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New York Times Business BestsellersJanuary 2018
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Tribe of Mentors : Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy FerrissTim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, shares the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure book—a compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world's top performers. From iconic entrepreneurs to elite athletes, from artists to billionaire investors, their short profiles can help you answer life's most challenging questions, achieve extraordinary results, and transform your life.
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Capital Gaines : Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff by Chip Gaineshe funny and talented Chip Gaines is well known to millions of people as a TV star, renovation expert, bestselling author, husband to Joanna, and father of 4 in Waco, Texas. But long before the world took notice, Chip was a serial entrepreneur who was always ready for the next challenge, even if it didn’t quite work out as planned.
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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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The Magnolia story
by Chip Gaines
The husband-and-wife team from HGTV's Fixer Upper share an in-depth portrait of their lives together and the renovations that have forged their partnership, offering behind-the-scenes stories about their courtship, early marriage and rise as entrepreneurial celebrities. TV tie-in.
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Discipline equals freedom : field manual
by Jocko Willink
The former Navy SEAL and host of the top-rated "Jocko Podcast" presents a motivational guide on how to achieve freedom through discipline, outlining the mental and physical practices that shaped his career and continue to help him reach fulfilling goals while outmaneuvering common pitfalls in the areas of procrastination, fitness and lifestyle habits.
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Soar! : build your vision from the ground up
by T. D Jakes
A guide for escaping an unfulfilling job to pursue a more meaningful existence that establishes a healthier foundation for one's family blends spiritual and professional strategies designed to help readers discover their life's purpose and pursue entrepreneurial goals. By a #1 New York Times best-selling author. 300,000 first printing.
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Thinking, fast and slow
by Daniel Kahneman
A Nobel Prize-winning psychologist draws on years of research to introduce his "machinery of the mind" model on human decision making to reveal the faults and capabilities of intuitive versus logical thinking, providing insights into such topics as optimism, the unpredictability of happiness and the psychological pitfalls of risk-taking.
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The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds
by Michael Lewis
The best-selling author of The Blind Side examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory by Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky created the field of behavioral economics and has had a lasting influence on evidence-based regulation.
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The Silk Roads : a new history of the world
by Peter Frankopan
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia and Rome itself to the great wars of the twentieth century, this epic, magisterial work illuminates how the Silk Roads—the crossroads of the world, the meeting place of East and West—perhaps more than anything else, shaped global history over the past two millennia.
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Shoe dog : a memoir by the creator of Nike
by Philip H. Knight
The influential founder and CEO of Nike shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid startup and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic and profitable brands, offering insights into his own experiences as a young man who envisioned a company that would be run in atypical ways.
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