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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory Zuckerman - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardJim Simons... |
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Finding the Space to Lead: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership
Janice Marturano - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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The complexity and relentless pace of our world places exceptional demands on leaders today. They work incredibly hard and yet feel that they are not meeting their own expectations of excellence. They feel disconnected from their own values and overburdened. By the thousands, they seek... |
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Everyone's a Critic: The Ultimate Cartoon Book
Bob Eckstein - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Hardcover
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We are all critics now. From social media "likes" to reviews on Yelp and Rotten Tomatoes, we're constantly asked to give our opinion and offer feedback. Everyone's a Critic is a curated collection of the best and brightest New Yorker cartoonists celebrating the art of the drawn... |
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Goliath: How Monopolies Secretly Took Over the World
Matt Stoller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A startling look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism transformed American politics, resulting in the emergence of populism and authoritarianism, the fall of the Democratic Party - while also providing the steps needed to create a new democracy.Americans once had a coherent... |
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Create Your Own Online Store in a Weekend
Alannah Moore - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Paperback
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The advantages of selling your products online are many - low overhead, global markets, twenty-four-hour shopping - but perhaps most important is the level playing field offered by the internet. With a distinctive product and professional-looking website, you stand as much of a chance at success... |
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Truffle Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground
Ian Purkayastha - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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"[Ian Purkayastha] has a true, deep expertise in everything he sells--caviar, truffles, fish. He knows the stories that we need to sell the stuff tableside . . . he can disrupt the entire luxury foods market." ---From the Foreword by David Chang Ian Purkayastha is New York City's... |
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Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
Rosabeth Moss Kanter - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"America has been waiting for a call to think big and act big as we envision our transportation future. Kanter's important book is it." -- Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts, 2007 -- 2015Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays... |
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What If It Does Work Out?: How a Side Hustle Can Change Your Life
Susie Moore - Ixia Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Susie Moore is a powerhouse ... highly energetic, positive, generous and creative." - Bruce Littlefield, New York Times bestselling authorThink about that hobby, that talent, which you joyfully engage in outside of your day job. Do you want to start transforming that... |
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The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge
Vijay Govindarajan - Harvard Business Review Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Companies can’t survive without innovating. But most put far more emphasis on generating Big Ideas than on executing them—turning ideas into actual breakthrough products, services, and process improvements.That’s because “ideating” is energizing and glamorous.... |
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The Career Manifesto: Discover Your Calling and Create an Extraordinary Life
Mike Steib - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover
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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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Set for Life: Dominate Life, Money, and the American Dream.
Scott Trench - BiggerPockets
Format: Hardcover
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Set yourself up for life as early as possible and enjoy life on your terms! Are you tied to a nine-to-five workweek? Do you work hard making someone else rich? Are you financially free -- the sort of free that ensures you spend the best part of your day and week, and the best years of your... |
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Flipping Houses For Dummies
Ralph R. Roberts - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Not just another house flipping book You can find plenty of books about flipping houses that claim "anyone can do it." Flipping Houses For Dummies takes a different approach - honesty. We don't claim that flipping houses is "easy" or "simple" or "risk-free,"... |
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Transforming the Clunky Organization: Pragmatic Leadership Skills for Breaking Inertia
Samuel B Bacharach - Cornell Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Organizations, like people, get stuck! They get ensnared in routines and processes, and they fall back into old habits. This is the dangerous period of inertia, the period that precedes failure, when organizations show signs of sluggishness.In Transforming the Clunky Organization Samuel... |
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Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of Josh Harris and The Great Dotcom Swindle
Andrew Smith - Grove Press, Black Cat
Format: Paperback
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From award-winning journalist Andrew Smith, the never before told story of the late 1990s dot-com bubble, its tumultuous crash, and the rise and fall of the visionary pioneer at its epicenter. One morning in February 2001, internet entrepreneur Josh Harris woke to certain knowledge that... |
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Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government
Paul Volcker - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point.Paul Volcker has devoted his life's work to public service... |
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Cryptocurrency Investing For Dummies
Kiana Danial - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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The ultimate guide to the world of cryptocurrencies! While the cryptocurrency market is known for its volatility - and this volatility is often linked to the ever-changing regulatory environment of the industry - the entire cryptocurrency market is expected to reach a total value of $1 trillion... |
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Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences
Jane Hyun - Harper Business
