Diana Kander

Andy Fromm

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

How Four Simple Questions Can Uncover Powerful Insights & Exponential Growth

Toys 'R' Us. Kodak. Blockbuster. Why is it that some companies evolve while others get left in the dust? How do they lose their relevance with customers? The scary truth is that the only thing harder than getting to the top is staying there. It may sound counterintuitive, but in many cases, it is the success of a company that eventually leads to its downfall.

So what does it take to stay competitive and relevant when what customers went wild for yesterday is the boring, banal, bare minimum they'll accept today?

Through the story of the rise and plateau of a gym franchise recounted as a novel, The Curiosity Muscle shows exactly why most companies reaching the peak of their potential lose their curiosity and crash into irrelevance. From how we develop blind spots about our business to the pitfalls of feeling like an expert, this thought-provoking, engaging tale reveals the smokescreens obscuring imminent threats to long-term viability and walks you through specific ways to boost innovation, uncover customer needs, solve problems, create new value for customers, and increase employee engagement.

Most importantly, The Curiosity Muscle demonstrates why curiosity is your greatest asset, driving constant innovation and improvement and helps you ask the essential questions that will take your business from stagnant to soaring. By continuing to work your curiously muscle over time, you can help your company thrive and become competitive on more than price alone--ultimately, future-proofing your business.

The Curiosity Muscle

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Andrés J. Colmenares

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Cute, clever, and comically ingenious, Andrés Colmenares' popular shark comics are a sweet, sincere tonic for these anxious, troubled times.



This hardcover collection features the cute, uplifting and ingenious aquatic cartoons of Andrés Colmenares, the creator of Wawawiwa Comics, followed by millions of fans around the globe. While sharks are one of the ocean's deadliest predators, these sharks can smell insecurity, doubt, and gloom, and are quick to strike  -- with kindness, cuteness, and positivity!









 

When Sharks Attack with Kindness

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Benjamin Graham

Warren Buffett

The Classic Bestseller on Value Investing

This guide to the stockmarket offers principles proven by the success of investors for over 35 years. Its main objective in its philosophy of value investing is to protect the investor against the areas of possible error and to develop policies which are rational.

The Intelligent Investor

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Charles Duhigg

Few pages slightly highlighted but, otherwise, book is in great condition! 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • Financial Times In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to the sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential. At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. As Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives. With a new Afterword by the author “Sharp, provocative, and useful.”—Jim Collins “Few [books] become essential manuals for business and living. The Power of Habit is an exception. Charles Duhigg not only explains how habits are formed but how to kick bad ones and hang on to the good.”—Financial Times “A flat-out great read.”—David Allen, bestselling author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity “You’ll never look at yourself, your organization, or your world quite the same way.”—Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind “Entertaining . . . enjoyable . . . fascinating . . . a serious look at the science of habit formation and change.”—The New York Times Book Review

The Power of Habit

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Anthony Steuer

Few pages slightly highlighted but, otherwise, in great condition!

A Comprehensive Roadmap to the Coverage You Need

Insurance expert and author Tony Steuer proposes to make the "go to" book on insurance. Encompassing easy-to-understand advice and worksheets, this book can help millions of Americans from all walks of life understand and overcome the complexities of the various types of insurance available in the marketplace.

Insurance Made Easy

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Steve Chandler

No markings or highlights; perfect condition!

Change Your Life Forever

In the paperback edition of this long-time best-seller, motivational speaker Steve Chandler helps you create an action plan for living your vision in business and in life. It features 100 proven methods to positively change the way you think and act, methods based on feedback from the hundreds of thousands of corporate and public seminar attendess Chandler speaks to each year. 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself will help you break through the negative barriers and banish the pessimistic thoughts that are preventing you from fulfilling our lifelong goals and dreams. Whether you're self-employed, a manager, or a high-level executive, it's easy to get stuck in the daily routines of life, fantasizing about what could have been. Steve Chandler helps you turn that way of thinking around, and make what could have been into what can and will be.

100 Ways to Motivate Yourself

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Charles H. Brandes

How to Identity Value Stocks in Global Markets, Build & Manage a Value Stock Porfolio: Proven Method for Superior Returns

Value investing has long been recognized as an effective investment strategy. This book brings the reader through the strategies and thought processes used by professional value investors, using clear language. It presents the concepts, implementation and benefits of value investing and includes an expanded section on international value investing with how-to information on investing overseas. All data, statistics, anecdotes, illustrations and graphics have been updated and the final chapter explores structuring the portfolio for maximum returns.

