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Mind over Money: The Psychology of Money and How to Use It
Claudia Hammond - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book
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"The acclaimed author of Time Warped tackles the very latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and biology to provide a fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking look at our relationship with money-- perfect for fans of Dan Ariely and Freakonomics. We know we need... |
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Million Dollar Maverick: Forge Your Own Path to Think Differently, Act Decisively, and Succeed Quickly
Alan Weiss - Bibliomotion
Format: Print book
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When it comes to how to succeed as an entrepreneur, we are besotted with advice. According to bestselling author Alan Weiss, success is a combination of opportunism, very disciplined work, luck, timing, and ignoring most advice. In other words, it means striking out on your own, original... |
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Knock 'em Dead 2017: The Ultimate Job Search Guide
Martin Yate - Adams Media
Format: Print book
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Take control of your job search--with proven strategies for success! New York Times bestseller Martin Yate has helped millions of people turn their lives around by finding great jobs and managing their career progress. Whether you're looking for a first job, re-entering the market,... |
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Do Less, Get More: How to Work Smart and Live Life Your Way
Shaa Wasmund - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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When you stop trying to do so much, you get so much more doneDo you put yourself under too much pressure to succeed, which only makes it harder to achieve? Are you constantly playing catch-up and struggling to find time for the things, and people, you love? It doesn't have to be this... |
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The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World
Dan Ackerman - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Tetris is perhaps the most instantly recognizable, popular video game ever made. But the fascinating story of its origins is lesser known. How did an obscure Soviet programmer, working on frail, antiquated computers, create a product that has earned nearly $1 billion in sales? How did an inspired,... |
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Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of
Itamar Simonson - HarperCollins
Format: Print book
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Going against conventional marketing wisdom, Absolute Value reveals what really influences customers today and offers a new framework - the Influence Mix, a totally new way of thinking about consumer decision making and marketing, and about developing more effective business strategies.How... |
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Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld
Jake Halpern - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Federal Trade Commission receives more complaints about rogue debt collecting than about any activity besides identity theft. Dramatically and entertainingly, Bad Paper reveals why. It tells the story of Aaron Siegel, a former banking executive, and Brandon Wilson, a former armed robber,... |
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House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth
Richard Conniff - Yale University Press 2016.
Format: Print book
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This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way we see the world. Delving into the museum's storied... |
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Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story
John Bloom - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Print book
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In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Light years ahead of anything previously put into space, and built on technology developed for Ronald Reagan's... |
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Moonshot!: Game-Changing Strategies to Build Billion-Dollar Businesses
John Sculley - RosettaBooks
Format: Hardcover
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"The future belongs to those who see the possibilities before they become obvious ... This is the most exciting time ever to be part of the business world."Throughout history, there are some events that stand out as so groundbreaking that they completely change life as we know... |
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Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It
Jennifer Mueller - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions --and finds some surprising conclusions. All corporate CEOs, top executives, and other business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive... |
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A Truck Full of Money
Tracy Kidder - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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"A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture." - Charles Duhigg Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy - the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul... |
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What Do You Want to Create Today?: Build the Life You Want at Work
Dr. Bob Tobin - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover
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Forget what you think you know about success and make your own happiness.Dr. Bob Tobin lived what looked like a great life in Southern California: he had a house by the beach, a good consulting practice, and a BMW. But he wasn’t truly happy. Work didn’t really work for him.After... |
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Blowout: The Inside Story of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Daniel Jacobs - Brookings Institution Pr
Format: Print book
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The inside story of the worst environmental disaster in American history.Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and killed... |
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Making Conflict Work: Harnessing the Power of Disagreement
Peter T. Coleman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A practical guide to navigating workplace conflicts by better understanding the power dynamics at play in every interaction Conflicts at work are as inevitable as they are frustrating. In Making Conflict Work, Peter Coleman and Robert Ferguson's leading experts in the field of conflict... |
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Fundraising with Businesses: 40 New
Joe Waters - Wiley
Format: Print book
