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Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story
John Bloom - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book
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In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Light years ahead of anything previously put into space, and built on technology developed for Ronald Reagan's... |
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Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D'Amato
Mike Tyson - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times-bestselling memoirist comes an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father. When Cus D'Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson... |
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Everyone's a Critic: Winning Customers in a Review-Driven World
Bill Tancer - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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More than of customers consult online reviews and take them very seriously A disgruntled customer on Yelp might have more clout than a guidebook magazine or newspaper This review-driven marketplace terrifies many businesses But some have learnt to navigate and profit from customer reviews... |
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Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service
Devin Leonard - Grove Press
Format: Print book
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The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, forty percent of the world's volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service - more than twice as efficient as the Japanese... |
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The Tyranny of Metrics
Jerry Z Muller - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and governmentToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based... |
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Start Your Own Business, Sixth Edition: The Only Startup Book You'll Ever Need
The Staff of Entrepreneur Media - Entrepreneur Press; Sixth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Tapping into more than 33 years of small business expertise, the staff at Entrepreneur Media takes todays entrepreneurs beyond opening their doors and through the first three years of ownership. This revised edition features amended chapters on choosing a business, adding partners, getting... |
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Dictionary of Real Estate Terms
Jack P. Friedman Ph.D. - Barron's Educational Series; 8 edition
Format: Paperback
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As the real estate market begins to show signs of recovery, home buyers and sellers, real estate professionals, investors, and attorneys can rely on the up-to-date eighth edition of Barrons Dictionary of Real Estate Terms when they need a handy quick-reference source to the industrys... |
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The Curse of Cash
Kenneth S Rogoff - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Is Different, "a fascinating and important book" (Ben Bernanke) about phasing out paper money to fight crime and tax evasion--and to battle financial crises by tapping the power of negative interest ratesThe... |
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The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
Clayton M Christensen - Mcgraw-Hill Education
Format: Print book
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THE BOOK THAT'S REVOLUTIONIZING HEALTH CARE IN AMERICAA groundbreaking prescription for reform -- from a legendary leader in innovation."Clear, entertaining, and provocative, The Innovator's Prescription should be read by anyone who cares about improving the health and health... |
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Mind over Money: The Psychology of Money and How to Use It
Claudia Hammond - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book
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"The acclaimed author of Time Warped tackles the very latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and biology to provide a fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking look at our relationship with money-- perfect for fans of Dan Ariely and Freakonomics. We know we need... |
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Barons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship
Steven Ujifusa - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades.There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into... |
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LinkedIn For Dummies
Joel Elad - John Wiley, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Build your network, find a job, and be seen as a thought leader - all on LinkedIn! LinkedIn For Dummies, 4th Edition, is fully updated for the latest features and tools to help you do all of this, and more. With a rich feature set, the LinkedIn profile is a professional's number one branding... |
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Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side
Howard S Marks - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most successful Wall Street investors of all time provides practical insight and keen analysis on how to track, and react to, the ups and downs of the stock market. Marks reveals the hidden logic in carefully pinpointing market trends so that every investor can profit."When... |
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Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
Robert B Cialdini - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The author of the legendary bestseller Influence, social psychologist Robert Cialdini shines a light on effective persuasion and reveals that the secret doesn't lie in the message itself, but in the key moment before that message is delivered.What separates effective communicators... |
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Austrian School for Investors: Austrian Investing between Inflation and Deflation
Rahim Taghizadegan - mises.at
Format: Print book
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Insanity seems to rule the financial markets and many investors are driven by delusion and anxiety. May everything you thought you knew about investing be wrong? The Austrian School's approach provides the needed respite for investors caught in inflationary treadmills. Conventional... |
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Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
EMILY CHANG - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Silicon Valley is a modern utopia where anyone can change the world. Unless you're a woman. For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where... |
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High Performance Habits
Brendon Burchard - Hay House, Inc.
