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How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

Stephen Witt - Viking
Format: Hardcover

* Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Named one of Time magazine's Best Books of 2015 So Far * A New York Times Editors' Choice * "[How Music Got Free] has the clear writing and brisk reportorial acumen of a Michael Lewis book."...
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Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most

Hendrie Weisinger - Crown Business
Format: Hardcover

Nobody performs better under pressure. Regardless of the task, pressure ruthlessly diminishes our judgment, decision-making, attention, dexterity, and performance in every professional and personal arena. In Performing Under Pressure, Drs. Hendrie Weisinger and J.P. Pawliw-Fry introduce...
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The Truth About Your Future: The Money Guide You Need Now, Later, and Much Later

RIC EDELMAN - SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author and legendary investment guru Ric Edelman reveals his forward-thinking guide on how technology and science will reshape the way we save, invest, and plan for the future.Technology and science are evolving at a blistering, almost incomprehensible...
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The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them

Joseph E. Stiglitz - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

How has America become the most unequal advanced country in the world, and what can we do about it?In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter America's growing problem. With...
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Video Marketing For Dummies

Kevin Daum - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Savvy advice for adding video to your marketing planVideo marketing is rapidly gaining popularity in online marketing and this fun-but-practical guide presents you with all aspects of video marketing from planning to production to distribution. You'll learn how to create a video strategy,...
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Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football

Gilbert M. Gaul - Viking
Format: Hardcover

"A penetrating examination of how the elite college football programs have become 'giant entertainment businesses that happened to do a little education on the side.'" - Mark Kram, The New York TimesTwo-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Gilbert M. Gaul offers a riveting...
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Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies

Jan Zimmerman - For Dummies; 3 edition
Format: Print book

A new edition of the bestselling social media marketing book Updated to include the latest information on engaging with your community, measuring your efforts, blending your social media with other online and offline marketing efforts, and leveraging data you collect into learning more...
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What to Do to Retire Successfully: Navigating Psychological, Financial and Lifestyle Hurdles

Martin B. Goldstein - New Horizon Press
Format: Print book

What to Do to Retire Successfully is an enlightening blend of actual retirement scenarios intermingled with healthy, practical advice from a respected neuropsychiatrist, who is a fellow retiree with a wonderfully optimistic glass-half-full philosophy on living a fulfilling retirement life....
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Your Own Terms: A Woman's Guide to Taking Charge of Any Negotiation

Yasmin Davidds - AMACOM/American Management Association
Format: Paperback

When it comes to negotiation, there is an ugly double standard. As women, if we make concessions to further a deal, we're viewed as weak. But if we play hard-ball, we can be seen as overly aggressive - and the strategy backfires. No wonder most women hate negotiating. In Your Own Terms,...
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

Richard H. Thaler - W. W. Norton & Company; First edition
Format: Hardcover

Get ready to change the way you think about economics.Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans -- predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle...
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Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis

Thomas Piketty - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

Reflections on politics, the economy, and the modern world by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Thomas Pikettys work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality, and that without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies...
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Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn

Stephen Fishman JD - NOLO; Twelfth Edition edition

Pay less to the IRS Completely updated for 2015 returns! For any home business, claiming all the tax deductions you are entitled to is essential to your business's financial success. Don't miss out on the many valuable deductions you can claim. Here, you'll find out how to deduct:...
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Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose

Melanne Verveer - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover

"Learn how some of the world's most powerful women are using their growing economic power to create success and meaning in their lives while building a better world. Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In ignited a conversation about women and their careers, and resonated with millions...
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Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned over a Beer or Two

Jim Koch - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

Founder of The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, and a key catalyst of the American craft beer revolution, Jim Koch offers his unique perspective when it comes to business, beer, and turning your passion into a successful company or career. In 1984, it looked like...
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Writing Resumes and Cover Letters For Dummies - Australia / NZ

Amanda McCarthy - For Dummies; 2nd Australian & New Zealand Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Practical tricks for standing out from the crowd and getting the job you want in the Australian and New Zealand market Applying for jobs in today's tight job market can seem like an overwhelming process. Competition is fierce and employers expect more than ever before from job applicants....
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Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown

