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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century

A revealing history of the economic and political forces that have shaped the contemporary world argues that the spread of globalization has occurred as a direct result of political choices, tracing the collapse of globalization between 1914 and 1945 and the movement's revival at the end of the twentieth century. Reprint.

Global Capitalism

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Sophia Amoruso

In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called “Lean In for misfits,” Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world. Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. By age twenty-two she had dropped out of school, and was broke, directionless, and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school—a job she’d taken for the health insurance. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay. Flash forward to today, and she’s the founder of Nasty Gal and the founder and CEO of Girlboss. Sophia was never a typical CEO, or a typical anything, and she’s written #GIRLBOSS for other girls like her: outsiders (and insiders) seeking a unique path to success, even when that path is windy as all hell and lined with naysayers. #GIRLBOSS proves that being successful isn’t about where you went to college or how popular you were in high school. It’s about trusting your instincts and following your gut; knowing which rules to follow and which to break; when to button up and when to let your freak flag fly. “A witty and cleverly told account . . . It’s this kind of honest advice, plus the humorous ups and downs of her rise in online retail, that make the book so appealing.” —Los Angeles Times “Amoruso teaches the innovative and entrepreneurial among us to play to our strengths, learn from our mistakes, and know when to break a few of the traditional rules.” —Vanity Fair “#GIRLBOSS is more than a book . . . #GIRLBOSS is a movement.” —Lena Dunham

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Carley Hauck

Very good clean tight copy. Very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Ignite Your Inner Game to Lead Consciously at Work and in the World

If you want to lead your business consciously and be a force for change, here are the essential inner skills you need for success “You know how it can be—pressure to produce, demanding deadlines, difficult coworkers. The result: anxiety, short tempers, and an unhealthy workplace. When you create a foundation of safety and belonging, you alter the atmosphere. You create ease where there was tension.” So writes pioneering leadership consultant Carley Hauck. With Shine, she offers the essential tools you and your business need to thrive amidst constant change. There’s a great transformation taking place in business, with people looking not only to change outcomes, but also with both a shift toward a sustainable future for our planet and toward promoting greater personal and team well-being day to day. But this takes more than ideals. You need a strong “inner game”: a foundation of calm and clarity, emotional capacity, authenticity, empathy, and accountability. Hauck shares the indispensable inner-game tools she’s taught to thousands of successful entrepreneurs, professionals, and C-Suite leaders. You will find exercises to help you boost effectiveness and creativity, promote authenticity, encourage courageous conversations, and build a sense of belonging throughout your company. Hauck spotlights courageous leaders and shares leading-edge research as well as stories from her work to demonstrate that a great inner game can transform your business and the world.

1st ed./1st * Shine

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Stuart C. Gilson

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups

This work is a collection of case studies illustrating real-world techniques, implementation, and strategies on corporate restructuring. They examine the numerous companies and trillions of dollars involved in corporate restructuring since the 1980s.

Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

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Daniel Kahneman

Olivier Sibony

Cass R. Sunstein

Collaboration among the professors from Princeton, Oxford, and Harvard. Self help, improving judgements. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Flaw in Human Judgment

From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking exploration of why most people make bad judgments, and how to control for that noise.​ Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients -- or that two judges in the same courthouse give different sentences to people who have committed the same crime. Suppose that different food inspectors give different ratings to indistinguishable restaurants -- or that when a company is handling customer complaints, the resolution depends on who happens to be handling the particular complaint. Now imagine that the same doctor, the same judge, the same inspector, or the same company official makes different decisions, depending on whether it is morning or afternoon, or Monday rather than Wednesday. These are examples of noise: variability in judgments that should be identical. In Noise, Daniel Kahneman, Cass R. Sunstein, and Olivier Sibony show how noise contributes significantly to errors in all fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, police behavior, food safety, bail, security checks at airports, strategy, and personnel selection. And although noise can be found wherever people make judgments and decisions, individuals and organizations alike are commonly oblivious to the role of chance in their judgments and in their actions. Drawing on the latest findings in psychology and behavioral economics, and the same kind of diligent, insightful research that made Thinking, Fast and Slow and Nudge groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers, Noise explains how and why humans are so susceptible to noise in judgment -- and what we can do about it.

