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  • Brownie Wise, Tupperware Queen
    Fergus Mason
    In 1950 a saleswoman living in Florida decided to find a fun new way to market an unexciting product – reusable food containers. She already had plenty of experience selling household goods but now she wanted to try something different, and she was after a quirky, lively way to sell things. The solution she chose was being used to sell brushes in the USA by the late 1930s, but ...
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    8,04 €

  • Telegram from Mandalay
    Will Cribb
    This is the story of Will Cribb: an idyllic childhood, his father’s early death, a mother’s indifference, a ten-year banishment by his stepfather to boarding school thousands of miles away, and the shy boy’s efforts to cope with the school’s barefoot regime and tough bullies.However, this is no misery memoir. It is also about how the growing boy realises his dream of travelling...
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    12,45 €

  • Sergeant to CEO
    Sean P. Jensen
    Climbing his way out of the foster care system and into the Marine Corps, Sean P. Jensen rebuilt his life to include a loving wife, family and the rediscovery of a Hawaiian heritage that illuminated his past, his character, and his way forward. Part of that way forward was founding Polu Kai Services.LLC in 2002, a construction and environmental services company that he grew fro...
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    18,49 €

  • From Consulting to Cutting
    Nicole Barrett
    Nicole Barrett co-founded NiaNicole Salon in October of 2008. She has an extensive amount of training from across the world and has taken various classes in hair cutting techniques, as well as coloring techniques and finishing. With a background in business consulting, she helped Fortune 500 companies regain and maintain market eminence. As a past educator for L’Oreal, Nicole h...
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    17,07 €

  • Coffee on the Rocks
    Resa Milan
    Comedy, romance, and spiritual growth happen when a sexy cook opens a coffee shop in the vortex of Sedona. 3 ...
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    10,87 €

  • The Defining Moments
    Kees Van Der Graaf
    'Defining Moments is a deeply honest, personal and at times moving account of one man’s voyage of self-discovery. Through a series of 'defining moments', Kees shows how personal crises and professional challenges can not only be overcome but can also be used to help give greater purpose and meaning to life - to help make the individual stronger, the family more cohesive and the...
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    27,99 €

  • Getting Hosed
    Dave Nassaney
    David Nassaney has been the owner of 6 gas stations in Californiasince 1976. Before that, he had worked at or managed several gasstations for many different family members since 1966. Prior tothat, his father had owned, and managed gas stations and garagessince 1945 in New York City and California. They have seen a lotof changes in the gas station business over the years. This ...
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    10,34 €

  • Apptool Manager
    Dushane Knight
    I honestly became an Apptool Manager very recently as of the time of this writing. Not too long ago I honestly huddled very little knowledge on the Subject, but with the assistors of some Intelligent Machines (IM) that enabled Me to reach fully completed App-tools that are nearly ready for Customer-publishing on the designated App-tool Stores. This Book reflects My thunk on the...
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    10,03 €

  • Dushane Like the Page
    Dushane Knight
    This shows the details of My Lifetime. Dushane’s lifetime-Mine. What I decided to do because of My Audience’s curiosity was to put My Character Information on paper-pages for You Guys oddly to view. It starts out with My lifetime in Hamilton...where I grew up, likeway where I went to get My Learning, likeway My Relatives (no names though for privacy concerns), likeway the activ...
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    9,85 €

  • 'I’m a Magnet to Stuff'
    Marybeth Buffington
    Some people stumble into trouble. Marybeth 'MB2' Buffington seems to attract it. However, when calamity comes knocking, she always manages to meet it with a grin, a quick comeback, or a linebacker-style tackle, depending on what the situation requires.In I’m a Magnet to Stuff, Marybeth invites you to witness a life well lived, starting with her idyllic childhood in San Antonio,...
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    36,64 €

  • THE ACCIDENTAL PARTNER
    Edy J Widjaja
    A career that almost never happened. A book about the people who made it happen anyway.Edy Widjaja spent fifteen years inside elite management consulting, rising from an overlooked research scientist with zero interviews to Senior Partner advising top executives across Southeast Asia. The Accidental Partner is his account of the career that almost didn’t happen - built not on a...
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    12,03 €

