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1) Atomic habits: tiny changes, remarkable results : an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones

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#1 on the Business list for 2023-09-17.

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James Clear, an expert on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. He draws on proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.

2) The creative act: a way of being

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Rubin, Rick

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#2 on the Business list for 2023-09-17.

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eAudiobook, New-Book

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"From the legendary music producer, a savant at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book, many years in the making, that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. "I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." -Rick Rubin Many famed music producers, however brilliant, become known for a particular sound which...

3) I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. Just a 6-Week Program That Works ()

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Sethi, Ramit

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#4 on the Business list for 2023-09-17.

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eBook, Kindle

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As seen on the new NETFLIX series! The groundbreaking NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER that taught a generation how to earn more, save more, and live a rich life—now in a revised 2nd edition.

Buy as many lattes as you want. Choose the right accounts and investments so your money grows for you—automatically. Best of all, spend guilt-free on the things you love.

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4) Stay sane in an insane world: how to control the controllables and thrive

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Harden, Greg

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#5 on the Business list for 2023-09-17.

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Greg Harden changes lives. This is why hundreds of world-class athletes, doctors, lawyers, teachers, business leaders, college students, and professionals from all walks of life have come to him for advice and direction--including 7-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, 23-time Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps, Heisman Trophy winners Desmond Howard and Charles Woodson, CEOs of major companies, and championship coaching staffs from all over the world....

5) Dare to lead: brave work, tough conversations, whole hearts

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Brown, Brené

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#6 on the Business list for 2023-09-17.

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Book, Book club Kit, Book on CD, eAudiobook

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"Brené Brown spent the past two decades researching the emotions that give meaning to our lives. Over the past seven years, she's found that leaders in organizations ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, civic organizations, and Fortune 50 companies are asking the same questions: How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders? And how do you embed the value of courage in your culture? Dare to Lead...

6) Thinking, fast and slow

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Kahneman, Daniel

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#7 on the Business list for 2023-09-17.

7) Four thousand weeks: time management for mortals

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Burkeman, Oliver

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#8 on the Business list for 2023-09-17.

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"A lively philosophical guide to time and time management, setting aside superficial efficiency solutions in favor of reckoning with and finding joy in the finitude of human life"--

8) Outliers: the story of success

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Gladwell, Malcolm

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#9 on the Business list for 2023-09-17.

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Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Blink and The Bomber Mafia and host of the podcast Revisionist History, explores what sets high achievers apart—from Bill Gates to the Beatles—in this seminal work from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review).
In this stunning book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world...

9) Poverty, by America

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Desmond, Matthew

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#10 on the Business list for 2023-09-17.

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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and...