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned executive coaches and global leadership strategists Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee offer lessons on the vital skill of "Flexing" - the art of switching leadership styles to more effectively lead people who are different from you, allowing managers to successfully manage... |
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Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
Ben Mezrich - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, comes Bitcoin Billionaires--the fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's big bet on crypto-currency and its dazzling pay-off.... |
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Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
RYAN HOLIDAY - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Janet Malcolm's THE JOURNALIST AND THE MURDERER and Robert Greene's THE 48 LAWS OF POWER, author Ryan Holiday examines the case that rocked the media world--and the billionaire mastermind behind itIn 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical... |
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A Truck Full of Money
Tracy Kidder - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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"A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture." - Charles Duhigg Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy - the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul... |
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Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive
Ned Hallowell - Harvard Bus Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Are you driven to distraction at work?Bestselling author Edward M. Hallowell, MD, the world's leading expert on ADD and ADHD, has set his sights on a new goal: helping people feel more in control and productive at work.You know the feeling: you can't focus; you feel increasingly... |
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The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them
Todd G Buchholz - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this bold history and manifesto, a former White House director of economic policy exposes the economic, political, and cultural cracks that wealthy nations face and makes the case for transforming those same vulnerabilities into sources of strength - and the foundation of a national... |
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Business Writing For Dummies
Natalie Canavor - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Business writing that gets results The ability to write well is a key part of your professional success. From reports and presentations to emails and Facebook posts, whether you're a marketer, customer service rep, or manager, being able to write clearly and for the right audience is critical... |
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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
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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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Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
John Brooks - Open Road Media
Format: Paperback
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"Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever read." - Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric... |
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Janesville: An American Story
AMY GOLDSTEIN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Moving and magnificently well-researched...Janesville joins a growing family of books about the evisceration of the working class in the United States. What sets it apart is the sophistication of its storytelling and analysis." - The New York Times A Washington... |
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Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World
Joann S Lublin - HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook
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More than 50 trailblazing executive women who broke the corporate glass ceiling offer inspiring and surprising insights and lessons in this essential, in-the-trenches career guide from Joann S. Lublin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and management news editor for The Wall Street Journal.Among... |
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Climbing the Hill: How to Build a Career in Politics and Make a Difference
Jaime R Harrison - Ten Speed Press
Format: Paperback
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Inspiring, nonpartisan insider's advice on how anyone can build a career in local, state, and national government, from two rising stars in Washington government and policy. This inspiring, nonpartisan guide, written by longtime staff members of Republican and Democratic house leadership... |
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YouTube Marketing For Dummies
Will Eagle - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Advice from a YouTube insider on how to creative effective campaignsYouTube is the top destination for online video. With over a billion viewers around the globe, its also valuable real estate for marketers looking to get their message out. YouTube Marketing For Dummies shares insight from... |
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Making work work : the positivity solution for any work environment
Shola Richards - Sterling Ethos
Format: Print book
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Is your office a place of soul-destroying negativity? Shola Richards keynote speaker, award winner, and creator of The Positivity Solution blog is about to change that . . . forever. " My mission was clear: I needed to fix the problems facing the workplace. As quickly as I came up with... |
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What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From Blackstone chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman's life to show readers how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations. Whether you are a student, entrepreneur, philanthropist, executive, or simply... |
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101 Job Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again
James Reed - Plume
Format: Paperback
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"An insider's guide to the perfect interview." - Daily Express What are job interviewers actually looking for in a candidate What questions will they ask What does each question really mean What are the answers that will secure you the job James Reed, chairman... |
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LinkedIn For Dummies
JOEL ELAD - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Make LinkedIn your number one professional branding tool LinkedIn is the premiere social network for professionals looking to discover new opportunities, enhance personal branding, connect with other professionals, and make career advancements. With LinkedIn For Dummies, you'll have... |
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Upstream: The Quest to Stop Problems Before They Happen
Heath, Dan - SIMON & SCHUSTER
