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101 Small Rules for a Big Job Search: New Guidelines for Today's Job Seeker

TONY BESHARA - Savio Republic
Format: Paperback

From America's #1 placement and recruitment specialist and the author of the successful Acing the Interview comes a set of simple rules to help you land a job in the 21st world of today's market. In 101 Small Rules for a Big Job Search, Tony Beshara, the employment expert Dr. Phil...
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That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

Marc Randolph - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph. Once upon a time, brick-and-mortar video stores were king. Late fees were ubiquitous, video-streaming unheard...
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Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

JOCKO WILLINK - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

FIND YOUR WILL, FIND YOUR DISCIPLINE--AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR FREEDOMJocko Willink's methods for success were born in the SEAL Teams, where he spent most of his adult life, enlisting after high school and rising through the ranks to become the commander of the most highly decorated special...
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The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg: Innovation, Money, and Politics

Eleanor Randolph - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

With unprecedented access, the veteran New York Times reporter and editorial writer who covered New York City and state politics offers a revealing portrait of one of the richest and famously private/public figures in the country. Business genius, inventor, innovator, publisher, philanthropist,...
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Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless CarAnd How It Will Reshape Our World

LAWRENCE D BURNS - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A deep dive into the race to develop and perfect the driverless car - an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone - by a veteran insider of the automotive and tech worldsIn Autonomy, former GM executive and current advisor to the Google...
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Megatech: Technology in 2050

Daniel Franklin - The Economist
Format: Paperback

In the not-too-distant future, we'll be plugging our brains into the internet, replacing our worn-out body parts, and eating meat grown in a lab. If we're lucky, we'll be living in a world of more productivity, more energy, and more equality - and if we're not, we'll be facing the profound...
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What to Do with Your Money When Crisis Hits: Your Emergency Go-To Survival Guide When Finances Get Tight

Michelle Singletary - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

There are always going to be unexpected financial crises in our lives. Whether we're facing an economic recession, a pandemic, a bear market, or energy worries, we have to immediately know what to do with our money. We start to ask: What bills need to be paid first? Should we dip into...
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Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

George Gilder - Gateway Editions
Format: Hardcover

"Google's algorithms assume the world's future is nothing more than the next moment in a random process. George Gilder shows how deep this assumption goes, what motivates people to make it, and why it's wrong: the future depends on human action." - Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal...
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The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business

Schwartz, Nelson D. - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times business reporter Nelson D. Schwartz comes a gripping investigation of how a virtual velvet rope divides Americans in every arena of life, creating a friction-free existence for those with money on one side and a Darwinian struggle for the middle class on the other...
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Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Katherine Eban - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale - The Jungle for pharmaceuticalsMany have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health...
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