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Zero Hour: Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage

Harry S Dent, Jr. - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Harry S. Dent Jr., bestselling author of The Demographic Cliff and The Sale of a Lifetime, predicted the populist wave that has driven the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump, and other recent shocks around the world. Now he returns with the definitive guide to protect your investments...
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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It

Larry Olmsted - Algonquin Books
Format: eBook

"Olmsted makes you insanely hungry and steaming mad--a must-read for anyone who cares deeply about the safety of our food and the welfare of our planet." - Steven Raichlen, author of the Barbecue! Bible series"The world is full of delicious, lovingly crafted foods that embody...
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Divorcing the House: A Guide to Understanding Your Options, the Pitfalls & Whether You Could-or Should-Keep Your Home in Divorce

Laurel Starks - Unhooked Books
Format: Print book

In divorce, deciding what to do with the house can become a source of strife, confusion, and financial ruin. Most are unprepared for the legal and financial ramifications about keeping or selling their home - their most important financial asset.Divorce is stressful enough by itself. In the midst...
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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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How to Get Money for College 2015

- Peterson's; 32 edition
Format: Book

How to Get Money for College is a great resource for anyone looking to supplement his or her federal financial aid package with aid from colleges and universities. This comprehensive directory points you to complete and accurate information on need-based and non-need gift aid, loans, work-study,...
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Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History

Barry Eichengreen - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When markets went...
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Social Security 101: From Medicare to Spousal Benefits, an Essential Primer on Government Retirement Aid

Alfred Mill - Adams Media
Format: Print book

A crash course in retirement benefits! Too often, writing about social security turns the noteworthy details of the benefits into boring details about regulations or biased political arguments that would put even a die-hard bureaucrat to sleep. Social Security 101 cuts out the tedious...
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Smart Mom, Rich Mom: How to Build Wealth While Raising a Family

Kimberly Palmer - American Management Association
Format: Print book

Of all life's financial shocks, few compare to bringing home an infant. Just one tiny person costs $250,000 to raise-- not including college! How will you pay for it? That agonizing question fuels mothers' choices about their careers, budgets, and families. Some lean in, some scale back...
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Edison

Edmund Morris - Random House
Format: Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history. Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only...
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American Huckster: How Chuck Blazer Got Rich From-and Sold Out-the Most Powerful Fiefdom in World Sports

Mary Papenfuss - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The first inside account of the international soccer scandal that rocked the world and the American at its center - the incredible story of how a stay-at-home New York soccer dad illegally made millions off the world's most powerful and corrupt sports organization and became an unlikely...
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The Common Sense Approach To Sell Real Estate: Bank More When Selling Your Property

Carl Slade - Restate Ltd
Format: Paperback

Banking the most from the sale of your property doesn't involve hype and it's not about gimmicks. It's about three things: Avoiding costly mistakes; Increasing your sale price; and Reducing your expenses. That's it. That's the secret. The biggest losses to sellers, are due to costly...
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The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

Scott Galloway - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet.Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there.Just about everyone is wrong.For all thats been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering...
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Your Best Health Care Now: Get Doctor Discounts, Save With Better Health Insurance, Find Affordable Prescriptions

Frank Lalli - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Inspired by his viral New York Times article, prize-winning investigative journalist Frank Lalli details how he mastered the ins and outs of health care - and how you, too, can get the best care for your money.Frank Lalli, the former editor of Money and George magazines,...
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People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent

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

A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy.We all have the sense that the American economy -- and its government -- tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation...
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Read the Face: Face Reading for Success in Your Career, Relationships, and Health

Eric Standop
Format: Hardcover


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The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America

David Rolf - The New Press
Format: Print book

The fight for a higher minimum wage has become the biggest national labor story in decades. Beginning in November 2012, strikes by fast food workers spread across the country, landing in Seattle in May 2013. Within a year, Seattle had adopted a $15 minimum wage - the highest in the United...
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J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2016: Your Complete Guide to Everything Deductible

Barbara Weltman - Wiley; 13 edition
Format: Print book

Advice on preparing a good tax return answers the question "What can I deduct?" with strategies and ideas to reduce payments to the minimum while keeping in compliance with the law.
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Everyday Millionaires: How Ordinary People Built Extraordinary Wealthand How You Can Too

