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The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2015: Billions of Dollars in Scholarships, Grants and Prizes
Gen Tanabe - SuperCollege; Seventh Edition edition Format: Book
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Information on 1.5 million scholarships, grants, and prizes is easily accessible in this revised directory with more than 300 new listings that feature awards indexed by career goal, major, academics, public service, talent, athletics, religion, ethnicity, and more. Each entry contains... |
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Smart Trust: Creating Prosperity, Energy, and Joy in a Low-Trust World
Stephen M.R. Covey - Free Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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After illustrating the global relevance of trust with his book The Speed of Trust by selling more than one million copies in twenty-two languages, Stephen M.R. Covey again illuminates the hidden power of trust to change lives and impact organizations in Smart Trust.In a compelling and readable... |
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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know
Joanne Lipman - William Morrow Format: Hardcover
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First things first: There will be no man shaming in That's What She Said. A recent Harvard study found that corporate "diversity training" has actually made the gender gap worse - in part because it makes men feel demonized. Women, meanwhile, have been told closing the gender... |
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The Recovering Spender: How to Live a Happy, Fulfilled, Debt-Free Life
Lauren Greutman - Center St Format: Print book
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After learning how to curb her spending habits, Lauren Greutman shares her hard-earned knowledge on how to get out of debt and live without the financial pressures that many people face today. A young married woman wants to live the American Dream: two fancy cars, custom built home, two-income... |
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Your Teacher Said What?! Defending Our Kids from the Liberal Assault on Capitalism
Joe Kernen - Sentinel HC Format: Hardcover
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CNBC anchor Joe Kernen rebels against the liberal brainwashing of his young daughter by the mainstream media and educational establishment Every morning on CNBCs top-rated show Squawk Box Joe Kernen asks tough questions And at home he does the same with his ten-year- old daughter Blake... |
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HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business
Richard S Ruback - Harvard Bus Review Press Format: Print book
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Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: You can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards - as well as personal... |
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Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace
Sharon Salzberg - HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Format: Audiobook
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How would you like to be calmer, less distracted, more productive, and more content at your job? You might think it would take more hours in the day, a better boss, more support, less interference, a shorter commute - and the list goes on. Most of the things we think would help are either... |
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Cold Hard Truth On Men, Women, and Money: 50 Common Money Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Kevin O'Leary - Gallery Books; Reprint edition Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author and television superstar Kevin OLeary comes a new financial guide that takes you through money mistakes at every stage of life and teaches you how to avoid them. DONT SPEND TOO MUCH. MOSTLY SAVE. ALWAYS INVEST. This is simple advice, but its often the simple advice... |
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Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
Robert B. Reich - Vintage Format: Paperback
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Updated for paperback publication, Aftershock is a brilliant reading of the causes of our current economic crisis, with a plan for dealing with its challenging aftermath. When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street bankers.... |
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The XX Factor: How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World
Alison Wolf - Crown Format: Hardcover
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Noted British academic and journalist Alison Wolf offers a surprising and thoughtful study of the professional elite, and examines the causes - and limits - of women's rise and the consequences of their difficult choices.The gender gap is closing. Today, for the first time in history,... |
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Get What's Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your Costs
Philip Moeller - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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A coauthor of the New York Times bestselling guide to Social Security Get What's Yours authors an essential companion to explain Medicare, the nation's other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money.Social Security provides... |
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Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
MICHAEL RUHLMAN - HARRY N ABRAMS Format: Print book
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In Grocery, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America's relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it - the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food - how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from,... |
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Get in the Game: 8 Elements of Perseverance That Make the Difference
Cal Ripken - Gotham; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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In the spirit of Rick Pitinoxs New York Times phenomenal bestseller Success Is a Choice living legend Cal Ripken Jr presents an inspiring guide to overcoming any challenge and building a life you love Baseballxs all-time Iron Man Cal Ripken Jr retired from baseball in after breaking... |
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High Achievers Secret Codebook: The Unwritten Rules for Success at Work
Sandra Naiman - Jist Publishing Format: Print book
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Why do some competent, hardworking people skyrocket in their careers while others who are just as capable and talented fall short of the same success? Each chapter highlights one of these success principles and offers practical, easy-to-follow advice on how to apply it. In addition, the book... |
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Debt Free For Life: The Finish Rich Plan for Financial Freedom