Value Investing Today

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Opening Your Heart & Embracing Your Natural Joy

The Happiness & Contentment Workbook

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's no better guide through mind-expanding questions such as what the nature of space and time is, how we fit within the universe, and how the universe fits within us than Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestive chapters consumable any time and anywhere in the busy day

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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Leonard Mlodinow

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

An examination of the ways in which the unconscious mind shapes everyday life traces recent scientific advances to reveal the pivotal role of the subliminal mind in influencing experiences and relationships. By the author of The Drunkard's Walk. 100,000 first printing.

Subliminal

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Roger Fisher

William Ury

Negotiating an Agreement Without Giving In

The world's bestselling guide to negotiation. Getting to Yes has been in print for over thirty years, and in that time has helped millions of people secure win-win agreements both at work and in their private lives. Including principles such as: Don't bargain over positions Separate the people from the problem and Insist on objective criteria Getting to Yes simplifies the whole negotation process, offering a highly effective framework that will ensure success.

Getting to Yes

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Dan Buettner

Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People

In this groundbreaking book, Dan Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he's identified as "Blue Zones"--those places with the world's longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people, including locations such as Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California. With the audacious belief that the lifestyles of the world's Blue Zones could be adapted and replicated in towns across North America, Buettner launched the largest preventive health care project in the United States, The Blue Zones City Makeovers, which has impacted the health of millions of Americans since 2009. In The Blue Zones Solution, readers can be inspired by the specific stories of the people, foods, and routines of our healthy elders; understand the role community, family, and naturally healthy habits can play in improving our diet and health; and learn the exact foods--including the 50 superfoods of longevity and dozens of recipes adapted for Western tastes and markets--that offer delicious ways to eat your way to optimum health. Throughout the book are lifestyle recommendations, checklists, and stories to help you create your own personal Blue Zones solution. Readers will learn and apply the 80/20 rule, the plant slant diet, social aspects of eating that lead to weight loss and great health naturally, cultivating your "tribe" of friends and family, and your greater purpose as part of your daily routine. Filled with moving personal stories, delicious recipes, checklists, and useful tips that will transform any home into a miniature blue zone, The Blue Zones Solution is the ultimate blueprint for a healthy, happy life. From the Hardcover edition.

The Blue Zones Solution

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Michael Greger

Gene Stone

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

100+ Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

From Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM, the physician behind the trusted and wildly popular website Nutritionfacts.org, and author of the New York Times bestselling book How Not to Die, comes a beautifully-designed, comprehensive cookbook complete with more than 120 recipes for delicious, life-saving, plant-based meals, snacks, and beverages. Dr. Michael Greger’s bestselling book, How Not to Die, presented the scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of premature death and disability. Now, The How Not to Die Cookbook puts that science into action. From Superfood Breakfast Bites to Spaghetti Squash Puttanesca to Two-Berry Pie with Pecan-Sunflower Crust, every recipe in The How Not to Die Cookbook offers a delectable, easy-to-prepare, plant-based dish to help anyone eat their way to better health. Rooted in the latest nutrition science, these easy-to-follow, stunningly photographed recipes will appeal to anyone looking to live a longer, healthier life. Featuring Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen—the best ingredients to add years to your life—The How Not to Die Cookbook is destined to become an essential tool in healthy kitchens everywhere.

The How Not to Die Cookbook

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Thug Kitchen

Eat Like You Give a F*ck

Thug Kitchen started their wildly popular web site to inspire people to eat some Goddamn vegetables and adopt a healthier lifestyle. Beloved by Gwyneth Paltrow ("This might be my favorite thing ever") and named Saveur’s Best New Food blog of 2013--with half a million Facebook fans and counting--Thug Kitchen wants to show everyone how to take charge of their plates and cook up some real f*cking food. Yeah, plenty of blogs and cookbooks preach about how to eat more kale, why ginger fights inflammation, and how to cook with microgreens and nettles. But they are dull or pretentious as hell--and most people can’t afford the hype. Thug Kitchen lives in the real world. In their first cookbook, they’re throwing down more than 100 vegan recipes for their best-loved meals, snacks, and sides for beginning cooks to home chefs. (Roasted Beer and Lime Cauliflower Tacos? Pumpkin Chili? Grilled Peach Salsa? Believe that sh*t.) Plus they’re going to arm you with all the info and techniques you need to shop on a budget and go and kick a bunch of ass on your own. This book is an invitation to everyone who wants to do better to elevate their kitchen game. No more ketchup and pizza counting as vegetables. No more drive-thru lines. No more avoiding the produce corner of the supermarket. Sh*t is about to get real.

Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook

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Daniel Milstein

You Get What You Work For, Not What You Wish For

In his fourth book, RULE #1 DON'T BE #2, Daniel Milstein inspires like never before, challenging us to dream BIG with his charismatic candor, giving us each a compelling glimpse into our own limitless potential. In addition to Dan's riveting accounts of overcoming adversity, Rule #1 Don't Be #2 captivates with countless stories of those who've dominated their respective fields against seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Framed in Dan's fast-paced, conversational style and his best-loved, thought-provoking quotes, we're gifted the life-changing lessons of the world's greatest achievers. Don't miss Dan's heartfelt tutorial that is destined to become a giant in the motivational genre, and beyond.

Rule #1 Don't Be #2

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Scott Carroll

How to Marry the Man You Were Meant For

Do you want to know the real secret to a satisfying and successful marriage? Getting--and staying--happily married is probably one of the hardest things most of us will ever attempt. In fact, marriage is so challenging that you have to marry well to start with to even have a chance of success. Even worse, the advice you've heard all your life is either wrong or at best incomplete. Heartbroken after his second divorce, Dr. Carroll was determined to solve the puzzle of how to have a successful marriage. Drawing on his professional expertise as a psychiatrist and a wealth of field research, he emerged with a powerful yet simple system for finding your perfect match. Using neuroscience, genetics, behavioral science, psychology, and his work with shamans and other spiritual healers, he will teach you how to "marry" science with spirituality to attract the perfect man for you - the man you were meant for - and how to get him to the altar in as little as a year. You'll learn: - why the usual advice doesn't work - why amazing chemistry is a bad sign - what type of man is perfectly suited for you - how to energetically attract him - how to know he's really "the one" - and of course, how to get him to the altar! If you're tired of the singles scene and frustrated by failed attempts at love, Don't Settle is the step-by-step, complete solution you've been looking for.

Don't Settle

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Mark Skousen

A Compendium of Financial Adages, Ancient Proverbs, and Worldly Wisdom

Maxims of Wall Street is destined to be a classic reference that you will read with delight for years to come, and an ideal gift to investors, stockbrokers and money managers. For nearly 30 years, financial economist and investment writer Mark Skousen has been collecting all the old wise adages, proverbs, and legends on Wall Street, based on in-depth interviews with old timers, reading rare financial books, and his own experiences in the financial markets. He has been the writer of Forecasts & Strategies since 1980.

The Maxims of Wall Street

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Lessons from the World's Happiest People

In this inspiring book, Buettner offers game-changing tools for setting up your life to be the happiest it can be. In these illuminating pages, you'll- Meet the world's Happiness All-Stars-inspiring individuals born in places around the world that nurture happiness as well as Americans boosting well-being in their own communities. Discover how the three strands of happiness-joy, purpose, and satisfaction-weave together in different ways to make Denmark, Costa Rica, and Singapore some of the world's happiest places. Use the Blue Zones Happiness Test to pinpoint areas in your life where change could bring more happiness-and then find practical steps to make those changes. Learn the Top 10 ways to create happiness, as revealed by a panel of the world's leading experts convened specifically for this project. Boost your own happiness by applying the lessons of Blue Zones Project communities-America's largest preventive health care project, which has already improved the health and happiness of millions of people across the United States.

The Blue Zones of Happiness

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Richard K. Morgan

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

In the 25th century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself - a person's consciousness can be easily downloaded into a new body, making death nearly obsolete. Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly brutal. Resleeved into a new body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco), Kovacs is thrown into a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that buys and sells human existence. As a warrior-for-hire, he is called to help a far-flung planet's government put down a bloody revolution. But when a rogue pilot and a sleazy corporate fat cat offer him a lucrative role in a treacherous treasure hunt, he's only too happy to go AWOL with a band of resurrected soldiers of fortune. All that stands between them and the ancient alien spacecraft they mean to salvage are a massacred city bathed in deadly radiation, unleashed nanotechnology with a million ways to kill, and whatever surprises the highly advanced Martian race may have in store.

