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The United States of Beer: A Regional History of the All-American Drink

Dane Huckelbridge - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

From the author of Bourbon, "the definitive history" (Sacramento Bee) , comes the rollicking and revealing story of beer in America, in the spirit of Salt or Cod.In The United States of Beer, Dane Huckelbridge, the author of Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit - a Southern...
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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know

Joanne Lipman - William Morrow
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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Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow

Joshua Spodek - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

Leadership literature is full of principles and ideas - but they rarely leave the page. Practice is what turns abstract concepts into useful skills. Leadership Step by Step walks listeners through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed...
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2019: For Preparing Your 2018 Tax Return

J K LASSER - Wiley
Format: Paperback

The nation's most trusted tax guide, updated for your 2018 returns J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2019 is the nation's most trusted tax guide, updated to help you prepare your 2018 return. Step-by-step expert guidance walks you through the forms, calculations, and deadlines...
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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life

Lea Berman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message - everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well.Former White House social secretaries Lea Berman,...
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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Kai-Fu Lee - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Here are two well-known facts: Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the world as we know it. The United States has long been, and remains, the global leader in AI. That first fact is correct. But in his provocative new book, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee - one of the world's most respected experts...
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55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life

Elizabeth White - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

For the millions of people in their fifties and sixties who find themselves out of work, unable to find a job, and financially incapable of retiring, here's a practical plan for getting past any blame or shame, overcoming denial, and finding a path to a new normal.Elizabeth White has an impressive...
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The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs

Alexa Clay - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A book that argues that lessons in creativity, innovation, salesmanship, and entrepreneurship can come from surprising places: pirates, bootleggers, counterfeiters, hustlers, and others living and working on the margins of business and society.Who are the greatest innovators in the world?...
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2015: For Preparing Your 2014 Tax Return

J.K. Lasser Tax Institute. - Wiley; 5 edition
Format: Book

America's bestselling tax guide for over seventy-five years, updated for 2014 taxes J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2015 is the most trusted tax guide on the market, updated for 2014 tax returns. With full coverage of all changes and adjustments to the tax laws—including new deductions...
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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

William Burnett - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times Bestseller At last, a book that shows you how to build - design - a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home - at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding...
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Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

John Doerr - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times BestsellerLegendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth - and how it can help any organization thrive. In the fall of 1999,...
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Cathy O'Neil - Crown
Format: Print book

"A former Wall Street quantitative analyst sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling, a pervasive new force in society that threatens to undermine democracy and widen inequality,"--NoveList."We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--...
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON - Viking
Format: Hardcover

As heard on NPR's This American Life"Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air"One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever."...
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Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change

Frank Sesno - AMACOM
Format: Print book

What hidden skill links successful people in all walks of life? What helps them make smart decisions? The answer is surprisingly simple: They know how to ask the right questions at the right time. Questions help us break down barriers, discover secrets, solve puzzles, and imagine new ways...
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Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown

Gerri Hirshey - Sarah Crichton Books ; Farrar
Format: Print book

A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural iconWhen Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation...
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In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

Grace Bonney - Artisan
Format: Print book

New York Times Bestseller "I want to rip out every page of this glorious book and hang them on my wall so that I can be surrounded by these incredible women all day long." - Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern...
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The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner's Guide to Getting Good with Money

Chelsea Fagan - Holt Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

*A Refinery29 Best Book of 2018**One of Real Simple's Most Inspiring Books for Graduates* How to get good with money, even if you have no idea where to start.The Financial Diet is the personal finance book for people who don't care about personal finance. Whether you're in need...
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The Vanity Fair Diaries

OCTAVIA MANN - Henry Holt and Co.
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...
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What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems

LINDA YUEH - Picador
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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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth - Scribner
Format: Print book

In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed - be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence...
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AgeProof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip

Jean Chatzky - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover

Two of the world's leading experts explain the vital link between health and wealth that could add years to your life and dollars to your retirement savings.All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if we can't get out of bed. And the healthiest body in the world won't stay that way if we're...
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How to Make It: 25 Makers Share the Secrets to Building a Creative Business

Erin Austen Abbott - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

This is the ultimate tell-all, show-all guide to making a living by making things. Featuring 25 profiles of illustrators, jewelry designers, ceramicists, painters, clothing designers, and printmakers, How to Make It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily rituals and best practices...
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The Case Against Sugar

Gary Taubes - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expos that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent...
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To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History

Lawrence Levy - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

The never-before-told story of Pixar's improbable success. "Hi, Lawrence?" the caller asked. "This is Steve Jobs. I saw your picture in a magazine a few years ago and thought we'd work together someday." After Steve Jobs was unceremoniously dismissed from Apple,...
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Trump's War: His Battle for America

MICHAEL SAVAGE - CENTER ST
Format: Print book

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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

JOHN CARREYROU - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from their charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.In 2014,...
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Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together

