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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know
Joanne Lipman - William Morrow Format: Hardcover
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First things first: There will be no man shaming in That's What She Said. A recent Harvard study found that corporate "diversity training" has actually made the gender gap worse - in part because it makes men feel demonized. Women, meanwhile, have been told closing the gender... |
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Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
JOSHUA B FREEMAN - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society.We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since... |
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From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs
Joshua Clark Davis - Columbia University Press Format: Hardcover
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In the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of storefronts -- including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers -- brought the work of the New Left, Black Power, feminism, environmentalism, and other movements into the marketplace. Through shared... |
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Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
DAN ARIELY - Harper Format: Hardcover
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Blending humor and behavioral economics, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational delves into the truly illogical world of personal finance to help people better understand why they make bad financial decisions, and gives them the knowledge they need to make better... |
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Leading from Purpose: Clarity and the Confidence to Act When It Matters Most
NICK CRAIG - Hachette Books Format: Hardcover
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Leadership guru, Fortune 500 consultant, and founder of the Authentic Leadership Institute, Nick Craig, brings to the page his enormously successful message and methods of purpose-driven leadership and provides a new framework for how we can lead ourselves and our teams to achieve our most... |
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Creativity Rules: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World
Tina Seelig - HarperOne Format: Paperback
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International bestselling author and Stanford University professor Tina Seelig adapts her wildly popular creativity course to a practical guide on how to put your best ideas into action.For the past fifteen years, Professor Tina Seelig has taught her Stanford students how to creatively... |
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How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
ALAN PELL CRAWFORD - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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An uproarious account of Mark Twain's endless attempts to strike it rich, all of which served only to empty his pockets Mark Twain's lifetime spans America's era of greatest economic growth. And Twain was an active, even giddy, participant in all the great booms and busts of his time, launching... |
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The Wealth of a Nation: A History of Trade Politics in America
Don Johnson - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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The United States is entering a period of profound uncertainty in the world political economy--an uncertainty which is threatening the liberal economic order that its own statesmen created at the end of the Second World War. The storm surrounding this threat has been ignited by an issue... |
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The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life
SHAWN ACHOR - Currency Format: Paperback
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Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we'll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow.... |
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Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age
MICHAEL CHERTOFF - Atlantic Monthly Press Format: Hardcover
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The most dangerous threat we -- individually and as a society and country -- face today is no longer military, but rather the increasingly pervasive exposure of our personal information; nothing undermines our freedom more than losing control of information about ourselves. And yet, as daily... |
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The Four: Or, How to Build a Trillion-Dollar Company
SCOTT GALLOWAY - Portfolio Format: Hardcover
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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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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
Gary Krist - Crown Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California - bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges - seemed destined... |
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Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business
KEN AULETTA - Penguin Press Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and profound reckoning with the changes buffeting the $2 trillion global advertising and marketing business from the perspective of its most powerful players, by the bestselling author of GoogledAdvertising and marketing touches on every corner of our lives, and is the invisible... |
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Find Your Why: A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You or Your Team
Simon Sinek - Portfolio Format: Paperback
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This paperback original workbook is the next step for applying the life-changing lessons of the mega-bestseller START WITH WHY, which has sold nearly a million copies worldwide.With START WITH WHY, Simon Sinek inspired a movement to build a world in which the vast majority of us can feel... |
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The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
David Pilling - Tim Duggan Books Format: Hardcover
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A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, set the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is the perceived health of the economy which... |
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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
Howard Markel - Pantheon Format: Hardcover
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From the much admired medical historian, author of An Anatomy of Addiction, the story of the two Kellogg brothers: one who became America's most beloved physician between the mid-nineteenth century and World War II, a best-selling author, lecturer and health magazine publisher who was read... |