Gerri Hirshey - Sarah Crichton Books ; Farrar
Format: Print book

A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural iconWhen Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation...
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Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

Charles Duhigg - Random House
Format: Print book

From the author of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon The Power of Habit comes a fascinating new book that explores the science of productivity, and why, in today's world, managing how you think - rather than what you think - can transform your life. A young...
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Why Wall Street Matters

William D Cohan - Random House
Format: Hardcover

A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible - albeit flawed - engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers should be held accountable for the financial...
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Getting the Job You Want After 50 For Dummies

Kerry Hannon - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Learn to: Showcase the value you have to offer a potential employer Perfect your rsum and interview skills Negotiate for what you want Snag your dream job in the age of social media Launch a whole new career or business Your guide to navigating today's workplace and snagging that...
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How to Make It: 25 Makers Share the Secrets to Building a Creative Business

Erin Austen Abbott - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

This is the ultimate tell-all, show-all guide to making a living by making things. Featuring 25 profiles of illustrators, jewelry designers, ceramicists, painters, clothing designers, and printmakers, How to Make It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily rituals and best practices...
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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

William Burnett - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

#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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Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together

Pamela Slim - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Paperback

These days it's increasingly rare to have a stable career in any field. More and more of us are blending big company jobs, startup gigs, freelance work, and volunteer side projects. We take chances to expand our knowledge, capabilities, and experience. But how do we make sense of that kind...
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Elisabeth Rosenthal - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller.At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems."Patients can save thousands of dollars by purchasing...
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Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People

Jane Bryant Quinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

The author of Making the Most of Your Money presents a clear and efficient guide to creating a sound financial plan that will virtually run itself. Quinn maintains readers only need a handful of simple, low-cost financial products and strategies.
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The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence

Dacher Keltner - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world.It is taken...
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A curious mind : the secret to a bigger life

Brian Grazer - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book

"From Academy Award-nominated producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed business journalist Charles Fishman comes a brilliantly entertaining peek into the weekly "curiosity conversations" that have inspired Grazer to create some of America's favorite and iconic movies and television...
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Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life

Michael Port - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover

An inspiring program full of essential advice for spotlight lovers and wallflowers alike that will teach readers how to bring any crowd to its feet Every day there are moments when you must persuade, inform, and motivate others effectively. Each of those moments requires you, in some way,...
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Real Estate Investing For Dummies

Eric Tyson - John Wiley & Sons; 3 edition
Format: Print book

Everything you need to confidently make real estate part of your investing plan Do you want to get involved in real estate investing, but arent quite sure where to start? Real Estate Investing For Dummies is your go-to resource for making sense of the subject, offering plain-English, step-by-step...
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Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

George A. Akerlof - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight,...
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Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

Anne Garrels - Farrar
Format: Print book

More than twenty years ago, the NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsk, a gritty military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow. The longtime home of the Soviet nuclear program, the Chelyabinsk region contained beautiful lakes, shuttered factories, mysterious...
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The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

Ryan Holiday - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

The Obstacle is the Way has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the world who apply its wisdom to become more successful at whatever they do. Its many fans include a former governor and movie star (Arnold Schwarzenegger) , a hip hop icon...
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Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

Joi Ito - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

Today, not only is everything digital getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, we also have the Internet. When these two revolutions-one in technology and the other in communications-joined, an explosive force was unleaded that changed the very nature of innovation....
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American Mojo: Lost and Found: Restoring our Middle Class Before the World Blows By

Peter D. Kiernan - Turner
Format: Hardcover

In American Mojo: Lost and Found, Peter D. Kiernan, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author, focuses on America's greatest challenge -- and opportunity -- restoring the middle class to its full promise and potential. Our educated, skilled, and motivated middle class was the cornerstone...
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Preparing for Baby: All the Legal, Financial, Tax, and Insurance Information New and Expectant Parents Need

Nihara K Choudhri - American Bar Association
Format: Print book

Preparing for Baby is a must-have resource for every new and expecting parent, a legal and financial version of What to Expect While You're Expecting. Often, parents don't have the time or energy to deal with important legal and financial matters -- like buying life insurance, learning...
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Bond Investing For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Russell Wild - For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

