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Discrimination and Disparities
Thomas Sowell - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An empirical examination of how economic and other disparities ariseEconomic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are victims of genetics.... |
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Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
Eric Schmidt - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value.Bill Campbell played an instrumental... |
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide
MARCIA STEWART - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide gives landlords and property managers the legal and practical solutions they need to rent residential property right. From move-in to move-out, this book covers a wide range of issues, including fair housing, repairs, sublets, screening for good tenants,... |
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Speculation: A History of the Fine Line between Gambling and Investing
Stuart Banner - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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What is the difference between a gambler and a speculator? Is there a readily identifiable line separating the two? If so, is it possible for us to discourage the former while encouraging the latter? These difficult questions cut across the entirety of American economic history, and the periodic... |
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Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart
Shane Snow - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow reveals the counterintuitive reasons why so many partnerships and groups break down--and why some break through.The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In Dream... |
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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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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Shane Bauer - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana.... |
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The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
JASON HICKEL - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Global inequality doesn't just exist; it has been created.More than four billion people -- some 60 percent of humanity -- live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography... |
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Steam Titans: Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic
William M. Fowler. - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the epic contest between shipping magnates Samuel Cunard and Edward Collins for mid-19th century control of the Atlantic. Between 1815 and the American Civil War, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution delivered a sea change in oceanic transportation. Steam travel... |
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Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last
David A Edwards - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do, from a master innovator who brings science and art together in his cutting edge labs.Art and science are famous opposites. Contemporary innovation mostly keeps them far apart. But in this book, David Edwards... |
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Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet
David Kaye - Columbia Global Reports
Format: Paperback
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"David Kaye's book is crucial to understanding the tactics, rhetoric and stakes in one of the most consequential free speech debates in human history." -- Cory Doctorow, author of Radicalized, Walkaway and Little Brother The internet was designed to be a kind of free-speech... |
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Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
Jake Knapp - Currency
Format: Hardcover
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"A charming manifesto - as well as an intrepid do-it-yourself guide to building smart habits that stick. If you want to achieve more (without going nuts) , read this book." - Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better From... |
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Christopher Voss - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations - whether in the boardroom or at home.After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator... |
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American Mojo: Lost and Found: Restoring our Middle Class Before the World Blows By
Peter D. Kiernan - Turner
Format: Hardcover
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In American Mojo: Lost and Found, Peter D. Kiernan, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author, focuses on America's greatest challenge -- and opportunity -- restoring the middle class to its full promise and potential. Our educated, skilled, and motivated middle class was the cornerstone... |
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Flipping Houses For Dummies
CONSUMER DUMMIES. - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Buy it, fix it, flip it! Are you a wanna-be flipper looking to get the property, get the job done, and get out - all while maximizing your profit? Not just another house-flipping book, this hands-on guide shows you how to roll up your sleeves and find the perfect property, secure a mortgage,... |
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
Robert J Gordon - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With... |
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Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World
Kelly Hoey - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Cut through the networking noise and start building the powerful, real relationships needed to succeed in our digital world If you think of networking as schmoozing at boring cocktail parties or scrolling through LinkedIn for new contacts to add, think again. In the social media age, you need... |
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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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A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
Burton G. Malkiel - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover - Revised Ed.
