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Building a Storybrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
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Building a Storybrand

By Donald Miller ,

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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
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The Attention Merchants

By Tim Wu ,

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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Amusing Ourselves to Death

By Neil Postman ,

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Confessions of an Advertising Man
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Confessions of an Advertising Man

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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
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Positioning

By Al Ries , Jack Trout ,

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Breakthrough Advertising
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Breakthrough Advertising

By Eugene M. Schwartz ,

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The Hidden Persuaders
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The Hidden Persuaders

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Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
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Alchemy

By Rory Sutherland ,

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Ogilvy on Advertising
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Ogilvy on Advertising

By David Ogilvy ,

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Guerrilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business
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Guerrilla Marketing

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Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany
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Advertising Empire

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Decline and Fall: The struggle for power at a great American magazine: The Saturday Evening Post
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Decline and Fall

By Otto Friedrich ,

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Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)
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Frenemies

By Ken Auletta ,

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Tested Advertising Methods
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Tested Advertising Methods

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My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising
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My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising

By Claude Hopkins ,

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Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Businessman
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Obvious Adams

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Aaker on Branding: 20 Principles That Drive Success
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Aaker on Branding

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Stronger Than Dirt
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Stronger Than Dirt

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How to Market a Book
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How to Market a Book

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Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends and Friends Into Customers
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Permission Marketing

By Seth Godin ,

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Old Age Comes at a Bad Time: Wit and Wisdom for the Young at Heart
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Old Age Comes at a Bad Time

By Eliakim Katz (editor) ,

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A Cannes Lions Jury Presents: The Art of Branded Entertainment
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A Cannes Lions Jury Presents

By PJ Pereira , Monica Chun , Jules Daly

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Is There Any Hope For Advertising?
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Is There Any Hope For Advertising?

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My Life in Advertising
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My Life in Advertising

By Claude Hopkins ,

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Book Funnels & Amazon Ads: Use Your Book & Amazon Ads To Attract Customers and Build a 6+ Figure Business
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Book Funnels & Amazon Ads

By Alex Strathdee , Gabi Youssef , Josh Navarro

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Marketing Rebellion: The Most Human Company Wins
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Marketing Rebellion

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A Reliable Wife
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A Reliable Wife

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The Voice Catchers: How Marketers Listen in to Exploit Your Feelings, Your Privacy, and Your Wallet
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The Voice Catchers

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Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology, from the Telegraph to Twitter
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Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid

By Luke Fernandez , Susan J. Matt ,

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Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team
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Designing Brand Identity

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The Hidden Power of Advertising
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The Hidden Power of Advertising

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The Mental World of Brands
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The Mental World of Brands

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The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America's Top Copywriters
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The Adweek Copywriting Handbook

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Hey Whipple, Squeeze This: The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads
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Hey Whipple, Squeeze This

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The Idea Writers: Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era
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The Idea Writers

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Truth, Lies, and Advertising: The Art of Account Planning
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Truth, Lies, and Advertising

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Changing the World Is the Only Fit Work for a Grown Man
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Changing the World Is the Only Fit Work for a Grown Man

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It Chooses You
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It Chooses You

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The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
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The Mechanical Bride

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Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign
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Where the Suckers Moon

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What Clients Love: A Field Guide to Growing Your Business
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What Clients Love

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The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It
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The Truth About the Drug Companies

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Madison Avenue, U.S.A
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Madison Avenue, U.S.A

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Fables Of Abundance: A Cultural History Of Advertising In America
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Fables Of Abundance

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Consuming Passions: The Dynamics of Popular Culture
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Consuming Passions

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Who's Afraid of Mr Wolfe?
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Who's Afraid of Mr Wolfe?

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Eat This!: How Fast Food Marketing Gets You to Buy Junk (and How to Fight Back)
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Eat This!

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Advertising Shits In Your Head: Strategies for Resistance
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Advertising Shits In Your Head

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What Do People Do All Day?
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What Do People Do All Day?

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Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia
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Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia

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The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
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The Conquest of Cool

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Marketing For Dummies
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Marketing For Dummies

By Ruth Mortimer , Gregory Brooks , Craig Smith , Alexander Hiam

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The Materialistic World: How to Escape Materialism, Theory of Materialism, Mindful Living, Living with True Happiness
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The Materialistic World

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Isle of Rum
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Isle of Rum

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