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Influencer: Building Your Personal Brand in the Age of Social Media
BRITTANY HENNESSY - Citadel Format: Paperback
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"I highly advise anyone who has an interest in life online to get this book, sit down, and take notes because you're going to want to hear what Brittany has to say." -Iskra Lawrence, Aerie Model and Instagram star (@iskra) If you've ever scrolled through your Instagram... |
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Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
SCOTT ADAMS - Portfolio Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of Dilbert, an unflinching look at the strategies Donald Trump used to persuade voters to elect the most unconventional candidate in the history of the presidency, and how anyone can learn his methods for succeeding against long odds. Scott Adams - a trained hypnotist... |
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Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
Alexander Langlands - W. W. Norton & Company Format: Paperback
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"Hypnotic. ... [Langlands] begins to see not just the beauty of an object. ... but the deeper purpose for which each has been created." -- New York TimesFaced with an endless supply of mass-manufactured products, we find ourselves nostalgic for goods bearing the mark of authenticity... |
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The Travelers Summit: The Remarkable Sequel to The Traveler’s Gift
Andy Andrews - Thomas Nelson Format: Paperback
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The Travelers Summit explores the historically proven principles that have guided our greatest leaders for centuries, and how we might restore these principles in our own lives ... before its too late.Dave Ponder is back, and this time, the fate of civilization may be in his hands.Centuries... |
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Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights
David Kinley - Oxford University Press Format: Hardcover
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Finance governs almost every aspect of modern life. Every day, we use the financial system to mortgage our homes, to insure our health, to invest in our futures through education and pension funds, to feed and clothe ourselves, to be paid for our labor, and to help others in need. As the fuel... |
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Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers
Nicholas Smith - Crown Format: Hardcover
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A cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and American identityWhen the athletic shoe graduated from the beaches and croquet courts of the wealthy elite to streetwear ubiquity, its journey through the heart... |
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The Tyranny of Metrics
Jerry Z Muller - Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and governmentToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based... |
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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education
GEORGE ANDERS - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable... |
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The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
David Amerland - St. Martins Press Format: Hardcover
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The Sniper Mind from David Amerland is the first book to examine the learned skills necessary to become a sniper and teach readers how to apply those skills in business and in life.. Snipers are exceptional. The trained sniper is a complex fusion of hard skills such as weapons knowledge,... |
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Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
Rand Fishkin - Portfolio Format: Hardcover
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Rand Fishkin, the founder and former CEO of Moz, reveals how traditional Silicon Valley "wisdom" leads far too many startups astray, with the transparency and humor that his hundreds of thousands of blog readers have come to love.Everyone knows how a startup story is supposed... |
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Total Focus: Make Better Decisions Under Pressure
Brandon Webb - Portfolio Format: Hardcover
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A former Navy SEAL sniper turned media CEO and New York Times bestselling author teaches business leaders how to make the best decisions under pressure. Over his four deployments as a Navy SEAL sniper, Brandon Webb learned all about performing while experiencing heart-pounding... |
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Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
Geoff Mulgan - Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This "bigger mind" -- human and machine capabilities working together -- has the potential... |
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New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers
JOHN BUTMAN - Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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*Named a Best History Book of the Month by Barnes and Noble* Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive. Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed,... |
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Superconnector: Stop Networking and Start Building Business Relationships that Matter
SCOTT GERBER - Da Capo Lifelong Books Format: Hardcover
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Abandon the networking-for-networking's-sake mentality in favor of a more powerful and effective approach to creating and enhancing connections.Superconnectors are a new category of tradespeople born out of the social media era. They are highly valuable community-builders who make things... |
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
DANIEL H PINK - Riverhead Books Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerInstant Washington Post Bestseller"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street JournalDaniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive... |
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Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges
Joanna Barsh - McGraw-Hill Education Format: Hardcover
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Powerful, unvarnished advice for growing through the work challenges all aspiring leaders faceThe business world is full of catchphrases: follow your passion; think positive; be authentic; suck it up; take risks; network. All well-intentioned, but let's be honest. This inch-deep advice... |
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The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World
Nilofer Merchant - Viking Format: Hardcover
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"For any would-be activists who hear the voice: 'not me' or 'not now,' Merchant makes the strong case for 'yes you' and 'yes now' - and even shows you how to jump in." - Van Jones, host of CNN's The Messy Truth, author of Rebuild the Dream and The Green Collar... |