Your friendly guide to trading the bond and bond fund market Bonds and bond funds are among the safest and most reliable investments you can make to ensure an ample and dependable retirement income if you do it right! Bond Investing For Dummies helps you do just that, with clear explanations...
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101 Job Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again

James Reed - Plume
Format: Paperback

"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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Job Interviews For Dummies

Kennedy - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Deliver a show-stopping interview performance Does the thought of interviewing for a new job send shivers down your spine? It doesn't have to! Whether you're searching for your first job, changing careers, or looking for advancement in your current line of work, Job Interviews For Dummies...
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Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories

Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack - Sasquatch Books
Format: Print book

Geared toward women who are considering getting into tech, or those already in a tech job who want to take their career to the next level, this book combines practical career advice and inspiring personal stories from successful female tech professionals Brianna Wu (founder, Giant Spacekat)...
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Baseball Maverick: How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets

Steve Kettmann - Atlantic Monthly
Format: Hardcover

In 2010, the New York Mets were in trouble. One of baseball's most valuable franchises, they had recently suffered an embarrassing September collapse and two bitter losing seasons. Their GM had made costly mistakes. And their principle owners were embroiled in the largest financial...
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Cool: How the Brain's Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World

Steven Quartz - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover

If you have ever wondered why SUVs replaced minivans, how one rap song turned the cognac industry upside down, or what gives Levi's jeans their iconic allure, look no further-in Cool, Steven Quartz and Anette Asp finally explain the fascinating science behind unexpected trends and enduring...
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Trump's War: His Battle for America

MICHAEL SAVAGE - CENTER ST
Format: Print book

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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age

Sherry Turkle - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity - and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating....
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Works Well with Others: An Outsider's Guide to Shaking Hands, Shutting Up, Handling Jerks, and Other Crucial Skills in Business That No One Ever Teaches You

Ross McCammon - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover

Esquire editor and Entrepreneur etiquette columnist Ross McCammon delivers a funny and authoritative guide that provides the advice you really need to be confident and authentic at work, even when you have no idea what's going on. Ten years ago, before he got a job at Esquire magazine...
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Sales Presentations For Dummies

Julie Hansen - For Dummies
Format: Print book

Are your sales presentations stuck in the 20th century? Sales Presentations For Dummies rises to the challenge of guiding you through the process of engaging and persuading busy buyers in a world that's constantly bombarding them with sales pitches. Motivating today's buyers to pull...
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Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money: The Handbook of Financial Peace University

Dave Ramsey - Lampo Press
Format: Hardcover

Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money covers the A to Z of Dave's money teaching, including how to budget, save, dump debt, and invest. If you're looking for practical information to answer all your "How?" "What?" and "Why?" questions about money,...
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Double Bind: Women on Ambition

Robin Romm - Liveright
Format: Paperback

"Bold, absorbing, insightful, and wise. . . . Read it: the truth is inside." -- Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things "A work of courage and ferocious honesty" (Diana Abu-Jaber) , Double Bind could not come at a more urgent time. Even as major figures...
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Investing in Bonds For Dummies

Russell Wild - For Dummies a Wiley brand
Format: Print book

Change up your investment strategy. Diversify with bonds! Stock, bonds, mutual funds - are all of these elements really necessary in your investment portfolio? Yes! Investing in Bonds For Dummies introduces you to the world of bond investment - and equips you to diversify your portfolio...
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Becoming Facebook: The 10 Challenges That Defined the Company That's Disrupting the World

Mike Hoefflinger - AMACOM
Format: Print book

Facebook's founding is legend: In a Harvard dorm, wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg invented a new way to connect with friends...and the rest is history. But for the people who actually molded this great idea into a game-changing $300 billion company, the experience was far more tumultuous...
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Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies

Jan Zimmerman - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

The bestselling social media marketing book Marketing your business through social media isn't an option these days - it's absolutely imperative. In this new edition of the bestselling Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies, you'll get comprehensive, expert guidance on how to use the latest...
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The Sell: The Secrets of Selling Anything to Anyone

