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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know

Joanne Lipman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

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

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

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

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

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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The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

ANDREW YANG - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

From entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the founder of Venture for America, an eye-opening look at how new technologies are erasing millions of jobs before our eyes-and a rallying cry for the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy. The shift toward...
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Creativity Rules: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and into the World

Tina Seelig - HarperOne
Format: Paperback

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

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

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 Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History

WILLIAM REMPEL - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

The rags-to-riches story of one of America's wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made billionaire Kirk Kerkorian - the daring aviator, movie mogul, risk-taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las Vegas and Hollywood to become one of the leading financiers in American business.Kerkorian...
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The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life

SHAWN ACHOR - Currency
Format: Paperback

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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Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

Satya Nadella - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

"At the core, Hit Refresh, is about us humans and the unique quality we call empathy, which will become ever more valuable in a world where the torrent of technology will disrupt the status quo like never before." - Satya Nadella from Hit Refresh"Satya has charted a course...
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Exploding Data: Reclaiming Our Cyber Security in the Digital Age

MICHAEL CHERTOFF - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

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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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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Believe It to Achieve It: Overcome Your Doubts, Let Go of the Past, and Unlock Your Full Potential

Brian Tracy - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Eat That Frog!, a motivational guide to using the Psychology of Achievement to banish negative thoughts and behaviors and unlock your full potential for success.Letting go of negative thoughts is one of the most important steps to living a successful, fulfilling...
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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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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles

Gary Krist - Crown
Format: Hardcover

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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Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too

Gary Vaynerchuk - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

Four-time New York Times bestselling author Gary Vaynerchuk offers new lessons and inspiration drawn from the experiences of dozens of influencers and entrepreneurs who rejected the predictable corporate path in favor of pursuing their dreams by building thriving businesses and extraordinary...
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Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business

KEN AULETTA - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

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

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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Invested: How Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger Taught Me to Master My Mind, My Emotions, and My Money

DANIELLE TOWN - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In this essential handbook - a blend of Rich Dad, Poor Dad and The Happiness Project - the co-host of the wildly popular InvestED podcast shares her yearlong journey learning to invest, as taught to her by her father, investor and bestselling author Phil Town.Growing up, the words finance,...
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The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

David Pilling - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover

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

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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What the CEO Wants You To Know, Expanded and Updated: How Your Company Really Works

Ram Charan - Currency
Format: Hardcover

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Influencer: Building Your Personal Brand in the Age of Social Media

BRITTANY HENNESSY - Citadel
Format: Paperback

"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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers

ALEX BANAYAN - Currency
Format: Hardcover

The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world's most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers.The Third Door takes readers on an unprecedented...
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New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers

JOHN BUTMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

*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

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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Friend of a Friend . . .: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Your Career

David Burkus - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

What if the advice we've all heard about networking was wrong? What if the best way to grow your network ISN'T by introducing yourself to strangers at cocktail parties, handing out business cards, or signing up for the latest online tool, but by developing a better understanding of the existing...
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

DANIEL H PINK - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

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

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

"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

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

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

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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You Get What You Pitch For: Control Any Situation, Create Fierce Agreement, and Get What You Want In Life

Anthony Sullivan - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover

TV's most popular pitchman reveals the secrets of pitching to get what you want in virtually any situation.Pitching is about persuasion: radiating positivity, controlling the situation, winning an audience's trust, creating "fierce agreement," and getting them to want to give...
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Leading With Emotional Courage: How to Have Hard Conversations, Create Accountability, And Inspire Action On Your Most Important Work

Peter Bregman - Wiley
Format: Hardcover

The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 18 Minutes unlocks the secrets of highly successful leaders and pinpoints the missing ingredient that makes all the difference You have the opportunity to lead: to show up with confidence, connected to others, and committed to a purpose in a way that...
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How to Fix the Future

ANDREW KEEN - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

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

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

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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Social Media for Business: Foolproof Tips to Help You Promote Your Business or Your Brand

Linda Coles - Wiley
Format: Paperback

The quick-and-easy guide to effective social media marketing Social Media for Business is the essential guide to navigating the social media maelstrom and effectively promoting your business online. You'll learn how to develop a simple marketing plan, use social media effectively and measure...
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Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work

TODD DAVIS - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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

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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The Sales Survival Handbook: Cold Calls, Commissions, and Caffeine Addiction--The Real Truth About Life in Sales

Ken Kupchik - AMACOM
Format: Paperback

Welcome to the world's oldest profession ... sales.Working in sales, you have the opportunity to make more money and drink more coffee than you ever thought possible! You also get these bonus benefits: customers who lie to your face, quotas that change as soon as you hit them, management...
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Quantum Negotiation: The Art of Getting What You Need

Stephan Mardyks - Wiley
Format: Hardcover

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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The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth

ERIC RIES - Currency
Format: Hardcover

Entrepreneur and bestselling author of The Lean Startup Eric Ries reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses ranging from established companies to early-stage startups to grow revenues, drive innovation, and emerge as truly modern organizations poised to take advantage...
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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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Managing Up: How to Move up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss

