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New Space Update #4
By Porchlight
Here it 'tis - almost the holiday season - and we're knee deep in renovations still! It's coming along nicely but it cannot happen too soon enough for us.
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Huge Discounts
By Porchlight
Around this time of year, companies commonly slash prices to ease the cost of gift giving. While all of our books can be ordered in bulk at great discounts any time of year, there are certain books we offer at huge discounts at any quantity. But, we wondered, did anyone know these offers existed on our site?
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A Man in Woman's Clothes?
By Porchlight
I just spotted an article posted by aol jobs this morning about a woman in Quebec that posed as a man on her blog and received benefits on both professional and monetary levels. It's astounding to think such sexism still is in place at the end of 2009 - read on: What's in a Name? Big Profits, Apparently - by Lisa Johnson Mandell Oh no he didn't!
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TIME's Person of the Year - In Fed We Trust
By Porchlight
Time magazine has picked its person of the year, beginning their description of him thus: A bald man with a gray beard and tired eyes is sitting in his oversize Washington office, talking about the economy. Hooked yet? Try this: He's shy .
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Free Rich Dad Workshop: Milwaukee
By Porchlight
If you're in the Milwaukee area for the holiday season, or if you just REALLY like the Rich Dad books, or if you're cheap (like me) - check out the FREE workshop that Robert Kiyosaki is throwing in our neck of the woods! ! The seminar will touch on topics from the Rich Dad Prophecy, help you get financial freedom, includes advanced training, special offers and you get a FREE USB flash drive.
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What is it about Baseball?
By Porchlight
I’ve been reading a lot about baseball lately. In The Man with Two Arms by Billy Lombardo (coming in February 2010), a new father is thinking about his soon-to-be-born son. What about baseball?
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The Billion Dollar Mistake
By Porchlight
How much can a person learn through other people’s mistakes? Plenty, especially when those people are successful billionaire investors. Author and a successful investor himself Stephen L.
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Outstanding!
By Porchlight
I quickly realized the exclamation point in the title of Outstanding! is not coincidental. Author John G.
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The 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards of 2009
By Porchlight
The 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—And Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Viking Books, 624 pages, $32. 95 Even though Too Big to Fail was written during the same year the financial collapse occurred, Andrew Ross Sorkin has written what we predict will be the definitive book on the subject. Sorkin not only tells a gripping “perfect storm” story—reporting the gory details as our 401k’s disappeared and our financial system became nationalized—but he humanizes the players as well, resulting in an imminently readable, albeit lengthy, book.
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8cr Global: Angels Abroad
By Porchlight
8cr Global is a series of guest posts from around the world, discussing ideas about business from a variety of perspectives. More info about each author is located at the end of each post, and you can recognize each 8cr Global entry by the title and logo at the top of each post. Today's entry is by Adam Daniel Mezei.
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