Fredrik Eklund - Avery Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

The nation's #1 real estate broker and star of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing New York shares his secrets for superstar success and getting what you want out of life - no matter who you are or what you do.Ten years ago, Fredrik Eklund moved to New York City from his native Sweden...
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A Colorful Way of Living: How to Be More, Create More, Do More the Vera Bradley Way

Barbara Bradley Baekgaard - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

From the co-founder of the Vera Bradley empire, a practical and inspiring book that shows women how to awaken their full potential, at any age."This place could use some color!" That's what Barbara Bradley said to her friend Pat during an airport layover. It was 1982 and all the women...
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Homemade for Sale: How to Set Up and Market a Food Business from Your Home Kitchen

Lisa Kivirist - New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback

Provides entrepreneurs with advice on all aspects of launching a home-based food business, covering product development and testing, marketing, structuring a business, managing regulations, and planning for the future. --Publisher's description.
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Refire! Don't Retire: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

Ken Blanchard - Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Refire! Don't Retire asks readers the all-important question: as you look at the years ahead, what can you do to make them satisfying and meaningful? Ken Blanchard and Morton Shaevitz point out that some people see their later years as a time to endure rather than as an exciting opportunity....
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J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2017: Your Complete Guide to Everything Deductible

Barbara Weltman - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book

The complete guide to all deductions and credits for individual taxpayers J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks shows you just how much money you can save on your taxes - legally - simply by taking advantage of what's out there. Millions of Americans overpay their taxes by billions...
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Life is Good: The Book

Bert Jacobs - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

From Life is Good founders and brothers Bert and John Jacobs, this inspiring book of wisdom celebrates the power of optimism: the driving force behind their beloved, socially conscious clothing and lifestyle brand, now worth more than $100 million.Following the chronology of their personal...
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways...
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Medicare For Dummies

Patricia Barry - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book

Make your way through the Medicare maze with help from For DummiesAmerica's baby boomers are now turning 65 at the rate of about 10,000 a day. Yet very few have any idea about how Medicare works, when they should sign up, or how the program fits in with other health insurance they...
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The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

BRIAN MERCHANT - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

We know the iPhone as the device that transformed our world, changing everything from how we talk to each other and do business, to how we exercise, travel, shop, and watch TV. But packed within its slim profile is the fascinating, untold story of scientific, technological, and business...
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our worldprovided we ask the right...
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Credit Repair: Make a Plan, Improve Your Credit, Avoid Scams

Robin Leonard J.D. - NOLO
Format: Paperback

When debts pile up, it can be impossible to see a way out. And in the meantime, the consequences pile up. Let the sensible strategies in Credit Repair help you take control, clean up your credit report, and live debt-free. assess your debt situation correct errors and improve your...
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Writing Well for Business Success: A Complete Guide to Style, Grammar, and Usage at Work

Sandra E. Lamb - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

A light-hearted but very useful guide to the ins and outs of business writing. So much of success in business depends on writing well. From resumes to reports, proposals to presentations, Writing Well for Business Success will help you communicate your ideas clearly, quickly and effectively....
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Mindful Work: How Meditation Is Changing Business from the Inside Out

David Gelles - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times reporter reveals what business leaders around the country are already discovering Meditation may be the key to fostering a happier, more productive workplace. For the past few years, mindfulness has begun to transform the American workplace. Many of our largest companies,...
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Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball

Keith Law - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Predictably Irrational meets Moneyball in ESPN veteran writer and statistical analyst Keith Law's iconoclastic look at the numbers game of baseball, proving why some of the most trusted stats are surprisingly wrong, explaining what numbers actually work, and exploring what the rise of Big Data...
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Rising Strong

Brené Brown - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending. Don't miss the hourlong Netflix special Bren Brown: The Call to Courage! Social scientist Bren Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage,...
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In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

Grace Bonney - Artisan
Format: Print book

New York Times Bestseller "I want to rip out every page of this glorious book and hang them on my wall so that I can be surrounded by these incredible women all day long." - Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern...
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Sex and the Office: Women, Men, and the Sex Partition That's Dividing the Workplace

Kim Elsesser - Skirt!
Format: Hardcover

Women are not to blame for their lack of advancement at work. Failure to lean in and greater responsibility for childcare don't fully explain why women are not reaching the top levels of many corporations. The truth is, many senior male executives are reluctant to have a one-on-one...
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The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power

