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  101 Ways to Enjoy Retirement...

  Ravina M Chandra

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  Retirement has finally arrived. Are you ready?  
  101 Ways to Enjoy Retirement Across America is an energizing tour throughout the USA, exploring unique hobbies relished by residents from state to state. If you’ve been thinking about retirement for some time now, why not be motivated by new activities, projects, and hobbies you may or may not have heard of?  
  In 101 Ways to Enjoy Retirement Across America, you will explore:Inspiring activities, projects, and hobbies from all 50 statesCharming facts and intriguing history from around AmericaHow to adapt and modernize hobbies to enjoy at homeTravel ideas to inspire your next road trip to a nearby state Everything you need for an active and rewarding next chapterAnd so much more 
  Discover hobbies to spark joy and stimulate your mind, body, and soul. The time is right now to think creatively and pursue your retirement goals. No one else will do this for you. 

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  The Strategic Leader's Roadmap -...

  Harbir Singh, Michael Useem

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  "We can all become strategic leaders if we stay on the right path." - Harbir Singh & Michael Useem  
  Even a strong leader can flounder without an effective strategy, and the most powerful strategy can fail without the right leader. Only those who master and integrate both skills can effectively navigate the challenges that lay ahead for today's organizations.  
  The Strategic Leader's Roadmap, by Wharton management professors Harbir Singh and Michael Useem, offers a six-point checklist for leading strategically that will help managers strengthen their capacity to develop strategy and to lead its execution.  
  Drawing on one-on-one interviews with CEOs, in-depth research, and their experience teaching today's executives and tomorrow's leaders, Singh and Useem take listeners into the offices - and mindsets - of some of today's foremost strategic leaders, including:  
  Carlos Ghosn, chief executive officer of Nissan Indra Nooyi, chief executive of PepsiCo Jack Ma, founder and chief executive of Alibaba Group John Chambers, executive chairman of Cisco Systems  
  Fast-moving and inspiring, The Strategic Leader's Roadmap will enable leaders at all levels to master today's most vital capability.

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  Producing Fashion - Commerce...

  Editor Regina Lee Blaszczyk,...

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  Each essay in Producing Fashion is presented in full and has been selected from the original print edition. The essays answer the following questions and more: 
  How has Paris, the world's fashion capital, influenced Milan, New York, and Tokyo? When did the Marlboro Man become a symbol of American masculinity? Why do Americans love to dress down in high-tech Lycra fabrics, while they wax nostalgic for quaint, old-fashioned Victorian cottages? 
  Fashion icons and failures have long captivated the general public, but few scholars have examined the historical role of business and commerce in creating the international market for style goods. Producing Fashion is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that shows how economic institutions in Europe and North America laid the foundation for the global fashion system and sustained it commercially through the mechanisms of advertising, licensing, marketing, publishing, and retailing. 
  The collection reveals how public and private institutions worked to shape fashion, style, and taste with varying degrees of success. Nine expert contributors draw on original research and fresh insight into the producers of fashion—advertising agents, architects, corporate executives, department stores, designers, editors, government officials, hairdressers, haute couturiers, and Web retailers—in their bid for influence, acclaim, and shoppers' dollars. 
  Producing Fashion looks to the past, revealing the rationale behind style choices, while explaining how the interplay of custom, invented traditions, and sales imperatives continue to drive innovation in the fashion industries.

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  Irrationality in Health Care -...

  Douglas E Hough

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  A look at the American health care system through analysis of consumer and provider behavior. 
   
  The health care industry in the US is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results—and we don’t know why. To date, we still lack widely accepted answers to simple questions, such as “Would requiring everyone to buy health insurance make us better off?” Drawing on behavioral economics as an alternative to the standard tools of health economics, author Douglas E. Hough seeks to diagnose the ills of health care today more clearly. 
   
  A behavioral perspective makes sense of key contradictions—from the seemingly irrational choices that we sometimes make as patients, to the incongruous behavior of physicians, to the morass of the long-lived debate surrounding reform. With the new health care law in effect, it is more important than ever that consumers, health care industry leaders, and the policymakers who are governing change reckon with the power and sources of our behavior when it comes to health. 
   
  Praise for Irrationality in Health Care 
   
  “Hough does an extraordinary job of distilling the literature and providing key insights to help us understand how health care consumers and providers really behave, and how government can formulate better policy. A must-read for anyone interested in the burgeoning field of behavioral economics and age-old questions in health care.” —Thomas Rice, Distinguished Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health 
   
  “Hough explains and applies the emerging field of behavioral economics to patient and physician decision making, providing a rationale for seemingly irrational behavior, and its particular usefulness for designing health policies.” —Paul J. Feldstein, University of California, Irvine 
   
  “Balancing rigor and policy relevance, Hough shows the application of behavioral economics to health policy in a most compelling way. I liked this book so much, I wish I had written it!” —Richard Scheffler, University of California, Berkeley

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  Bitcoin Blueprint - Unraveling...

  Harrison Stratton

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  Are you interested in learning more about the groundbreaking digital currency that has taken over worldwide? Look nowhere else! This comprehensive book, "Bitcoin Blueprint: Unraveling the Revolutionary Digital Currency," explores the fascinating world of Bitcoin. 
  Do you know how Bitcoin came to be such a well-known name? This book will take you on a fascinating journey through the development of money throughout time, culminating in the creation of Bitcoin by the enigmatic Satoshi Nakamoto. Explore the decentralization principle distinguishing the Bitcoin blockchain from conventional financial systems and learn its fundamental characteristics. 
  Do you desire for financial independence and self-control? Financial sovereignty is a concept that is examined in "Bitcoin Blueprint: Unraveling the Revolutionary Digital Currency," where you essentially become your own bank. Learn about the benefits of utilizing Bitcoin for international transactions and how it can work as an inflation hedge. Examine how Bitcoin affects established financial institutions and how it promotes financial inclusion.

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  Conflict Management

  Introbooks Team

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  Conflict resolution or conflict management is a skill, no doubt. Conflict is a normal occurrence, and it can sometimes be healthy for a relationship if it occurs once in a while. It is impossible for two individuals from different backgrounds to agree at all times. As a result, conflict in relationships is inevitable. Since they cannot be eliminated, it is only normal to learn how to manage them when they occur. Mismanagement of conflict can harm any human relationship, and such harm may leave indelible marks and irremovable scars. The reverse is the case when conflicts are managed in positive and respectful ways; it can turn the worst of enemies to the best of friends. 
  There is no better way to create stronger bonds between two individuals than by managing their conflicts or disagreements professionally. Not everybody has the skills needed to manage conflict professionally. However, everyone can learn the skills. A Proper understanding of the techniques and skills involved in conflict management can help the individual and every person the individual associates with, in proper management of any conflicting situation that may come up. An individual well versed in conflict management will not only be able to manage conflicts involving other people but will also manage conflicts in his/her personal life. 

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