Kagan, Noah
Summary: "The founder and CEO of AppSumo.com, Noah Kagan, knows how to launch a seven-figure business in a single weekend-and he's done it seven times. Million Dollar Weekend will show you how. But, if the barriers to starting a business are getting lower and lower, why is it SO HARD TO DO for SO MANY PEOPLE? Why are there so many wantrepreneurs playing at business on social media and so few...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2024
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Summary: "Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs such as the earned income tax credit, Medicaid, and affordable housing vouchers and subsidies. States and local governments spend tens of billions more. Ironically, these enormous sums fuel the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.5 KIMWilkinson, Andrew
Summary: "By the age of thirty-five, Andrew Wilkinson had built a business worth over a billion dollars, but his path to success was anything but a straight line. Never Enough shares both the lessons Wilkinson has learned as well as the many mistakes made on the road to wealth-some of which cost him money, happiness, and important relationships" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Matt Holt Books, an imprint of Ben Bella Books, Inc. 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1 WILStandiford, Les
Summary: "Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men who shaped the circus. Battle for the Big Top is the untold story of the battles of the three circus kings--James Bailey, P.T. Barnum, and John Ringling-all vying for control of the vastly profitable and widely influential American Circus. New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain StandifordRomeo, Nick
Summary: "Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century -- widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world -- many economists and business leaders still preach dogmas that lack evidence and create political catastrophe: Private markets are always more efficient than public ones; investment capital flows efficiently to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174 ROMKaag, John
Summary: "In this book, John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle illuminate an underexplored aspect of worked-over cultural icon Henry David Thoreau and what his thinking has to tell us about the way we work now. Henry at Work overturns the popular perception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse, scornful of work and other mundanities. Just the opposite, they argue, Thoreau worked hard and thought intensely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 KAAMattioli, Dana
Summary: "In 2017, Lina Khan published a paper that accused Amazon of being a monopoly, having grown so large, and embedded in so many industries, it was akin to a modern-day Standard Oil. Unlike Rockefeller's empire, however, Bezos's company had grown voraciously without much scrutiny. In fact, for over twenty years, Amazon had emerged as a Wall Street darling and its "customer obsession" approach made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.142 MATShaw, Gina
Summary: Introduces readers to Nintendo, one of the most influential companies in the video game industry and creator of some of the top-selling video game franchises of all-time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: The climate is changing more rapidly than scientists predicted even a few years ago, with extreme weather already touching our everyday lives. At the same time, the clean energy revolution is forging ahead faster than nearly anyone anticipated. As Tom Steyer sees it, these two trends together create a moment like the one America faced during World War II: on the one hand, an existential threat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult SteyerFaux, Zeke
Summary: "In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knew how it worked-but why bother with the particulars when everyone was making a fortune from Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, or some other bizarrely named "digital asset"? As he observed this frenzy, investigative reporter Zeke...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Currency 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.4 FAUGalloway, Scott
Summary: "A must-have guide to optimizing your life for wealth and success, from bestselling author, NYU professor and co-host of the Pivot podcast Scott Galloway. Today's workers have more opportunities and mobility than any generation before. They also face unprecedented challenges, including inflation, labor and housing shortages, and climate volatility. Even the notion of "retirement" is undergoing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2024
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Summary: "The sky is getting dark. In the city, a little girl is eating her dinner, brushing her teeth, and getting ready for bed. Meanwhile, her mother is putting on her coat and getting ready to go to work. Where is she going and who will she see along the way? As the night goes on, readers will see nurses, cleaners, delivery workers, doctors, police officers, journalists, and many other workers who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FABFreeman, Andrea
Summary: "The first and definitive history of the use of food in American law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era In 1789, to subjugate Indigenous tribes, George Washington ordered his troops to "ruin their crops on the ground and prevent them planting more." Destroying the sources of food is just one way that the United States has used...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 FREFishman, Stephen
Summary: If you work with words, you need this book. No writer likes to see their hard work or creativity copied by others--or to be accused of copying. Fortunately, The Copyright Handbook provides everything you need to protect yourself. Find information and forms to help you: learn what copyright law protects and doesn't; register your work with the Copyright Office; deal with infringers, online and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.04 FISGladwell, Malcolm
Summary: "Revisits the world of social epidemics first explored in Gladwell's 2000 book "The tipping point," this time taking a closer look at the dark side of social engineering. Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light. Why is Miami......
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations Bookstores have always been unlike any other kind of store, shaping readers and writers, and influencing our tastes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Summary: "A glittering, glamorous portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Summary: "The story of how Victoria's Secret skyrocketed from a tiny chain of boutiques to an intimates monolith with annual sales in excess of $6 billion-all the while defining female beauty and sex standards for generations of Americans-and how the brand's grip on the industry slipped. Victoria's Secret is one of the most influential, and polarizing, brands to ever infiltrate the psyche of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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Summary: "Some observers describe video games as modern art museums that contain visual works, performance art, and audio. Highly skilled athletes, craftspeople, and technicians in the game industry work hard to entertain us"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press, Inc. 2023