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White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

Joan Williams - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite -- journalists, managers, and establishment politicians -- are on the outside looking in, left to argue over the reasons. In White Working Class,...
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One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries

James Ledbetter - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

One Nation Under Gold examines the countervailing forces that have long since divided America -- whether gold should be a repository of hope, or a damaging delusion that has long since derailed the rational investor.Worshipped by Tea Party politicians but loathed by sane economists, gold...
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Happy as a Dane: 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World

Malene Rydahl - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback

This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too.For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world's happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year...
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Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office

Bill McDermott - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of one of todays most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders. In Winners Dream, Bill McDermottthe CEO of the worlds largest business software company, SAPchronicles how relentless optimism, hard work, and disciplined...
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Beyond the Label: Women, Leadership, and Success on Our Own Terms

Maureen Chiquet - Harper Business
Format: Hardcover

The former global CEO of Chanel charts her unlikely path from literature major to global chief executive, guiding readers to move beyond the confines of staid expectations and discover their own true paths, strengths, and leadership values.Driven. Shy. Leader. Wife. Mother. We live in a world...
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One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams

Chris Fussell - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

From the co-author ofthe New York Times bestseller Team of Teams, a practical guide for leaders looking to make their organizations more interconnected and unified in the midst of sudden change. Too often, companies end up with teams stuck in their own silos, pursuing goals and metrics...
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Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement & Medical Benefits

Joseph Matthews Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits Everyone wants the highest possible retirement and pension income, not to mention the best medical coverage. Find out what you're entitled to with Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions - completely...
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Power Your Happy: Work Hard, Play Nice & Build Your Dream Life

Lisa Sugar - Dutton
Format: Print book

Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home....
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Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America

Danielle Dimartino Booth - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

A Federal Reserve insider pulls back the curtain on the secretive institution that controls America's economy After correctly predicting the housing crash of 2008 and quitting her high-ranking Wall Street job, Danielle DiMartino Booth was surprised to find herself recruited as an analyst...
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Digital Marketing For Dummies

Ryan Deiss - For Dummies
Format: Print book

Does your digital marketing pack a punch? Written with the marketer's best interests in mind, this friendly, down-to-earth guide shows you how to use proven digital marketing strategies and tactics to expand the reach of your brand, increase audience engagement, and acquire and monetize...
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Eyes Wide Open: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities in a World That Cant See Clearly

Isaac Lidsky - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

In this New York Times bestseller, Isaac Lidsky draws on his experience of achieving immense success, joy, and fulfillment while losing his sight to a blinding disease to show us that it isnt external circumstances, but how we perceive and respond to them, that governs our reality.. Fear...
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Inside the Investments of Warren Buffett: Twenty Cases

Yefei Lu - Columbia University Press
Format: Print book

Since the 1950s, Warren Buffett and his partners have backed some of the twentieth century's most profitable, trendsetting companies. But how did they know they were making the right investments? What did Buffet and his partners look for in an up-and-coming company, and how can others replicate...
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Job Interviews For Dummies

Kennedy - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Deliver a show-stopping interview performance Does the thought of interviewing for a new job send shivers down your spine? It doesn't have to! Whether you're searching for your first job, changing careers, or looking for advancement in your current line of work, Job Interviews For Dummies...
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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

James Kwak - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book

Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college...
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed - be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence...
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

Tim Harford - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world." - Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take"Engrossing." - New York TimesFrom...
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Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior

Jonah Berger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make - from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat - in this fascinating and groundbreaking work.If you're like most people, you think that...
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Homemade for Sale: How to Set Up and Market a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen

Lisa Kivirist - New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback

Provides entrepreneurs with advice on all aspects of launching a home-based food business, covering product development and testing, marketing, structuring a business, managing regulations, and planning for the future. --Publisher's description.
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Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

Ellen Pao - Random House
Format: Hardcover

The "necessary and incisive" (Roxane Gay) account of the discrimination case that "has blown open a conversation about the status of women" in the workplace (The New York Times) SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR | NAMED...
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The Infographic Resume: How to Create a Visual Portfolio that Showcases Your Skills and Lands the Job

Hannah Morgan - McGraw-Hill
Format: Book

The STANDOUT guide to creating a stunning resume Applying for a job used to require two pieces of paper: a resume and an application. Times have changed. Infographic resumes are in, and they're not just for designers. Free online tools are popping up every day to help anyone create...
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The Dream Lover: A Novel