Chris Hogan - Ramsey Press
Format: Hardcover

Everywhere we turn, we hear negative financial news - that the American Dream is dead or that the little man can't get ahead. Our culture feeds us the lie that it's impossible to become a millionaire in America today, but it's time you heard the truth. In his newest book, Everyday Millionaires:...
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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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Plan Your Estate

DENIS CLIFFORD - NOLO
Format: Paperback

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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Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

Rachel Hollis - Harpercollins Leadership
Format: Hardcover

"Hollis's writing is beautifully blunt, and she humbly thanks her fans for her success. Her actionable ideas and captivating voice will encourage women to believe in themselves." - Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "I believe we can change the world. But first, we've...
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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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Paying for College Without Going Broke, 2018 Edition

PRINCETON REVIEW. - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback

Take control of your college financial aid experience with this essential guide - the only annual guidebook with line-by-line instructions for completing the FAFSA and CSS PROFILE aid forms!The filing date for the FAFSA has moved up - and since many colleges disburse financial aid on a first-come,...
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100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask, Fourth Edition: With Answers from Top Brokers from Around the Country

ILYCE R GLINK - Three Rivers Press
Format: Paperback

From the most trusted name in real estate, a new and fully updated edition of the indispensable guide that helps first-time buyers land the home of their dreamsWhat does "location, location, location" really mean? How do I decide what to offer on a house? What exactly is the closing?Buying...
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Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money

Ken Honda - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

Ken Honda - Japan's #1 bestselling personal development guru - teaches you how to achieve peace of mind when it comes to money with this instant national bestseller. Too often, money is a source of fear, stress, and anger, often breaking apart relationships and even ruining lives. We like...
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Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World

Perrine Hervé-Gruyer - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Print book

The Bec Hellouin model for growing food, sequestering carbon, creating jobs, and increasing biodiversity without using fossil fuels When Charles and Perrine Herv-Gruyer set out to create their farm in an historic Normandy village, they had no idea just how much their lives would change....
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Barons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship

Steven Ujifusa - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades.There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into...
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Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity

Condoleezza Rice - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

Political risk -- the chance that political action could impact a company's business -- is changing fast. Here are the essential lessons, corrective measures, and counterintuitive insights for executives, entrepreneurs and investors to navigate an uncertain, volatile world.From New York...
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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges

James Martin Stone - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Print book

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality. America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable,...
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The Essential Bernie Sanders and His Vision for America

Jonathan Tasini - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Print book

Meet the essential Bernie Sanders -- an authentic and uncompromising champion of the people. Independent United States Senator Bernie Sanders -- with a thirty-five-year career in public service, first as Burlington, Vermont's mayor, then as Vermont's sole representative to Congress, and currently...
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Stephanie Land - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."While the gap between upper...
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Imperfect Courage: Live a Life of Purpose by Leaving Comfort and Going Scared

Jessica Honegger - WaterBrook
Format: Hardcover

The founder of the popular fair trade jewelry brand Noonday Collection shares her story of starting the rapid-growing business that impacts over 4,400 artisans in vulnerable communities across the globe and invites readers on a journey of transformation, challenging them to trade their...
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The Career Manifesto: Discover Your Calling and Create an Extraordinary Life

Mike Steib - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

An action-oriented guide to help anyone find their calling and achieve their goals, inspired by the author's popular blog post with the same titleThe Career Manifesto presents an inspiring and refreshingly simple approach to finding your passion and purpose and then jumpstarting...
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The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2019

Peter Sander - Adams Media
Format: Paperback

Updated for today's market, important and timely advice - based on a proven methodology - on which stocks you should invest in right now, in this edition of the 100 Best Stocks series. Even though the economy is in constant flux, there's still plenty of opportunity for smart investors...
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Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America

Bob Benmosche - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

In 2009, at the peak of the financial crisis, AIG - the American insurance behemoth - was sinking fast. It was the peg upon which the nation hung its ire and resentment during the financial crisis: the pinnacle of Wall Street arrogance and greed. When Bob Benmosche climbed aboard...
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The Grant Writing and Funding Coach: Target and Acquire the Funds You Need

DEBORAH GRIFFITHS - SELF COUNSEL PR
Format: Print book

The Grant and Fundraising Helper is a framework for you to present your project in a clear and confident style, establish a rapport with funders and succeed with your proposal. In this book, you'll find short narrative and budget summaries for your review and checklists for staying...
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Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful