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40 proven strategies for raising big money with businesses There's a reason why nonprofits are getting smaller checks from corporate giving programs. Companies are abandoning or slashing giving budgets and instead focusing on win-win pacts that drive sales and change the world. Nonprofits... |
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High-Hanging Fruit: Build Something Great by Going Where No One Else Will
Mark Rampolla - Portfolio
Format: Print book
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ZICO founder Mark Rampolla is building a social good movement: how to make money starting a company that is good for you, your colleagues, customers, and the worldWhen Mark Rampolla filled a notebook with potential startup ideas, his wife asked him some tough questions. What about this... |
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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu - Knopf
Format: Print book
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From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch and who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--a revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and our selves. Attention merchant: an industrial-scale... |
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The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir
Thomas Dolby - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of rising to the top of the music charts, a second act as a tech pioneer, and the sustaining power of creativity and art.Thomas Dolby's hit songs "She Blinded Me with Science" and "Hyperactive!" catapulted him to international fame in the early 80's.... |
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Winning the Long Game: How Strategic Leaders Shape the Future
Steven Krupp - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Are you winning the battle but losing the war?Every leader has to deliver the goods—make budget, meet deadlines, and deftly manage people—to provide the inspirational fuel that keeps their business running day-in and day-out. But therein lies the danger of winning today’s... |
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Why We Want You To Be Rich: Two Men • One Message
Donald J. Trump - Plata Publishing; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki wrote Why We Want You To Be Rich because they saw how the turbulent economic climate would impact the middle class. They predict the middle class in America will continue to shrink—pushing most middle-class Americans into the ranks of the poor. This... |
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The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company
Scott K. Edinger - AMACOM
Format: Hardcover
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Think you can spot the leaders in your company? Don't assume that you can identify them by their positions. What about those employees who consistently step up: the field agent who solves a previously intractable problem; the service rep who thinks outside the box and creates unshakeable... |
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Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World
John P. Kotter - Harvard Bus Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Based on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter.It's a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in response and appoint your best people... |
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Talking Stick: Peacemaking as a Spiritual Path
Stephan V Beyer - Bear & Company
Format: Print book
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Practices for openhearted speaking and devout listening to restore harmony in families, relationships, schools, workplaces, and communities * Details how to approach life with a listening heart and create a sacred space for communication * Offers exercises for new peacemaking circles,... |
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Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success
Ivanka Trump - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Ivanka is donating the unpaid portion of her advance and all future royalties received from Women Who Work to the Ivanka M. Trump Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund that will make grants to organizations that empower and educate women and girls.* "This... |
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The Grant Writing and Funding Coach: Target and Acquire the Funds You Need
DEBORAH GRIFFITHS - SELF COUNSEL PR
Format: Print book
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The Grant and Fundraising Helper is a framework for you to present your project in a clear and confident style, establish a rapport with funders and succeed with your proposal. In this book, you'll find short narrative and budget summaries for your review and checklists for staying... |
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Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
Sara Goldrick-Rab - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with Paying the Price, she shows in damning detail exactly why. Quite simply, college is far too expensive... |
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The Millionaire Master Plan: Your Personalized Path to Financial Success
Roger James Hamilton - Business Plus
Format: Hardcover
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The Millionaire Master Plan is a unique and fresh approach as to how individuals can not only get a sense of where they stand on the spectrum of personal wealth, but more importantly, how they can learn to ascend from their present state to a higher level. Roger James Hamilton, himself... |
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The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
Edward Conard - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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The scourge of America's economy isn't the success of the 1 percent - quite the opposite. The bigger problem is the government's well-meaning but misguided attempt to reduce the payoffs for success. Four years ago, Edward Conard wrote a controversial bestseller, Unintended Consequences,... |
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Roadmap: The Get-It-Together Guide for Figuring Out What to Do with Your Life
Nathan Gebhard - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book
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This welcome antidote to the conventional career guide answers the old question - "So, what are you going to do with your life?" - in a groundbreaking way. From the team behind the campus and online resource and the inspirational TV series in its eleventh season, ROADMAP helps... |
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Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits, 4th Edition
Bob Bennett - Storey
Format: Paperback
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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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On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights
Andi Simon - Greenleaf Book Group Llc
Format: Print book