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Never Lose a Customer Again: Turn Any Sale into Lifelong Loyalty in 100 Days
Joey Coleman - Portfolio Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning speaker and business consultant Joey Coleman teaches audiences and companies all over the world how to turn a one-time purchaser into a lifelong customer.Coleman's theory of building customer loyalty isn't about focusing on marketing or closing the sale: It's about... |
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
Tim Harford - Riverhead Books Format: Hardcover
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A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy. Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what is the connection... |
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Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
Jonathan Haskel - Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, or software, than... |
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How to Fix the Future
ANDREW KEEN - Atlantic Monthly Press Format: Hardcover
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Former Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society. His 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur was critical in helping advance the conversation around the Internet, which has now morphed from a tool... |
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Cousins Maine Lobster: How One Food Truck Became a Multimillion-Dollar Business
Jim Tselikis - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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From the co-founders of the smash hit Cousins Maine Lobster food trucks comes a business book revealing to new entrepreneurs how the authors built their brand through integrity and authenticity.In early 2012, Jim Tselikis visited L.A. and met up with his cousin Sabin Lomac. Over a few drinks... |
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
DANIEL COYLE - Bantam Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code comes a book that unlocks the secrets of highly successful groups and provides tomorrow's leaders with the tools to build a cohesive, motivated culture. Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your... |
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Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work
TODD DAVIS - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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A practical guide for anyone looking to create a competitive advantage in any size and type of organization by building effective relationships - from the performance improvement experts at FranklinCovey.In Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships, FranklinCovey's... |
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The Geometry of Wealth: How To Shape A Life Of Money And Meaning
BRIAN PORTNOY - Harriman House Format: Paperback
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How does money figure into a happy life?In The Geometry of Wealth, behavioral finance expert Brian Portnoy delivers an inspired answer, building on the critical distinction between being rich and being wealthy. While one is an unsatisfying treadmill, the other is the ability to underwrite... |
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Quantum Negotiation: The Art of Getting What You Need
Stephan Mardyks - Wiley Format: Hardcover
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Master the art of getting what you need with a more collaborative approach to negotiation Quantum Negotiation is a handbook for getting what you need using a mindset and behaviors based on a refreshingly expansive perspective on negotiation. Rather that viewing every negotiation as an antagonistic... |
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A Cash-Free Society: Whether We Like It or Not
Kai A Olsen - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover
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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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Managing Up: How to Move up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss
MARY ABBAJAY - Wiley Format: Hardcover
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Build vital connections to accelerate your career success Managing Up is your guide to the most valuable 'soft skill' your career has ever seen. It's not about sucking up or brown-nosing; it's about figuring out who you are, who your boss is, and finding where you meet.... |
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Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success
Benjamin Hardy - Hachette Books Format: Hardcover
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If you're relying on willpower alone to help you lose weight, improve your relationships, or achieve more at work, you're doomed to fail. The environment around us is far too powerful, stimulating, addicting, and stressful to overcome by white knuckling. The only way to stop just surviving... |
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The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
PAUL VIGNA - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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From Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna, the authors of The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internet's Next Big Thing: The Blockchain.Big banks have grown bigger and more entrenched. Privacy exists only until the next hack. Credit card fraud is a fact of life. Many... |
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Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments
Michael Batnick - Bloomberg Press Format: Hardcover
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A Must-Read for Any Investor Looking to Maximize Their Chances of Success Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments explores the ways in which the biggest names have failed, and reveals the lessons learned that shaped more successful strategies going forward. Investing... |
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Six Billion Shoppers: The Companies Winning the Global E-Commerce Boom
Porter Erisman - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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An insightful, practical guide to e-commerce in emerging markets--and how to profit from their explosive boom.From China to India to Nigeria, e-commerce is entering a golden era in countries that were long left out of the e-commerce gold rush experienced in the West. If the story of the first... |
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The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
CHIP HEATH - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us - and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable... |
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