Jean Chatzky - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover

Women have more money--and power--than ever before. So why are we still so conflicted, and unsure, of what or how to deal with it? Today show financial editor and bestselling author Jean Chatzky provides the much-needed answers in WOMEN WITH MONEY.Ask successful women what they want from...
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The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants

Jennifer Jewell - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

"An informative and celebratory resource." - BOOKLIST In this beautiful and empowering book, Jennifer Jewell - host of public radio's award-winning program and podcast Cultivating Place - introduces 75 inspiring women. Working in wide-reaching fields that include...
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Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

Rana Foroohar - Crown Business
Format: Print book

Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned - and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage...
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The Great Equalizer: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone

David Smick - Public Affairs
Format: Print book

The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick - hedge fund strategist and author of the 2008 bestseller...
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The Gourmet Butcher's Guide to Meat: How to Source it Ethically, Cut it Professionally, and Prepare it Properly

Cole Ward - Chelsea Green Publishing; Har/Com edition
Format: Book

Vermont-based master butcher Cole Ward delivers a comprehensive guide to whole-animal butchery that goes beyond conventional “do-it-yourself” books and takes readers inside the world of truly sustainable meat production. The Gourmet Butcher's Guide to Meat demystifies the process...
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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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How to Get Money for College 2018

PETERSON'S. - Peterson's

How to Get Money for College 2018 is a great resource for students looking to supplement their federal financial aid package with aid from colleges and universities. This comprehensive directory points students and their families to complete and accurate information on need-based and non-need...
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Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud

David Dayen - New Press
Format: Print book

In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history - a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions...
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Your Score: An Insider's Secrets to Understanding, Controlling, and Protecting Your Credit Score

ANTHONY DAVENPORT - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The most comprehensive insider's look at what every consumer needs to know about their credit score - and most importantly, how to fix it Like it or not, a healthy credit score is essential if you want to participate in today's financial world. But very few people actually understand how their...
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Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything

BJ Fogg Ph.D - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The world's leading expert on habit formation shows how you can have a happier, healthier life: by starting small. Myth: Change is hard. Reality: Change can be easy if you know the simple steps of Behavior Design. Myth: It's all about willpower. Reality: Willpower...
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The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss

Jeanne Yocum - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

Anyone who opts for self-employment quickly learns that succeeding as your own boss is no walk in the park. While professional freedom has many, many joys, it also involves significant risks. If you're considering self-employment, or you're already self-employed, The Self-Employment Survival...
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Purposeful Retirement: How to Bring Happiness and Meaning to Your Retirement

Hyrum W. Smith - Mango
Format: Paperback

#1 Amazon Best Seller! Retirement and good livingAre you getting ready to simplify life and move from the world of work to a life of retirement and good living to enter a happy retirementRetirement and good living: The author of Purposeful Retirement, Hyrum W. Smith, is one of the original...
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The Power of Zero, Revised and Updated: How to Get to the 0% Tax Bracket and Transform Your Retirement

David C McKnight - Currency
Format: Hardcover

An updated edition of the self-published book that sold more than 100,000 copies, with a new chapter on the 2018 tax cuts.There's a massive freight train bearing down on the average American investor, and it's coming in the form of higher taxes. The United States Government has made trillions...
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A Personal Guide to The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: What it Means For You

Susan Flax Posner - CCH Inc.
Format: Paperback

A Personal Guide to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: What It Means for You helps individual taxpayers understand how they can maximize the new tax benefits while at the same time minimize their liability. From the publisher of the award-winning U.S. Master Tax Guide, this consumer oriented title...
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Switchers: How Smart Professionals Change Careers -- and Seize Success

Dawn Marie Graham - AMACOM
Format: Hardcover

Don't settle . . . SUCCEED in the right career! Are you stuck in an unsatisfying job? In the wrong profession? An industry that just isn't a fit? Get unstuck! Land a new career - one you're genuinely passionate about. Switchers helps you realize that dream. Written by celebrated...
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The Best of Both Worlds: How Mothers Can Find Full-time Satisfaction in Part-time Work

Beth Brykman - Prometheus
Format: Print book

How can mothers bridge the gap between the worlds of "mom" and "career woman" to find work-life balance? By working part-time. This informative guide tells both stay-at-home and full-time working mothers how they can reengage or redefine their careers while still having...
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The Common Thread of Overcoming Adversity and Living Your Dreams