Elizabeth Berg - Random House
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERElizabeth Berg has written a lush historical novel based on the sensuous Parisian life of the nineteenth-century writer George Sand - which is perfect for readers of Nancy Horan and Elizabeth Gilbert. At the beginning of this powerful novel, we meet Aurore Dupin...
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The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty: Answers to Your Most Important Money Questions

Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz - Crown
Format: Print book

Here at last are the hard-to-find answers to the dizzying array of financial questions plaguing those who are age fifty and older.The financial world is more complex than ever, and people are struggling to make sense of it all. If you're like most people moving into the phase of life...
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Boss Bitch: A Simple 12-Step Plan to Take Charge of Your Career

Nicole Lapin - Crown Business
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Nicole Lapin is back with a sassy and actionable guide empowering women to be the boss of their own lives and careers. You don't need dozens or hundreds of employees to be a boss, says financial expert and serial entrepreneur Nicole Lapin. Hell,...
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Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide

Stephen Fishman - Nolo
Format: Print book

Maximize your tax deductions. Named a "Top 10 Real Estate Book" by Robert Bruss, syndicated real estate columnist. If you own residential rental properties, you will want to know about all the valuable deductions you are entitled to take as a landlord. Every Landlord's Tax Deduction...
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Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets

Al Ramadan
Format: Print book

The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary category-creating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design.Winning today isn't about beating the competition at the old game. It's about inventing a whole new game - d
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A square meal : a culinary history of the Great Depression

Jane Ziegelman - Harper
Format: Print book

From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced - the Great Depression - and how it transformed America's culinary culture.The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts...
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Marketing For Dummies

CONSUMER DUMMIES. - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

The classic, bestselling marketing guide, updated for the digital era Marketing For Dummies, 5th Edition is the ultimate handbook for boosting your business. Whether you're a small mom-and-pop shop, a local nonprofit, or a mid-size business looking to grow, the right marketing approach...
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

Brian Alexander - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land**A New York Post Must-Read Book, a Newsweek Best New Book, one of The Week's 20 Books to Read in 2017, one of Bustle's 16 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017**"A devastating...
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Make Your Kid A Money Genius

Beth Kobliner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

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 Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country

Gabriel Sherman - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPRA deeply reported journey inside the secretive world of Fox News and the life of its combative, visionary founder. When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to launch a cable news network in 1996, American politics...
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Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2018

PETERSON'S. - Peterson's
Format: Paperback

Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2018 provides up-to-date information on millions of privately funded awards available to college students. It contains detailed profiles of awards based on academic fields and career goals, ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service,...
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[1524758868] [9781524758868] The Fourth Industrial Revolution-Hardcover

Klaus Schwab - ‎Currency; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

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Seeing the Big Picture: Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company

Kevin Cope - Greenleaf Book Group Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERAn MBA in 180 pages, Seeing the Big Picture simplifies the complexities of businesses large and small and shows you how a deep understanding of your company can help build the credibility and career you want. And it can make your...
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How to Write a Stellar Executive Resume: 50 Tips to Reaching Your Job Target

Brenda Bernstein - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback

How to Write a Stellar Executive Resume empowers readers to create an effective resume step-by-step, that will allow them to stand out from the crowd as a top candidate for an executive position. Brenda Bernstein, a Certified Executive Resume Master and senior editor at TheEssay Expert.com...
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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

Tony Hsieh - Business Plus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The visionary CEO of Zappos explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success. Pay new employees $2000 to quit. Make customer service the entire company, not just a department. Focus on company culture as the #1 priority. Apply research from the science of happiness...
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Lincoln on Leadership for Today: Abraham Lincoln's Approach to Twenty-First-Century Issues

Don T Phillips - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

The author of the classic bestseller Lincoln on Leadership answers the question: How would President Lincoln handle the pressing crises of our modern world? Abraham Lincoln is recognized as one of history's finest leaders, a great president when the United States was under tremendous...
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Crowdsourcing: Uber, Airbnb, Kickstarter, & the Distributed Economy

Lightning Guides - Lightning Guides
Format: Paperback

From investor incentives, to detailed explorations of today's best funded campaigns, to a complete guide for launching your next project, Crowdsourcing: Uber, Airbnb, Kickstarter, & The Distributed Economy provides a current, comprehensive introduction to the art of raising capital...
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Generation Chef: Risking It All for a New American Dream