Joseph Turow - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive consumer advertising and tracking, already pervasive online, are coming to a retail store near you By one expert's prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel about...
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The Etiquette Edge: Modern Manners for Business Success

Beverly Langford - Amacom
Format: Paperback

Intelligence, ambition, and skill will start you on the road to success, but without strong communications skills, social savvy, and a sense of appropriate behavior...you won't get far. "The Etiquette Edge "gives you a crash course on modern business manners. New advice explains...
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Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success

Stephen R Covey - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

From Stephen R. Covey - the late, legendary author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - a new set of rules for achieving a happy and fulfilling life of primary greatness.Many of us are hurting. We have chronic problems, dissatisfactions, and disappointments. Although we generally...
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Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day

John H. Johnson - Bibliomotion
Format: Print book

While everyone is talking about "big data," the truth is that understanding the "little data" (stock reports, newspaper headlines, weather forecasts, etc.) is what will help you make smarter decisions at work, at home, and in every aspect of your life.The average...
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The Best 295 Business Schools, 2016 Edition

Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Print book

Get the Inside Word on Business Schools.The Princeton Review surveyed over 22,000 students to collect the information in the 2016 edition of The Best 295 Business Schools. This book gives you survey-driven profiles of the nation's top business schools as well as detailed statistical...
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Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home

Joe Klein - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book

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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Janesville: An American Story

AMY GOLDSTEIN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Moving and magnificently well-researched...Janesville joins a growing family of books about the evisceration of the working class in the United States. What sets it apart is the sophistication of its storytelling and analysis." - The New York Times A Washington...
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What Your Financial Advisor Isn't Telling You: The 10 Essential Truths You Need to Know About Your Money

Liz Davidson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

A highly readable personal finance book that translates financial jargon and enables readers to ask the tough questions to protect their money and their financial well-being In today's unsettled financial markets, where most pension plans died out with the twentieth century and where no one's...
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How to Start a Home-based Car Detailing Business

Renny Doyle - Globe Pequot Press
Format: Paperback

Everything you need to know to run a profitable and satisfying car detailing business from your home
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Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids--and How to Break the Trance

Nicholas Kardaras - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

We've all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends' houses -- and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces -- the Glow Kids -- are multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence...
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Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

Frank Trentmann - Harpercollins, 2016.
Format: Print book

What we consume has become a central - perhaps the central - feature of modern life. Our economies live or die by spending, we increasingly define ourselves by our possessions, and this ever-richer lifestyle has had an extraordinary impact on our planet. How have we come to live with so much...
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On Inequality

Harry G. Frankfurt - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

Economic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time. Yet few would argue that inequality is a greater evil than poverty. The poor suffer because they don't have enough, not because others have more, and some have far too much. So why do many people appear to be more distressed...
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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

Tim Wu - Knopf
Format: Print book

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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Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace

Christine Lynne Porath - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

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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The Case Against Sugar

Gary Taubes - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

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

John Seabrook - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

There's a reason hit songs offer guilty pleasure -- they're designed that way.Over the last two decades a new type of hit song has emerged, one that is almost inescapably catchy. Pop songs have always had a "hook," but today's songs bristle with them: a hook every...
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What to Do When You're New: How to Be Comfortable, Confident, and Successful in New Situations

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

Have you ever felt nervous in new situations? Reluctant to introduce yourself? Afraid to ask questions? We all have. But if you let those worries stop you, you may miss out on real opportunity. Whether you're changing jobs, joining a group, or moving to a new city, putting yourself out there...
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Time Management Magic: How To Get More Done Every Day And Move From Surviving To Thriving

Lee Cockerell - Emerge Publishing LLC
Format: Hardcover

Executive Time Management Secrets from a Life at Disney... During Lee Cockerell's career at Disney as the Senior Operating Executive of Walt Disney World Resort, he led a team of 40,000 Cast Members (employees) and was responsible for the operations of 20 resort hotels, 4 theme parks,...
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Stuffocation: Why We've Had Enough of Stuff and Need Experience More Than Ever

