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Your Water Footprint: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products

Stephen Leahy - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

The average American lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day. The numbers are shocking. Your Water Footprint reveals the true cost of our lifestyle. A water footprint is the amount of fresh water used to produce the goods and services we consume, including growing,...
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Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It

Steven Brill - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America's core values - meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even...
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Growth: A History and a Reckoning

Daniel Susskind - Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

A vivid account of the past, present, and future of economic growth, showing how and why we must continue to pursue it while responding to the challenges it creates.. Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence and made our lives far healthier...
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The Perennials: The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society

Mauro F. Guillén - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover

In today's world, the acceleration of megatrends -- increasing longevity and the explosion of technology among many others -- are transforming life as we now know it. In The Perennials, bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic...
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The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19

Joshua Gans
Format: Paperback

COVID-19 is caused by a virus. The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by a lack of good information. A pandemic is essentially an information problem: this is the enlightening and provocative idea at the heart of this book. If we solve the information problem, argues economist Joshua Gans, we can defeat...
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Stand Up to the IRS

Frederick W. Daily Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

The book the IRS doesn't want you to read The Internal Revenue Service can wreak havoc on your life. But now you can confront America's most intimidating government agency with confidence. Packed with practical information and advice, Stand Up to the IRS reveals the tactics of the IRS and how to deal...
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Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds. (The Stoic Virtues Series)

Ryan Holiday - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a life of self-discipline. In this much-anticipated third installment in the Stoic Virtues series, he argues for the necessity of doing what's right - even when it isn't easy. For the ancients,...
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Open Secret: The Global Banking Conspiracy That Swindled Investors Out of Billions

Erin Arvedlund - Portfolio Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

“Gaming the LIBOR—that is, fixing the price of money—had become just that: a game. Playing it was the price of admission to a club of men who socialized together, skied in Europe courtesy of brokers and expense accounts, and reaped million-dollar bonuses.”In the midst...
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Taxes For Dummies: 2024 Edition (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

Eric Tyson - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Cut your tax bill down to size with year-round tips and tricksTaxes For Dummies is the antidote to the annual headache that is the U.S. tax system. This book paves the way for you to file a return that maximizes all the deductions and credits available to you. It also provides insight on making...
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Stick Together: A Simple Lesson to Build a Stronger Team

Jon Gordon - Wiley; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author Jon Gordon and coauthor Kate Leavell, Stick Together delivers a crucial message about the power of belief, ownership, connection, love, inclusion, consistency, and hope. The authors guide individuals and teams on an inspiring journey to show them how to persevere...
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