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Business and Personal Finance October 2017
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Principles : life and work
by Ray Dalio
The founder and co-chairman of the high-performing hedge fund Bridgewater Associates outlines the unconventional principles that he developed over four decades to create unique successes in his personal and professional arenas.
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Business writing for dummies
by Natalie Canavor
A guide to successful business communication describes how to draft effective letters, emails, and proposals; adapt one's writing style to an audience; and self-edit and troubleshoot documents
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Designing your life : how to build a well-lived, joyful life
by William Burnett
The executive director of the Design Program at Stanford and the co-founder of Electronic Arts outline strategies for enabling a thriving life by incorporating "design thinking" habits that promote fulfillment and meaning by emulating the examples of the engineers of today's most popular technologies.
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How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide
by Jane Bryant Quinn
Veteran financial advisor Jane Bryant Quinn targets retirement planning in this comprehensive guide to both the financial and the psychological sides of retirement. In addition to plenty of useful information for maximizing savings (including "rightsizing" your spending), Quinn also addresses mentally preparing to leave the structure of a work-focused life for one you get to create yourself. If you've got lots of questions about how best to handle retirement, this will be an invaluable resource.
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A Man For All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
by Edward O. Thorp
In the 1960s, math prodigy Edward Thorp used both card counting and a wearable computer to help win at Las Vegas casinos; later, in the stock market crash of the 1980s, he actually came out ahead. Daring, contrary, curious, and gifted with the ability to do complicated math in his head, Thorp sees challenges where others see warnings (like..."the house always wins" and "you can't time the market"). In this memoir, he shares the many ways he's tested the odds in search of success. "Fascinating," says Booklist.
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Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story
by Alexandra Wolfe
Curious about an unusual experiment funded by PayPal entrepreneur Peter Thiel, Wall Street Journal columnist Alexandra Wolfe follows a few of the recipients of the $100,000 grants, which send gifted teens to Silicon Valley rather than to college. Housed in dorm-like spaces and encouraged to launch startups rather than attend English 101, these bright (and often quite odd) young people make for a fascinating anthropological survey of high-tech would-be entrepreneurs. Fans of the television show Silicon Valley will feel right at home.
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