JESSE EISINGER - Simon & Schuster Format: Paperback
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, "a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission ... It is a book of superheroes" (San Francisco Review of Books) .Why were no bankers... |
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The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
Saifedean Ammous - Wiley Format: Hardcover
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The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking Saifedean Ammous Bitcoin is the newest technology for money - find out how it fits in the future Bitcoin is the digital age's novel, decentralized, and automated solution to the problem of money: accessible worldwide,... |
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INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Marty Cagan - Wiley Format: Hardcover
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How do today's most successful tech companies - Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently than the vast majority of tech... |
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The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do
Edward Tenner - Knopf Format: Hardcover
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A bold challenge to our obsession with efficiency--and a new understanding of how to benefit from the powerful potential of serendipityAlgorithms, multitasking, sharing economy, life hacks: our culture can't get enough of efficiency. One of the great promises of the Internet and big data... |
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When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You Want
Mike Lewis - Henry Holt and Co. Format: Hardcover
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An inspirational book that lays out the "Jump Curve" -- four steps to wholeheartedly pursuing the career of your dreams -- through experiences from a variety of people who have jumped and never looked backWhen Mike Lewis was twenty-four and working in a prestigious corporate job,... |
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Excuse Me: The Survival Guide to Modern Business Etiquette
Rosanne J Thomas - AMACOM Format: Hardcover
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"Both novice and experienced workers will find a wealth of business etiquette in a book that, instead of excusing bad behavior, could help prevent it from happening in the first place." -Foreword Reviews, 5 Star Review In today's workplace, good manners matter more than ever.... |
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Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days
Chris Guillebeau - Crown Business Format: Hardcover
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The author of the New York Times Bestseller THE $100 STARTUP shows how to launch a profitable side hustle in just 27 days. For some people, the thought of quitting their day job to pursue the entrepreneurial life is exhilarating. For many others, it's terrifying. After all, a stable job that... |
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Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times
Nancy F Koehn - Scribner Format: Hardcover
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From a brilliant historian at the Harvard Business School, here is a masterful, in-depth portrait of five extraordinary figures - Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson - that illuminates how great leaders are made in times of adversity... |
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The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
JAMES CRABTREE - Tim Duggan Books Format: Hardcover
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A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India's new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China's. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly... |
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The Energy Bus Field Guide
JON GORDON - Wiley Format: Paperback
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A Road Map for living and implementing the 10 Principles of The Energy Bus The Energy Bus Field Guide is your roadmap to fueling your life, work and team with positive energy. The international bestseller The Energy Bus has helped millions of people from around the world shift to a more... |
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How Luck Happens: Using the Science of Luck to Transform Work, Love, and Life
Janice Kaplan - Dutton Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Janice Kaplan examines the phenomenon of luck--and discovers the exciting ways you can grab opportunities and make luck for yourself every day. After spending a year researching and experiencing gratitude for The Gratitude Diaries, Janice... |
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Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
Condoleezza Rice - Twelve Format: Hardcover
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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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We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World
Mark Stevenson - The Overlook Press Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed futurist visits people around the world who are solving the planet's biggest problems by innovative means.Our systems are failing. Old models -- for education, healthcare and government, food production, energy supply -- are creaking under the weight of modern challenges. As the world's... |
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Breaking Bad Habits: Defy Industry Norms and Reinvigorate Your Business
Freek Vermeulen - Harvard Business School Press Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered why most newspapers are so large? Or why management consultants work such long hours? Or why hotels still insist on having check-in desks? Ask anyone in these industries, and their answer will be the same: "That's the way we've always done it. ""Best... |
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The Procrastination Economy: The Big Business of Downtime
Ethan Tussey - NYU Press Format: Hardcover
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How mobile devices make our in-between moments valuable to media companies while also providing a sense of control and connection In moments of downtime - waiting for a friend to arrive or commuting to work - we pull out our phones for a few minutes of distraction. Just as television reoriented... |
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The Rightand WrongStuff: How Brilliant Careers Are Made and Unmade
Carter Cast - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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Nearly a quarter century ago Carter Cast seemed to have it all together: he had a first-class education, an all-American athletic career, and was a very bright and energetic rising star on the fast track at a Fortune 100 company, PepsiCo. But blissfully unaware of how negative perceptions... |
