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The little-known story of Wall Street's effort to court individual investors during the Cold War in order to build a bulwark against communism.
Immediately after the frightening Great Crash of 1929, many Americans swore they would never-or never again-become involved in the stock market. Yet hordes of Americans eventually did come to embrace equity investing, to an extent actually far greater, than the level of popular involvement in the market during...
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Scott E. Page is the Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan. His books include The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies (Princeton).
How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think
What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right...
1563) Clutter-Free Forever
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Is your home filled with stuff?
Want to declutter but not sure how?
Are you longing for some space in your busy life?
This practical and easy-to-read book provides an adaptable game plan to declutter your home and your life once and for all. There is guidance on how to organize your remaining things, tips on changing your consumer behavior so you can keep your house in order and an entire chapter devoted to alternatives to throwing unwanted items...
1564) The soulmate
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"Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate. There's a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa's dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn't....
1565) Supermoms!
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Candlewick Press
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2023.
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"An emperor penguin mom treks up to fifty miles to bring food to her hungry chick. A toothy American alligator carefully carries hatchlings in her mouth, shuttling them safely to the water. A piping plover uses her best acting skills to feign an injury, luring predators away from her offspring. Whether building elaborate burrows, forgoing food for months on end to feed their cubs, toting hundreds of spiderlings on their backs, conducting patient swimming...
1566) Hibernation
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Capstone Press
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c2007
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Simple text and photographs introduce hibernation and how some animals prepare for and experience hibernation each year.
1567) The boys' club: a novel
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"Alex Vogel has always been a high achiever who lived her life by the book--star student and athlete in high school, prelaw whiz in college, Harvard Law School degree. Accepting a dream offer at the prestigious Manhattan law firm of Klasko & Fitch, she promises her sweet and supportive longtime boyfriend that the job won't change her. Yet Alex is seduced by the firm's money and energy ... and by her cocksure male colleagues, who quickly take notice...
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Dutton, Penguin Random House
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[2023]
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"Descended from shy, solitary North African wild cats, domestic cats set up homes with devoted owners all over the world by learning how to talk to us. This book translates-in case you missed anything. A renowned cat behavior scientist of over thirty years, Dr. Sarah Brown has been at the forefront of research in the field, discovering how cats use tail signals to interact with each other and their owners. Now, she reveals the previously unexplored...
1569) A clockwork orange
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
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2007
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"Stamping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating, Derby-topped hooligan Alex has a good time -- at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of the Anthony Burgess novel"--Container.
1570) Three little monkeys
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Harper
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2017.
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Tim, Sam, and Lulu are the mischievous and naughty three little monkeys who are told each day to be good while Hilda goes off to do her errands. And each day, Hilda returns home to find a bigger mess than the day before. These mischievous monkeys will likely never learn to behave!
1571) Revenge of the Dinotrux
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Little, Brown
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2012
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Stuck in a museum where they are poked, prodded, studied, and shaken by visitors, the Dinotrux, unearthed prehistoric ancestors of today's trucks, take revenge when Tyrannosaurus Trux discovers chewing gum all over his claws.
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El modelo de éxito para fijar objetivos correctamente
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para entender y aplicar los criterios SMART, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Entender los 5 criterios que componen el método SMART: eSpecífico, Medible, Asignable, Realista, Temporal
• Validar la pertinencia de los objetivos de su negocio gracias a los criterios...
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"Co-Winner of the 2014 Best Book Award, The Labor Project of the American Political Science Association" John S. Ahlquist is the Lyons Family Faculty Scholar and associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Margaret Levi is the Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington and Foundational Chair in Politics at the University of Sydney's United States Studies Centre.
A groundbreaking...
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Diagnostics et psychothérapies pour les enfants victimes de troubles de l'attention.
Malgré les nombreuses connaissances sur le TDAH, de nombreuses questions restent ouvertes en la matière. L'hyperactivité existe-t-elle vraiment ou est-ce un phénomène de mode? Quelles sont les conséquences sur la personne TDAH et son entourage? Existe-t-il une prise en charge efficace pour ce trouble?
Cet ouvrage se propose d'expliquer la nature de ce trouble,...
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Maggie Lamond Simone details her experience with recovery from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and addiction. Her painful journey provides insight for the thousands of others who similarly cut, starve, pick, drink, pluck, purge, and otherwise hurt themselves in private in order to survive in public. She also explores the issues of substance abuse, anxiety, and depression that commonly occur with OCD.
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If we are to disentangle the extraordinary challenges that we face today in organizations, communities, and nations we must transcend our divisions and develop solutions together. But what enables us to collectively make wise choices and sound judgments instead of splintering apart?
When human beings gather together, a depth of awareness and insight, a transcendent knowing, becomes available. Based on nine years of research The Power of Collective...
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Bess Cunningham was born, and currently lives, in Brooklyn, New York. Since childhood she has suffered with severe OCD, anxiety and depression. In desperation for relief, Bess spent ten years researching and experimenting. Through her efforts she remains OCD free and is enjoying her life.
1578) Judge Thy Neighbor: Denunciations in the Spanish Inquisition, Romanov Russia, and Nazi Germany
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From the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. What motivates citizens to inform on the people next door? In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understanding the motives for denunciations in terms of institutional structures and incentives.
In case studies of societies in which denunciations were widespread,...
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En este recurso, Ben Bennett y el autor de best sellers Josh McDowell combinan la sabiduría ganada con esfuerzo y pasión juvenil para presentar principios bíblicos, probados por el tiempo y respaldados por la investigación, para superar las heridas, las luchas y los obstáculos para vivir una vida en todo su potencial, el tipo de vida para el que has nacido.
Supera tus luchas. Realiza tus anhelos más profundos. Toda tu vida te espera.
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1580) The Waste Makers
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An exposé of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals," The Waste Makers is Vance Packard's pioneering 1960 work on how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods was degrading the environmental, financial, and spiritual character of American society. The Waste Makers was the first book to probe the increasing commercialization of American life-the development of consumption for...
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