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An Inspiring, Eclectic, and Practical Guide to Creating Your Dream Living Space, on a Budget
In this unique and hip home decor style guide, you will find the inspiration to explore your own sense of style, discover the essence of what makes your home feel good to you, and learn how to mix vintage, modern, and thrift store finds to create the eclectic look you crave on a budget you can afford.
Create the Style You Crave on a Budget You Can Afford...
35102) The Waste Makers
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An exposé of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals," The Waste Makers is Vance Packard's pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental, financial, and spiritual character of American society. The Waste Makers was the first book to probe the increasing commercialization of American life-the development of consumption for...
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Vulnerable Communities examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United States, those with populations between 20,000 and 200,000. Like many larger metropolitan centers, these places are confronting change within a globalized economic and cultural order. Many of them have lost their identities as industrial or commercial centers and face a complex and distinctive mix of economic, social, and civic challenges. Small cities have not only fewer...
35104) Looks Good on Paper?: Using In-Depth Personality Assessment To Predict Leadership Performance
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Leslie S. Pratch is a practicing psychologist who focuses on assessing and coaching executives who occupy or are candidates for top positions in business organizations. In this book, she shares insights from more than twenty years of executive evaluations and offers an empirically based approach to identify executives who will be effective within organizations -- and to flag those who will ultimately fail -- by evaluating aspects of personality and...
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It's Not Just About the Money True wealth is not about buckets of cash. True wealth is not about designer clothes. It is not about a new Mercedes. It is not about living in a palatial estate. True wealth, asserts David Gikandi, is about discovering value within yourself and value within other people. It is about a kind of conscious living that incorporates gratitude, a belief in abundance, and the experience of joy. Based on the recent discoveries...
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What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in on the transformation of land into "property," while those responsible act with near-total impunity.
Editors Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell draw on over thirty years of community-based research and direct community...
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Futures contracts are used for a variety of purposes, including hedging against price fluctuations, speculating on the direction of prices, and arbitrage (taking advantage of price differences in different markets). They are used in a wide range of markets, including commodities (e.g. oil, wheat), currencies, and financial instruments (e.g. interest rates, stock indices). In a futures contract, one party (the "buyer") agrees to purchase the underlying...
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While slavery is often at the heart of debates over the causes of the Civil War, historians are not agreed on precisely what aspect of slavery--with its various social, economic, political, cultural, and moral ramifications--gave rise to the sectional rift. In Calculating the Value of the Union, James Huston integrates economic, social, and political history to argue that the issue of property rights as it pertained to slavery was at the center of...
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The must-read summary of Brian Tracy's book: "Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want — Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible".
This complete summary of the ideas from Brian Tracy's book "Goals!" shows that achieving success is actually a methodical process. In his book, the author explains how the principle of setting goals and working hard to achieve them has long been the secret to success. By applying these principles in your own life, you will...
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An in-depth look at Revere's great contribution to American history: his work in helping the nation develop from a craft to an industrial economy.
Paul Revere's ride to warn the colonial militia of the British march on Lexington and Concord is a legendary contribution to the American Revolution. Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn reveals another side of this American hero's life: that of a transformational entrepreneur instrumental in the industrial...
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The must-read summary of Jason Fried and David Hansson's book: "Remote: Office Not Required".
This complete summary of the ideas from Jason Fried and David Hansson's book "Remote" shows that now is the right time for allowing more workers to do their work remotely, rather than keeping watch over them in a centralised office. Therefore, if you get your mindset right and put in place some robust operating rules for how remote work will happen, you...
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Bougainville island. Early History, First European Contact, German Period, World War II, Civil War, People and Culture, Island Information. Bougainville's close contact with the outside world and its integration into Papua New Guinea are recent. The first permanent Christian mission and first colonial administrative post (under German New Guinea) were established in 1901 and 1905 respectively. Relations were often troubled between Bougainville and...
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This book will equip anyone interested in a career in waitering. Topics covered include: Qualities of a good waiter, Opening sequence of the restaurant, types of restaurants, types of services, Traits of a waiter, various tasks before service starts, allocation of service areas, taking bookings, welcoming guests, assigning tables, checking for comfort, order taking, upselling, delivery of food, quality control, wine & champagne bottles opening and...
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5G and related digital revolutions will require tens of thousands of edge data centers. This book tells you how they work and how to get them built.
We are in the middle of the edge computing revolution. Responding to demand for lower latency, telcos and others are moving servers and storage closer to end users-away from the "core" to "the edge." This requires the deployment of many thousands of tiny edge data centers.
The edge is a big, growing...
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Combining stunning visuals with insights and a lexicon of more than 200 agricultural terms explained by today's thought leaders, Local showcases and explores one of the most popular environmental trends: rebuilding local food movements.
When Douglas Gayeton took his young daughter to see the salmon run-a favorite pastime growing up in Northern California-he was devastated to find that a combination of urban sprawl, land mismanagement, and pollution...
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The adoption of environment-friendly practices in ports around the world has gained significant momentum in recent years. It is a response to the growing concerns over climate change and environmental degradation. Greek ports are vital components of the trade and transportation of the country's infrastructure that have also embarked on this transformative journey towards sustainability. This study is conducted to evaluate the extent to which environmentally...
35117) New Beginnings
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The Hollows thrums with excitement when a
famous student appears on campus. Follow Zee as she rubs elbows with royalty in Book 5 of The Zee Files!
Zee is getting ready to go back to school for spring term when the big news comes: there's a new transfer student in year nine-and she's a real-life princess! As everyone busily prepares for royalty to arrive, Zee can't help but worry. She just got comfortable in England-how much will her life change...
35118) Generations, Inc: From Boomers to Linksters--Managing the Friction Between Generations at Work
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Now that five different generations are on the job simultaneously--from Traditionals to Generation Y to Millennials--it's more important than ever for companies to understand how their people can not only coexist and cooperate, but thrive together as a team. Written by a father-daughter team of two generational experts, Generations, Inc. offers the perspectives of people of different eras to elicit practical insights on wrestling with generational...
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This short book describes the role big banks played in the financial crisis of 2008 while denouncing the financial oligarchy's seizing of power and the dangers it represents for democracy today. There have been many books since the financial crisis that have considered historical events leading up to the crisis but few that consider a solution. Ten years after the great financial crash, this book synthesises the historical developments and introduces...
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HOW DO YOU NEGOTIATE with Wal-Mart? With America's President over going to war? A pay raise from an intimidating boss? More money for a struggling start-up? Sweeping social change? Your own survival when you're taken hostage by an armed killer? In this award-winning bestseller, you will travel across time through riveting, real-life David & Goliath stories ⎯ uncovering the secrets and strategies of successful smaller players so you, too, can get...
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