James Wallman - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

Stuffocation is a movement manifesto for "experiential" living, a call to arms to stop accumulating stuff and start accumulating experiences, and a road map for a new way forward with the potential to transform our lives.Reject materialism. Embrace experientialism. Live more with...
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Stand Up to the IRS

Frederick W. Daily Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

IRS Bills? Get the information and strategies you need to deal with the taxman. Named a "Best Tax Book" by Entrepreneur.co The Internal Revenue Service can wreak havoc on your life. But now you can confront America's most intimidating government agency with confidence. Packed...
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A Truck Full of Money

Tracy Kidder - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

"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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Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance

John Kay - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention...
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Plan Your Estate

Denis Clifford - Nolo
Format: Print book

Turn to Plan Your Estate for straightforward, plain-English explanations of each of your estate-planning options, so you can make the best decisions for you and those you love. Attorney Denis Clifford shows you how to: avoid probate leave property through a will or trust use life insurance...
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The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute

Zac Bissonnette - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animalcraze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to BeanieBabies. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as ameans of speculation made creator...
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Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

The instant #1 NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerNamed a Hot Fall Read by USA Today, Vanity Fair, Newsday, O Magazine, the Seattle Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Mashable, Pop Sugar, and the San Antonio Express-NewsNamed a Best Book of the Year by Brainpickings and...
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Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties

Beth Kobliner - Touchstone
Format: Paperback

A completely revised and updated fourth edition of the New York Times bestseller, designed to guide younger adults through the world of personal finance.More than ever before, people in their twenties and thirties need help getting their financial lives in order. And who could blame...
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Rich Dad Poor Dad, Drive Daniel H. Pink, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, So Good They Can't Ignore You 4 Books Collection Set

Robert T. Kiyosaki - Plata Publishing/Canongate Books/Piatkus
Format: Paperback

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively: Rich Dad Poor Dad, Drive Daniel H. Pink, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, So Good They Can't Ignore You 4 Books Collection Set: Rich Dad Poor Dad: Rich...
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Investing in Your 20s & 30s For Dummies

Eric Tyson - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The easy way to make sense of investing when you're just starting out Today's 20- and 30-somethings have witnessed a miserable investment market during most, if not all, of their adult lives. But going forward, the opposite is more likely to be true. In order to build a retirement...
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The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse

Mohamed A El-Erian - Random House
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Dr. Mohamed A. El-Erian, one of the world's most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide, has written a roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis.Our...
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Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World

Joann S Lublin - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

More than 50 trailblazing executive women who broke the corporate glass ceiling offer inspiring and surprising insights and lessons in this essential, in-the-trenches career guide from Joann S. Lublin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and management news editor for The Wall Street Journal.Among...
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Players: The Story of Sports and Money, and the Visionaries Who Fought to Create a Revolution

Matthew Futterman - Simon and Schuster
Format: Print book

"The business of sports has been completely transformed over the course of my lifetime, and Players is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the beginnings of that revolution. I couldn't put it down." - Billy Beane The astonishing untold story of the people who transformed...
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Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big

Julia Pimsleur - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The essential guide for female entrepreneurs who want to "go big," which shows you how to turn that creative idea into a million-dollar-plus business.American women are starting businesses at nearly twice the rate that men are, but only three percent of female business owners...
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Get What's Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your Costs

Philip Moeller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

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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Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life

Amy Herman - HarperOne
Format: Paperback

"Sharp and original, this book should alter how readers look at the world. " - Kirkus "This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book will make you see the world more clearly than you ever have before. And that clarity will transform how you deal with the challenges and opportunities...
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Happy as a Dane: 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World

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

This international bestseller shows why the Danes are happy and how we can be, too.For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world's happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year...
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Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

Charles Eisenstein - EVOLVER EDITIONS; 1ST edition
Format: Paperback

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but...
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Power Your Happy: Work Hard, Play Nice & Build Your Dream Life

Lisa Sugar - Dutton
Format: Print book

Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home....
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The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

Matt Ridley - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy,...
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The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage

Daymond John - Crown Business
Format: Print book

The instant New York Times bestseller from Shark Tank star and Fubu Founder Daymond John on why starting a business on a limited budget can be an entrepreneur's greatest competitive advantage, showing how brands, companies, and start-ups can leverage the power of broke to achieve...
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The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture