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Seeing Your Business through a New Lens Innovation has become such a ubiquitous value, it's in danger of becoming clich. Companies frequently talk about it as the sweeping secret to solve all their business problems; however, they often don't know where to start or how to expand... |
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Fundraising Principles and Practice
Adrian Sargeant - Wiley
Format: Hardcover
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The complete guide to fundraising planning, tools, methods, and moreFundraising Principles and Practice provides a unique resource for students and professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of fundraising in the current nonprofit environment. Based on emerging research drawn from... |
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The Curse of Cash
Kenneth S Rogoff - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Is Different, "a fascinating and important book" (Ben Bernanke) about phasing out paper money to fight crime and tax evasion--and to battle financial crises by tapping the power of negative interest ratesThe... |
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Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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"While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I've found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their... |
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Agile Selling: Get Up to Speed Quickly in Today's Ever-Changing Sales World
Jill Konrath - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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Sales expert Jill Konrath offers powerful strategies for sales proficiency in ever-changing situations When sales people are promoted, change jobs, or face new business environments, they inevitably need to learn new skills quickly. This rapid change is often overwhelming, and sellers... |
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101 Job Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again
James Reed - Plume
Format: Paperback
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"An insider's guide to the perfect interview." - Daily Express What are job interviewers actually looking for in a candidate What questions will they ask What does each question really mean What are the answers that will secure you the job James Reed, chairman... |
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Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia
Alexander A. Cooley - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed... |
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The Five Years Before You Retire: Retirement Planning When You Need It the Most
Wes Moss - Adams Media
Format: Hardcover
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A comprehensive guide to planning your retirement before it's too late! Even though half of all Americans put money aside for retirement, it isn't until they reach their sixties that many realize that they haven't saved enough. With The Five Years Before You Retire, you'll hone in on what... |
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A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 19291939
Charles R Morris - Public Affairs
Format: Print book
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The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the cataclysm and the long duration of the collapse scarred generations of Americans. A Rabble of Dead Money is a lucid and fast-paced account... |
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How to Create Your Own Jewelry Line: Design Production Finance Marketing & More
Emilie Shapiro - Lark Books (NC)
Format: Print book
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To develop a successful jewelry line, designers have to be more than just creative artists - they have to understand the ins and outs of running a crafts business. Emilie Shapiro's detailed guide explores the many facets of creating a quality handmade collection that people will buy,... |
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Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life
Susan A David - Avery
Format: Print book
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The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as a groundbreaking idea of the year. The path to fulfillment, whether at work or at home, is almost never a straight line. Ask anyone who has achieved their biggest goals or who thrives... |
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Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown
David Wiedemer - Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Format: Hardcover
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From the authors who accurately predicted the bursting of the global bubble economy comes the definitive look at what lies ahead in 2013 and beyond Written by the market oracles who predicted, with uncanny accuracy, the global financial meltdown and the economic chain reaction it set in motion,... |
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The Stress Test: How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper
Ian Robertson - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the worlds most respected neuroscientists, an eye-opening study of why we react to pressure in the way we do and how to be energized rather than defeated by stress.. Why is it that some people react to seemingly trivial emotional upsets--like failing an unimportant exam or tackling... |
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Sustainability Made Simple: Small Changes for Big Impact
Rosaly Byrd - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Hardcover
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Sustainability Made Simple is an introduction to sustainability and sustainable living that explores the relationship between everyday life and the intricate global environmental issues of today, including air and water pollution, deforestation, and climate change. Rosaly Byrd and Laurn... |
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PMP: Project Management Professional Exam Study Guide: Updated for the 2015 Exam
Kim Heldman - Sybex ; John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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The ultimate PMP exam prep guide, updated for the 2015 examUPDATE: The PMP exam update has moved to January 11, 2016 to allow all stakeholders adequate time to prepare for this change PMP Study Guide, 8th Edition is a complete resource for PMP exam preparation, featuring full coverage of all exam... |
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Business Without the Bullsh*t: 49 Secrets and Shortcuts You Need to Know
Geoffrey James - Grand Central Pub
Format: Book
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Contrary to popular belief, the business world is not that complicated. While every industry and every profession requires specific expertise, the truth is that the "business of business" is relatively simple. For the past seven years, Geoffrey James has written a daily blog that's... |
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Failed paradigm.
