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Arntfield has devoted his career to helping solve cold cases and serial murder. He founded the Western University Cold Case Society which pairs students with police detectives to help solve crimes, often bringing in a surprising collaborators and experts from various fields including mining, architecture and visual arts. In How to Solve a Cold Case, Arntfield lays out the steps to understanding and solving crime. He shows you what to look for, how...
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A simple system to help your team execute better and faster All growing companies encounter ceilings of complexity, usually when they hit certain employee or revenue milestones. In order to burst through ceiling after ceiling and innovate with growth, a company must develop a reliable system that prompts leaders to be proactive and pivot when the need arises. Drawing on his experience as a successful serial entrepreneurial and speaker, author Patrick...
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The New Principles of Growth and Success. Do you want to grow your business? In the past, have you struggled to realize the desired outcomes of your strategy? Do you feel that you're making all the right business moves but are still coming up short? In Outsizing, author Steve Coughran assembles decades of research, hundreds of interviews, and multi-industry consulting experience to identify the strategic factors that dictate the difference between...
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their time-particularly those involving sex, race, and class-in such provocative works as Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956),...
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Emily is a career-driven thirty-something with big ambitions and a young family. She is making an impact as a leader at a tech company, but after being passed up for multiple promotions, she finds herself at a loss for how to improve. Fate answers her in the form of a kind, and surprisingly direct, with an older man in a coffee shop. A well-respected CEO before he retired, David has deep and rich leadership knowledge. Emily needs direction, and David...
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A Heartwarming Story of Unconditional Love for Fans of Dog Tales "Part Marley and Me, part Bucket List, part travel memoir, Cohen's book tells the story of Simba, a larger-than-life Labrador retriever whose physical size is matched only by his love of people." ―Sara Hodon, Compulsive Reader
2018 International Book Awards Winner
From New York Times bestselling author David Elliot Cohen comes this unforgettable dog tale and story of a cross-country...
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Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject, the author of this stimulating guide begins his discussion with the oldest, "arts" end of the subject and moves chronologically through to the newest research-the "science" aspects.
A series of...
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Who needs investors?
More than two generations ago, the venture capital community - VCs, business angels, incubators, and others - convinced the entrepreneurial world that writing business plans and raising venture capital constituted the twin centerpieces of entrepreneurial endeavor. They did so for good reasons: the sometimes astonishing returns they've delivered to their investors and the astonishingly large companies that their ecosystem has...
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The best of Clayton Christensen's seminal work on disruptive innovation, all in one place.
No business can afford to ignore the theory of disruptive innovation. But the nuances of Clayton Christensen's foundational thinking on the subject are often forgotten or misinterpreted. To achieve continuing growth in your business while defending against upstarts, you need to understand clearly what disruption is and how it works, and know how it applies...
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The best of W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne's articles on blue ocean strategy, all in one place.
The seminal book Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over 3.6 million copies globally and is in print in 46 languages. But much of W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne's work on creating new market spaces was originally published in the pages of Harvard Business Review. This book brings the best of those articles together all in one place. Piece by piece, these...