David Bach - Crown Business Format: Hardcover
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GOODBYE DEBT - HELLO FREEDOM! Most of us grew up with the idea that there is good debt and there is bad debt. Good debts are generally considered to be debts you incur to buy things that can go up in value - like a home or college education. Bad debts are things like credit card... |
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Fight for your money : how to stop getting ripped off and save a fortune
David Bach - Broadway Books Format: Print book
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Bach shows you how every dollar you spend is really a battle between you and the businesses--and the government--who want to take it as profit, and gives you the tools you need to save money on everything from your cell phone contract to a car purchase, from credit cards to 401(k) plans,... |
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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large. Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape How can officials identify the most dangerous New York City manholes... |
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Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy
Daniel Altman - Times Books; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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A Harvard-trained economist's startling predictions reveal critical challenges in the decades ahead, helping individuals, businesses, and governments to make smarter decisions As individuals, companies, and countries struggle to recover from the economic crisis, many are narrowly focused... |
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The E-Factor: Entrepreneurship in the Social Media Age
Adrie Reinders - BenBella Books Format: Hardcover
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As an entrepreneur, you’re not afraid to bend the rules and think outside the box. You’re not burdened with linear thinking, and thinking differently and trying new approaches enable you to solve problems.As serial entrepreneurs and cofounders of the largest social network for entrepreneurs... |
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Economic Facts and Fallacies
Thomas Sowell - Basic Books; First edition Format: Hardcover
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Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues-and does so in a lively manner and without requiring any prior knowledge of economics by the reader. These include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as mistaken... |
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The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife
Marc Freedman - PublicAffairs; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as “the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life,” makes an impassioned call to accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really... |
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150 Best Federal Jobs
Laurence Shatkin - Jist Works; Original edition Format: Book
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150 Best Federal Jobswill assist you to target your federal job search at the most promising occupations. Study the 55 best federal jobs lists, which are organized by pay, growth, openings, gender, education and experience levels, personality type, federal occupational group, and more.... |
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The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Expanded and Updated edition Format: Hardcover
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The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman's account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before--creating an explosion of wealth in India and China, and challenging the rest... |
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No Limits: Blow the CAP Off Your Capacity
John C Maxwell - Center Street Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwells latest book will enhance the lives of leaders, professionals, and anyone who wants to achieve success and personal growth.We often treat the word capacity as if it were a natural law of limitation. Unfortunately, most of us are much... |
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The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns
Alan C. Greenberg - Simon & Schuster; First Edition / First Printing edition Format: Book
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On March 16, 2008, Alan Greenberg, former CEO and current chairman of the executive committee of Bear Stearns, found himself in the company’s offices on a Sunday. More remarkable by far than the fact that he was in the office on a Sunday is what he was doing: participating in a meeting... |
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The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make UsBetter at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done
Peter Miller - Avery Format: Hardcover
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What ants, bees, fish, and smart swarms can teach us about communication, organization, and decision-making The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take... |
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Dayton Duncan - Alfred A. Knopf Format: Print book
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The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The WarAmerica's national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation's most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved,... |
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Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats: Breeds, Care, Dairying
Jerry Belanger - Storey Publishing, LLC Format: Paperback
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For 17 years readers have turned to Storey Books for advice on raising animals. Our Modern Way series of six books has sold more than 1,000,000 copies. In an effort to provide readers with the best how-to animal books on the market we are completely updating all six Modern Way titles and reintroducing... |
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The Quality Library
Sara Laughlin - American Library Association Format: Print book
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Based on more than 50 years of author expertise in organizational improvement, "The Quality Library" offers a methodology to pinpoint trouble areas and improve processes.In an environment of budget cuts and freezes, libraries must keep a tight rein on costs and inefficiencies.... |
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When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
Steven D. Levitt - William Morrow & Company Format: Hardcover
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In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. It's the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love all things Freakonomics. Surprising and erudite, eloquent and witty,... |
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$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America
