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The best-selling author of Blink identifies the qualities of successful people, posing theories about the cultural, family, and idiosyncratic factors that shape high achievers, in a resource that covers such topics as the secrets of software billionaires, why certain cultures are associated with better academic performance, and why the Beatles earned their fame.
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Fitness, money, and wisdom -- here are the tools. Over the last two years, Tim Ferriss has collected the routines and tools of world-class performers around the globe while interviewing them for his self-titled podcast. Now the distilled notebook of tips and tricks that helped him double his income, flexibility, happiness, and more is available as Tools of Titans.
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2022.
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191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Covering the spectrum of neurodiversity, the book features a range of inspirational people, from actors and entertainers, to athletes and activists, and it shows young neurodiverse readers that often what makes you different can be your key to success. The chapters feature biographies that expand out on to a theme, such as the importance of lived experience in discussions of neurodiversity, challenging stereotypes, representation and creativity....
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2022.
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64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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"In this full-color, nonfiction resource, profiles of twenty-five diverse individuals share how each person got interested in their field, how they studied or trained for it, how others typically study or train for it, and their experience in their career. Informative sidebars share spin-off jobs, fun facts, pro tips about how readers can try out the field, and spotlight features about children who are doing just that. The book includes a table of...
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c2007
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xii, 368 p. ; 24 cm.
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Trump is an icon: the very definition of the American success story. Bill Zanker started The Learning Annex with $5,000 of his own money. After meeting Donald Trump, Zanker learned to Think BIG himself and grew The Learning Annex from a $5 million-a-year company into one that's over $100 million a year in sales, and still growing. Here, you too can learn Trump's secrets to thinking BIG! Learn: momentum: how to get it and how to get it back; revenge:...
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2021.
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144 pages ; 22 cm
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"An inspiring and eye-opening collection of true stories about fourteen women who blazed their own trails in life and contributed in a fundamental way to the history of Vancouver Island and the surrounding islands. In this fascinating follow-up to On Their Own Terms, author Haley Healey chronicles the lives of a whole new crop of resilient, hard-working, rule-breaking, diverse women who lived on and around Vancouver Island. Flourishing and Free introduces...
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In Death series volume 31
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Lt. Eve Dallas of the New York Police and Security Department returns home from vacation to a string of bizarre murders.
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"'A down-to-earth, inspiring book about the American promise fulfilled'--President Bill Clinton; 'Fascinating. Made me wish I had been born in the Bronx'--Barbara Walters; A touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's most influential boroughs--the Bronx--through some of its many success stories. The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda's Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the...
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