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Kantola Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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**Program Highlights**.- Why companies need different policies and procedures designed for innovation.- How to implement Customer Development and other "lean"practices..Companies looking to be innovative face a conundrum: policies and procedures designed to make them efficient oftentimes stifle innovation. Unlike start-ups which are innovative by design, most organizations believe innovation can only happen by exception—or heroic efforts. So how...
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Unlock the Secrets to Success with "How to Think Like a Billionaire"In a world where success seems elusive, Guy Chandler's "How to Think Like a Billionaire" emerges as a guiding light, offering more than just financial strategies-it's a blueprint for adopting the mindset that propels the world's most successful individuals to unprecedented heights.Dive into the intricate thought processes that define billionaires and discover the cornerstone of their...
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English
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A law professor and author teaches non-attorneys how to think like a lawyer to gain advantage in their lives—whether buying a house, negotiating a salary, or choosing the right healthcare.
Lawyers aren't like other people. They often argue points that are best left alone or look for mistakes in menus “just because.” While their scrupulous attention to detail may be annoying, it can also be a valuable skill.
Do you need to make health care...
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English
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"The Profit Mindset: How to Think Like a Successful Entrepreneur" is a comprehensive guide to mastering the mental and emotional habits of highly successful entrepreneurs. Written by a seasoned entrepreneur and business coach, this book will teach you how to develop the mindset and strategies needed to achieve financial success in today's competitive business landscape.
The book delves into the key principles and strategies that successful entrepreneurs...
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English
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"Forgive and Flourish: The Power of Letting Go" is a book that can change your life for the better. In it, you'll discover the incredible benefits of forgiveness and how it can help you to thrive in all aspects of your life.
Are you tired of feeling weighed down by past grudges and hurtful experiences? Do you struggle to let go of negative emotions and find happiness in the present moment? If so, this book is for you.
With easy-to-understand language...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Discover the many aspects of retirement planning that you'll need to consider when working toward financial security for your later years. Explore the differences between the go-go, slow-go, and no-go years of retirement, and why your plan must address the specific needs of each period. And when considering financial products, learn to differentiate between a salesperson and a true advisor.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Elegant, profound, and intoxicating--this is the author's first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest. Moving fluidly between considerations of the hip-hop group NWA, Tituba, the only Black woman to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, MOVE, the movement and militant separatist group famous for its violent stand-offs with the Philadelphia Police Department ("flames rose like orchids . . . blocks...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"When Piglet's fiancé reveals a horrible betrayal two weeks before their wedding day, she decides to proceed with the event, but her life slowly starts unraveling in the lead-up to the big day"--
"Outside of a childhood nickname she can't shake, Piglet's rather pleased with how her life's turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor at a London publishing house, she's got lovely, loyal friends and a handsome fiancé, Kit, whose rarefied family she...
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English
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"Every December two things are guaranteed for graphic designer Mackenzie Graham--Christmas celebrations and the annual promotion at her workplace. Those two things are by no means mutually exclusive. In fact, the better an employee is at harnessing the Christmas spirit, the more likely they'll win the new job. With her social anxiety, Mackenzie never thought she'd be a contender in her company's holiday competition, so how exactly has she found herself...
10) Housebroke
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English
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"A millionaire and a woman who thinks he's a house flipper are stuck living in a house together with a menagerie of rescue dogs as roommates, in this heartfelt romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Jaci Burton. After her ex took all their money and bailed, Hazel Bristow has no place for her and her foster dogs to live. A kind friend whose home is on the market lets Hazel and her fur babies stay there until it sells. It seems like...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This documentary portrays the transformative vision and extraordinary efforts of Wenzday Jane, a young woman whose mechanical skills and innovative actions are reshaping her community. Wenzday Jane goes to the heart of the sustainability issue by offering practical economic solutions, and suggests that things don't have to be the way they are. As a young child growing up in public housing, Wenzday's bicycle meant personal responsibility and self-direction....
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English
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"Madi Ramírez has it all ; a thriving career she loves, a successful boyfriend, and a wedding to plan ; when he finally proposes. So why does she feel like there is something missing? Jayden even has the right initials ; the JR that appeared to Madi years ago, in a dream visitation from her beloved, wise abuela. Madi's friends think her expectations are too high, but she can't help wishing for that dreamy feeling in real-life. Wishing that Jayden...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
She is her own worst nightmare. When you meet Sue, she does not make eye contact. She does not offer to shake your hand. She may fixate on the buttons of your shirt, but cannot say your name. Sue Rubin has autism, a complicated disorder that causes her to act in many strange ways. For researchers, doctors, and psychologists, autism is mysterious and complex, its causes and cures still unknown. But this is not a film about experts or theories. In Autism...
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"Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through thirteen witch trials across history, some famous--like the Salem witch trials--and some lesser-known: on Vardø island, Norway, in the 1620s, where an indigenous Sami woman was accused of murder; in France in 1731, during the country's last witch trial, where a young woman was pitted against her confessor and cult leader; in Pennsylvania in 1929 where a magical healer was labelled a "witch"; in Lesotho in...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1994, Oregon became the first state in the U.S. to legalize physician aid-in-dying. At the time, only two countries (Switzerland and the Netherlands) permitted the practice, but more than 500 Oregonians have since ended their life using the law. The intimate Sundance Award-winning documentary How To Die in Oregon is a powerful, compassionate exploration of Oregon's historic and controversial Death with Dignity Act, which legalizes physician aid-in-dying...
17) Thunderbolt
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A story from the burgeoning video industry of Nigeria combines melodrama and issues of ethnicity, gender, culture and identity in post-colonial Africa. Thunderbolt will come as a bolt out of the blue to most Americans, even aficionados of African cinema. It is one of the best examples of the little-known but burgeoning video industry of Nigeria. Most films in this Library of African Cinema catalog ironically are seen more in the West than in Africa...
19) The duchess
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Scandalous ladies of London volume 2
Language
English
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It's been a year since her wretched cad of a husband died and Valencia, the Dowager Duchess of Dedham, is finally her own woman. Flitting from party to party, freedom is sweet and life should be perfect. Until the new duke surfaces. Nothing like the haughty noblemen who populate the ton, Rhain, the newly minted Duke of Dedham, is a big brawny Welshman with an accent that makes Valencia's knees go weak as he boldly moves into her home with his six...
20) Slavery
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Slavery is officially banned internationally by all countries, yet despite this, in the world today there are more slaves now than ever before. In the four hundred years of the slave trade around 13 million people were shipped from Africa. Today there are an estimated 27 million slaves - people paid no money, locked away and controlled by violence. Multi-Award winning documentary makers Kate Blewett and Brian Woods - who produced the groundbreaking...
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