Kathryn Edin - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Format: Print book
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A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna... |
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eBay For Dummies
Marsha Collier - For Dummies; 8 edition Format: Paperback
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The leading guide for eBay buyers and sellers, updated to give you all the essentials for buying and selling on eBay More than 112 million people regularly use eBay. To find the best deals and make the best profits, you need the guidance in this book from eBay expert Marsha Collier! With... |
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Becoming a Culinary Arts Professional: Finding Your Rewarding Career in the World of Food
LearningExpress Editors - LearningExpress, LLC; Csm edition Format: Paperback
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From novices to career changers, BECOMING A CULINARY ARTS PROFESSIONAL paints a comprehensive picture of what readers need to know as they enter and advance in the food service industry. This exciting new title helps readers determine their best way into this highly competitive industry.... |
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Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling to Get Jobs and Propel Your Career
Katharine Hansen - JIST Works Format: Book
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Tell Me About Yourself shows you how to use the incredible power of storytelling to advance your career, whether by moving up in your current organization or landing a job with a new employer. Echoing the most commonly asked job interview question, Tell Me About Yourself shows... |
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Job Interviews For Dummies
Kennedy - For Dummies Format: Paperback
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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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Organizing Your Day: Time Management Techniques That Will Work for You
Sandra Felton - Revell Format: Paperback
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For more than twenty years, Sandra Feltons books have helped countless readers organize their homes, rooms, offices, and paperwork. She now joins forces with professional organizer Marsha Sims and applies some of the same principles to help readers build a successful system for organizing... |
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DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government
Jesse Ventura - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans uncovers the truth about how corporations have bought the American electoral and legislative process through the power of lobbyists, campaign contributions, and political action committees. Using historical details, such as the development of the two-party system... |
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Art, Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist
Lisa Congdon - Chronicle Books Format: Print book
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You don't have to starve to be an artist. Build a career doing what you love. In this practical guide, professional artist Lisa Congdon reveals the many ways you can earn a living by making art - through illustration, licensing, fine art sales, print sales, teaching, and beyond. Including... |
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The Garden Primer: Second Edition
Barbara Damrosch - Workman Format: Print book
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The most comprehensive, entertaining, down-to-earth one-volume gardening reference ever, and highly praised: "Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods." - Chicago Tribune "Best of the crop." - House Beautiful "Barbara Damrosch's writing has the snap of a good snowpea... |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen R Covey - Free Press Format: Print book
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In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness,... |
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Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal
Melanie Warner - Scribner; Reprint edition Format: Paperback
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If a piece of individually wrapped cheese can retain its shape, color, and texture for years, what does it say about the food we eat and feed to our children? Former New York Times business reporter and mother Melanie Warner decided to explore that question when she observed the phenomenon... |
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Ranking America's Fifty States: A Comparison in Graphic Detail
Michael D. Dulberger - Bernan Press Format: Paperback
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This book provides a compendium of stimulating facts about the states, presented graphically, and covering a wide array of topics including demographic, economic, environmental, health, and crime variables. Hundreds of attributes are compared side-by-side, from life expectancy to murder... |
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Wealth Watchers: A Simple Program to Help You Spend Less and Save More
Alice Wood - Free Press; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Ten years ago, Alice Wood was living a normal life, balancing her career, family, and finances with con dence. Having grown up with a father who was a bank president from the pre-branch banking era and a mother who was influenced by the Great Depression, Alice learned prudence and financial... |
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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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The Aftershock Investor: A Crash Course in Staying Afloat in a Sinking Economy
David Wiedemer - Wiley; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Advice on protection and profits in the short and long term future from the experts who accurately predicted the financial crisis of 2008, and who now have more detailed information about what is yet to come From the authors who accurately predicted the domino fall of the conjoined real... |
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The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns
Alan C. Greenberg - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition Format: Hardcover
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On March 16, 2008, Alan Greenberg, former CEO and current chairman of the executive committee of Bear Stearns, found himself in the company’s offices on a Sunday. More remarkable by far than the fact that he was in the office on a Sunday is what he was doing: participating in a meeting... |
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Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
David M. Walker - Random House Format: Print book
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He's one of America's most capable, canny, candid, and independent financial experts. Now David M. Walker sounds a call to action. Comeback America is a tough-minded, innovative, inspiring guide to help us avoid the approaching economic abyss and put the country back on track again.As... |
