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THE UNIQUE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FROM A LEGENDARY CEOIn 1967, Charles Koch took the reins of his father’s company and began the process of growing it from a $21 million start-up into a global corporation
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An uncommon guide for accomplishing more every day by engaging the unique skill of forgetting, from the creator of the award-winning memory training system BraineticsIs it possible that the answer to
Collecting his best columns from the past 12 years, the New York Times bestselling author covers such topics as off-shore drilling, hurricanes, political corruption, the criminal justice system and an
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We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who recently celebrated his ninety-first birthday, is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liber-ated a country from a system of
Identifies the opportunities of depressed economies while demonstrating how to make the most of the fund system, explaining the lucrative potential of investing in worthwhile stocks while they are sel
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivab
A compact lexicon of words in common use, with eighty thousand entries providing concise definitions, clarification of synonyms, usage notes, and additional specific information
An explosive and revelatory portrait reported from deep behind the scenes of big-time NCAA football: the passion, the thrilling action—and the shocking realities that lie beneath this colossal, multib
In 1994, Driven to Distraction sparked a revolution in our understanding of attention deficit disorder. Widely recognized as the classic in the field, the book has sold more than a million copies. Now
