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The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time
Bob Harris - Walker & Company
Format: Print book
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Hired to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: he would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make lives like... |
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On Grand Strategy
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decadesJohn Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill... |
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Choose Yourself!
James Altucher - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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The world is changing. Markets have crashed. Jobs have disappeared. Industries have been disrupted and are being remade before our eyes. Everything we aspired to for "security," everything we thought was "safe," no longer is: College. Employment. Retirement. Government.... |
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Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular
Derek Thompson - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Nothing "goes viral." If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today's crowded media environment, you're missing the real story. Each blockbuster has a secret history - of power, influence, dark broadcasters, and passionate... |
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The Next Millionaire Next Door: Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth
Thomas J Stanley - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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What does it take to become wealthy today? The simple and yet challenging answer is: the consistent exercise of certain behaviors that have been shown to relate to financial success. Millionaires continue to demonstrate a disciplined approach to their finances, allowing them, over time,... |
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The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land
Curtis Allen Stone - New Society Publishers
Format: Print book
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There are twenty million acres of lawns in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed through a different lens, they can also be seen as a tremendous source of opportunity. Access to land... |
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The Ex-Offender's Job Interview Guide: Turn Your Red Flags Into Green Lights
Caryl Krannich - Impact Publications
Format: Paperback
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Addressing the many employability issues facing ex-offenders, this book shows them how to deal with today's job market challenges. Focusing on the critical job interview, it emphasizes the importance of turning obvious red flags into green lights by developing effective communication... |
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Cold Calling Techniques
Stephen Schiffman - Adams Media; Seventh Edition edition
Format: Book
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The definitive guide to cold calling success! For more than thirty years, Stephan Schiffman, America's #1 corporate sales trainer, has shown millions of salespeople how to close a deal. In this newest edition of Cold Calling Techniques (That Really Work!), he'll show you why cold... |
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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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StrengthsFinder 2.0
Tom Rath - Gallup Press
Format: Print book
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Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths. To help people uncover their talents,... |
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Irrational Exuberance 3rd edition
Robert J. Shiller - Princeton University Press; Revised and Expanded Third edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, now cautions that signs of irrational exuberance among investors have only increased since the 2008-9 financial... |
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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Daniel J. Levitin - Penguin Group USA
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we're expected to make more - and faster... |
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The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly
David Meerman Scott - Wiley
Format: Paperback
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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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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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Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
JENNIFER PALMIERI - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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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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Managing Up: How to Move up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss
MARY ABBAJAY - Wiley
Format: Hardcover
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Build vital connections to accelerate your career success Managing Up is your guide to the most valuable 'soft skill' your career has ever seen. It's not about sucking up or brown-nosing; it's about figuring out who you are, who your boss is, and finding where you meet.... |
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How to Love Your Retirement: The Guide to the Best of Your Life
Barbara Waxman - Hundreds of Heads Books; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Retirment years can be full of fun and interesting times if properly prepared for, and How to Love Your Retirement is packed with helpful, entertaining stories and lots of real-life advice from hundreds of retirees who are making the most of their golden years. These inspirational, funny,... |
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Girls Auto Clinic Glove Box Guide
Patrice Banks - Touchstone
Format: Paperback
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A do-it-herself guide to auto maintenance, roadside emergencies, and the real scoop on how women can get honest car service at the garage, from engineer turned auto mechanic and award-winning entrepreneur Patrice Banks.Do you feel lost when explaining your car problems to a mechanic? Do you panic... |
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Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
Jessica Bennett - Harperwave
Format: Print book
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Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work - a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.It was a fight club - but without... |
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Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
David Zweig - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring look at the hidden stars in every field who perform essential work without recognition In a culture where so many strive for praise and glory, what kind of person finds the greatest reward in anonymous work? Expanding from his acclaimed Atlantic article, "What Do Fact-Checkers... |
