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The Signals Are Talking

Amy Webb - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook

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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Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

JENNIFER PALMIERI - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling volume of inspiring advice by the former communications director for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Framed as an empowering letter from former Hillary Clinton Communications Director...
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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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Finding the Space to Lead: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership

Janice Marturano - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Paperback

The complexity and relentless pace of our world places exceptional demands on leaders today. They work incredibly hard and yet feel that they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence. They feel disconnected from their own values and overburdened. By the thousands, they seek...
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Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment

Maxine Bedat - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Take a look at your favorite pair of jeans. Maybe you bought them on Amazon or the Gap; maybe the tag says "Made in Bangladesh" or "Made in Sri Lanka." But do you know where they really came from, how many thousands of miles they crossed, or the number of hands who picked,...
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Champions Way: Football, Florida, and the Lost Soul of College Sports

Mike McIntire - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: 1st Edition

A searing exposé of how the multibillion dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes.With little public debate or introspection, our institutions of higher learning have become hostages to the rapacious, smash-mouth entertainment conglomerate known, quaintly,...
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Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company

Jeff Immelt - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In September 2001, Jeff Immelt replaced the most famous CEO in history, Jack Welch, at the helm of General Electric. Less than a week into his tenure, the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the nation, and the company, to its core. GE was connected to nearly every part of the tragedy - GE-financed...
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Inside the Investments of Warren Buffett: Twenty Cases

Yefei Lu - Columbia University Press
Format: Print book

Since the 1950s, Warren Buffett and his partners have backed some of the twentieth century's most profitable, trendsetting companies. But how did they know they were making the right investments? What did Buffet and his partners look for in an up-and-coming company, and how can others replicate...
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Brazen: My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie

Julia Haart - Crown
Format: Hardcover

Ever since she was a child, every aspect of Julia Haart’s life—what she wore, what she ate, what she thought—was controlled by the dictates of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. At nineteen, after a lifetime spent caring for her seven younger siblings, she was married off to a man she barely...
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The 80/20 Manager: The Secret to Working Less and Achieving More

Richard Koch - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Richard Koch shows managers how to apply the 80/20 Principle to achieve exceptional results at work--without stress or long hours.In his bestselling book The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch showed readers how to put the 80/20 Principle--the idea that 80 percent of results...
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