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  • Men, Money & Gypsy Blood
    Sharron Ann Sibley
    DESERTED BY HER PERFECT HUSBAND. Divorced twice. Widowed twice. Declared bankruptcy. Single mother of two young boys. No college education, savings, or job. Sound like the recipe for financial success?Men, Money & Gypsy Blood is a coming-of-age story expressed as only a West Texas girl can tell it. A 1960s teen, Sharron Ann Sibley wanted nothing more than to find a gorgeous hus...
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    19,14 €

  • Bloodied for the Cause
    William Bisbing
    The book reveals the inner workings of a large union taken from newspaper and union officials accounts.The story involves several union officers, how they related to each other in their rise in union power, and how they shared and honed their respective skills over the years to the rank and file, which they all had represented in their early days. Only to find after years of el...
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    13,44 €

  • Bloodied for the Cause
    William Bisbing
    The book reveals the inner workings of a large union taken from newspaper and union officials accounts.The story involves several union officers, how they related to each other in their rise in union power, and how they shared and honed their respective skills over the years to the rank and file, which they all had represented in their early days. Only to find after years of el...
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    20,96 €

  • MEDDLING
    Stuart Burchell
    A VSO volunteer is posted to Tajikistan to work for a local agricultural extension organisation as an economic adviser.  This memoir is the story of his encounters with the people of this remote and little known Central Asian republic - his own Sentimental Journey to a place that once formed part of the Soviet Union. ...
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    24,22 €

  • Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
    Edwin Lefevre
    These are no ordinary reminiscences a Wall Street broker--these are, according to many readers, the personal tales of legendary trader Jesse Livermore, the man often blamed for the stock market crash of 1929.Written by American journalist, writer, and diplomat EDWIN LEFÈVRE (1871-1943), Livermore recounts his rise from quotation-board boy to master of the market. He tells of sp...
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    36,45 €

  • Interviews With Beekeepers
    Steve Donohoe
    Beekeeping is many things to many people. Maybe it's a hobby, a vocation, a commercial enterprise or your field of study. It will almost certainly become an obsession.For author Steve Donohoe, beekeeping was a form of therapy - an escape from the stresses of corporate life to something natural and healing. Steve decided to write the book that he wanted to read but couldn...
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    33,36 €

  • Interviews With Beekeepers
    Steve Donohoe
    Beekeeping is many things to many people. Maybe it's a hobby, a vocation, a commercial enterprise or your field of study. It will almost certainly become an obsession.For author Steve Donohoe, beekeeping was a form of therapy - an escape from the stresses of corporate life to something natural and healing. Steve decided to write the book that he wanted to read but couldn...
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    43,99 €

  • Born In Huronia
    Robert Popple
    On September 28, 1941, the same day that Robert Popple was born in Penetanguishene, Ontario, Ted Williams ended his baseball season with a .406 batting average, a MLB record that still stands today. Patterned after Mark Twain’s recently published autobiography, this memoir describes Popple’s life growing up in 1950s Huronia and later, making his way in the world. With public co...
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    47,72 €

  • Born In Huronia
    Robert Popple
    On September 28, 1941, the same day that Robert Popple was born in Penetanguishene, Ontario, Ted Williams ended his baseball season with a .406 batting average, a MLB record that still stands today. Patterned after Mark Twain’s recently published autobiography, this memoir describes Popple’s life growing up in 1950s Huronia and later, making his way in the world. With public co...
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    68,27 €

  • In the Arena
    Beau Robinson
    Success isn’t a linear path. There are unplanned twists and turns, soaring highs and devastating lows. But through it all, there are certain traits that set the successful apart from the rest of the pack…In his first book, former professional rugby player turned business leadership coach, Beau Robinson, delivers a fresh perspective on what it takes to find success - in business...
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    20,23 €

  • Worth It
    Dan Price
    Dan Price gained worldwide attention in 2015 when he announced that he was instituting a $70,000 minimum wage at his company, Gravity Payments, and would slash his $1 million salary in order to pay for it. While many praised the decision as a bold step toward combating income inequality in the United States, others vilified Price as a radical socialist whose 'experiment' was do...
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    17,19 €

  • Worth It
    Dan Price / TBD
    Dan Price gained worldwide attention in 2015 when he announced that he was instituting a $70,000 minimum wage at his company, Gravity Payments, and would slash his $1 million salary in order to pay for it. While many praised the decision as a bold step toward combating income inequality in the United States, others vilified Price as a radical socialist whose 'experiment' was do...
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    12,47 €

  • Entrepreneurship for Deprived Communities
    Alex Avramenko / Nikolai Mouraviev
    Using case studies and research-based narratives to investigate the barriers facing developing enterprises in deprived communities, this book provides a toolkit for small business professionals and local authorities to revitalise a community-centered enterprise culture and reinvigorate disadvantaged groups. ...
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    84,78 €

  • REINVENT YOURSELF
    Rick Denley
    In this revolutionary self-help guide, the author Rick Denley, a global transformational growth coach, catapults you towards conquering any mess, movement or mission you are on, through self reinvention.For anyone going through or considering change, it will require far more energy for our bodies and our brains to change and reinvent something—anything—especially ourselves! Tak...
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    19,05 €

  • Working My Way Through Life
    Russ Vahlbusch / TBD
    In "Working My Way Through Life," the remarkable Russ Vahlbusch tells his life story, one job at a time... or at least he tells us the stories he can. Beginning with his first paying job at age five, he recounts his positions, responsibilities, and supervisors, spanning the next eighty-five years. A delightful book written when Russ was ninety-two. ...
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    14,70 €

