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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In The Meat Racket, investigative reporter Christopher Leonard delivers the first-ever account of how a handful of companies have seized the nation's meat supply. He shows how they built a system that puts farmers on the edge of bankruptcy, charges high prices to consumers, and returns the industry to the shape it had in the 1900s before the meat monopolists were broken up. At the dawn of the 21st century, the greatest capitalist country in the world...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Inspiring countless business, political and military leaders (Napoleon, Mao Zedong and General MacArthur among them), The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu from the 6th century BC. Its 13 chapters are each dedicated to an aspect of warfare. Praised as a definitive work on the art of strategy and tactic, The Art of War now finds its greatest application in the world of business and management.
Author
Series
Kevin Spencer books volume 2
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
118 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is a hard worker, so when his income is cut off he begins a series of businesses, from poker games to selling snacks, earning money to take a girl to a dance, but his partners soon tire of his methods.
Author
Publisher
Perigee Book
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
If you are one of the seventy million Americans counting on your 401(k) plan to usher you into a comfortable old age, you're likely to be bitterly disappointed. Rather than benefit the employee, 401(k) plans reward employers, brokers, investment advisors, fund managers, insurance companies, unions, and lobbyists. Relying on these plans makes it increasingly difficult to retire comfortably. In his straight-forward, no-nonsense style, best-selling author...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A new kind of manifesto for the working woman, with tips on building wealth and finding balance, as well as inspiration for harnessing the freedom and power that comes from a breadwinning mindset"--
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Sixth edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Business Buyout Agreements walks you through the creation of a legal contract -- a sort of "premarital agreement" for your business -- that protects everyone's interests. This book will help you create documents to help ensure a smooth transition following someone's departure. Clarify:. when co-owners can sell their interest. the circumstances when someone must sell. who can buy into the business. what price will be paid This edition of Business...
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Just like using a computer for the first time, learning Microsoft Office applications can be confusing and intimidating at any age. Office 2019 For Seniors For Dummies helps seniors get up to speed quickly with clear-cut, easy-to-read-and-understand steps on how to get the most out of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The book assumes no prior information and starts with showing how to start each application, how to navigate the interface,...
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley [distributor]
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
337 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides clear, step-by-step instructions for tackling more than 190 PowerPoint 2013 tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get up and running on PowerPoint 2013 in no time.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
211 pages 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Getting a job means successfully navigating the application process, and today that requires the right mindset--and the skills to convey it to a potential employer. You need to focus on the organization's needs, not your own, often a challenge for recent and soon-to-be college graduates. In this book, writing professor Rachel Toor shows you how to identify those needs, decide whether you are a good match for a job, and then tell a clear, concise,...
Author
Publisher
Razor Media Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2011], ©2011
Physical Desc
xx, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Internet is arguably the most powerful business tools in the history of mankind. You can use it to make money, save money and create new revenue streams quickly and easily, often with no start up capital...'Get Rich Click!' shows you how to jump in and begin making money online immediately..."--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through an examination of the lives of several Americans and leading public figures over the past three decades, Packer portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Whether titans of industry, influential business leaders, or creators of history's most recognizable brands, these entrepreneurs had the vision, innovation, and ruthless determination to make their marks on our society in indelible ways. Entrepreneurs Who Changed History delves into the lives, aspirations, obstacles, and triumps of the greatest entrepreneurs in the world and through all time. From the enterprising bankers of the medieval world and...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Permission Marketing is the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it. Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into our favorite program, or the telemarketing phone call that disrupts a family dinner, traditional advertising is based on the hope of snatching our attention away from whatever we are doing. Seth Godin calls this Interruption Marketing, and, as companies are discovering,...
36137) Tallulah the Tooth Fairy CEO
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
NC 930L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Tallulah the Tooth Fairy, a black businesswoman who runs one of the most successful tooth collecting organizations in the world, finds herself unexpectedly stumped when six-year-old Ballard Burchell leaves a note instead of his tooth under his pillow.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ben Mezrich's 2009 bestseller The Accidental Billionaires is the definitive account of Facebook's founding and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network. Two of the story's iconic characters are Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: identical twins, Olympic rowers, and foils to Mark Zuckerberg. Bitcoin Billionaires is the story of the brothers' redemption and revenge in the wake of their epic legal battle with Facebook....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards
"A smart and accessible cultural history."-Los Angeles Times
A portrait—by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving—of one of America's most iconic institutions, from an author who "might be the most influential design critic writing now" (LARB).
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as...
"A smart and accessible cultural history."-Los Angeles Times
A portrait—by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving—of one of America's most iconic institutions, from an author who "might be the most influential design critic writing now" (LARB).
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his groundbreaking #1 bestseller Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman revolutionized how we think about intelligence. Now, he reveals practical methods for using these inner resources to more readily enter an optimal state of high performance and satisfaction while avoiding burnout.
There are moments when we achieve peak performance: An athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits.
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