Format: Book
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THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY. Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions:
1. Why do some individuals and teams succeed more quickly than others and sustain that success over the long term?
2. Of those who pull... |
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Frugal Isn't Cheap: Spend Less, Save More, and Live Better
Clare Levison - Career Press; 1 edition
Format: Book
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"Clare Levison creates a no-nonsense, easy-to-follow roadmap for you to break the chains of debt and become a true master of your money…and your future."--Sharon L. Lechter, CPA, coauthor of the international best-selling Rich Dad, Poor Dad"Clare provides a fresh perspective... |
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Make Your Kid A Money Genius
Beth Kobliner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From Beth Kobliner, the author of the bestselling personal finance bible Get a Financial Life - a new, must-have guide showing parents how to teach their children (from toddlers to young adults) to manage money in a smart way.Many of us think we can have the "money talk"... |
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Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech
HEATHER CABOT - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Meet the women who haven't asked for permission from Silicon Valley to chase their dreams. They are going for it -- building the next generation of tech start-ups, investing in each other's ventures, crushing male hacker stereotypes and rallying women and girls everywhere to join the digital... |
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Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work
Andrea S Kramer - Bibliomotion
Format: Print book
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More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement and forty years after passage of Title IX, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers. Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less status,... |
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A Truck Full of Money
Tracy Kidder - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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"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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The Lost Art of Closing: Winning the Ten Commitments That Drive Sales
Anthony Iannarino - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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If you want to succeed in sales, you need to know how to close. Anthony Iannarino, star sales blogger, consultant, speaker, and author of the national bestseller The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need, lays out the new rules of closing.Closing the deal is the most crucial step in the sales... |
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Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions
Carmen Simon - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking approach to creating memorable messages that are easy to process, hard to forget, and impossible to ignore -- using the latest in brain scienceAudiences forget up to 90% of what you communicate. How can your employees and customers decide to act on your message if they... |
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Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating
Charles Spence - Viking
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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The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need
Scott Pape - Wiley
Format: Paperback
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** Fully reviewed and updated for the 2018-2019 financial year**This is the only money guide you'll ever needThat's a bold claim, given there are already thousands of finance books on the shelves.So what makes this one different?Well, you won't be overwhelmed with a bunch of 'tips' ... or a strict... |
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Antonio Garcia Martinez - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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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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A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 19291939
Charles R Morris - Public Affairs
Format: Print book
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The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the cataclysm and the long duration of the collapse scarred generations of Americans. A Rabble of Dead Money is a lucid and fast-paced account... |
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Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum
Neil Patel - Rodale
Format: Print book
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Let's be honest: most of us aren't exactly "special." We don't boast an Ivy League degree like Sheryl Sandberg, a political pedigree like a Kennedy, or a wealthy father like Donald Trump. At best, we're underdogs fighting a system that stacks the odds against us. So how do we find... |
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Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace
Christine Lynne Porath - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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From the leading authority on workplace incivility, Christine Porath, shows why it pays to be civil, and reveals just how to enhance effectiveness in the workplace and beyond by mastering civility. Incivility is silently chipping away at people, organizations, and our economy. Slights,... |
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Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond
Chris Burniske - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Hardcover
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The innovative investor's guide to an entirely new asset class -- from two experts on the cutting edgeWith the rise of bitcoin and blockchain technology, investors can capitalize on the greatest investment opportunity since the Internet. Bitcoin was the first cryptoasset, but today there... |
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Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
Anne-Marie Slaughter - Random House
Format: Print book
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"An eye-opening call to action from someone who rethought the whole notion of 'having it all,' Unfinished Business could change how many of us approach our most important business: living." - People When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director... |
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The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly
David Meerman Scott - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Format: Print book
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The most updated edition yet of the benchmark guide to marketing and PR, with the latest social media, marketing, and sales trends, tools, and real-world examples of success This is the fifth edition of the pioneering guide to the future of marketing. The New Rules of Marketing & PR is an international... |
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Sign Painters
Faythe Levine - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Paperback
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There was a time-as recently as the 1980s-when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper.... |
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The Economists' Diet: The Surprising Formula for Losing Weight and Keeping It Off
Christopher Payne - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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Combining the authors' personal weight-loss stories with their passion for economics, this bold new behavioral approach to dieting recommends micro habits and meta-rules that will enable dieters to control their impulses to overeat, approach food in a healthier way, and lose weight once... |
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Smart Mom, Rich Mom: How to Build Wealth While Raising a Family
Kimberly Palmer - American Management Association
Format: Print book
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Of all life's financial shocks, few compare to bringing home an infant. Just one tiny person costs $250,000 to raise-- not including college! How will you pay for it? That agonizing question fuels mothers' choices about their careers, budgets, and families. Some lean in, some scale back... |
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Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Clayton M. Christensen - Harperbusiness
Format: Print book