  • Leading with Joy
    Marvio Portela
    Marvio Portela has spent decades leading teams at multi-national companies around the globe, building businesses from the ground up, and crossing finish lines in triathlons that pushed his body and mind to the limit. Along the way, he arrived at a conclusion that runs against almost everything the market preaches: The highest-performing teams aren’t the ones living under consta...
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    27,65 €

  • Mums Go Back to School
    Carol Ann Morison
    Growing up, I knew that I would go to university and pursue a successful career. However, the death of my father and my Mum’s subsequent decision to move us to Hull from Stornoway following my O-Levels in 1970, shattered that ambition when I couldn’t settle in my new school and left during the lower sixth form with no idea what to do next.Married at 18 and with two young daught...
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    27,56 €

  • Shrimant Yogi
    Sudesh Shailja Santosh Patil
    उद्योगपती सर रत्न टाटा यांच्या बालपणापासून मृत्यूपर्यंतचा हा प्रवास आहे. रतन टाटा यांच्या जीवनप्रवासातून नेतृत्वाचा मानवी, संवेदनशील आणि सेवाभावी अर्थ उलगडून दाखवला आहे. भारतीय मूल्ये आणि जागतिक यश यांचा सुंदर समन्वय साधत हे पुस्तक तरुण पिढीला नवी दृष्टी आणि आत्मविश्वास देते. भौतिक श्रीमंतीपलीकडे जाऊन आत्मिक समाधान आणि साधेपणा हीच खरी समृद्धी असल्याचा संदेश हे पुस्तक प्रभा...
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    16,72 €

  • Step Up & Wear the Damn Shoes
    Marcia Griffin
    Step Up and Wear the Damn Shoes is a bold, inspiring guide for women who are ready to take ownership of their lives, their choices, and their financial future.Drawing on a lifetime of experience in business, leadership, and personal reinvention, Marcia Griffin shares the truths many women were never taught about money, independence, and self-worth. This book challenges outdated...
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    28,56 €

  • A book of dear dead women
    Edna Worthley Underwood
    A chill lingers in the air as dusk settles, and the boundary between the living and the departed grows thin. Within these haunting tales, women emerge not merely as apparitions, but as enigmatic forces-mysterious, alluring, and sometimes deeply unsettling. Each story unfurls in the shadowed corridors of gothic literature, where the supernatural seeps quietly into daily life, an...
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    19,80 €

  • The Whole Widget
    E.B Cohen
    On a January morning in 2007, a slight man in a black turtleneck walked onto a stage in San Francisco and, in ninety minutes, made most of the electronics in the world’s pockets obsolete. 'An iPod. A phone. An internet communicator,' he repeated, letting the audience guess, until he stopped pretending: 'These are not three separate devices. This is one device. And we are callin...
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    23,13 €

  • Steve Jobs
    Jatin Sharma
    Discover the remarkable journey of Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who revolutionized personal computing, digital music, smartphones, and animation. From his humble beginnings and the founding of Apple to Pixar, the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, this biography explores his innovation, leadership, challenges, and lasting legacy. A compelling read for entrepreneurs, techn...
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    23,22 €

  • Beneath the Surface
    Ronald Harrell P.E.
    In the mid-1930s, two Pennsylvania men, Harry Ryder and David Scott, formed a company to help oil and gas producers increase production, primarily from the Bradford oil field in Bradford, Pennsylvania. The company was called Ryder Scott, and their expertise revolved around two main products: (1) an early well-appraisal method for oil wells called chip coring, and (2) a producti...
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    32,33 €

  • AU DELÀ DE L’ÂME
    Gaston Levy
    'Au-delà de l’Âme' est une source d’inspiration pour tous ceux qui aspirent à plus. C’estle récit captivant d’une transformation personnelle audacieuse, où les racines profondesrencontrent l’ambition moderne. Idéal pour les entrepreneurs, les professionnels, ouquiconque souhaite élever sa vie, ce livre dévoile une histoire de succès à coeur ouvert.Si vous cherchez à puiser dans...
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    20,34 €