1st Ed /1st * Noise

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Markus K. Brunnermeier

Harold James

Jean-Pierre Landau

Very good tight unread condition. Upper right edge has little stain. Very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Authoritative writers.
Princeton University Press

Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2017, Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Jean Pisani-Ferry), The Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2016, and The Economist’s Economics and Business Books of the Year 2016–Wikipedia 

The No-Bailout Clause -- Fiscal Unions -- Eurobonds -- Policy Recommendations -- 7: Solvency versus Liquidity -- Buildup of Imbalances and the Naked Swimmer -- Solvency -- Liquidity -- Crossing the Rubicon via Default -- Sovereign-Debt Restructuring and Insolvency Mechanism -- Fiscal Push: Increasing Scale and Scope of EFSF and ESM -- Monetary Push -- Policy Recommendations -- 8: Austerity versus Stimulus -- The Fiscal Multiplier Debate -- The Output Gap versus Unsustainable Booms Debate -- Politics Connects Structural Reforms and Austerity

1st ed./1st * The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

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Claire A. Hill

Richard W. Painter

Very good clean tight unread condition, in very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing. University of Chicago Press.

Promoting Good Business Through Contractual Commitment

Taking financial risks is an essential part of what banks do, but there’s no clear sense of what constitutes responsible risk. Taking legal risks seems to have become part of what banks do as well. Since the financial crisis, Congress has passed copious amounts of legislation aimed at curbing banks’ risky behavior. Lawsuits against large banks have cost them billions. Yet bad behavior continues to plague the industry. Why isn’t there more change? In Better Bankers, Better Banks, Claire A. Hill and Richard W. Painter look back at the history of banking and show how the current culture of bad behavior—dramatized by the corrupt, cocaine-snorting bankers of The Wolf of Wall Street—came to be. In the early 1980s, banks went from partnerships whose partners had personal liability to corporations whose managers had no such liability and could take risks with other people’s money. A major reason bankers remain resistant to change, Hill and Painter argue, is that while banks have been faced with large fines, penalties, and legal fees—which have exceeded one hundred billion dollars since the onset of the crisis—the banks (which really means the banks’shareholders) have paid them, not the bankers themselves. The problem also extends well beyond the pursuit of profit to the issue of how success is defined within the banking industry, where highly paid bankers clamor for status and clients may regard as inevitable bankers who prioritize their own self-interest. While many solutions have been proposed, Hill and Painter show that a successful transformation of banker behavior must begin with the bankers themselves. Bankers must be personally liable from their own assets for some portion of the bank’s losses from excessive risk-taking and illegal behavior. This would instill a culture that discourages such behavior and in turn influence the sorts of behavior society celebrates or condemns. Despite many sensible proposals seeking to reign in excessive risk-taking, the continuing trajectory of scandals suggests that we’re far from ready to avert the next crisis. Better Bankers, Better Banks is a refreshing call for bankers to return to the idea that theirs is a noble profession.

Better Bankers, Better Banks * 1st ed./1st

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Mikael Krogerus

Roman Tschäppeler

Jenny Piening

Philip Earnhart

50 Models for Strategic Thinking

Offers fifty different strategies and models for making better choices and decisions, including explanations and guidance for applying such models as the Rubber Band Model, the Personal Performance Model, and the Pareto Principle.

The Decision Book

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Arkansas

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Steve Fisher

Ja-Nae Duane

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Michigan

Visualize Your Successful New Business You have a great idea for a new business. Now what? How do you turn that great idea into a viable business? Leveraging visual tools, The Startup Equation leads you step by step through the decisions you need to make to find your perfect startup model. You'll learn things such as identifying your unique entrepreneurial type, creating a great product, building a great team, finding funding and scaling in addition to other elements essential to crafting a roadmap that fits you and your business. Drawing from their extensive experience working with startups, entrepreneurs Steve Fisher and Ja-Naé Duane offer expert advice on dealing with the challenges and opportunities that accompany every type of new business. Using visual storytelling, they provide a much-needed blueprint to understanding the startup economy. The authors include illustrative business examples from companies such as TechStars and 500Startups, as well as interviews with over 40 entrepreneurs from across the globe. Filled with insightful case studies, The Startup Equation is a vibrant, practical guide to creating a winning business model for any startup. By following the accessible visual roadmap within, you’ll discover how to build your own successful business plan for your unique dream. Steve Fisher is product designer, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and startup advisor. Ja-Naé Duane is an entrepreneur, researcher, startup advisor, and professor of entrepreneurship & innovation.