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The Heart of Hospitality: Great Hotel and Restaurant Leaders Share Their Secrets
Micah Solomon - SelectBooks
Format: Print book
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Success in today s rapidly changing hospitality industry depends on understanding the desires of guests of all ages, from seniors and boomers to the newly dominant millennial generation of travelers. Help has arrived with a compulsively-readable new standard, The Heart of Hospitality: Great... |
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Return on Relationship
Kathryn Rose - Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Format: Paperback
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In the connection economy, trust and relationships are the new currency. It's not a soft thing you do in your spare time, it's the heart and soul of your business.--Seth Godin, Author of TribesSocial Media drives engagement, engagement drives loyalty, and loyalty correlates directly... |
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The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers
Edward Fields - AMACOM; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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As a department manager, the last thing you want to think about is numbers. But the truth is, that's the only thing your executives and senior managers are thinking about so it's crucial to understand key financial information like balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements,... |
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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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Being Boss: Take Control of Your Work and Live Life on Your Own Terms
Emily Thompson - Running Press Adult
Format: Paperback
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From the creators of the hit podcast comes an interactive self-help guide for creative entrepreneurs, where they share their best tools and tactics on "being boss" in both business and life. Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson are self-proclaimed "business besties" and hosts... |
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The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
Adam Braun - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting story of how a young man turned $25 into more than 200 schools around the world and the guiding steps anyone can take to lead a successful and significant life.Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was just sixteen years old, sprinting down the path to a successful... |
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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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Bargain Fever: How to Shop in a Discounted World
Mark Ellwood - Portfolio; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When Coca-Cola offered the first retail coupon in the 1880s, customers were thrilled. But today, one in four American shoppers will buy something only if it's on sale, and almost half of all merchandise carries a promotional price. The relentless pursuit of deals has totally disrupted... |
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
JOHN CARREYROU - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from their charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.In 2014,... |
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graeber - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover
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From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences.Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled... |
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The Disney Way, 3E: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company
Bill Capodagli - Mcgraw-Hill Education, 2016.
Format: Print book
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"Dream, Believe, Dare, Do . . ." Though four simple words, this carefully crafted credo lies at the heart of Walt Disney's enviable empire and has led The Walt Disney Company to prosperity for decades. As foremost experts on Disney, authors Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson... |
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Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic
Barry Meier - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The origin story of the opioid epidemic: From a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter comes an inside story of corporate greed and government negligence. Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited... |
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The Truth About Retirement Plans and IRAs
Ric Edelman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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From the #1 independent financial advisor in America, ranked three times by Barron's: a guide to making the most of your retirement plans and assuring long-term financial security.Everyone knows that saving for your retirement is important. Yet only half of all eligible Americans contribute... |
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The Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent... |
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Turkey - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Charlotte McPherson - Kuperard
Format: Paperback
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Standing astride two continents and stretching from Europe to the Middle East, Turkey is both feared by the West and wooed by it. Travelers have always been drawn to its glorious cultural heritage and heroic landscapes, and today, thanks to its burgeoning economy, growing geo-political... |
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American Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA
Edward Whitacre - Business Plus
Format: Hardcover
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Ed Whitacre is credited with taking over the corporate reins at General Motors GM when the automotive manufacturer was on the brink of bankruptcy during 2009 and turned the company around in magnificent fashion. In this business memoir, the native Texan explores his unique management style,... |
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Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World
Giorgio Riello - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses. However, this is not a new phenomenon: until the industrial revolution,... |
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Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work
TODD DAVIS - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A practical guide for anyone looking to create a competitive advantage in any size and type of organization by building effective relationships - from the performance improvement experts at FranklinCovey.In Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships, FranklinCovey's... |
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Start Your Own Medical Claims Billing Service: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Success
Entrepeneur Media. - Mcgraw-Hill Education
Format: Print book