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graeber - Simon & Schuster Audio Format: Hardcover
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From best-selling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs and their consequences.Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled... |
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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life
Lea Berman - Scribner Format: Hardcover
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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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Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great
Carmine Gallo - St. Martin's Press Format: Hardcover
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"As technology threatens to displace countless jobs and skills, the ability to communicate is becoming more important than ever. This book is full of examples to help you get better at transporting your thoughts and emotions into the minds of other people." -- Adam Grant, New... |
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The Power of Purpose: Inspire teams, engage customers, transform business
John O'Brien - FT Press Format: Paperback
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In a world where volatility is the new norm and change is a constant, the individuals and organisations that are flourishing are those with a clear sense of purpose based on authentic ethical values. Purpose is the secret ingredient - with purpose you have the key to exceptional performance,... |
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Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job
Jeffrey Bussgang - Harvard Business Review Press Format: Hardcover
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Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today's dynamic innovation economy, while freshly minted MBAs see magic in founding something new. Yes, startups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible.... |
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Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change
Morgan Simon - Nation Books Format: Hardcover
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Impact investment--the support of social and environmental projects with a financial return--has become a hot topic on the global stage; poised to eclipse traditional aid by ten times in the next decade. But the field is at a tipping point: Will impact investment empower millions of people... |
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Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions: Dispatches from the Working Class
J R Helton - Liveright Format: Hardcover
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Weaving the brackish humor of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club with the empathy of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed, J. R. Helton brings to life an obscured, all-too-often ignored slice of the American psyche in this unflinching memoir of blue-collar Texas.In the 1980s, somewhere... |
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Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied
HOWARD YU - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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How can companies achieve long-term success? Through learning to leap: building a system of reinvention into their organization that will stave off competition and keep them at the top of their industry.Outlasting competition is difficult. Doing so over decades or a century is nearly impossible.... |
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Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World
Nomi Prins - Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio Format: Audiobook
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A searing expos of the collusion between central bankers as they control global markets and dictate economic policy.The 2008 financial crisis unleashed a chain reaction that turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order. Central banks and institutions... |
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Type R: Transformative Resilience for Thriving in a Turbulent World
Ama Marston - PublicAffairs Format: Hardcover
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Forget Type As and Bs. The future lies with Type Rs-- the individuals, leaders, businesses, families and communities that turn challenges into opportunity in times of upheaval, crisis and change. In this thought provoking book Ama Marston, an internationally recognized strategist and thought... |
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The Emigrant Edge: How to Make It Big in America
Brian Buffini - Howard Books Format: Hardcover
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Brian Buffini, an Irish immigrant who went from rags to riches, shares his strategies for anyone who wants to achieve the American dream.Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Brian Buffini immigrated to San Diego, California at the age of nineteen with only ninety-two dollars in his pocket.... |
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Storynomics: Story-Driven Marketing in the Post-Advertising World
ROBERT MCKEE - Twelve Format: Hardcover
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Based on the hottest, most in-demand seminar offered by the legendary story master Robert McKee -- STORYNOMICS translates the lessons of storytelling in business into economic and leadership success. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'} p.p2 {margin:... |
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Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age
MILES YOUNG - Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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From Miles Young, worldwide non-executive chairman of Ogilvy & Mather, comes a sequel to David Ogilvy's bestselling advertising handbook featuring essential strategies for the digital age.In this must-have sequel to the bestselling Ogilvy On Advertising, Ogilvy chairman Miles... |
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Human Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
H James Wilson - Harvard Business Review Press Format: Hardcover
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AI is radically transforming business. Are you ready? Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now--in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time, and robots that respond to changes in their... |
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Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done
JON ACUFF - Portfolio Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff, a book for those who want relief from always starting and never being done.Jon Acuff, sought-after speaker and consultant, is the friend who always gives you great advice. With his self-depricating humor and charm, he has won over... |
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