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The Book on Managing Rental Properties: A Proven System for Finding, Screening, and Managing Tenants with Fewer Headaches and Maximum Profits

Brandon Turner · BiggerPockets Publishing LLC
Pages: 392
Format: Print book

No matter how great you are at finding good rental property deals, you could lose everything if you don't manage your properties correctly! But being a landlord doesn't have to mean middle-of-the-night phone calls, costly evictions, or daily frustrations with ungrateful tenants....
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The Voices of Hockey: Broadcasters Reflect on the Fastest Game on Earth

Kirk McKnight · ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Line changes, limited time outs, and pucks traveling 100 miles per hour - hockey is clearly called "the fastest game on Earth" for a reason. Keeping up with (let alone describing) this non-stop action, especially for decades on end, takes a special kind of talent. Today's...
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Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular

Derek Thompson · Penguin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Nothing "goes viral." If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today's crowded media environment, you're missing the real story. Each blockbuster has a secret history - of power, influence, dark broadcasters, and passionate...
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Shortcut Your Startup: Speed Up Success with Unconventional Advice from the Trenches

Courtney Reum · Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From the Reum brothers - former Goldman Sachs investment bankers, successful operators, and investors - comes Shortcut Your Startup, a practical playbook for both aspiring and seasoned entrepreneurs, filled with unconventional yet accessible advice for maximizing your business venture.Courtney...
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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

GEORGE ANDERS · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable...
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Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud

David Dayen · New Press
Pages: 385
Format: Print book

In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history - a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions...
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Under the Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over

Caroline Fredrickson · New Press
Pages: 246
Format: Print book

Called a "damn fine book" by Elle magazine, the hardcover edition of Under the Bus changed the conversation about women at work - the question is not only about those women at the top trying to "break the glass ceiling" but instead why millions are stuck on the sticky...
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The Hidden Leader: Discover and Develop Greatness Within Your Company

Scott K. Edinger · AMACOM
Format: Hardcover

Think you can spot the leaders in your company? Don't assume that you can identify them by their positions. What about those employees who consistently step up: the field agent who solves a previously intractable problem; the service rep who thinks outside the box and creates unshakeable...
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Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records: How to Run Your Nonprofit Corporation So You Don't Run Into Trouble

Anthony Mancuso · NOLO
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Nonprofit? Stay out of IRS trouble with the ultimate corporate housekeeping tool! Nearly 1.5 million nonprofit organizations are busy preserving historic sites, saving libraries, helping the homeless, greening our cities--and so much more. Yet, while some have sophisticated record-keeping...
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2015: For Preparing Your 2014 Tax Return

J.K. Lasser Tax Institute. · Wiley; 5 edition
Format: Book

America's bestselling tax guide for over seventy-five years, updated for 2014 taxes J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2015 is the most trusted tax guide on the market, updated for 2014 tax returns. With full coverage of all changes and adjustments to the tax laws—including new deductions...
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The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy

Mervyn King · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

"Mervyn King may well have written the most important book to come out of the financial crisis. Agree or disagree, King's visionary ideas deserve the attention of everyone from economics students to heads of state." -- Lawrence H. SummersSomething is wrong with our banking system....
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365 ways to motivate and reward your employees every day : with little or no money.

Dianna Podmoroff · Atlantic Publishing
Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats

This newly revised book offers simple and inexpensive ways to build an organization that people love to work at. These quick, effective, humorous, innovative and fun ideas will improve your business.
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IRAs, 401

Twila Slesnick PhD Enrolled Agent · NOLO
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback

Take cash out of your retirement plan while avoiding taxes and penalties If you have a retirement plan, IRAs, 401(k) s & Other Retirement Plans is your comprehensive guide to taking money out of it. Make sense of the complex tax rules governing when you can -- and when you need...
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Do You Talk Funny?: 7 Comedy Habits to Become a Better

David Nihill · BenBella Books
Pages: 196
Format: Print book

Public speaking can be terrifying. For David Nihill, the idea of standing in front of an audience was scarier than cliff jumping into a thorny pit of spiders and mothers-in-law. Without a parachute or advanced weaponry. Something had to change.In what doesn't sound like the best plan...
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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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