An inside look at who's watching you, what they know and why it matters. We are being watched.

We see online ads from websites we've visited, long after we've moved on to other interests. Our smartphones and cars transmit our location, enabling us to know what's in the neighborhood but also enabling others to track us. And the federal government, we recently learned, has been conducting a massive data-gathering surveillance operation across the Internet and on our phone lines.

In Dragnet Nation, award-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin...
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"A marvelous book... thought provoking and highly entertaining."
--Jerome Groopman, New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think

"Ariely not only gives us a great read; he also makes us much wiser."
--George Akerlof, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics

"Revolutionary."
--New York Times Book Review

Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-...
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Unlock the amazing story buried in your presentation--and forget boring, bullet-point-riddled slides forever Guided by communications expert Cliff Atkinson, you'll walk you through an innovative, three-step methodology for increasing the impact of your presentation. Discover how to combine classic storytelling techniques with the power of visual media to create a rich, engaging experience with your audience. Fully updated for PowerPoint 2010, and featuring compelling presentation examples from classroom to boardroom, this book will help transform your presentations--and your business impac...
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Unload those boring, bullet-riddled slides--and unlock the amazing story buried in your presentation In BEYOND BULLET POINTS, communications expert Cliff Atkinson shares his innovative three-step system for increasing the impact of your communications with Microsoft PowerPoint. He guides you, step by step, as you discover how to combine the tenets of classic storytelling with the power of the projected media to create a rich, engaging experience. He walks you through his easy-to-use templates, plus 50 advanced tips, to help build your confidence and effectiveness--and quickly bring your id...
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As we emerge from the recession, a generation is searching for practical answers about how to succeed and make positive change in the world. With real-life success stories and practical advice and
exercises, Making Good outlines how to find opportunities to effect change and make money. These
opportunities are not just for entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies: Making Good shows step-by-step how any person can achieve financial autonomy, capitalize on global changes to infrastructure, and learn from everyday success stories--providing the skills and insights this gener...
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Advertising and marketing touches on every corner of our lives, and is the invisible fuel powering almost all media. Complain about it though we might, without it the world would be a darker place. And of all the industries wracked by change in the digital age, few have been turned on its head as dramatically as this one has. We are a long way from the days of Don Draper;...
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Stephen Axilrod is the ultimate Federal Reserve insider. He worked at theFed's Board of Governors for over thirty years and after that in private markets andas a consultant on monetary policy. With Inside the Fed, he offers his uniqueperspective on the inner workings of the Federal Reserve System during the lastfifty years -- writing about personalities as much as policy -- based on hisknowledge and observations of every Fed chairman since 1951.Axilrod's discussionfocuses on how the personalities of the various chairmen affected their capacity forleadership. He describes, for example, Arthu...
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For years people have asked David Bach, the national bestselling author of Smart Women Finish Rich, Smart Couples Finish Rich, and Start Late, Finish Rich what's the real secret to getting rich? What's the one thing I need to do?

Now, in the newly revised The Automatic Millionaire, expanded and updated, David Bach is sharing that secret.

The Automatic Millionaire starts with the powerful story of an average American couple--he's a low-level manager, she's a beautician--whose joint inco...
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For the past two years Deloitte has invested in a major global initiative, the As One project, to study effective collaborations. The...
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Everyone is besieged by a nonstop cyber-crime wave that victimizes millions of people and businesses each year. And trouble usually starts with a click.

In just the next 24 hours:

• Scammers will target the public with 94 billion emails
• Hackers will seize and hold 88,000 computers for ransom
• Identity thieves will impersonate 35,000 people

How we handle our online security is critical to protecting our personal and professional lives. But guidance for staying safe has been fragmented and confusing--until now.

Hack-Proof...
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