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Explore the best business and economics books, including top entrepreneur reads, finance essentials, and foundational texts. Browse our online bookstore for bestsellers and highly recommended books in business and economics.
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Trade with PassionSuccessful trader Mark Whistler draws from the fields of psychology, spirituality, and philosophy to emphasize how self-honesty, self-esteem, emotional balance, and confidence form the foundation of successful trading. He demonstrates how adherence to a small number of core principles vastly improves chances of success,...
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Leader on the CouchDespite the proven benefits of emotional intelligence, organizational life has typically been hostile to the inner world of feeling. Rationality is deemed superior to feeling, which can contaminate judgment. But without feeling there is no passion, and no action. This book sets out to...
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Learning for ActionAfter an explanation of the book's purpose, the authors provide in Part 1 first an overview of SSM as a whole, then a fleshed-out account with just enough detail and advice to enable the reader to set about using the approach in problem situations...
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The South in the Building of the Nation: A History of the Southern StatesThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in AmericaFables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties in the modern United States.Author: Jackson LearsPublisher: Basic BooksPublished: 11/03/1995Pages:...
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The Body Economic: Why Austerity KillsPoliticians have talked endlessly about the seismic economic and social impacts of the recent financial crisis, but many continue to ignore its disastrous effects on human health--and have even exacerbated them, by adopting harsh austerity measures and cutting key social programs at a time...
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Can Japan Compete?In Can Japan Compete?, world-renowned competition strategist Michael Porter and his colleagues explain why American assumptions about Japan have proved so inaccurate, what Japan must do to regain its strength, and what its journey can tell us about how to succeed in the new...
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Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous PeaceShortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous at worst. But they could not have been more wrong. With The Money Makers,...
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian AmericaThe provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that...
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Go to: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- The ProIn Go To, Steve Lohr chronicles the history of software from the early days of complex mathematical codes mastered by a few thousand to today's era of user-friendly software and over six million professional programmers worldwide. Lohr maps out the unique seductions of programming,...
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Healthy Work: Stress, Productivity, and the Reconstruction of Working LifeEvidence is accumulating that in many contemporary work environments people are literally working themselves to death. But what do we really know about job-related stress and illness? Based on a ten-year study of nearly five thousand workers, this path-breaking book by a distinguished industrial...
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The Mind of the CEOBased on extensive and highly personal interviews with forty chief executives around the world-among them GE's Jack Welch, AOL's Steven Case, Intel's Andy Grove, Newscorp's Rupert Murdoch, BP Amoco's John Browne, Nokia's Jorma Olilla, and Toyota's Hiroshi Okuda-The Mind of the CEO takes us...
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The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000Does money make the world go round, as Cabaret's Master of Ceremonies sang to us? In The Cash Nexus, acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson offers a radical and surprising answer-No. Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change,...
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Pricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation: A Story of Genius and DiscoveryOptions have been traded for hundreds of years, but investment decisions were based on gut feelings until the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the Black-Scholes options pricing model in 1973 ushered in the era of the "quants." Wall Street would never be the same.In Pricing...
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Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart"On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality is another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a fifty-two-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the"Author: Liza FeatherstonePublisher: Basic BooksPublished: 09/07/2005Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.04h x 5.32w x 0.66dISBN: 9780465023165About...
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The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs LivesTwenty-five new runways would eliminate most air travel delays in America; fifty patent owners are blocking a major drug company from creating a cancer cure; 90 percent of our broadcast spectrum sits idle while American cell phone service suffers. These problems have solutions that...
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The Other Path: The Economic Answer to TerrorismIn this, his classic book on the informal economy of Peru and the reasons why poverty can be a breeding ground for terrorists, Hernando De Soto describes the forces that keep people dependent on underground economies: the bureaucratic barriers to legal property ownership and...
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When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against PollutionThe National Book Award Finalist from a leading public-health expert, this is the unknown story of how environmental pollution has affected our health-past, present, and futureAuthor: Devra Lee DavisPublisher: Basic BooksPublished: 12/25/2003Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.80dISBN: 9780465015221Review Citation(s): Kliatt...
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The Job Hunting BookSearching for your first graduate job is an exciting time, but can often leave you feeling lost and frustrated. So here's a secret-it's not all about you! Getting a job interview is also about your employer. Added to this, the tools that recruiters and...
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21 Ide Bisnis Online Offline Dashyat Untuk Kalangan Pemula, Pelajar Dan Mahasiwa21 Ide Bisnis Online Dan Offline Yang Sederhana Tapi Dashyat Untuk Kalangan Pemula, Pelajar Dan Mahasiwa Dalam Bahasa Indonesia. Bisnis merupakan suatu organisasi yang menjual barang atau jasa kepada konsumen atau bisnis lainnya untuk mendapatkan laba. Secara historis kata bisnis dari bahasa Inggris business,...
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