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The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.How do companies know... |
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High-Hanging Fruit: Build Something Great by Going Where No One Else Will
Mark Rampolla - Portfolio
Format: Print book
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ZICO founder Mark Rampolla is building a social good movement: how to make money starting a company that is good for you, your colleagues, customers, and the worldWhen Mark Rampolla filled a notebook with potential startup ideas, his wife asked him some tough questions. What about this... |
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Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose
Melanne Verveer - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover
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"Learn how some of the world's most powerful women are using their growing economic power to create success and meaning in their lives while building a better world. Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In ignited a conversation about women and their careers, and resonated with millions... |
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Avid Reader: A Life
Robert Gottlieb - Farrar
Format: Print book
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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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Crisis in U.S. Health Care: Corporate Power vs. The Common Good
John P Geyman - BCH Fulfillment & Distribution
Format: Paperback
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The problems of U.S. health care are of intense public interest today. The debate over where to go next to rein in costs and improve access to quality health care has become bitterly partisan, with distorted rhetoric largely uninformed by history, evidence, or health policy science. Based... |
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Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends that Will Transform Your World
James Canton - Da Capo Press
Format: Hardcover
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Game-changing trends are coming in business, technology, workforce, economy, security, and environment. Climate change, energy demand, and population growth will redefine global risk and power. Exponential new technologies will emerge in digital money, mobile commerce, and big data. An explosive... |
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Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
Kim Phillips-Fein - Metropolitan Books
Format: Print book
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An epic and riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster--and an anatomy of the politics of austerity that continues to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible: how could the capital... |
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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
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"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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No Limits: Blow the CAP Off Your Capacity
John C Maxwell - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwells latest book will enhance the lives of leaders, professionals, and anyone who wants to achieve success and personal growth.We often treat the word capacity as if it were a natural law of limitation. Unfortunately, most of us are much... |
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Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It
Jennifer Mueller - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions --and finds some surprising conclusions. All corporate CEOs, top executives, and other business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive... |
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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
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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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Double Bind: Women on Ambition
Robin Romm - Liveright
Format: Paperback
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"Bold, absorbing, insightful, and wise. . . . Read it: the truth is inside." -- Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things "A work of courage and ferocious honesty" (Diana Abu-Jaber) , Double Bind could not come at a more urgent time. Even as major figures... |
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The Crowdsourceress: Get Smart, Get Funded, and Kickstart Your Next Big Idea
Alex Daly - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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"Neil Young's Pono campaign was the third most successful hardware campaign of all time, and Alex deserves much of the credit, second only to Neil, of course. The Crowdsourceress will give you everything you need to make your campaign a success. " -Phil Baker, COO, Pono"Owning... |
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Modernize Your Resume
Wendy Enelow - Emerald Career Pub, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Based on today's real-world job search trends, Modernize Your Resume shows you how to craft a winning resume to meet the complexities of today's highly competitive and technologically driven employment market. The entire job search process is evolving at a remarkably rapid pace,... |
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Marketing Above the Noise: Achieve Strategic Advantage with Marketing that Matters
Linda J Popky - Bibliomotion
Format: Hardcover
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Marketing today is out of control. With all the new marketing techniques accessible to the masses, it's becoming harder and harder to stand out from the crowd. The result is more and more messages, hitting us more often in new and more intrusive ways. For customers, it's a lot of noise.... |
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Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
ELIZABETH WILLARD THAMES - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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The deeply personal story of how award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the city and embraced frugality to create a more meaningful, purpose-driven life, and retire to a homestead in the Vermont woods at age thirty-two with her husband... |
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Philip E Tetlock - Crown Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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"From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions. Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply... |
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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It
Larry Olmsted - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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"Impressive . . . Readers will be inspired by Olmsted's intensity and clarity, and floored by how far some counterfeiters go to fool consumers and some historic food institutions go to protect their products and their names. Olmsted's sharp language will hopefully put fires under counterfeiters... |
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Launch!: The Critical 90 Days from Idea to Market
Scott Duffy - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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WANT TO GET YOUR BIG IDEA TO MARKET? In 90 days, you can successfully launch a new business, product, or service by following the steps in this playbook. Ninety-seven percent of a rocket's fuel is used in the first three feet of its launch. The same is true when launching a new business.... |
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Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Jenny Blake - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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"Looking to make a career change Pivot is a book you will turn to again and again." - Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive If you've got the perfect job or business, congratulations. But if you are even a little bit uncertain that your current... |
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Sebastian Mallaby - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings... |
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Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Brian Tracy - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Stop ProcrastinatingGet More of the Important Things Done - Today!There just isn't enough time for everything on our to-do list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure those get done.... |
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Extreme You: Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat.
