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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Steven D. Levitt The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. SuperFreakonomics challenge
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"A sequel to the megaselling Freakonomics (2005). It's not exactly economics for dummiesor, as Levitt (Economics/Univ. of Chicago) and business journalist Dubner (Confessions of a HeroWorshiper, 2003, etc.) write, "Chicken Soup for the Freakonomics Soul"but this followup is certainly more of the same, a relentlessly enthusiastic cheer for the application of the dismal science to everyday life. That is, everyday life as the world knows it, as when Levitt and Dubner explore some of the curious economic questions on the underside of terror bombings. Econometrics can be a soulless and sometimes divisive business, so the authors may incite some controversy with their report that in the UK, "a person with neither a first nor last Muslim name stood only a 1 in 500,000 chance of being a terrorist," whereas for a person with both first and last Muslim names the odds went to 12,000. (They add, however, that the odds scale way back if the person has a savings account and a lifeinsurance policy.) Less controversial, perhaps, is their look at the economics of prostitution, with some surprising findingsnot least that the average street hooker in Chicago earns only $27 an hour and works only 13 hours a week, drawing about $350 a week. They're priced out of the market, the everprovocative authors assert, by women willing to have sex for free. The authors also write that it's safer to travel by car than by most other means of transport, thanks in part to no less a personage than Robert S. McNamara, and by far less safe to walk drunk than to drive drunk. The authors' view of the climate crisis through an economic lens is similarly spirited, but certainly worth adding to the debate. Jaunty, entertaining and smart. Levitt and Dubner do a good service by making economics accessible, even compelling." from Kirkus Reviews
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprising new ways of looking at them, and the world around us. Are smart people overrated? What c
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Roger Fisher Getting to Yes offers a concise, step-by-step, proven strategy for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in every sort of conflict whether it involves parents and children, neighbors, bosses and employees, customers or corporations, tenants or diplomats. Based on the work of the Harvard Negotiation Project, a group that deals continually with all levels of negotiation and conflict resolution
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Why did crime in New York drop so suddenly in the mid-90s? How does an unknown novelist end up a bestselling author? Why is teenage smoking out of control, when everyone knows smoking kills? What makes TV shows like Sesame Street so good at teaching kids how to read? Why did Paul Revere succeed with his famous warning? In this brilliant and groundbreaking book, New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell looks at why major changes in our society so often happen suddenly and unexpectedly. Ideas, behavior, messages, and products, he argues, often spread like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave, or a satisfied customer fill the empty tables of a new restaurant.
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When does a 'fad' – some people listening to music on small electronic devices – become the norm – everybody's got an Ipod? In 'The Tipping Point', Malcolm Gladwell examines how trends and ideas reach this crucial stage. By way of Hush Puppies, Blue's Clues and 'the search for the unsticky cigarette', he explains how ideas reach epidemic status. And Gladwell does this in an entertaining prose style, never less than fascinating and frequently outstanding. Gladwell's thoughts on ebooks would be interesting. (ebook version)
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Scott Parker Whether you?re out of a job or looking for your first job, this book gives you the Must Know information to help you make the cut and get a job easily. Includes: How To Get A Job Fast ? Writing The Perfect Resume ? Landing A Higher Paying Job ? Jobs Where You Can?t Be Fired ? Contact Info And Much More. Written in a straight-forward and direct style in order to give you results. If you?re serious
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In this first new and totally revised edition of the 150,000-copy underground bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed. He then shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business - whether or not it is a franchise. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in. your business. After you have read The E-Myth Revisited, you will truly be able to grow your business in a predictable and productive way.
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Malcolm Gladwell How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? That*s the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in the follow-up to his huge bestseller, The Tipping Point. Utilizing case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the shooting of Amadou Diallo, Gladwell reveals that what we think of as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much mo
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In one of the best written business books I have ever read, Malcolm Gladwell argues, and deminstrates, that instinctive, snap decisions can often deliver better results than long considered thought processes. As he did in 'The Tipping Point', Gladwell illustrates his points with stories. And what stories they are. From the conversation about their dog that shows that a marriage is headed for the divorce courts, through why the worst president in American history got elected, to a shooting of an unarmed man in the Bronx, the stories make fascinating reading. Gladwell is a great storyteller. A book that entertains as it makes you think. (ebook version)
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Charles Goyette The definitive investment book for the coming age of high inflation
On the heels of the most recent economic crisis, America is headed toward another: high inflation and dollar devaluation. The signs are clear: Federal debt is compounding while growth has stalled, and America's foreign creditors are questioning the dollar's reserve currency status. Meanwhile, the âżżhiddenâżť federa
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Jeff D. Opdyke "The financial decisions we make in our lives are sometimes not the easiest to discuss but have long-lasting effects. [Opdyke's advice] has opened the door in my relationship to conversations that were a long time coming."