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New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath examines how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from his innovative behavior research, as well as hundreds of new interviews with unconventional problem solvers. Most of us spend our days handling a deluge of pressing... |
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That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
Marc Randolph - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph. Once upon a time, brick-and-mortar video stores were king. Late fees were ubiquitous, video-streaming unheard... |
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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu - Knopf
Format: Print book
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From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch and who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--a revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and our selves. Attention merchant: an industrial-scale... |
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Accounting All-in-One For Dummies, with Online Practice
JOSEPH KRAYNAK - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Your all-in-one accounting resource If you're a numbers person, it's your lucky day! Accounting jobs are on the rise - in fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a faster-than-average growth rate of 11% in the industry through 2024. So, if you're seeking long-term job security... |
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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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Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships in a Hyper-Connected World
Kelly Hoey - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Cut through the networking noise and start building the powerful, real relationships needed to succeed in our digital world If you think of networking as schmoozing at boring cocktail parties or scrolling through LinkedIn for new contacts to add, think again. In the social media age, you need... |
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Economic Dignity
Gene Sperling - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From one of our wisest and most influential economic thinkers, the only person to serve as Director of the National Economic Council under two Presidents, a profound big-picture vision of why the promotion of dignity should be the singular end goal by which we chart America's economic... |
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Everyone's a Critic: Winning Customers in a Review-Driven World
Bill Tancer - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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More than of customers consult online reviews and take them very seriously A disgruntled customer on Yelp might have more clout than a guidebook magazine or newspaper This review-driven marketplace terrifies many businesses But some have learnt to navigate and profit from customer reviews... |
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Shane Bauer - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Skills: From First Job to Dream JobWhat Every Woman Needs to Know
Mishal Husain - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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Acclaimed BBC anchor, Mishal Husain, inspires, champions, and encourages women to make their ambitions a reality by focusing on practical skills they can use throughout their careers, whether they are new graduates, working mothers, re-entering the workforce, or simply seeking a career... |
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On Fire: The 7 Choices to Ignite a Radically Inspired Life
John O'Leary - North Star Way
Format: Print book
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In the bestselling tradition of Brene Brown's Daring Greatly and Nick Vujicic's Life Without Limits comes a rousing 7-step plan for living a life on fire, filled with hope and possibility - from an inspirational speaker who survived a near-fatal fire at the age of nine and now runs... |
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Capital offenses : business crime and punishment in americas corporate age
Samuel Buell - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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From the lead prosecutor on the Enron investigation, an eye-opening examination of the explosion of American white-collar crime.If "corporations are people too," why isn't anyone in jail?A serious defect in a GM car causes accidents; Enron scams investors out of their money; banks... |
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Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
David G. Blanchflower - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A candid assessment of why the job market is not as healthy as we thinkDon't trust low unemployment numbers as proof that the labor market is doing fine--it isn't. Not Working is about those who can't find full-time work at a decent wage--the underemployed--and how their plight is contributing... |
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Why We're Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding
Bobby Duffy - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A leading social researcher explains why humans so consistently misunderstand the outside world How often are women harassed? What percentage of the population are immigrants? How bad is unemployment? These questions are important, but most of us get the answers wrong. Research shows that... |
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Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits through Gender-Balanced Leadership
Melissa Greenwell - Greenleaf Book Group Press
Format: Print book
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If our executive suites and boardrooms aren't gender-balanced, we're throwing money away! The shortage of women in boardrooms and executive suites means companies are missing out on the best solutions, products, and services - and on having the type of workplace that will attract the best... |
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Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School
Andrew Hallam - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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Adopt the investment strategy that turned a school teacher into a millionaire Millionaire Teacher shows you how to achieve financial independence through smart investing - without being a financial wizard. Author Andrew Hallam was a high school English teacher. He became a debt-free millionaire... |
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Your Turn: Careers, Kids, and Comebacks--A Working Mothers Guide
Jennifer Gefsky - Harper Business
Format: Hardcover
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Your Turn is the career coach that todays working women need to own their career ambition motherhood path. There are more than fifteen million employed women with children under the age of eighteen in the United States who find themselves smack in the "Messy Middle," where job opportunity... |
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When Buyers Say No: Essential Strategies for Keeping a Sale Moving Forward
Tom Hopkins - Business Plus, 2014.