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One of the "few great investment books" (Andrew Tobias) ever written. A Wall Street Journal Weekend Investor "Best Books for Investors" PickIn a time of market volatility and economic uncertainty, when high-frequency traders and hedge fund managers seem to tower over... |
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Oh, The Meetings You'll Go To!: A Parody
DR. SUITS. - PORTFOLIO PENGUIN
Format: Print book
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A side-splitting parody of Dr. Seuss's graduation classic, Oh, the Places You'll Go! for real life. Dr. Suits in Oh, The Meetings You'll Go To! helps every 20-something suddenly staring down the daunting task of entering the real world. Follow our protagonist as he embarks... |
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Edison
Edmund Morris - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only... |
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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know
Joanne Lipman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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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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Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day
John H. Johnson - Bibliomotion
Format: Print book
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While everyone is talking about "big data," the truth is that understanding the "little data" (stock reports, newspaper headlines, weather forecasts, etc.) is what will help you make smarter decisions at work, at home, and in every aspect of your life.The average... |
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Regulatory Hacking: A Playbook for Startups
Evan Burfield - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Every startup wants to change the world. But the ones who truly make an impact know something the others don't: how to make government and regulation work for them.As startups use technology to shape the way we live, work, and learn, they're taking on challenges in sectors like... |
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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
Robert T. Kiyosaki - Plata Publishing
Format: Paperback
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It's Robert Kiyosaki's position that "It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else." He laid the foundation for many of his messages in the international best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad - the #1 Personal Finance book of all time - and in Why... |
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Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction
Wess Harris - PM Press
Format: Paperback
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Featuring Appalachia's leading scholars and activists, Written in Blood offers an accurate and uncensored understanding of coal mining history. Combining new revelations from the past with sketches of a sane path forward, this collection considers our past, present, and future. Sociologist... |
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I.M.: A Memoir
Isaac Mizrahi - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Isaac Mizrahi is sui generis. Designer. Cabaret singer. Talk show host. He's a pop culture icon unlike any fashion designer of recent memory, just as likely to be recognized walking down Main Street USA as Madison Avenue NYC. Yet ever since he shot to fame in the 1980s, the private Isaac... |
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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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The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change
Ellen Ruppel Shell - Currency
Format: Hardcover
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Critically acclaimed journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell uncovers the true cost--political, economic, social, and personal--of America's mounting anxiety over jobs, and what we can do to regain control over our working lives.Since 1973, our productivity has grown almost six times faster than... |
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Second Chance: for Your Money, Your Life and Our World
Robert T. Kiyosaki - Plata Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Few would argue with the fact that, on many fronts, we are a world in crisis. And there are two sides to every crisis, be it a leadership crisis, an economic crisis, an education crisis or a moral crisis. The two side to crisis are danger and opportunity.Robert Kiyosaki's new book,... |
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Tax Deductions for Professionals
Stephen Fishman J.D. - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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A tax deduction guide just for professionals. Winner of the Independent Book Publisher's Association's Benjamin Franklin Award. Keep your taxes under control! Architects, lawyers, dentists, chiropractors, doctors and other licensed professionals are subject to special tax rules.... |
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Work Wife: The Power of Female Friendship to Drive Successful Businesses
Erica Cerulo - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Get inspired by the women who discovered that working with your best friend can be the secret to professional success - and maybe even the future of business - from the co-founders of the website Of a Kind. "Read this, then plot your own work-wife-driven empire." - Glamour When... |
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Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined
Scott Sonenshein - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking approach to succeeding in business and life, using the science of resourcefulness.We often think the key to success and satisfaction is to get more: more money, time, and possessions; bigger budgets, job titles, and teams; and additional resources for our professional and personal... |
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Outside the Jukebox: How I Turned My Vintage Music Obsession into My Dream Gig
Scott Bradlee - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the sensation Postmodern Jukebox--with millions of fans globally--comes an inspirational memoir about discovering what you love and turning it into a creative movement. With student loan debt piling up and no lucrative gigs around the corner, Scott Bradlee found himself... |
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Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
Joi Ito - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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Today, not only is everything digital getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, we also have the Internet. When these two revolutions-one in technology and the other in communications-joined, an explosive force was unleaded that changed the very nature of innovation.... |
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Index Revolution: Why Investors Should Join It Now
Charles D Ellis - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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The evidence-based approach to a more worthwhile portfolio The Index Revolution argues that active investing is a loser's game, and that a passive approach is more profitable in today's market. By adjusting your portfolio asset weights to match a performance index, you consistently... |
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Trump's War: His Battle for America
MICHAEL SAVAGE - CENTER ST
Format: Print book
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} The wall, taxes, tariffs, deportations, Obamacare, guns, military strength, schools, abortion, religion - what will the new president do? The "Godfather of Trumpmania,"... |
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You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth
Jen Sincero - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"A cheerful manifesto on removing obstacles between yourself and the income of your dreams." - New York MagazineFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass, a life-changing guide to making the kind of money you've only ever dreamed ofYou... |
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How to Be Great at Your Job: Get things done. Get the credit. Get ahead.