-Josh, regular reader of Opdyke's "Love & Money" column, Florida
Real answers to real questions about money and relationships:
* I have too
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With so many people having trouble managing their money, it's not surprising that different attitudes about finances can cause serious arguments between otherwise happy spouses. The solution, according to Opdyke, a reporter and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, is for individuals to first understand their own relationship to and views about money. Drawing on his own marriage as well on the experiences of his readers, Opdyke takes a simple approach to the basic personal finance decisions. He says people shouldn't think about budgets--which, like diets, rarely work—but instead should devise a spending plan (which encourages one to look to the future rather than focus on previous spending habits): "Once you create your spending plan, strive to live with the boundaries you've set. Remember, there's fluidity to your plan. If you realize you're not going to spend $200 this month eating out, you can shift that money to some other expense you'd rather make, or just shovel it into savings for a later date." The writing is clever and the inclusion of comments from readers makes this an enjoyable primer on the psychological and emotional issues related to money. But the chapters on saving for college, retirement and helping aging parents, for example, provide few strategies for readers. (Jan.) Publishers Weekly, December 22, 2003
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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an econo-mist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-h
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?If Indiana Jones were an economist, he?d be Steven Levitt? Criticizing Freakonomics would be like criticizing a hot fudge sundae.? Wall Street Journal
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Joe John Duran Real world anecdotes and step-by-step strategies to build and sell a successful business
Half of the roughly one million businesses that start up every year fail because of insufficient financing, poor management, or lack of basic entrepreneurial skills. Based on his own experience as well as those of the many other successful business owners interviewed for this book, Joe John Duran expl
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ebooks and Audio Books - by David Wessel DAVID WESSEL is the economics editor of The Wall Street Journal and writes the Capital column, a weekly look at the forces shaping living standards around the world. David has shared two Pulitzer Prizes, one for Boston Globe stories in 1983 on the persistence of racism in Boston and the other for stories in The Wall Street Journal in 2002 on corporate
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"...gives a revealing blow-by-blow account of the recent financial crisis" David Brooks, The New York Times
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by John Steele Gordon Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way through the continued creation of staggering wealth. In this authoritative, engrossing history, John Steele Gordon captures as never before the t
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Peter M. Cleveland Here is a master plan for leaders who want to know the dynamic, proven techniques any business leader?from the fruit stand owner to the Fortune 500 chairman?must use to build a successful entrepreneurial enterprise. At the heart of this program is a fundamental belief in the continuous work necessary to improve all activities?a constant quest to improve the conduct of business, from mission statem
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Reesy Snowden & Misty Fine have been friends since childhood. Misty's work life is thriving & she has found Mr. Right at last. Although Reesy's trying to be happy for her friend, she is troubled by this intrusion into the one friendship that has always come first for both women. Nonetheless, Reesy's dreams of a dance career have become reality & she is also seeing a man who might be a keeper. Unfo
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Wynne A. Whitman Too many women still haven't taken control of what will happen to their wealth and their assets. If you don't plan, the government will decide who'll act for you when you're sick...who'll manage your estate when you die...who'll get everything you've worked for. Everyone needs to plan, but women face unique issues that are often ignored in "typical" discussions of estate planning. Smart Wome
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Self Help and How To eBooks from author Timothy Ferriss
Makes you ask the most important question that you will ever face:What exactly is it that you want out of work and life, and why?...secrets for fulfilling your dreams.”
– Inc. Magazine
"Live your dreams now, and not in 20 or 30 years,buy this book!"
– Laura Roden, Chairman of the Silicon Valley Association of Start-up Entrepreneurs
"I devoured this book in one sitting – I have seen nothing like it."
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The 4-Hour Workweek
by Timothy Ferriss is an ebook in Self Help eBooks
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"It's about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge." Jack Canfield, Co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul®, 100+ million copies sold
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Martin Webb Never has advice on making money been so essential! Many of the world's most successful businesses started during an economic downturn, so don't let the credit crunch stop you. Make Your First Million shows you how to go it alone and make the money come rolling in! This straight-talking reality-check is one of the UK's bestselling entrepreneurship titles of the last 18 months and in this
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"The book contains a lot of advice for those with ambitious growth plans in mind." Growing Business, June 2007
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Malcolm Gladwell What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically change
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The Breakthrough Guide to Building Wealth by Battling the Bulge! Did you know if you buy a chicken sandwich with fries every day, you'll consume 291,00 calories , gain 83 pounds, and spend over $1,200 in just one year? Or that if you put that money in a mutual fund, over ten years, you'd save $19,000? Face the facts. There are direct connections between your w
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Carolyn Warren Get the Best Mortgage Deal in Today's Real Estate Markets--and Avoid a Whole New Generation of Scams! The only book that covers today's radically new mortgage and credit realities Exposes new secrets, lies, and scams the mortgage industry doesn't want you to know about Reveals how to save thousands right now by finding the best rate and negotiating the best dea
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ebooks and Audio Books - by Ben Mezrich The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends--outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness wit
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The Accidental Billionaires is the perfect pairing of author and subject. It's pure summer fun—a juicy, fast-paced, unputdownable Mezrich tale that adds to his canon of lad lit. And Hollywood has come calling again: I'm currently working with Dana Brunetti, Scott Rudin, Mike Deluca, and Aaron Sorkin on the movie adaptation of The Accidental Billionaires. If the book is any indication, the film is going to be a must see. — Kevin Spacey (Star and Producer of the hit movie 21)
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business ebooks and Audio Books - by Roger Nierenberg Roger Nierenberg is a veteran conductor and the creator of The Music Paradigm, a unique program that invites people to sit INSIDE a professional symphony orchestra as the musicians and conductor solve problems together.
He captures that experience in MAESTRO: A Surprising Story about Leading by Listening, a parable about a rising executive facing tough challenges. The narrator befri
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