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Robert Irvine knows a thing or two about business. For over 200 episodes of Food Network’s hit show Restaurant: Impossible, he’s helped failing entrepreneurs make the necessary changes to reverse course and transform their businesses from the brink of collapse to sustainable enterprises. And he doesn’t just talk a good game; Irvine is a successful entrepreneur himself with a family of companies to his credit, from frozen foods and liquor to...
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Make the most of your assets, financial and otherwise: "Brings to investment what the periodic table brought to chemistry-clarity, order, and understanding."-Michael H. Shuman, author of Put Your Money Where Your Life Is
If you want to build a better life and a better world-and really be prepared for any possible future in these turbulent times-you need to become a resilient investor. This trailblazing guide will expand your ideas of investing way...
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Peter Georgescu arrived in this country as a penniless Romanian refugee and rose to become the CEO of Young & Rubicam. This is why he's so heartsick that with flat wages, disappearing jobs, and a shrinking middle class, his kind of rags-to-riches story doesn't seem possible now. But he has a message for his fellow CEOs: we're the ones who must take the lead in fixing the economy.
Marshaling deeply sobering statistics, Georgescu depicts the stark...
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Aprende sobre invertir en Bitcoin, blockchains, y criptomonedas
"Antony nos ayuda a entender claramente los mecanismos de bitcoins y blockchains." -Rob Findlay, fundador de Next Money
El autor más vendido en inversión de derivados financieros, industria extractiva de recursos naturales, futuros, bancos y bancas, energía y minas, y política monetaria.
Hay mucha información sobre criptomonedas y blockchains, pero para un principiante, esto puede...
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From New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich: the book Elon Musk doesn’t want you to read.
BREAKING TWITTER takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time—Elon Musk—and the company that represents our culture’s dearest hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the mission-driven...
BREAKING TWITTER takes readers inside the darkly comic battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time—Elon Musk—and the company that represents our culture’s dearest hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to the mission-driven...
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"From estimating start-up costs and finding clients to how to stay profitable even in slow economic climates, this book takes you through every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based professional organizing business. Look for useful charts and worksheets including start-up costs checklist, client intake form, assessment visit/working agreement, sample invoice, and marketing plan worksheet." -- back cover
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In On The Wealth of Nations, America's most provocative satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, reads Adam Smith's revolutionary The Wealth of Nations so you don't have to. Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the fundamental work of economics, The Wealth of Nations was also recognized as really long: the original edition totaled over nine hundred pages in two volumes-including the blockbuster sixty-seven-page "digression concerning the variations...
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"In 2014, Liz Thames and her husband, Nate, were conventional young urban professionals working nine-to-five jobs. But the rat race had worn them down, and they dreamed of becoming modern-day homesteaders in rural Vermont. Determined to retire as early as possible in order to start living each day--as opposed to wishing time away working for the weekends--they enaceted a plan to save as much money as they could. In less than three years, Liz and Nate...
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Longlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Management & Workplace Culture
An expert takes on the crisis of income inequality, addressing the problems with our current compensation model, demystifying pay practices, and providing practical information employees can use when negotiating their salaries and discussing how we can close the gender and racial pay gap.
American workers are suffering economically and fewer are earning a living...
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A study and analysis of lack of enforcement against criminal actions in corporate America and what can be done to fix it.
In the early 2000s, federal enforcement efforts sent white collar criminals at Enron and WorldCom to prison. But since the 2008 financial collapse, this famously hasn't happened. Corporations have been permitted to enter into deferred prosecution agreements and avoid criminal convictions, in part due to a mistaken assumption that...
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Declutter your way to happiness and peace of mind. Are you constantly cleaning up and clearing away clutter? Do you feel overwhelmed by your stuff? Whether you live in a studio apartment or a large house, we all face the challenge of staying organized so we have a tidy home that feels welcoming, peaceful and calm.
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PublicAffairs
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2023.
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322 pages : 25 cm.
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"At a time when the crises of income inequality, climate, and democracy, are compounding to create epic wealth disparity and the prospect of a second American civil war, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that really matter. Each scheme--the metaverse, cryptocurrency, space travel, and transhumanism--is an existential threat in moral, political, and economic terms. In The End of Reality,...
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Clarkson Potter/Publishers
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[2023]
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First edition.
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255 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"From the authors of The New York Times bestseller The Home Edit and The Home Edit Life and hosts of the Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit, comes a guide to the most important phase of getting organized: staying that way. It's one thing to get organized, but how do you make those systems stick? The Home Edit Stay Organized takes the intimidation and hesitation out of the maintenance involved to prevent you from abandoning your once-tidied...
16) Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants
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Stucke and Ezrachi's analysis of the nature of competition is refreshingly non-ideological and counterintuitive. Their idea that competition can be either toxic or noble-all depending on how governments structure markets-is something so clear that it's remarkable it's taken us decades to recognize the wisdom of it. This is a must-read for anyone interested in how to use public policy to harness the competitive drive for the public good. - Chris Hughes,...
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"What’s Wrong? is author, illustrator, and scientific researcher Erin Williams’s graphic exploration of how the American health-care system fails us. Focusing on four raw and complex firsthand accounts, plus Williams’s own story, this book examines the consequences of living with interconnected illnesses and conditions like:
immunodeficiency
cancer
endometriosis
alcoholism
severe depression
PTSD
Western medicine, which intends to cure illness...
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"“Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley…takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world…Bawdy, brash, and compulsively thought-provoking, just like its author, Burn Book sizzles” (Booklist, starred review).
Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech’s most powerful players. From “the queen of all media” (Walt Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal),...
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It all started when fourteen-year-old Hannah Salwen had a "eureka" moment. Seeing a homeless man in her neighborhood at the same moment when a glistening Mercedes coupe pulled up, she said "You know, Dad, if that man had a less nice car, that man there could have a meal."
Until that day, the Salwens had been caught up like so many of us in the classic American dream-providing a good life for their children, accumulating more and more stuff, doing...
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La sphère marchande, désormais mondialisée et digitalisée, entre en violente collision avec les politiques de nombreux pays européens. En effet, le néo-libéralisme américain apporte une incontestable croissance économique et une extraordinaire élévation du niveau de vie. Il exige cependant une mobilité parfaite et une individualisation du travail. En revanche, les États-providences européens furent bâtis, à l'opposé du néo-libéralisme,...
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