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Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist at Apple Computer and an iconoclastic corporate tactician who now works with high-tech startups in Silicon Valley, is back in print with his seventh book: Rules for Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services. Entertainingly written in [...]
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From Publishers Weekly
From the Micronesian Yap islands’ 12-foot stone “coins” to today’s paper currencies backed only by fiat, Nobel-laureate economist Friedman ( Free to Choose ) here examines anomalies of world monetary history, including the effect of successive 19th-century gold ore discoveries and refining improvements [...]
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From Library Journal
So why are ball players paid so much money? Without a doubt, major league baseball is a substantial entertainment business and, as such, dictates big salaries. The same holds true for other professional athletes and for movie stars. Abrams (Legal Bases: Baseball and [...]
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Most people I meet are confused about money in some way. I can t blame them, writes Roland Manarin in this engaging, honest, and inspirational guide to recognizing and avoiding common mistakes that rob so many of their financial peace of mind.Everywhere you turn, headlines shout at you, about the best [...]
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“A sociologist blends history, interviews, and analysis into the best description and appraisal yet written about the strengths, traditions and problems of the ILWU on the waterfront since the 1930s.” Dispatcher “Wellman’s provocative thesis and highly imaginative analysis…offer new models for the [...]
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What if every corporation in the world devoted one percent of its revenues, one percent of its employees’ time, and one percent of its stock to the communities it serves? What would happen? It would change the world. This book suggests that such a radical change is possible, [...]
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This book shows people how the insurance industry, finance companies and government agencies calculate and respond to the risks posed by disasters.
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It’s a Disaster explains how consumers can get the best protection for their homes, cars possessions and lives. Combining case [...]
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“A well written book … Cooper’s most novel doctrine is that investors do not have to be irrational to generate bubbles.” — Financial Times “Financial Times”
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“Rigorous, innovative, and accessible, The Subprime Solution is a wonderful book that will appeal to a wide audience. Robert Shiller is uniquely qualified to analyze the recent unprecedented problems in the mortgage and housing markets, and the way they have spilled over into the wider [...]
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We live in an era where image is nearly everything, where the proliferation of brand-name culture has created, to take one hyperbolic example from Naomi Klein’s No Logo, “walking, talking, life-sized Tommy [Hilfiger] dolls, mummified in fully branded Tommy worlds.” Brand identities are even flourishing online, she notes–and for some retailers, [...]
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