Justin Kerr - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an author who climbed to the top of the corporate ladder before reaching age 40, this book takes the guesswork out of career success and breaks down what it takes to excel at your job. It covers the basics, like the universal requirements of every workplace - working with other people,... |
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The Full Catastrophe: Travels Among the New Greek Ruins
James Angelos - Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Format: Hardcover
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A transporting, good-humored, and revealing account of Greece's dire troubles, reported from the mountain villages, idyllic islands, and hardscrabble streets that define the country todayIn recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed... |
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Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
Steve Early - Beacon Press
Format: Print book
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The People vs. Big Oil - how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their communityHome to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town bankrolled by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class... |
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Knock em Dead: The Ultimate Job Search Guide
Martin John Yate - Adams Media
Format: Paperback
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Completely updated with new material, this bestselling job search guide can help you keep up with changes in the job market - from updating the language of your resume to using social media networking to make professional connections that are essential in finding new employment opportunities.For... |
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The Inequality Paradox: How Capitalism Can Work for Everyone
DOUGLAS MCWILLIAMS - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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The groundbreaking and timely challenge to dominant theories on global inequality by leading economist Douglas McWilliamsIn his illuminating new book, Douglas McWilliams argues that inequality is largely driven not by a conspiracy of the rich, as Thomas Piketty suggests, but by technology... |
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101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions, 25th Anniversary Edition
Ronald W Fry - Career Press
Format: Paperback
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No matter how good you look, how much research you've done, or how perfectly your qualifications match the job description, if you're not prepared with great answers to the toughest interview questions, you won't get the job.101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions is a manual... |
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The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed
Alberto Savoia
Format: Hardcover
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The Law of Market Failure: Most new products will fail in the market, even if competently executed.Using his experience at Google, his remarkable success as an entrepreneur and consultant, and insights from his lectures at Stanford University and Google, Alberto Savoia's The Right It offers... |
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What It Takes: How I Built a $100 Million Business Against the Odds
Raegan Moya-Jones - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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The founder of global baby brand aden + anais reveals how she built a $100 million business from her kitchen table. Raegan Moya-Jones never thought of herself as an entrepreneur. She was a wife, a mother, and a full-time corporate cog in her thirties. But she was sick and tired of her micromanaging... |
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The Last Lobster: Boom or Bust for Maine's Greatest Fishery?
Christopher P White - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Skipjack & The Melting World comes a mystery: the curious boom in America's beloved lobster industry and its probable crashMaine lobstermen have happened upon a bonanza along their rugged, picturesque coast. For the past five years, the lobster population... |
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Better World Shopping Guide #6: Every Dollar Makes a Difference
Ellis Jones - New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback
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While we strive to make our vote count every four years, few of us realize that our most immediate power to shape the world is squandered on a daily basis. Every dollar we spend has the potential to create social and environmental change. In fact, it already has. The world that exists today... |
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The Power to Get Things Done:
Steve Levinson - Perigee,
Format: Print book
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Whether you run your own business or work for someone else, you've probably got a lot on your plate. Unfortunately, much of it may not be all that appetizing. Along with the portion of your work that you truly feel like doing comes a generous helping of things you'd rather not do. As consultants,... |
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Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality
Katherine S. Newman - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A sharp examination of the looming financial catastrophe of retirement in America.As millions of Baby Boomers reach their golden years, the state of retirement in America is little short of a disaster. Nearly half the households with people aged 55 and older have no retirement savings at all.... |
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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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Bet on Talent: How to Create a Remarkable Culture That Wins the Hearts of Customers
Dee Ann Turner - Baker Books
Format: Hardcover
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When it comes to running a business, the most important decisions a leader makes are not about products or locations--they're about people. For the past 33 years, Dee Ann Turner has been recruiting, training, and retaining some of the best employees in the restaurant business. Now she's... |
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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart... |
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The Capitalist Code: It Can Save Your Life
Ben Stein - Humanix Books
Format: Hardcover
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In his entertaining and informative style that has captivated generations, beloved New York Times bestselling author, actor, and financial expert Ben Stein sets the record straight about capitalism in the United States - it is not the "rigged system" young people are led to believe.... |
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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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The Content Planner: A Complete Guide to Organize and Share Your Ideas Online
Angela Crocker - Self-Counsel Press
Format: Print book
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The Content Planner helps business writers plan, create and publish content to a website. Readers know the importance of publishing frequent, unique content to their blog but they struggle to take action. Some are overwhelmed at the prospect of brainstorming topics to write about let alone... |
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Diversity Beyond Lip Service: A Coaching Guide for Challenging Bias
La'Wana Harris - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Paperback
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"La'Wana Harris has opened this coach's eyes to the power of coaching practices to create new paths for diversity and inclusion work--whether or not you are formally trained as a coach. Please read this book and help create workplaces with honest engagement and access for all."... |