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Low startup requirements make this a great home-based business!As insurance regulations and paperwork requirements get more complicated, doctors and other health care providers are turning to third-party billing services to take care of their billing needs. It's a multi-billion dollar... |
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Guide to Joining the Military
Scott A. Ostrow - Peterson's; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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Guide to Joining the Military includes topics like women in the military, details on opportunities available within all branches of the military, what to expect from a military career, information on joining the national guard and reserve, coverage of the ASVAB examination, details on the physical... |
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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
Steven D Levitt - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have... |
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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
Russell Gold - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Fracking has vociferous critics and fervent defenders, but the debate between these camps has obscured the actual story: Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. It has upended the business models of energy companies around the globe, and it has started... |
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Get Money: Live the Life You Want, Not Just the Life You Can Afford
Kristin Wong - Hachette Books
Format: Paperback
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Learn how to live the life you want, not just the life you can afford! Managing your money is like going to the dentist or standing in line at the DMV. Nobody wants to do it, but at some point, it's inevitable: you need to clean your teeth, renew your license, and manage your personal... |
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Credit Repair Kit For Dummies
Steve Bucci - For Dummies; 4 edition
Format: Paperback
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Manage and repair your credit Credit card debt is the third largest source of household indebtedness. Credit Repair Kit For Dummies gives you the tools you need to repair your credit. This new edition covers: major changes with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) inquiry... |
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The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving
Leigh Gallagher - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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"The government in the past created one American Dream at the expense of almost all others: the dream of a house, a lawn, a picket fence, two children, and a car. But there is no single American Dream anymore.". For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle... |
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Buy it, rent it, profit! : make money as a landlord in any real estate market
Bryan M Chavis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Now updated for today s bullish real estate market, this is the go-to, classic entrepreneurial guide for landlords and real estate investors who want to buy and manage rental properties for long-term wealth. There s never been a better time for buying rental properties interest rates are low and credit... |
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Job Search Letters For Dummies
Joyce Lain Kennedy - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Paperback
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New-style job messages that get you in the door and on your way up From sparkling cover letters to six-word bios, a fresh bevy of job search letters has grown powerfully useful for successful career communications. Job Search Letters For Dummies delivers the quality of New Era know-how... |
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QuickBooks 2014 The Guide
Leslie Capachietti - McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Format: Paperback
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Maximize the power of QuickBooks 2014 Create a comprehensive, streamlined small business financial management system with help from an expert! Written by an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, QuickBooks 2014: The Guide shows you, step by step, how to customize the #1 bestselling... |
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The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks
Joshua Cooper Ramo - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The Digital Age we live in is as transformative as the Industrial Revolution and Joshua Cooper Ramo explains how to survive. If you find yourself longing for a disconnected world where information is not always at your fingertips, you may eventually be as useful as the carriage maker post-Henry... |
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The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss
Jeanne Yocum - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Anyone who opts for self-employment quickly learns that succeeding as your own boss is no walk in the park. While professional freedom has many, many joys, it also involves significant risks. If you're considering self-employment, or you're already self-employed, The Self-Employment Survival... |
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Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done
Laura Vanderkam - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Learn to savor life's best moments--no matter how busy you are--through mindset shifts that alter your perception of time.Laura Vanderkam, the acclaimed author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, isn't like other time-management gurus. She's not trying to shave... |
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Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare
Josh Blackman - PublicAffairs; 1st edition
Format: Book
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Foreword by Randy E. BarnettIn 2012, the United States Supreme Court became the center of the political world. In a dramatic and unexpected 5–4 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts voted on narrow grounds to save the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. Unprecedented tells... |
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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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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Daniel J Levitin - Dutton
Format: Print book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process - especially in election season.... |
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Holmes Inspection: The Essential Guide for Every Homeowner, Buyer and Seller
Mike Holmes - Time Home Entertainment; 1 edition
Format: Book
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In his new book, Mike Holmes is on a mission. The star of the incredibly popular Holmes Inspection program, Mike shows you how to spot problems that could be expensive or even catastrophic, giving you the information you need to judge a house wisely. From the mechanicals furnace, electrical... |
