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Why Make Eagles Swim?: Embracing Natural Strengths in Leadership & Life
Why Make Eagles Swim?: Embracing Natural Strengths in Leadership & Life

Bill Munn · Greenleaf Book Group Llc
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

Stop wasting time ''fixing'' your so-called weaknesses. And start leveraging the powerful ways you're already innately great! Bill Munn says the key to maximizing performance is already planted within us - and within everyone around us - in the inherent strengths we often...
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Landlording: A Handymanual for Scrupulous Landlords and Landladies Who Do It Themselves
Landlording: A Handymanual for Scrupulous Landlords and Landladies Who Do It Themselves

Leigh Robinson · Express
Pages: 510
Format: Paperback

This classic book on managing rental property, widely known among landlords and landladies as their bible, has been in print for thirty-nine years, has sold over 375,000 copies, and has twice been selected as one of the top ten real estate books of the year by nationally syndicated real...
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China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®
China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Arthur R Kroeber · Oxford University Press
Pages: 319
Format: Print book

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today...
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

Tim Harford · Riverhead Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

From the award-winning columnist and author of the national bestseller The Undercover Economist comes a provocative big idea book about the genuine benefits of being messy: at home, at work, in the classroom, and beyond.Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives celebrates the benefits...
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Generation Chef: Risking It All for a New American Dream
Generation Chef: Risking It All for a New American Dream

Karen Stabiner · Avery Pub Group
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Inside what life is really like for the new generation of professional cooks - a captivating tale of the make-or-break first year at a young chef's new restaurant. For many young people, being a chef is as compelling a dream as being a rock star or professional athlete. Skill and creativity...
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Mutual Funds For Dummies
Mutual Funds For Dummies

Eric Tyson · John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
Pages: 409
Format: Print book

Position your portfolio for growth with one of America's bestselling mutual fund books Are you looking for a trusted resource to help you add mutual funds to your investment strategy? With straightforward advice and a plethora of specific, up-to-date mutual fund recommendations, personal...
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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

William Burnett · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 238
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times Bestseller At last, a book that shows you how to build - design - a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home - at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding...
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Tax Deductions for Professionals
Tax Deductions for Professionals

Stephen Fishman J.D. · NOLO
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback

A tax deduction guide just for professionals. Winner of the Independent Book Publisher's Association's Benjamin Franklin Award. Keep your taxes under control! Architects, lawyers, dentists, chiropractors, doctors and other licensed professionals are subject to special tax rules....
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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy
Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy

Henry George · Aziloth Books
Pages: 354
Format: Print book

Born in 1839, Henry George learned about poverty early in life, first as a boy-sailor and afterwards by working as a type-setter with a wife and children to support. A talented writer, he gradually rose to become managing editor of the San Francisco Times, and later set up his own crusading...
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Employer's Legal Handbook, The: Manage Your Employees & Workplace Effectively
Employer's Legal Handbook, The: Manage Your Employees & Workplace Effectively

Fred S Steingold · Nolo, 2015.
Pages: 481
Format: Print book

All the laws employers need to know Employment laws change often. Staying on top of them is essential to running an efficient, fair workplace - and heading off expensive lawsuits. Use this comprehensive guide to find answers to workplace questions, quickly and easily. The Employer's...
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Guide to Joining the Military
Guide to Joining the Military

Scott A. Ostrow · Peterson's; 3 edition
Pages: 295
Format: Paperback

Guide to Joining the Military includes topics like women in the military, details on opportunities available within all branches of the military, what to expect from a military career, information on joining the national guard and reserve, coverage of the ASVAB examination, details on the physical...
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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership

Richard Branson · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola...
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You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice
You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice

Tom Vanderbilt · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 305
Format: Print book

"From the best-selling author of Traffic, a brilliant and entertaining exploration of our personal tastes--why we like the things we like, and what it says about us,"--NoveList.From the tangled underpinnings of our food taste to the complex dynamics of our playlists, our preferences...
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Be Your Best Boss: Reinvent Yourself from Employee to Entrepreneur
Be Your Best Boss: Reinvent Yourself from Employee to Entrepreneur

William R Seagraves · A Perigee Books
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

A guide to help make the most of your mid-career entrepreneurial pursuits...whether they were originally planned for or not.Employee to Entrepreneur is the book to help entrepreneurially minded professionals seize the opportunity offered by the current economic environment to begin a "second...
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The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land
The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land

Curtis Allen Stone · New Society Publishers
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

There are twenty million acres of lawns in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed through a different lens, they can also be seen as a tremendous source of opportunity. Access to land...
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