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More than a Game: The Glorious Present--and the Uncertain Future--of the NFL
Brian Billick - Scribner Format: Paperback
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An inside look at how the battle off the field affects the competition on the field of america’s most popular sport—from one of the Nfl’s most successful and respected head coaches.Fresh off the sidelines from a nine-year stint as one of the most successful leaders in pro football,... |
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Your Next Career: Do What You've Always Wanted to Do
Gail Geary - Jist Works; 2 edition Format: Book
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Your Next Career helps experienced and post-retirement workers benefit from current and future employment trends: the shortage of trained and experienced younger workers, local and international outsourcing, alternative staffing arrangements, job instability, and a dramatic increase in entrepreneurial... |
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A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
Brian Grazer - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times bestselling author and Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer has written a brilliantly entertaining and eye-opening exploration of curiosity and the life-changing effects it can have on every person's life.From Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer, New York Times... |
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Bill McKibben - Times Books; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our livesIn this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first... |
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Federal Resume Guidebook 6th Ed, : Writing the Successful Outline Format Federal Resume
Kathryn Troutman - Resume Place Pr Format: Paperback
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Federal jobs tend to offer high pay, great benefits, a strong employee support system, and they are some of the most coveted opportunities in today's job market. As a result, competition for these jobs is at a record high. To survive the initial resume screening, let alone achieve one of these... |
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Making the Case: How to Be Your Own Best Advocate
Kimberly Guilfoyle - Harper Format: Hardcover
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After an eleven-year-old Kimberly Guilfoyle lost her mother to leukemia, her dad wanted her to become as resilient and self-empowered as she could be. He wisely taught her to build a solid case for the things she wanted. Creating a strong logical argument was the best way to ensure she could... |
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Work with Me: The 8 Blind Spots Between Men and Women in Business
Barbara Annis - Palgrave Macmillan Format: Hardcover
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Work With Me is the timely collaboration of two of the world's foremost authorities on gender relations. Barbara Annis, world-renowned expert on gender issues in the workplace, and John Gray, author of the number one relationship book of all time, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus,... |
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The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850
Joel Mokyr - Yale University Press Format: Book
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This book focuses on the importance of ideological and institutional factors in the rapid development of the British economy during the years between the Glorious Revolution and the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Joel Mokyr shows that we cannot understand the Industrial Revolution without recognizing... |
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The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century
David Rieff - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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In a groundbreaking book, based on six years of on the ground reporting, expert David Rieff offers a masterly review about whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within our reach as increasingly promised.Can we provide enough food for 9 billion (2 billion more than today)... |
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You Can Retire Sooner Than You Think
Wes Moss - McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition Format: Print book
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From Wes Moss--named by Barron's as one of America's top financial advisors "The keys that Wes Moss identifies to having a happy retirement are simple but brilliant. Read this book." -- Clark Howard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Living Large in Lean Times "Financial... |
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Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It
Wendell Potter - Bloomsbury Press Format: Print book
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American democracy has become coin operated. Special interest groups increasingly control every level of government. The necessity of raising huge sums of campaign cash has completely changed the character of politics and policy making, determining what elected representatives stand for and how they... |
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Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
Scott Belsky - Portfolio Hardcover Format: Hardcover
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How the world's leading innovators push their ideas to fruition again and again Edison famously said that genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. Ideas for new businesses, solutions to the world's problems, and artistic breakthroughs are common, but great execution... |
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You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth
Jen Sincero - Viking Format: Hardcover
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"A cheerful manifesto on removing obstacles between yourself and the income of your dreams." - New York MagazineFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass, a life-changing guide to making the kind of money you've only ever dreamed ofYou... |
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Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life
Donald Trump - Vanguard Press Format: Hardcover
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Over the years, Donald Trump has written many bestselling books, and he has also written short pieces that summarize his singularly successful tenets on how to live the good life, both personally and professionally. These have been personally selected by Donald Trump for this book, giving... |
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Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits, 4th Edition: Breeds * Care * Housing
Bob Bennett - Storey Format: Hardcover