Pamela Haag - Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: Hardcover

Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any other nation. Or so were told. In The Gunning...
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You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice

Tom Vanderbilt - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

"From the best-selling author of Traffic, a brilliant and entertaining exploration of our personal tastes--why we like the things we like, and what it says about us,"--NoveList.From the tangled underpinnings of our food taste to the complex dynamics of our playlists, our preferences...
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Ultimate Guide to Local Business Marketing

Perry S Marshall - Entrepreneur Media
Format: Print book

Google AdWords looks easy but proves to be hard. Local business marketing is tough because owners are besieged with phone calls, reps and solicitations promising "first page on Google," "Facebook traffic," "Social Media expertise" and myriads of advertising...
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A square meal : a culinary history of the Great Depression

Jane Ziegelman - Harper
Format: Print book

From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced - the Great Depression - and how it transformed America's culinary culture.The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts...
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The Crowdfunding Handbook: Raise Money for Your Small Business or Start-Up with Equity Funding Portals

Cliff Ennico - AMACOM
Format: Print book

Ever wish your company could raise capital the Kickstarter(R) way? Equity crowdfunding is finally here, opening new funding avenues for small businesses and start-ups. In April 2012, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups--or JOBS--Act into law. This groundbreaking...
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How To Start A Business In 27 Days: A Step-By-Step Guide That Anyone Can Use to Achieve Business Ownership

Bill Curtis - omniTHRIVE
Format: Print book

If you dream of starting and running a successful business but don't know how to start - this book will help you achieve that dream. You don't need a business degree to create a successful business. This valuable book is loaded with tips, strategies, and best practices you can rely...
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Grow Your Value: Living and Working to Your Full Potential

Mika Brzezinski - Weinstein Books
Format: Hardcover

A woman who wants to be successful must make sacrifices, but how can she determine which ones she'll be happy with five, ten, twenty years from now?Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe co-host and New York Times best-selling author of Knowing Your Value, has built a career on inspiring women...
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Working with Difficult People, Second Revised Edition: Handling the Ten Types of Problem People Without Losing Your Mind

Amy Cooper Hakim - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

A revised edition of the classic guide on how to best resolve conflict in today's technologically advanced workplace.Your work day is filled with them--people who frustrate, impede, maneuver, undermine, plot, connive, and whine. This indispensable guide details specific techniques for handling...
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American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper

Jacob S Hacker - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the groundbreaking author team behind the bestselling Winner-Take-All Politics, a timely and topical work that examines what's good for American business and what's good for Americans - and why those interests are misaligned.In Winner-Take-All Politics, Jacob S. Hacker...
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Stephen R. Covey - Simon & Schuster; Anniversary Edition edition
Format: Print book

One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for 25 years. It has transformed the lives of Presidents and CEOs, educators and parents - in short, millions of people of all ages and occupations.
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Avid Reader: A Life

Robert Gottlieb - Farrar
Format: Print book

A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred...
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A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service

Robert Michael Gates - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book

From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 best-selling memoir Duty, a characteristically direct, informed, and urgent assessment of why big institutions are failing us and how smart, committed leadership can effect real improvement regardless of scale. Across...
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The Science of Selling: Proven Strategies to Make Your Pitch, Influence Decisions, and Close the Deal

David Hoffeld - TarcherPerigee
Format: Print book

The Revolutionary Sales Approach Scientifically Proven to Dramatically Improve Your Sales and Business Success Did you know that nearly half of salespeople fail to meet their quotas every year? Or that many of the most common sales behaviors drive down sales performance? In today's...
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Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular

Derek Thompson - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

Nothing "goes viral." If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today's crowded media environment, you're missing the real story. Each blockbuster has a secret history - of power, influence, dark broadcasters, and passionate...
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How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide

Jane Bryant Quinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

"Jane Bryant Quinn is America's dean of personal finance ... .The book is a true treasure chest of financial secrets." - Forbes With How to Make Your Money Last, you will learn how to turn your retirement savings into a steady paycheck that will last for life.Today,...
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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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