George Gilder - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book : English
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"Why do we think governments know how to create money? They don't. George Gilder shows that money is time, and time is real. He is our best guide to our most fundamental economic problem." --Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies "Thirty-five... |
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Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
Rana Foroohar - Crown Business
Format: Print book
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Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned - and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage... |
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Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
Raul Gallegos - Potomac Books
Format: Hardcover
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Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude - the world's largest reserves - an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its wealth to foster voter support,... |
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Achieving Longevity: How Great Firms Prosper Through Entrepreneurial Thinking
Jim Dewald - University of Toronto Press
Format: Print book
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Starting a business is hard, but keeping an established company going can be equally challenging. In the long run, every business will need to adapt to changing market conditions, technologies, and competitive environments. Achieving Longevity explains how to manage those changes through... |
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What More Can I Say?: Why Communication Fails and What to Do About It
Dianna Daniels Booher - Prentice Hall Press
Format: Print book : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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An essential guidebook for honing business communication skills... Communications expert Dianna Booher provides an essential nine-point checklist for success in the art of communication and persuasion—for building solid relationships, and for increasing credibility in the workplace.... |
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Building Your Brand: A Practical Guide for Nonprofit Organizations
Michele Levy - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Does your brand strategy make sense?If you ask 10 people in your organization, how many different answers would you get??* Can everyone in your organization explain how all the pieces (programs and services) fit together??* Do you feel like you're the best kept secret in town?* Have... |
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80/20 Landlording: Learn how to Increase your 80% & Decrease your 20
Sheamus Clarke - Night Hawk Systems
Format: Print book
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Introduction It usually takes a significant emotional event or epiphany to enable someone to make a permanent change. The authors of this book experienced such events that launched them into the world of Real Estate Investing. Sheamus Clarke was working for a privately held company when... |
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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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Duct Tape Selling: Think Like a Marketer-Sell Like a Superstar
John Jantsch - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Print book
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Many of the areas that salespeople struggle with these days have long been the domain of marketers, according to bestselling author John Jantsch. The traditional business model dictates that marketers own the message while sellers own the relationships. But now, Jantsch flips the usual... |
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8 Lessons in Military Leadership for Entrepreneurs
Robert T. Kiyosaki - Plata Publishing; 1st edition
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Robert Kiyosakis new book 8 Lessons in Leadership draws from his years at the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point and his service in the United Sates Marine Corps. With compelling stories and examples and a engaging way of comparing and contrasting two very different cultures and value... |
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Millennial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune
Patrick O'Shaughnessy - Palgrave MacMillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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Fact: the Millennial Generation will not be able to rely on pensions and social security in retirement. Instead, they will have to save and invest in the global stock market to meet their goals. When it comes to thinking about money, Millennials are, as a generation, different from their... |
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Lean Six Sigma For Dummies
John Morgan - For Dummies
Format: Print book
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Maximise the quality and efficiency of your organisation with Lean Six Sigma Are you looking to make your organisation more effective and productive? If you answered "yes," you need to change the way it thinks. Combining the leading improvement methods of Six Sigma and Lean, this... |
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Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism
Bartow J. Elmore - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing history of how Coke's insatiable thirst for natural resources shaped the company and reshaped the globe. How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction of mostly sugar, water, and caffeine? The easy answer is advertising, but the real formula... |
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The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness
Bari Tessler - Parallax Press
Format: Print book
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This is the book your money savvy best friend, therapist, and accountant would write if they could. It s the book about money for people who don t even want to think about money, until the arrival of that inevitable day when we all realize "we must come to terms with this thing called... |
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Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy
Stephen Moore - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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Fossil fuel energy is the lifeblood of the modern world. Before the Industrial Revolution, humanity depended on burning wood and candle wax. But with the ability to harness the energy in oil and other fossil fuels, quality of life and capacity for progress increased exponentially. Thanks... |
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Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why
Paul Tough - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success. Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Tough takes on a new set of pressing questions:... |
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Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior
Jonah Berger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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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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Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story
Alexandra Wolfe - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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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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Love Your Life, Not Theirs: 7 Money Habits for Living the Life You Want
Rachel Cruze - Ramsey Press
Format: Hardcover
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In Love Your Life, Not Theirs, Rachel Cruze shines a spotlight on the most damaging money habit we have: comparing ourselves to others. Then she unpacks seven essential money habits for living the life we really want--a life in line with our values, where we can afford the things... |