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Women & Money
Suze Orman - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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The million-copy #1 New York Times bestseller, revised and updated with a whole new financial plan for 2018, for women who want short-term clarity and long-term security.The message of Suze Orman's phenomenal bestseller Women & Money resonates as deeply today as it did when... |
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France - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Barry Tomalin - Kuperard; 2nd Revised edition edition
Format: Paperback
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France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt to democratize the elite system of education all point to significant changes... |
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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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Show and Tell: How Everybody Can Make Extraordinary Presentations
Dan Roam - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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"If I tell you the truth, if I tell it with a story, and if I tell that story with pictures, I can keep you glued to your seat. Let me show you how."For the vast majority of us, giving a presentation is an extremely difficult and nerve-wracking process, whether we're in a one-on-one... |
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Malone Scott - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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"I raced through RADICAL CANDOR--It's thrilling to learn a framework that shows how to be both a better boss and a better colleague. RADICAL CANDOR is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories... |
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The Grant Writing and Funding Coach: Target and Acquire the Funds You Need
DEBORAH GRIFFITHS - SELF COUNSEL PR
Format: Print book
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The Grant and Fundraising Helper is a framework for you to present your project in a clear and confident style, establish a rapport with funders and succeed with your proposal. In this book, you'll find short narrative and budget summaries for your review and checklists for staying... |
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Second-Act Careers: 50 Ways to Profit from Your Passions During Semi-Retirement
Nancy Collamer - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback
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A career guide that rethinks the golden years, this handbook offers 50 income models for creating flexible, fulfilling, and profitable work during the encore stage of one's career.RETHINK YOUR RETIREMENT For many people, retirement is no longer a trifecta of golf, grandkids, and gardening... |
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The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
J L Collins - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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"In the dark, bewildering, trap-infested jungle of misinformation and opaque riddles that is the world of investment, JL Collins is the fatherly wizard on the side of the path, offering a simple map, warm words of encouragement and the tools to forge your way through with confidence.... |
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Ben Goldacre - Faber & Faber; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart... |
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How to Be a Model: The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Model
Alexandre Ahlberg - Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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How to Be a Model - The Ultimate Guide to Become a Model (The step-by-step guide to getting started as a professional Fashion Model) With awesomely fun references to pop culture and inspiring, memorable quotes, this book will pick up anyone's confidence from the floor and skyrocket... |
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Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution
Doug Fine - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback
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The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet's strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it's been illegal to grow industrial cannabis... |
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Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World
Noreena Hertz - HarperBusiness
Format: Print book
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Eyes Wide Open: How to Make Smart Decisions in a Confusing World is Noreena Hertz’s practical, cutting-edge guide to help you cut through the data deluge and make smarter and better choices, based on her highly popular TED talk.In this eye-opening handbook, the internationally... |
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The Confident House Hunter: A Home Inspector's Tips for Finding Your Perfect House
Dylan Chalk - Plain Sight Publishing
Format: Print book
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With a zillion houses out there, find your perfect home in the midst of imperfection. In The Confident House Hunter, home inspector Dylan Chalk weaves over a decade of home inspection experience into stories and tips with easy-to-understand language, teaching homebuyers and real estate... |
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Start Your Own e-Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success
Entrepreneur magazine - Entrepreneur Press; Third Edition edition
Format: Print book
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With retail e-commerce sales topping 263.3 billion in 2013, and millions of people now flourishing as internet entrepreneurs, the web is the place for new businesses to be. This guide makes tapping into highly lucrative markets with an easy-to-start, inexpensive internet business easier... |
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Stragility: Excelling at Strategic Changes
Ellen R. Auster - Rotman-UTP Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Success in business demands an organization that is agile, innovative, and alert, capable of reinventing itself to handle whatever comes its way. Yet most attempts at transformational change fail, hamstrung by poor strategy, office politics, stakeholder resistance, and the pressures of constant... |
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Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending
Elizabeth Dunn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Two professors combine their fascinating and cutting-edge research in behavioral science to explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smart spending.Most people recognize that they need professional advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money.... |
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Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed
Alexis Ohanian - Business Plus
Format: Hardcover