Gaby Dunn - Atria Books
Format: Paperback

The beloved writer-comedian expands on her popular podcast with an engaging and empowering financial literacy book for Millennials and Gen Z. In the first episode of her "Bad With Money" podcast, Gaby Dunn asked patrons at a coffee shop two questions: First, what's your favorite...
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The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation

Josh Linkner - Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Companies, communities, and individuals fall for many reasons, but one of the most commonand easily avoidableis the failure to reinvent. When people and organizations rest on prior successes rather than driving purposeful transformation, they discover too late that they have lost their...
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The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order

Paul Vigna - St Martin'S Press
Format: Book

Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy anything from coffee to cars, yet few people seem to truly understand what it is. This raises the question: Why should...
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Avid Reader: A Life

Robert Gottlieb - Farrar
Format: Print book

A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred...
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2017: For Preparing Your 2016 Tax Return

J. K. Lasser Institute. - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book

America's number-one all-time best-selling tax guide, with 2,500 money-saving tips J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2017 puts America's most trusted tax advice to work to help you with your 2016 tax return. Reader-friendly and easy to use, this book answers your most pressing questions...
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Evergreen: Cultivate the Enduring Customer Loyalty That Keeps Your Business Thriving

Noah Fleming - AMACOM
Format: Hardcover

Loyal customers are the beating heart of every great business. So why do so many companies act like adrenalin junkies, chasing after new customers at the expense of creating deeper, more profitable relationships with the ones they already have? Evergreen exposes the mad pursuit...
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Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact

Nick Morgan - Harvard Business Review Press,
Format: Print book

Take control of your communications - before someone else doesWhat if someone told you that your behavior was controlled by a powerful, invisible force? Most of us would be skeptical of such a claim - but it's largely true. Our brains are constantly transmitting and receiving signals...
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Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonalds Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away

Lisa Napoli - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The movie The Founder, starring Michael Keaton, focused the spotlight on Ray Kroc, the man who amassed a fortune as the chairman of McDonalds. But what about his wife Joan, the woman who became famous for giving away his fortune? Lisa Napoli tells the fascinating story behind the historic...
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Yes, And: How Improvisation Reverses "No, But" Thinking and Improves Creativity and Collaboration--Lessons from The Second City

Kelly Leonard - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Executives from The Second City - the world's premier comedy theater and school of improvisation - reveal improvisational techniques that can help any organization develop innovators, encourage adaptable leaders, and build transformational businesses.For more than fifty years, The Second...
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Overwhelmed : work, love, and play when no one has the time

Brigid Schulte - Sarah Crichton Books
Format:  Book : English : First edition

Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time?According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is “that place in which we realize our humanity.” If that’s true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're...
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Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

David Wootton - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover

A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning -- cost-benefit analysis -- to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed....
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

Antonio Garcia Martinez - Harper
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Business Insider Top 20 Business Book of the Year * An Inc. Best Book of the Year for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners"Incisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year.... Clearly there will be people...
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The Colder War: How the Global Energy Trade Slipped from America's Grasp

Marin Katusa - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

How the massive power shift in Russia threatens the political dominance of the United States There is a new cold war underway, driven by a massive geopolitical power shift to Russia that went almost unnoticed across the globe. In The Colder War: How the Global Energy Trade Slipped from...
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2014: For Preparing Your 2013 Tax Return

J.K. Lasser Institute - Wiley; 4 edition
Format: Paperback

Americas number one bestselling tax guide offers the best balance of thoroughness, organization, and usability For over half a century, more than 39 million Americans have turned to J.K. Lasser for easy-to-follow, expert advice and guidance on planning and filing their taxes. Written by a team...
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Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America

MICHAEL RUHLMAN - HARRY N ABRAMS
Format: Print book

In Grocery, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America's relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it - the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food - how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from,...
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Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT. - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

"When facing life's questions, who do you turn to for advice? We all need mentors, particularly when the odds seem stacked against us. To find his own...author Tim Ferriss tracked down more than 100 eclectic experts to help him, and you, navigate life. Through short, action-packed...
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Girls Auto Clinic Glove Box Guide

Patrice Banks - Touchstone
Format: Paperback

A do-it-herself guide to auto maintenance, roadside emergencies, and the real scoop on how women can get honest car service at the garage, from engineer turned auto mechanic and award-winning entrepreneur Patrice Banks.Do you feel lost when explaining your car problems to a mechanic? Do you panic...
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Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life

Francesca Gino - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Do you want to follow a script - or write your own story? Award-winning Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino shows us why the most successful among us break the rules, and how rebellion brings joy and meaning into our lives. Rebels have a bad reputation. We think of them...
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

Richard H. Thaler - W. W. Norton & Company; First edition
Format: Hardcover

Get ready to change the way you think about economics.Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans -- predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle...
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The Fifth Trimester: The Working Moms Guide to Style, Sanity, and Success After Baby

