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Machiavelli would feel at home in industry today. You don’t need a birthright to be a modern prince–just an impulsive ruthlessness such as he described four centuries ago while trying to get back into the good graces of a Medici nobleman. A clever guy like him could [...]
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This text, the most comprehensive, readable, and theoretically sound book on the common fallacies, is designed to teach students how to construct and evaluate arguments. Throughout, the focus is on helping students recognize when they construct or encounter a good or successful argument of a particular action or belief. This skill [...]
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American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Michael A. Ledeen sees the same parallels today between human nature, power, and the state of our institutions that venerable Renaissance writer Niccolò Machiavelli established and expounded upon in Italy nearly 500 years earlier. In Machiavelli on Modern Leadership, he examines [...]
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"In a world where ridiculously hyped tomes promising instant financial euphoria for ordinary citizens now vie with counsel on health and sex in every bookstore, old-fashioned common sense still takes the prize. Most of the would-be gurus, not to mention their customers, would hare been better off to read this one [...]
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Football used to be free. In 2001, the estimated annual turnover of world football was £250 billion. Is the commercialization of sport simply ‘fair game’, or is big business causing long-term damage?
Many have concerns about the changes that are taking place in the world of sport and the central thesis of [...]
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Shows investors the various forms of broker fraud, and helps them determine if they have a claim. Gives you the tools to assess if you have a claim and advised you what your next steps should be. Softcover.
About the Author
Daniel R. [...]
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Anonymity is tough to maintain when you want to do a book tour. Such is the case with Steve Dublanica, a seminary dropout and laid-off psychiatric worker who, in 2004, started www.WaiterRant.net, blogging as The Waiter. His brutal observations on waiting [...]
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Ignore the consumerist connotation that the “abundance” of the book’s subtitle unfortunately carries, and enjoy this basic text on how to live happily and mindfully as a householder Buddhist. This is a book for Buddhists with jobs to keep and bills to pay-people [...]
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“K-Mart, AT&T, Xerox, and General Motors would have saved themselves billions of dollars if their past CEO’s had read this book.”–Philip Kotler, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University “This practical introduction to Sun Tzu’s ideas will help U.S. business leaders to quickly overcome [...]
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In this collection - a tribute to the lifetime intellectual odyssey of Howard Raiffa, world-renowned applied mathematician - leading scholars in economics, psychology, statistics, and decision theory grapple with the perennial question of how to make wise choices. Their answers reflect the unity of the three fields Raiffa pioneered: decision analysis, [...]
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