Sarah Robb O'Hagan - Harperbusiness
Format: Print book
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"Every once in a while, you need someone standing by your shoulder, inspiring you, cheering you on, pushing you to go further. Sarah might be just the coach you're looking for." - Seth Godin, author of LinchpinAs a child, Sarah Robb O'Hagan dreamed she could be a champion. Her early... |
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MOXIE: The Secret to Bold and Gutsy Leadership
John Baldoni - Bibliomotion
Format: Hardcover
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Leaders today need to be mindful of their circumstances as well as mindful of their own strengths and shortcomings. They need to have the disposition to succeed as well as the inner resourcefulness to persevere. Leaders must be willing to do things differently but also draw on tried and true... |
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Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune
Patrick O'Shaughnessy - Palgrave MacMillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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Fact: the Millennial Generation will not be able to rely on pensions and social security in retirement. Instead, they will have to save and invest in the global stock market to meet their goals. When it comes to thinking about money, Millennials are, as a generation, different from their... |
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Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
William Poundstone - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most cant find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with... |
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Mastering Stand-Up: The Complete Guide to Becoming a Successful Comedian
STEPHEN ROSENFIELD - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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This entertaining and sharply written guide - for both beginners breaking into comedy and professionals seeking to improve their sets and advance their careers - examines the work of great comedians such as Louis C.K., Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Izzard, Moms Mabley, Hannibal Buress, Sarah Silverman,... |
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The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel
Jodie Archer - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
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"When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so." -- Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling authorAsk most people about massive success in the world of fiction, and you'll typically hear... |
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Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
DAN ARIELY - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Blending humor and behavioral economics, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational delves into the truly illogical world of personal finance to help people better understand why they make bad financial decisions, and gives them the knowledge they need to make better... |
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After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality
Heather Boushey - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring... |
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101 Job Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again
James Reed - Plume
Format: Paperback
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"An insider's guide to the perfect interview." - Daily Express What are job interviewers actually looking for in a candidate What questions will they ask What does each question really mean What are the answers that will secure you the job James Reed, chairman... |
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Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World
Bethany McLean - Columbia Global Reports
Format: Paperback
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Bestselling author Bethany McLean reveals the true story of fracking's impact -- on Wall Street, the economy and geopolitics.The technology of fracking in shale rock -- particularly in the Permian Basin in Texas -- has transformed America into the world's top producer of both oil and natural... |
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Working With Independent Contractors
Stephen Fishman J.D. - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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This is your complete guide to hiring independent contractors to meet your business needs, from making sure you comply with state labor and antidiscrimination laws to protecting your intellectual property to drafting and signing agreements. Working With Independent Contractors also has everything... |
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The Inspiration Code: How the Best Leaders Energize People Every Day
KRISTI HEDGES - AMACOM
Format: Hardcover
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All it takes is the right conversation . . . Great leaders inspire action with their words. They spark enthusiasm and commitment. With a single conversation, they can change the direction of someone's life. Everyone wants to be the kind of leader who energizes and mobilizes others--yet... |
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Why Wall Street Matters
William D Cohan - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible - albeit flawed - engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers should be held accountable for the financial... |
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How to Retire with Enough Money: And How to Know What Enough Is
Teresa Ghilarducci - Workman Publishing
Format: Print book
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Here is a single-sit read than can change the course of your retirement. Written by Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci, an economics professor, a retirement and savings specialist, and a trustee to two retiree health-care trusts worth over $54 billion, How to Retire with Enough Money cuts through... |
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LinkedIn For Dummies
JOEL ELAD - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Make LinkedIn your number one professional branding tool LinkedIn is the premiere social network for professionals looking to discover new opportunities, enhance personal branding, connect with other professionals, and make career advancements. With LinkedIn For Dummies, you'll have... |
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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
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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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The Value of Debt in Building Wealth
Thomas J Anderson - Wiley
Format: Hardcover
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The book of financial wisdom that your future self will thank you for reading. For many adults, 'debt' is a four-letter word--something that should be avoided but is all too often unavoidable. In The Value of Debt in Building Wealth, bestselling author Thomas J. Anderson encourages... |
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Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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"While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I've found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their... |
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Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics
Richard Evershed - Bloomsbury SIGMA
Format: Print book
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Horse meat in our burgers, melamine in our infant formula, artificial colors in our fish and fruit--as our urban lifestyle takes us farther away from our food sources, there are increasing opportunities for dishonesty, duplicity, and profit-making shortcuts. Food adulteration, motivated... |
