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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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Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do
Eve Rodsky - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long--from a woman tapped by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine as the expert on this topic for a new generation of women.Eve Rodsky is changing society one marriage at a time... |
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Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
Condoleezza Rice - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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Political risk -- the chance that political action could impact a company's business -- is changing fast. Here are the essential lessons, corrective measures, and counterintuitive insights for executives, entrepreneurs and investors to navigate an uncertain, volatile world.From New York... |
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The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop it
Steven Clifford - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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The former top CEO examines the scandalous and corrupt reasons behind obscene pay packages for corporate executives - and explains how this hurts all of us--and how we can stop it. Today, the pay gap between chief executive officers of major U.S. firms and their workers is higher than ever... |
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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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The Gutsy Girl Handbook: Your Manifesto for Success
Kate White - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author, professional speaker, and former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, Kate White shares the nine core principles gutsy women need to go bigger, bolder, and achieve the full level of success they desire.Twenty-two years ago Kate White wrote the bestselling career bible Why Good... |
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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything
BJ Fogg Ph.D - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The world's leading expert on habit formation shows how you can have a happier, healthier life: by starting small. Myth: Change is hard. Reality: Change can be easy if you know the simple steps of Behavior Design. Myth: It's all about willpower. Reality: Willpower... |
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The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America
Oren Cass - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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"[Cass's] core principle -- a culture of respect for work of all kinds -- can help close the gap dividing the two Americas ... ." - William A. Galston, The Brookings Institution The American worker is in crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation. Reliance on welfare... |
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