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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
Richard Branson - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola... |
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Inside the Investments of Warren Buffett: Twenty Cases
Yefei Lu - Columbia University Press
Format: Print book
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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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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
Brian Alexander - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds That Make a Business Great
Joel Peterson - Amacom
Format: Hardcover
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Trust is the glue that holds an organization together. It turns deflection into transparency, suspicion into empowerment, and conflict into creativity. With it, a tiny company like John Deere grew into a worldwide leader. Without it, a giant corporation like Enron toppled. In "The... |
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Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet
Mckay Jenkins - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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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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Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today
Ilana Gershon - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you'd call the company a week later to check in, but the basic approach was easy.... |
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Seven Keys to Successful Mentoring
E Wayne Hart - Center for Creative Leadership
Format: Book
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Mentoring is an intentional, developmental relationshiop in which a more experienced, more knowledgeable person nurtures the professional and personal life of a less experienced, less knowledgeable person. Both mentors and mentees realize many benefits from mentoring, as do organizations... |
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Tim Harford - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"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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JumpStart Your Growth: A 90-Day Improvement Plan
John C. Maxwell - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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John C. Maxwell helps readers maximize their potential with this 90-day guide based on his 1 New York Times bestseller, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth. Named Inc. magazines 1 most popular leadership expert in 2014, Maxwell delivers daily inspiration and practical advice for bringing... |
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Success Is the Only Option: The Art of Coaching Extreme Talent
John Calipari - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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Kentucky's charismatic coach shares the secrets of creating one of the premiere programs in college basketball, revealing how he transforms a group of former high school superstars into selfless, cohesive teams - including a remarkable squad last year that fell just one game short of a perfect... |
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Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
Amy Whitaker - HarperBusiness
Format: Print book
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An indispensable and inspiring guide to creativity in the workplace and beyond, drawing on art, psychology, science, sports, law, business, and technology to help you land big ideas in the practical world.Anyone from CEO to freelancer knows how hard it is to think big, let alone follow... |
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The Wealthy Renter: How to Choose Housing That Will Make You Rich
Alex Avery - Dundurn
Format: Print book
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Why be house poor when you can rent rich? "Why rent when you can buy?" More than any other, this phrase captures the overwhelmingly unanimous promotion of home ownership to Canadians. Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, family, friends, and even the government promote ownership... |
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Joan Garry's Guide to Nonprofit Leadership: Because Nonprofits Are Messy
Wiley. - Wiley
Format: Hardcover
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Nonprofit leadership is messy Nonprofits leaders are optimistic by nature. They believe with time, energy, smarts, strategy and sheer will, they can change the world. But as staff or board leader, you know nonprofits present unique challenges. Too many cooks, not enough money, an abundance... |
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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
William Burnett - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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#1 New York Times Bestseller At last, a book that shows you how to build - design - a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home - at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding... |
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Brand Media Strategy: Integrated Communications Planning in the Digital Era
Antony Young - Palgrave Macmillan; Second Edition, Revised, 2nd edition edition
Format: Book
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From YouTube to Facebook to the iPad, today's media landscape offers more tools and platforms for the savvy marketer than ever before. And with this rapidly evolving technology comes powerful ways to track what's working and what's not—and to ensure that you get the maximum... |
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The Wealth of Humans: Work in the Twenty-First Century
Ryan Avent - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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None of us has ever lived through a genuine industrial revolution. Until now. Digital technology is transforming every corner of the economy, fundamentally altering the way things are done, who does them, and what they earn for their efforts. In The Wealth of Humans, Economist... |
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Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace
Christine Lynne Porath - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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From the leading authority on workplace incivility, Christine Porath, shows why it pays to be civil, and reveals just how to enhance effectiveness in the workplace and beyond by mastering civility. Incivility is silently chipping away at people, organizations, and our economy. Slights,... |
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Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women
W Brad Johnson - Bibliomotion Inc
Format: Print book
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Increasingly, new employees and junior members of any profession are encouraged - sometimes stridently - to "find a mentor!" Four decades of research reveals that the effects of mentorship can be profound and enduring; strong mentoring relationships have the capacity to transform... |
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The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management
Eric Verzuh - Wiley, 2015.
Format: Print book
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The all-inclusive guide to exceptional project managementThe Fast Forward MBA in Project Management is the comprehensive guide to real-world project management methods, tools, and techniques. Practical, easy-to-use, and deeply thorough, this book gives you answers you need now. You'll... |
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