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Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits is as essential to the owner of pet rabbits as it is to the farmer raising rabbits for meat or fur. Breed selection, year-round care and feeding, safe housing, humane handling, and disease prevention and treatment are all addressed. This is the classic,... |
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MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
Tony Robbins - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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Multimillion-copy bestselling author of Awaken the Giant Withinand Unlimited Power has created a new 7-step blueprint for securing financial freedom. Based on extensive research and one-on-one interviews with more than 50 of the most legendary financial experts in the world - from Carl... |
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Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat
Barry Estabrook - W.W. Norton & Company Format: Print book
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An eye-opening investigation of the commercial pork industry and an inspiring alternative to the way pigs are raised and consumed in America.Barry Estabrook, author of the New York Times bestseller Tomatoland and a writer of "great skill and compassion" (Eric Schlosser) , now explores... |
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Debt Cures: "They" Don't Want You to Know About
Kevin Trudeau - Equity Press Format: Print book
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A "New York Times"-bestselling author--and one of the most controversial men in corporate America--blows the lid off the banking and credit card industries. |
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Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet
Edward Humes - Ecco; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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“Well written and compelling, Eco Barons gives the reader a first glimpse of the activists, philanthropists and gadflies who may well turn out to be the J.D. Rockefellers and Rachel Carsons of our time.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes offers... |
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Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Dalton Conley - Pantheon; 1 edition Format: Book
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Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. In Elsewhere, U.S.A., acclaimed sociologist Dalton Conley connects our day-to-day... |
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Darjeeling: The Colorful History and Precarious Fate of the World's Greatest Tea
Jeff Koehler - Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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Darjeeling's tea bushes run across a mythical landscape steeped with the religious, the sacred, and the picturesque. Planted at high elevation in the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, in an area of northern India bound by Nepal to the west, Bhutan to the east, and Sikkim to the north,... |
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A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher
Joel Achenbach - Simon & Schuster; First American Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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It was a technological crisis in an alien realm a blown-out oil well in mile-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico For the engineers who had to kill the well this was like Apollo a crisis no one saw coming and one of untold danger and challenge A suspense story a mystery a technological thriller... |
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The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
Jeffrey D. Sachs - Random House; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER bull NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ldquoSuccinct humane and politically astute Sachs lays out a detailed path to reform regulation and recoveryrdquomdashThe American Prospect In this forceful and impassioned... |
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The Seventh Sense: Power
Joshua Cooper Ramo - Little Brown & Co Format: Print book
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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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What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World
Tina Lynn Seelig - HarperCollins Publishers Format: Print book
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Major life transitions such as leaving the protected environment of school or starting a new career can be daunting. It is scary to face a wall of choices, knowing that no one is going to tell us whether or not we are making the right decision. There is no clearly delineated path or recipe... |
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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
David Stockman - PublicAffairs; First Trade Paper Edition edition Format: Book
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A New York Times bestsellerThe Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington’s craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American stateespecially the Federal... |
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Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy
Bill Clinton - Knopf; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matterspresenting his ideas on restoring economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving the mortgage crisis, and pursuing a strategy to get us back in the future... |
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley - Harper; 5th Printing edition Format: Hardcover
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"Ridley writes with panache, wit, and humor and displays remarkable ingenuity in finding ways to present complicated materials for the lay reader." - Los Angeles Times In a bold and provocative interpretation of economic history, Matt Ridley, the New York Times-bestselling author... |
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Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World's Most Successful Businesses
Gary Shapiro - William Morrow; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Innovate or dieFor thirty years, Gary Shapiro has observed the worlds most innovative businesses from his front-row seat as leader of the Consumer Electronics Association. Now he reveals the ten secrets of ninja innovators like Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and many others.What does... |
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Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home
Joe Klein - Simon & Schuster, 2015. Format: Print book
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This is the true story of two decorated combat veterans linked by tragedy, who come home from the Middle East and find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country.In Charlie Mike, Joe Klein tells the dramatic story of Eric Greitens and Jake Wood, larger-than-life war heroes... |