Jerry Gladstone - Morgan James
Format: Print book

Is it your turn to be a super achiever? Could you learn from the world's most successful people like Bill O'Reilly, Marc Cuban, Montel Williams, Sylvester Stallone, Snoop Dog, Gloria Gaynor, Randy Couture and others?
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The Storyteller's Secret: From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don't

Carmine Gallo - St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Format: Print book

How did a Venice Beach T-shirt vendor become television's most successful producer? How did an entrepreneur who started in a garage create the most iconic product launches in business history? How did a timid pastor's son overcome a paralyzing fear of public speaking to captivate sold-out...
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Finding and Funding Great Deals: The hands-on guide to acquiring real estate in any market.

Anson Young - BiggerPockets
Format: Paperback

Learning to find great deals is one of the hardest aspects of becoming a successful real estate investor. In Finding and Funding Great Deals, seasoned real estate agent and investor Anson Young guides you through his tried and true methods for finding deals in any market. Inside, he outlines...
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Internet Business Insights: Lessons Learned and Strategies Used by 101 Successful Internet-Based Entrepreneurs

Chris Naish - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback

Do you want to escape the drudgery of your 9 to 5 job?Discover proven steps to successful online entrepreneurship.Do you have an idea for an online company but don't know where to start? Are you struggling to make your current business turn a profit? Internet marketers and bestselling...
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The miracle morning : the not-so-obvious secret guaranteed to transform your life before 8AM

Hal Elrod - Hal Elrod International
Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats

[A message from Robert Kiyosaki, bestselling author of 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad'] "Hal Elrod is a genius and his book The Miracle Morning has been magical in my life. "I have been in the human potential / personal development movement since 1973, when I did my first EST training and saw a whole...
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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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Travel with Purpose: A Field Guide to Voluntourism

Jeff Blumenfeld - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

Imagine yourself in a schoolroom in one of the most remote regions of one of the most hard-to-reach countries on earth. Nepal. The Lower Mustang region to be exact. To reach it takes a 14-hour flight from New York to Doha, Qatar. Then four hours by air to Kathmandu. Transfer at one of the world's...
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A Cash-Free Society: Whether We Like It or Not

Kai A Olsen - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Information technology is changing the world through automation, by bypassing middlemen and by digitization. We see dramatic effects today in the music industry, going from CDs to streaming, in newspapers, from paper to online, and in the banking industry, from branch offices to the Internet....
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Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-first Century

Katherine S. Newman - Metropolitan Books
Format: Print book

From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational trainingAfter decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete...
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Change Is Good...You Go First: 21 Ways to Inspire Change

Mac Anderson - Simple Truths, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc.
Format: eBook

How does your team react to change? Do they dig in with their heels to resist it or do they welcome it with open arms?As leaders, we know that change is a fact of life and we need to learn to manage it before it manages us. A tall order? Not when you have the wisdom of two business icons,...
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Merchants of Truth: The Business of Facts and The Future of News

Jill Abramson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The definitive report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade. With the expert guidance of former Executive Editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson, we follow two legacy (The New York Times and The Washington Post) and two upstart...
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The Good Retirement Guide 2018: Everything You Need to Know About Health, Property, Investment, Leisure, Work, Pensions and Tax

Allan Esler Smith - Kogan Page
Format: Paperback

Whether it is a relaxing, action-packed or financially rewarding retirement you are looking for, this is the book for you. Revised and updated, The Good Retirement Guide 2018 is packed with hundreds of useful suggestions and insights into your retirement. In retirement, personal ambitions...
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Rock Retirement: A Simple Guide to Help You Take Control and be More Optimistic About the Future

ROGER WHITNEY - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Paperback

Rock Retirement offers inspirational advice on how to enjoy the journey to retirement to its fullest. Traditional retirement advice usually boils down to saving more, sacrificing more, and settling for less. This approach makes people dependent on systems outside their control, such as the market,...
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

MICHAEL LEWIS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments,...
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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 Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt

Robert I Sutton - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: NOOK Book(eBook)

If you're feeling stressed out, overtaxed, under-appreciated, bullied, or abused because you work with a jerk, learn how to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes - today. Equally useful and entertaining, The Asshole Survival Guide delivers a cogent and methodical game plan when you find...
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the Work of Management: A Daily Path to Sustainable Improvement