The Startup Equation: a Visual Guidebook to Building Your Startup

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Evan Baehr

Evan Loomis

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Craft Your Story, Build the Perfect Pitch Deck, and Launch the Venture of Your Dreams

Now that you have your big idea, how will you find and win your first investor? You need a pitch deck--the perfect set of slides to persuade investors to back you and your venture. But a pitch deck isn't merely a business plan put into PowerPoint--nor does a pitch deck magically turn into investor capital. A pitch deck communicates your vision and competence and can be used as part of an investor road show. But most of all, a great deck will help you build the relationships that will sustain your business. Here, Evan Baehr and Evan Loomis--two veterans of the startup world--will show you how to create a compelling pitch deck and how to plan and execute a fundraising road show that will win financial support for your business. This process will also help you think more clearly about your vision, your company, and your relationships.--Adapted from cover flap.

Get Backed

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Ronald B. Adler

Jeanne Marquardt Elmhorst

Kristen Lucas

Kentucky

Business & Economics

The 11th edition of Communicating at Work enhances the strategic approach real-world practicality and reader-friendly voice that have made this text the market leader for three decades. On every page students learn how to communicate in ways that enhance their own career success and help their organization operate effectively. This edition retains the hallmark features that have been praised by faculty and students--a strong emphasis on ethical communication and cultural diversity discussions of evolving communication technologies and self-assessment tools--while incorporating important updates and ground-breaking digital teaching and learning tools to help students better connect to the course material and apply it to real world business situations.

Communicating at Work: Strategies for Success in Business and the Professions

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Ryan Serhant

Arizona

Stand Out from the Crowd, Build Your Following, and Earn More Money

Bestselling author and real estate mogul Ryan Serhant shares how to build a brand from scratch Brand is everything. Whether you're a real estate broker, a hair stylist, or a contractor, your end goal is the same: get leads and generate new business. You want people to think of you the split second they consider looking for a new apartment, getting highlights, or finally redoing that guest bathroom. And while building a brand from scratch sounds daunting, the authentic you is already a brand--you just might not know it yet. Brand It Like Serhant guides readers through the exact same strategy that transformed SERHANT from that-broker-above-Burger Heaven into the most recognized real estate brand in the world. Like the bestselling Sell it Like Serhant and Big Money Energy, Ryan's third book features actionable, easy-to-follow advice couched within the crazy stories that continue to make up his daily life as an entrepreneur, but also fresh and incisive interviews with the people behind some of the most popular brands today: Gary Vaynerchuck, Kenneth Cole, Rebecca Minkoff, Justina Blakeny, and Mark Manson, to name a few. Start to finish, this book empowers readers to build an authentic, enduring brand by becoming known for what they want to be known for--and skyrocket their career.

Brand It Like Serhant

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Malcolm Gladwell

How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

The Tipping Point

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Eliyahu Goldratt

Jeff Cox

A Process of Ongoing Improvement

The Goal

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Eric Ries

Pennsylvania

How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Outlines a revisionist approach to management while arguing against common perceptions about the inevitability of startup failures, explaining the importance of providing genuinely needed products and services as well as organizing a business that can adapt to continuous customer feedback.

The Lean Startup

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An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 3 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: • make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); • overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; • design your environment to make success easier; • get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

Atomic Habits

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How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Catering Business