  • Henry Clay Frick and the Golden Age of Coal and Coke, 1870-1920
    Cassandra Vivian
    Once the beehive coke oven was perfected in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the coal and coke industry began to flourish and supply other fledgling industries with the fuel they needed to succeed. The thrust of this growth came from Henry Clay Frick, who opened his first coal mines in the Morgan Valley of Fayette County in 1871. There, he helped lead the industry, making it the m...
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    63,85 €

  • Becoming JoJo MacBean
    Andrew J Pignatare
    As MacBean would put it:  “I was born and raised, I conquered Wall Street, Wall Street conquered me, I lived a hobo life, I stole from dead people, and I made a comeback.”  Becoming JoJo MacBean is the story of a young Scottish lad growing up in New York City, nicknamed MacBean by the parish priest, and wanting just one thing – to be a successful Wall Street broker. When MacBea...
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    22,61 €

  • Slay Your Legacy
    Charron Monaye
    “A family that prays together stays together.” That’s what they say, but what about a family that writes together? Well, that writing family WINS together.In 2015, award-winning author and playwright Charron Monaye accepted a challenge presented and birthed her greatest legacy, Pen Legacy Publishing. She relied on everything she knew about the literary industry and passed the t...
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    28,12 €

  • Elon Musk
    Olivia Tomlinson
    It is important to take note of the innovative people throughout history who have been at the faces of change. The problem is that we often don’t recognize who those people are until much later. Hindsight provides us with a clear and unobstructed view of who the movers and shakers were, but in the present, we can be so distracted by everything that’s happening—the various peopl...
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    19,53 €

  • Elon Musk
    Andrew Knight
    ELON MUSK Elon Musk has been busy improving humanity’s chance of long term survival for nearly 20 years. After helping to form PayPal, Musk went on to form a company whose work has since replaced the space shuttle when it comes to NASA flights to the space station and is behind the recent expansion in the number of electric cars on the road as well. In addition to being a com...
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    19,30 €

  • JUMPSHIP
    Abe Thebyane
    Are you tired of reading books that tell you what is wrong with you and what you need to do to be a success in life but never tell you how?Well, Jump Ship will not only tell you what but will also tell you the how and most importantly the why of each step it recommends to transition from corporate to your own business in a financially safe and risk- free wayDo you want to leave...
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    25,55 €

  • Elon Musk
    Andrew Reed
    ELON MUSK This book aims to serve as somewhat of a biography-to-date of the incredible entrepreneur that is Elon Musk. Elon is well known for his ventures with Tesla Motors, and also with SpaceX, but he has been involved in many other businesses as you will soon find out. Inside, you will learn about Elon’s childhood, his time in college, his early experiences with business, ...
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    19,58 €

  • The Bravest Hunter
    Michael E. Newell / Michael ENewell
    This book explains how Native American Casinos became the largest group of casinos in America as a result of the efforts of Congress, the National Indian Gaming Commission, and the creative management companies and game suppliers that served the tribes. This book is the biography of Gordon Graves, whom many consider being the Father of Indian Gaming. It tracks his early career ...
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    14,67 €

  • The Gift of Loss
    Agasar Cathy
    When Cathy Agasar’s husband of over twenty years was killed suddenly, leaving her to raise their three children alone, she finally took stock of how she’d been living—and made a choice which transformed everything. She’d been putting everyone else’s needs first, which completely zapped her emotional, physical, and spiritual reserves—the exact reserves she desperately needed whe...
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    11,86 €

  • Orbit
    CW Cooke / Marc Shapiro
    What do the owner of the Brooklyn Nets, the CEO of Starbucks, the Chairman of General Electric, and a Tea Party activist from Georgia have in common? They are all self-made millionaires (and, in some cases, billionaires) who took advantage of American capitalism to shape their empires. Read the stories behind the power. Tycoon: Rise to the Top features Mikhail Prokhorov, Howard...
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    23,41 €

  • Orbit
    CW Cooke / Marc Shapiro
    What do the owner of the Brooklyn Nets, the CEO of Starbucks, the Chairman of General Electric, and a Tea Party activist from Georgia have in common? They are all self-made millionaires (and, in some cases, billionaires) who took advantage of American capitalism to shape their empires. Read the stories behind the power. Tycoon: Rise to the Top features Mikhail Prokhorov, Howard...
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    33,59 €

  • Me and My VA
    Lendy Macario / Natasa Denman
    There comes a time in your business when you can no longer do things on your own. You get bogged down in the small, time-consuming tasks that take you away from servicing your clients and growing your business.You know you need help but don’t know if you can rely upon, or even trust someone to do things ‘your way’. This was Natasa Denman, 4 years ago.Business was booming but wi...
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    22,48 €

  • Gregorio del Amo among the spanish 'californios' in the United States
    German RUEDA HERNANZ
    Gregorio del Amo who led an extraordinary life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The story of Gregorio Del Amo and his wife and children played out against a panorama of two centuries of history as California passed from Spain to Mexico to independence to the United States. The Del Amo family story touches on a long list of critical places, major events and so...
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    9,50 €

  • Gregorio del Amo, un español en Estados Unidos. Magnate del petróleo y mecenas.
    German RUEDA HERNANZ
    Gregorio del Amo llevó una vida sorprendente entre los siglos XIX y XX. Su historia, la de su mujer y la de sus hijos son como un fresco de una historia de dos siglos de California que pasa por la etapa española, mejicana, independiente y norteamericana: los paisajes del Norte de España; la hidalguía española; la vieja facultad de Medicina de San Carlos en Madrid (hoy Museo Rei...
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    9,50 €

  • Bluffing Texas Style
    Michael Vinson
    In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her “catch” was the corpse of Johnny Jenkins, shot in the head. His death was as dramatic as the rare book dealer’s life, which read, as the Austin American-Statesman declared, “like a bestseller.”In 1975 Jenkins had staged the largest rare book coup of the twentieth century—the purchase, ...
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    61,03 €