Jim Lancaster - Lean Enterprise Academy Ltd
Format: Hardcover

Author and CEO Jim Lancaster tells a practical and inspiring story on two levels. It's a close-up, candid look at his personal transformation as a leader. It's also a practical, in-depth, business case study of Lantech's lean transformation, relapse, and comeback that American...
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The Spender's Guide to Debt-Free Living: How a Spending Fast Helped Me Get from Broke to Badass in Record Time

Anna Newell Jones - William Morrow
Format: Print book

Popular blogger Anna Newell Jones of AndThenWeSaved.com delivers this self-help manifesto that reveals how a "spending fast" will help you get on the road to living debt-free.In 2009, young photographer Anna Newell Jones was rapidly suffocating under the weight of too much debt....
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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life

Lea Berman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message - everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well.Former White House social secretaries Lea Berman,...
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The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need

Andrew Tobias - Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

"The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need . . . actually lives up to its name." - Los Angeles Times "So full of tips and angles that only a booby or a billionaire could not benefit." - New York Times For nearly forty years, The Only Investment...
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The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money: Thirteen Ways to Right Your Financial Wrongs

Jill Schlesinger - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Why do even the smartest among us make dumb mistakes with our money? Pinpoint your biggest money blind spots and take control of your finances with these tools from CBS News Business Analyst and host of the nationally syndicated radio show Jill on Money, Jill Schlesinger.Do you have...
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The Soul of a Team: A Modern-Day Fable for Winning Teamwork

Tony Dungy - Tyndale Momentum
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mentor Leader and Quiet Strength comes a book sure to transform your team or organization!For most people, succeeding in life requires mastering the art of teamwork. Whether at work, school, church, or home, virtually...
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Retire Inspired: It's Not an Age, It's a Financial Number

Chris E Hogan - Ramsey Press
Format: Print book

When you hear the word retirement, you probably don't imagine yourself scrambling to pay your bills in your golden years. But for too many Americans, that's the fate that awaits unless they take steps now to plan for the future. Whether you're twenty-five and starting your first job or fifty-five...
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My Father's Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company

CAL TURNER - Center Street
Format: Hardcover

"This classic story told through the eyes of my friend Cal Jr. is instructive in almost every area of life. I simply could not put it down. Must-read!"-Dave Ramsey, bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio show hostThe first-person account of the family that changed...
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How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide

Jane Bryant Quinn - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Turn your retirement savings into a steady paycheck that will last for life with Jane Bryant Quinn's "'how to' book that covers every phase of retirement finance. Bottom line, anyone on the retirement track or in retirement should own this book" (Huffington Post) .Today,...
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The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores, and Rescuers

Kim Kavin - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book

We love them with all our hearts, but do we really know where our dogs came from? Kim Kavin, author of Little Boy Blue, reveals the complex network behind the $11 billion-a-year business of selling dogs. A must-read for the benefit of all dogs, everywhere. In what promises to become an "Omnivore's...
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The United States of Beer: A Regional History of the All-American Drink

Dane Huckelbridge - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

From the author of Bourbon, "the definitive history" (Sacramento Bee) , comes the rollicking and revealing story of beer in America, in the spirit of Salt or Cod.In The United States of Beer, Dane Huckelbridge, the author of Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit - a Southern...
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3 Things Successful People Do: The Road Map That Will Change Your Life

John C Maxwell - Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Format: Print book

You have the potential to become a success today. Success is a journey. If you know where you're going and how to get there, you are going to reach your destination. In fact, you already have. The single most fulfilling, game-changing state of mind a person can adopt is the notion...
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Big Fat Food Fraud: Confessions of a Health-Food Hustler

Jeff Scot Philips - Regan Arts
Format: Print book

Kitchen Confidential meets Fast Food Nation, a highly entertaining and illuminating insider's guide to the underbelly of the diet food industry.Why does the obesity rate in America keep climbing even though the weight-loss market is a $300 billion industry? With everyone throwing money...
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People Analytics For Dummies

LAURA WABER BEN FREEMAN - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Maximize performance with better dataDeveloping a successful workforce requires more than a gut check. Data can help guide your decisions on everything from where to seat a team to optimizing production processes to engaging with your employees in ways that ring true to them.People analytics...
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Shane Bauer - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana....
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How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job