MARY ABBAJAY - Wiley
Format: Hardcover

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 CEO Next Door: The 4 Behaviors That Transform Ordinary People into World-Class Leaders

ELENA L BOTELHO - Currency
Format: Hardcover

Based on an indepth analysis of over 2,600 leaders drawn from a database of more than 17,000 CEOs and C-suite executives, as well 13,000 hours of interviews, and two decades of experience advising CEO's and executive boards, Elena L. Botelho and Kim R. Powell overturn the myths about what...
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The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do

Edward Tenner - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

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

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

"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

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

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

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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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

HANS ROSLING - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends -- what percentage of the world's population live in poverty; why the world's population is increasing; how many girls finish...
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The Energy Bus Field Guide

JON GORDON - Wiley
Format: Paperback

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

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

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

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

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

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 Code of Trust: An American Counterintelligence Expert's Five Rules to Lead and Succeed

CAMERON STAUTH - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Robin Dreeke is a 28-year veteran of federal service, including the United States Naval Academy, United States Marine Corps. He served most recently as a senior agent in the FBI, with 20 years of experience. He was, until recently, the head of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis...
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The Power of a Positive Team: Proven Principles and Practices that Make Great Teams Great

Jon Gordon - Wiley
Format: Hardcover

A book about teams to help teams become more positive, united and connected. Worldwide bestseller - the author of The Energy Bus and The Power of Positive Leadership shares the proven principles and practices that build great teams - and provides practical tools to help teams overcome...
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Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self

MANOUSH ZOMORODI - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Has your smartphone become your BFF? Do you feel bored when you're not checking Facebook or Instagram? Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self explains the connection between boredom and original thinking, and explores how we can harness...
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The Rightand WrongStuff: How Brilliant Careers Are Made and Unmade

Carter Cast - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

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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You Don't Have to Drive an Uber in Retirement: How to Maintain Your Lifestyle without Getting a Job or Cutting Corners

MARC LICHTENFELD - Wiley
Format: Hardcover

It's never too late to start planning for retirement You Don't Have to Drive an Uber in Retirement is a survival guide for your golden years, and a lifeline for those entering the Retirement Crisis unprepared. Roughly 45 percent of Americans have zero dollars saved for retirement...
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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover

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

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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Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World

Melissa A Schilling - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

From historical figures such as Marie Curie to contemporaries such as Steve Jobs, a handful of innovators have changed the world. What made them so spectacularly inventive? Melissa A. Schilling, one of the world's leading experts on innovation, looks at the lives of seven creative geniuses--Albert...
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Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great

Carmine Gallo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"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

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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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results

CY WAKEMAN - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Reality-Based Leadership rejects the current fad of "engaging" employees and the emotional drama of "meeting their needs"--returning leadership to leaders and productivity to businesses.For years now, leaders in almost every industry...
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Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job

Jeffrey Bussgang - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

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

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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Social Media Strategy: Marketing, Advertising, and Public Relations in the Consumer Revolution

Keith A Quesenberry - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

Social Media Strategy: Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations in the Consumer Revolution, Second Edition is a blueprint for the practice of marketing communications, advertising and public relations in a digital world where the consumer has taken control. The consumer revolution is not about...
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The Go-Giver Influencer: A Little Story About a Most Persuasive Idea (Go-Giver, Book 3)

Bob Burg - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling authors of The Go-Giver, Go-Givers Sell More, and The Go-Giver Leader comes another compelling parable about the paradox of getting ahead by placing other peoples interests first. The Go-Giver Influencer is a story about two young, ambitious businesspeople: Gillian...
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21 Secrets of Million-Dollar Sellers: America's Top Earners Reveal the Keys to Sales Success

Stephen J Harvill - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover

In this sharp, invigorating read, Fortune 50 consultant Stephen Harvill discovers twenty-one common behaviors of top earners across seven major industries that set them apart. These are the secrets of the world's best salespeople who rake in at least one million dollars a year.For over...
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Bad Jobs and Poor Decisions: Dispatches from the Working Class

J R Helton - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

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

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

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

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

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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Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking

Alice Echols - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

Shortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic - boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years - and launches into a fast-paced story that uncovers the dark secrets in Echols's family - an upside-down version of the building and loan story at the center...
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Storynomics: Story-Driven Marketing in the Post-Advertising World

ROBERT MCKEE - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

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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Climb: Taking Every Step with Conviction, Courage, and Calculated Risk to Achieve a Thriving Career and a Successful Life

MICHELLE GADSDEN-WILLIAMS - OpenLens
Format: Paperback

"In this memoir and guidebook, Gadsden-Williams interweaves the story of her life as a black female executive with research statistics and savvy career tips for minority women also seeking to occupy the 'C-Suite'...Always candid about the realities of corporate life, the author...
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The Transformational Consumer: Fuel a Lifelong Love Affair with Your Customers by Helping Them Get Healthier, Wealthier, and Wiser

Tara-Nicholle Nelson - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Hardcover

The Transformational ConsumerThey are the most valuable, least understood customers of our time. They buy over $4 trillion in life-improving products and services every year. If you serve their deeply human need to continually improve their lives, they will eagerly engage with your brand...
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Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age

MILES YOUNG - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

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

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

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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