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Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck
Jon Acuff - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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It took me sixteen years to write this book. That breaks down to a brisk twelve words per day. But it wasn't the writing that took so long. . . . It was the working.I had to work at big companies and small companies. I had to get hired and fired several times. I had to find my dream... |
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Solve Your Money Troubles: Strategies to Get Out of Debt and Stay That Way
Amy Loftsgordon Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Are you overwhelmed by debt? If you're facing collection calls, a wage garnishment, foreclosure, car repossession, or a lawsuit, this book is for you. Solve Your Money Troubles is a comprehensive guide that provides the practical information you need to take financial control of your... |
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
Margaret O'Mara - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O'Mara became one of our most consequential historians of the American-led digital revolution, she worked in the White House of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in the earliest... |
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The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
Mohamed A El-Erian - Random House
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian, one of the world's most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide, has written a roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis.Our... |
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The Last Safe Investment: Spending Now to Increase Your True Wealth Forever
Michael Ellsberg - Portfolio
Format: Print book
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Myth: If you save for decades and invest in 401(k) s, IRAs, and a home, these investments will grow steadily, allowing twenty to thirty years of secure, peaceful retirement. Reality: Though this might have been true at some point in the last century, it is not true any longer. If you want... |
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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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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
William Burnett - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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#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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Working Americans, 1898-2016: African Americans
Scott Derks - Grey House Pub.
Format: Print book
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A look at what kind of work Americans did, the homes they lived in, the goods they bought, the entertainment they sought, and the society and history that shaped their world ... |
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Resilience: Navigating Life, Loss, and the Road to Success
LISA LISSON - ECW Press
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring book for readers of Sheryl Sandberg and Arlene Dickinson Lisa Lisson's life seemed perfect: she had married her high school sweetheart, applied her marketing degree to a position at FedEx Express Canada, and risen to become a vice president (and would ultimately become president)... |
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3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Zack O'Malley Greenburg - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Tracing the careers of hip-hop's three most dynamic stars, this deeply reported history brilliantly examines the entrepreneurial genius of the first musician tycoons: Diddy, Dr. Dre, and Jay-ZBeing successful musicians was simply never enough for the three kings of hip-hop. Diddy, Dr. Dre,... |
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Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business as Usual
David Burkus - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A provocative work that challenges the traditional and widely accepted principles of business management - and proves that they are outdated, outmoded, or simply don't work Do open floor plans really work? Are there companies that put their employees' welfare first, and their... |
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Investing For Dummies
Eric Tyson - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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The easy way to invest in your financial future In the world of investing, slow and steady wins the race. With this mantra in mind, trusted author and finance guru Eric Tyson is back with the latest edition of the #1 bestselling book, Investing For Dummies, to help you achieve your investment... |
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The Proximity Principle: The Proven Strategy That Will Lead to a Career You Love
Ken Coleman - Ramsey Press
Format: Hardcover
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Right now, 70% of Americans aren't passionate about their work and are desperately longing for meaning and purpose. They're sick of "average" and know there's something better out there, but they just don't know how to reach it. One basic principle -- The Proximity Principle -- can change... |
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The Snowball System: How to Win More Business and Turn Clients into Raving Fans
Mo Bunnell - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Mo Bunnell's comprehensive system will help you win more clients, build stronger relationships, and bring in more business.If you're good at doing something, and you need to connect with paying clients in order to keep doing it, this book is for you. There are more of us out there... |
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55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life
Elizabeth White - Simon & Schuster
Format: eBook
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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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This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See
SETH GODIN - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Real marketing isn't about racking up clicks and tweets; it's about connection, empathy, and making a difference.Over the past quarter century, Seth Godin has taught and inspired millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, leaders, and fans from all walks of life, via his blog, online courses,... |
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The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
Elizabeth L. Cline - Plume
Format: Paperback
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From journalist, fashionista, and clothing resale expert Elizabeth L. Cline, "the Michael Pollan of fashion,"* comes the definitive guide to building an ethical, sustainable wardrobe youll love.. Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation... |
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The Code of the Extraordinary Mind
Vishen Lakhiani - Rodale
Format: Print book
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Blending evolutionary biology, computation thinking, meditation exercises and more, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind provides a new framework for understanding and enhancing the human self. It also includes interviews that Lakhiani has conducted with Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Peter... |
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The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone
Shawn Murphy - AMACOM, American Management Association, 2016. ©2016
Format: Print book
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When it comes to work these days, we're expected to do more with less--but is this nose-to-the-grindstone philosophy the best way to run a business? Alarmingly low employee engagement numbers indicate otherwise. So, if pushing everyone harder isn't the path to productivity, what is? Supported... |