Sally Helgesen - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Ready to take the next step in your career . . . but not sure what's holding you back? Read on. Leadership expert Sally Helgesen and bestselling leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith have trained thousands of high achievers--men and women--to reach even greater heights. Again and again, they...
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AARP Roadmap for the Rest of Your Life: Smart Choices About Money, Health, Work, Lifestyle ... and Pursuing Your Dreams

Bart Astor - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Solid solutions and step-by-step instructions for planning the next stage of your life Life after 50 isn t what it used to be. The rules have changed. No more guaranteed pensions, retiree health plans, or extensive leisure and travel. It s time to forge new paths and create innovative...
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55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life

Elizabeth White - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

For the millions of people in their fifties and sixties who find themselves out of work, unable to find a job, and financially incapable of retiring, here's a practical plan for getting past any blame or shame, overcoming denial, and finding a path to a new normal.Elizabeth White has an impressive...
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Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising: How to Access 1 Billion Potential Customers in 10 Minutes

PERRY MARSHALL - Entrepreneur Press
Format: Paperback

Now in its third edition, Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising delivers revised, expanded, and new chapters covering Facebook's newly released apps and services designed to target and monetize their 1.7 billion active users. Advertisers are then taken further than Facebook itself,...
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How to Write a Stellar Executive Resume: 50 Tips to Reaching Your Job Target

Brenda Bernstein - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback

How to Write a Stellar Executive Resume empowers readers to create an effective resume step-by-step, that will allow them to stand out from the crowd as a top candidate for an executive position. Brenda Bernstein, a Certified Executive Resume Master and senior editor at TheEssay Expert.com...
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Rich Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How to Survive Obamacare, Trump Wall Street, Kick-start Your Retirement, and Achieve Financial Success

Gerri Willis - Crown Forum
Format: Print book

In a fiery polemic on our personal finances, Gerri Willis, anchor and personal finance correspondent for Fox Business News, reveals how liberal policy has decimated our wallets. In Rich Is Not a Four-Letter Word, veteran financial journalist and pundit Gerri Willis takes on the progressive...
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On Fire: The

Naomi Klein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

#1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, makes the case for a Green New Deal - explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society.For more than twenty...
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails

YANIS VAROUFAKIS - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance minister and the author of the international bestseller Adults in the Room, pens a series of letters to his young daughter, educating her about the business, politics, and corruption...
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Drive!: Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age

Lawrence Goldstone - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of Birdmen comes a revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile, an illuminating and entertaining true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world. In 1900, the Automobile...
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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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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

Sebastian Mallaby - Penguin Press
Format: Print book

The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings...
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Retirement Reinvention: Make Your Next Act Your Best Act

Robin Ryan - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

Retirement has changed, and America's most trusted career counselor is here to guide you through your own Retirement Reinvention. "Robin Ryan is the most knowledgeable career expert in the nation today. "- PBS For twenty years, Robin Ryan has been helping clients get the most...
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The Rule: How I Beat the Odds in the Markets and in Lifeand How You Can Too

Larry Hite - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Hardcover

The empowering story of Larry Hite's unlikely rise to the top of the hedge fund world -- with critical insights and lessons you can take to the bank In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially...
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There is life after college.

Jeffrey Selingo - William Morrow
Format: Print book

From the bestselling author of College Unbound comes a hopeful, inspiring blueprint to help alleviate parents' anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation.Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today's college students are graduating...
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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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Debt-Free Degree: The Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your Kid Through College Without Student Loans

Anthony ONeal - Ramsey Press
Format: Hardcover

Every parent wants the best for their child. That's why they send them to college! But most parents struggle to pay for school and end up turning to student loans. That's why the majority of graduates walk away with $35,000 in student loan debt and no clue what that debt will really cost...
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55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life

Elizabeth White - Simon & Schuster
Format: eBook

For the millions of people in their fifties and sixties who find themselves out of work, unable to find a job, and financially incapable of retiring, here's a practical plan for getting past any blame or shame, overcoming denial, and finding a path to a new normal.Elizabeth White has an impressive...
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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

Douglas Rushkoff - Portfolio Penguin, 2016.
Format: Print book

Digital technology was supposed to usher in a new age of distributed prosperity, but so far it has been used to put industrial capitalism on steroids. It's not technology's fault, but that of an extractive, growth-driven, economic operating system that has reached the limits of its ability...
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