Karen Stabiner - Avery Pub Group
Format: Print book

Inside what life is really like for the new generation of professional cooks - a captivating tale of the make-or-break first year at a young chef's new restaurant. For many young people, being a chef is as compelling a dream as being a rock star or professional athlete. Skill and creativity...
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The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic

Ganesh Sitaraman - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

An original, provocative contribution to the debate over rising economic inequality that argues that a strong and sizable middle class is in fact embedded in the very framework of our government and its founding document. For two thousand years, constitutional republics assumed class divisions...
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The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

Adam Braun - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

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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Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It

Richard Reeves - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover

America is becoming a class-based society.It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent - especially the top 0.01 percent - and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important,...
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The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

John Durham Peters - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth that the natural world and the technological world are not so distinct. In The Marvelous Clouds,...
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Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future

Philip Warburg - Beacon
Format: Print book

Going from the inner city to the open desert, a seasoned environmental advocate looks at solar energy's remarkable ascent and its promise for America's future Solar power was once the domain of futurists and environmentally minded suburbanites. Today it is part of mainstream America....
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results. Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated...
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How to Get Money for College 2018

PETERSON'S. - Peterson's

How to Get Money for College 2018 is a great resource for students looking to supplement their federal financial aid package with aid from colleges and universities. This comprehensive directory points students and their families to complete and accurate information on need-based and non-need...
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Own It: The Power of Women at Work

Sallie Krawcheck - Crown Business
Format: Print book

A new kind of career playbook for a new era of feminism, offering women a new set of rules for professional success: one that plays to their strengths and builds on the power they already have. Weren't women supposed to have "arrived"? Perhaps with the nation's first female President,...
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Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

John C Bogle - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book

John Bogle puts our obsession with financial success in perspective Throughout his legendary career, John C. Bogle-founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group and creator of the first index mutual fund-has helped investors build wealth the right way and led a tireless campaign to restore...
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Tax Deductions for Professionals: Pay Less to the IRS

Stephen Fishman - Nolo
Format: Print book

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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Will College Pay Off?: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You'll Ever Make

Peter Cappelli - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book

The decision of whether to go to college, or where, is hampered by poor information and inadequate understanding of the financial risk involved.Adding to the confusion, the same degree can cost dramatically different amounts for different people. A barrage of advertising offers new degrees...
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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

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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Picture Your Prosperity: Smart Money Moves to Turn Your Vision into Reality

Ellen Rogin - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Everyone has a unique vision of a prosperous and secure future. Whats yours?If someone asked you to describe prosperity and security, what would you see in your minds eye? Is it finally taking that trip to Paris? A beautiful beach house? Or maybe making that last mortgage payment and staying...
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Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

Joi Ito - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

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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Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust

ADAM KAHANE - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Paperback

Collaborating with the EnemyHow to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or TrustWe're trying to get something done that really matters to us. To do this we need to work with others. But these others include people we don't agree with or like or trust, so working with them seems...
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Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits

Lesley Rosenthal - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Print book

A concise overview of the legal needs of nonprofit organizationsGood Counsel is a compact and personable overview of the legal needs of nonprofits, crafted by one of America's most astute nonprofit general counsels. The book distills the legal needs of the 1.8 million tax-exempt organizations...
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The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

David Sax - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

One of Michiko Kakutani's (New York Times) top ten books of 2016A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tech gurus insisted that we no longer needed. Businesses that once looked outdated,...
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The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop it

Steven Clifford - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

The former top CEO examines the scandalous and corrupt reasons behind obscene pay packages for corporate executives - and explains how this hurts all of us--and how we can stop it. Today, the pay gap between chief executive officers of major U.S. firms and their workers is higher than ever...
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The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream

Courtney E Martin - Seal Press
Format: Print book

Are we living the good life - and what defines 'good', anyway? Americans today are constructing a completely different framework for success than their parents' generation, using new metrics that TEDWomen speaker and columnist Courtney Martin has termed collectively the "New...
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The New Rules of Work: The Modern Playbook to Finding the Perfect Career Path, Landing the Right Job, and Waking Up Excited for Work Every Day

