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Bank on Yourself: The Life-Changing Secret to Protecting Your Financial FutureBank on Yourself: The Life-Changing Secret to Protecting Your Financial Future
by Pamela Yellen

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The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and BusinessWeek bestseller Bank On Yourself: The Life-Changing Secret to Growing and Protecting Your Financial Future reveals the secrets to taking back control of your financial future that Wall Street, banks, and credit card companies don’t want you to know.


Robert's Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate SurvivalRobert's Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival
by Robert F. Brands with Martin J. Kleinman

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In this timely guide, innovation expert and former CEO Robert Brands presents the best practices for today's "innovate or die" world, in the form of 10 simple and practical steps your business must take to achieve growth through innovation.


Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the EnvironmentAnimal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment
by David Kirby

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Recent public health crises raise urgent questions about how our animal-derived food is raised and brought to market. In Animal Factory, bestselling investigative journalist David Kirby exposes the powerful business and political interests behind large-scale factory farms, and tracks the far-reaching fallout that contaminates our air, land, water, and food.


The Risk Takers: 16 Women and Men Who Built Great Businesses Share Their Entrepreneurial Strategies for SuccessThe Risk Takers: 16 Women and Men Who Built Great Businesses Share Their Entrepreneurial Strategies for Success
by Renee Martin and Don Martin

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The Risk Takers is about ordinary people, all with good ideas, who faced daunting challenges, but took a leap of faith and started their own business. The book tells the stories of the personal and professional journeys of sixteen fascinating men and women who built hugely successful, multimillion dollar companies.


Career GPS: Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape Career GPS: Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape
by Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, Ph.D. with Linda Villarosa

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The world of work has changed dramatically, and there's never been a better time for women to take advantage of this new corporate landscape. But in order to seize new opportunities, one must master the current rules of corporate success. Career GPS is an essential tool for professional women at every stage of their life and careers.


Master Your Debt: Slash Your Monthly Payments and Become Debt Free Master Your Debt: Slash Your Monthly Payments and Become Debt Free
by Jordan E. Goodman, with Bill Westrom

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The world of borrowing and debt management has changed dramatically, leaving people confused about how best to secure their financial future. This book is the only guide with detailed advice to help you become debt free or master the debt you have, based on the latest laws and new government programs and policies implemented under the Obama administration.


Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis UnstoppableComplicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable
by Mark Gilbert

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The credit crunch is affecting every investor and every consumer, every industry and every government program, yet few people truly understand how it happened. Subprime mortgages have been center stage, but behind the scenes a conspiracy of greed among bankers, investors, rating agencies and regulators has imperiled everyone’s financial future.