Lauren Smith Brody - Anchor
Format: Hardcover

Packed with honest, funny, and comforting advice - "a book you MUST read if you are returning to work after the birth of a child ... . I loved it and you will too." - New York Times bestselling author Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D. . The first three trimesters (and the fourth - those...
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Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

Ned Hallowell - Harvard Bus Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Are you driven to distraction at work?Bestselling author Edward M. Hallowell, MD, the world's leading expert on ADD and ADHD, has set his sights on a new goal: helping people feel more in control and productive at work.You know the feeling: you can't focus; you feel increasingly...
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Changing the Conversation: The 17 Principles of Conflict Resolution

Dana Caspersen - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

The seventeen key principles for transforming conflict - in a beautiful package from the creator of The 48 Laws of PowerFrom Joost Elffers, the packaging genius behind the huge New York Times bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, and The Art of Seduction, comes this...
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Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time

Bill McGowan - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Media guru and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Bill McGowan - coach to some of the biggest names in business and entertainment, including Eli Manning, Kelly Clarkson, Jack Welch, Thomas Keller and Kenneth Cole teaches you how to get your message across and get what you want with pitch...
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Start Your Own Etsy Business: Handmade Goods, Crafts, Jewelry, and More

Jason Rich - Entrepreneur Press
Format: Paperback

Whether someone is looking to sell their items on Etsy as a hobby in order to generate extra cash, wants to create a part-time money-making business venture, or has aspirations of transforming an online shop into a full-time career, this book is chock full of timely, accurate, and proven...
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Elisabeth Rosenthal - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller.At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems."Patients can save thousands of dollars by purchasing...
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The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly

David Meerman Scott - Wiley; 4 edition
Format: Paperback

The benchmark guide to marketing and PR, updated with the latest social media and marketing trends, tools, and real-world examples of success The New Rules of Marketing & PR, 4th Edition is the pioneering guide to the future of marketing, an international bestseller with more than...
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Your Rights in the Workplace

Barbara Kate Repa - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Your Rights in the Workplace is an invaluable reference for every employee. Whether you have questions about your paycheck, discrimination, layoffs, or benefits, you'll find answers here.Get the facts on: wages, hours, and breaks drug and alcohol testing illegal discrimination...
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The Great Equalizer: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone

David M Smick - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book

The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick - hedge fund strategist and author of the 2008 bestseller...
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Get What's Yours - Revised & Updated: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security

Laurence J Kotlikoff - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Social Security law has changed! Get What's Yours has been revised and updated to reflect new regulations that took effect on April 29, 2016.Get What's Yours has proven itself to be the definitive book about how to navigate the forbidding maze of Social Security and emerge...
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A Truck Full of Money

Tracy Kidder - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

"A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture." - Charles Duhigg Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy - the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul...
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Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

The latest groundbreaking tome from Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek. From the author: "For the last two years, I've interviewed nearly two hundred world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show. The...
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Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business

KEN AULETTA - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

An intimate and profound reckoning with the changes buffeting the $2 trillion global advertising and marketing business from the perspective of its most powerful players, by the bestselling author of GoogledAdvertising and marketing touches on every corner of our lives, and is the invisible...
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Curators: Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums

Lance Grande - The University of Chicago Press
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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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership

Richard Branson - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola...
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Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!

Nicholas Carlson - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

When Yahoo hired Google executive Mayer to be its CEO in 2012 employees rejoiced. They put posters on the walls throughout Yahoo's California headquarters. On them there was Mayer's face and one word: HOPE. But one year later, Mayer sat in front of those same employees in a huge...
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The Millionaire Dropout: Fire Your Boss. Do What You Love. Reclaim Your Life!

Vince Stanzione - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

If like millions of others you know deep down that you deserve to do better than where you are today, than this book is for you. Not a book based on old fashion theories or textbook scenarios, The Millionaire Dropout is instead based on tried and tested methods of increasing personal...
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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

Ruchir Sharma - W W Norton
Format: Print book

This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change. Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks...
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Nonprofit kit for dummies.

Stan Hutton - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Help your nonprofit thrive Need practical advice on running a nonprofit? No problem! Packed with the latest tips and techniques on starting and managing a charitable organization, this easy-to-follow guide offers everything you need to help your nonprofit endure the ups and downs of the economy....
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Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

Rana Foroohar - Crown Business
Format: Print book

Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned - and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage...
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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Martin Ford - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2015 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardA New York Times BestsellerTop Business Book of 2015 at ForbesOne of NBCNews.com 12 Notable Science and Technology Books of 2015What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might...
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Thank You for Being Late: Finding a Job, Running a Country, and Keeping Your Head in an Age of Accelerations

Thomas L Friedman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Audiobook

A New York Times Bestseller A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observersWe all sense it -- something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers...
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