Kathryn Minshew - Crown
Format: Print book

The world of work has changed. Remember the days when, for the vast majority of people, a job was (at best) a means to a paycheck and (at worst) total drudgery When you had blindly to scour the web for generic job postings When picking a major meant picking a life-long career path...
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The Hollywood MBA: A Crash Course in Management from a Life in the Film Business

Tom Reilly - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

What would you do if alligators were loose in your office? Or if your place of business changed 80 times during a four month period? What if two of your key employees were infant twins? Or you were asked to manage 130 people who were hired yesterday?Tom Reilly has faced these obstacles...
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Infiltrated: How to Stop the Insiders and Activists Who Are Exploiting the Financial Crisis to Control Our Lives and Our Fortunes

Jay W. Richards - McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

What Every American Needs to Know About the War on Free Enterprise--and Freedom Itself America be warned. A new wave of financial reformers has infiltrated our public institutions at both the state and national levels. A growing army of self-proclaimed activists, philanthropists, and politicians...
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Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges

David Scott - Globe Pequot Press; Eighth Edition edition
Format: Book

The Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges is the only definitive guide of its kind--covering every lodge run by the National Park Service, from luxurious inns to rustic cabins. The authors, National Park experts, tell readers how to leave behind the hassles and headaches and make trip...
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Renters' Rights: The Basics

Janet Portman Attorney - NOLO; Eighth Edition edition
Format: Print book

Handle problems with landlords and roommates The landlord ignores your repair requests. Your roommate is always late with his share of the rent. Your upstairs neighbors party all the time. The landlord won't return your security deposit. How can you deal with these problems - and others...
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Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street

SHEELAH KOLHATKAR - RANDOM HOUSE
Format: Print book

For readers of deeply reported nonfiction such as The Big Short and Dark Money comes the story of the largest insider trading investigation in history - and the rise and fall of the Wall Street legend who rewrote all the rules.
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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

Ruchir Sharma - W W Norton
Format: Print book

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

TONY ROBBINS - SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Print book

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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Your Water Footprint: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products

Stephen Leahy - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day. The numbers are shocking. Your Water Footprint reveals the true cost of our lifestyle. A water footprint is the amount of fresh water used to produce the goods and services we consume, including growing,...
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Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide

Ilona M Bray - Nolo
Format: Print book

What's the best way to get the highest return if you want to sell your home now? With pent-up demand for homes, you hope yours will inspire multiple offers; but want to make sure to choose a solid one that will proceed successfully to closing. Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide...
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Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World

Kelly Hoey - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

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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The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

CROWN. - CROWN
Format: Print book

With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey...
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Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business

Bob Lutz - Portfolio Trade; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

“One of the most acute books about management and how com­panies work in practice that I have read in a long time. If anyone wants to know exactly how the U.S. auto industry got into trou­ble, here is your guide.” —John Gapper, FINANCIAL TIMES   When Bob Lutz...
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Sellout: How Washington Gave Away America's Technological Soul, and One Man's Fight to Bring It Home

Victoria Bruce - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

The story of one citizen's fight to preserve a US stake in the future of clean energy and the elements essential to high tech industries and national defense.American technological prowess used to be unrivaled. But because of globalization, and with the blessing of the U.S. government,...
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Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech

HEATHER CABOT - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Meet the women who haven't asked for permission from Silicon Valley to chase their dreams. They are going for it -- building the next generation of tech start-ups, investing in each other's ventures, crushing male hacker stereotypes and rallying women and girls everywhere to join the digital...
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

Walter Scheidel - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully....
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Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future

Raoul Martinez - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book

A manifesto for deep and radical change, Creating Freedom explores the limits placed on freedom by human nature and society. It explodes myths at the heart of our economic, political, and criminal justice systems, calling for a profound transformation in the way we think about democracy,...
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Win at Losing: How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead to Our Greatest Gains

Sam Weinman - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

An engaging, inspiring exploration of the surprising value of setbacks - and how we can use them to succeed As an award-winning sports journalist, Sam Weinman has long studied the ripple effects of losing. But as a father of two competitive boys, he struggled to convince them that failing...
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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

"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 Farm to Market Handbook: How to create a profitable business from your small farm

Janet Hurst - Voyageur Press; First edition
Format: Book

Transform your pastime into your livelihood. If your sweet corn is tall, your brood of chickens is beautiful, and your half-dozen goats give delicious milk, then you know firsthand the rewards of running a small farm. But what if you could turn that Do-It-Yourself hobby into a long-term...
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Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty

