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The Four: Or, How to Build a Trillion-Dollar Company

SCOTT GALLOWAY - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook are four of the most influential entities on the planet. Just about everyone knows how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that's been written about The Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering...
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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

James Kwak - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book

Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college...
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Grant Writing For Dummies

Beverly A Browning - John Wiley
Format: Print book

Discover enterprising ways to get grants Write compelling applications for grant funding Find budgets, sample letters and more online Find and win grant money Grant writing can be daunting, but this book gives you everything you need to get started with your application right away! This...
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Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It

Richard Reeves - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover

America is becoming a class-based society.It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent - especially the top 0.01 percent - and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important,...
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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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Diamonds

Ian Smillie - Polity; 1 edition
Format: Book

Diamonds are a multi-billion dollar business involving some of the world’s largest mining companies, a million and a half artisanal diggers, more than a million cutters and polishers and a huge retail jewellery sector. But behind the sparkle of the diamond lies a murkier story, in which...
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The Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America

Ahmed White - University of California Press
Format: Print book

In May 1937, seventy thousand workers walked off their jobs at four large steel companies known collectively as "Little Steel." The strikers sought to make the companies retreat from decades of antiunion repression, abide by the newly enacted federal labor law, and recognize their...
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The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

David S Abraham - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book, David S. Abraham unveils what rare metals are and why our electronic gadgets, the most powerful armies and indeed the fate of our planet depend on them. These metals have become...
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Investing in Your 20s & 30s For Dummies

Eric Tyson - For Dummies; 3rd edition
Format: Paperback

Investing in your 20s & 30s For Dummies, 3rd Edition will provide emerging professionals with the targeted investment advice they need to establish their own unique investment style. Covering everything from the latest tax laws to new and popular investing funds, this latest edition...
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Property Management Kit For Dummies

Robert S. Griswold - John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format: Paperback

Discover how to be a landlord with ease Thinking about becoming a landlord? Property Management Kit For Dummies gives you proven strategies for establishing and maintaining rental properties, whether a single family or multi-resident unit. You'll find out how to prepare and promote...
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