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Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done
Jocelyn K Glei - PublicAffairs Format: Paperback
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A modern, no-nonsense guide to getting rid of email anxiety, reclaiming your productivity, and spending more time on the work that matters.Let's face it: Email is killing our productivity. The average person checks their email 11 times per hour, processes 122 messages a day, and spends... |
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone - Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasnt content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon... |
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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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Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Accounting For Dummies
Sharon Farris - For Dummies Format: Paperback
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Your hands-on guide to keeping great records and keeping your nonprofit running smoothly Need to get your nonprofit books in order? This practical guide has everything you need to know to operate your nonprofit according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) - from documenting... |
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Business Etiquette, Third Edition: 101 Ways to Conduct Business with Charm and Savvy
Ann Marie Sabath - Career Press; 3 edition Format: Paperback
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What differentiates business people from business professionals?Many individuals invest in their careers yet have no clue how to set themselves apart from their competition. Business Etiquette: 101 Ways to Conduct Business With Charm & Savvy reveals both the unwritten and unspoken rules... |
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Free: The Future of a Radical Price
Chris Anderson - Hyperion Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author heralds the future of business in Free.In his revolutionary bestseller, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before.... |
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Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Biz Stone - Grand Central Pub Format: Hardcover
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Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, discusses the power of creativity and how to harness it, through stories from his remarkable life and career.THINGS A LITTLE BIRD TOLD MEFrom GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone... |
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Knock 'em Dead Resumes: A Killer Resume Gets MORE Job Interviews!
Martin Yate - Adams Media Corporation Format: Print book
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Expert advice on building a resume to get the job you want! Your resume is the most important financial document you'll ever create. When it works, so do you. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience, bestselling author Martin Yate shows you how to write a dynamic, effective resume... |
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How to Write a Business Plan
Mike McKeever - NOLO; Twelfth Edition edition Format: Print book
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Write a business plan that potential investors will embrace! If you're thinking of starting a business or raising money to expand an existing one, you need a plan. Running a successful business requires a great deal of forethought, so write a business plan and secure your venture's... |
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Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better
Doug Lemov - Jossey-Bass; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Rules for developing talent with disciplined, deliberate, intelligent practice We live in a competition loving culture. We love the performance, the big win, the ticking seconds of the clock as the game comes down to the wire. We watch games and cheer, sometimes to the point of obsession,... |
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Modernize Your Resume
Wendy Enelow - Emerald Career Pub, 2016. Format: Print book
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Based on today's real-world job search trends, Modernize Your Resume shows you how to craft a winning resume to meet the complexities of today's highly competitive and technologically driven employment market. The entire job search process is evolving at a remarkably rapid pace,... |
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The Internet Is Not the Answer
Andrew Keen - Atlantic Monthly Press Format: Hardcover
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The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware of the Internets deeply negative effects... |
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Experiment Eleven: Dark Secrets Behind the Discovery of a Wonder Drug
Peter Pringle - Walker & Company; 1 edition Format: Book
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In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young Rutgers College Ph.D. student, worked on a wartime project in microbiology professor Selman Waksman’s lab, searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at home. In his eleventh experiment on a common bacterium found in farmyard... |
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Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense
David Cay Johnston - Portfolio Hardcover; 1 edition Format: Book
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The bestselling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new exposé How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch provides answers to this great economic mystery of our time,... |
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Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
Ron Suskind - Harper; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. Until August 2007, when that confidence finally... |
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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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Jim Cramer's Get Rich Carefully
James J. Cramer - Penguin Group USA Format: Hardcover
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Tired of phony promises about getting rich quickly, promises that lead to reckless decisions (the stepping stones to the poor house) ? How about trying something different? How about going for lasting wealth - and doing it the cautious way? In Get Rich Carefully, Jim Cramer uses his thirty-five... |
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There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
Philip Dray - Doubleday; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day. From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first real factories in America, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their... |
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The Millionaire Dropout: Fire Your Boss. Do What You Love. Reclaim Your Life!
