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What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

Ben Horowitz - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good...
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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

Jason Fried - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today.In Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson introduced...
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

Tim Harford - Riverhead Books
Format: eBook

"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 the award-winning...
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The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

Robert B. Reich - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change.Millions of Americans have lost confidence in our political...
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Sustainability Made Simple: Small Changes for Big Impact

Rosaly Byrd - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

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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The Beginner's Guide to Grant Writing: Tips, Tools, & Templates to Write Winning Grants

Holly Rustick - Rustick Productions
Format: Paperback

Get Tips, Tools, & Templates to Win Grants! Grant writing shouldn't feel like a trip to the dentist. Take the pain out of the process with this innovative and fun, yes fun, guide. Learn all the inside tips and tools of the grant-writing trade in this easy-to-read and upbeat book.This...
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Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World

Robert M. Gates - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir, Duty, a candid, sweeping examination of power in all its manifestations, and how it has been exercised, for good and bad, by American presidents in the post-Cold War world.Since the end of the Cold...
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Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream

Sara Goldrick-Rab - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

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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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

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

For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land**A New York Post Must-Read Book, a Newsweek Best New Book, one of The Week's 20 Books to Read in 2017, one of Bustle's 16 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017**"A devastating...
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Difficult Conversations in a Week: A Teach Yourself Guide

Martin Manser - McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Sunday Why are conversations difficult?Monday Considering emotionsTuesday Listening wellWednesday Treating colleagues with respectThursday Preparing wellFriday Seeking changeSaturday Develop trusting relationships,
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