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It takes a lot more than top-notch cooking skills to launch and run a successful eatery. But if you're a hopeful chef or hungry entrepreneur looking to open the next hot spot, you'll find everything you need in this accessible guide! Written by veteran restaurant owner and manager Ronald Lee, this guide offers solid advice on how to:

Secure financing and find the perfect site

Develop an engaging marketing plan to build and keep a patron

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6 Habits of Highly Successful Managers gives business owners and managers what they so desperately need: a clear, focused, laser-sharp tactical manual of what they need to know right now to make their organization a success. The authors' presentation of their five commonsense habits creates a systematic framework useful to managers, entrepreneurs, and executives, providing them with: Clear, hard-hitting content that is easy to understand. Numerous

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A guide to creating innovative, cutting-edge marketing plans that includes information on developing strategic marketing plans, preparing hard-hitting campaigns, identifying and maintaining contact with customers, and other related topics.

"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breakingand entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict,...

A practical guide to starting one's own business, covering such aspects as designing and protecting products and services, creating a start-up team, distributing, planning for growth, handling legal issues, and making oneself ready for e-commerce.

"Any given day brings a never-ending list of things to do. There's the work thing, the catch-up thing, the laundry thing, the creative thing, the exercise thing, the family thing, the thing we don't want to do, and the thing we've been putting off, despite it being the most important thing. Even on days when we get a lot done, the thing left undone can leave us feeling guilty, anxious, or disappointed. After five years of searching for the secret...

Presents the thesis that war and violence have become appealing and addictive and that the idea of peace can gain a stronghold once individuals become more conscious of its power and actively engage in bringing peace into their own lives.

Do you find yourself:

• Becoming so angry you have trouble thinking?
• Acting impulsively during angry outbursts?
• Getting so mad that you feel out of control of your actions?

If these strong, sudden bursts of anger sound all too familiar, you know the impact they have over your life. Over time, these responses can actually hard-wire our brains to respond angrily in situations that normally wouldn't cause

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When A.J. and his friends sign up for Beaver Scouts, they find that their scout leader, Miss Blake, is only interested in preparing them for emergency disasters.

An approachable, empowering guide to investing that helps you level the financial playing field, move toward financial independence, and grow your money, from one of the internet’s favorite personal finance educators In a world where many women need to contend with the gender pay gap, take career breaks to raise families, and account for their longer lifespans when saving for retirement, investing is a surefire way to put yourself on firm financial...