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Capital offenses : business crime and punishment in americas corporate age
Samuel Buell - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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From the lead prosecutor on the Enron investigation, an eye-opening examination of the explosion of American white-collar crime.If "corporations are people too," why isn't anyone in jail?A serious defect in a GM car causes accidents; Enron scams investors out of their money; banks... |
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The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop it
Steven Clifford - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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The former top CEO examines the scandalous and corrupt reasons behind obscene pay packages for corporate executives - and explains how this hurts all of us--and how we can stop it. Today, the pay gap between chief executive officers of major U.S. firms and their workers is higher than ever... |
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Power Your Happy: Work Hard, Play Nice & Build Your Dream Life
Lisa Sugar - Dutton
Format: Print book
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Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home.... |
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The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
Benjamin Graham - Harper Business
Format: Paperback
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This classic text is annotated to update Grahams timeless wisdom for todays market conditions... The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. Grahams philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors... |
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Work: The Last 1,000 Years
Andrea Komlosy - Verso
Format: Hardcover
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Tracing the complexity and contradictory nature of work throughout historyBy the end of the nineteenth century, the general Western conception of work had been reduced to simply gainful employment. But this limited perspective contrasted sharply with the personal experience of most people... |
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Janesville: An American Story
AMY GOLDSTEIN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Moving and magnificently well-researched...Janesville joins a growing family of books about the evisceration of the working class in the United States. What sets it apart is the sophistication of its storytelling and analysis." - The New York Times A Washington... |
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Stock Investing For Dummies
Paul Mladjenovic - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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Grow your stock investments in today's changing environment Updated with new and revised material to reflect the current market, this new edition of Stock Investing For Dummies gives you proven strategies for selecting and managing profitable investments. no matter what the conditions.... |
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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Ryan Holiday - Portfolio
Format: Print book
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A beautifully packaged daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, featuring new translations of the most celebrated Stoics with historical context and practical tips from bestselling author Ryan Holiday.Stoic philosophy has long been the secret weapon of history's greatest and wisest leaders--from... |
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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics
Katrine Marcal - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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A funny, clever, and thought-provoking examination of the myth of the "economic man" and its impact on the global economy How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. When economist and philosopher Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated... |
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The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger
Greg Steinmetz - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The life and times of the wealthiest man who ever lived - Jacob Fugger - the Renaissance banker who revolutionized the art of making money and established the radical idea of pursuing wealth for its own sake.Jacob Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson... |
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Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader
James M Kouzes - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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From the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge and over a dozen award winning leadership books, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner have written a new book that examines a fundamental question: How do people learn leadership? How do they learn to become leaders? Learning Leadership:... |
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Bring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work: A Guide for Leaders and Organizations
Tracy Brower - Bibliomotion
Format: Book
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Organizations accomplish results when they powerfully engage employees and capture their discretionary time. This is more important than ever during this period where employees are facing unprecedented time poverty. Technology has blurred the lines between employees’ work and personal... |
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The Golden Rules: 10 Steps to World-Class Excellence in Your Life and Work
Bob Bowman - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Bob Bowman, best known as the coach for the record-breaking run of Michael Phelps, is one of the most successful coaches in Olympic history. He is lauded for his intense personality, incredible dedication to his athletes, and his ability to nurture talent in athletes who have the heart... |
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Accounting for the Numberphobic: A Survival Guide for Small Business Owners
Dawn Fotopulos - AMACOM
Format: Book
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Why do so many business owners dread looking at the numbers? They make excuses...They don't have time...That's what the accountant is for...But the simple truth is that no one else will ever be as invested in their company as they are - and they need to take control. As a small-business... |
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Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent
Sydney Finkelstein - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Based on years of research, Sydney Finkelstein, professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and author of Why Smart Executives Fail, looks at how a select few visionaries develop the most successful talent in every industryAfter meeting chef Alice Waters at her legendary restaurant,... |
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Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
Edward Humes - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Garbology explores the hidden and costly wonders of our buy-it-now, get-it-today world of transportation, revealing the surprising truths, mounting challenges, and logistical magic behind every trip we take and every click we make.Transportation... |
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt - Harper Perennial; 1 Original edition
Format: Paperback
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More Than 4 Million Copies Sold WorldwidePublished in 35 LanguagesWhich is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool?What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?How much do parents really matter?These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt... |
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Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making It Work at Work
