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Online or Flatline: The Small Business Owner's Guide to Digital Marketing
Online or Flatline: The Small Business Owner's Guide to Digital Marketing

Nick Choat · Elevate
Pages: 85
Format: Paperback

Digital marketing is a daunting task for many small business owners. It often seems intimidating and complicated, and the benefits are not easily measured, but without it, many businesses die out. In Online or Flatline, Nick Choat offers compelling reasons to get your business online and easy-to-use...
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Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2017
Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2017

Peterson's · Peterson Nelnet Co
Pages: 896
Format: Paperback

Scholarships, Grants & Prizes provides up-to-date information on millions of privately funded awards available to college students. It contains detailed profiles of awards based on academic fields and career goals, ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service, and other...
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Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work
Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work

Andrea S Kramer · Bibliomotion
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

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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Double Bind: Women on Ambition
Double Bind: Women on Ambition

Robin Romm · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Urgently exploring a contentious, long-ignored paradox that confronts modern women, this anthology breaks the last feminist taboo once and for all. Even as major figures like Sheryl Sandberg and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie embrace the word "feminism," the word "ambition"...
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The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby
The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby

Lauren Smith Brody · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The Fifth Trimester is your new best friend: a brilliant, tells-it-like-it-is guide that helps moms cope with the demands of the real world after the baby arrives The first three trimesters (and the fourth - those blurry newborn days) are for the baby, but the Fifth Trimester is when...
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AgeProof: Living Longer Without  Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip
AgeProof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip

Jean Chatzky · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Two of the world's leading experts explain the vital link between health and wealth that could add years to your life and dollars to your retirement savings. All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if we can't get out of bed. And the healthiest body in the world won't stay that...
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Avid Reader: A Life
Avid Reader: A Life

Robert Gottlieb · Farrar
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf...
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Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail
Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail

Robert Bruce Shaw · Amacom
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Managers want great teams, but most build them around decades-old ideas and practices made popular by companies that have lost their edge. Extreme Teams looks at the new generation of teams driving growth in today's most innovative firms. They do this by doing things differently:...
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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

Ruchir Sharma · W W Norton
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change. Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks...
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Out Front: How Women Can Become Engaging, Memorable, and Fearless Speakers
Out Front: How Women Can Become Engaging, Memorable, and Fearless Speakers

Deborah Shames · BenBella Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Every Woman Has a Voice - Now, Make It HeardNow, more than ever, the business, social and political landscape is ripe for women to accomplish their goals. Women are entering law, medical, and graduate school in equal numbers to men. Two women are running for the highest office in the United...
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Resume Magic, 4th Ed: Trade Secrets of a Professional Resume Writer
Resume Magic, 4th Ed: Trade Secrets of a Professional Resume Writer

Susan Britton Whitcomb · Jist Works; 4 edition
Format: Paperback

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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Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism
Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism

Bartow J. Elmore · W W Norton
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

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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The Job Search Navigator: An Expert's Guide to Getting Hired, Surviving Layoffs, and Building Your Career
The Job Search Navigator: An Expert's Guide to Getting Hired, Surviving Layoffs, and Building Your Career

Matt Durfee · B2 Books
Pages: 265
Format: Print book

The Job Search Navigator is a comprehensive guide to finding a new job in today's evolving career marketplace. Author Matt Durfee writes from the perspective of someone who has both recruited for some of America's biggest companies and navigated his way through nine of his own job losses.The...
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Starting & Building a Nonprofit: A Practical Guide
Starting & Building a Nonprofit: A Practical Guide

Peri Pakroo · NOLO
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

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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Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time
Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time

Bill McGowan · HarperBusiness; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Media guru and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Bill McGowan—coach to some of the biggest names in business and entertainment, including Eli Manning, Kelly Clarkson, Jack Welch, Thomas Keller and Kenneth Cole teaches you how to get your message across and get what you want with pitch...
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