Book and CD-ROM. Do you need a comprehensive book on how to plan, start and operate a successful catering operation? This is it--an extensive, detailed manual that shows you step by step how to set up, operate and manage a financially successful catering business. No component is left out of this encyclopedic new book explaining the risky but potentially highly rewarding business of catering. Whether your catering operation is on-premise, off-premise, mobile, inside a hotel, part of a restaurant, or from your own home kitchen -- you will find this book very useful. You will learn the fundamentals: profitable menu planning, successful kitchen management, equipment layout and planning, and food safety and HACCP. The employee and management chapters deal with how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, manage and train employees, and report tips properly in accordance with the latest IRS requirements. The financial chapters focus on basic cost-control systems, accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning. You'll also master public relations and publicity, learn low-cost internal marketing ideas, and discover low-and no-cost ways to satisfy customers. One section of the book is devoted to home-based catering entrepreneurs. With low startup costs and overhead, a home-based catering business can be an ideal do-it-yourself part-or full-time business. Another section is for restaurateurs that wish to add catering to their restaurant operation. A successful restaurant's bottom line could be greatly enhanced by instituting catering functions in slow hours or "down time." For example, many restaurants are closed on Saturday afternoons, so this would be an ideal time to create a profit by catering a wedding This book is also ideal for professionals in the catering industries, as well as newcomers who may be looking for answers to cost containment and training issues. There are literally hundreds of innovative ways demonstrated to streamline your catering operation. Existing operators will appreciate the valuable resource and reference in their daily activities and as a source of ready-to-use forms, Web sites, operating and cost cutting ideas, and mathematical formulas that can be easily applied to their operations. The new companion CD-ROM contains all the forms from the book in a PDF format for easy use, plus a 100+ page business plan in Microsoft Word.

The Professional Caterer's Handbook

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Learning Team Skills by Arthur H. Bell and Dayle M. Smith 2011 Paperback 2nd Ed.. Condition is Very good. 

Learning Team Skills by Arthur H. Bell and Dayle M. Smith 2011 Paperback 2nd Ed.

Fred Kofman

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

How to Build Value Through Values

Presents techniques for organizational success that involve embracing such qualities as integrity, authenticity, accountability, and honesty.

Conscious Business

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Spencer Johnson

Kenneth Blanchard

An a-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

Relates a highly meaningful parable intended to help one deal with change quickly and prevail, offering readers a simple way to progress in their work and lives.

Who Moved My Cheese?

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James Clear

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Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economy

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent--but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of "fitting in" and "going along" spells doom in the knowledge economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule or intimidate. Not every idea is good, and yes there are stupid questions, and yes dissent can slow things down, but talking through these things is an essential part of the creative process. People must be allowed to voice half-finished thoughts, ask questions from left field, and brainstorm out loud; it creates a culture in which a minor flub or momentary lapse is no big deal, and where actual mistakes are owned and corrected, and where the next left-field idea could be the next big thing. 

This book explores this culture of psychological safety, and provides a blueprint for bringing it to life. The road is sometimes bumpy, but succinct and informative scenario-based explanations provide a clear path forward to constant learning and healthy innovation.

 * Explore the link between psychological safety and high performance
 * Create a culture where it's "safe" to express ideas, ask questions, and admit mistakes
 * Nurture the level of engagement and candor required in today's knowledge economy
 * Follow a step-by-step framework for establishing psychological safety in your team or organization

Shed the "yes-men" approach and step into real performance. Fertilize creativity, clarify goals, achieve accountability, redefine leadership, and much more. The Fearless Organization helps you bring about this most critical transformation.

The Fearless Organization

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No matter your goals, Atomic Habits, offers a proven framework for getting 1% better every day. James Clear one of the worlds, leading experts in habit formation, reveals practical strategies that would teach you exactly how to master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves not because you don’t want to change but because you have the wrong system for change. you do not rise to the level of your goals. You feel to the level of your systems. In this book you’ll get a plan that can take you to the Noulu Heights. ￼

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Global Capitalism

Sophia Amoruso

#girlboss

Carley Hauck

1st ed./1st * Shine

Stuart C. Gilson

Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

Daniel Kahneman; Olivier Sibony; Cass R. Sunstein

1st Ed /1st * Noise

Markus K. Brunnermeier; Harold James; Jean-Pierre Landau

1st ed./1st * The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

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Better Bankers, Better Banks * 1st ed./1st

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The Decision Book

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Vintage 1938 training and service for executive work busines Management training in service for executive work

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The Startup Equation: a Visual Guidebook to Building Your Startup

Evan Baehr; Evan Loomis

Get Backed

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Communicating at Work: Strategies for Success in Business and the Professions

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Brand It Like Serhant

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The Goal

Eric Ries

The Lean Startup

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Conscious Business

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