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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

James Kwak - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book

Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college...
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our worldprovided we ask the right...
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What Color is Your Parachute? 2018: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

Richard Nelson Bolles - Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

With more than 10 million copies sold in 28 countries, the worlds most popular job-search book is updated for 2018 and tailors Richard Bolless long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for todays job-hunters and career-changers. In todays challenging job-market,...
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Winging It: Stop Thinking, Start Doing: Why Action Beats Planning Every Time

Emma Isaacs - Sounds True
Format: Hardcover

Emma Isaacs forgot to draw up her life plan. She doesn't have a list of five-year goals, and she doesn't believe in work-life balance. Yet somehow she's managed to found a multimillion-dollar global organization, become a highly sought-after speaker and media commentator, and be recognized...
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

Jim Collins - HarperBusiness; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The Challenge:Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great...
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Clean: The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less

James Hamblin - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

The things we do every day to keep ourselves clean can have surprising and unintended effects, as this entertaining introduction to the new science of skin microbes and probiotics reveals Keeping skin healthy is a booming industry, and yet it seems like almost no one agrees on what actually...
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Disrupt-Her: A Manifesto for the Modern Woman

Miki Agrawal - Hay House Inc.
Format: Hardcover

From the co-founder of THINX and hellotushy.com, start-ups collectively valued at more than $150 million, comes DISRUPT-HER, a rallying cry for women to radically question the status quo.Miki Agrawal has faced patriarchal pushback, fought girl-on-girl hate, ridden the roller coaster of building...
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Scholarship Handbook 2018

COLLEGE BOARD. - College Board
Format: Paperback

The Scholarship Handbook 2018 is organized to quickly lead students to real college funding opportunities, including scholarship, internship and loan programs offered by foundations, charitable organizations, and state and federal government agencies. Every entry is verified by the College...
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

Brian Alexander - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land**A New York Post Must-Read Book, a Newsweek Best New Book, one of The Week's 20 Books to Read in 2017, one of Bustle's 16 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017**"A devastating...
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Elisabeth Rosenthal - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller.At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems."Patients can save thousands of dollars by purchasing...
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