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Couples That Work: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work
Jennifer Petriglieri - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Finding fulfillment in both love and work isn't easy--but it's possible.The majority of couples today are two-career couples. As anyone who's part of such a relationship knows, this presents big challenges. Yet most advice for two-career couples fails because it treats the challenges as a zero-sum... |
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The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand Year History
Philip E Auerswald - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Code is the "how" of human productive activity. The creation, implementation, and refinement of code have been the infrastructure of human progress from Neolithic simplicity to modern complexity. In a sweeping narrative that takes readers from the production of Stone Age axes,... |
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Medicare For Dummies
PATRICIA BARRY - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Make the most of MedicareMore than 55.5 million people today are Medicare beneficiaries. Medicare for Dummies, 3rd Edition, addresses the complexities of Medicare and helps those eligible for benefits maneuver the complicated claims process. With the easy-to-follow, comprehensive... |
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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life
Lea Berman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback
Nigel Travis - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The charismatic, accessible, and down-to-earth CEO of Dunkin' Brands (Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin-Robbins) shows how positive pushback--the discipline of "questioning everything without trashing anyone"--provides a unique results-oriented way to lead an organization to prosperity.... |
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
T R REID - PENGUIN Books
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author T. R. Reid voyages around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unraveling a complex topic in plain English and telling a rollicking story along the way.The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special interest... |
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Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
Paul Jarvis - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
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What if the real key to a richer and more fulfilling career was not to create and scale a new start-up, but rather, to be able to work for yourself, determine your own hours, and become a (highly profitable) and sustainable company of one? Suppose the better - and smarter - solution is simply... |
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Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats, 5th Edition: Breed Selection, Feeding, Fencing, Health Care, Dairying, Marketing
JERRY BELANGER - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Hardcover
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This best-selling handbook is packed with detailed information on housing, feeding, and fencing dairy goats. It's been the trusted resource on the topic for farmers and homesteaders since it was originally published in 1975, and the new edition - completely updated and redesigned... |
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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
Jonathan Morduch - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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Deep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children. But in a nation experiencing unprecedented prosperity, even for many families who seem to be doing everything right, this ideal... |
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Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
Mary L. Gray - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web - and that foreshadows the true future of work.Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist... |
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Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business
Matt Lee - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Matt Lee and Ted Lee take on the competitive, wild world of high-end catering, exposing the secrets of a food business few home cooks or restaurant chefs ever experience.Hotbox reveals the real-life drama behind cavernous event spaces and soaring white tents, where cooking conditions have... |
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Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together
Gaby Dunn - Atria Books
Format: Paperback
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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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eBay For Dummies
Marsha Collier - For Dummies
Format: Print book
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Your must-have guide to buying and selling on eBay Over 160 million buyers can't be wrong! That's how many people are buying on eBay, and that number only continues to grow. If you're an eBay beginner looking to find bargains or make money by selling, look no further than eBay For Dummies.... |
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Energy: A Human History
RICHARD RHODES - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power... |
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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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How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide
Jane Bryant Quinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Jane Bryant Quinn is America's dean of personal finance ... .The book is a true treasure chest of financial secrets." - Forbes With How to Make Your Money Last, you will learn how to turn your retirement savings into a steady paycheck that will last for life.Today,... |
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Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
Tyler Cowen - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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An against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen.We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small businesses. Facebook turns us into addicts while putting our personal data at risk. From skeptical... |
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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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The Best Things in Life are Free
Lonely Planet. - Lonely Planet Pbns
Format: Print book
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Lonely Planet's The Best Things in Life are Free is packed full of money-saving tips, tricks and recommendations for the best-value sights and experiences around the world. From parks, museums and exercise classes that are free, to insider ideas on food and experiences offered at great... |
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The Truth About Your Future: The Money Guide You Need Now, Later, and Much Later
RIC EDELMAN - SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling author and legendary investment guru Ric Edelman reveals his forward-thinking guide on how technology and science will reshape the way we save, invest, and plan for the future.Technology and science are evolving at a blistering, almost incomprehensible... |
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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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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
Julie Satow - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px... |
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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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Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times Bestseller "Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving." - The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined,... |
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