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Get Paid What You're Worth: The Expert Negotiators' Guide to Salary and CompensationBegin getting paid what you're worth---today Couldn't you use more money? Whether you're entering the workforce for the first time, making a job change, or seeking better compensation for your contributions, Robin L. Pinkley and Gregory B. Northcraft will guide you step-by-step toward getting...
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Take Back Your Time: How to Regain Control of Work, Information, and TechnologyFor every successful person in a perpetual-crisis mode--swimming in papers, overrun with complicated new technology, hamstrung by details, and starving for time--here are simple, practical strategies for getting back your desk, your peace of mind, and most of all your time.Author: Jan JasperPublisher: St....
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More Than Just Making It: Hope for the Heart of the Financially FrustratedMore Than Just Making It is your invitation to reimagine what the good life can be. Join Erin Odom, a mom thrown into low-income living, to learn how to overcome your circumstances, find creative ways to earn and save, and reset your heart and...
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Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good LifeIn Search of the Good LifeHave you ever felt that your life--and budget--is spiraling out of control? Do you sometimes wish you could pull yourself together but wonder exactly how to manage all the scattered pieces of a chaotic life? Is it possible to...
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Beating the College Debt Trap: Getting a Degree Without Going BrokeBeating the College Debt Trap presents students with a better way to do college. The radically counter-cultural truth is that students don't have to be totally dependent on Mom, Dad, or Uncle Sam to get the most out of college. Graduation on a solid...
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Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the WorldFrom the former economics columnist for Harper's and The New York Times, a bold indictment of some of our most accepted mainstream economic theories--why they're wrong, and how they've been harming America and the world. Ideas have the power to change history. But what...
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The Wall Street Journal Guide to Building Your CareerAre you looking for a mere job--the kind where you do virtually the same thing day after day, year after year, and spend the hours counting down the minutes until the clock hits five p.m.? Or are you looking for a career--the kind that...
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Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of BusinessWhy does Procter & Gamble repeatedly call on enthusiastic amateurs to solve scientific and technical challenges? How can companies as diverse as iStockphoto and Threadless employ just a handful of people, yet generate millions of dollars in revenue every year? "Crowdsourcing" is how the...
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Facets of Systems ScienceThis book has a rather strange history. It began in Spring 1989, thirteen years after our Systems Science Department at SUNY -Binghamton was established, when I was asked by a group of students in our doctoral program to have a meeting with them. The...
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EconomistsA unique and illuminating portrait of economists and their work Providing illuminating profiles of ninety of the world's most prominent economists--from Nobel Prize winners and former Federal Reserve chairs to young scholars charting the future of the field--this stunning volume pairs full-page portraits by...
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Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to KleptocracyA penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia's future "Full of insight and informed judgment, former diplomat Anders Åslund takes aim at the 'authoritarian kleptocracy' and the inner circles of power."--John Lloyd, Financial Times This insightful...
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Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms RaceAmerica fought the Cold War in part through supermarkets--and the food economy pioneered then has helped shape the way we eat today Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to...
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The Future of Law and Economics: Essays in Reform and RecollectionIn a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite, strain, "economic analysis of law,"...
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House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on EarthA gripping tale of 150 years of scientific adventure, research, and discovery at the Yale Peabody Museum This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum...
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Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of EuropeA world-renowned economist offers cogent and powerful reflections on one of the great avoidable economic catastrophes of the modern era The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time. The...
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Christianity and the New Spirit of CapitalismOne of the world's most celebrated theologians argues for a Protestant anti-work ethic In his classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously showed how Christian beliefs and practices could shape persons in line with capitalism. In this significant reimagining...
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The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth's FutureAre we headed for a world of scarce resources and environmental catastrophe, or will innovation and markets yield greater prosperity In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals...
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Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and WealthAn important study of the relationship between technology, skills, and economic inequality that answers some of the most pressing economic questions of our time Today's great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere--in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor's...
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Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the SeventiesIn this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory--the era of postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose...
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The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability"My point of departure in this book is the momentous environmental challenge we face. But today's environmental reality is linked powerfully with other realities, including growing social inequality and neglect and the erosion of democratic governance and popular control. . . . As citizens...
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