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A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history. And when that power is harnessed to create new communities, technologies,... |
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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
Phil Jackson - Penguin Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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During his storied career as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson won more championships than any coach in the history of professional sports. Even more important, he succeeded in never wavering from coaching his way, from a place of deep values. Jackson... |
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The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
James Rickards - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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The bestselling author of The Death of Money on how investors can prepare for the next financial panic - and why it's coming sooner than you think. The global economy has made what seems like an incredible comeback after the financial crisis of 2008. Yet this comeback is artificial.... |
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The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
Tyler Cowen - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs.The problem, according to legendary blogger,... |
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Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
Gary Vaynerchuk - HarperBusiness; 1ST Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk shares hard-won advice on how to connect with customers and beat the competition. A mash-up of the best elements of Crush It! and The Thank You Economy with a fresh spin, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook is a blueprint to social... |
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The New Wild West: Black Gold, Fracking, and Life in a North Dakota Boomtown
BLAIRE BRIODY - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Williston, North Dakota was a sleepy farm town for generations -- until the frackers arrived. The oil companies moved into Williston, overtaking the town and setting off a boom that America hadn't seen since the Gold Rush. Workers from all over the country descended, chasing jobs that promised... |
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Idiot's Guides: Making Money with Rental Properties
Kimberly Smith - ALPHA
Format: Paperback
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It takes an incredible amount of know-how to be a successful landlord. Idiots Guides Making Money with Rental Properties is written by experts who have made the mistakes and learned the lessons. They have become successful at spotting high-rent properties, buying them at the right price... |
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Barron's Real Estate Licensing Exams with Online Digital Flash Cards
Jack P. Friedman Ph.D. - Barrons Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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Barron's Real Estate Licensing Exams has been updated to provide the latest information in real estate finance, federal law and regulation, and appraisal license requirements.This edition features:Explanations of all aspects of real estate law and finance, including contracts, deeds,... |
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LinkedIn For Dummies
Joel Elad - For Dummies; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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Dont be left outlink up with this fully updated introduction to the Internets hottest professional networking tool With more than 225 million members from over 200 countries and territories worldwide, LinkedIn.com is an unbeatable self-marketing tool. LinkedIn For Dummies teaches you how to make... |
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Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever
Reed Albergotti - Gotham; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The first in-depth look at Lance Armstrong's doping scandal, the phenomenal business success built on the back of fraud, and the greatest conspiracy in the history of sports Lance Armstrong won a record-smashing seven Tours de France after staring down cancer, and in the process... |
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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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Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
Nick Bilton - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Twitter seems like a perfect start-up success story. In barely six years, a small group of young, ambitious programmers in Silicon Valley built an $11.5 billion business out of the ashes of a failed podcasting company. Today Twitter boasts more than 200 million active users and has affected... |
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Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless CarAnd How It Will Reshape Our World
LAWRENCE D BURNS - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A deep dive into the race to develop and perfect the driverless car - an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone - by a veteran insider of the automotive and tech worldsIn Autonomy, former GM executive and current advisor to the Google... |
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Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
Gerri Hirshey - Sarah Crichton Books ; Farrar
Format: Print book
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A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural iconWhen Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation... |
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Co-Create: How Your Business Will Profit from Innovative and Strategic Collaboration
DAVID NOUR - ST MARTIN'S Press
Format: Print book
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What if your customers had a vested interest in guiding your company toward greater success What if your employees had a personal as well as professional commitment to elevating your organization Imagine how different your results would be if investors, vendors, and even analysts treasured... |
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Love Your Life, Not Theirs: 7 Money Habits for Living the Life You Want
Rachel Cruze - Ramsey Press
Format: Hardcover
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In Love Your Life, Not Theirs, Rachel Cruze shines a spotlight on the most damaging money habit we have: comparing ourselves to others. Then she unpacks seven essential money habits for living the life we really want--a life in line with our values, where we can afford the things... |
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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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Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood without Killing Your Career
Lisen Stromberg - Benbella Books
Format: Print book
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In today's work-first culture, career women with children are told they have two options: lean in or opt out. Pouring all your energy into work can mean compromising your commitment to your family. Leaving your job can mean sacrificing the career you've spent years cultivating.Work... |
