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Inside the Investments of Warren Buffett: Twenty Cases
Yefei Lu · Columbia University Press
Pages: 312
Format: Print book |
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Since the 1950s, Warren Buffett and his partners have backed some of the twentieth century's most profitable, trendsetting companies. But how did they know they were making the right investments? What did Buffet and his partners look for in an up-and-coming company, and how can others replicate... |
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Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism
Bartow J. Elmore · W W Norton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover |
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An absorbing history of how Coke's insatiable thirst for natural resources shaped the company and reshaped the globe. How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction of mostly sugar, water, and caffeine? The easy answer is advertising, but the real formula... |
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Miziker's Complete Event Planner's Handbook: Tips, Terminology, and Techniques for Success
Ron Miziker · University of New Mexico Press
Format: Print book |
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With decades of experience as a gala event planner, award-winning director and producer Ron Miziker presents the ultimate guide to planning and executing every special event in this one-of-a-kind guidebook. For professionals and beginners alike, it is designed to be a quick reference for ensuring... |
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Resume Magic, 4th Ed: Trade Secrets of a Professional Resume Writer
Susan Britton Whitcomb · Jist Works; 4 edition
Format: Paperback |
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Resume Magic is a giant compendium of advice and before-and-after resume transformations explains resume creation and illustrates professional techniques with actual examples that show why the techniques work. |
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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
William Burnett · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 238
Format: Print book |
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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 or the chair you are sitting in. Everything... |
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
Sebastian Mallaby · Penguin Books
Pages: 800
Format: Print book |
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The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings... |
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Starting & Building a Nonprofit: A Practical Guide
Peri Pakroo · NOLO
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback |
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Start a nonprofit and keep it running with this practical guide During hard economic times, nonprofits are more important than ever. Here, learn how to create and nurture a nonprofit that will serve your vital mission, whether supporting the arts, rescuing a school library, protecting the environment,... |
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Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters
Charles Wheelan · W W Norton, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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The best-selling Naked series tackles the weird world of money.Consider the $20 bill.It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually... |
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Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work
Andrea S Kramer · Bibliomotion
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement and forty years after passage of Title IX, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers. Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less status,... |
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Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
Sara Goldrick-Rab · The University of Chicago Press
Pages: 368
Format: Print book |
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If you are a young person, and you work hard enough, you can get a college degree and set yourself on the path to a good life, right? Not necessarily, says Sara Goldrick-Rab, and with Paying the Price, she shows in damning detail exactly why. Quite simply, college is far too expensive... |
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