  • A True Story Of Resilience, Values And The Power Of Purpose
    Dr. Shivakumar Basavanahally
    What if the circumstances you were born into did not have the power to determine where you would end up?Born in Basavanahally, a remote Indian village without electricity, running water or reliable transportation, Dr. Shivakumar Basavanahally grew up in a family whose survival depended on rainfall, farm work and the quiet sacrifices of his parents. Opportunities were scarce, bu...
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    26,50 €

  • Wreckless
    Robin Brunet
    Meet Nelson Skalbania. Most Canadians have heard of him: he’s the man who gave Wayne Gretzky his big break in hockey. In real estate, he coined the term ’flipping.’ He also owned (and sold) diverse commodities such as The Edmonton Oilers, Circus World, Eaton’s retail stores, and Vancouver’s Georgia and Wedgewood hotels. His appreciation for the finer things in life even led him...
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    17,19 €

  • Chen’s Made in China
    Bob Jackson
    What does China actually look like from the inside -- through the eyes of real people living it?Chen’s Made in China is a rare and extraordinary work: part history, part memoir, part business chronicle, told through the intertwined lives of an American entrepreneur and his Chinese friends across more than eighty years of one of the most dramatic national transformations in huma...
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    52,74 €

  • La Puerta del 1%
    Neil H. Solomon
    La mayoría de la gente pasa la vida entera compitiendo por un lugar en la fila.La puerta que tenían al lado estuvo abierta todo el tiempo: sin cerradura, sin portero y sin letrero. Solo que nunca la vieron.Después de estar a punto de morir en un río en Costa Rica, Neil H. Solomon pasó casi veinte años persiguiendo una sola pregunta:¿Por qué algunas personas ven oportunidades po...
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    15,37 €

  • Count on Me
    Lucy Lynskey / Peter J. Bissonnette
    'You’ll never amount to anything.'As a child, Peter J. Bissonnette heard those words-and made it his mission to prove them wrong.In Count on Me: My Life, Lessons, and Legacy as Former President of Shaw Communications, Peter recounts his extraordinary journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of Canada’s most respected business leaders.From an English boarding school to mil...
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    25,31 €

  • The 1% Door
    Neil H. Solomon
    At 40, a Fortune 500 employer paid Neil H. Solomon a $13,000 bonus on $6.5 million of revenue he had personally produced.That check did not end his career. It opened a door he had walked past for years.After nearly dying in a river in Costa Rica, Neil spent almost twenty years chasing one question:Why do some people see opportunity everywhere, while others never see it at all?T...
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    15,37 €

  • Os empreendedores que mudaram o Brasil
    Rafael José Pôncio
    O Brasil que conhecemos hoje não surgiu por acasoPOR TRÁS DE FÁBRICAS, marcas, instituições culturais e inovações que atravessaram gerações, existem pessoas comuns que ousaram fazer diferente.Em 'Os Empreendedores Que Mudaram o Brasil', Rafael José Pôncio resgata histórias que vão além dos números e dos balanços financeiros. Aqui, o empreendedor é apresentado como agente histór...
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    15,82 €

  • Work Structures and Systems
    Joel Savory
    The text in this book is based on the accompanying diagrams which I drew while working in various quality management and consultancy positions in various railways in Australia andSoutheast Asia for twenty-five years from the early 1980’s to 2007. I welcome you to take the same quality journey using the same work structures and systems which I used. This book is designed to help...
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    13,93 €

  • 52 Thursdays
    Sean Pieri
    What would happen if, once a week, you reached out to someone from your past?'A touching and masterful take on the power of human connection' -Martin Dugard, NYT Bestselling Coauthor of Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Series'A wise book that will matter to many' -W. Taylor Reveley III, President Emeritus of William & Mary'Full of insights and potential practices that would be good for ...
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    13,44 €

  • On My Own
    Sandy Speranza
    On My Own is Sandy Speranza’s deeply personal account of building a meaningful life through hard work, courage, and the refusal to remain defeated. From Boston’s busy streets to a twenty-six-year career with the MBTA, Sandy learns that life’s greatest opportunities often begin with one quiet decision to step forward.When a frightening medical diagnosis threatens his livelihood,...
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    25,75 €


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