Format: Print book
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This is a complete and practical guide which highlights the authors' new strategic approaches to selling when the buyer initially declines or is resistant on a sales opportunity. Hopkins and Katt explain that most sales reps take a traditional linear approach to selling, but that the trick... |
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Safe and Secure: 10 Essential Steps for Seniors to Protect Against Financial Abuse
Fran Tarkenton - Regnery Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Thieves and scammers are on the prowl for easy targets who have significant exposed assets - and if you're a senior citizen who saved for retirement, you may be the perfect mark. Fran Tarkenton, the NFL Hall of Fame quarterback who became a succesful entrepreneur, has partnered with certified... |
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Happy Go Money: Spend Smart, Save Right and Enjoy Life
Melissa Leong - ECW Press
Format: Paperback
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The Social's finance expert connects money and happiness in this fresh, feel-good guide to financial well-being. Everything tells us that what will make us happy can be bought, whether it's the latest gadgets, renovated kitchens, or luxury goods. But research has shown that having... |
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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Ryan Holiday - Portfolio
Format: Print book
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A beautifully packaged daily devotional of Stoic wisdom, featuring new translations of the most celebrated Stoics with historical context and practical tips from bestselling author Ryan Holiday.Stoic philosophy has long been the secret weapon of history's greatest and wisest leaders--from... |
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All Ships Follow Me: A Family Memoir of War Across Three Continents
Mieke Eerkens - Picador
Format: Hardcover
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An engrossing, epic saga of one family's experiences on both sides of WWII, All Ships Follow Me questions our common narrative of the conflict and our stark notions of victim and perpetrator, while tracing the lasting effects of war through several generations.In March 1942, Mieke Eerkens'... |
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Mastering Memory: Techniques to Turn Your Brain from a Sieve to a Sponge
Chester Santos - Puzzlewright
Format: Paperback
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Improve your memory immediately, using these proven techniques taught by a former US National Memory Champion. Names. Addresses. Where you left your keys. What would you like to remember? Mastering Memory can help! Chester Santos, the 2008 US National Memory Champion and one of the foremost... |
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Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg - Random House
Format: Print book
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling phenomenon The Power of Habit comes a fascinating new book that explores the science of productivity, and why, in today's world, managing how you think - rather than what you think - can transform your life. A young... |
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Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
JENNIFER PALMIERI - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling volume of inspiring advice by the former communications director for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Framed as an empowering letter from former Hillary Clinton Communications Director... |
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Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
Joi Ito - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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Today, not only is everything digital getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, we also have the Internet. When these two revolutions-one in technology and the other in communications-joined, an explosive force was unleaded that changed the very nature of innovation.... |
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Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
ELIZABETH WILLARD THAMES - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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The deeply personal story of how award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the city and embraced frugality to create a more meaningful, purpose-driven life, and retire to a homestead in the Vermont woods at age thirty-two with her husband... |
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Sebastian Mallaby - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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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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She Proclaims: Our Declaration of Independence from a Man's World
Jennifer Palmieri - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Large Print
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Take action and shatter the glass ceiling with this empowering and optimistic feminist guide from the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Dear Madam President.When Jennifer Palmieri realized that everything in her life had been shaped by men, she wanted to make a change. From work behavior... |
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Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why
Paul Tough - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success. Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Tough takes on a new set of pressing questions:... |
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Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
ROBERT KUTTNER - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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One of our leading social critics recounts capitalism's finest hour, and shows us how we might achieve it once again.In the past few decades, the wages of most workers have stagnated, even as productivity increased. Social supports have been cut, while corporations have achieved record... |
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The Vanity Fair Diaries
OCTAVIA MANN - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.The Vanity Fair Diaries... |
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Plant Your Money Tree: A Guide to Growing Your Wealth
Michele Schneider - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Plant Your Money Tree offers readers a strategic and actionable way to look at their financial life with a completely new attitude of confidence, empowering them to make smart decisions regarding:What to do with their money How to grow their moneyWhen to make smart personal choices such... |
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The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
