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How I Turned Dyslexia, ADHD, and 100 Square Feet Into a Company Called Kinko's

By: Paul Orfalea

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How I Turned Dyslexia, ADHD, and 100 Square Feet Into a Company Called Kinko's

By: Paul Orfalea

The founder of Kinko's describes how a hyperactive, dyslexic young man transformed a small copy shop into a multi-billion-dollar-a-year company, explaining how he used his learning disabilities as opportunities and created an unconventional, compassionate, partner-driven corporation acclaimed as one of the best places to work in America. Reprint.

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Workman Publishing

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0761143858

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The Entrepreneurial Investor

The Art, Science, and Business of Value Investing

By: Paul Orfalea,Lance Helfert,Atticus Lowe,Dean Zatkowsky

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The Entrepreneurial Investor

The Art, Science, and Business of Value Investing

By: Paul Orfalea,Lance Helfert,Atticus Lowe,Dean Zatkowsky

The Entrepreneurial Investor will inspire you to treat investing like a business and to think of yourself as an owner. Through solid examples and a light narrative, Paul Orfalea skillfully explores the essence of the entrepreneurial investor, which includes balancing the art and science of this discipline, and viewing investing itself as a business. Along the way, he also examines how the elements of focus, opportunism, and involvement can improve your overall investment results.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470256621

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9780470256626

Arab/American

Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

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Arab/American

Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

The landscapes, cultures, and cuisines of deserts in the Middle East and North America have commonalities that have seldom been explored by scientistsÑand have hardly been celebrated by society at large. Sonoran Desert ecologist Gary Nabhan grew up around Arab grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins in a family that has been emigrating to the United States and Mexico from Lebanon for more than a century, and he himself frequently travels to the deserts of the Middle East. In an era when some Arabs and Americans have markedly distanced themselves from one another, Nabhan has been prompted to explore their common ground, historically, ecologically, linguistically, and gastronomically. Arab/American is not merely an exploration of his own multicultural roots but also a revelation of the deep cultural linkages between the inhabitants of two of the worldÕs great desert regions. Here, in beautifully crafted essays, Nabhan explores how these seemingly disparate cultures are bound to each other in ways we would never imagine. With an extraordinary ear for language and a truly adventurous palate, Nabhan uncovers surprising convergences between the landscape ecology, ethnogeography, agriculture, and cuisines of the Middle East and the binational Desert Southwest. There are the words and expressions that have moved slowly westward from Syria to Spain and to the New World to become incorporatedÑfaintly but recognizablyÑinto the language of the people of the U.S.ÐMexico borderlands. And there are the flavorsÑpiquant mixtures of herbs and spicesÑthat have crept silently across the globe and into our kitchens without our knowing where they came from or how they got here. And there is much, much more. We also learn of others whose work historically spanned these deserts, from Hadji Ali (ÒHi JollyÓ), the first Moslem Arab to bring camels to America, to Robert Forbes, an Arizonan who explored the desert oases of the Sahara. These men crossed not only oceans but political and cultural barriers as well. We are, we recognize, builders of walls and borders, but with all the talk of ÒhomelandÓ today, Nabhan reminds us that, quite often, borders are simply lines drawn in the sand.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816526591

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9780816526598

I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You

A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs

By: Naomi Shihab Nye,Paul B. Janeczko

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I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You

A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs

By: Naomi Shihab Nye,Paul B. Janeczko

An award-winning anthology of paired poems by men and women. In this insightful anthology, the editors grouped almost 200 poems into pairs to demonstrate the different ways in which male and female poets see the same topics. How women see men, how boys see girls, and how we all see the world—often in very different ways, but surprisingly, wonderfully, sometimes very much the same.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439116156

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9781439116159

The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills

Powerful Problem-solving Techniques to Ignite Your Team's Potential

By: Paul Sloane

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The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills

Powerful Problem-solving Techniques to Ignite Your Team's Potential

By: Paul Sloane

Praise and Reviews `If you are only going to read one business book this year, this is the one. No modern business leader should be unaware of these insights.`BRIAN MCBRIDE, VP Northern Europe, Dell Computer Corporation`Sloane delivers rocket fuel for the business brain.`BILL PENN, CEO, Sparx Group`Every business should embrace lateral thinking. Every leader should embrace this book.`AJAZ AHMED, CEO, AKQA`This book teaches leaders how to transform creativity into meaningful innovation.`SHAWN JAVID, CEO, Insightful Inc.Do you want to unlock the creative potential of your team?Is innovation a core value for your organization?Do you have the skills to inspire new ideas?Do you know how lateral leadership can transform your organization?Leadership is not just about command and control - it is about inspiring your team to make the vision a reality by conceiving and implementing creative solutions they never thought possible.With a lively and energetic approach, this highly acclaimed author, trainer and presenter will teach you dynamic, up-to-date techniques to unleash the creative energies of your people and show you how to put the techniques to work immediately. You can use lateral thinking to turn your organization around. This book describes how the lateral leader develops the vision, culture and processes that transform a regular business into an innovation hothouse. The book is packed with real-life examples, practical methods and lateral thinking exercises you can put to work today.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749440023

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9780749440022

The Innovative Leader

How to Inspire your Team and Drive Creativity

By: Paul Sloane

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The Innovative Leader

How to Inspire your Team and Drive Creativity

By: Paul Sloane

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion." Jack Welch, former CEO, GE The Innovative Leader stresses the importance of innovation and creativity in modern business to help organizations secure competitive advantage over rivals. It shows how to apply the methods described to the individual, to others and to the organization. Author Paul Sloane demonstrates the importance of setting out your vision clearly and emphasizes the need for continual evaluation of the process. Numerous international examples illustrate how organizations such as Virgin, Body Shop, WPP and 3M have benefited from this approach, encouraging excellence and entrepreneurship through setting challenging goals to keep employees motivated and engaged.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749452056

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Copy This!

Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies

By: Paul Orfalea,Ann Marsh

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Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned a Bright Idea Into One of America's Best Companies

By: Paul Orfalea,Ann Marsh

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Workman Publishing

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0761137777

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9780761137771

Frank Maria

A Search for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

By: Paul D. Garrett,Kathleen A. Purpura

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Frank Maria

A Search for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

By: Paul D. Garrett,Kathleen A. Purpura

An authorized biography of Frank Maria (1913-2001), a tough, compassionate battler for peace and justice for all parties in the war torn Middle East. Frank's lifetime service to God and nation are followed from his Depression-era upbringing in Lowell, MA, through the beginnings of a promising career in labor management and political analysis. As war breaks in 1967, however, Frank abandons his best interests to concentrate his talents, attention, and energies on making Americans aware of the tragedy facts of the Holy Land. Through the next several decades and repeated wars, Frank dogs politicians, religious leaders, and journalists about rethinking the one-sided approach to the Palestinian/Israeli question, which prevents peace. Had they heeded this voice from the wilderness, today's world would be far safer.

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AuthorHouse

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1434300005

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9781434300003

Almost All Aliens

Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity

By: Paul Spickard

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Almost All Aliens

Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity

By: Paul Spickard

Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Leaving behind the traditional melting-pot model of immigrant assimilation, Paul Spickard puts forward a fresh and provocative reconceptualization that embraces the multicultural reality of immigration that has always existed in the United States. His astute study illustrates the complex relationship between ethnic identity and race, slavery, and colonial expansion. Examining not only the lives of those who crossed the Atlantic, but also those who crossed the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the North American Borderlands, Almost All Aliens provides a distinct, inclusive analysis of immigration and identity in the United States from 1600 until the present. For additional information and classroom resources please visit the Almost All Aliens companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/almostallaliens.

