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  Machiavelli - Philosopher of Power

  Ross King

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  Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher—history’s most famous theorist of “warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed”—and the age he embodied. Ross King, the New York Times bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, argues that the author of The Prince was a far more complex and sympathetic character than is often portrayed.

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  The Bet - An Entrepreneur’s...

  Jay D. Rodgers

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  An entrepreneur shares anecdotes from his prosperous career while offering readers their own roadmap to success in business. The backbone of businesses, the opener and closer of deals, the risktaker who bets on themself-that’s an entrepreneur. Jay D. Rodgers has seen and done it all: from the gritty start-ups to full-scale, world-wide businesses that generate millions in revenue each year. For more than half a century, Jay has started and sold capital ventures, from custom-made cowboy boots to the world’s largest breath-alcohol interlock company, and he’s helped many others along the way.The Bet is blunt and honest and offers no excuses—an entrepreneur always finds a way. When Jay’s betting, he’s betting big—as an entrepreneur should—on his business, his partners, and his experience to wrangle the best results. His advice and strategies for success are set apart by his trials, errors, and triumphs that come with the territory of serial entrepreneurship. The Bet is like a session with Jay. He’ll share how he did it, and he’ll show you how. You’ll learn:  The value of understanding what motivates people  An easy, never-fail secret to buying bank notes  Why sometimes it’s more profitable to change the players than to change the game  An important concept Jay learned at Harvard Business School  An argument for why you should put all your eggs in one basket  Jay will even explain the bet he made with the publisher of this book—a bet that guarantees everyone wins. If you’re an experienced entrepreneur looking for insider secrets or if you’re just starting out, The Bet will help you turn your business dreams into reality.“Jay did it. Then, he helped, and continues to, help others do it. Now, he’s sharing his wisdom and his strategy in this book that will take you to the next step as an entrepreneur on a track to success.” —Verne Harnish, Founder of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and Author of Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)“Passing along his wide breadth of experience and talents to the next generation of leaders in The Bet, Jay Rodgers offers priceless, high-level guidance for achieving business success and help entrepreneurs to maximize their impact.” —Gino Wickman, Bestselling Author of Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business and The EOS Life: How to Live Your Ideal Entrepreneurial Life“Wisdom is a must for every entrepreneur. Jay is my business mentor, co-author of Advice Matters and the man who has personally supplied me with more business wisdom than any other person in my life. Read and study everything he writes.” —Tony Jeary, The RESULTS Guy™

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  Can't Give It Away on Seventh...

  Christopher McKittrick

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  When the Rolling Stones first arrived at JFK Airport in June 1964, they hadn't even had a hit record in America. By the end of the decade, they were mobbed by packed audiences at Madison Square Garden and were the toast of New York City's media and celebrity scene. 
  More than fifty years later, the history of New York City and the Rolling Stones have entwined and paralleled, with the group playing in nearly all of the Big Apple's legendary venues. Along the way Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and the rest of the Stones have left an impact on the culture of the city, from the turbulent "Fun City" of the 1960s and '70s through the twenty-first century. The evolving career of the Stones has often reflected the cultural changes of the city, as the Stones and their music were the center of social and political controversies during the same era that New York faced similar challenges. 
  Can't Give It Away on Seventh Avenue: The Rolling Stones and New York City explores the history of the group through the prism of New York. It is a highly detailed document of the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between the world's most famous band and America's most famous city as well as an absorbing chronicle of the remarkable impact the city has had on the band's music and career.

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  Govt Cheese - a memoir

  Steven Pressfield

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  People who have read my books, particularly “The War of Art” and its cousins, have a vague idea of the odyssey of a particular solitary guy, wracked with guilt and riven by self-doubt, as he struggles toward his destiny as a writer. But they have only the scantiest conception of the particulars of that journey. 
   
  These particulars I’m hoping may be of use to others as they wrestle with their own version of that same odyssey.  
   
  So let me try to strip it down. 
   
  Let me tell the parts I normally leave out.

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  El Jefe - The Stalking of Chapo...

  Alan Feuer

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  The definitive account of the rise and fall of the ultimate narco, "El Chapo," from the New York Times reporter whose coverage of his trial went viral.Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is the most legendary of Mexican narcos. As leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, he was one of the most dangerous men in the world. His fearless climb to power, his brutality, his charm, his taste for luxury, his penchant for disguise, his multiple dramatic prison escapes, his unlikely encounter with Sean Penn—all of these burnished the image of the world's most famous outlaw.He was finally captured by U.S. and Mexican law enforcement in a daring operation years in the making. Here is that entire epic story—from El Chapo's humble origins to his conviction in a Brooklyn courthouse. Longtime New York Times criminal justice reporter Alan Feuer's coverage of his trial was some of the most riveting journalism of recent years.Feuer’s mastery of the complex facts of the case, his unparalleled access to confidential sources in law enforcement, and his powerful understanding of disturbing larger themes—what this one man's life says about drugs, walls, class, money, Mexico, and the United States—will ensure that El Jefe is the one audiobook to listen to about “El Chapo.”  A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books"Fans of Don Winslow’s fiction and Mark Bowden’s nonfiction alike will be eager to read Feuer’s blood-spattered tale." -- Kirkus

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  Best British Short Stories 2022

  Nicholas Royle

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  The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth year.
  Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume.

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