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Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
MALCOLM HARRIS - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A Millennial's groundbreaking investigation into why his generation is economically worse off than their parents, creating a radical and devastating portrait of what it means to be young in America.Millennials have been called lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature, but when you push... |
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Barron's Real Estate Licensing Exams, 10th Edition
Jack P. Friedman Ph.D. - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Print book
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This study guide and test preparation manual has been updated to provide the latest information in real estate finance, federal law and regulation, and appraisal license requirements.Explains all aspects of real estate law and finance, including contracts, deeds, appraisals, brokerage,... |
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Stumbling Giant: The Threats to China's Future
Mr. Timothy Beardson - Yale University Press
Format: Book
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While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China’s rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that today confront China, as well as the inadequacy... |
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
Jürgen Osterhammel - Princeton University Press; Translated by Patrick Camiller. edition
Format: Hardcover
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A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jrgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological... |
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The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
Edward Conard - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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The scourge of America's economy isn't the success of the 1 percent - quite the opposite. The bigger problem is the government's well-meaning but misguided attempt to reduce the payoffs for success. Four years ago, Edward Conard wrote a controversial bestseller, Unintended Consequences,... |
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Beautiful Money: The 4-Week Total Wealth Makeover
Leanne Jacobs - TarcherPerigee
Format: Print book
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This revolutionary four-week financial/wealth plan shows you how to transform your relationship with money from the inside out by exploring your financial behaviors and beliefs. Most of us know what it feels like to chase success. We sacrifice time with our loved ones, our weekends, our vacation,... |
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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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Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Keep Your Property & Repay Debts Over Time
Stephen Elias - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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This plain-English guide to decide if Chapter 13 is right for you and to learn how to keep valuable property and discharge your unsecured debts. Chapter 13 legal concepts, procedures, and monetary calculations can be tricky. Nolo's Chapter 13 Bankruptcy breaks down the Chapter 13 process... |
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The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It
Thom Hartmann - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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The United States is more vulnerable today than ever before-including during the Great Depression and the Civil War-because the pillars of democracy that once supported a booming middle class have been corrupted, and without them, America teeters on the verge of the next Great Crash. The United... |
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Push Back!: How to Take a Stand Against Groupthink, Bullies, Agitators, and Professional Manipulators
B. K. Eakman - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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How many times have you had the unsettling experience of being treated as a troublemaker as soon as you question or raise an objection to a school policy, a textbook, a course of study, a new county regulation, or a community proposal?Every day, attendees of conferences, community forums,... |
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Henry Ford
Vincent Curcio - Oxford University Press
Format: Book
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Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti-Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made... |
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Roger Ailes: Off Camera
Zev Chafets - Sentinel HC; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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When youve got Roger Ailes on your side you do not loseRush Limbaugh Roger Ailes is the quintessential man behind the curtain He more or less invented modern political consulting and helped Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan and George H W Bush win their races for the White House Then he reinvented... |
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Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path from Print to Digital
Stephen Shepard - McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A Top Editor’s Take on the State of Journalism Today—and His Prescient Forecast of Its Future “This is a personal and insightful book about one of the most important questions of our time: how will journalism make the transition to the digital age? Steve Shepard made that... |
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Financial Care for Your Aging Parent
Lise Andreana - Self-Counsel Press, Inc.; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Is your parent taken care of financially?Caring for your aging parent can feel overwhelming, and having to assume control of your parents finances in order to ensure bills are paid and he or she has enough to live on can be more than anyone wants to take on. However, children of aging parents... |
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The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt
ROBERT I SUTTON - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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How to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic bestseller The No Asshole Rule "Help, I'm dealing with an asshole! What can I do" Since his book The No Asshole Rule became a national bestseller a decade ago, Robert Sutton... |
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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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Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
JOSHUA B FREEMAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society.We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since... |
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