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Major Street Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Based on his own experience building significant wealth at a young age, author Daniel Walsh shares a unique wealth blueprint anyone can follow to retire younger and richer. In this book readers will discover six principles that will help them achieve their wealth-creation goals and dreams.Covering everything the author learned on his own journey, along with multiple real-life case studies from people – young and old – who have vastly improved...
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Microcosm Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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How do you start and run a successful business, despite the odds? This unique guide to entrepreneurship teaches you practical math and management skills alongside the emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and coping skills that you need in order to overcome internal barriers to success no matter what type of business you are in. Joe Biel, author of A People's Guide to Publishing, draws on 26 years of business ownership and management experience...
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Cet ouvrage souhaite montrer la richesse d'une ouverture géographique et thématique des recherches urbaines actuelles en présentant celles qui prennent en considération les villes situées en dehors de l'aire occidentale. Il donne la voix à de jeunes chercheurs et praticiens originaires de six pays et de trois continents qui, par leurs réflexions engagées, proposent de corriger les perceptions souvent négatives, voire catastrophiques, de l'urbanisation...
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We are living in a critical moment, a reality marked by environmental and socio-economic limits that requires innovative and realistic forms of action and planning. This is what regenerative urbanism proposes, a new approach based on utopian pragmatism that seeks to restore balance to the urban territory by designing systems that allow it to adapt and transform. It is a methodology that defines models that do not consume available resources, but rather...
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Those who have a deep affection for Britain's countryside will be totally absorbed by this extraordinary history of environmentalists' efforts to conserve the glorious South Downs. After describing the special qualities of the area and earlier attempts to safeguard it, the story of a twenty-year campaign to secure National Park status for this special part of England is recounted. Strong forces opposed, but the South Downs Campaign, which eventually...
6) The Nine Principles of Agile Planning: Create Nimble and Dynamic Forecasting in Your Organization
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The Nine Principles of Agile Planning teaches CFOs, CAOs, CIOs, and Finance leaders the secret to building nimble and dynamic forecasts within their organizations. The Nine Principles blend real-world processes, people, and cloud tech to get your business forecasting the right way. By adopting the Nine Principles, you can create world-class forecasting that reacts to real-time changes in your business, reduces project risk, and makes you a forecasting...
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The deeply personal story of why award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the city and embraced extreme frugality in order to create a more meaningful, purpose-driven life and retire to a homestead in the woods at age thirty-two with her husband and daughter.
In 2014, Elizabeth and Nate Thames were conventional 9-5 young urban professionals. But the couple had a dream to become modern-day homesteaders...
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Wall Street Journal "Love and Money" columnist Jeff D. Opdyke offers a compassionate and highly effective handbook designed to help elderly parents manage their money. Protecting Your Parents' Money is the essential guide to helping Mom and Dad navigate the finances of retirement, covering such topics as understanding Medicare, preventing elder fraud, and the hunt for a quality, affordable retirement home. Protecting Your Parents' Money is a book...
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En cinquante ans, le centre-ville de Montréal a vu s'implanter un réseau piétonnier protégé de près de 30 kilomètres, donnant accès à ce qu'on appelle maintenant la ville intérieure. Le « RÉSO », entièrement accessible au public, comprend des stations de métro et des gares, des halls d'immeubles, de bureaux et d'habitation, des galeries marchandes, des pavillons universitaires et bien d'autres structures. Toronto a connu avec le «...
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Español
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En la encrucijada de nuestras vidas, todos anhelamos un propósito más elevado: la prosperidad. Pero, ¿qué significa realmente prosperar? ¿Es simplemente acumular riqueza material, o va más allá, abrazando el amor y la armonía familiar?En "El Camino hacia la Prosperidad: Hábitos para una Vida Plena en Familia, Finanzas y Amor", exploraremos cómo pequeños actos diarios pueden transformar nuestra existencia en formas asombrosas. La prosperidad...
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The Best Finance Book For Crucial Conversations About Money
"Vanessa is a natural storyteller. Strong. Relatable. Purpose driven"-Business in Heels
For anyone who wants to create a financial legacy, this is the best finance book for sparking change in yours and your family's financial future. Share eye opening money moments and courageous conversations about money.
Have real conversations about money. Do your parents have a legacy plan or financial...
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Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising contradictions and juxtapositions that are coming to define today's...
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Imagine if you could be a fly on the wall as a family enterprise becomes one of the most successful companies in the world. The Target Story will help you understand and adopt the competitive strategies, workplace culture, and daily business practices that enabled the big box store to become the retail giant it is today. In an industry that has seen constant disruption over the last two decades, Target has experienced tremendous growth. Establishing...
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Essays on architecture in Kuwait, Iran, Israel, and other nations in the region, and how it can and must address the needs of local residents.
As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing-both gleaming...
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Controversy surrounds Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the radical national and religious agendas at play there have come to define the area in the minds of many. This study, however, provides an alternative framework for understanding the process of "normalization" in the life of Jewish residents. Considering a wider range of historical and structural factors in which the colonization of the West Bank developed it allows placing...
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Cities are at once among humanity's crowning achievements and core drivers of the climate crisis. Their dependence on the outside world for vital resources is causing global temperatures to rise and wildlife habitats to shrink. But we have the opportunity to make cities more sustainable by transforming the built environment.
Dickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for creating a new, self-sustaining urban landscape. He argues...
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A 150-year history of the planning, construction, and development of all forms of mass transportation in Brooklyn, New York.
How We Got to Coney Island is the definitive history of mass transportation in Brooklyn. Covering 150 years of extraordinary growth, Cudahy tells the complete story of the trolleys, streetcars, steamboats, and railways that helped create New York's largest borough-and the remarkable system that grew to connect the world's most...
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This personal history chronicles the triumph and loss of a 1960s initiative, to recruit minority students to Columbia University's School of Architecture.
At the intersection of US educational, architectural, and urban history, When Ivory Towers Were Black tells the story of how, an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students overcame institutional roadblocks to earn degrees in architecture from Columbia University. Its narrative begins with...
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