Daniel Schulman - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography... until now.Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family...
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The Preppers Financial Guide: Strategies to Invest, Stockpile and Build Security for Today and the Post-Collapse Marketplace

Jim Cobb - Ulysses Press
Format: Paperback

Learn how to safeguard your financial resources before, during and after cataclysmic events. Youre prepared for hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, earthquakes and other natural disasters, but are you ready for the inevitable man-made disasters to come? This book teaches you the other half...
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2015: For Preparing Your 2014 Tax Return

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

America's bestselling tax guide for over seventy-five years, updated for 2014 taxes J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2015 is the most trusted tax guide on the market, updated for 2014 tax returns. With full coverage of all changes and adjustments to the tax laws—including new deductions...
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home

Ilona Bray - Nolo
Format: Print book

Everything a buyer needs to know to buy a first home, with insider tips and advice from the experts! Rental prices have gone through the roof, more homes are coming up for sale, and buying a home remains a sound investment. But how do you know whether you're ready? And what steps should...
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Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier

Ali Almossawi - Viking
Format: Print book

The wildly popular author of Bad Arguments returns with a funny, smart introduction to algorithms - those perennially misunderstood, increasingly important problem-solving rules that can save you time and lead to better choices, every day. Why is Facebook so good at predicting...
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Growing Christmas Trees: Select the Right Species, Raise the Best Trees, Market for the Holidays. A Storey BASICS® Title

Patrick White - Storey Publishing, LLC; New edition edition
Format: Book

Growing Christmas trees is a great way to generate off-season farm income and make better use of your land. This Storey Basics guide shows you exactly how to grow and sell your trees, from choosing the best site and preparing the soil to selecting the best tree species, planting seedlings,...
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Nonprofit kit for dummies.

Stan Hutton - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Help your nonprofit thrive Need practical advice on running a nonprofit? No problem! Packed with the latest tips and techniques on starting and managing a charitable organization, this easy-to-follow guide offers everything you need to help your nonprofit endure the ups and downs of the economy....
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Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

Charles Duhigg - Random House
Format: Print book

From the author of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon The Power of Habit comes a fascinating new book that explores the science of productivity, and why, in today's world, managing how you think - rather than what you think - can transform your life. A young...
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Psyched Up: How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help You Succeed

DAN MCGINN - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Harvard Business Review editor Daniel McGinn explains science of how the difference between success and failure at life's big moments can come down to what you do in the last few minutes before you start.The science of effective practice and how to perform at peak levels has long been...
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Head ball coach : doing it differently. and winning

Steve Spurrier - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book

In this New York Times Bestseller, College football's most colorful, endearing, and successful pioneer, Steve Spurrier, shares his story of a life in football -- from growing up in Tennessee to winning the Heisman Trophy to playing and coaching in the pros to leading the Florida...
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The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

Stephen M.R. Covey - Free Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

From Stephen R. Coveys eldest son comes a revolutionary new path towards productivity and satisfaction. Trust says Stephen M.R. Covey is the very basis of the new global economy and he shows how trustand the speed at which it is established with clients employees and constituentsis the essential...
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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF - Portfolio
Format: Paperback

Why doesn't the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees...
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You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice

Tom Vanderbilt - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

"From the best-selling author of Traffic, a brilliant and entertaining exploration of our personal tastes--why we like the things we like, and what it says about us,"--NoveList.From the tangled underpinnings of our food taste to the complex dynamics of our playlists, our preferences...
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IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans: Strategies for Taking Your Money Out

Twila Slesnick PhD Enrolled Agent - NOLO
Format: Thirteenth Edition

Save your nest egg from the IRS . About to retire? Over 70 and facing mandatory withdrawal rules? Just inherited money from a retirement plan? . Whether you have an IRA, Roth IRA, 401(k) , Keogh or other retirement plan, this book will help you make sense of the rules for taking your money...
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Attitude: Develop a Winning Mindset on and off the Court

Jay Wright - Ballantine
Format: Print book

In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of a champion, the coach of the Villanova University men's basketball team shares his competitive and cooperative philosophy, along with lessons from his coaching career and the story of his personal road to success. When Kris Jenkins sank...
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

JONATHAN TAPLIN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An Amazon Best Business & Leadership Book of 2017 Longlisted for Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2017 A strategy+business Best Business Book of 2017A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization...
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Unti on creative artists agency.