Altered Carbon

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Bronnie Ware

A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing

Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

Top Five Regrets of the Dying

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Stacy Feiner

Rachel Andreasson

Kathy Overbeke

Jack Harris

Capitalize on the Power of Women's Psychology for Sustainable Leadership

WHAT IS THE SIXTH LEVEL? The Sixth Level is a model of leadership that emerges from the experience of successful leaders. Their narratives describe four core differentiators of mutuality, ingenuity, justness, and intrinsic motivation--this is a leadership model for the future. This book is written by a psychologist and performance coach, a sociologist of gender and leadership, a practitioner-scholar of management, and a business executive and owner, along with sixteen successful leaders who share personal accounts and practical strategies of exemplary leadership. You can become a Sixth Level leader. Read the book and join the movement!

The Sixth Level

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National Geographic

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

500 Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the Globe

For pure pleasure, few experiences are as satisfying as a chance to explore the world's great culinary traditions and landmarks--and here, in the latest title of our popular series of illustrated travel gift books, you'll find a fabulous itinerary of foods, dishes, markets, and restaurants worth traveling far and wide to savor. On the menu is the best of the best from all over the globe: Tokyo's freshest sushi; the spiciest Creole favorites in New Orleans; the finest vintages of the great French wineries; the juiciest cuts of beef in Argentina; and much, much more. You'll sample the sophisticated dishes of fabled chefs and five-star restaurants, of course, but you'll also discover the simpler pleasures of the side-street cafés that cater to local people and the classic specialties that give each region a distinctive flavor. Every cuisine tells a unique story about its countryside, climate, and culture, and in these pages you'll meet the men and women who transform nature's bounty into a thousand gustatory delights. Hundreds of appetizing full-color illustrations evoke an extraordinary range of tastes and cooking techniques; a wide selection of recipes invites you to create as well as consume; sidebars give a wealth of entertaining information about additional sites to visit as well as the cultural importance of the featured food; while lively top ten lists cover topics from chocolate factories to champagne bars, from historic food markets to wedding feasts, harvest celebrations, and festive occasions of every kind. In addition, detailed practical travel information provides all the ingredients you'll need to cook up a truly delicious experience for even the most demanding of traveling gourmets.

Food Journeys of a Lifetime

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Karen Salmansohn

Instant Peptalks to Boost Positivity

""A happiness expert's instant peptalks and whimsical illustrations to grump-proof your brain so you can move forward with optimism, resilience, and positivity"--Provided by publisher"--

Think Happy

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David McRaney

Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself

Explains how self-delusion is part of a person's psychological defense system, identifying common misconceptions people have on topics such as caffeine withdrawal, hindsight, and brand loyalty.

You Are Not So Smart

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Diana Kander; Andy Fromm

The Curiosity Muscle

Andrés J. Colmenares

When Sharks Attack with Kindness

Benjamin Graham; Warren Buffett

The Intelligent Investor

Charles Duhigg

The Power of Habit

Anthony Steuer

Insurance Made Easy

Steve Chandler

100 Ways to Motivate Yourself

Charles H. Brandes

Value Investing Today

Suryacitta (The Happy Buddha)

The Happiness & Contentment Workbook

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Leonard Mlodinow

Subliminal

Roger Fisher; William Ury

Getting to Yes

Dan Buettner

The Blue Zones Solution

Michael Greger; Gene Stone

The How Not to Die Cookbook

Thug Kitchen

Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook

Daniel Milstein

Rule #1 Don't Be #2

Scott Carroll

Don't Settle

Mark Skousen

The Maxims of Wall Street

Dan Buettner

The Blue Zones of Happiness

Richard K. Morgan

Altered Carbon

Bronnie Ware

Top Five Regrets of the Dying

Stacy Feiner; Rachel Andreasson; Kathy Overbeke; Jack Harris

The Sixth Level

National Geographic

Food Journeys of a Lifetime

Karen Salmansohn

Think Happy

David McRaney

You Are Not So Smart

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