Vince Stanzione - Wiley; 1 edition Format: Paperback
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If like millions of others you know deep down that you deserve to do better than where you are today, than this book is for you. Not a book based on old fashion theories or textbook scenarios, The Millionaire Dropout is instead based on tried and tested methods of increasing personal... |
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False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World
Alan Beattie - Riverhead Hardcover; Third Printing edition Format: Print book
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In 2001 Argentina's government bankrupted itself, yet for the past two hundred years it had enjoyed a vista of economic opportunity almost identical to that of the US. Why did the US succeed while Argentina stalled? Botswana and Sierra Leone are both blessed with abundant diamonds.... |
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Getting to Yes with Yourself: And Other Worthy Opponents
William Ury - Harper One Format: Print book
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William Ury, coauthor of the international bestseller Getting to Yes, returns with another groundbreaking book, this time asking: how can we expect to get to yes with others if we haven't first gotten to yes with ourselves?Renowned negotiation expert William Ury has taught tens of thousands... |
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A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II
Maury Klein - Bloomsbury Press Format: Hardcover
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The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the worlds history. The United States had to fight a war across two oceans and three continents-and to do so it had to build and equip a military that was all but nonexistent before... |
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Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
Henry M Paulson - Twelve, 2015. Format: Print book
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"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER"DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism. " Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson... |
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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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Solve Your Money Troubles: Debt, Credit & Bankruptcy
Robin Leonard J.D. - NOLO; 12 edition Format: Paperback
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Repair your credit and get out of debt with the complete guide to solving your money troubles. Feeling overwhelmed by your debts? If youre ready to regain your financial freedom, feeling the squeeze of the housing bust or simply get smarter about managing your money, youll find everything... |
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The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife
Marc Freedman - PublicAffairs; 1 edition Format: Paperback
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Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life,” offers a recipe for how we can transform America’s coming midlife crisis into a midlife opportunity. Millions of people in their fifties,... |
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Becoming China's Bitch: And Nine More Catastrophes We Must Avoid Right Now
Peter D. Kiernan - Turner; 1ST edition Format: Hardcover
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A Manifesto for the Radical CenterAmerica is frozen. We have failed to face our nation’s most crucial challenges—and we are about to pay the price.When it comes to solving our country’s problems, we have become utterly paralyzed: bipartisanship has lulled us into a deadlock,... |
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150 Best Low-Stress Jobs
Laurence Shatkin PhD - JIST Works Format: Paperback
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Readers explore 90 ?best low-stress jobs? list ranked by over a dozen common stress factors, plus by pay, growth, opening, personality type, interests, education level, gender, age, part-time work, and self-employment. Thank, readers review descriptions of the 150 best low-stress jobs that... |
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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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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Chrystia Freeland - Penguin Press HC, The; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Winner of the 2013 Lionel Gelber Prize There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Alarmingly, the greatest income gap is not between the 1 percent... |
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Money: Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
Tony Robbins - Simon & Schuster Format: Print book
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Multimillion-copy bestselling author of Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power has created a new 7-step blueprint for securing financial freedom. Based on extensive research and one-on-one interviews with more than 50 of the most legendary financial experts in the world - from Carl... |
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The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters
Wes Moore - Random House Inc Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed author of The Other Wes Moore continues his inspirational quest for a meaningful life and shares the powerful lessons - about self-discovery, service, and risk-taking - that led him to a new definition of success for our times. The Work is the story of how one young man traced... |