James Andrew Miller - William Morrow
Format: Print book

An astonishing - and astonishingly entertaining - behind-the-curtain history of Hollywood's transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun.In 1975, five...
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How to get a good Job after 50: A step-by-step guide to job search success

Rupert French - Exisle Publishing
Format: Print book

Many baby boomers are seeking to stay in the workforce longer and are looking for satisfying, fulfilling jobs. This book is a step- by-step guide to finding and winning the sort of job most likely to give job satisfaction and success. It sets out how older workers are often valued in the workplace...
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Think Simple: How Smart Leaders Defeat Complexity

Ken Segall - Portfolio
Format: Print book

Simplicity is arguably the most potent weapon in business - attracting customers, motivating employees, helping outthink competitors, and creating new efficiencies. Yet rarely is it as simple as it looks. Ken Segall's first book, Insanely Simple, was based on observations gained...
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Thank You for Being Late: Finding a Job, Running a Country, and Keeping Your Head in an Age of Accelerations

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

A New York Times Bestseller A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observersWe all sense it -- something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers...
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1001 Ways to Pay for College: Strategies to Maximize Financial Aid, Scholarships and Grants

GEN TANABE - SUPERCOLLEGE
Format: Print book

Completely revised with updated descriptions, contact information, websites, and available monies, this guide to financing higher education is the only resource students need to fund their pursuit of knowledge. Balancing detailed explanations with real-life examples and practical resources,...
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Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet

Mckay Jenkins - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

Are GMOs really that bad? A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us. In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding...
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The Case Against Sugar

Gary Taubes - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expos that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent...
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Avid Reader: A Life

Robert Gottlieb - Farrar
Format: Print book

A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred...
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Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story

Alexandra Wolfe - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

In a riveting, hilarious account, reporter Alexandra Wolfe exposes a world that is not flat but bubbling - the men and women of Silicon Valley, whose hubris and ambition are changing the world.Each year, young people from around the world go to Silicon Valley to hatch an idea, start a company,...
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Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

Robert B Cialdini - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

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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The Couple's Guide to Financial Compatibility: Avoid Fights about Spending and Saving--and Build a Happy and Secure Future Together

Jeff Motske - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Print book

Financial problems exact a toll on any couple. Long before you realize you are living well beyond your means, the burden of debt wreaks havoc in your life. Invariably, a basic lack of communication about money is to blame. This is where Certified Financial Planner Jeff Motske saves the day....
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Matt Taibbi - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime...
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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics

Katrine Marcal - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

A funny, clever, and thought-provoking examination of the myth of the "economic man" and its impact on the global economy How do you get your dinner? That is the basic question of economics. When economist and philosopher Adam Smith proclaimed that all our actions were motivated...
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Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable

Jeffrey Sachs - Columbia University Press
Format: Print book

In this passionate and powerful book -- part manifesto, part plan of action -- the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward a new consensus: sustainable development. Sustainable development is a holistic approach...
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The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America

David Rolf - The New Press
Format: Print book

The fight for a higher minimum wage has become the biggest national labor story in decades. Beginning in November 2012, strikes by fast food workers spread across the country, landing in Seattle in May 2013. Within a year, Seattle had adopted a $15 minimum wage - the highest in the United...
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Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating

Charles Spence - Viking
Format: Hardcover

The science behind a good meal: all the sounds, sights, and tastes that make us like what we're eating - and want to eat more.Why do we consume 35 percent more food when eating with one other person, and 75 percent more when dining with three? How do we explain the fact that people...
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Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing the Digital Revolution

ANDREW MCAFEE - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

From the authors of the best-selling The Second Machine Age, a leader's guide to success in a rapidly changing economy.We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from...
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The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food

Michelle Bamberger - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

A pharmacologist and a veterinarian pull back the curtain on the human and animal health effects of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" Across the country, fracking - the extraction of natural gas by hydraulic fracturing - is being touted as the nation's answer to energy independence...
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The Elements of Resume Style: Essential Rules for Writing Resumes and Cover Letters That Work

Scott Bennett - AMACOM; Second Edition edition
Format: Book

It's amazing the misinformation found in most resume books! Scott Bennett has hired hundreds of people in a variety of industries, and he knows first hand what kind of resume sparks an employer's interest - and which ones fail. In The Elements of Resume Style, he warns against popular...
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Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum

Neil Patel - Rodale
Format: Print book

Let's be honest: most of us aren't exactly "special." We don't boast an Ivy League degree like Sheryl Sandberg, a political pedigree like a Kennedy, or a wealthy father like Donald Trump. At best, we're underdogs fighting a system that stacks the odds against us. So how do we find...
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Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm

Christian Madsbjerg - Hachette Books
Format: Book

Based on his work at some of the world's largest companies, including Ford, Adidas, and Chanel, Christian Madsbjerg's Sensemaking is a provocative stand against the tyranny of big data and scientism, and an urgent, overdue defense of human intelligence.