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Routledge

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1135950482

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9781135950484

Where Our Food Comes From

Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

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Where Our Food Comes From

Retracing Nikolay Vavilov's Quest to End Famine

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact, the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a scapegoat for the country’s famines, Vavilov had traveled over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity and guard against widespread hunger. Now, another remarkable scientist—and vivid storyteller—has retraced his footsteps. In Where Our Food Comes From, Gary Paul Nabhan weaves together Vavilov’s extraordinary story with his own expeditions to Earth’s richest agricultural landscapes and the cultures that tend them. Retracing Vavilov’s path from Mexico and the Colombian Amazon to the glaciers of the Pamirs in Tajikistan, he draws a vibrant portrait of changes that have occurred since Vavilov’s time and why they matter. In his travels, Nabhan shows how climate change, free trade policies, genetic engineering, and loss of traditional knowledge are threatening our food supply. Through discussions with local farmers, visits to local outdoor markets, and comparison of his own observations in eleven countries to those recorded in Vavilov’s journals and photos, Nabhan reveals just how much diversity has already been lost. But he also shows what resilient farmers and scientists in many regions are doing to save the remaining living riches of our world. It is a cruel irony that Vavilov, a man who spent his life working to foster nutrition, ultimately died from lack of it. In telling his story, Where Our Food Comes From brings to life the intricate relationships among culture, politics, the land, and the future of the world’s food.

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Island Press

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1597265179

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9781597265171

Organizational Change Management

Inclusion, Collaboration and Digital Change in Practice

By: Danielle Tucker,Stefano Cirella,Paul Kelly

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Organizational Change Management

Inclusion, Collaboration and Digital Change in Practice

By: Danielle Tucker,Stefano Cirella,Paul Kelly

This book offers a holistic introduction to Organizational Change Management through a distinct and timely perspective of organizational change agency. It takes a highly practical and unique approach, with cutting-edge chapters on digital transformation, creativity, power and inclusivity and diversity. Key features include: Case Studies based on real companies, which can be used to study chapter topics across a variety of international contexts, industries, and organizational forms. Experiential and Discussion Activities which provide an opportunity to gain invaluable insight needed in the workplace.

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SAGE Publications Limited

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1529615755

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9781529615753

Winning Decisions

Getting It Right the First Time

By: J. Edward Russo,Paul J.H. Schoemaker

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Winning Decisions

Getting It Right the First Time

By: J. Edward Russo,Paul J.H. Schoemaker

Business revolves around making decisions, often risky decisions, usually with incomplete information and too often in less time than we need. Executives at every level, in every industry, are confronted with information overload, less leeway for mistakes, and a business environment that changes rapidly. In light of this increased pressure and volatility, the old-fashioned ways of making decisions–depending on intuition, common sense, and specialized expertise–are simply no longer sufficient. Distilling over thirty years of groundbreaking research, Winning Decisions, written by two seasoned business advisers and world leaders in behavioral decision studies, is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind guide to the proven methods of making critical business decisions confidently, quickly–and correctly. Decision-making is a business skill which managers often take for granted in themselves and others–but it's not as easy as some might think. The authors, whose expertise has been sought out by over a hundred companies, including Arthur Andersen, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Unilever, contend that decision-making, like any other skill, must be developed and honed if it is to be used effectively. Winning Decisions offers step-by-step analyses of how people typically make decisions, and provides invaluable advice on how to improve your chances of getting your next big decision right the first time. The book is packed with worksheets, tools, questionnaires, case studies, and anecdotes analyzing major decisions made by organizations like British Airways, NASA, Shell Oil, and Pepsi. Some of the proven, straightforward techniques covered in Winning Decisions include how to: Reframe issues to ensure that the real problem is being addressedImprove the quality and quantity of your options Convert expert yet conflicting opinions into useful insights Make diversity of views and conflict work to your advantage Foster efficient and effective group decision-making Learn from past decisions--your own and those of others With Winning Decisions, managers and other professionals now have access to a proven set of skills and strategies they need for making the right decision, right away.