Benjamin Graham - Harper Business
Format: Paperback
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This classic text is annotated to update Grahams timeless wisdom for todays market conditions... The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. Grahams philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors... |
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Aftermath: Seven Secrets of Wealth Preservation in the Coming Chaos
James Rickards - Portfolio
Format: eBook
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In his most prescriptive book to date, financial expert and investment advisor James Rickards shows how and why our financial markets are being artificially inflated--and what smart investors can do to protect their assetsWhat goes up, must come down. As any student of financial history... |
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Homegrown: How the Red Sox Built a Champion from the Ground Up
Alex Speier - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The captivating inside story of the historic 2018 Boston Red Sox, as told through the assembly and ascendancy of their talented young core - the culmination of nearly a decade of reporting from one of the most respected baseball writers in the country."Alex Speier spins a compelling... |
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
Jesse Eisinger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, a blistering account of corporate greed and impunity, and the reckless, often anemic response from the Department of Justice.Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing... |
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This is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order
JOHN SCHWARTZ - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times columnist shares his financial successes and mishaps, offering an everyman's guide to straightening out your money once and for all. Money management is one of our most practical survival skills - and also one we've convinced ourselves we're either born with or not.... |
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Project Management For Dummies
Consumer Dummies - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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The bestselling 'bible' of project management In today's time-crunched, cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. So how can you juggle all the skills and responsibilities it takes to shine as a project management maven?... |
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Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency
Charles Rappleye - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president...by far the best, most readable study of Hoover's presidency to date." - Publishers Weekly Rappleye's surprising portrait of a Depression-era president Herbert Hoover reveals a very different figure than the usual... |
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Netherlands - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
SHERYL BUCKLAND - Kuperard
Format: Paperback
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Taking readers beyond the stereotypical images of windmills, clogs, and tulips, this pocket-sized guide helps visitors understand the complex layers of identity in this small, densely populated country on Europe's northwestern seaboard. With roots as a maritime nation that built a network... |
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Facebook Marketing For Dummies
JOHN HAYDON - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Add Facebook to your marketing plan - and watch your sales grow With 2 billion monthly active users across the world, Facebook has evolved into a community of consumers, creating a primary resource for marketers. This presents a demand for knowledge about how to strategically plan, execute,... |
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Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
RYAN HOLIDAY - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author and marketing strategist Ryan Holiday reveals to creatives of all stripes - authors, entrepreneurs, musicians, filmmakers, fine artists - how a classic work is made and marketed.In Hollywood, a movie is given a single weekend to succeed before being written off. In Silicon... |
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Project Management: A Practical Guide to Planning and Managing Projects
Stephen Hartle - Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback
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Organisations increasingly look to project management to deal with short timeframes, tight budgets, changing requirements and risk management in everyday operations, as well as for major strategic projects. Project management knowledge and skills are now essential for professionals just... |
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You Can Have It All, Just Not at the Same Damn Time: A Guide for Women Everywhere
Romi Neustadt - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and life and business coach Romi Neustadt has a message for women: You CAN have it all--just not at the same damn time.Romi Neustadt is a mom of two, a wife, a daughter, bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, and coach. What's... |
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Our Damaged Democracy: We the People Must Act
Joseph A Califano, Jr. - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative and passionate primer on the three branches of government reveals the changes - political, cultural, constitutional, technological, institutional - that render our government completely dysfunctional, and the urgent need to fix our democracy before it's too late.If you've... |
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Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
Rachel Hollis - Harpercollins Leadership
Format: Hardcover
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"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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A square meal : a culinary history of the Great Depression
Jane Ziegelman - Harper
Format: Print book
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From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced - the Great Depression - and how it transformed America's culinary culture.The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts... |
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The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business
Christopher Leonard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The biggest takeover in American business that you've n ever heard of The American supermarket seems to represent the best in America: abundance, freedom, choice. But that turns out to be an illusion. The rotisserie chicken, the pepperoni, the cordon bleu, the frozen pot pie, and the bacon... |
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It's How We Play the Game: Build a Business. Take a Stand. Make a Difference.