Humans...

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Scrappy: Use Everything You Have, Trust Yourself, and Press the Reset Button for Success, the Lolly Wolly Doodle Way

BRANDI TEMPLE - ST MARTIN'S Press
Format: Print book

Born from a hobby of sewing clothes for her daughters, Brandi Temple's Lolly Wolly Doodle has grown into one of the largest online retailers of children's and family clothing. Brandi's transition from a full-time mom to selling in flea markets to establishing a wildly successful e-Bay store...
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American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper

Jacob S Hacker - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the groundbreaking author team behind the bestselling Winner-Take-All Politics, a timely and topical work that examines what's good for American business and what's good for Americans - and why those interests are misaligned.In Winner-Take-All Politics, Jacob S. Hacker...
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives

Lisa Servon - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

An urgent, absorbing expos - why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a highnetworth entrepreneur, and a twentysomething graduate student have...
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

Adam M Grant - Viking
Format: Print book

The #1 New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas - and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Give and Take"Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite...
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The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer: The Ultimate Guide to Producing High-Quality Herbs on a Market Scale

Jeff Carpenter - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Print book

A new approach to growing local medicine, including information on geo-authenticity, wildcrafting, and developing a good business plan Both a business guide and a farming manual, The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer will teach readers how to successfully grow and market organic medicinal...
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Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody

William Poundstone - Little, Brown
Format: Hardcover

A practical guide to outguessing everything from multiple-choice tests to the office football pool to the stock market. People are predictable even when they try not to be. William Poundstone demonstrates how to turn this fact to personal advantage in scores of everyday situations, from...
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What to Do When You're New: How to Be Comfortable, Confident, and Successful in New Situations

Keith Rollag Ph.D. - AMACOM/American Management Association
Format: Paperback

Have you ever felt nervous in new situations? Reluctant to introduce yourself? Afraid to ask questions? We all have. But if you let those worries stop you, you may miss out on real opportunity. Whether you're changing jobs, joining a group, or moving to a new city, putting yourself out there...
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The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power

Joseph Turow - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive consumer advertising and tracking, already pervasive online, are coming to a retail store near you By one expert's prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel about...
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Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World

Perrine Hervé-Gruyer - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Print book

The Bec Hellouin model for growing food, sequestering carbon, creating jobs, and increasing biodiversity without using fossil fuels When Charles and Perrine Herv-Gruyer set out to create their farm in an historic Normandy village, they had no idea just how much their lives would change....
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Worth It: Your Life, Your Money, Your Terms

Amanda Steinberg - North Star Way
Format: Print book

From the founder and superstar CEO of DailyWorth.com - the go-to financial site for women with more than one million subscribers - comes a fresh book that redefines the relationship between women, self-worth, and money. Worth It shows women how to view money as a source of personal...
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Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal

JACK EWING - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A shocking expos of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal.In mid-2015, Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world's largest automaker. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million...
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The Small-Scale Dairy: The Complete Guide to Milk Production for the Home and Market

Gianaclis Caldwell - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback

The Small-Scale Dairy includes everything you need to know in order to successfully produce nourishing, healthy, farm-fresh milk. Whether for home use, direct sale to the consumer, or sale to an artisanal cheesemaker, high-quality raw milk is a delicate, desirable product. Successful and sustainable...
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eBay For Dummies

Marsha Collier - For Dummies
Format: Print book

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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Superfandom: How Our Obsessions are Changing How We Buy and Who We Are

Zoe Fraade-Blanar - W W Norton
Format: Print book

As fandom sheds its longtime stigmas of geekiness and hysteria, fans are demanding more from the celebrities and brands they love. Digital tools have given organizations from traditional businesses to tech startups direct, real-time access to their most devoted consumers, and it s easy...
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