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Crown Currency

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0385504942

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9780385504942

Regeneration

Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

By: Paul Hawken

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Regeneration

Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

By: Paul Hawken

A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. It is the first book to describe and define the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly throughout the world. Regeneration describes how an inclusive movement can engage the majority of humanity to save the world from the threat of global warming, with climate solutions that directly serve our children, the poor, and the excluded. This means we must address current human needs, not future existential threats, real as they are, with initiatives that include but go well beyond solar, electric vehicles, and tree planting to include such solutions as the fifteen-minute city, bioregions, azolla fern, food localization, fire ecology, decommodification, forests as farms, and the number one solution for the world: electrifying everything. Paul Hawken and the nonprofit Regeneration Organization are launching a series of initiatives to accompany the book, including a streaming video series, curriculum, podcasts, teaching videos, and climate action software. Regeneration is the inspiring and necessary guide to inform the rapidly spreading climate movement.

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Penguin

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052550849X

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9780525508496

I Can Make You Rich

By: Paul McKenna, Ph.D.

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I Can Make You Rich

By: Paul McKenna, Ph.D.

Do you want to make more money? Do you want to improve the quality of your life? Do you believe you can be rich? What if it’s easier than you think? Over the past decade, Paul McKenna, Ph.D., has made a study of the mind-set of people who are rich not only in money but in happiness and quality of life. In this groundbreaking book, he uses proven psychological techniques to help you install that same rich mind-set in yourself. In assembling this system, Dr. McKenna has had personal access to some of the wealthiest people in the world. What he’s learned is that making money is just a skill, but becoming rich is an art. If you’re ready to experience the same levels of creativity, confidence, and business genius as those super-achievers, let the system in this book help you develop the skill and master the art. Soon you’ll be seeing the world in an entirely new way, living with more freedom and greater passion than ever before.

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Hay House, Inc

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1401949061

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9781401949068

Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization

An Economic History of Real Wages and Market Integration

By: Paul Caruana Galizia

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Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization

An Economic History of Real Wages and Market Integration

By: Paul Caruana Galizia

Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive analysis of the world's old economic core, the Mediterranean. This work provides answers to important questions, such as: If the Mediterranean labor market really was integrated, then why did globalization affect the Western and Eastern Mediterranean so differently? Why did wage inequality rise in the East while it fell in the rest of the labor-abundant periphery? More broadly, was low emigration from Iberia and the East to blame for the Mediterranean's failed integration with the fast-expanding global economy? This ground-breaking research relates these questions to ongoing historical debates on the intensity of intra-Mediterranean integration in goods and labor, to current heated debates on North African emigration to Europe, and to discussions on European economic integration more generally.

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Springer

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1137400846

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9781137400840

Two Billion Dollars in Nickels

Reflections on the Entrepreneurial Life

By: Dean Zatkowsky,Paul Orfalea

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Two Billion Dollars in Nickels

Reflections on the Entrepreneurial Life

By: Dean Zatkowsky,Paul Orfalea

Paul Orfalea's entrepreneurial philosophy melds business, personal finances, lifelong learning, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Booksurge Publishing

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1439222150

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9781439222157

Good Day!

The Paul Harvey Story

By: Paul Batura

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Good Day!

The Paul Harvey Story

By: Paul Batura

Good Day! , the critically-acclaimed biography about the legendary Paul Harvey, is now in paperback! In this heartwarming book, author Paul J. Batura tells the all-American story of one of the best-known radio voices in history. From his humble beginnings to his unparalleled career of more than 50 years with ABC radio, Paul Harvey narrated America's story day by day, through wars and peace, through the threat of communism and the crumbling of old colonial powers, through consumer booms and eventual busts.

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Simon and Schuster

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1596982063

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9781596982062

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