landis · Thinking Retirement
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

Social Security and Medicare form the bedrock of your retirement security. You paid for them - now make them work for you! SOCIAL SECURITY: THE INSIDE STORY is detailed. Comprehensive. User-friendly. It's been hailed since 1993 as "the best" resource on Social Security...
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Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge , and Build Confidence

Andy Molinsky · Avery Pub Group
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Do you feel comfortable delivering bad news? Do you look forward to speaking in public? Do you enjoy networking? Is it easy for you to speak your mind and be assertive with friends and colleagues? If you answered no to any of these questions, this book can help! What often sets successful...
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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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The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See

Max Bazerman · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A "must-read" (BOOKLIST ) from Harvard Business School Professor and Codirector of the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership: A guide to making better decisions, noticing important information in the world around you, and improving leadership skills.Imagine...
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China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine

Rosemary Gibson · Prometheus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it--and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This is a disturbing, well-researched wake-up call for improving the current system of drug supply and manufacturing.Several decades ago, penicillin,...
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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know

Joanne Lipman · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

First things first: There will be no man shaming in That's What She Said. A recent Harvard study found that corporate "diversity training" has actually made the gender gap worse - in part because it makes men feel demonized. Women, meanwhile, have been told closing the gender...
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Warren Buffett's Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World's Greatest Investor

Jeremy Miller · Harperbusiness
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Using the letters Warren Buffett wrote to his partners between 1956 and 1970, a veteran financial advisor presents the renowned guru's "ground rules" for investing - guidelines that remain startlingly relevant today.In the fourteen years between his time in New York with value-investing...
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I.M.: A Memoir

Isaac Mizrahi · Flatiron Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Isaac Mizrahi is sui generis. Designer. Cabaret singer. Talk show host. He's a pop culture icon unlike any fashion designer of recent memory, just as likely to be recognized walking down Main Street USA as Madison Avenue NYC. Yet ever since he shot to fame in the 1980s, the private Isaac...
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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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