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Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge
Lindy Woodhead - Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition Format: Paperback
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If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge's.Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field's in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a partner in the business which his visionary skills had helped to create. At the turn... |
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How to Start a Home-based Mail Order Business, 4th
Georganne Fiumara - Globe Pequot; Fourth edition Format: Paperback
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Launch and grow your home-based mail order business with this step-by-step guide. Learn about equipment, pricing, online marketing, and much more while using worksheets and checklists to get organized and achieve your goals. |
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The Grantseeker's Guide to Winning Proposals
Juduth B. Margolin - Foundation Center; 1 edition Format: Book
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Published for development officers, nonprofit board members, fundraising consultants, and others in pursuit of grants from U.S. foundations, this guide provides real-world proposals that resulted in funding for a variety of needs, including general operating support, program development,... |
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Form Your Own Limited Liability Company
Anthony Mancuso - NOLO Format: Paperback
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Structuring your business as an LLC can bring important advantages: It lets you limit your personal liability for business debts and simplify your taxes. Here, youll find the key legal forms you need to create an LLC in your state, including: LLC articles of organization Operating agreement... |
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Michael Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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As Pogo once said, We have met the enemy and he is us. The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally... |
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Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires
David Folkenflik - PublicAffairs; First Edition edition Format: Print book
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Rupert Murdoch is the most significant media tycoon the English-speaking world has ever known. No one before him has trafficked in media influence across those nations so effectively, nor has anyone else so singularly redefined the culture of news and the rules of journalism. In a stretch... |
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Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
Helaine Olen - Portfolio Format: Hardcover
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If youve ever bought a personal finance book, watched a TV show about stock picking, listened to a radio show about getting out of debt, or attended a seminar to help you plan for your retirement, youve probably heard some version of these quotesWhats keeping you from being rich In most... |
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Make Their Day! Employee Recognition That Works - 2nd Edition
Cindy Ventrice - Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Paperback
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Give Morale, Productivity, and Profits a Genuine, Lasting Boost How is it that companies spend billions on recognition programs, yet most employees feel unrecognized? Here Cindy Ventrice zeroes in on what truly makes employees feel valued and lays out proven recognition tactics that will... |
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Small Time Operator: How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Stay Out of Trouble
Bernard B. Kamoroff - Taylor Trade Publishing; 13th edition Format: Print book
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Written for small businesses, self-employed individuals, employers, professionals, independent contractors, home businesses, and Internet businesses, Small Time Operator is the most popular business start-up guide ever. In clear, easy-to-understand language, the author covers getting permits... |
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Illegal Procedure: A Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty Business of College Football
Josh Luchs - Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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For fifteen years, sports agent Josh Luchs made illegal deals with numerous college athletes, from top-tier, nationally recognized phenoms to late-round draft picks. Flagrantly flaunting NCAA and NFL Players Association rules, he made no-interest loans to players in exchange for the promise... |
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Start Your Own Retail Business and More: Brick-and-Mortar Stores Online Mail Order Kiosks
The Staff of Entrepreneur Media - Entrepreneur Press; Fourth Edition edition Format: Print book
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OPEN THE STORE OF YOUR DREAMS: START YOUR OWN RETAIL BUSINESSAt more than a trillion dollars, retail is one of the fastest-growing - and fastest-changing - segments of the economy. Apps, pop-up shops, and online shopping have made it easier to reach, interact with, sell to, and gain loyal... |
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