Lee Caraher - Bibliomotion
Format: Hardcover
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As management ages and prepares to work longer than previous generations and Millennials join companies at a steady rate, companies are faced with the truth: they can't just wait for management to age out to fix the dissonance and tension between Boomers and Millennials in the workplace.... |
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Truth at Work: The Science of Delivering Tough Messages
Mark A Murphy - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Hardcover
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The truth matters! New York Times bestselling author Mark Murphy returns, with the latest science and techniques for delivering tough messages without causing anger or defensiveness. The greatest workplaces have one thing in common; they speak the truth! And they do it without causing... |
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Empire of the Fund: The Way We Save Now
William A Birdthistle - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Empire of the Fund is an expos and examination of the way we save now. With the rise of the 401(k) and demise of the pension, the United States has embarked upon the richest and riskiest experiment in our financial history. Over the next twenty years, nearly eighty million baby boomers... |
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Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
Tiffany Dufu - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child,... |
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The Signals Are Talking
Amy Webb - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Amy Webb is a noted futurist who combines curiosity, skepticism, colorful storytelling, and deeply reported, real-world analysis in this essential book for understanding the future. The Signals Are Talking reveals a systemic way of evaluating new ideas bubbling up on the horizon - distinguishing... |
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Own It: The Power of Women at Work
Sallie Krawcheck - Crown Business
Format: Print book
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A new kind of career playbook for a new era of feminism, offering women a new set of rules for professional success: one that plays to their strengths and builds on the power they already have. Weren't women supposed to have "arrived"? Perhaps with the nation's first female President,... |
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You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice
Tom Vanderbilt - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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"From the best-selling author of Traffic, a brilliant and entertaining exploration of our personal tastes--why we like the things we like, and what it says about us,"--NoveList.From the tangled underpinnings of our food taste to the complex dynamics of our playlists, our preferences... |
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Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society
John Browne - Public Affairs
Format: Print book
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Drawing on the experiences of John Browne, former CEO of BP, and the insight of two McKinsey experts, Connect explores the recurring rift between business and society and proposes a way in which companies can prosper by connecting with the world around them. In an era of unremitting transparency,... |
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Truffle Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground
Ian Purkayastha - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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"[Ian Purkayastha] has a true, deep expertise in everything he sells--caviar, truffles, fish. He knows the stories that we need to sell the stuff tableside . . . he can disrupt the entire luxury foods market." ---From the Foreword by David Chang Ian Purkayastha is New York City's... |
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Unshakable: How to Thrive
TONY ROBBINS - SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Print book
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After interviewing fifty of the world's greatest financial minds and penning the #1 New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins returns with a step-by-step playbook, taking you on a journey to transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial... |
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Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
Susan A David - Avery
Format: Print book
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The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as a groundbreaking idea of the year. The path to fulfillment, whether at work or at home, is almost never a straight line. Ask anyone who has achieved their biggest goals or who thrives... |
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The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business
David S Rose - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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25 Steps to Found and Scale a High-Growth Business The Startup Checklist is the entrepreneur's essential companion. While most entrepreneurship books focus on strategy, this invaluable guide provides the concrete steps that will get your new business off to a strong start. You'll... |
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Get What's Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your Costs
Philip Moeller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A coauthor of the New York Times bestselling guide to Social Security Get What's Yours authors an essential companion to explain Medicare, the nation's other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money.Social Security provides... |
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Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Erin Lowry - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback
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Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck and Get Your Financial Life Together (#GYFLT) ! If you're a cash-strapped 20- or 30-something, it's easy to get freaked out by finances. But you're not doomed to spend your life drowning in debt or mystified by money. It's time to stop scraping by and take... |
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The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner's Guide to Getting Good with Money
Chelsea Fagan - Holt Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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*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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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education
GEORGE ANDERS - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable... |
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Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide
Alan S Blinder - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A bestselling economist tells us what both politicians and economists must learn to fix America's failing economic policiesAmerican economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political... |
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Winners: And How They Succeed
Alastair Campbell - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Alastair Campbell knows all about winning. As Tony Blair's chief spokesman and strategist he helped guide his party to victory in three successive elections, and he's fascinated by what it takes to succeed How do sportsmen excel, entrepreneurs thrive, or individuals achieve the ambitions?... |
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Tim Harford - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world." - Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take"Engrossing." - New York TimesFrom... |
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