Ed Stack - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog and Howard Schultz's Onward, an inspiring memoir from the CEO of DICK's Sporting Goods about building a multibillion dollar business, coming to the defense of embattled youth sports programs, and taking a principled - and highly controversial... |
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Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
Paul Jarvis - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
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What if the real key to a richer and more fulfilling career was not to create and scale a new start-up, but rather, to be able to work for yourself, determine your own hours, and become a (highly profitable) and sustainable company of one? Suppose the better - and smarter - solution is simply... |
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The Ex-Offender's Quick Job Hunting Guide: The 10 Sequential Steps to Re-Entry Success
Ronald Louis Krannich - Impact Publications
Format: Paperback
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America's most widely used re-entry guide. This user-friendly book serves as a personal re-entry counselor/coach for ex-offenders in transition to the Free World. It helps America's huge red flag population quickly find employment -- 77,000,000 citizens with criminal records; 11,000,000... |
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On Fire: The
Naomi Klein - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#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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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
Samuel J Redman - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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In 1864 a U.S. army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota. Carefully recording his observations, he sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington, DC, that was collecting human remains for research. In the "bone rooms" of this museum and others... |
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The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed
Alberto Savoia
Format: Hardcover
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The Law of Market Failure: Most new products will fail in the market, even if competently executed.Using his experience at Google, his remarkable success as an entrepreneur and consultant, and insights from his lectures at Stanford University and Google, Alberto Savoia's The Right It offers... |
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Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier
Maya Rao - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The story of a twenty-first century American frontier--where the free market reigns supreme as profiteers rush to develop a massive new oilfield.The word was that you could earn $17,000 a month in the Bakken Oilfield of North Dakota. So they flooded in: the profiteers, deadbeats, ex-cons,... |
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Blockchain For Dummies
Tiana Laurence - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Unravel the mysteries of blockchains Blockchain technologies are disrupting some of the world's biggest industries. Blockchain For Dummies provides a fast way to catch up with the essentials of this quickly evolving tech. Written by an author involved in founding and analyzing blockchain... |
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Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders
Lindsey Pollak - HarperBusiness; Original edition
Format: Book
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The author of Getting from College to Career reinvents the concept of management for a new generation, offering a fresh and relevant approach to career success that shows them how to make the next step: becoming a leader.We are in the midst of a leadership revolution, as power passes from... |
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New Rules of the Game: 10 Strategies for Women in the Workplace
Susan Packard - Prentice Hall Press
Format: Hardcover
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Business is a team sport. Learn how to win.Where would your career be if you could understand how your colleagues--especially men--succeed and win at work And if, in understanding and applying the rules, you could win, tooIn New Rules of the Game, business leader Susan Packard shows you how to cultivate... |
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Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood without Killing Your Career
Lisen Stromberg - Benbella Books
Format: Print book
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In today's work-first culture, career women with children are told they have two options: lean in or opt out. Pouring all your energy into work can mean compromising your commitment to your family. Leaving your job can mean sacrificing the career you've spent years cultivating.Work... |
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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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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
Robert T. Kiyosaki - Plata Publishing
Format: Paperback
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It's Robert Kiyosaki's position that "It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else." He laid the foundation for many of his messages in the international best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad - the #1 Personal Finance book of all time - and in Why... |
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You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth
Jen Sincero - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"A cheerful manifesto on removing obstacles between yourself and the income of your dreams." - New York MagazineFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass, a life-changing guide to making the kind of money you've only ever dreamed ofYou... |
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The Ultimate Side Hustle Book: 450 Moneymaking Ideas for the Gig Economy
Elana Varon - Adams Media
Format: Paperback
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Get your side hustle on with this handy guide that gives you hundreds of ideas on how to make extra cash - and have fun doing it! Do you work a regular job, but still find yourself wishing you had a little extra money? Or maybe you just want some extra fulfillment after hours that you just... |
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The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
Tyler Cowen - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs.The problem, according to legendary blogger,... |
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The Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expos that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent... |
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Fundraising For Dummies
John Mutz - Wiley Publishing; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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The fun and easy way to raise money for your causeFundraising For Dummies, 3rd Edition shows you how to take advantage of the latest strategies and resources available for raising money through everything from special events to online donations, in both good and bad economic times. The authors... |
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
JOHN CARREYROU - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from their charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.In 2014,... |
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Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future
Richard Davies - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A New Statesman best book of the yearA Financial Times best economics book of 2019An accessible, story-driven look at the future of the global economy, written by a leading expertTo predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers... |
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Playbook for Success: A Hall of Famer's Business Tactics for Teamwork and Leadership
Nancy Lieberman - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A top coach teaches the sports-related skills and basics every women needs to succeed There are basics that every woman must have if she is to succeed in the corporate world, start and run her own business, or coach her own winning team. In Playbook for Success, Hall of Fame Business Entrepreneur... |
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