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California

The legal know-how and forms that every California entrepreneur needs. 

The only California-specific book on all the business basics you need to know

Want to start your own California business? Don't know where to begin? Start here.

The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California shows you how to set up a small business in the Golden State quickly and easily. It clearly explains the fees, forms, and bureaucratic technicalities you'll encounter and shows you how to efficiently get your business up and running in California. Find out how to:

* choose between an LLC and other business structures
* write an effective business plan
* pick a winning business name and protect it
* get needed California licenses and permits
* hire and manage staff in compliance with California laws
* comply with legal and tax issues affecting home businesses
* price, bid, and bill your projects
* manage finances and taxes
* start a website for your business, and
* market your business effectively, online and off.

The 11th edition is completely updated, with the latest federal and state legal and tax rules affecting California small businesses, and use of social media to promote your brand and drive website traffic.

The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant--but accessible--ideas to expand every mind.

What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world's most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the world.

Contributors include:


 * Daniel Kahneman on the "focusing illusion"
 * Jonah Lehrer on controlling attention
 * Richard Dawkins on experimentation
 * Aubrey De Grey on conquering our fear of the unknown
 * Martin Seligman on the ingredients of well-being
 * Nicholas Carr on managing "cognitive load"
 * Steven Pinker on win-win negotiating
 * Daniel Goleman on understanding our connection to the natural world
 * Matt Ridley on tapping collective intelligence
 * Lisa Randall on effective theorizing
 * Brian Eno on "ecological vision"
 * J. Craig Venter on the multiple possible origins of life  
 * Helen Fisher on temperament
 * Sam Harris on the flow of thought
 * Lawrence Krauss on living with uncertainty

This Will Make You Smarter

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Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof

Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps of faith. Some of the most potent beliefs among brilliant minds are based on supposition alone -- yet that is enough to push those minds toward making the theory viable.

Eminent cultural impresario, editor, and publisher of Edge (www.edge.org), John Brockman asked a group of leading scientists and thinkers to answer the question: What do you believe to be true even though you cannot prove it? This book brings together the very best answers from the most distinguished contributors.

Thought-provoking and hugely compelling, this collection of bite-size thought-experiments is a fascinating insight into the instinctive beliefs of some of the most brilliant minds today.

What We Believe but Cannot Prove

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Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything





Even geniuses change their minds sometimes.

Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about The answers are brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates.

Steven Pinker on the future of human evolution * Richard Dawkins on the mysteries of courtship * SAM HARRIS on the indifference of Mother Nature * Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the irrelevance of probability * Chris Anderson on the reality of global warming * Alan Alda on the existence of God * Ray Kurzweil on the possibility of extraterrestrial life * Brian Eno on what it means to be a "revolutionary" * Helen Fisher on love, fidelity, and the viability of marriage * Irene Pepperberg on learning from parrots . . . and many others.

What Have You Changed Your Mind About?

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Why we resist the truth about Climate Change

This book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act.This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, and why it is now too late. It is a book about the frailties of the human species as expressed in both the institutions we built and the psychological dispositions that have led us on the path of self-destruction. It is about our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our penchant for avoiding the facts. It is the story of a battle within us between the forces that should have caused us to protect the Earth - our capacity to reason and our connection to Nature - and those that, in the end, have won out - our greed, materialism and alienation from Nature. And it is about the 21st century consequences of these failures.Clive Hamilton is author of the bestselling Affluenza and Growth Fetish, of Scorcher, and most recently Freedom Paradox.

Requiem for a Species

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"I'm beside myself, I can barely write thisthe design on my left hand is now extended up my wrist..." So deepens the enigma of The Tattooed Map, a richly illustrated and thoroughly captivating first novel by Barbara Hodgson. Somewhere in Northern Africa, an intrepid traveler awakens with a mysterious mark on her hand that soon develops into a detailed, macabre map spreading across her skin. As Lydia's private journal entries unfoldcomplete with fold-out maps, photographs, drawings, and handwritten notesthe reader becomes as drawn into the conundrum of the tattooed map as Lydia herself. When Lydia disappears and her friend Christopher takes up her journal to record his search for her, the situation becomes even more puzzlinguntil the book's haunting resolution. In this unique novel, as engrossing to look at as it is to read, Hodgson has crafted a spine-tingling mystery that will make armchair adventurers want to embark upon their own journeysif only they could be sure of their return.

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FORM A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT CORPORATION

Tens of thousands of arts groups, educators, social service agencies, environmental groups and others have used this bestselling book to form their California nonprofit. Your group can, too.

Obtaining 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status has just become a lot easier with the new IRS Form 1023-EZ streamlined application. Use this book to form your California nonprofit corporation and obtain your federal and state tax exemptions. We provide step-by-step instructions for both the Form 1023 and the new easier Form 1023-EZ.

How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California shows you how to:

 * choose a corporate name and structure
 * prepare and file nonprofit articles with the state of California
 * qualify as a 501(c)(3) public charity
 * obtain your federal and California tax exemptions
 * create bylaws
 * set up a corporate records book
 * prepare minutes of your first board meeting
 * handle postincorporation filings and tasks.

This new 16th edition is completely updated to cover changes to the law.

Check out Nolo's list of California products [http://www.nolo.com/products/california]. Not a California resident? Use How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation [http://www.nolo.com/products/how-to-form-a-nonprofit-corporation-NNP.html] .

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